Chapter 429: People with Evil Intentions
This news came so strangely, and so quickly. Concubine Shun was upset. Didn't the Queen's people check it carefully? Why didn't they find the things placed in Zhaohua Palace? She didn't react for a while and realized what was wrong, but the nanny beside her felt something was wrong.
The fact that the things in Zhaohua Palace have not been found out has always left a hidden danger. It will be discovered sooner or later, and then Concubine Xian will naturally take action. What has been reported now is poisoning, and it may be related to the things they put there.
The nanny was a little embarrassed: "Madam, this matter is a little strange."
When Concubine Shun heard this, her heart skipped a beat. After all, she had done it. When the nanny said this, she hurriedly asked, "You mean, she was not poisoned?" After a pause, she looked at the nanny and asked, "Has this matter been dealt with?"
The nanny said, "Mr. Lin and the guard are both dead, so there is no evidence."
"The person who put the things in Zhaohua Palace..."
The nanny said, "This matter is secretive. As long as we keep it to ourselves, no one will find out about the Palace of Prayer for Good Harvests. Your Majesty, rest assured that we will only conduct routine inquiries. Do you think you can arrest all the concubines and servants in the harem and interrogate them without further ado?"
When the nanny said this, her panic was relieved. She was naturally afraid when she realized that Concubine Xian wanted to investigate. However, if Concubine Xian's poisoning was really to be investigated, it would be impossible to arrest all the people in the harem for interrogation. At most, it would be a routine investigation. The people who did it would naturally be their confidants. At this time, even if she insisted to death, no matter how capable Concubine Xian was, she would not be able to find out the truth about Concubine Shun.
This is why Concubine Shun was also comforted by the nanny.
The Queen and Concubine De arrived at Zhaohua Palace at almost the same time.
Naturally, someone reported when they came. When they went in, they didn't see Shen Qing. Instead, Xuanyuan Ling looked very bad outside. The two of them hurried to pay their respects to Xuanyuan Ling.
Xuanyuan Ling shouted.
The Queen naturally asked about Shen Qing's condition, and Wang Lu beside her naturally answered the question, and his words were all prepared: "I neglected my duty and did not notice that the tea that the Queen usually used was mixed with poison. Fortunately, she did not use much, and now she is out of danger. The imperial physician just said that she needs to rest."
The queen frowned when she heard this. Who in the harem would use such a crude method? It's not a deadly poison that kills people instantly. It's not painful or itchy, but it doesn't kill people. If they don't kill people, they still have evidence. Are they trying to find out the truth?
For the queen, poisoning is easy. If she really wants to, she can always put the poison in Shen Qing's daily necessities. However, poisoning is easy, but it is difficult not to be discovered. If it is not a poison that can kill her with one shot, she will not do it just to make her unhappy and expose herself to danger.
I don't know which idiot is so tactless.
Originally, she had to express herself well in front of Xuanyuan Ling and investigate the matter, but now she was afraid that she herself was suspected in the eyes of the emperor, so it would be safest to do nothing.
The queen could only express her concern and asked the emperor to punish her if she did not investigate.
Xuanyuan Ling listened to the Queen's words. It had been a long time since she was in charge of the harem. Now that Shen Qing had just gotten into trouble, she said she would not investigate. Wasn't it Defei and Shen Qing who were in charge of the harem before? Was it the Queen who didn't investigate or Shen Qing and Defei who didn't investigate?
Defei naturally apologized.
Xuanyuan Ling said: "Okay, you all go down."
Once people had seen it and understood the meaning, it was settled. The Queen and Concubine De naturally left after seeing it, but they both felt that there was something fishy about the matter.
Shen Qing came out only after they left.
Xuanyuan Ling pulled her to sit aside, and Chen Qing suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I was listening to the Queen's voice just now and suddenly remembered something."
Xuanyuan Ling saw that she was serious and asked, "Do you have any clues about this matter?"
Chen Qing frowned: "I don't know if it can be considered a clue, but I felt it was a little strange at the time. When the palace was searched earlier, I was in the Queen's Palace, and the other concubines were all there. But when Eunuch Su, who was under the Queen, reported the situation in each palace, Concubine Shun looked a little strange to me. She seemed very surprised after listening to Eunuch Su's report. I didn't know what she was surprised about at the time, but now I think about it..."
Xuanyuan Ling understood what Shen Qing meant. If this was done by Concubine Shun, she would naturally be surprised if nothing was found in Zhaohua Palace during the palace search.
After Shen Qing finished speaking, he looked at Xuanyuan Ling and was silent for a moment before he said, "I am sorry to trouble the emperor."
Xuanyuan Ling looked at her and knew what she meant. If she was really Concubine Shun, then it would involve Prince Huai. He didn't care about other concubines, but after all, he still cared about the child. No matter what, Prince Huai was his eldest son.
But Shen Qing lowered her head after she finished speaking, Xuanyuan Ling looked distressed, he hugged her a little and asked her to lean on him: "How can you be a nuisance to me?"
As he spoke, his eyes darkened: "It's those people who have evil intentions."
Shen Qing was a good person. Could it be that he couldn't understand her temper after all these years? She was smart and had a temper. She couldn't stand being cheated. She couldn't bear to be cheated by others. But she had never taken the initiative to harm others. In these years, she was in charge of the harem, and the treatment of the concubines in the harem was much better than when the queen was in charge.
In fact, what if she didn't care about those concubines? Or what if she turned a blind eye like the queen did in the beginning? What the concubines didn't dare to say, it was common for some servants in the harem to flatter the powerful and trample on the weak, but she favored them alone, and didn't let those unfavored concubines have a bad life because of losing favor. Xuanyuan Ling knew that this was because Shen Qing was kind-hearted.
But although she is kind-hearted, she is not foolishly kind. Chen Qing did not beg Xuanyuan Ling to go and see them or anything. She only cared about others while living a good life. Compared with the kindness of being naive or sympathizing with the weak without reason, her principled kindness made Xuanyuan Ling like her from the bottom of his heart. Although she was so kind, it was inevitable that someone in the harem would want to take advantage of her and plot against her.
Xuanyuan Ling narrowed his eyes when he thought of this: "I have asked people to focus on investigating Concubine Shun."
He really didn't doubt at all that she would deliberately plot against Concubine Shun and Prince Huai to bring this matter to them for Xiaoliu's sake.
Shen Qing's brows softened a little, and she wrapped her arms around his waist and rubbed her head against him.
Xuanyuan Ling's heart softened when she asked him to rub against her.
There are servants in charge of the investigation. Now that the order has been given, we are just waiting for the result.
The two of them were fine now, and were getting along as usual. After dinner, they washed up and prepared to rest.
Shen Qing leaned in Xuanyuan Ling's arms and fell asleep soon, sleeping soundly.
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