After listening to her explanation, Fu Yuheng stroked his chin. It seemed that he was indeed negligent towards the princess. And she didn't look like the one who harmed her.
"Well, has anyone else come close to this bowl of porridge?" A sharp glance at Lianyun made her mind clear instantly.
Lianyun scratched her head and thought for a while, then suddenly an idea came to her. She remembered that a maid once came to her and asked her who the porridge was for, and chatted with her for a while.
"Hmph! You're really useless." A glare swung at her, and Lianyun felt her whole body trembling violently. She knew that she might have been framed this time.
Fu Yuheng narrowed his eyes and said, "We'll make a decision on this matter after we find that maid!" After saying that, he waved his sleeves and left, but both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't go out for the next few days." After saying this, Fu Yuheng stopped looking at her and turned to leave.
Shen Qingwan just felt a little dizzy. She didn't want to get involved in the harem dispute, but she didn't expect to be dragged into it. The princess was a poor person. She was poisoned for no reason.
"Lianyun, go and see if the princess is in any serious condition, and also check where the maid from last time came from."
The world is fickle and as a member of the harem, she has to protect herself.
Lianyun nodded in agreement, feeling somewhat guilty for her carelessness in getting her own queen involved, and so she worked more seriously.
Early in the morning of that day, Fu Yuheng called her over. A maid was kneeling at the bottom of the hall.
"Ah! It's her!" Lianyun pointed at the maid and shouted. It was this maid who followed her that day.
Fu Yuheng glanced at the two of them without showing much expression.
This maid was originally from the kitchen, so it was easy to find out.
"Your Majesty, what is the matter with you calling me here?" She asked knowingly, but she felt helpless. Why did she frame herself like this? Looking at the person kneeling on the ground, Shen Qingwan felt a little disappointed.
"Tell me, what's going on!" Fu Yuheng glared at everyone with a look of majesty that made people unable to help but submit to him.
But whether intentionally or unintentionally, the maid looked at Shen Qingwan from time to time, with expectation and fear in her eyes, "This..."
"Speak!" Seeing her hesitant, Fu Yuheng felt even more angry, "Were you near Lianyun on the way to deliver the medicine that day?"
The maid was startled and subconsciously looked in the direction of Xiao Shushen, but she saw her looking at her with a half-smile. She was startled and lowered her head with a flicker in her eyes, "To answer the emperor's question, I, I did get close to him."
"Hmm..." Hearing this, Fu Yuheng nodded, and looked at Shen Qingwan who seemed to be none of her business, and suddenly felt helpless. He was worried about her affairs, but she acted as if nothing had happened.
"Then you poisoned it?"
The maidservant was obviously beginning to panic, and even her words were a little intermittent, "Reply... Reply to the emperor, I didn't!" She was still stubborn, but her hands were already wet with cold sweat.
"If you know what's best for you, tell the truth. If you tell a lie, be careful of your head!" At this time, Xiao Shushen said indifferently, "Don't wrongly accuse the virtuous sister for your own selfish desires."
After these words came out, Shen Qingwan always felt that something was wrong for some reason, and would she really be so kind as to help her speak
Fu Yuheng also had some doubts in his heart because of these words, but he was also relieved by the queen's magnanimity.
"Speak!"
The maidservant was suddenly frightened and shouted, "Your Majesty, please spare my life. It was indeed me who put the poison in there." She banged her head on the ground, and the sound made everyone present feel terrified.
As soon as these words were spoken, the concubines around looked over and pointed at her, while also looking at Shen Qingwan from time to time, wondering whether they were expressing sympathy or suspicion.
Fu Yuheng was furious as he looked at her coldly. How dare she, a slave, poison the princess
"Hmph! Why on earth did you poison the princess?" He looked at the person on the ground with sharp eyes. Even though there was blood on his head, he showed no mercy at all.
The maid was a little hesitant, but after taking a look at the cloth bag in the hands of Nanny Gui behind the Queen, she became determined.
She gritted her teeth and finally spoke, "In reply to the emperor, the second princess is usually very mean to us servants. She deliberately made things difficult for me when the kitchen was preparing meals for her, and she also beat and scolded me. That's why I hated her so much that I gave her a chronic poison." She finished speaking in one breath, but her heart was filled with despair.
"What kind of poison is that?" Fu Yuheng straightened himself and frowned.
"Arsenic..." The maid calmed herself down, but there was a lack of color in her eyes.
Seeing her looking at Xiao Shushen from time to time, Shen Qingwan also looked at what was in Nanny Gui's hand. It was a somewhat worn cloth bag, which obviously would not belong to the concubines in the palace. It was probably some important item of this maid.
But even so, she couldn't help her. After all, the queen was still the master of the harem. If she interfered casually, it might harm the maid instead.
His eyes drooped and he suddenly felt very powerless.
"Do you admit your guilt?" Fu Yuheng slammed the table, and the person on the ground shuddered again.
"I know my crime is unforgivable, and I am willing to die to atone for it!" As she said this, she raised her head and glanced at the emperor. The despair in her eyes made people feel sad.
After saying that, he stood up by himself, and before anyone could react, he crashed into the pillar behind him and died.
"Ah!" Some timid concubines couldn't help but scream.
Even Shen Qingwan was stunned where she was. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that the man looked at her before he died, as if he felt a little guilty.
Looking at Xiao Shushen again, she had an expected expression on her face, and there seemed to be pride and provocation on her face. Shen Qingwan quickly lowered her head, pretending not to notice, but she knew that the princess's incident this time must be related to her.
Seeing this situation, Fu Yuheng had no choice but to ask everyone to leave first and called the imperial physician over. But after the imperial physician took the patient's pulse, he shook his head, indicating that there was no way to treat this person, and then he left with a look of regret.
But after all, dust returns to dust, and the maid is dead. There is no need to pursue the matter any further. Further investigation will result in no evidence, and Shen Qingwan is therefore cleared of suspicion.
Nanny Gui put away the cloth bag in her hand, glanced at the man lying in a pool of blood with a sarcastic look on her face, and whispered in the ear of the servant beside her: "Remember to do it cleanly, don't leave anyone alive!"