The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 66
In the main hall of the Jin family's main mansion in Liyang City, Ning Yi sat on the main seat and looked at Jin Yu who was standing on the hall with his head down, and asked coldly, "Concubine Qin said that you once gave her a golden tea set?"

Jin Yu looked at Ning Yi suspiciously, not knowing why his eyebrows were full of anger, and then looked sideways at Qin Wan, her expression was even more elusive.Jin Yu didn't dare to say anything else, so he nodded in a matter-of-fact manner.

"Come here, take it down, and die with a stick!" Ning Yi's voice was as cold as Ji Ye.

Jin Yu was horrified, and said in a shocked voice, "His Royal Highness King Ning...why?!"

"Poisoning and murdering the princess, scheming and vicious, his heart can be punished, come here! Take it down!"

"Poisoning?" Jin Yu looked at Qin Wan with puzzled and horrified eyes, "No! I didn't! His Royal Highness King Ning is on the lookout! Your Majesty is on the lookout!"

Qin Wan observed Jin Yu's expression and said, "Jin Yu, I have no grievances with you, why did you poison me in that pot of gold?"

Jin Yu knelt down in front of Qin Wan with a plop, covered his mouth with his hands and shook his head desperately: "No, ma'am, how could I poison you?! As you said, I have only known you for a few days, and you are the one in front of His Highness. Red man, harming you is not beneficial to me, I have no reason or courage to do so!"

"Then why are there poisons in the tea sets you gave me?" Qin Wan asked.

Jin Yu forced herself to calm down, lowered her head and thought carefully: "That set of gold tea sets..." She suddenly thought of something, raised her head and said, "There were two sets of the same gold tea set, one I gave to my father, and the other set to me. I have kept it for many years without using it, until I went back to Liyang with His Royal Highness to get the medicine, I found it and took it to Ying Yang as a thank you gift to Concubine Qin, it is absolutely impossible to poison or something."

"Do you have another set?" Qin Wan asked Xiang Jinyu, "Where is it?"

"It's in the Treasure Pavilion in the backyard. After my father passed away, all his belongings were kept there." Jin Yu said.

After Ning Yi heard this, he immediately signaled Yuan Ying to go to the treasure pavilion of the Jin family to retrieve the other set of tea sets.

When Qin Wan saw that the tea set brought back by Yuan Ying was exactly the same as the one Jin Yu gave her, a bad premonition arose in her heart: "Yuan Ying, break open this teapot!"

Yuan Ying drew out her sword and chopped it down with all her strength, the golden pot was split in half in front of everyone.

Xiaobai jumped from the window sill at this time, went to the golden pot, probed his nose and sniffed it, immediately jumped away, and then turned into a human form, glaring and said: "That's right, it's also realgar."

"Realgar?! It shouldn't be the base of pure gold. Why is it realgar?" Jin Yu was stunned. She threw herself on the ground and picked up half of the pot of gold. Looking carefully at the bottom of the pot, the realgar was exposed to the air and gleamed. The unique golden luster of the crystal exudes a strong smell.

Seeing Jin Yu's terrified and incredulous expression, Qin Wan felt that she didn't seem to be knowing, so she said to her: "The realgar is hidden in the bottom of the pot, and it will slowly seep out when you make hot tea. Its toxicity is comparable to arsenic, but because of It’s extremely small and the tea flavor masks the bitterness so it’s hard to detect.”

"How could it be...?" Jin Yu was holding the golden pot, and his whole body began to tremble.

If the guess is correct, what Jin Yu thought coincides with Qin Wan, Qin Wan asked: "Madam Jin, what illness did your father die of that year?"

"!!!" Jin Yu stared at Qin Wan with wide-eyed eyes, trembling all over his body, his eyes were red all over, and he asked Qin Wan tremblingly in disbelief, "Your Majesty, what do you mean, my father was caught in this pot?" The realgar is poisonous...?!"

Ning Yi frowned deeply, and said to Jin Yu in a cold voice, "Tell me everything you can think of."

Jin Yu resisted the shock in his heart and carefully recalled what happened about six years ago.

At that time, she was just pregnant with Xibao, and her father Jin Wenyuan was furious.In order to please his father, Jin Yu took out his private money and went to the Jiangbao Pavilion under the Jin family to order two sets of identical gold tea sets. One was given to Jin Wenyuan, and the other was kept by himself.

In the past few years, Jin Wenyuan's health has been deteriorating. Not only has his eyesight declined severely, but he has also become more and more unbearable in the hot and humid heat of Liyang. After seeing many famous doctors, they all said that it was due to exhaustion of internal organs and heart disease.This diagnosis made Jin Yu very guilty, thinking that his father was depressed and sick because of his private life.Just last year, Jin Wenyuan's condition took a turn for the worse and never got better. He passed away suddenly in the midsummer of August.

