Chapter 47 Give the chicken leg to the eldest son first
Xia Zhengqi asked seriously: "What is the result?"
"I asked the most experienced old coroner in the Ministry of Justice to examine it." The prince looked serious.
"Although the body has already decayed, the silver needle test shows that the body is indeed poisoned."
"According to the autopsy results of the coroner, Wei Yu'er died of poisoning."
Xia Zhengqi said with a gloomy face: "Humph, this Liu Hong is really cruel!"
"He usually pretends to be a humble gentleman and has deep feelings for his wife. He is really a hypocrite."
At this time, Eunuch Debao hurriedly walked to the door with small steps: "Your Majesty, it's not good."
Xia Zhengqi raised his eyes: "What's wrong? Come in and tell me."
"Your Majesty, it's all my fault for not doing my job well. Doctor An... is dead." Eunuch Debao said in a difficult tone.
"Why is he dead?" The prince was shocked.
"I successfully took him to the prison of the Ministry of Justice. The officials of the Ministry of Justice interrogated him, and everything went smoothly."
"But just after the interrogation, he took advantage of the situation and hit his head against the pillar and died." Eunuch Debao cried.
Xia Zhengqi clenched his fists angrily without saying a word.
He recalled his daughter's voice and said that Doctor An had been working for the Jiang family for many years.
Doctor An was not only involved in Wei Yuer's case, but also in many evil things that the Empress Dowager and Concubine Jiang had done before.
Therefore, Doctor An was afraid that he could not withstand the severe interrogation and confessed all these.
If he confessed and was found guilty, not only would he die, but his family would also be implicated.
Thinking of this, Xia Zhengqi's gloomy face softened instead.
"I am not afraid of his death. We still have the doctor from that year, the maid, and Wei Yuer's body. Everything is evidence. The law will catch up with us!"
Xia Zhengqi raised his face with a firm look.
At night, in the prison of the Ministry of Justice, the prisoners were wearing dirty and torn prison uniforms, huddled on the straw piles.
The three members of the Jiang family, father and son, were locked up in two adjacent cells separated by a fence.
Grand Tutor Jiang lived in one room, and the two brothers of the Jiang family lived in another.
A jailer walked over slowly with a lantern.
Grand Tutor Jiang heard footsteps, looked up and saw the jailer, his eyes lit up instantly.
The jailer walked to the cell door of Master Jiang and stopped, then calmly took out an oil-paper package from his pocket.
Master Jiang immediately stood up and tiptoed to the cell door.
"Here." The jailer said in a low voice, looked at Master Jiang meaningfully, and handed the oil-paper package to Master Jiang.
Master Jiang responded with an affirmative look and took the oil-paper package.
The jailer turned around and left.
Master Jiang turned around and looked at his two sons in the cell next door. The eldest, Jiang Zhiyuan, was sleeping against the wooden fence, and the second son, Jiang Zhishan, was snoring on the straw pile.
He gently opened the oil-paper package and saw a big chicken leg sizzling with oil inside.
He squatted down, gently pushed Jiang Zhiyuan, and said in a very low voice: "Zhiyuan, wake up."
Jiang Zhiyuan's character has always been alert, and he opened his eyes immediately: "What's wrong, father?"
"Here, eat this quickly, I exchanged it with the jailer for silver." Jiang Taishi looked at Jiang Zhiyuan with a doting face.
Jiang Zhiyuan looked at the chicken leg, then looked at his second brother, and asked in a low voice: "Only one?"
"You eat it, don't worry about me, and don't worry about your brother. You have been weak since you were a child, and now you are suffering in this big prison. If you don't eat some meat, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it." Jiang Taishi held his eldest son's shoulders.
"Father and brother are here, how can I eat alone?" Jiang Zhiyuan refused to reach out to take it.
Master Jiang said in a stern voice: "If you are a filial child, you will listen to your father and eat quickly. You are the eldest son of the Jiang family. If you fall, I will be finished too."
