After experiencing the hustle and bustle of King Ning being established as the crown prince, the hearts of the people who had just sunk up again.
This time it was because a large dose of poison was found on the furniture of the third wife Cai's dowry.
That is to say, the third son and third wife Cai are not sick, the reason why they are physically weak is because they have been poisoned for a long time.
The husband and wife could not directly contact the poison, but they slept on the bed surrounded by the poison every day, and they were not poisoned to death, which can only be said to be fatal.
The third lady Cai's dowry maids and mother-in-law were all arrested and interrogated one by one.
The third wife, Mrs. Cai, was guarded alone.
The Pei family has sent people to Cai's house to ask for an explanation.
If the Cai family can't give an explanation, they will report to the officials. Let the government go to Cai's house to investigate, if you don't believe it, you can't find out the truth.
The daughter-in-law's dowry furniture contains poison, which is scary to think about.
How vicious people must be to come up with such a harmful method.
In the past, the disease of the third son and his wife could not be cured because the medicine was not suitable for the disease and the cause could not be found.
Now that the cause of the disease has been found, it will be cured quickly.
Once the symptomatic medicine is used, I dare not say that the medicine will cure the disease, at least the condition will be alleviated.
Liu Zhao came back from the Yamen and heard about it.
He said: "The Cai family has no reason to harm the married girls. The most likely ones are the third wife's dowry maids. Only those dowry maids have the opportunity to put poison under the beds for many years.
But those dowry maids and women may not be willing to tell the truth. Why don't you use Chang En who is by your father's side for two days and let him try the case, you will definitely gain something. "
Following Liu Zhao's suggestion, Mrs. Pei sent a letter to King Ning to borrow Chang En.
King Ning was furious when he learned that the third son was poisoned rather than sick, and that the suspect was still the third wife, Mrs. Cai.
He instructed Chang En, "Strictly investigate this matter. Even if the Cai family is overthrown, the truth must be found out. The poison will be sent to the palace. Next time, it will be poisoned at Your Excellency Bixi. His grandma's, a hundred secrets, Back then, why didn't this king think that the third child might be poisoned."
Chang En received King Ning's order, took people back to the palace, and began to interrogate the maids that night.
Chang En came from the Punishment Department, and his methods were extraordinary.
It is said that Chang En came forward to interrogate people, and there was nothing he could not interrogate.
Sure enough, in the early morning of the second day, after fighting all night, there was news from Chang En's side.
The person who poisoned was none other than the third wife Cai's nanny, Xu.
Mrs. Xu is the nanny of Mrs. Cai, who later stayed in Cai's house as a nanny, and has been serving Mrs. Cai all the time.
The third wife, Mrs. Cai, married to the palace, and she followed her as a dowry.
After receiving the confession, everyone couldn't believe that the person who poisoned her was actually the third lady Cai's nanny.
This is a relationship from childhood to adulthood, why did Mrs. Xu want to poison people
It doesn't make sense!
"Eunuch Chang, don't be fooled, and tell us why Madam Xu wants to poison people?"
Chang En said: "Let the third lady confront Mrs. Xu."
The concubine Pei nodded, "It's time to confront. Someone, please bring the third son and the third wife. Tell them that the person who poisoned has been found out. Send someone to bring Xu Nanny here."
Chang En reminded Madam Xu's servants, "Remember to tidy up the person before bringing them here, so as not to frighten the Third Young Master and Third Madam."
The servant took the order, feeling uneasy.
After seeing Nanny Xu's miserable appearance, I understood why Eunuch Chang En said that he had to clean up first.
The third wife, Mrs. Cai, came to Chunhetang.
Now everyone knows that she is poisoned, not infected with an infectious disease, and they will not despise her like they did in the past. It's just that he still avoids her and thinks she's unlucky.
The nanny who brought her up poisoned her because of how many failures she had in life.
The third wife, Mrs. Cai, read the confession, her body was shaking, "No, it's impossible. Madam Xu has no reason to harm me. There must be some misunderstanding."
"There is no misunderstanding."
Nanny Xu was placed on the door panel and carried in.
The third lady, Mrs. Cai, cried and asked, "Nurse, what they said is false, right? You won't harm me, right?"
"Your Cai family and my Xu family have a mortal enmity, why wouldn't I harm you." Madam Xu said sharply.
The third wife, Mrs. Cai, looked bewildered, "How is it possible? If there is an enemy, how could you work as an errand in the Cai family? And our Cai family does not have an enemy named Xu."
"That's because your Cai family doesn't care about ordinary people like us. I'm not from the capital, I'm from Wuzhou. Twenty years ago, there was civil unrest in Wuzhou, and the imperial court sent troops to suppress it. The general of the army is exactly The Cai family is your father, General Cai.”
Following Madam Xu's narration, everyone learned a secret that had been buried for twenty years.
The people in Wuzhou were in chaos, and General Cai led the troops to quell the chaos.
After the chaos subsided, the tragedy had just begun.
When the soldiers won the battle, they indulged in violence, murdered, robbed and raped, and committed all kinds of crimes. Even worse, half the village was massacred overnight.
