Emperor Jingming looked at Envoy Zhang.

Zhang Yuanshi was quite old, with wrinkles all over his face and a snow-white beard.

After going through the trials of time and staying in a place like the Imperial Hospital, such a person would have long become as steady as a mountain, but at this moment he looked terrified and could hardly conceal his uneasiness.

Envoy Zhang bowed deeply to Emperor Jingming, and his old voice echoed in the hall: "Your Majesty, what the Princess of Yan said is correct. The source of the poison is that piece of vine!"

After hearing what Zhang Yuanshi said, everyone suppressed the urge to refute and waited with bated breath for him to continue.

Zhang Yuanshi lowered his head and said, "There is no doubt that the vine is a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying. However, there is an object that looks very similar to the vine, and it is difficult for people without pharmacological knowledge to distinguish it. This object is a kind of intestinal weed - the hook kiss flower!"

In folk culture, "poisonous grass" is a general term that refers to several highly poisonous grasses, and Hookweed is one of them.

The hook-and-leaves plant is extremely poisonous, especially its roots and young leaves. Even a small amount can cause poisoning and death in a short period of time. The most confusing feature of its appearance is that it is very similar to the loblolly vine that can be seen everywhere among the people.

However, the hook-kiss plant mainly grows in the south, and the vast majority of people born and raised in the capital have never seen it, let alone heard of it.

After listening to Zhang Yuanshi's explanation, everyone couldn't help but feel a chill in their spine.

It is really terrifying that there is a poisonous thing that looks similar to the locust vine. What is even more shocking is that there is a locust vine planted in the yard of Lady Chen, and the Princess of Yan and Envoy Zhang found the hook-kiss flower in the locust vine... This matter cannot be thought about carefully.

"Show me that kissing flower!"

Jiang Si opened the handkerchief in his hand, revealing the flowers and leaves inside.

Everyone opened their eyes wide and saw that the flower was light yellow in color and indeed looked very similar to the vine.

Emperor Jingming took a step forward, his eyes deep: "This... this is the Hook Kiss Flower?"

As far as he could remember, he had only seen the nymphaeaceae once, when he left the palace to offer sacrifices to the heavens. At that time, the flowers were in full bloom, alternating between gold and silver, and were no different from the one in the hands of the Princess of Yan.

It was just a casual glance at that time, and if you ask him now whether what he saw was honeysuckle, he couldn't tell.

It’s hard to explain, so of course we have to listen to the imperial physician.

Emperor Jingming has always understood that everyone has his own specialties.

"Your Majesty, please look. This is the yew vine." Imperial Doctor Zhang took out a folded handkerchief from his sleeve, opened it, and presented it to Emperor Jingming.

Emperor Jingming looked carefully and finally spotted some differences.

"This hook-and-leaves flower was found in that patch of vines?"

Jiang Si said: "That's right."

Emperor Jingming stared at Jiang Si for a moment, then suddenly asked Pan Hai, who was standing quietly at the side, "How is the Fourteenth Princess doing?"

Pan Hai immediately said, "I have ordered people to guard outside, but I dare not disturb Her Royal Highness the Princess and Lady Chen..."

When it comes to the emperor's concubines and daughters, Pan Hai certainly wouldn't dare to act rashly without Emperor Jingming's orders.

Emperor Jingming glanced at the people in the hall with deep eyes, and said in a slightly cold tone: "I and the Queen will go to see the Fourteenth Princess, and everyone else will stay here for the time being."

Everyone immediately agreed.

Emperor Jingming extended his hand to the Empress.

In formal occasions, Emperor Jingming always gave the Empress enough respect.

The empress put her hand into Emperor Jingming's.

"Seventh Brother, bring your wife with me."

Yu Jin agreed and extended his hand to Jiang Si just like Emperor Jingming.

In full view of everyone, Jiang Si openly put his hand in Yu Jin's, and the couple followed the emperor, empress and others out of the Changsheng Palace, leaving everyone staring in amazement.

