When Empress Dowager Gu saw her coming in, her drooped eyelids suddenly lit up with hatred, and she said word by word: "If the imperial concubine hadn't accidentally learned that you instigated the Qiu family to murder the emperor's son, and reported it to the Ai family privately, the Ai family would certainly not have happened to meet today. This scene!"
Although they were informed by Empress Dowager Gu that the emperor had been poisoned again, the ministers already knew it.
But now Queen Mother Gu pointed out that Queen Jiang was the culprit of the regicide in front of everyone, which still caused an uproar in the palace!
Naturally, the Queen’s Party cannot sit back and watch the Queen being slandered like this!
"What the Queen Mother said makes no sense!" Because the Queen Mother's Party has fallen behind, many people in the Queen's Party, such as Jiang Tianao, have become less respectful in their tone of voice. , the emperor and the empress have been in harmony for so many years, and the fact that your majesty favored the seventh prince who was personally trained by the empress shows your majesty's trust in the empress dowager! I dare to ask the empress dowager, why is the empress doing anything against your majesty? "
At this point, he changed the topic, "It's Concubine Gu! The concubine gave birth to two sons, King Yan and King Zhou. When the Queen Mother wanted to establish King Yan as her heir, God warned her, and the matter was stopped! The Queen Mother wanted to promote King Zhou again, but the result was that The King of Zhou was not pleased with His Majesty, and even thought of regicide. Who knows that Your Majesty is not in good health today? Is it possible that Concubine Gu was angry with Your Majesty because of her two sons and harbored a grudge, so she plotted to kill Your Majesty and wanted to blame the Queen? !”
"Nonsense!" Concubine Gu didn't expect that the fire would catch up with her so quickly - she entered the palace under the pressure of Queen Mother Gu. Even after giving birth to two princes, she had no feelings for the emperor, but she had no relationship with the emperor anymore. Feelings, sons are always biological! King Zhou and his family were gone before, but King Yan was still there. If Jiang Tianao was allowed to crucify himself on the charge of regicide, would King Yan and his son still be able to survive
Therefore, Concubine Gu was also angry and said in a cold voice, "Vice Minister Jiang kept saying that I was plotting to murder the emperor and frame the queen. Could it be that he didn't know that this Palace of Funing has been here since His Majesty was poisoned on New Year's Eve next year. In order to allow His Majesty to rest in peace, The Queen Mother and the Queen have both ordered that the harem should not be disturbed. Apart from the princes, princesses, and princes, there are only two princesses Chang Ping and Yong Fu! Dare I ask Deputy Prime Minister Jiang - I can't even enter the palace for so long, how can I commit murder? Your Majesty’s method! How about blaming the Queen?”
The Queen's Party's impression of Concubine Gu has always been that of an honest and submissive person. Unexpectedly, she was also very sharp in her words when she was pushed into a hurry. Jiang Tianao was stunned for a moment and then asked in surprise: "Then since Concubine Gu can't even enter Funing Palace, what's the matter? How did you know that the queen ordered your nephew to murder your majesty?"
"Of course, I accidentally overheard the private words of the palace servants in Funing Palace in the Imperial Garden!" Concubine Gu said coldly, "I originally thought it was a villain slandering the Queen, but I think it is related to His Majesty's safety and cannot be ignored! That’s why I went to the Taishi Palace to ask the Queen Mother to bring me to visit His Majesty, but I didn’t want to... As soon as I got here, I saw Your Majesty... Your Majesty got poisoned after eating Qiu’s dishes... "
"What about the palace people?" Queen Jiang looked around with a sneer, "Since there is such a witness, why don't you call up and confront me?!" Her face darkened, "Besides, my Yongfu is here today, right? She Where are the people?”
"Yongfu feels sorry for her father and is staying inside." Empress Dowager Gu said coldly, "The Ai family just wanted to call her out but she refused... It's okay if you don't tell her. When it comes to her, the Ai family feels very strange: This child wasn't necessarily close to her father before, so why is she running so hard these days?"
This was obviously because she suspected that Empress Jiang was about to commit regicide and deliberately sent her daughter to get close to the emperor. As mentioned earlier, Empress Jiang hated the most about her daughter. When she heard this, she became furious: "Why is Yongfu your majesty's direct blood and blood? Chang Isn't it wrong to be filial to Your Majesty? And didn't you hear what Queen Mother Gu said just now? In order to let Your Majesty rest in peace, the only princes and princesses who can visit His Majesty during this period are the Crown Prince, Chang Ping and Yong Fu! The prince needs to go to school and it is difficult to go there often. Although Changping has declined, he is actually idle. She does not have the filial piety. Yongfu has to make up for the filial piety of her brothers and sisters. How can you, Queen Mother, look down upon it? "
Queen Mother Gu said coldly: "Don't change the subject! What the Ai family is saying is that Yongfu was not so sensible before, but now he is suddenly attentive. I don't know if you taught him!"
"Then Chang Ping went to see His Majesty once, and it was his mother who taught him how to co-write?" Empress Jiang said through gritted teeth, "Why did the mother let Chang Ping go to Funing Palace? I'm afraid she already knew about this day, right?"
Just as the quarrel reached this point, Xue Chang coughed: "The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, the witnesses of what the Imperial Concubine said... have been brought here!"
The two empresses looked at each other fiercely, and looked down together. Sure enough, there was a trembling little eunuch kneeling under Danqi.
Queen Jiang's expression froze when she saw this man clearly - Qiu Yilan underneath sighed inwardly: "It seems that this little chamberlain used to be the Queen's employee?" At least on the surface.
Sure enough, the Queen then scolded me: "Xu Changhe! I wanted you to be diligent and hardworking, so I specially assigned you to come to Funing Palace to serve His Majesty. You actually slandered me and slandered me! Are you tired of living?"
