"Bloodshot?" Then Wu Qi quickly straightened up, "Wangfei, can I lend the emerald birthday peach to the official?"
Princess Shunqing nodded, and handed over the emerald longevity peach. Wu Qi inspected it carefully for a moment before hesitatingly said, "The emerald and the carver are not ordinary, but they are still far away from Jing'an Layman. Put jade or emerald into the mouth of a dead person, bury it together, and take it out after a while, it will be bloodshot. It's just that the birthday peach is so big, it will definitely not fit in a person's mouth, and, There seems to be a bit of evil in this bloodshot. I heard from Xiaguan that if jade or jadeite is stuffed into the mouth of an animal, the animal is forced to swallow its breath, and the animal's corpse is buried. The animal is choked to death with resentment. Bloodshot will carry a bit of evil."
Princess Shunqing frowned, and a look of displeasure flashed in her eyes, "Anyway, it's just unlucky, and on such a day, there is such a mess..."
Yun Shang heard the words, and said softly, "Princess, I don't know who touched this emerald birthday peach just now? When Chang'er presented it to the princess, there was obviously no such blood in the birthday peach. In other words, it takes a long time for the bloodshot to form, but, in such a short period of time, the bloodshot appeared in the emerald, and Chang'er suspected that it was probably man-made. Perhaps, the jadeite birthday peach has already been replaced by someone. Woolen cloth."
Wang Jinhuan frowned when he heard the words, pulled the old concubine and said, "My lord, I think it seems that someone is targeting Princess Yunshang. This jade was given by Princess Yunshang. If something goes wrong, you must be sure." I will blame the princess, and I don't know who is so bold, dare to frame the princess, and, isn't this clearly cursing you, princess?"
Yun Shang narrowed her eyes slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. Wang Jinhuan is not a vegetarian. If it is just exchanging birthday gifts, it can be regarded as the crime of theft at best, and the crime does not deserve death. Cursing the princess, such a crime, I am afraid that he will die.
Yun Shang naturally knew that this situation was set up by the queen for herself, and she became alert when the queen gave her the emerald birthday peach. Yun Shang leaned back with a calm face, as if what was happening , has nothing to do with me at all, "Shang'er believes that the prince and princess will find out the truth of the matter and return Chang'er innocent."
King Shunqing's eyes fell on Yunshang, and seeing her calm face, he secretly praised her in his heart, then stood up and said, "This matter is a big one, but now that there are so many guests, it's not easy to investigate. In this way, please ask Prince Jing and the princess to wait in the living room for a while, and I will gather all the people who have touched the emerald longevity peaches in the living room, and then let the guests find reasons to stay in the palace."
Prince Jing nodded, "That's fine." Then he stood up and walked towards the living room.
Yun Shang smiled slightly and followed in Prince Jing's footsteps.
"Prince Shunqing is someone I respect more in the court. Sometimes, I can still hear a little bit of what he says." King Jing said softly, as if muttering to himself, but Yunshang's hearing has been weak since practicing martial arts. Excellent, I can hear you clearly.
"So, you're saying that the other party actually wants me to be bored by King Shunqing and Princess Wang, and make them oppose my marriage with you?" Yun Shang heard this, thinking to herself, if it's just like this, it's better not to resist, Let King Shunqing and Princess Sunqing get bored with me.
Just by listening to the tone of his voice, King Jing already understood what Yun Shang was thinking, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he said with a smile, "It would be great if it were really that simple, they clearly want your life." He leaned into Yun Chang's ear and whispered, "Don't think I didn't see it. When everyone's eyes were on the stage just now, you put the antidote pills into the tea of the princess and prince."
Yun Shang took a step back, "My lord has good eyesight."
"Come here, come here, Xueshi Wu is bleeding from his seven holes..." There was a commotion outside, Yun Shang listened carefully, smiled slightly, raised her head and said to King Jing, "I have a bad temper, I don't like doing things that I don't like, Uncle Emperor, what do you think?"
Prince Jing put his arms around Yun Chang's shoulders, "Then I'll let you fall in love with it. You will definitely fall in love with me, my princess."
