When these words were spoken, most people present were shocked.
Especially Yao Xiang.
She knew best how much medicine had been given to Miss Wan. Those medicines were enough to cause her to have a miscarriage, but not to the extent that she would never be able to have children again.
Could it be that Chu Yun wanted to trample the Queen even more severely, so he doubled the dosage without authorization
It’s a pity that Chu Yun was not a first-class palace maid and was not serving the queen, so she could not ask in time.
But it’s not a big deal. As long as Mrs. Wan can stop having children, it’s a permanent solution.
After thinking about this, Yao Xiang calmed down.
But another person who was surprised was the Queen.
But unlike Yao Xiang, she didn't know how much medicine Chu Yun had given her, so when she heard that Wan Meiren would never be able to have children again, she was still shocked.
This was even more brutal than she had expected.
However, these little thoughts did not attract much attention at the moment. Several imperial doctors trusted by Ning Chen were checking everything that Miss Wan could touch one by one on the scene.
Finally, bone-dissolving powder was found in the half bowl of soup that Wan Meiren had not finished.
As the name suggests, the powder can even dissolve bones. It is a more poisonous drug than musk and safflower. Just a tiny bit of it can not only turn the fetus in a woman's body into blood, but also damage the woman's foundation, making her unable to give birth again.
At this time, Yao Xiang finally realized something was wrong, because what she gave Chu Yun was just safflower powder, not bone-dissolving powder.
I'm afraid someone is secretly involved in this matter.
For a moment, Yao Xiang did not dare to act on his own.
She didn't even know who was involved when she wasn't aware of it, nor did she know how much the other party knew about the whole thing.
My back felt cold and tense. This was too dangerous.
I originally wanted to add fuel to the fire with words, but now I can only choose to say nothing to reduce my presence.
I just hope that the person who secretly participated in this didn’t realize that she was also involved.
It is shameful for such a thing to happen in the harem.
Ning Chen immediately dismissed the banquet and asked all the royal family members to go back.
In fact, everyone wanted to leave quickly, so it was better to know less about such royal secrets.
When only the concubines were left in the palace, Ning Chen spoke in a cold voice.
"Investigate this soup for me. Arrest and interrogate anyone who has touched this soup."
Yuan Jiu took the order and traced the case immediately.
Starting from the palace maid who was responsible for serving food to Lady Wan, they followed the clues and found the kitchen.
All the people were arrested quickly.
On the other side, Ning Chen had no intention of letting everyone leave. They all sat there and no one was allowed to leave.
Lady Wan in the side hall fainted from the pain. When she woke up, she heard that her child was gone and she could not have children again. She cried like a tearful person and fainted again.
After such a long and troublesome time, Yuan Jiu finally finished interrogating the person and returned.
But his complexion was not good.
Ning Chen's eyes were gloomy. "Tell me, what did those servants confess?"
"Your Majesty, the maid Lingjiao who was in charge of cooking soup and adding firewood has confessed. She..."
"Why are you hesitating? Hurry up." The Queen Mother urged impatiently.
Yuan Jiu then gritted his teeth and said simply.
"She said that Ming Shunyi had ordered her to do so and gave her a generous sum of money, a hundred taels, and she wanted to take it back to support her two brothers' studies, so she had this evil thought. I have already found half of the money in her residence, and she said that the other half had been sent out of the palace to her family."
"Asshole!" Ning Chen shouted angrily, "You are making such a random accusation. You should have examined her carefully before you dare to say that she is telling the truth. Ming Shunyi has always been kind and benevolent. How could she do such a thing?"
“Your Majesty, please calm down. I haven’t had the chance to torture you yet. I still... don’t know whether it’s true or not.” Yuan Jiu’s heart skipped a beat and he quickly knelt down.
Ye Jun, who was sitting below, was distracted and looked at Ning Chen with a more complicated look.
Admittedly, this was not her doing, but she did not expect that Ning Chen trusted her so much. Even after she had presented the "evidence" in front of everyone in the harem, he still reacted like this.
"Emperor, I know you love Ming Shunyi, but now Lady Wan has been harmed like this, and the maid has already confessed her guilt. How can this be a wrong?"
The Queen Mother narrowed her cloudy eyes and spoke coldly.
"Ming Shunyi deliberately changed the dishes for this Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. It is not difficult for her to collude with the people in the kitchen. In my opinion, the emperor should not be deceived by others for personal reasons."
Ye Jun was so favored and even gave birth to a prince, but she was not only a thorn in the eyes of the empress and many concubines.
The Queen Mother was bent on helping her own people ascend to the throne. Even though her niece had not been favored yet and was only a concubine and had not given birth yet, this did not prevent the Queen Mother from wanting to remove the stumbling blocks for Concubine Chen first.
What's more, the gradual rise of the Ye family and the Chu family has already snatched away some of the interests of the Chen family.
The Duke of England also secretly mentioned this matter to the Queen Mother, but it was not allowed by her.
"Your Majesty, I am upright and have nothing to fear. I dare to confront the palace maid who pointed the finger at me. If I really murdered Lady Wan, I will be torn to pieces and chopped into pieces. I will never be able to hold my head up high again!"
Ye Jun stood up, his back straight, his eyes sharp, and met Ning Chen's eyes without dodging at all.
This kind of her makes Ning Chen believe it even more.
"Yuan Jiu, bring that maid here. Be careful not to let her commit suicide. If she dies, I will have you buried with her."
"Yes, I'll go right away." Yuan Jiu bowed and quickly got up.
He understood what the emperor meant, which was to get to the bottom of the matter.
After all, if the palace maid died, the clue would be cut off, and it would be difficult to take off the hat on Ming Shunyi's head.
So when Yuan Jiu arrived at the place where the criminals were imprisoned, he pulled out the cloth stuffed in the mouth of the palace maid Lingjiao and first ordered someone to remove her jaw.
This is to prevent her from biting her tongue. Although it will affect her speech, it is not serious.
Back in the hall, Ye Jun added, "Please check if she has any poison in her mouth. When I was young, my father and brothers told me that some assassins would hide poison in their mouths, and if there was no hope of survival, they would commit suicide."
If biting your tongue isn't cruel enough and you won't die immediately, swallowing poison is possible.
"Why don't you check it out quickly?" Ning Chen immediately followed.
This is what support means.
With him protecting her, the empress dowager didn't dare to speak for a moment, and the empress, who was already timid, dared not speak even more.
Yuan Jiu asked people from the Ministry of Punishment to investigate together, and sure enough, they found a black pill the size of a peppercorn in Lingjiao's tooth socket.
The imperial physician examined it and confirmed that it was indeed poison, which could kill instantly if bitten.
Ye Jun's move naturally proved his innocence to a certain extent.
However, the queen still had a plan in place.
When Chu Yun was in contact with this palace maid, his face was never seen from beginning to end, and he always claimed to be someone close to Ye Jun.
So no matter how she was interrogated, the palace maid would only say that it was Ming Shunyi who ordered it.
Because that's all she knows.