—Go to hell, Ye Qingxue. Anyway, the Empress's plan to win you over included killing you as an option, so don't blame me!
Seeing that Hu Qimei had already presented the tea to the Empress, Ye Qingxue suddenly stood up.
He rushed forward and knelt down, saying, "Your Majesty, this tea must not be drunk! Miss Hu has poisoned it!"
Everyone: ? ? ?
Hu Qimei could hardly believe it, then turned pale with shock: "What nonsense are you spouting?!"
Immediately, the eunuchs rushed over, snatched the tea from Hu Qimei's hands, and then took her away.
Hu Qimei's hands were tied behind her back, and she knelt on the ground with her face pale. She stared intently at Ye Qingxue.
Even if she had a million lives, she would never have imagined that Ye Qingxue had actually poisoned the tea and even said she would present it to the Empress!
At this moment, Hu Qimei was extremely shocked and bewildered.
Everyone stared at them intently, just as shocked and bewildered as Hu Qimei.
Ye Qingxue said, "Just now, I inadvertently saw Miss Hu add poison to the tea. Although I am unwilling to believe it, it concerns Your Majesty's health, so I dare not remain silent."
The Empress Dowager gave Dai Mama a wink, and Dai Mama immediately took a silver needle and stepped forward to test for poison.
The silver needles turned black immediately upon entering the tea.
A collective gasp filled the air.
Enraged, she slammed her hand on the table: "You audacious Hu Qimei, do you know your crime?"
Hu Qimei felt a chill run through her body: "Your Majesty, I had no such intention. This cup of tea originally belonged to Ye Qingxue. She poisoned it and then framed me!"
The Empress Dowager then asked, "If this tea was Ye Qingxue's, why did it end up in your hands? You just said that you would offer this tea to me! Did Ye Qingxue also instruct you to do this?"
Hu Qimei was speechless for a long time before finally saying, "It was Ye Qingxue... she said she made you a cup of flower tea, and I became jealous, so I... so I stole her flower tea..."
While it's not good to be known as jealous, it's still much better than poisoning the Empress.
The latter is punishable by death.
Ye Qingxue sneered: "I am the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong, and I have been learning martial arts from my father since I was a child. How could a young lady like you, who is not even strong enough to kill a chicken, snatch the flower tea from my hand?"
"Wouldn't I be letting my father down after all these years of careful guidance?"
"The incident with the zither just now was clearly your intention to harm me, but I simply didn't hold it against you. I never imagined that you would dare to poison the Empress and then frame me?"
Before Hu Qimei could react...
Ye Qingxue continued, "Your Majesty, Miss Hu and the Prime Minister's daughter have been like sisters since childhood, and the deposed Crown Prince is the Prime Minister's nephew, so they often deal with the Prime Minister's residence."
"Throughout this process, Miss Hu became acquainted with the deposed crown prince. Although Miss Hu did not say it to her face, she had long since fallen deeply in love with the deposed crown prince."
"She always believed that the deposed crown prince was not such a rebellious person. She believed... believed that it was Your Majesty the Empress who framed him, which led to the crown prince's deposition."
"She has always harbored hatred towards you, and therefore plotted to poison you today!"
"Unfortunately, when I attended the flower-viewing banquet, I overheard her and her maid's private conversation, so she has been making things difficult for me at every turn!"
Hu Qimei was stunned, then flew into a rage, struggling like a madwoman in the eunuch's hands, shouting: "Ye Qingxue, you bitch, you're spouting lies, I'll kill you!"
Ye Qingxue looked at her and asked in a cold voice, "Didn't you ever fantasize about marrying the deposed crown prince and becoming his consort? Didn't you ever think that the deposed crown prince was upright, elegant, and handsome?"
These words were a wake-up call for Hu Qimei!
She did admire the deposed crown prince in the past, but Yun Zhuo has already been deposed, so it's impossible for her to still be thinking about that person!
It's even more impossible that he would poison the Empress just because Yun Zhuo was deposed!
However, after hearing Ye Qingxue's words, the Empress's face turned cold. She waved her hand and said in an icy voice, "Drag this person away, give him poisoned wine, and return his body to the Hu family."
This matter involves the deposed crown prince, and the empress dowager cannot tolerate it in the slightest.
Hu Qimei opened her mouth wide, trying to beg for mercy, but the palace servants took the opportunity to stuff a rag into her mouth and drag her away.
Ye Qingxue saw her heels digging frantically at the ground, but no marks were left, and then she looked away.
Hu Qimei, the deposed crown prince, poisoned the empress. She exposed him in public and saved the empress—this was her pledge of loyalty to the empress.
Wanxin was stunned.
Then she took Ye Qingxue's hand again and said, "Thanks to you, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable. I knew that when the deposed crown prince got into trouble, many people would suspect me."
"But the empress dowager is not allowed to interfere in politics. How could they forget that? His Majesty witnessed all of the deposed crown prince's actions. It was not my testimony."
The Empress Dowager looked grief-stricken.
Ye Qingxue said, "Your Majesty, let time prove what cannot be explained now. Time will tell."
The Empress Dowager felt very touched and patted her hand, saying with satisfaction, "You are truly a rare and wonderful girl, very insightful."
"You have once again saved me from disaster today. How about I betroth you to my nephew?"
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