Yunshang frowned, and before she could speak, she heard hurried footsteps behind her, Yunshang turned her head, and saw the sound of the piano running towards her, "Princess, Bachelor Wu is dead, Lord Shunqing invites the princess and the prince to go together Go to the banquet in the front yard."
When Yunshang and King Jing passed by together, there were already doctors squatting on the ground examining Wu Qi's body, and beside Wu Qi squatted a woman, crying pear blossoms with rain.
The doctor stood up with a sullen face, and bowed to King Shunqing, "My lord, Bachelor Wu has been poisoned."
"Poisoned?" King Shunqing frowned, pondered for a moment, and ordered people to take all the things Wu Qi touched, and let the doctor examine them. poison."
The woman quickly stopped crying, stood up sobbing and said, "My lord, my lord was fine just now, but after I came back from my lord's side, it suddenly became like this. I don't know my lord is on my lord's side." What did you touch?"
King Shunqing frowned, "I only touched the emerald birthday peach."
King Shunqing asked someone to bring over the sandalwood box containing the emerald birthday peach. The doctor opened it and looked at it, then frowned and said, "My lord, there is poison in this birthday peach."
Before King Shunqing could speak, the woman began to cry, "Princess Huiguo, my master has no grievances with you, why did you kill my master?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Yun Shang, Yun Shang shrank slightly, and said softly, "This emerald birthday peach was given by the queen's empress, Princess Tuoben, and there are so many people who have touched the birthday peach just now, why is it only Wu Xueshi? What happened? Just now, when Bachelor Wu came to ask to see something, it was the princess who took the longevity peach out of the box and handed it to Bachelor Wu. The princess is fine. Do you mean that the princess poisoned Master Wu? ?”
King Jing frowned, and stood in front of Yunshang without any trace, "Madam Wu, you can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately."
Mrs. Wu trembled when she saw Prince Jing's cold eyes, and she cried again after a while, "Master, you really died unjustly..."
"My lord, a servant girl died in the backyard, and she was bleeding from all seven orifices." A middle-aged man hurried to the side, who seemed to be the housekeeper.
Upon hearing this, King Shunqing frowned, "Take the doctor to investigate."
The butler hurriedly led the doctor towards the backyard.
All the people around started whispering, and King Shunqing said in a deep voice, "Something happened in the mansion today, and the murderer has not been found yet, so please stay in the mansion for the time being so that we can find the murderer."
Wu Qi's body was placed in the backyard, and after a while, news came that the poison in the maid was exactly the same as the poison in Wu Qi's. It's just that the maid stayed in the backyard all the time, and never went to other places, let alone touched the emerald birthday peach.
At a birthday banquet, two people died one after another. Suddenly, the atmosphere of joy dissipated, and people panicked.
The male and female guests attending the birthday banquet rested separately in the two gardens. Yun Shang, King Jing, Wang Jinhuan, and the women of Wu Qi were invited to the attic of the old concubine.
Everyone drank tea quietly, only heard the sound of Mrs. Wu sobbing.
"My lord, the servant found this on both Mr. Wu and the maid?" The butler hurried over and reported that there were two sachets embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in water on the plate he was carrying. The patterns were exactly the same, except that one was One is blue and one is pink.
King Shunqing stretched out his hand and wanted to take it, but the butler hurriedly said, "My lord, be careful, there is poison on this sachet."
Upon hearing this, King Shunqing withdrew his hand, his gaze was a bit inquisitive, and the butler hurriedly said, "The servant just let the doctor see it, and the poison on this sachet is the same as the poison in Mr. Wu and that maid.
"Oh?" It was King Jing who suddenly spoke. King Jing stood up, stepped forward, and reached out to pick up the two sachets. King Shunqing called out quickly, "Whisper."
King Jing smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Wang, don't be afraid, my nephew has poison-avoiding pearls on his body, ordinary poisons won't do anything to my nephew." King Jing opened the two sachets, but saw that there were a handful of them in them. Hair, and a piece of parchment.
