Chapter 538: The maid who grabbed me hit me in the face
Yun Lu was so angry that she slammed the table. "The Ninth Princess is so bold that she even dared to harm the Queen. The Queen was kind enough not to bother with her, but she harbored evil intentions and actually turned around. She wanted to assassinate the Queen and charge the Thirteenth Princess with murdering her stepmother."
If Princess Thirteen were to bear this crime, it would be a question whether she could survive.
Lu Xiang shook his head: "Not only that, they deliberately chose the material of brocade gold. Furong Pavilion can't escape responsibility either. At least they dragged me into it and teamed up with the Thirteenth Princess to murder the Queen."
Chu Paner was planning to kill three birds with one stone.
If she hadn't entered the palace today.
If she had not heard the sound from the Imperial Garden by coincidence, Chu Paner's plan might have succeeded.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiang couldn't help but shudder. He looked at Yun Lu and saw the same fear and terror in Yun Lu's eyes.
As they were talking, the palace maid left and came back.
Because I ran too fast, I was out of breath.
"Aunt...Aunt, Third Miss, I...I am back."
Yunlu was anxious: "What do you mean?"
The maid took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and said hurriedly, "I went to find Doctor Zheng. Doctor Zheng tried several methods but couldn't find the cause. Then he soaked the shoes in water and tasted the water. Only then did he find the herb Tripterygium wilfordii in it."
"I've never heard of a poison like thunder god vine." Yunlu said.
Lu Xiang continued the palace maid's words, "Because it is a chronic poison, but it is not as common as oleander and aconite."
The little palace maid took a few breaths and nodded at Yunlu.
Yun Lu's face immediately turned cold: "Oh, what a good trick, this is to take the life of the queen without anyone noticing, Xianpin really gave birth to a good daughter."
"Go again and call Imperial Doctor Zheng to Jingren Palace." Lu Xiang said to the palace maid.
The maid nodded, her heart beating rapidly, then she turned and ran away.
She knew that the harem, which had been peaceful for a long time, was about to face another storm.
After the palace maid left, Lu Xiang and Yun Lu returned to the side hall where Queen Song was.
When they saw the two people come in, their faces became extremely ugly.
Queen Song was stunned for a moment. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Lu Xiang pointing at the palace maid named Xi Que and said, "Come here, take her down."
Everyone in Jingren Palace knew that Lu Xiang was the Queen's favorite, so everyone was used to obeying her orders.
At her command, two palace maids in the hall immediately stepped forward and grabbed Xique by one of her shoulders, and one of them kicked her calf savagely.
Xique groaned in pain and fell to his knees.
Lu Xiang's order came too suddenly, and only after the man was captured did the people in the hall come to their senses.
Chu Ying'er looked at her maid being arrested, her face turned red with anger, and she pointed at Lu Xiang and said angrily: "Lu Xiang, you are so presumptuous."
Lu Xiang glanced at Chu Ying'er calmly and said, "Princess Thirteen, calm down first."
"I cannot calm down. You are slapping me in the face by arresting my maid."
Queen Song glanced at Chu Ying'er with a slightly cold look: "Ying'er, sit down."
Yunlu immediately recounted the whole story.
Chu Ying'er's angry mood turned pale after hearing Yun Lu's words. She looked at Xi Que in disbelief with trembling lips, and then looked at Queen Song in horror.
"Mother...Mother, I...I didn't."
Chu Ying'er was so frightened that her legs went weak and she fell to her knees in front of Queen Song.
Xique was the palace maid she asked for from the Needlework Bureau. Now that she followed her, she was naturally her person. Anyone would think that she, her master, had ordered her to do so.
For murdering the queen, both she and her mother would be doomed to death.
Chu Ying'er was filled with fear, and her tears stopped falling like beads from a broken string. She didn't dare to think about the consequences of the Queen's wrath.
Queen Song stared at Xique with cold eyes, like an ancient well in the cold, carrying an indescribable icy air.
She reached out and pulled Chu Ying'er up: "Get up, as long as it has nothing to do with you, I will definitely investigate this matter."
Not to mention that she believed in Lu Xiang, even if Lu Xiang didn't notice these things, she would not doubt Chu Ying'er anymore after Chu Pan'er became a suspect.
Concubine Liang and Concubine Rong had their current status and good life thanks to her. How stupid must they be to lead Chu Ying'er to resent them and do something dark against her.
"Empress, I am innocent. The Third Miss is slandering me on purpose. She said she saw me. But who can prove that I said such a thing?" Xique struggled in the hands of the palace maid and cried out for justice.
Queen Song folded her hands, one hand gently stroking the back of the other hand, and looked at Xi Que nonchalantly: "Does this palace look so easy to fool?"
Xi Que's pupils shrank sharply, and then she revealed an innocent and unwilling look: "My lady, I really don't know what the Third Miss is talking about. I was embroidering the patterns every day in front of the Thirteenth Princess. If I couldn't finish it, the princess's personal maid Shi Liu would collect it. The shoes were made by the Thirteenth Princess herself. I didn't have the opportunity to tamper with them. If there is suspicion, isn't Shi Liu more suspicious? The Third Miss wants to frame me, so naturally she wants to blame me for everything."
"I don't even know you, and I have no grudge against you, so why would I wrongly accuse you?" Lu Xiang found it funny and stared at Xi Que coldly.
He looks timid and cautious, but I didn't expect that he is actually so arrogant.
Come to think of it, if you are really a coward, you wouldn't dare to do such a thing that could cost you your life.
Xi Que looked at Lu Xiang in anger but dared not speak, and said timidly: "This servant is not clear, everyone in the palace knows that the queen dotes on you, and whatever you say is true."
The implication is that who knows if Lu Xiang herself harbored evil intentions, but relied on the Queen's favor to pin the crime on her.
"Mother, tell the Ninth Princess that I want to confront her face to face." Suddenly, Chu Ying'er gritted her teeth and kicked Xi Que hard in the chest again: "You little slave, I have honored you in vain, but you colluded with others to murder mother and frame me."
"Ah!" Xi Que was kicked to the ground. She covered her chest and screamed. She looked at Chu Ying'er in panic: "Princess, Princess, please believe me. I am loyal to you. How can you be provoked by others?"
Chu Ying'er was so angry that her chest heaved violently and she wanted to kick someone again.
Lu Xiang stopped her and shook his head gently at her.
"Princess, calm down. There are always ways to deal with stubborn people."
Chu Ying'er glanced at Lu Xiang and sat down angrily.
"Shaohua, call the Ninth Princess into the palace." Queen Song ordered in a deep voice.
Shaohua was about to agree, but Yunlu said first: "My lady, I will go, and there is another dog slave who needs to be brought back for interrogation."
Xique covered his chest, grimacing in pain, and a faint light flashed in his lowered eyes.
Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk, and she has no regrets. Now that things have come to this, she has no way out and can only grit her teeth and not give in. She knows all the punishments that the Ministry of Punishment can impose, and as long as she can endure them, she will survive.
As long as you are alive, with such a big handle in your hand, you will never have to worry about wealth and glory.
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