After the ministers left the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the palace maids, Imperial Physician Liang, the emperor, several concubines and princes were left on the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
"What's the result of Imperial Doctor Liang?" The emperor asked quickly looking at Imperial Doctor Liang's frowning face.
Imperial Physician Liang bowed his hands to the emperor, and said with some doubts: "If you go back to the emperor, Wei Chen found safflower in many dishes of the good concubine, but..."
The emperor looked at Liang Taiyi's appearance, and asked urgently: "Just what, if you have anything, just say it, and I am here, who dares to threaten you?"
After saying that, he casually glanced at the queen and the imperial concubine. The expressions of the two of them did not change, but they looked at Imperial Physician Liang calmly.
Imperial Physician Liang shook his head and continued: "Wei Chen just finds it strange that although every dish contains safflower, not the whole dish contains safflower, to be exact, only a little bit of safflower is in each dish. Yinzi, if I hadn’t been more cautious, I’m afraid these marks would have been ignored.”
The imperial concubine looked a little strange. She glanced at the queen and said to the imperial physician: "Tianyi Liang, this palace has a problem. You said that every dish has some red flowers on it. Is that a small amount of red flowers brought from the imperial kitchen? flower?"
Her remarks made it clear that she was aimed at the queen. After all, the imperial kitchen was under the control of the queen, but the concubine who was favored on weekdays would allow a small kitchen to be set up in her palace, which was considered a favor from the emperor.
Concubine Liang's gentle and jade-like temperament naturally made the emperor love Concubine Liang a little more. In addition, Concubine Liang never formed gangs in this harem, and she was considered a prominent figure in the neutral faction.
What the imperial concubine said is not unreasonable. After all, the good concubine's food in her palace does not touch the imperial kitchen, but after all, it is a palace banquet. , so the suspicion of the imperial concubine is not out of thin air that the person in the imperial kitchen gave medicine to the concubine.
The queen was not panicked, she looked at the imperial concubine with a sneer and said, "My sister means that she thinks it is the safflower under the palace? The younger sister of the concubine Liang has never had any grievances or enmity with the palace, so how could the palace go there for no reason? hurt her?"
The queen stared at the imperial concubine aggressively, and said aggressively: "You said that the medicine was given by someone in the imperial dining room of this palace, but you also showed evidence, just based on a few dishes dipped in some safflower, I thought Throwing dirty water on Ben Gong's head, it seems that my sister's ability to frame things and blame her is a bit formidable."
The imperial concubine covered her mouth and chuckled: "My sister is only suspicious, not to blame her. After all, there was a problem with the dishes in this palace banquet, and the first person to be responsible is the imperial kitchen. But my sister But with one sentence, my sister has repeatedly defended several sentences, I'm afraid it's not a guilty conscience, right?"
The Empress did not get angry when she heard the concubine's words, but smiled instead: "What are you talking about, my sister, this palace has always managed the harem in an orderly manner and has never made any mistakes. I'm afraid it's a bit unreasonable to detain my sister for the crime I can't tell, can I?"
The queen really has a pair of eloquent mouths, but this noble concubine is not a soft persimmon to let the queen handle it. Ji Yueqin watched the invisible gunpowder smoke between the two of them, and she felt pity to be caught between them. The good concubine.
Qian Yu didn't make a sound, just gently pulled Ji Yueqin with her hand, signaling her not to get involved in the struggle between the imperial concubine and the queen. Ji Yueqin also understood Qian Yu's thoughts, and just sat on the side and drank tea quietly.
The imperial concubine felt that the queen's tongue was eloquent, and immediately laughed out loud: "What my sister said really opened my eyes to my sister, and my sister still has such a skill, being the roundworm of the good concubine's sister, and knowing that she can eat it. How many pieces of sour jujube cake. Or, how can my sister know which piece of sour jujube cake Liangfei sister can eat?"
When the emperor saw that the two of you won't let me, I won't let you, and immediately slapped the table in front of him hard, "Enough, if you two want to quarrel, you have to wait for the matter to get to the bottom of your quarrel, and Taiyi Liang said half of what he said, the two of you. People will shirk each other. If I know this time that this matter is under the hands of people from the harem, I will not let it go!"
The two were silent, after all, the emperor was already angry, and apart from looking at each other with a bad look, he didn't dare to sneer and sneer.
"Doctor Liang, go on. Anyone who interrupts Imperial Physician Liang again will drag him out and punish him for twenty." The emperor's words were obviously aimed at the concubine and the queen.
The empress and the concubine had different expressions on their faces, but they couldn't tell whether they were happy or angry, but they wouldn't feel too comfortable in their hearts.
Imperial Physician Liang responded and continued: "The old minister also thought of a possibility, but it is not the safflower in the food at the palace banquet. According to the old minister's opinion, I am afraid that the problem lies in the pair of chopsticks used by the concubine Liang. superior."
"Chopsticks?" The emperor was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the large dose of safflower actually came from a pair of chopsticks. Why would Concubine Liang and the people around her be so careless and could not detect the smell of safflower on the chopsticks.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the pair of chopsticks on Concubine Liang's table. From a closer look, the pair of chopsticks were truly exquisite and pure white. They were carved and polished with ivory from the Western Regions.
Different from everyone's reaction, when Empress De Concubine heard that there was a problem with the chopsticks, her body was obviously shocked, and her eyes were full of disbelief.
It was Ji Yueqin who first noticed the reaction of Concubine De. Ji Yueqin glanced at Concubine De, and Concubine De seemed to feel Ji Yueqin's eyes, so she followed Ji Yueqin's gaze and looked over. The eyes of the people met, and in a split second, Concubine De pulled his gaze back and stopped looking at Ji Yueqin.
Ji Yueqin seemed to see a trace of inexplicable emotions in Concubine De's eyes, but it was only for a moment, so she didn't know if she was wrong.
The emperor looked at the palace maid next to Concubine Liang and asked, "Do these chopsticks belong to your mother-in-law?"
The palace maid replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, these chopsticks are indeed brought by my mother. It's just that these chopsticks are a gift from the concubine Vi to the concubine Liang."
She glanced at Concubine De timidly, and continued: "Concubine De and my concubine are as close as sisters, and I never suspected that there was a fraud. In addition, the concubine loved these chopsticks even more, even Lai Taihe. The hall always brings these chopsticks with him when he eats."
Everyone's attention shifted from the chopsticks to Concubine De, even Nan Xuanjin didn't believe why his mother concubine would murder the emperor's heir.
"Mother concubine, it must not be you, right? Someone must have framed you!" He looked at his mother concubine in disbelief, then turned to the emperor and said, "Father emperor must not be made by mother concubine, please father Emperor Mingcha!"