"The Queen?" Wang Xiaohai raised his voice and said to the guards, "Call her over."
Five minutes later, Queen Zhuang came in. Although she looked a little nervous, her walking posture was graceful and elegant.
"Are you the queen?" Wang Xiaohai put Lin Yiyi down. He no longer needed to carry her on the journey. It was so awkward to hold her in his arms all the time.
"Yes, I am the queen." The queen held her head high and chest out. Seeing so many people around her, her courage returned.
"Why did you notify the chief steward of internal affairs to send medicine to the imperial concubine?" Wang Xiaohai asked straight to the point. He didn't like to beat around the bush.
"Do I... do I need to tell you the reason why I do things?" Queen Zhuangguo was displeased.
Wang Xiaohai raised his head, the sword flashed, and a blood mark appeared on the queen's face: "If I didn't want to know what happened, you would be dead now."
"Ah——" Queen Zhuang danced with joy, covered her face and squatted down, blood seeping out from between her fingers, which was very scary.
Imperial Physician Jin hurried forward to help her stop the bleeding with medicine powder. Instantly, severe pain came over her and her screams echoed all around.
"Have you rested well? From now on, I will only ask you once. If you don't answer, I will kill you with a sword." Wang Xiaohai thought that they were going to kill everyone in the Lin Mansion and felt that it was too cheap to just kill them with one sword. Originally, he planned to wipe out the entire royal family of Zhuang Kingdom, but after standing there for a few minutes, he calmed down and decided to find out the truth first and then see what Lin Yiyi decided.
"I did ask the chief steward to help deliver pregnancy-preserving medicine to the imperial concubine, but I meant well and had no bad intentions at all!" Queen Zhuang said tremblingly.
Wang Xiaohai wondered, if no one was lying, then where did the problem lie? Could it really have been Imperial Physician Lin who did it? But why did he do that?
Wang Xiaohai can judge whether others are lying, but he cannot reconstruct the scene. What does Wang Xiaohai think he missed?
"Call all the imperial doctors and medicine makers on duty that day." Wang Xiaohai said to the guards.
Ten minutes later, there was a row of people standing in front of Wang Xiaohai, dozens of them.
"Have you tampered with the imperial concubine's medicine? Just answer yes or no." Wang Xiaohai asked each imperial physician one by one.
Everyone answered no.
Wang Xiaohai asked the same question to several servants in the frying room, and they all denied it.
"It's strange, no one is lying, who is the murderer?" Wang Xiaohai muttered to himself.
He wondered if it was really Imperial Physician Lin who did it, but if even he thought so, it was no wonder that the emperor would think so too.
"That's right!" Wang Xiaohai thought that if the person who assassinated him had a brain, he would definitely not do it while on duty. He should be resting. Moreover, not only the imperial physician, but also the people in the imperial pharmacy should be suspects!
"Mammy, when Imperial Physician Lin brought the medicine, did you try using silver needles or something like that?" Wang Xiaohai stared at the old nanny. The way he judged if someone was lying was by their eyes, heartbeat, and expression.
"I've tried it, it's not poisonous," the old lady replied.
"Sir, this medicine is non-toxic on its own," Imperial Physician Jin said to Wang Xiaohai, "but one of the herbs in it counteracts the tonic in the Imperial Concubine's porridge, and together they become extremely toxic."
"Really?" Wang Xiaohai pondered for a moment, "Speaking of which, I vaguely guessed the truth."
Wang Xiaohai asked his servants to bring the duty roster for the Imperial Pharmacy and the Imperial Hospital that day, which showed that there were indeed three people on leave.
"Catch these three." Wang Xiaohai said to the guards.
This time they waited for a long time, almost an hour, but no one present showed any impatience, and no one left. It was not that they did not want to leave, but they did not dare to leave, for fear of angering this killing god and being killed with a single sword!
"We only caught two people. Another one returned home to visit relatives and is not in the palace." The guard clasped his fists to Wang Xiaohai.
"Who is the person visiting relatives?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"That man is the imperial concubine's cousin and will not harm her!" the guard explained.
Wang Xiaohai's eyes lit up and he said, "I found the truth. Imperial Physician Lin was framed!"
"How do you know?" Zhong Gongsheng felt that Wang Xiaohai was bragging. He knew it just from a few words. No one present knew it, but he knew it. Could it be that the queen really did it?
"The truth is—" Wang Xiaohai shouted, "The imperial concubine committed suicide!"
"Tsk--" Although the people around him were afraid of Wang Xiaohai's force, they still couldn't help but hiss. After all, what Wang Xiaohai said was too unexpected and beyond common sense!
No matter how stupid or foolish a person is, he would not commit suicide like this. Everyone thought so in their hearts. However, although they were dissatisfied with what Wang Xiaohai said, no one dared to say it out loud.
"Why did the imperial concubine commit suicide?" Lin Yiyi asked. She also felt that the imperial concubine did not commit suicide, but it was not her father who killed her. She guessed that the murderer was someone else.
"It's simple. She'd been preparing for it ten months ago. She wasn't actually pregnant, so she deceived everyone," Wang Xiaohai said. "I guess she was just joking, but she didn't expect someone to tell the emperor about it. She couldn't get out of this situation, so she came up with this plan and teamed up with her cousin to stage this drama to cover up the fact that she was faking her pregnancy."
"Then she can just pretend to fall and have a miscarriage. There's no need to really kill herself!" Lin Yiyi said.
"She didn't want to kill herself, but her porridge was replaced by someone, and the person who replaced her was her cousin," said Wang Xiaohai.
"Why did her cousin want to change the porridge?" asked Zhong Gongfeng.
"In order to cover up the truth that the two of them conspired to deceive the emperor, there was no evidence, or maybe they accepted bribes from others. Who knows? Anyway, her cousin is gone." Wang Xiaohai explained.
Everyone thought, since one is dead and the other escaped, and there is no evidence, how can you prove that your reasoning is correct?
"Okay, the truth has been revealed. It's not your father's fault. How should you deal with these people?" Wang Xiaohai said to Lin Yiyi.
"I..." Lin Yiyi clenched her fists, "I don't know."
She had lived in Zhuang State since she was a child. The majesty of Emperor Gan had always existed in the hearts of everyone in Zhuang State. Even if her father and brother were killed without any explanation, she still didn't dare to do anything to Emperor Gan!
"I understand." Wang Xiaohai said, drawing his sword and piercing the heart of the Emperor in front of him. "Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. The culprit is this guy who ordered the killing without asking for the reason or finding out the truth."
Just as Zhong Gongsheng wanted to stop it, it was too late!
"The emperor... has passed away!" The chief steward couldn't believe his eyes and cried with his head down.
"Oh, you've done something wrong!" Zhong Gongfeng said, "The Baiyu Palace has a rule - the emperor cannot be killed casually!"
"There is such a rule. Anyway, I don't know about it, so why bother about it!" Wang Xiaohai said nonchalantly.
"I am also from Baiyu Palace. The emperor has ordered that the scroll be hidden in Baiyu Palace. If it breaks, a patrol team will be sent to check. You should run away quickly. If the law enforcement team finds that it is not a natural death, they will kill you." said Zhong Gongfeng.
"There's no need to escape." Wang Xiaohai said.
"Why?" Zhong Gongfeng asked, "The law enforcement team are all awakened. Aren't you afraid?"
"Don't be afraid, because you are lying to me. The law enforcement team is not as powerful as you said." Wang Xiaohai's eyes flashed with wisdom.
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