Chapter 445 Iron Case

When Xiao Jinxuan heard Han Ding speak, he immediately leaned over and said, "What happened? Don't panic, just speak slowly."

"The Empress... wanted to find a husband for her niece... After I refused... Sima Ting... toasted me... After I drank it... I was immediately poisoned..."

Han Ding obviously hadn't recovered yet, so he spoke haltingly, but fortunately his pronunciation was clear and he was able to reconstruct the entire process quickly.

Xiao Jinxuan immediately raised his head and looked at the empress with sharp eyes, "We have all the evidence, Your Majesty, do you have anything to say?"

"Nonsense!" Empress Sima's face was extremely ugly. "The love wine I asked people to prepare will only make people lose control of their emotions, and it will not poison people to death. It is obvious that someone is framing me!"

"Oh..." Xiao Jinxuan suddenly realized something, and then his tone suddenly changed, "So the Queen is really planning to intervene in the Han family case!"

The moment the words came out of her mouth, Empress Sima actually regretted it. Isn't this tantamount to confessing her guilt?

Xiao Jinxuan pressed her so aggressively just to make her lose control and fall into his trap.

No, perhaps from the moment that love wine turned into poison, I had already fallen into his trap!

She pinched her palms, the aura accumulated over the years in a high position prevented her from showing any sign of servility, "I just saw Captain Han's good looks and wanted to help us find a good match. Why, even for this, King Xuan wants to blame me?"

Xiao Jinxuan said calmly, "I dare not. I will hand over all the evidence and testimony to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It will be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who will decide whether I am guilty or not."

Hearing this, Empress Sima widened her eyes in disbelief, "How dare you!"

He actually...

He actually wanted his own son to convict himself!

Xiao Jinxuan glanced at her coldly, then retracted his gaze and said in a stern tone, "Someone, escort the Empress back to the palace!"

On the way back, Empress Sima was so distracted that she didn't even notice the fingertip piercing her palm.

Maybe it hasn't come to that yet... she thought.

After returning to the palace, if she immediately asked the Crown Prince to suppress the matter and then pushed a palace maid out to take the blame, it wouldn't necessarily lead to a point where it was irreversible...

Just as she was thinking about how to cover up this incident perfectly, she heard a burst of discussion coming from outside -

"Who is this? Why such a big fight?"

"Wow, you don't even know this? The one sitting inside is our Great Yemu Empress who is the most adorned queen in the world!"

"The Empress? I haven't heard that the Empress has left the palace?"

When a noble from the palace went out, the procession stretched from one end of the street to the other, and the common people on the street had to kneel down.

It is impossible not to know what was going on.

"Hey, the Empress secretly left the palace. Do I have to tell you?"

"Sneak out of the palace, sneak out of the palace for what?"

"Kill and silence!"

"Ah, who to kill? Is it worth her leaving the palace to do it herself?"

"Do you know the captain Han who recently beat the drum for hearing the news?"

"Of course I know him. Everyone in the capital knows him. I even cheered for him. Why would the Queen kill him?"

"I heard that the Lord Meng Xingmeng that Captain Han sued is the nephew-in-law of the Empress!"

"No... No way? How could the Queen do that?"

"I heard that His Royal Highness Prince Xuan had captured the kidnapper and caught him red-handed. If it weren't for His Royal Highness Prince Xuan, Captain Han would have been poisoned to death!"

"Oh my God, how can she be so cruel!"

"Yes, the mother of a country actually did such a shameful thing!"

There were already enough onlookers, and many ordinary people heard about it and came over to see it.

There were even more people who came to visit and worship than when Empress Sima was crowned empress and entered the palace from Tianmen Street. The difference was that this time they all came to scold her.

But she couldn't get out of the carriage to argue and explain to those villains, because that would really be lowering her status.

"Xiao Jinxuan... Xiao Jinxuan!" Her face turned black, her teeth were clenched, and she was so angry that she wanted to kill someone.

After much difficulty, they finally entered the palace. Crown Prince Xiao Bicheng had apparently received the news long ago, and he brought people to intercept Xiao Jinxuan the moment he escorted the empress into the palace.

"Thank you, uncle, for escorting my mother back to the palace."

Then the palace maids immediately stepped forward and took over the carriage carrying the queen.

Xiao Jinxuan was not surprised to see this, and bowed, "Your Highness, you are polite. This is what I should do. There is one more thing that I think I should show to Your Highness."

After saying this, he tilted his head and Ling Xiao immediately presented him a stack of offerings.

Xiao Bicheng glanced at Han Ding's confession and said calmly: "It is too ridiculous to convict the queen of a country based on his one-sided words..."

Before he finished speaking, his eyes fell on the next confession, and his eyes suddenly changed, "Aunt Suqiu?"

Xiao Jinxuan's eyes were slightly raised, "If Han Ding's confession is not enough, what about the confession of the Queen's personal maid? On the way, Aunt Suqiu had already confessed that it was the Queen who asked her to poison Han Ding in the wine. The Yufusi also found some remaining poison on her body, and confirmed that it was the same poison in the evidence wine."

After staggering two steps, Xiao Bicheng's body shook and he almost fell down.

In this way, this case has almost become an ironclad case!

The Queen had obviously heard these words in the car, and immediately rushed out by lifting the car curtain. "What did you say? Su Qiu confessed that I had her poisoned? Impossible, you must have tortured her into confessing! Where is she? Let her come to see me!"

Xiao Jinxuan said: "Su Qiu has been detained by the Fushun Division as a witness and a criminal."

"Then let Yu Fusi send the person over!" Empress Sima simply didn't believe that Su Qiu, who had followed her for so many years, would betray her.

"Enough!" Xiao Bicheng's face turned pale, knowing that Xiao Jinxuan's detention of Suqiu meant there was no room for maneuver in this matter.

He squeezed out the words almost through his teeth, "I will give an explanation to my uncle and the people of the world about this matter."

Xiao Jinxuan was waiting for these words, and he bowed and said, "I will take my leave."

In the palace.

Xiao Bicheng dismissed all the palace ladies and got very angry. "Mother, why did you do that? Do you know that you have caused me so much trouble this time?"

If he lets his mother go, people all over the world will think he is partial and perverting the law.

If he handled the matter impartially, people would think he was cold-hearted and unfeeling, and was willing to do something to his own mother.

No matter how he handles it, he will be in a very unfavorable position!

Empress Sima hurriedly explained, "Cheng'er, listen to your mother's explanation. Your mother did not poison Han Ding at all. This was deliberately planned by Xiao Jinxuan..."

"Really?" Xiao Bicheng looked at her steadily. "Then why don't you tell me, mother, how he managed to coax you out of the palace willingly without anyone noticing? And how he made you take the initiative to look for Han Ding?"