Taiyin Hospital acted very quickly.
It involves the emperor, which can now be said to be the cause of the death of the first emperor. It is still being watched by the second empress and the ministers, and they dare not be unhappy.
However, the results of the examination made the Taiyuan Hospital want to hang themselves collectively. The judge who was responsible for reporting the examination results shivered and fell to the ground, not daring to raise his head at all: "Although His Majesty wiped his hands after eating, due to the strong toxicity, at this moment Traces can also be found at the tiger's mouth... exactly where the tooth chopsticks were held! "
"Furthermore, after the people from the Shanggong Bureau inspected the tooth chopsticks, they also found an inconspicuous mechanism on the gems inlaid on the chopsticks. The chopsticks are hollow and contain poisonous powder. As long as the person holding the chopsticks presses the chopsticks accidentally, If you touch the gem, it will quietly open the dark hole, allowing the poisonous powder to gradually seep out!"
What made the court judge look like he was about to die was to report this sentence, "That pair of tooth chopsticks... was given to Your Majesty by Her Royal Highness Princess Yongfu a few days ago!"
"Absurd!" The whole palace was astonished. Queen Jiang's face was ashen and she stared at the court judge under Danqi. She almost wanted to go down and kick him to death. "How could the princess offer such a thing to Your Majesty!"
"Why are you panicking!" Empress Dowager Gu raised her eyelids, "The ancient court judges you to continue talking! Now that all the civil and military officials are here, it is related to the death of the emperor, how can we ignore it?!"
The judge of the ancient court felt bitter in his heart, but he had to reply: "However, when Her Royal Highness the Princess presented the tooth chopsticks, the imperial doctor also inspected them and found no clues. Now the tooth chopsticks just look like the ones presented by the Princess. It’s the same as the one presented by the princess, and I haven’t found the second one... Therefore, I dare not say anything about whether it is the one presented by the princess!”
But Queen Wangjiang sees that since he has tried his best, she shouldn't be too harsh in settling the accounts after the fall... It's not easy to do anything in public, okay? He's already leaning in very clearly!
Empress Jiang naturally would not waste the opportunity he gave her, and immediately said: "It seems that someone is deliberately taking advantage of Yongfu's filial piety to His Majesty! I know Yongfu's set of teeth and chopsticks, and they are sincere and unorganized. They must be Someone changed the package!"
"If the package was adjusted, how could it be possible to deceive all the people serving in front of His Majesty?" Queen Mother Gu said coldly, "Those are all shrewd people! They are the best at detecting subtle changes! I'm afraid, when it was first cast, Just two pairs, one honest and one modest, right? And when Yongfu enters Funing Palace, his belongings will not be checked at all! How much space does it take up?"
Queen Jiang was furious: "Mother, what do you mean?! You just said that you, the biological mother, will definitely not be harmful to His Majesty. Why do you think Yongfu, your biological daughter, will be harmful to His Majesty?! Was Chu Weizhou confused at the beginning? In order to fight for the crown prince, can a girl like Yongfu become the crown princess?"
Queen Mother Gu sneered: "You can't be the crown princess, but you can be the eldest princess, right?!" After the prince ascends the throne, according to the law, the sisters will be named eldest princesses.
The meaning of the Queen Mother's words is self-evident.
"Queen Mother, you are simply a slanderer!" Empress Jiang gritted her teeth and looked around at everyone. Her sharp gaze made many people in the Queen Mother's party subconsciously avoid her. She said solemnly, "Even if Yongfu is only the emperor's daughter and not the emperor's sister, she If you want to add a long word before princess, can’t I do it? Do you need to kill the king? You are so stupid that you can say such a thing!
The Queen is planning to completely break up with the Queen Mother!
But Queen Mother Gu looked at her deeply and said, "What you said makes sense. The Ai family doesn't think Yongfu is a patricide!"
Well
The queen's party was stunned.
His Highness Qiu Yilan narrowed his eyes slightly - and sure enough Queen Mother Gu's razor-sharp gaze swept down: "Ms. Qiu, the Ai family remembers your cousin Ruan Qingyan, and has always believed that the death of your maternal grandfather, General Wu Lie's direct heir, was related to Kuang Shihan. Does it matter?"
