Chapter 533: It's just Tiger's toy
When everyone present saw this doll, they immediately thought of four words: the art of warding off evil.

Even Pei Shaorong's face changed drastically!

What's going on? The prince didn't tell her about this!

She looked at Zhao Chengye in panic and anxiety, and seeing that he also looked shocked and surprised, her heart sank.

Could it be that even the prince didn’t know? That would mean... Pei Shaorong felt a chill on her back!

The emperor's face was so gloomy that people dared not look directly at him.

"So, so that's how it is... No wonder..." The first person to come to his senses was Pei Zhen.

She stared at the puppet on the ground with a dull look on her face, muttering, "So you used this method to harm my child. No wonder... No wonder the imperial physician didn't find anything wrong with me. So that's it..."

Yes, she had a miscarriage, there must be a reason. But the imperial physician couldn't find out what it was!

"Where did you find this?"

"Your Majesty, it was found in a side hall of the East Palace."

The emperor stared at Zhao Chengye with a gloomy gaze, and there was a terrifying coldness in his eyes: "Prince, do you have anything else to say?"

Before Zhao Chengye could say anything, Prince Qin could not wait to stand up and said, "Prince, you are using such means to harm me and my child just because you are worried that my concubine will give birth to the first grandson. How can you be so foolish! If you can use such a terrible means to harm me today, then you can harm my father tomorrow!"

After the King Qin finished saying this, Xu Muhua felt as if he saw murderous intent in the emperor's eyes.

Well, this method is very risky, but if it succeeds, the lethality is absolutely 100%!
"What are you talking about? This doll... this doll is mine! You don't think this is some kind of shamanism?" Xu Muhua suddenly said, and without paying attention to the expressions of the people present, he bent down and picked up the doll that was still on the ground.

Her sudden action stunned everyone.

"Concubine Xu, I know you are worried about the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, but you can't lie with your eyes open and take the blame on yourself. Do you know how serious the crime is and how grave the consequences will be?" Pei Zhen couldn't help but say, staring at Xu Muhua with eyes full of hints.

Xu Muhua looked at her in confusion, "Concubine Pei, what you said is wrong. What do you mean by taking all the blame on yourself? What do you mean by telling lies with open eyes? I am clearly telling the truth!"

She raised the doll in her hand, then put it close to her cheek, forced a smile, and asked, "Don't you think this doll looks a lot like me?"

Are you blind? Can't you see? This doll is clearly made in her image!

She couldn't curse herself, could she?

After she said that, everyone couldn't help but carefully compare her facial features with the doll, and then they found that they really did look alike!

"This... Your Majesty, looking at it this way, the doll's facial features are indeed somewhat similar to Concubine Xu's. Could this be a misunderstanding? Could it be that Concubine Xu cursed me?" The Queen said. Of course, the Emperor also saw it, but his suspicion was not so easy to dissipate.

Xu Muhua sighed, "I really didn't expect that it was just a small toy made by my maidservant for Tiger Cub to play with, and it could lead to such a terrible thing."

Without waiting for Pei Zhen and King Qin to speak, Xu Muhua started to move his hands. After a few movements of his hands, everyone saw that the doll that originally looked like a human doll had turned into a tiger!

"Here, this is the doll made in the image of Tiger. Everyone knows that Tiger is my pet and is very attached to me. So I asked the maid to make a doll for Tiger in my image, and I thought it would be even better if the doll could look like both me and Tiger."

"This was made by my maid named Shi Liu, who spent a lot of time and effort! Tiger cub loved it after it was made. He even held it when he slept. It was usually placed in Tiger cub's nest. How did you find it in the side hall?"

"Oh no, oh no, Tiger will get angry if he can't find the doll!"

Just as he was speaking, a young eunuch came in, hunched over, and whispered something to the eunuch chief steward. No one knew what he said, but the chief steward looked at Xu Muhua with a complicated expression, then walked to the emperor and whispered something to him.

The emperor was silent for a while after hearing this, and then waved his hand: "Let them in!"

Everyone present was puzzled. They? Who?

Soon they found out who the emperor was talking about.

Seeing the huge tiger rushing in, everyone in the room except the emperor, the master Xu Muhua, and Pei Shaorong who was used to it, felt their hearts rise up in fear, as if their breath was stuck in their chest, they were so scared!
Tiger cub even let out an excited tiger roar, which frightened Pei Zhen and King Qin so much that their faces turned pale. They took a few steps back, holding onto the armrest of the chair with one hand to avoid falling down on the chair and losing face.

Roar!
Finally it’s Tiger Cub’s turn to take the stage!

The tiger boy rushed to Xu Muhua's side, circled around her feet twice, and finally saw the doll in her hand, raised his head and grabbed it, then lay down at her feet. He grabbed the doll with his two front paws and rubbed it on his cheeks. It was obvious that he liked the doll.

It can be seen that what Xu Muhua said just now was true. This is indeed Huzai’s toy, otherwise Huzai would not have behaved like this.

For a moment, the entire hall was plunged into a strange atmosphere, and there seemed to be a hint of awkwardness in the silence.

It was just a toy of Tiger Cub, but it caused such a big fuss, as if facing a great enemy, and it was called a talisman...

Xu Muhua was probably the only one in a normal state of mind among the crowd. He looked at the emperor innocently and said, "Father, look, I didn't lie, did I? This is the toy I made specifically for Tiger! It's not that!"

After she finished speaking, she looked at Pei Zhen and Prince Qin again, with a puzzled look on her face: "Your Highness Prince Qin, Concubine Pei, this doll is Tiger Cub's toy. Can you tell me how it caused Concubine Pei to miscarry the baby in her belly?"

This question stumped the two of them, and King Qin's eyes flashed with surprise and doubt.

There is nothing wrong with this. The man did say that he placed the doll in the East Palace, and his father's birth date was written on it... How come it has now become a toy for Xu Muhua's tiger?

Even if he had ten mouths now, he couldn't lie with his eyes open and say that this thing was just a magic trick used by the prince to win!
Look at the tiger on the ground, holding the doll as if he were holding his wife!
He wanted to get it back, but how?
King Qin had a premonition that the thing he had been planning for a long time, which he thought would succeed in one go... was going to fail!


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