Chapter 101 Purchase

Yun Qin never expected that Concubine Su bribed the palace maid around Shen Danying.

But apart from paying respects to the empress, Concubine Su had never had any contact with Shen Danying!

This made her think of the letter that Su Meiren sent out of the palace. If the transaction was not completed in the palace, it must have been completed outside the palace.

Su family...

Although Yun Qin didn't know the details, she had already figured out the key. She looked up at Shen Danying with some worry.

"Daying, not a slave!" the maid shouted to Shen Daying.

Seeing the palace maid pointing out the person next to her, Shen Danying was completely stunned, but at that moment she did not doubt the person next to her, she just felt absurd and angry.

"absurd!"

She immediately stood up and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please be wise. I have never had any enmity with Lady Liu, so why would you want to harm her? I think this palace maid wants to get away with it, so she is making random accusations. Don't be fooled by her!"

"Your Majesty, I am not speaking nonsense!"

The kneeling maid also said loudly: "I remember it clearly. Three days ago, she said that she was ordered by Shen Danying to come to get the spices. Sister Qinghe knows this."

Qing He seemed to have just remembered and nodded immediately: "Yes, there was such a thing, and it was I who asked her to lead Shen Danying's maid to the storeroom."

After saying this, she glanced at Shen Danying and leaned down to the emperor, "I hope your Majesty will give my beauty justice."

Seeing the two men talking at cross purposes, Huo Jinchi looked at Shen Daying and asked, "What's going on?"

Shen Danying seemed to have just remembered and said hurriedly, "It was that day when I met Lady Liu at the Queen's place. Lady Liu and I both love perfume, so we talked about the mixing of spices."

"Lady Liu said that she was pregnant and could not smell the incense, so the incense in her hand was wasted. She said she would give it to me, and she asked me to send someone to get it."

"This is really an accident. I almost forgot about it. Moreover, even if I really wanted to kill him, why would I send the closest person to me? Isn't this too obvious?"

Hawking Chi frowned slightly and said nothing.

Seeing this, Xu An asked the maid again with great tact, "What happened at that time? Why do you insist that it was Shen Danying's maid who did it?"

Before the maid opened her mouth, Shen Danying spoke to the maid beside her: "Xiangyun, tell me, what happened at that time?"

Xiang Yun immediately knelt on the ground and said to the emperor: "I did come to Lady Liu to get perfume that day, but after getting the perfume, I immediately went back. I have never seen any pollen for dyeing nails."

As soon as she finished speaking, the maid screamed, "You are talking nonsense! I remember clearly that you asked me what this package was. I told you it was Henna hair powder."

"Later, after you took the spices out, you suddenly said that your purse was lost, and asked me to look for it at the door for you, while you went back to the storeroom to look for it. It must have been at that time that you tampered with the pollen!"

These words made Shen Danying immediately look at Xiang Yun who was kneeling at his feet. He saw that she looked flustered and her face was pale, and his heart skipped a beat.

"It wasn't me. Even if I turned back, it doesn't mean I did it!"

Xiangyun's words were essentially a disguised admission that she had indeed been alone in the warehouse. The words that she had not done it sounded pale and powerless.

Shen Danying finally realized that something was wrong. She suppressed her anxiety, forced herself to cheer up, and turned to the emperor and said, "I don't understand why this maid insisted that it was my maid who did it. I ask the emperor to investigate this matter and give me justice."

At this point, she could only trust Xiang Yun temporarily. She couldn't even imagine that someone who had been with her for so many years would be bribed by someone else.

Huo Jinchi looked at her deeply and was about to speak when an eunuch brought the record of cinnabar usage during the time in the hospital.

"Bring it up."

This matter actually involved Shen Daning, which forced Huo Jinchi to be cautious. He took the record and quickly read it. It was well organized, with information about the person who took the medicine and the purpose, but not a single line pointed to Shen Daning.

Seeing the emperor's expression, Shen Danying knew that no one could get into the hospital yet. She felt relieved and looked at the emperor with tears on her face. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I really don't understand why I was involved in this matter!"

Lady Su, who had been silent the whole time, finally couldn't help but say when she saw Huo Jinchi start to relax, "Since there's no problem with the hospital, why not ask the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to come and ask. Cinnabar is not only used as medicine. I remember that the Ministry of Internal Affairs made some new cinnabar bracelets a while ago."

Hearing this, Huo Jinchi glanced at her with a slightly deep look in his eyes, and then said to Xu An: "Call Zhang Huaide!"

Seeing the people going to call Zhang Huaide out, Shen Danying breathed a sigh of relief. She never liked things with too bright colors, and she didn't even wear coral beads, let alone cinnabar, so she had never received any cinnabar bracelets from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, Yun Qin turned his gaze to Lady Su, and a bad feeling arose in his heart.

This time Zhang Huaide came very quickly, holding a book from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with a haggard look on his face, as if bitterness could be seen dripping from his eyes.

He flipped through the booklet quickly, found the most recent record, and presented it to Hawking.

"I took a quick look on the way here." He glanced at Shen Danying, then lowered his eyes and said in a subtle tone: "Shen Danying did receive a cinnabar bracelet."

Shen Danying was shocked and angry, and immediately shouted: "You are talking nonsense!"

But the next second Huo Jinchi handed the booklet to her, and it clearly said "Get a cinnabar bracelet from Shen Daying", and the signature at the back was the two words "Xiang Yun".

Xiangyun has been following Shen Danying since she entered the palace. How could she not recognize her handwriting?

Shen Danying felt as if struck by lightning at this moment. He turned his head stiffly to look at Xiangyun, his eyes full of disbelief.

Xiangyun looked as if she already knew the outcome. She was completely paralyzed, with her upper body lying on the ground, shaking constantly.

Seeing her like this, Shen Danying still had something he didn't understand, and pointed at her with a trembling finger, "I never asked you to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get the cinnabar bracelet. Why on earth did you do this!"

Xiang Yun looked up at her, and as if she had collapsed, she crawled forward a few steps, hugged her legs, and shouted, "Master, Master, please save me. I have only obeyed your orders. You said you would save my life!"

After she shouted at him like that, Shen Danying could no longer hold on and his waist collapsed on the chair.

But when she thought of her brother and her family which had just started to gain momentum, she bit her cheek hard the next second to cheer herself up.

Shen Danying slapped Xiangyun on the face and shouted angrily, "Who ordered you to frame me? Xiangyun, you have been with me for so many years, and I have never treated you unfairly! Your mother was sick, and I asked the doctor to cure her. Is this how you repay me?"

Xiang Yun's face showed obvious hesitation for a moment, and then she hugged her legs and cried bitterly, but she still shouted: "Master, please save this slave!"

Shen Danying saw that this could not change her mind, and her face became more gloomy. She slowly slid down from the chair and knelt at Huo Jinchi's feet. "Your Majesty, you must believe me. I have never had any grudge against Lady Liu, so why would you want to harm her? Someone must have wanted to frame me. I hope Your Majesty will understand!"

She spoke each word carefully, with tears in her eyes.

Now she can only hope that the emperor will trust her and really investigate the matter thoroughly.

However, if the matter could not be fully investigated, she would have no choice but to die in exchange for her brother and family's innocence.

The emperor is now placing great importance on my brother, and in order to protect him, he will certainly not let her live, but he hopes that she can die more quickly and cleanly...