The few people who were talking in low voices suddenly fell silent. Aunt Su straightened her sleeves and quietly stuffed a purse over.
"Lord Fu, you see, my old lady is getting old, and she really can't stand the harsh sun." Aunt Su lowered her voice and spoke tactfully.
"Could you please give me some convenience and let me wait somewhere else?" Aunt Su asked tentatively.
Eunuch Fu lowered his eyes to look at his purse, then pushed Aunt Su's hand away through his sleeve.
He smiled amiably, but said, "The Emperor has ordered you to wait outside the Imperial Study. Is this lady dissatisfied with the Emperor?"
Aunt Su was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. She hurriedly said with a smile, "How could it be, I..."
"Miss Hua, shall we go?" Eunuch Fu ignored her and just made a gesture of invitation to Hua Yuanzhao.
Aunt Su froze in place, her whole body cold under the scorching sun.
Madam Hua watched Eunuch Fu walk away with his men, and could not help but scold him: "With your weight, you still want to be the prime minister's wife?"
Aunt Su was not convinced, but she didn't dare to talk back, so she just cursed in a low voice: "He's just a eunuch!"
I'm just a slave, how dare you be so arrogant?
Hua Yuanzhao followed Eunuch Fu into the imperial study and smelled a pungent medicinal fragrance before he even entered the door.
She couldn't help but frown and looked at the emperor sitting behind the desk.
Compared to the last time we met, the emperor seemed more tired and his face was full of fatigue.
The emperor rested his elbows on the table, put one hand on his forehead, and pressed his fingertips hard against his temple, as if this would make him feel better.
"Miss Hua? Miss Hua!"
Eunuch Fu waited for a long time for Hua Yuanzhao to pay her respects. He turned his head and found that she dared to look directly at the emperor, so he hurriedly reminded her in a low voice.
Hua Yuanzhao suddenly came back to his senses and quickly knelt down to salute: "Your Majesty, long live the emperor."
The last time she entered the palace because of the hallucinogenic drug incident, the emperor was not in a good condition. Now it seems to be even more serious?
In the imperial study, besides Prime Minister Hua and Xu Wanqing's grandfather Xu Ru, there was also Rong Xiu.
Rong Xiu noticed Hua Yuanzhao's strange behavior, quickly glanced at the emperor, and silently pinched his sleeves.
The emperor did not let Hua Yuanzhao stand up. He just looked her up and down and complained lazily.
"There is no peace every day."
He put down his hand and looked at Prime Minister Hua: "But there are too many happy events in your Prime Minister's Mansion and you can't suppress them, so this happened?"
Prime Minister Hua continued to express his fear, his face unable to conceal his grief: "I never thought I would encounter such a thing...I..."
"Your Majesty, my granddaughter is a very virtuous and polite person. There is no way she would commit suicide!" Xu Ru hurriedly said before Prime Minister Hua, tears streaming down his old face that looked like dry tree bark.
He seems to be a veteran actor.
The emperor waved his hand and asked Hua Yuanzhao, "Eldest daughter of the Hua family, what do you say?"
Hua Yuanzhao kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think it is impossible for Madam Xu to commit suicide."
After a slight pause, she continued, "I did not kill Madam Xu!"
The emperor stared at Hua Yuanzhao, thought for a moment, and then sneered.
"Fu Youcai, go!" The emperor suddenly ordered: "Bring the body in! Ask Doctor Wu to perform an autopsy."
Prime Minister Hua's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty, how can such a filthy thing be allowed into the imperial study!"
They even wanted to perform an autopsy! Xu Wanqing was his wife after all. If her clothes were lifted up to check her chest wound in public, how could he put his face down?
"Your Majesty, I second the proposal. The corpse of the deceased is unlucky. How can it be allowed into the imperial study?" Lord Xu also said.
After all, Xu Wanqing is still the daughter of the Xu family. If she is stripped naked and autopsied in public, won't the remaining daughters of the Xu family be unable to get married?
"Why, don't you want justice?" The emperor sneered and tapped the table with his fingertips, making a dull thud.
"Then do the autopsy here! It's not the first time anyway!" the emperor said angrily.
Anyway, his imperial study has become a theater, and all the mess is brought here!
"Fu Youcai! Call those people outside in."
Aren't we going to sing opera? Then sing more lively!
Eunuch Fu was originally hesitant and did not dare to move, but seeing this, he knew that the emperor had made up his mind, so he had to step back and do as he was told.
Hua Yuanzhao was still kneeling on the ground, his heart beating as fast as a drum.
She raised her head quietly, and when her eyes met Rong Xiu's, the latter nodded at her imperceptibly.
Hua Yuanzhao's mouth curled slightly and he clenched his fists nervously.
Everyone was brought in quickly, and the imperial study was filled with people kneeling on the floor.
The emperor seemed not to see it and continued to press his temples.
It was not until Doctor Wu was invited in with a medicine box that he gave the order in a deep voice: "Check."
"Yes." Doctor Wu responded, his eyes always falling on Hua Yuanzhao.
According to Miss Hua's medical skills, why does she need to use a knife to kill people? It's ridiculous to have come to this point!
Doctor Wu lifted the white cloth covering the corpse and was stunned when he saw the condition of the deceased.
According to the rumors, the deceased should have died this morning, but looking at the condition of the body, something seems to be wrong!
Doctor Wu looked serious. He took out a pair of scissors from the medicine box and cut open the clothes on Xu Wanqing's chest.
Under her clothes, Xu Wanqing's chest was clean, without any signs of injury.
Doctor Wu's hand holding the scissors trembled and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Didn’t he say that it was definitely not Miss Hua who killed him?
He turned around and bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the deceased has no knife wound on his heart."
Hua Yuanshan's eyes suddenly widened. There was no knife wound on her heart, so didn't Hua Yuanzhao have been lying?
This bitch wanted to frame someone, insisting that it was Bai Cha who sprinkled the incense ash, which led to Xu Wanqing's death!
It turns out they were all lies!
Hua Yuanshan smiled triumphantly and deliberately exclaimed: "There is no wound on her heart? Didn't my elder sister say that she died of wound infection?"
Her tears fell immediately: "My eldest sister also said that it was because my aunt sent someone to visit with incense ash that caused the wound to become infected...Are these all lies?!"
"Eldest sister, how can you just lie and frame Shan'er and Auntie just because Daddy trusts you?"