Chapter 154 Mu Han accidentally took poisoned wine
Mu Han glanced at the absent-minded palace waiter pouring wine, frowned slightly, and said in a cold voice:
"The wine was spilled."
On the side.
The palace servant was called back to his senses. Looking at the slightly overflowing transparent wine on the table, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and apologized:
"This servant deserves death. Please forgive me, Miss Mu."
Mu Han glanced at the red-dressed woman in the upper seat with a bad look on his face, picked up the wine glass with two fingers and drank it all in one gulp, frowned and waved at the palace attendant, saying in an irritable tone:
"Her Highness is still here. What did you ask me to punish you for? You are such a tactless slave. Go, go, go and pour some wine in the back."
The palace attendant bowed as if she had been pardoned.
Then he quickened his pace to pour wine for the next person. The woman sitting below Mu Han took up Chi Yangchun in the white jade cup with a smile in her eyes, raised it to her eyes, and said:
"The wine is clear and transparent, and the aroma is elegant and comfortable. It is indeed a good wine."
She put it close to her lips to taste it, but at that moment, there was a loud "plop" sound from the side, which startled her and made her hand shake, spilling some wine.
The woman frowned unhappily and turned to look to the side. Unexpectedly, just by looking at it, she was so frightened that she threw away the wine that she had just treasured and shouted:
"This, this wine is poisonous."
Her high-pitched scream startled the noble ladies in the hall, and those who had just drunk Chi Yangchun quickly held their throats to induce vomiting.
The group of people who had not been toasted yet, as well as the princess who had been waiting for a long time but still hadn't heard the news of Su Yuan's death and was wondering, all gathered around and looked towards the first seat on the right.
Just look ahead.
Mu Han lay on her back on the ground without any movement of her chest. Her face was pale and bluish, her lips were black and purple, and blood was oozing from all her orifices. It was obvious that she had been poisoned and had died.
The noble ladies in the hall paused in breathing, lowered their heads with pale faces, and dared not even breathe.
Feng Yetian, who was at the front, suddenly looked gloomy. He waved his hand to call over his confidant from Dongyang Palace, and with a sneer on his lips, he ordered:
"Seal off the main hall. All the people who attended the banquet today are suspected of poisoning. Also, ask the Ministry of Punishment to come and search and find out who is behind today's incident. He poisoned my tutor. Maybe the person behind this is trying to murder me."
The confidant glanced at the corner of the green palace robe that quickly disappeared at the door, and nodded and said "yes".
Then he led people to seal off the side hall of Dongyang Palace and sent someone to summon the guards from the Ministry of Punishment.
As for Feng Yetian himself, he sat anxiously with everyone in the hall for a while, and then was summoned away by a servant wearing a high-level palace servant's uniform and holding a whisk in one hand.
Su Yuan in the back opened his arms wide, allowing the guards from the Ministry of Punishment to search him.
She glanced at Feng Yetian's slightly hurried steps and the old palace servant who looked somewhat familiar, and she understood.
The empress must have known about the poisoned wine and summoned the princess to question her.
However, the Yin-Yang Pot had been moved away by the green-clad palace servant, and the poisoned wine she drank had long been poured into the space. Without evidence, the blame could not be put on her.
I don’t know how this will end.
hehe--
Thinking of this, she raised her eyes and glanced at the guards of the Ministry of Punishment who had finished their search and stepped back two steps, and asked:
"Now that the search is complete, can we leave the palace?"
After hearing this, the attendant looked around at the noble ladies in the palace and nodded:
"All the ladies who have been searched may leave. His Majesty has just told us that there is no problem with the noble lady and we should not stop her."
Su Yuan nodded slightly, tilted his head towards Lu Yanxin beside him, and said:
"Let's go, let's leave the palace together."
Lu Yanxin hummed lightly, then followed Su Yuan out of Dongyang Palace and walked along the palace road towards the palace gate.
——At the same time.
In the imperial study.