If such evil deeds were known, the entire army would lose their heads.
In order to cover up the truth, General Cai simply went on and on, ordering the slaughter of several surrounding villages, making the illusion of rioters slaughtering the villages, and fooling the officials.
Mrs. Xu was still a young daughter-in-law at that time, and she escaped a catastrophe by visiting relatives on the day of the accident.
When she returned home, more than a dozen members of her husband's family died, and more than a dozen members of her mother's family died.
Overnight, the whole family was slaughtered.
Xu wanted to die, but she didn't want to, she was already pregnant.
She went around many places, came to the capital, and gave birth to a child.
By chance, she became Cai's nanny.
Later, she learned that it was the Cai family brothers who led the army to quell the chaos in Wuzhou, so she wanted to take revenge.
It wasn't until the third wife, Mrs. Cai, married into the palace that she started to do it.
She made a plan, and when the third son was poisoned and died, she would stand up and reveal the truth, accusing the Cai family of poisoning and murdering the emperor's grandson.
She is the dowry of the third wife Cai, and her testimony is highly credible.
As long as she testifies, the Cai family will not be able to escape a crime of murdering the emperor's grandson.
At that time, the Cai family will suffer a lawsuit, whether it is dismissed from office, or ransacked and exiled, the Cai family will be finished.
She will also get her revenge.
Xu's eyes widened angrily, "I just want revenge. Your Cai family killed more than 30 people from my husband's family and my mother's family. It's too cheap for me to kill one of you.
I want you Cai family to pay for my dead family members and hundreds of villagers who were killed for no reason.
You are the daughter of the traitor Cai, and everything you enjoy is paid for by blood donations from innocent people. Don't you deserve to die
I only hate that I poisoned you too lightly and didn't poison you to death earlier. I am not reconciled! God is not fair! "
"Since you hate me and everyone in our Cai family, why do you still want to nurse me and teach me patiently? As early as when I was a toddler, you could kill me without being discovered." Three Mrs. Cai cried bitterly and questioned Xu repeatedly.
Mrs. Xu laughed, "If you kill one girl, countless more girls will be born in the Cai family. Nothing compares to killing your entire Cai family.
Do you really think your little girl's life is precious? Pooh! The thirty-odd lives of my husband's and natal family's family cannot be compensated by the life of a little girl like you.
I only hate God for being unfair and let me fall short. If the Cai family is not dead, I will die with peace in my eyes. "
Xu looked up to the sky and cried loudly.
Liu Zhao walked in from the outside at this time, "Mr. Xu, you said that 20 years ago, General Cai massacred hundreds of good people in order to cover up the crimes committed by soldiers. Is this really true? Do you have any evidence?"
Mrs. Xu looked at Liu Zhao vigilantly, "What is the eldest son going to do? Do you want to punish the woman for a crime of framing? Haha... haha... When I get down there and meet the King of Hell, I will say that the Cai family will suffer a terrible death."
Liu Zhao said expressionlessly: "If what you said is true and you can produce witnesses and physical evidence, it is not impossible to take revenge. As long as you can prove that what you said is true, my son promises you, reopen the case file, and personally send someone to Wuzhou investigates the truth of this matter and returns justice to hundreds of innocent villagers."
"real?"
"What? Big brother really wants to reverse the case for this poisoned and murdered thief?"
"Once the case is overturned, if what Xu said is true, the Cai family will be finished. What should the third lady do?"
Everyone looked at the third wife, Mrs. Cai.
The third wife, Mrs. Cai, staggered and supported the table to stand still, "I, I..."
Mrs. Xu yelled, "If the eldest son is willing to reverse the case for me and seek justice for the hundreds of villagers who died innocently, the slaves are willing to die."
Liu Zhao said affirmatively: "If you poison the emperor and grandson, you will surely die. If the case is overturned, you will be executed after the case is found out."
"As long as the case can be overturned, let alone let me die, I am willing to cut me to pieces." Xu's expression was crazy, and the flames of hatred were burning in his eyes.
Mrs. Pei frowned, "It's ridiculous! It's all about twenty years ago, what a case to overturn. When is this, one thing more is worse than one thing less. Boss, you are not allowed to interfere in this matter."
Liu Zhao was expressionless, "My son disapproves of what my mother and concubine said. My father was established as the heir apparent, and the victim of an unjust case is in the palace.
If you don't know it, that's all. Now that you know it, how can you turn a blind eye, and won't it damage the reputation of your father.
The father is the prince, and all the people in the world are the father's subjects. The people were slaughtered innocently, how could the father not investigate this matter.
As for the in-law relationship between our palace and the Cai family, it is not worth mentioning in front of the national law. "
"You, you, are you deliberately trying to piss me off?" Mrs. Pei was annoyed.
"If this kind of thing is spread, the palace will have no face at all."
Pei was worried.
Liu Zhao didn't pay attention to it, instead he looked at the third son Liu Yan, "You might as well tell me what the third brother thinks."
The third young master frowned, and was still unwilling to speak.