Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 606 Self Defense
This is a good question, and everyone including the cook didn't answer it.

Liu Yunxiang asked the prefect Li Chong again: "You should have experienced the work, what kind of poison is the Yuan side concubine?"

Li Chong was silent for a moment, "The crane's top is red."

"This poison is very overbearing. After a person swallows it, it only takes a moment for the poison to be released?"

Li Chong stroked his beard, "Indeed, and Zuo Zuo also inferred that the amount of poison is very large, and the poisoned person died almost instantly."

Liu Yunxiang lowered his eyes, no longer asked, no longer said anything.

The queen was taken aback for a moment, "What do you mean?"

Li Chong turned to think about the queen and said, "It means that the cook is lying. He didn't poison the concubine Yuan's food, or he didn't have time to poison at all."

The queen frowned, and turned to look at Jiang Yunying.

Jiang Yunying turned her mind, looked up at the cook, "Let's not talk about that, who told you to poison the food?"

"I dare not say..." the cook bowed his head.

Jiang Yunying sighed, "The empress is here, and the people from the government are also here. Those people dare not harm your family."

The cook seemed hesitant, and slowly turned to look at Liu Yunxiang.

"Yes... the princess instructed me!"

After saying these words, the ladies all showed excitement.

"I'll just say it's her!"

"The heart is really dark enough!"

"One corpse, two lives, how vicious!"

Jiang Yunying went on to say: "Since the princess has the intention of murdering Concubine Yuan, she must make another plan. Concubine Yuan can't hide even if she wants to. Sooner or later this will be the result."

The queen nodded: "Concubine Jiang is right, Yuan Qingyue was poisoned in the palace, except you, Liu Yunxiang, no one else can do this!"

"If you murder the emperor's heir and report it to the emperor, it must be a capital crime!" Feng Shi also interjected at this time.

Liu Yunxiang sneered, and the three of them eagerly blamed her, wishing they could press her down and make her confess quickly.

"Li Fu Yin, what do you think?" Liu Yunxiang looked at Li Chong.

Li Chong pondered for a while, and said: "Who poisoned Concubine Yuan, let's put it aside for now. It's just the princess, you really ordered this cook to poison Concubine Yuan?"

"What if I ordered it?"

"Sin with murder."

The queen's eyes sharpened, "Mrs. Liu, it really is you!"

Liu Yunxiang spread his hands: "Did I admit it?"

"You've just……"

"I'm just making an analogy. The queen seems to want me to plead guilty urgently, and doesn't care who the real culprit is."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "Just now the cook said that he has seniors and juniors, and that I threatened him with the lives of his family members. Have you all heard this sentence?"

Liu Yunxiang looked at the wives of the aristocratic families, most of them were facing the queen, so they refused to answer this sentence.

Mrs. Zhen Guogong nodded at this time, "I heard it."

Feng Shi, the third wife of the Duke of Yang's Mansion, also nodded, "I heard that too."

Li Chong also said: "I heard this too, but I don't know what the princess means by asking this question?"

Liu Yunxiang called the steward and asked: "As long as he is recruited to work in the palace, you must have checked his details, steward, right?"

The steward nodded, "That's natural. If someone with malicious intentions is recruited and the palace is harmed, it will be the fault of this old servant."

"Then there are really old and young cooks in this cook?"

The housekeeper sneered, "His parents have passed away, and because he often gambles, he owes a lot of gambling debts, and he can't even marry a wife. He promised me to work hard, so I let him enter the house."

Liu Yunxiang looked at Li Chong, "You can't lie about this matter, Fu Yin, you can ask the officials to go down and check it out."

Li Chong stepped forward and kicked the cook, "Don't tell the truth!"

"It's true that I have no family...but the princess said that if I don't listen to her...she will kill me!"

Liu Yunxiang sneered coldly, "A person who is full of lies, can his words still be used as evidence in court?"

Li Chong took a deep breath, "Of course not."

At this time, the steward called several servants from Jingshui Pavilion. After Yuan Qingyue had eaten, they shared the rest and ate, and none of them got poisoned.This matter is already obvious, the cook did not poison, but was instructed to frame Liu Yunxiang.

Li Chong pondered for a moment, and called all the servants of Jingshui Pavilion to the courtyard, including the maidservant beside Yuan Qingyue.

"The side concubine Yuan had eaten other things before she got sick from dinner?"

The servants serving outside didn't know, but only the maid beside Yuan Qingyue knew.The maid knelt there shivering, hesitated for a while before shaking her head.

"No, no."

"Really not?"

"Not really."

At this time, the woman Liu Yunxiang placed in Jingshui Pavilion spoke, "Yes, Concubine Yuan said she was disgusting after returning to the house, so she came out and brought preserved fruits to Concubine Yuan."

Li Chong asked the maid again: "Did side concubine Yuan eat preserved fruit?"

"This……"

"You'd better tell the truth, it can be found by disembowelling Wu Zuo!"

The servant girl was startled, and quickly waved her hands: "Don't, don't disembowel my girl! I said, I said, my girl... indeed ate the preserved fruit, and then she couldn't stop vomiting blood. After a while, the effort was gone. "

Speaking of this, the maid broke down and burst into tears.

She has served Yuan Qingyue for so long, but she actually has feelings for her.

"I asked you just now, why didn't you say it?"

"Slaves...slaves dare not speak."

"Where did this candied fruit come from?"

The maid was lying on the ground, trembling uncontrollably, Li Chong pressed her repeatedly, but she couldn't hold it anymore.

"I brought that preserved fruit to Concubine Yuan." Jiang Yunying stood up and said.

When she came out, everyone was shocked, including the queen.

Jiang Yunying clenched her fists under her sleeves and said: "The side concubine Yuan has always had a bad appetite and wanted something sour. When I came to visit her yesterday, I brought her a pack of preserved fruits. The preserved fruits were from the Dim Sum Restaurant on the East Street. I bought it, but I didn't take it over, and delivered it directly to this maidservant."

She said this to remove her suspicion, but it was obviously not enough to make her prove her innocence.And now the fourth prince is in power, but suffers from the fact that he has no male heir, and His Royal Highness has also been favored by the emperor, so he already has a son, if there is another one, the fourth prince will be at a disadvantage, so Jiang Yunying's motives are harmful to Yuan Qingyue.

At this time, the official sent another pack of medicinal powder from under Yuan Qingyue's pillow, which Wu Zuo said was for slipping tires.

Ask the maid again, how dare the maid ask again, so she said that Jiang Yunying asked the maid to give her the medicine powder.

This time, the fact that Jiang Yunying poisoned Yuan Qingyue was almost confirmed.

The empress remained silent, and the wives of the aristocratic families did not dare to say anything.

After being silent for a while, Mrs. Zhen Guogong stood up and said: "It seems that this case is very complicated. It can't be clarified in a while. It is a matter of the government. We will not get involved. We just hope to find the truth as soon as possible." Fierce, so as to comfort the spirit of the side concubine Yuan in heaven."

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhen Guo left first.

The third wife of Duke Yang whispered something to Mrs. Yang Guo, and the two sisters-in-law also left.

Seeing this, the others hurried away in fear of offending the queen.

Liu Yunxiang smiled: "Young lady, remember what I said just now, she will never condone the real culprit. Tsk tsk, murdering the emperor's heir is not only a capital crime, but also implicating the family?"

She looked at Jiang Yunying, her eyes sharpened, "Concubine Jiang, is this really your idea alone, or is someone behind you instigating it?"

(End of this chapter)