"Why are you scaring him?!" Queen Mother Gu then angrily scolded the Queen, "If you didn't do it, you didn't do it, and if you did, you did it! You threatened someone who was truly loyal to the emperor, and you dared to say the word 'slander' !”
"Since Empress Dowager Gu pushed this little chamberlain to prove it, she is obviously a dead soldier. How could she insist that the empress ordered me to harm the emperor while he was cooking!" Qiu Yilan didn't bother to listen to the quarrel between the second empress and the ministers, so she took advantage of the opportunity. She didn't need to speak, frowning and thinking about what happened, "Generally speaking, after I finish cooking, the queen's people will serve it and send it to Funing Palace, and then the people who serve the emperor here will taste it and it is non-toxic, and the emperor will eat it after it is finished." - Ordinarily, the emperor won’t be poisoned! So is the poison somewhere else? Is the dish just a crime, or is it because the person who tasted it is playing Queen Mother Ye’s trick again
... At this time, the Second Empress also found out how the emperor was murdered: "The little chamberlain who tried the food for His Majesty once served in Ganquan Palace. This time, His Majesty was poisoned again and he was fine. It was just like Chu Weizhou's incident." Do it again! You actually have the nerve to slander me and my niece!”
Empress Gu was expressionless: "If you care about the emperor at all! You will know that since New Year's Eve, all the servants who are trying the meal must fast for two hours in full view of the public before they can try the meal. !”
Two hours is four hours. Even if you eat more raw eggs, they will be completely digested, and naturally they will not be able to neutralize toxins.
"The poison is definitely not in the food. The food was sent by the queen's people. It's not easy to do anything when being watched all the time! It should be in other places in the palace, but except for the emperor, I haven't heard of anyone else being killed. "Man, how did this happen?" Qiu Yilan thought hard, "I really have no clue just thinking about it. I wish I could go into the palace and have a look... Alas, this emperor is really suffering, with Queen Mother Tan Shang Gu being like this. Damn it! Did Queen Mother Ye attack him before? Wasn’t it because Queen Mother Gu had done something wrong and implicated the emperor? Now Queen Mother Gu did it herself... "
Just when he thought of this, a figure suddenly rushed out from the rear of the palace, threw himself into Queen Jiang's arms, and cried loudly: "Father!"
… It is Princess Yongfu who is guarding the bed.
The emperor failed to survive this time and died!
The sound of the death knell shocked the entire capital, and caused excitement among the government and the public for a while - but the pursuit of the real murderer in Funing Palace not only did not end, but became more intense!
Empress Dowager Gu burst into tears: "Now that things have happened, the Ai family has begun to talk about it: The Ai family can only survive today because of the emperor's son. What good will the Ai family do if the emperor's son is gone?! Mr. Jiang, you also have the face. Said that the Ai family harmed the emperor’s son! How could a biological mother be so cruel to her own child?”
"My mother has been regent for thirty years and has not thought about returning to power. How can she think of her own mother and son?" Empress Jiang had already concluded that she was responsible for the matter. The anger and contempt in her heart were hard to describe. What she hated even more was that Empress Dowager Gu had done something for her. After the slander reached the Jiang family, Te Te took Princess Yongfu's opportunity to honor the emperor and let the princess witness the emperor's death from poison. The queen herself was not very touched by the emperor's life and death, but Yongfu, she was the emperor's biological daughter!
Moreover, Yongfu has always been carefree, and if he suddenly receives such a big stimulus, how will he live in the future
Holding Yongfu's body tightly and feeling her grief, Queen Jiang's heart almost broke!
At this point, they finally remembered Qiu Yilan—
Of course, Qiu Yilan refused to die to admit that the queen ordered her to murder the emperor, let alone that she had harmed the emperor in the process of cooking: "The dishes cooked by my wife were sent to Funing Palace by the queen's people, accompanied by Her Royal Highness Princess Yongfu. Your Majesty ate together, and now Her Royal Highness Princess Yongfu is safe, which shows that there is nothing wrong with the dishes prepared by my wife! The reason why Your Majesty died was naturally caused by someone else!"
"Quia!" the Queen Mother shouted, "The imperial doctor clearly found poison in the dishes -"
"After Your Majesty was poisoned, there must have been chaos. Who knows if the poison was poisoned later?" Qiu Yilan sneered, "The waiter and Princess Yongfu were fine, but the Queen Mother insisted that there was something wrong with the dishes. Is that what the Queen Mother expected? Something wrong with the food?”
Empress Jiang noticed the reminder in her words, and handed Princess Yongfu into the arms of Miss Lin behind her. She stood up quickly and said, "Check! Let the Taiyuan Hospital immediately check all the utensils and personnel in His Majesty's dormitory, and find out where the poison is!" !”
Hearing this, Qiu Yilan secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "The Queen's Party is currently in the limelight, and all the people who are following the trend must be in favor of the Queen's Party... Empress Dowager Gu is really out of her mind when she wants to kill her son to reverse the situation! She doesn't want to think about the situation. When Shi Han was overthrown and the court battle was defeated, even if she really had the handle on the Jiang family's regicide, she would just die quickly! She thought it was the late emperor who framed the former dynasty's deposed prince for intending to regicide. Can you continue to be her regent?”
Just when she turned around, she saw that Queen Mother Gu was not disappointed after hearing Queen Jiang say that she wanted to thoroughly investigate the emperor's chamber, but was full of confidence!
"Strange, does the Queen Mother's party still have a back-up plan?" Qiu Yilan thought in confusion, "What is that?" It feels like Queen Mother Gu didn't play a card with enough weight