Everyone stepped forward to take a look, and saw that the parchment in the blue sachet was written in very beautiful characters, "Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches will come out in spring. May you pick more, this thing is the most lovesick. Like ink . ” On another piece of parchment, there were vigorous and powerful words, which read, “If the two loves last for a long time, how can they be in the same day and night. Please be safe.”
Prince Jing raised his eyes and looked at Mrs. Wu, who was full of astonishment, "Bachelor Wu's handwriting is dry, it must be his handwriting."
King Shunqing also saw some clues, "The name of the dead maid is Rumo?"
The steward nodded quickly and said, "Go back to the lord, the dead maid's name was not Rumo, but Siqi."
"My lord, my lord must have been framed by someone. This must be the murderer's plan..." Mrs. Wu panicked for a moment and said repeatedly, but her eyes were full of suspicion.
"Go and find out the origin of this Siqi..." King Shunqing snapped.
The housekeeper hurriedly retreated, but Mrs. Wu seemed unable to bear the blow just now, she kept muttering to herself, "How could it be, no way, master won't do that, won't..."
After a while, the housekeeper sent all the materials to Ru Mo, "Ru Mo, sixteen years old, a person from the imperial city, and his biological mother's name is Ru Mo, who used to be the maid who served the old lady of the Wu Mansion. Seventeen years ago, she was The old lady is sent out to live in a small courtyard in the west of the city."
Madam Wu was shocked, and she sat down on the chair, her face was pale, and her eyes were full of disbelief.
Everyone present here is very clear about the disputes in the backyard of the deep palace, so they don't need to say more, they also know that Siqi is very likely to be the illegitimate daughter of Wu Qi and that Rumo.
Princess Shunqing glanced at Mrs. Wu, with a little sympathy in her eyes, and said lightly, "Mrs. Wu looks a little unwell, why don't you go to the guest room to rest for a while, I will send someone to inform you when there is news .”
Madam Wu's eyes were red, she nodded, stood up and retreated behind the servant girl.
Princess Shunqing sighed, "Oh, I really don't have peace, Shang'er and Qingyan can walk with me." Then she stood up.
Yun Shang heard the words, squinted her eyes, stood up, walked to Princess Shunqing and helped her to go out.
Next to it was the lake. The garden where Princess Shunqing lived was facing the lake, and a bridge was specially built to lead to the lake pavilion. The princess took Yunshang and Prince Jing to the lake pavilion and sat down in the pavilion. Yun Chang looked around, and sighed secretly in her heart, this is really a good place, no matter what you say, you don't have to worry about being heard.
"Sit down." Princess Shunqing sat down, patted Yunshang with her hand, and Yunshang also sat down.
Princess Shunqing stared at Yunshang for a while, then smiled and said, "Qingyan is a lucky one, Chang'er is so beautiful, and in two years, I'm afraid no one will be able to match her. By the way, I I heard that you stayed in Ningguo Temple for many years."
Yun Chang nodded, "When I was young, my health was not very good. Fortunately, Abbot Wuna entered the palace and saved my life, but it was because I hurt my root, so Abbot Wuna took me to Ningguo Temple to recuperate."
Princess Shunqing has been paying attention to Yunshang's expression, and seeing her indifferent expression, she said again, "I have heard about what happened that year. That year you prayed for blessings at Ningguo Temple and prayed for the rain for the people, and then you recovered from illness. It’s just, I heard, you are not sick, but poisoned?”
Yun Chang seemed to be shaken all over, and the skirt was held by her own hands. After a long while, she lowered her head and lowered her voice, "How could it be? Chang'er doesn't know why such rumors spread. Miss Huang is very kind to Chang'er, how could Chang'er be poisoned?"
Princess Shunqing is a good person, so it is natural to see that Yunshang did not tell the truth, and also pointed out that the Queen and Princess Huajing were very kind to her, and seemed to cover up for them. In this way, poisoning It's true, and the most likely ones who poisoned her were the Queen and Princess Huajing. I'm afraid Yunshang was tortured so hard that she didn't even dare to tell the truth.