"Kuang Shihan is the son-in-law of the Ai family, and his son Kuang Qingwu is also the grandson-in-law of the Ai family! With the Ai family here, you cousins will not be allowed to slander the reputation of the Kuang family!"
"But the prince is young. He has never met his uncle Kuang Shihan, and he only meets his brother-in-law Kuang Qingwu occasionally. There is no relationship... but he may not protect them like the Ai family!"
"I can't understand the Queen Mother's words!" Qiu Yilan sneered in her heart. Sure enough, she was targeting her. Do you still want to have anything to do with the Zhenxi Army in this regicide? But now that the overall situation has been decided, I really don’t know where the Queen Mother got the confidence to think that sharp words can match the toughness of military power? She asked in confusion, "Does it mean that when the prince ascends the throne, you will no longer be here? How should the prince deal with himself?"
Queen Mother Gu ignored these words: "Don't change the subject! The Ai family only wants to ask you, did you murder the prince of the Ai family because of what the Ai family just said!?"
"Of course not!" Qiu Yilan glanced at her sideways, "But just now the judge of the ancient court was counting the furnishings in the bedroom one by one, and I remembered that there was one thing that must have been brought to your Majesty recently. It seems that the judge of the ancient court did not mention it. Are you there? But I don’t know if the court judge missed it or if he was simply not there?”
Before she finished speaking, everyone in the palace was silent. Queen Jiang even leaned forward slightly and asked urgently: "What is it?"
"It's a pot of rose flowers. The pink makeup building was named 'Powder Baolin' by His Majesty, also called 'Jade Linglong'." Qiu Yilan secretly thanked Princess Yongfu for her nagging that day, but didn't want to use it here. , she sneered and said, "Your Majesty originally promised to give this flower to Her Royal Highness Princess Yongfu after everything gets better!"
"Back to the Queen, I was in His Majesty's bedroom just now, and I really didn't see this flower!" the judge from the ancient court said quickly. He was relieved, he couldn't afford to offend the Queen's Party! When the problem with the pair of tooth chopsticks was found out before, it was a lesson to the world. At that moment, he was more worried than Empress Jiang, right
But with so many people watching Ji Kuo and the poisonous powder being found out, it’s impossible to hide the news even after they went to the palace, right
Now that Qiu Yilan seemed to have found a flaw in his words, the judge from the ancient court naturally felt that the pressure was greatly reduced.
Queen Jiang raised her eyebrows: "Then where did this flower get to?"
"Back to the Queen, the flower is sick, so it should not be placed in His Majesty's bedroom!" A palace attendant came out and replied after a while, "When the Princess came down that day, Your Majesty had someone bring it to you to enjoy with Her Majesty, and then called someone Moved back to the back hall! It’s still in the back hall now!”
"Are you sure, it's the back hall? In the hall?" After hearing this, Qiu Yilan's face showed something like a smile, "Are you serious?"
"... It's indeed the back hall!" The palace man didn't know why she looked like this. After choking, he thought about it seriously and nodded.
Queen Jiang and others were also confused and looked at Qiu Yilan blankly, waiting for her to reveal the answer to the mystery.
"The first time Her Royal Highness the Princess ordered my wife to cook appetizers for Your Majesty, I told my wife that Your Majesty planned to give flowers." Qiu Yilan did not whet everyone's appetite and said calmly, "My wife felt a little strange at the time. "Your Majesty is rich all over the world, and the princess is His Majesty's only legitimate daughter. Even though His Majesty raised it with his own hands, how could he not give it to him immediately instead of waiting for his recovery?"
"So?" Queen's Party quickly spoke.
"So after thinking about it, I thought that this flower must be sick! Your Majesty loves the princess, so he delayed the reward. The purpose is to cultivate the flower before giving it to the princess!"
… Still can’t seem to see the point
Qiu Yilan ignored everyone's clueless expressions and continued, "My wife knows a little bit about the 'Fenzhuanglou' flower. In this season, the disease it is most susceptible to is the vast expanse of white between the branches and leaves. "It's like frost stain!" It's actually powdery mildew, the most common disease of rose flowers.
