Chapter 346: Heading to Zhongyu Palace
Zhao Hai hurried inside and told her about the incident of having someone cook Concubine Xi's meal. Of course, he didn't dare to breathe loudly and just said that Shen Qing was fine. Even so, Xuanyuan Ling's face suddenly became ugly. Knowing that she was attracting attention in the harem, he also arranged for people to protect her. He didn't expect that she would be protected in such a high-profile manner, which clearly told everyone that anyone who touched Shen Qing would die, and yet someone dared to deliver her to the door.
"Get ready." Xuanyuan Ling wanted to see that Shen Qing was okay now.
He felt a little scared when he heard this, but fortunately he found out, what if he really ate it?
You can't make such an assumption. If you do, he will feel uneasy.
On the way, he complained that the servants carrying the sedan chair were not working hard enough: "Hurry up."
"Hurry up, hurry up." Zhao Hai urged them to trot.
The people carrying the sedan chair were also panicking. They had to walk steadily, otherwise the emperor would be shaken. They also had to walk quickly. Unless they had wings, how could they walk quickly and steadily on two legs?
At least he got to Zhaohua Palace as quickly as possible and went straight to the inner room. At this moment, Shen Qing was waiting for Xuanyuan Ling to come.
"Has the imperial physician examined it?"
"I've already seen it." Shen Qing saw his face and took his hand and squeezed it: "It's okay."
She also wondered if someone had attacked her before what happened today without noticing, but she didn't find anything unusual in her body.
Xuanyuan Ling felt the warmth of her little hand, and the impatience in his heart was soothed, but seeing that her face looked good and there was nothing unusual, his worry about Chen Qing was suppressed.
"Has he been arrested?"
Chen Qing said: "He was caught. He was caught in the imperial kitchen and someone found him on the spot."
"Has it been questioned?"
Shen Qing shook her head: "No, the Imperial Kitchen was supposed to report to the Emperor first, but I was afraid that someone might leak out, so I asked everyone in the Imperial Kitchen to stay, and that's why I asked Chunhua to report the news."
Of course she couldn't interrogate them, because they were Concubine Qin's people. If Shen Qing really used torture to interrogate them, she would be tainted with bad reputation. Later, they would confess under torture and accuse her of slander. Even if Xuanyuan Ling believed her, she couldn't punish Concubine Qin too harshly.
She had been thinking that she might be able to avenge Concubine Qin now that she was pregnant. Now was the perfect opportunity. Could she let it go?
If he doesn't try the case, let Xuanyuan Ling try it himself. If he tries it, and the Qin family has just attacked the father and son of the Shen family, let alone Concubine Qin, it is possible that the Qin family will suffer more than just a simple skin injury.
Xuanyuan Ling asked Chen Qing to rest first, and then turned around and left Zhaohua Palace. Interrogating people naturally could not be done in Zhaohua Palace. If blood was seen, it would be unlucky in Zhaohua Palace.
Xuanyuan Ling personally interrogated the person, and the mastermind was taken away by Zhao Hai for torture. This incident caused a huge uproar, and no one from the imperial kitchen escaped, and they all pleaded guilty. While Xuanyuan Ling was waiting for the result of Zhao Hai's interrogation, they were trying to understand the whole story.
"I saw him sneakily putting something into the soup that Concubine Xi usually drank. This was suspicious, so I arrested him on the spot."
"What about the soup?"
Shang Dexi also came out on his knees. He really hated the person who drugged the soup and implicated the entire imperial kitchen. "I asked someone to have the soup tested by the imperial physician. The physician said that a small amount of red pills was put in it."
The imperial physician who was examining the case was kneeling beside them and did not dare to be negligent. Everyone knew that the Emperor was keeping a close eye on Concubine Xi's pregnancy. If he was watching her more closely, wouldn't something go wrong?
"Red pills are used by women to induce abortion. Ordinary women can lose their babies after drinking one bowl of them. However, the dosage in Concubine Xi's soup is very small. Taking it once will not cause any symptoms, and ordinary examinations will not show any symptoms. However, if taken for a long time, within two months, the heir to the throne will be gone."
"How dare you!" Xuanyuan Ling slammed the table, extremely angry. He had been wondering if Shen Qing had drunk the poisonous soup without knowing it, and his heart ached when the imperial physician said that.
This means he really drank it, and it will take a while to detect it.
"Someone come."
At this moment, Zhao Hai went to interrogate someone, and Xiao Xia Zi was serving him. Xiao Xia Zi came over immediately. At this moment, he was alert. Something happened to Concubine Xi, and the Emperor must be in a very bad temper.
"Ask the imperial physician to check Concubine Xi's pulse again."
Xiao Xiazi hurried there.
At this time, Zhao Hai's interrogation of the man also yielded results. If you really want to interrogate someone, as long as the person didn't die immediately, you can always find out something. Especially for those in the imperial kitchen, it is impossible for them to be dead or his confidants.
If it was really someone else's dead body, it would not have been able to enter the imperial kitchen in the first place. The imperial kitchen is a place where those with unclean backgrounds cannot enter. Those who can enter the imperial kitchen must have their ancestors for three generations thoroughly investigated.
You can ask someone to be your spy, but the people in the imperial kitchen also have to curry favor with the powerful. It's okay to talk a little or receive some benefits to reveal some information to you, but if someone is bribed to do something like poisoning, and if the target is not favored, then no one will care if the person dies, but if he is favored, then he will die on his own. Even if he is willing, what about the people in the imperial kitchen? Others will not be happy about it either.
After all, if something goes wrong with a dish, it means that the imperial kitchen is not trustworthy. To put it in a broader sense, the emperor's meals are also managed by the imperial kitchen. If the imperial kitchen is not trustworthy, it is still unknown whether the emperor can survive if he replaces another batch of people.
The imperial kitchen can be said to supervise each other, as no one wants to be implicated by others. Therefore, although the imperial kitchen is a place where you can keep an eye on things, they are just there to collect money and do things, and cannot be trusted.
That's why someone was discovered so quickly. Now it wasn't too difficult for Zhao Hai to interrogate him. After a while of torture and a few threats and inducements, the man confessed.
Zhao Hai came closer to Xuanyuan Ling with some embarrassment: "That person said that he was listening to a eunuch named Xiao Linzi in Zhong Yu Palace, and the medicine was also taken from Xiao Linzi. I have already asked people to capture Xiao Linzi..." There were some things he couldn't say later.
But he didn't say it. Xuanyuan Ling's face turned pale when he heard Zhong Yugong's words. "Princess Qin, she just caused trouble for the Qin family, and she still dared to attack Shen Qing!"
"Go to Zhongyu Palace, seal it, and let me investigate."
Zhao Hai knew that the emperor was not going to make a big deal out of a small matter. This time, Concubine Qin might not be as simple as just being demoted.
He immediately ordered people to seal off Zhongyu Palace.
Concubine Qin was also shocked to be surrounded by a crowd of people. She didn't know what was going on. She was depressed because she couldn't do anything to Shen Qing, and now she was surrounded. Even if the emperor was keeping an eye on the Qin family, what did it have to do with her?
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