Princess Shunqing smiled coldly, with a bit of hostility in her eyes, "I saw that woman was not a good person when she was young, and she tried all kinds of dirty ways to get into the palace, but she was really a vicious person." .”
Prince Jing's gaze flicked across Yun Chang's face, he naturally knew that she was acting, but, seven years ago, she was only eight years old, and an eight-year-old child was just a fish on someone else's chopping board, ready to be slaughtered, could it be, At that time, she really suffered a lot of grievances, so she hated Hua Jing and the queen so much, and wished to kill them quickly.
After Princess Shunqing said such an unclear sentence, she put on a gentle smile and continued to ask, "The emerald birthday peach was sent to me by the queen?"
Yunshang nodded, lowered her head and said, "Shang'er just returned to the palace not long ago, but I didn't know whether it was the princess's birthday today, or the queen mother told me specifically, let me come to celebrate the princess's birthday, the queen mother said, I You have to get married sooner or later, so it’s better to get in touch earlier, so you won’t feel unaccustomed in the future. The queen mother is very kind to Chang’er, and she even made a special trip to tell Chang’er about the princess’ preferences. For some precious gift, the Queen Mother prepared this emerald birthday peach for Shang'er."
"Oh?" Princess Shunqing curled her lips slightly, "The queen will tell you, what do I like?"
"The concubine mother said that the concubine likes more elegant colors, especially cyan and blue. She likes to drink Dahongpao, and her favorite dish is anchovy shark's fin. Chang'er was supposed to wear a blue dress, but the clothes she made before They are a little more gorgeous, but I didn't find any blue ones..." Yun Shang looked at Princess Shunqing with some sincerity in her eyes and said, "Would the princess not mind?"
Princess Shunqing's eyes flashed a cold look, she shook her head, "Why? Your clothes are very beautiful."
Yun Chang lowered her head, as if she was a little shy. Suddenly, Prince Jing's voice came from beside her, "Hey, that maid, why does she look familiar?"
Yunshang raised her head, looked towards King Jing, and saw a maidservant in Tsing Yi hurriedly walking forward on the promenade by the lake. Confused, "Hey, isn't that Auntie Xiuxin who is next to the empress? Why is she here? The empress didn't come either. Could it be that she came to look for me?"
Princess Shunqing clapped her hands, and a hidden guard suddenly fell down from the top of the pavilion and knelt in front of the princess. Yun Chang was taken aback suddenly, as if she was a little surprised, and it took a long time to recover, with a curious expression on her face Looking at the dark guard in black.
Princess Shunqing pointed to the maid in Tsing Yi on the corridor and said, "Follow me, let's see where she went."
The dark guard responded and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
King Jing lowered his head to pick up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, and saw that Yunshang's ears were red from the cold, he was a little surprised. She couldn't feel the surge of internal energy in her body at all. King Jing took off his cloak and put it on Yunshang, "It seems that your cloak was placed in the house earlier? It's windy here, you should put it on first."
Yun Chang lowered her head and did not refuse, Princess Shunqing smiled and said, "It's nice to be young."
After sitting for a while, the hidden guard came back again, "Princess, the maid has gone to the princess's garden."
"Hehe." Princess Shunqing smiled, with a look of ruthlessness flashing in her eyes, she stood up and said, "Then let's go to the princess of the county to have a look."
Yun Chang followed Princess Shunqing and came to a garden. As soon as she walked to the gate of the garden, she saw King Shunqing coming over. King Shunqing nodded and said, "Go in from the back, don't startle the snake."
Yun Chang pretended to be ignorant, was held by King Jing, and flew over the wall. As soon as he got close to the house, he heard a voice from inside, "Didn't you say it was safe? Why are those two old guys still alive?"
Yunshang only felt that the people around him were faintly angry, another voice sounded, Yunshang's eyes widened, but Princess Shunqing covered her mouth, "I don't know what happened, the tan The Xiangmu box turned out to be a trap, as long as the emerald birthday peach was touched, poisonous powder would be shot out, but the old concubine clearly took out the birthday peach, so why is it all right?"