Chapter 120 Poison
Compared with a prince, asking the useless Concubine Fang to restrain Concubine Yu seems insignificant.
A prince is too important.
Jinzhi understood and left quietly.
The Queen then stepped forward and said to the Emperor, "I think that even if Concubine Fang is very bold, she would not use the Third Prince to murder Concubine Yu. The dog's coming is strange, and there may be other hidden motives."
Searching the palace was a big deal, it was only done when a serious mistake had been made and there was solid evidence. Now it was just a suspicion. The emperor searched the palace immediately because he was sensitive about his mother's conspiracy against his son. In the final analysis, he was just in a hurry, so what the queen said was actually right.
But the timing was wrong.
She didn't say anything when Xuanyuan Ling searched the palace at dawn just now, but now that everyone has left, she started talking.
Xuanyuan Ling glanced at her with cold eyes. The queen's pretentious words were really disgusting.
After hearing what the Queen said, Concubine Fang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, even if I have the courage of heaven, I would not dare to do such a thing. Someone must have framed me for the dog's crime."
Xuanyuan Ling helped her up and said, "If you are innocent, I will compensate you well."
Now that things have come to this, I am determined to find out the truth.
Fangpin asked Xuanyuan Ling to help her up but she was unsure. Although the matter was arranged hastily, it was Jinyun who arranged it. She was always reliable and would not leave such a big handle as poison. She thought about this for a while, and then Zhao Hai came over with something serious.
Xuanyuan Ling's brows furrowed even more tightly, and the imperial physician beside him immediately checked: "Reporting to the emperor, it is indeed poisonous."
"Where did you find it?" Xuanyuan Ling's voice was suppressed to the extreme.
Zhao Hai sighed in his heart: "In the side hall."
For a moment, everyone was silent. The things they found naturally proved that Concubine Fang really had poisoned the dog to make it crazy, and then she deliberately directed and acted out this scene.
Xuanyuan Ling turned his head to look at Concubine Fang, and there was no anger on his face. However, such an expressionless face without anger made people feel even more frightened.
After all, the calm before the storm only makes people more frightened.
Fangpin was speechless for a long time, as if a hole had been broken in her heart, and she was filled with great fear. She couldn't speak for a while. At this moment, Jinyun shouted, "Your Majesty, our queen is innocent. This matter must have been deliberately framed. I plead guilty. Some time ago, our queen was slapped by Concubine Yu. She was depressed for several days. I was so angry that I asked people to release dogs on the way to Zhongyu Palace. I just wanted to scare Concubine Yu and vent my anger on her."
Jinyun's words were so earth-shattering that Fangpin couldn't hide her shock.
But Concubine Yu was furious at this moment: "You are a servant, and you are doing such a thing for your master? How could she be completely unaware of it? Moreover, the poison has been found, and you still want to deny it?"
"No, Your Majesty, please understand." Jin Yun shouted at Xuanyuan Ling, "I really just wanted to vent the anger of Concubine Fang, and I definitely didn't mean to harm the Third Prince. This poison must have been framed by someone. Your Majesty, please understand. If this servant really poisoned someone, why would she leave the poison in a place like the side hall?"
The Queen never thought that Concubine Fang was so stupid, but the servants around her were so smart. This tactic of retreating to advance, first she took the blame, made it reasonable, and then made an argument.
She first took the blame and then made her case in a reasonable way, which naturally caused people to wonder whether Concubine Fang was wrongly accused or someone was using this incident to harm her.
Xuanyuan Ling asked Jinyun in a cold voice: "Did you ask someone to release the dog?"
Jinyun gritted her teeth and admitted it. At this point, she must not let this matter be linked to Concubine Fang, otherwise everything would be over. "Yes, Concubine Yu slapped Concubine Fang that day, and Concubine Fang has been depressed. I couldn't bear it, so I wanted to teach Concubine Yu a lesson. I knew that Concubine Yu was afraid of dogs, so I bribed the eunuchs in the Imperial Pet Garden to release dogs on the road that Concubine Yu had to take to return to Zhongyu Palace today. I really just wanted to scare Concubine Yu. I didn't do anything else."
Jin Yun kowtowed to Xuan Yuan Ling and said, "Your Majesty, please understand. The eunuch I bribed is called Xiao Dongzi."
Xuanyuan Ling glanced at the kneeling eunuch from the Imperial Pet Garden who was answering the question.
"Reporting to the Emperor, there is indeed a little Dongzi in the Imperial Pet Garden."
Zhao Hai understood and immediately asked someone to bring it. Xiao Dongzi was already trembling with fear, so how could he hide the truth? He quickly stated: "Jinyun told the servants that as long as we release the dog to scare Concubine Yu, nothing will happen. The other servants know nothing."
Seeing this, Concubine Fang knelt down again and said, "Your Majesty, even if Jinyun was wrong, Concubine Yu was arrogant and domineering and slapped me first. Jinyun was just loyal to me and couldn't bear to see me depressed, and she would never think of using this to implicate the Third Prince. It is even more impossible that she was the one who poisoned him. The Third Prince is my child. How could I do such a thing?"
Jinyun kowtowed again: "It is possible that someone knew that I wanted to scare Concubine Yu and used this to frame you. It is also possible that you are jealous of others when the Third Prince was born. Your Majesty, please be careful. This person must have intended to attack the Third Prince."
Jinyun's words made sense and Xuanyuan Ling looked at her a little longer. This servant girl really knows how to talk.
Concubine Yu could not bear this grievance: "How dare a slave girl release a dog to scare me? How could she not do something like poisoning? I see that the wound on the Third Prince's face was probably caused by you. You were the one holding the Third Prince at the time."
Jinyun shouted, "How dare I hurt the Third Prince, and even hurt his face? I would never dare to do such a big thing." She paused and suddenly seemed to think of something, "I don't know who did it, but if it was really aimed at the Third Prince, I'm afraid it's not good. Please look into it, Your Majesty. I'm worried that the things sent by the ladies of the palace today will be harmful to the Third Prince."
The Queen had not expected things to turn out like this. She looked at Jinyun deeply and said, "Your Majesty, although this servant is very courageous and dared to scare Concubine Yu, she is very loyal and is still caring about the Third Prince. I think it would be safer to investigate this matter."
"check."
Zhao Hai naturally asked people to check again. He didn't dare to let others do this matter, for fear of causing trouble. Then, the things sent by other concubines in the palace were brought in and asked the imperial physician to check one by one. When the longevity lock sent by Concubine Zhao was found, the imperial physician was shocked: "Your Majesty, this thing is highly poisonous. I'm afraid it will kill you if you touch it."
Xuanyuan Ling sneered in anger. A prince really attracted a lot of attention. Within a hundred days, someone was eager to take his life.
"Bring Lady Zhao here."
Concubine Zhao had just returned to her own palace, but not long after, a group of people brought her back to the emperor. Only then did she know about the third prince, and then when she saw the longevity lock soaked in poison, she shouted, "I absolutely did not do such a thing. I absolutely did not want to harm the third prince. I am innocent."
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