Chapter 965 Hatred in the Heart
While the princess and Xiao Hanhan were resting, Luo Yechen asked the housekeeper about the whole process of the princess's delivery.
Upon learning that someone actually wanted to poison the princess with the ginseng soup, Luo Yechen's anger level instantly soared to the peak.
He ran to the emperor angrily, wanting to know the result of the interrogation.
The result was that the maid who delivered the soup was completely unaware of the situation. The midwife asked her to serve the soup, and she did so obediently. The poisoning had nothing to do with her.
Luo Yechen asked: "Where are the others? Who is responsible for making the ginseng soup? Have all the people been checked?"
Because he was too anxious, his attitude was inevitably a bit aggressive.
Marquis Dingyuan coughed lightly, reminding the King of England to restrain his attitude. He was talking to the emperor, not interrogating a suspect.
Marquis Dingyuan was afraid that the emperor would be dissatisfied with the King of England because of this, so he immediately looked at the emperor and said respectfully.
"This matter concerns the safety of the princess and her child. The prince is too anxious. Your Majesty, please do not take it personally."
Luo Qinghan didn't care much about these little things and waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.
He said calmly, "I have checked everyone in the kitchen, and no one has any problem."
Luo Yechen couldn't believe it: "How is this possible? If there is no suspect, then where did the poison in the ginseng soup come from?"
Luo Qinghan was speechless.
This is also what he can't figure out.
All the people in the palace who might have come into contact with the ginseng soup were carefully checked.
No matter from the perspective of time, place, or motive, they are not suspects.
The poison in that bowl of ginseng soup seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
Luo Yechen did not give up, he decided to investigate again personally.
Luo Qinghan didn't say much about this and simply ordered the guards to release all those people.
Luo Yechen gathered everyone in the training ground and interrogated them one by one.
Marquis Dingyuan stood by and watched. His sharp eyes swept over everyone present one by one. Once anyone showed a guilty look, he would immediately catch it.
Luo Qinghan and Xixi also wanted to know the result of the interrogation, so they sat by and watched.
All the people who may have come into contact with the ginseng soup are here, only six people in total.
Even though Luo Yechen asked extremely carefully and used all means of coercion and inducement, he still finished questioning everyone quickly. The result was the same as before, everyone's answers were complete and nothing suspicious was found.
Luo Yechen was extremely anxious. He walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, thinking about which link had gone wrong.
Others had the same idea.
What went wrong?
Luo Qinghan turned his head to look at Xixi and asked in a low voice.
"Do you see what's wrong?"
Xiao Xixi shook her head: "No, these people are telling the truth."
These six people all had very ordinary faces, and they did not show any signs of being possessed by evil spirits, which meant that they did not harm anyone.
The butler then asked everyone to bring up all the evidence involved in the case.
There was a piece of ginseng cut in half, a clay pot for boiling soup, a wooden spoon for scooping soup, and a red glass bowl for serving soup.
There was still half a bowl of cold soup left in the glass bowl, and a small spoon was quietly placed next to the bowl.
As soon as Luo Yechen saw the small half bowl of soup, he became furious and he wished he could stuff that half bowl of ginseng soup directly into the mouth of the real murderer.
The court doctor had already checked all these instruments and told the truth.
"The ginseng is indeed top-quality, century-old ginseng, and is not poisonous. The clay pot and wooden spoon are non-toxic, and neither are the bowl and spoon. Only the ginseng soup is poisonous."
This shows that the poison was put directly into the ginseng soup instead of being smeared on the surface of the casserole, wooden spoon, bowl or soup spoon.
In other words, only people who come into contact with the ginseng soup could be poisoned.
So suspicion was focused on the six people present.
But no matter how they checked, there was no problem with these six people.
The case has reached a dead end and I can't find the right way out.
Luo Yechen could just kill all six people without asking any questions, but this would only serve to vent his anger and would not help the progress of the case at all.
He wanted to know who was the real person who poisoned him, and who wanted to harm his princess and child?
He wanted to chop the real murderer who poisoned him into pieces with his own hands!
Only in this way can he relieve the hatred in his heart!
Dingyuan Hou looked at the sky and said, "It's getting late. Let's stop here for today. We can investigate slowly later. We will eventually find out the truth."
Although Luo Yechen was unwilling, given the current situation, this was the only way for now.
He waved his hand and had the six people taken away, taking away the evidence as well.
At this moment, Xiao Xixi suddenly stood up.
"Wait a moment."
Everyone was stunned and looked at her.
She walked straight to the tray containing the evidence.
She stretched out her right hand and picked up the small and delicate spoon.
The spoon is made of fine red jade, with a smooth and round surface. The handle is also carved with delicate patterns, and the workmanship is extremely exquisite.
It must have taken a lot of thought to make such an exquisite spoon.
However, such a beautiful little spoon exudes a faint bloody light.
That is an ominous symbol.
Seeing that the imperial concubine stared at the spoon for a long time, Luo Yechen couldn't help but ask.
"Do you see what's wrong?"
Xiao Xixi raised the spoon, looked at it carefully in the sunlight, and then asked back.
"Are you sure this spoon is okay?"
The court doctor hurriedly said, "I have checked it and there is indeed no problem."
Xiao Xixi: "How did you check it?"
The court doctor said truthfully: "We scraped the surface of the spoon and tested what we scraped off. The results showed that it was non-toxic."
Xiao Xixi pointed to the spoon handle and said, "Have you checked this place?"
The court doctor immediately walked forward, stared at the handle of the spoon, and shook his head.
"No."
When checking tableware, you usually check the parts that come into contact with the soup. There is no need to check parts that do not come into contact with the soup, such as the handles.
Xiao Xixi didn't say anything else, just said: "Let's do an experiment, please bring a bowl of hot soup."
Luo Yechen glanced at the butler.
The housekeeper immediately hurried out of the kitchen.
Soon he brought a bowl of hot chicken soup.
He explained breathlessly, "There is no ginseng soup in the kitchen right now. We only have chicken soup for now."
Xiao Xixi: "Chicken soup is also fine."
She took the chicken soup and asked the court doctor to check it to make sure it was not poisonous before starting her own experiment.
She put the spoon into the chicken soup, then called out the maid who was in charge of serving the ginseng soup and asked.
"When you served the soup to the princess, did you stir the ginseng soup with a spoon first?"
The maid was trembling with fear, but she still pulled herself together and gave a truthful answer.
"To answer the Imperial Concubine, yes."
(End of this chapter)
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