Hua Yuanzhao looked at the rows of tables under the scorching sun, and felt tired. Who was the one who came up with this dirty trick? They didn't even give us a screening range!
Could it be that someone is dissatisfied with her and deliberately prepared all these things to make things difficult for her?
She looked around and suddenly asked, "Where are the things in Jiaxi Palace? Sir, I think I can ask this, right?"
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Inside the room, the Queen considered it again and again, and advised in a gentle voice: "Your Majesty, it will take time for the eldest daughter of the Hua family to check every palace thoroughly. Your health is important and cannot be delayed. Why not ask the doctors of the Imperial Hospital to check together?"
Before she finished speaking, Concubine Xian chuckled and said, "It is for the sake of the emperor's health that Miss Hua needs to check everyone one by one."
She is already the mother of two children, but when she smiles, she is still like a gentle and soft little girl, yet dignified and gentle, and her words are well-reasoned and convincing.
"The Imperial Hospital didn't find out that the Emperor was poisoned, but she found out when she went to the Imperial Study a few days ago. This shows that Miss Hua's medical skills are profound and cannot be compared with those of the Imperial Physicians." Concubine Xian said calmly, "Only things that Miss Hua has seen can make people feel at ease!"
The queen frowned and wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by the emperor.
"Your Majesty." Eunuch Fu walked hurriedly with a gloomy face. He looked at Concubine Xian meaningfully before lowering his head to report.
"Miss Hua has found the poison..." Eunuch Fu said in a deep voice, "The poison is in the incense in the palace of Concubine Xian."
The virtuous concubine had originally had a lovely smile on her face, but when she heard these words, she was so shocked that her legs went weak and she immediately fell to her knees.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent! I absolutely have no intention of murdering Your Majesty!" Concubine Xian kowtowed in fear, and her hair full of pearls and jade shook, making a harsh and crisp sound.
The Queen lowered her eyes and said nothing, looking at Concubine Xian with a subtle mockery in her eyes.
It was clearly Concubine Xian who suggested that the eldest daughter of the Hua family check all the concubines' belongings in the harem, but I'm afraid she herself didn't expect that she would be the first person to be singled out.
The virtuous concubine knelt on the ground. Before the emperor could say anything, she felt terrified and her hands and feet couldn't stop feeling cold.
How could this poison be in the incense in her palace? The emperor had only been to her palace five or six times recently, and he had already been poisoned. What about her? Could it be that the poison had already penetrated her lungs and was incurable?
Thinking of this, Concubine Xian broke out in a cold sweat.
When Hua Yuanzhao knelt beside Concubine Xian to pay her respects, Concubine Xian had an idea and suddenly turned to look at Hua Yuanzhao.
"Your Majesty, she must have deliberately tampered with the information when she checked it! Otherwise, how could she have found it in my palace so quickly?" Concubine Xian said firmly. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this possibility was very high.
Even if Hua Yuanzhao wanted to investigate, he should have started from the Queen's Kunning Palace. How could he find her so quickly? Unless it was intentional!
"Your Majesty." Hua Yuanzhao said calmly, "For the sake of your Majesty's health, I dare not waste time, so after a simple guess, I decided to sort out the things in Jiaxi Palace first. I didn't expect to find another part of the poison in the incense of Concubine Xian."
The virtuous concubine was so frightened by her that her hair stood on end - what did it mean to simply speculate and then decide to check the things in her palace first?
"Your Majesty, you heard it, this is slander!" Concubine Xian glared at Hua Yuanzhao hatefully, almost biting her teeth to pieces in anger.
"The eldest daughter of the Hua family." The Queen also frowned: "How did you calculate it?"
Although she also wanted to find an opportunity to overthrow Concubine Xian, it concerned the emperor's health and there were some things she couldn't say nonsense.
Hua Yuanzhao hesitated and said tactfully: "I took the Queen Mother's pulse and found that she was weak due to excessive worry. The poison in the small Buddhist temple is an auxiliary poison. This poison will only destroy the body's defense mechanism."
She glanced at the emperor and kept organizing her words in her mind: "The Empress Dowager is old and has been bedridden due to a shock. If she is exposed to this poison for a long time, I'm afraid she will be plagued by various diseases and her body will be out of shape in a month at most."
"Eldest daughter of the Hua family, what do you want to say?" The Queen glanced at the Emperor's face and secretly cast an encouraging look at Hua Yuanzhao.
"Your Majesty, I want to say that the poison in the small Buddhist temple is not sick. If it were someone with a healthy body, I'm afraid it wouldn't be a problem at all." Hua Yuanzhao kowtowed: "So I dare to guess that the person behind the scenes poisoned the sandalwood and really wanted to murder the Empress Dowager, and it was just a sudden impulse to attack the Emperor!"
The emperor's already gloomy face became even darker as she spoke. He suppressed his anger and shouted, "Eldest daughter of the Hua family, are you serious?"
Hua Yuanzhao said respectfully: "I dare not lie! I guess that since the thief acted on impulse, he would not be as thorough as when he poisoned the small Buddhist temple, so I first checked the things in the palace of the virtuous concubine."
The virtuous concubine's face completely lost all color, her eyes bulged out in shock and anger, and she stared at Hua Yuanzhao.
"Eldest daughter of the Hua family, you said that, but what did you see from Concubine Xian?" The Queen glanced at Concubine Xian and asked slowly.