"Didn't you invite the elders of Maoshan Medicine Valley for a consultation?" Qin Wan asked suspiciously.

Jin Yu nodded: "Elder Yaogu never goes down the mountain to see a doctor, and patients need to go to the Shangqing Sect to seek medical treatment in person. When my mother gave birth to me with dystocia, my father once knelt in front of the door of the Shangqing Sect and asked the Elder Yaogu to go down the mountain to save my mother. Elder Yaogu was in seclusion at that time, and his mother died because of it. So my father didn’t want to go to the Shangqing School for medical treatment, and it was useless to persuade others..."

Speaking of this, Jin Yu burst into tears, gritted his teeth to keep himself from crying in front of Ning Yi.

"But! I definitely did not harm my father and the concubine Qin! I gave the pot as a birthday gift to my father after the Jiangbao Pavilion was finished. I didn't even know that there was realgar hidden in the bottom of the pot! And I didn't know that it could be used Realgar kills people! Could it be that the goldsmith used realgar instead of gold to make the bottom of the pot! His Highness, King Ning, please check!" Jin Yu knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Ning Yi.

Qin Wan denied: "I thought about the situation you mentioned at the beginning. But even if the craftsmen wanted to hack the gold, they would not specifically choose realgar. This kind of technology of mixing gold with other materials to fake It’s not uncommon for goldsmiths to see it, but the goldsmith’s special selection of realgar is not very suitable, and this matter is by no means that simple.”

After hearing this, Jin Yu felt that Qin Wan's words were reasonable, but she couldn't think of any other valid information.

Qin Wan was a little surprised. She thought she was the victim, but now that Jin Yu's father, Jin Wenyuan, was added, the whole thing developed in an even weirder direction.

If Jin Yu really ordered the craftsman to put realgar in the pot as the bottom, then she not only murdered the princess, but also her own father.

"Go, send someone to check all the doctors who saw Jin Wenyuan at that time to see if it is as Jin Yu said." Ning Yi ordered Yuan Ying, "Send a message to Liyang Fuyin and ask him to transfer the Liyang Jiangbao Pavilion All the people involved will be arrested and interrogated strictly, and he will be asked to find out about Jin Wenyuan's death within three days. As for Jin Yu, the patriarch of the Jin family, he will be temporarily detained in the government prison and under strict supervision."

Jin Yu sat slumped on the ground, his eyes dazed.The two guards ordered her to enter from the outside, one on the left and one on the right to support her.Just as he was about to drag him away, Xi Bao suddenly yelled "Mom" and ran into the main hall, hugging Jin Yu's leg.

"Let go of my mother! Let go of my mother!" Xi Bao tugged on Jin Yu's clothes, crying so loudly that the whole main hall was buzzing.

The nanny rushed in in panic, trying to pull Xi Bao away, but Xi Bao's strength was not small, and he hung on Jin Yu's body with all his strength, and would not let go no matter what.

Seeing his son crying, Jin Yu couldn't stop crying.Seeing that the guard wanted to tear Xi Bao off her body arbitrarily, Jin Yu suddenly lost his mind and broke away from the guard, knelt down on the ground and hugged Xi Bao.

The guard wanted to pull again, but Jin Yu desperately protected his son, hugging him in his arms to comfort him.

For a moment, there was chaos in the main house of the Jin family, and Ning Yi's face became darker and darker.

Qin Wan sighed, waved his hand to let the guards back down first, stood up and walked to their mother and son, turned to Ning Yi and said, "His Royal Highness Ning, it is true that Jin Yu gave me the golden pot, but the truth of the matter has not yet come to light, why don't you let me know first?" Put her under house arrest in the Jin Mansion, and make a decision after the investigation is almost done."

Ning Yi frowned and looked at Qin Wan: "Do you know that no matter whether she did it intentionally or not, she gave you the golden pot to harm you. Just because of this alone, she will be punished with death."

Hearing Ning Yi's words, Jin Yu hugged Xi Bao even tighter, with a look of despair in his eyes.

Qin Wan thought for a while and said, "Although it's a capital crime, it's not yet time to die. Let her stay with the child for two more days. It won't be too late to deal with it when the truth is found out."

Ning also listened to Qin Wan pleading for Jin Yu, and raised his hand in agreement.

Jin Yu looked up at Qin Wan, and nodded his thanks to her with tears on his face.

Watching Jin Yu and Xi Bao being taken out of the main house, Qin Wan thought for a while and said to Ning Yi, "I think there is still one place that needs to be searched."

Ning Yi raised his eyebrows to listen to her.

"The courtyard of the second bedroom of the Jin family," Qin Wan said, "Jin Yu just said that she didn't know that realgar can kill people when brewed in hot tea. Then those who know the function of realgar and have a motive for killing people, I think of it." There is another person, Jin Wenchao, the second wife of the Jin family."

(End of this chapter)