"Okay." Jiang Zhiyuan had a hard time saying okay. His eyes immediately turned red and tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
He sat up, turned around, turned his back to Jiang Zhishan, and quickly finished the chicken leg one bite after another. He kept chewing the remaining two chicken bones in his mouth, almost chewing them up and swallowing them.
"Thank you, Dad." Jiang Zhiyuan smiled sweetly at Master Jiang.
"Go to sleep after you finish eating," Master Jiang looked at his eldest son lovingly.
When Jiang Zhiyuan lay down and closed his eyes to sleep, a cold smile appeared on Master Jiang's face.
In the second half of the night, Jiang Zhiyuan suddenly convulsed all over, with white foam coming out of the corners of his mouth. After convulsing for a while, he lost consciousness.
Jiang Taishi looked at his eldest son coldly, showing no sign of anxiety, nor any action of calling for help.
After Jiang Zhiyuan stopped moving, Jiang Taishi closed his eyes and continued to sleep.
From beginning to end, Jiang Zhishan was snoring loudly.
The next morning, the prison guard who came to deliver food discovered Jiang Zhiyuan's abnormality and anxiously called the head of the prison.
After the doctor checked, it was found that although Jiang Zhiyuan was still alive, he was in a coma.
Xia Zhengqi had just finished the morning court, and because he was thinking about his daughter, he hurriedly sat in a sedan chair to Kunning Palace.
"My precious daughter, have you woken up yet? Your father is here to see you." Xia Zhengqi said loudly as he walked into the main hall.
Upon hearing this, the queen came out to greet her with Xia Miaoyuan in her arms, bowing and saying, "Your Majesty really favors your daughter. You talk about your precious daughter all the time."
Xia Zhengqi took his daughter from the queen's arms with a smile, gently kissed Xia Miaoyuan's chubby face and said, "Who made me have only one daughter like this?"
"Your Majesty hasn't had breakfast yet, why don't you have breakfast first and then hold her. It just so happens that Miao'er also wants to eat fruit puree." The queen said.
[It's not easy for me. I drink milk all day long. Besides drinking milk, I drink water. I finally made it to more than 3 months before I can eat fruit puree.]
Xia Miaoyuan complained when she heard the queen mention fruit puree.
[Quick, quick, daddy, let me eat fruit puree. No one should delay this princess from eating! 】
【Puree, puree, puree, here comes the princess! Hey ha! 】
Xia Miaoyuan kept mumbling to herself while gesticulating excitedly with her little arms.
The Queen and Xia Zhengqi both tried to hold back their laughter and walked inside.
Xia Zhengqi handed her daughter to the care of the nanny and sat down to have breakfast with the Queen.
[Ahhh! Puree, here comes the princess! Let the princess pamper you and eat you all up! Hahahaha!]
Xia Miaoyuan smiled happily in the nanny's arms, opened her mouth, and waited obediently to be fed.
She saw that the nanny who was feeding Puree was a little slow, so she patted herself with her little hands, signaling the nanny to hurry up.
Everyone in the room couldn't help laughing.
"Your Majesty, have a bowl of lotus seed porridge. I heard that you have been suffering from excessive internal heat recently. Eat some lotus seed porridge to reduce the internal heat." The Queen handed a bowl of porridge to Xia Zhengqi.
"After this period, after dealing with these things, I can rest assured for a while." Xia Zhengqi said lightly.
The couple ate and chatted while having a very comfortable breakfast.
Xia Zhengqi finished a bowl of porridge, just handed the bowl to the queen, and signaled her to serve him another bowl, when Eunuch Debao came in hurriedly.
"Your Majesty, it's not good!"
Xia Zhengqi immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks, and asked in a deep voice: "What happened? Why are you so panicked?"
Eunuch Debao walked up to Xia Zhengqi and whispered: "Jiang Zhiyuan suddenly fell ill and fell into a coma. Master Jiang changed his confession."