Chapter 391 Interrogation of Palace Ladies

Didn’t the 18-year-old little queen cry because of her few words?

Jiang Xinyue looked at her expressionlessly, with annoyance in her eyes: "On the day when Concubine Liang was poisoned, did anyone see Concubine Ru or her maid Hui Yuan?"

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? Do you suspect that I poisoned Concubine Liang?"

Jiang Xinyue didn't say anything, but her dark eyes looked at Concubine Ru with scrutiny.

"How ridiculous! I'm a princess of Goguryeo. I came here to marry for the sake of peace between our two countries. How could I..."

"Pah!"

Magpie stepped forward and slapped her in the face. She reacted and was about to hit him back, but Magpie, who was extremely strong, grabbed her wrist and swung her to the side. She staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"Empress Rufei, you should address the Empress as a respectful title of "you" instead of "you", and call yourself "concubine" instead of "I". You are disrespectful to the Empress, and I hit you. You have no objection, right?"

"You!"

"And..."

Xi Que said in a tough attitude: "I don't care whether you are a princess of Goguryeo or Ayeyeo. Once you enter our Dayan harem, you are our Emperor's concubine. The Empress is the master of the harem. Anyone who challenges the authority of the Empress will be taught a lesson by the palace rules. I hope Empress Rufei will learn the rules of the harem as soon as possible, otherwise you will be beaten next time."

People always bully the weak and fear the strong. Xi Que is indeed very famous among the servants in the harem, and Empress Rufei has heard of her.

She held back her anger and said, "That being said, the Empress suspected me without any basis. This is an insult to my dignity and I cannot accept it. I will let the Emperor make the decision for me."

"What do you mean without any basis?"

Jiang Xinyue sneered, "You said you came to see Concubine Liang, but you just stood here without moving since you entered Shun'an Palace, and you deliberately said that I was trying a prisoner, just to make the palace servants in Shun'an Palace hate me and have opinions about me, so that they would not cooperate with my questioning. Your actions have to make me suspect that you were the one who poisoned Concubine Liang. Now you want to hide some truth, so you are making trouble here."

"I suspect you, so I'm looking for evidence. If you haven't done it, are you afraid of my investigation?" If you haven't done

it, why should you feel guilty?

Concubine Ru was so angry that she couldn't say anything to refute. She just realized that Jiang Xinyue's mouth was so unforgiving.

The palace maids below whispered to each other. Concubine Ru's little thoughts were exposed, and they felt angry as if they were being used as a gun.

Everyone looked at Concubine Ru with a knife in their eyes.

"That day... I seemed to have seen the maidservant beside Concubine Ru."

Someone raised her hand weakly, with uncertainty in her voice: "The weather was good that day, and Sister Shuxiang said that we should move all the things in the Concubine's storeroom out to dry them to prevent them from getting damp and moldy. Because our Concubine was demoted to a concubine before, some things were lost in the storeroom when she moved to the palace, so Sister Shuxiang asked us to sort them out and re-list them..."

The palace maid looked at the uneasy Huang Yanyu: "Yanyu She was in charge of remaking the book. I was holding the paintings and calligraphy and wanted to go out to dry them. Yanyu said she had to go to the toilet urgently, but she hadn't come back for a long time. Sister Shuxiang also said that she was lazy and used to hiding. I also wanted to go to the toilet, but when I went to the concubine's room, Yanyu was not there. "

So the little palace maid was actually angry at that time. Everyone was so busy, and Huang Yanyu, a new little palace maid, actually left her work and hid somewhere.

So she wanted to find her out.

When she looked around, she saw Huang Yanyu passing by Huiyuan in a pavilion not far from Shun'an Palace.

She didn't say it at first because she didn't know what this had to do with the poisoning of Concubine Liang.

Moreover, Huang Yanyu herself was poisoned because of eating the chicken soup of the queen, and she didn't think about it at all.

But now that the queen asked, she told the truth.

Shuxiang frowned and said, "I remember that on the day of sorting the warehouse, Huang Yanyu asked me if those gifts were all sent by the queens in the harem?"

All the gift lists and personal relationships are recorded.

Which palace sent it? What was sent? Why was it sent?

It turns out that it is all in the old booklet.

In other words, Huang Yanyu knew that the two Ganoderma lucidum were sent by the queen.

Jiang Xinyue looked at Huang Yanyu, the girl's face was pale, and she didn't know whether it was because of poisoning or something else.

She took a few deep breaths and said weakly, "I came out of the Gongfang that day and hid in the pavilion for a while. Who knew that the maid of Concubine Ru would pass by there? I...if I knew that the chicken soup was poisonous, how could I eat it secretly? I lost half my life. Will the Empress Cousin still suspect me?"

"You are not dead, are you?"

Jiang Xinyue said bluntly, "But Concubine Liang is in danger. If you are not careful, her life will be in danger."

She used this trick of poisoning in the cold palace.

If the poison was chosen by them, it was the poison given to her by the late Empress in the cold palace. As long as the dosage was controlled, it would not hurt people's lives.

In order to escape suspicion, Huang Yanyu said that she drank the chicken soup secretly.

The Jiang family is also a well-known figure in the local area. Although they are not rich enough to rival a country, their wealth is not empty talk.

As the in-laws of the Jiang family, how bad can the Huang family be?

Marriage in the Great Yan Dynasty emphasizes a match between the families of equal status, and the Huang family is also a wealthy and noble family.

As the legitimate daughter of the Huang family, what good things has Huang Yanyu not used? What delicious food has she not tasted? She

is not from a poor family, so how could she be greedy for a mouthful of chicken soup?

Huang Yanyu swallowed her saliva and looked away with a guilty conscience. With just this one action, Jiang Xinyue was sure that Concubine Liang’s poisoning was related to her.

She raised her hand and said, "Come here, send Huang Yanyu to the Suspension Mirror Department. If you can't find out who is behind it, throw her directly into the fish tank to feed the fish."

The 200-kilogram piranha in the Suspension Mirror Department is feared by everyone in the palace. Rumors about how many people it has eaten are still circulating, making people shudder.

Huang Yanyu has not been in the palace for long, but she has already heard of the piranha's great reputation.

Her breathing became rapid and she grabbed the sleeve of the person next to her: "It was Concubine Ru! It was Concubine Ru! It was Concubine Ru who gave the poison. She told me to sprinkle the poison on the Ganoderma lucidum and then tell the people in the small kitchen that Ganoderma lucidum can relieve cough and moisten the lungs, and let them cook it for Concubine Liang to eat. Cousin... Cousin, cousin, I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again. It was Concubine Ru who forced me to do it. She forced me."

Jiang Xinyue raised her eyes and glanced at Concubine Ru. Concubine Ru was furious. She kicked Huang Yanyu to the ground and said, "You little palace maid are really incomprehensible. I don't even know you, and you splashed dirty water on me. You are so rebellious."

She wanted to harm the empress, but didn't she have time to do it yet?