The Prince of Yan and his wife actually held hands in public. How shameless!

What? The Emperor and Empress also held hands? Harmony between the Emperor and Empress is a blessing for the nation. How can this be the same?

"You said that the one who harmed the fifteenth princess was really Lady Chen?"

"The Fifteenth Princess is just unlucky. The real problem is——"

"I can't understand why a little beauty would——"

In this kind of occasion, and with this kind of matter being discussed, even though the royal relatives present usually acted without restraint, they only dared to speak half of the truth at this time.

Curious, extremely curious!

It's a pity that they are not the King and his wife of Yan...

As everyone thought this, they glanced vaguely towards the prince.

Considering that the Emperor only allowed the Prince of Yan and his wife to accompany them, while the Crown Prince and his wife had to sit on the bench in the palace with them, it seemed a balance.

Prince: “…” He wasn’t the one who poisoned you, why are you looking at him?

Led by Emperor Jingming, a group of people rushed to the residence of the Fourteenth Princess.

There were more than a dozen eunuchs guarding there quietly, without alarming the people inside.

Emperor Jingming paused slightly.

Jiang Si whispered, "Father, although the Yuquan Palace found the intestinal weed, the dancer is dead, and it can't prove anything—"

Emperor Jingming raised his hand and said solemnly: "I know all this in my heart, don't worry about it."

Jiang Si then stopped talking.

It would be ridiculous to say that the hook-kiss flower, which was supposed to grow in the south, was mixed into the bighead carnation by coincidence, but nothing is absolute, so of course she had to give a reminder to feel at ease.

Yu Jin held her hand tightly and said seriously, "Father is wise and powerful. He will never wrongly accuse an innocent person, and will not let the evildoers go..."

Emperor Jingming glanced at Yu Jian, walked over and said calmly, "Go ahead."

The eunuch immediately shouted, "The Emperor has arrived, the Empress has arrived—"

The gate of the courtyard opened wide and Emperor Jingming walked in first.

The palace maids in the courtyard knelt down, and the palace maids who came out of the house also knelt down immediately.

A lady in a palace dress with light makeup and a plain skirt hurried out: "I have seen the emperor and the queen."

Emperor Jingming stopped in front of the woman in palace dress and asked in an inexplicable tone: "Lady Chen?"

Lady Chen raised her eyes slightly and caught a glimpse of not only the emperor's tense face, but also many faces she had never seen before.

The color suddenly drained from her face.

"Do you admit your guilt?" Emperor Jingming asked word by word.

These four words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Miss Chen's heart hard.

Miss Chen shuddered suddenly.

Without giving her a chance to think, Emperor Jingming said angrily, "The dancer has already confessed. Do you still want to make excuses?"

Upon hearing that the dancer had confessed, Lady Chen could no longer conceal her panic and collapsed to the ground in despair.

"Someone, go and bring out the Fourteenth Princess. Why doesn't she want to greet me when I come?"

Emperor Jingming specifically requested to see Princess Fourteen. Concubine Chen fell to the ground and begged, "Your Majesty, Princess Fourteen is ill. I will confess whatever you want to know. I only ask that you do not embarrass Princess Fourteen. She is innocent!"

"Well, go ahead." Emperor Jingming stood in the courtyard with a cold expression.

Lady Chen kowtowed heavily and said, "Your Majesty, please allow me to look at Fourteenth one more time. This will be my farewell to Fourteenth."

Emperor Jingming lowered his eyes to look at the begging woman. Although he was resentful, he softened his heart and nodded slightly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Concubine Chen was afraid that Emperor Jingming would change his mind, so she ran to the door quickly. But when she was about to go in, she slowed down, straightened her clothes and walked inside.

Yu Jin saw the figure disappear at the door and shook his head secretly.

She is not your beloved woman, yet you are still soft-hearted. Father needs to change this bad habit.