Emperor Feng Wu sat high up in the chair, raised his eyelids slightly, glanced coldly at Feng Yetian who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a calm voice:
"I just heard that someone in your palace was poisoned to death, and you even intend to detain the noble lady attending the banquet today because of this matter?"
Next.
Feng Yetian felt the pressure coming from above, and his heart skipped a beat. His hands began to tremble imperceptibly.
She took a deep breath, calmed herself down, tried her best to control the trembling in her voice, and replied:
"Yes, today I held a banquet in Dongyang Palace, and wanted to invite all the noble ladies to taste the fine wine. Unexpectedly, Mu Han died of poisoning after drinking the wine. I suspect that the person behind this is targeting me, so I panicked and sealed off Dongyang Palace, wanting to get to the bottom of the matter."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Feng Wu raised his eyebrows slightly and stared deeply at the sweat on Feng Yetian’s forehead for two seconds.
Then he turned his gaze back to the teacup beside him, narrowed his eyes slightly, and spoke in a long and slow tone, with a warning in his words:
"Oh, really? Why is what I heard different from what you heard? You usually act arrogantly, and I didn't punish you because I thought you were young and arrogant. But now you are so bold that you dare to instruct the Ministry of Punishment to act privately. I have to punish you."
After that, she picked up the teacup and took a sip. She shook her head and ordered in a strong tone:
"Today's incident has been investigated. It was the Crown Princess who failed to control the people in the palace, which led to the secret power struggle between her companion Mu Han and her confidant, and thus her death. The subsequent matters will be handled by the Ministry of Punishment. As for the Crown Princess..., come, take her back to Dongyang Palace and confine her for six months, and fine her three years' salary."
Hearing this, the sword-wielding guards on both sides of the door answered "yes" in unison, stepped forward and held the incredulous Feng Yetian on the left and right, ignoring her cries of injustice, and forcefully dragged her out of the house.
The top.
Emperor Fengwu never raised his eyes from beginning to end. After a while, she glanced at the cold tea on the table, raised her head to look at the blue sky outside the house, and said in an almost inaudible voice:
"Zicui, the tea is cold, take it away and get a new one!"
Upon hearing this, Zi Cui, the palace maid standing beside her, nodded slightly and respectfully stepped forward to pick up the hot tea that had just been served.
She turned and entered the side room, and soon a cup of identical tea was served and gently placed next to Emperor Fengwu.
The episode in the imperial study ends here.
As for Princess Feng Yetian, the screams and howls of death as she was punished by Emperor Feng Wu seemed to have alarmed the entire huge palace, and before long, almost everyone in the palace knew about it.
Shuyun Palace.
Dong Hua turned her head and glanced at the bedroom where only two people were left. Her men were packing their luggage and she said softly:
"Master, I just heard that the princess poisoned her companion Mu Han at the banquet in the palace, and then His Majesty summoned people to the imperial study, and the news came out that the truth of the matter had been found out, and it was caused by internal strife."
"Fortunately, we are leaving the palace today and going to the Wanfo Temple to serve Tai Fengjun. We are far away from all these conspiracies and intrigues. Otherwise, we would be plotted against all day long. I have been afraid and unable to sleep well every night since I came back."
Feng Shu pursed his lips, his deep pupils glowing faintly, and he suggested:
"Don't think too highly of yourself. Where is a completely safe place for us? I don't know how Tai Fengjun got so seriously ill this time."
He took a long breath, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said meaningfully:
"Anyway, we won't know until we get there, but the fact that that person escaped today is partly due to our efforts, so it's good to have a way out."
Dong Hua nodded in agreement, picked up the luggage that had just been packed and seemed a little light, and reminded:
"Master, we should leave now. The palace servants waiting at the palace gate have prepared the sedan chair."
Feng Shuwei nodded, then turned and left Shuyun Palace, riding in a sedan chair all the way out of the palace and back to the back mountain of Wanfo Temple.
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