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Chapter 2034 Catch the person who sent the poison

"Who is it?" Emperor Xinghua's eyes flashed with admiration, Wen Tingzhan never seemed to let him down, but always surprised him.

Wen Tingzhan bowed to Emperor Xinghua, and went out of the palace without saying a word. Emperor Xinghua followed curiously, followed by Ye Yaoguang, Xiao Shirui and others, and walked to the gate of the main hall. Seeing all the servants of the Palace of Mercy standing under the corridor in the dark night, Wen Tingzhan strode forward calmly, walked up to one of the servants, grabbed his wrist, and dragged it away without allowing him to struggle. In front of the main hall, he was pushed down in front of Emperor Xinghua.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is this person."

"Your servant is wronged, my servant is wronged, my servant did not poison the Queen Mother!" The maid knelt on the ground and trembled.

"It seems that Ben Hou Shicai only asked you what you did today and where you went? Why did you say that you were looking for someone to poison the Queen Mother?" Wen Tingzhan raised his eyebrows and questioned.

"The Empress Dowager was poisoned and died. The Palace of Mercy already knew about it. Lord Hou came to interrogate the servants and others at this time, and asked if anyone could prove it. The servants naturally thought that Lord Hou was investigating the murderer..." The servant replied in panic.

His clever rebuttal revealed his unusualness instead, and Emperor Xinghua's eyes turned cold.

"You don't need to quibble, you did not poison the Queen Mother, but you brought the arsenic that the Queen Mother killed herself into the Palace of Mercy." Wen Tingzhan said calmly.

"No servant, no servant, Your Majesty knows..." The servant seemed to have realized that he would be wrong if he said too much, so he kept denying it now, and didn't dare to say a word more.

"Since Lord Hou has determined that this person is the one who sent the arsenic to the Palace of Mercy, I think the evidence is convincing." King Fu'an asked solemnly.

"This is the evidence." Wen Tingzhan lifted up the small porcelain bottle containing the arsenic.

King Guang'an frowned: "It's just a shoddy bottle, how can it be evidence?"

"His Royal Highness Guang'an said that this is a shoddy bottle that will never appear in the palace. This kind of bottle can't be bought in any famous porcelain shop outside the palace, because it is too rough. Maybe you can buy three or five for a penny." Wen Tingzhan nodded his head lightly, "Exactly, this kind of bottle is thick and has pores, and the arsenic is as fine as dust, so it is inevitable that some will leak out. On the desk for a while, Your Majesty might as well send someone to check to see if there is a light circle of white dust."

Emperor Xinghua nodded to Fu Lu, and Fu Lu immediately bowed and entered the inner hall again. After returning, he nodded to Emperor Xinghua, confirming that there was a layer of dust in the dark where the medicine bottle was placed, which would be overlooked if you didn't look carefully.

"Indeed." Emperor Xinghua nodded, "How does this prove the murderer?"

"Your Majesty, the person who brought this poison must have passed it by hand. Although arsenic is highly poisonous, it will not kill you if you don't swallow it. It is not easy for ordinary people to hurt the skin. But this servant is different. My minister just asked Let him go, he works in the small kitchen of the Empress Dowager's Cihe Palace, and he is responsible for cleaning the dishes and other chores in the palace." Wen Tingzhan went up again as he said, and forcibly grabbed the servant's hand , opened his palm, "It's cold in the deep winter, and the hands are often soaked in water. The skin of the hands is naturally thinner than ordinary people. If it is contaminated with arsenic, it will be like this, bloodshot all over, and even slightly red and swollen."

As soon as Wen Tingzhan's words fell, the servant's body trembled more and more violently, and the fear in his eyes had already formed substance.

However, Wen Tingzhan did not give up on this, but continued to smile gently: "Your Majesty might as well send someone to fetch a basin of water, pour it from his palm, and find a bird in the flushed water, and you will know if you test it." There's arsenic in the water."

"Come on, get water!" Emperor Xinghua ordered coldly.

Soon someone brought the kettle and a bowl. Wen Tingzhan grabbed the servant's wrist and stretched it over. After jumping around for a while, the arsenic was not a large amount, so the effect was not immediate, but in about a quarter of an hour, the bird fell down. Although it did not die, the reaction was undoubtedly poisoned.

"Changfeng!" Emperor Xinghua immediately called out to the imperial envoy who was waiting on the side.

Chang Feng understood without Emperor Xinghua's order, and went to check all the symptoms of the fainted bird carefully, and then replied to Emperor Xinghua after confirming: "Report to Your Majesty, there is no doubt that arsenic poisoning."

"What else do you have to say?" Emperor Xinghua looked at the already limp servant with sharp eyes.

The waiter who had been without a master suddenly came back to his senses, and he immediately wanted to bite his tongue to kill himself. Wen Tingzhan seemed to have expected that he would do this, and a silver needle with his fingertips had been stuck on his body one step earlier, and he suddenly fell limp. On the ground, I can't even move my fingers, how can I have the strength to bite my tongue?But it didn't stop him from speaking.

"Fulu, take him down for interrogation, and give me a strict interrogation!" Emperor Xinghua shouted with a pale face.

Fu Lu immediately asked two people to drag the servant down.

Since there was an interrogation, it would not be for a while, and Emperor Xinghua probably didn't want more things to be known by others.Obviously, the person who can extend his hand to the Palace of Mercy and Harmony must be a member of the royal family. After all, there are no powerful officials like the Kou family now.This is a family scandal, and Emperor Xinghua naturally sent everyone away.

"Azhan..."

"Yaoyao, wait for me a moment." Out of the palace gate together, Ye Yaoguang got into the carriage and did not see Wen Tingzhan's movement. Turning around, he saw Wen Tingzhan standing outside and Huo Shaojie coming out, facing Ye Yao Guang Guang said a word of comfort, and then walked slowly towards Huo Shaojie, who had no master. Ye Yaoguang understood Huo Shaojie's mood at this time, it was really miserable.

Originally, he had a loving heart and wanted to protect the princess, but he never thought that there is no such thing as a princess, that is his own daughter, and he painstakingly arranged for his own daughter to be sent away, and his own son was married back...

This kind of blow is probably unbearable to anyone. No wonder Huo Shaojie almost stepped on the air and fell down when he stepped down the stairs. Fortunately, Wen Tingzhan, who was one step faster than the servants, helped him: "Mr. Huo, be careful."

Huo Shaojie looked at Wen Tingzhan blankly. At this moment, his throat was sore and he couldn't speak, so he could only nod weakly.

"Mr. Huo, I have good news and bad news for you, junior." Wen Tingzhan said to Huo Shaojie seriously, "The good news is that Mrs. Huo is not Ling Ai, and the bad news is that Ling Ai died as early as the sixth year after she was sent to the Meng family. Died by accident. Mr. Huo, you can check it out."

Huo Shaojie opened his eyes, and his dull eyes regained their brilliance in an instant. Although the news that his daughter had already died was a bad joke, it was much better than marrying his own brother alive. Cham's good news watered down.

(End of this chapter)