"A rose suffering from this disease should be immediately moved to a ventilated and sunny place to be exposed to the sun before it can recover. How can it be placed in a dark back hall?!" Qiu Yilan sneered, "This flower is susceptible to disease in the first place -" Rose The anther jar doesn’t get its name for nothing!
"If you do this, I'm afraid this flower is not far away from death, right?!"
"Perhaps it's because the people in the palace are ignorant?" Someone in the Queen Mother's party retorted, "I thought that since I was sick, I couldn't be exposed to the wind and rain, so I received it from the back palace. Moreover, Mrs. Qiu, it was just a pot of flowers. What does it have to do with His Majesty's death?" ?”
Qiu Yilan glanced over: "Why doesn't it matter?! The princess told me before: Your Majesty personally cut and cultivated this pot of flowers last autumn! Now there are several flower buds on the flower... Your Royal Highness, Princess, Is your wife right?"
Because of her father's death, Princess Yongfu, who was crying so hard, was shaken several times by Miss Lin before she came back to her senses in a daze and said: "Yes... that flower has several buds. When my father showed it to me, , one of them is about to open..."
"This shows that Your Majesty is well raised!" Qiu Yilan waited impatiently for Princess Yongfu to finish speaking while sobbing, and immediately interrupted after getting the answer she wanted, and said cheerfully, "The reason why you got sick is also because of this Flowers are very susceptible to disease during this season, there’s nothing you can do about it!”
Even Queen Mother Gu couldn't bear it anymore: "What about the relationship between Hua and the death of the prince of the Ai family? The Ai family, the Queen, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are here, and you keep talking about Hua... What does this mean? ?”
"Since Your Majesty has grown the flowers so well, he obviously has a lot of experience in the art of growing flowers! The palace servants may be ignorant and thought that it was sick and would not be exposed to wind and rain, so he put it in the back hall!" Qiu Yilan narrowed her eyes, " But how could His Majesty not know that after the flower became sick, it was time to expose it to the sun? Moreover, His Majesty promised to give it to His Royal Highness Princess Yongfu. How could His Majesty not take care of it and always take care of it? "
"In the end, it was still thrown into the back hall - what does this mean? It means that the palace people did not take His Majesty's orders to heart at all! Where did the palace people have the courage to do this? I am afraid that after knowing what happened today, His Majesty passed away, of course not There is no way to give the flower to Her Royal Highness! And the princess is heartbroken, how can she think of a pot of flowers? When the princess is over sad and goes to look for it, even if the pot of flowers is dead... With the princess's kindness, it is impossible to get to the bottom of it. Are you going to settle the score with the palace? I can only lament that there is no chance and let it go!"
Qiu Yilan looked at everyone with a sneer, "It seems that some people have already planned to murder His Majesty!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a burst of chaotic footsteps outside the hall: "The flowers have arrived, do you want to carry them up to the hall now?"
"Although I have no idea how you, Queen Mother Gu, killed the emperor, nor what back-up plan you had, but in many cases, the lack of evidence can be made up for by strength!" Qiu Yilan looked at a pot of yellow leaves withered indifferently. The "pinzhuang tower" was carried up to the hall and presented as physical evidence for everyone to look at. He secretly thought, "The cause of the emperor's death this time will probably be transferred from the so-called tooth chopsticks presented by Princess Yongfu to this basin." The makeup store is here!”
After all, she just mentioned the words "Fengzhuang Building" when she saw Princess Yongfu's maid quietly exiting the palace!
And the reason why she said such a simple thing so slowly that the Queen Mother's Party urged her twice was to buy time for the palace maid... Who would believe that this "Fenzhuanglou" plant had not been tampered with by the Queen Mother's Party? ? !
"Queen Mother Gu, I don't know if your back-up plan is still useful?" Although he was sure that the Queen's Party would start to use frame-up skills again, Qiu Yilan was still very cautious and thought quietly, "If you don't use it again, you It’s dead!”