Royal daughter-in-law

Chapter 557 Turning over Jiang’s old accounts (4)
Empress Jiang's body was limp, and she slid down half an inch in the chair amidst the clamor of the clansmen, but she still remained expressionless and firmly denied: "King Qin was not poisoned by my palace."

The Empress Dowager Jia looked at the Empress beside her, her voice was already trembling: "Empress, Jiang Ping has already said, it is impossible, your niece and your brother are wronging you!"

Emperor Ning Xi's face was livid.

Empress Jiang glanced at her younger brother who was precariously standing in the palace: "I admit that Jiang Ping was indeed asked to bring prohibited poison into the palace back then, but he never poisoned King Qin."

"Still arguing." Emperor Ning Xi's voice was as cold as ice, and his face was full of grief. The greatest sorrow was nothing but that he hadn't recognized her clearly in the past few decades, and in the end he saw her wrongly. Find out about the poisoning of King Qin, the wet nurse is covered with a colorless, odorless and transparent poison, which is exactly the kind of poison you want Jiang Ping to bring into the palace."

Empress Jiang stood up slowly, "Whether the poison on the wet nurse and the poison Jiang Ping gave me is the same poison? After so many years, I can't find out. There is no hard evidence. Why do you say it must be a concubine?" Body? I will state it one last time. I admit that I asked Jiang Ping to bring prohibited poison into the palace, but asking Jiang Ping to bring poison into the palace does not mean that I poisoned King Qin. The poison on the wet nurse was not applied by me. It's not the murderer, this palace is at most guilty of hiding banned drugs in the palace, this point will be punished by the queen mother and the emperor, and the concubine will not say anything."

Jiang Yu was so angry that she blushed and her neck was thick, and she was still arguing like this!

Empress Jiang glanced at her niece sympathetically: "So, what Concubine Liang said about the 'plenty of criminal records' is completely nonsense, and now she deliberately extended it to put the matter of poisoning the crown prince on my own account! The mad woman's overthinking, and a pack of rat medicine's arsenic, make me believe that this palace intends to kill the prince? How is the prince now?"

Jiang Yu clenched her fists loudly.

But I heard a voice from outside the palace gate: "It is indeed difficult to judge the Queen's crimes based on evidence for the poisoning of the King of Qin. But the murder of the crown prince is just around the corner."

The green-robed figure entered the hall, walked to the middle, stopped, and saluted the nobles on the altar.

Xiahou Shiting sat up straight with his back straight, and King Yan whispered beside him: "Third brother—" but he was interrupted by his gaze.

Empress Jiang laughed: "Concubine Qin hasn't returned for a long time, so she didn't go to get wine for Concubine Jingyang, but went to work with these unruly people to try to frame me."

The prince smiled lightly like cold stars in the night, stood up, and his tone sounded as gentle as usual. After saying each word, Empress Jiang was terrified: "Mother, don't blame Princess Qin. Princess Qin didn't come back for a long time, is it true?" Because Gu asked her to take the guards of the East Palace to Fengzao Palace and guard the entrances and exits on all sides, lest the Queen Mother send someone back secretly and destroy the evidence. Oh yes, thank you Princess Qin for your effort. Princess Qin has worked hard, so go back to your seat and rest first. Bar."

Yun Wanqin nodded slightly, her robe fluttered, and she turned to Princess Jingyang and sat down.

Empress Jiang stared at the prince.

"Zun'er, what kind of evidence is this!" Emperor Ning Xi held back his anger, no matter how much he respected Mrs. Jiang, how could she allow her to secretly harm his heirs one by one, especially right now, the royal clan members were watching with bright eyes, If the cooking is not made public, today is not a family banquet, but a family scandal.

The prince glanced at Empress Jiang, with a regretful expression on his face: "In the case of the Wancai Theater, the explosives were black powder. At that time, Jiang Yin was staying in the palace, and he was in the Yaohua Palace of the East Palace. My son found out that there was black powder in his alchemy room. Gunpowder is already suspicious. Later, Princess Qin went to Fengzao Palace and accidentally found black gunpowder wrapped in secret in the Queen's bedroom..."

Amidst the uproar of the audience, the prince summed it up succinctly: "...the matter of the theater building is precisely the mother's intention to kill the child."

Emperor Ning Xi's Adam's apple twitched: "Yao Fushou, go to Fengzao Palace and bring over the remaining black powder. I want to see it for myself!" He didn't want to just hand over the Jiang family to the clan's mansion. Judge this for yourself.

Until now, he still can't believe it completely.

Empress Jiang's body was like an autumn reed, rustling, her usually calm face was slightly distorted.

After a while, Yao Fushou came back from Fengzao Palace, holding a mahogany dowry box in his hand, and gave it to the emperor.

It looks like a box for pearl and hairpin jewelry on the dressing table in the boudoir.

Emperor Ning Xi didn't expect that she would throw such an important ironclad evidence on the dressing table with great ambition. He breathed heavily, opened it, and was surprised, there was nothing. He only heard the voice of Princess Qin from the seat, and a friendly reminder: "Your Majesty can Notice the inside walls of the box."

Emperor Ning Xi touched the wall of the box, and felt something strange under his fingertips. He hooked his fingers and picked it, and the inner wall of the box became loose. There are gaps on the edges of the four inner walls up and down!
Surprised, he removed the inner wall along the gap, and the outside was only a thin layer!
It turned out that all the inner walls on all sides were hollowed out.

The mahogany is thick, the inner wall is more than an inch wide, and the volume is not small. Then black gunpowder is stuffed into it, and finally it is covered with a layer of lightly shaved mahogany skin.

It looks like an empty ordinary mahogany dowry box.

Emperor Ning Xi shook his hand, and the flat and solid black particles burst out of the wall one after another. When the box was turned upside down, half an inch was piled up on the red carpet of the hall!
"Yes—it's black powder!" Someone familiar with arms shouted.

After the uproar, there was a dead silence.

"Bring the queen into the Hall of Thought and Punishment first." Emperor Ning Xi tried his best to suppress his emotions, but the royal family members in the hall felt the anger of the emperor.

Empress Jiang stood staggeringly, with no fear or anger on her face, only an inexplicable emptiness remained, the glory when she entered the palace, and the favoritism of the emperor just now, all disappeared in this instant.

But what made her feel cold from head to toe was the way the man looked at her at this moment!
In the past, there was at least respect, tolerance, comity, and gentleness, but now, there are only strangeness and disgust!
She was shaking and was forced out of the Jiaxi Palace by the palace guards.

Yao Fushou hurriedly announced: "The banquet is over today, all nobles are invited to leave the palace!"

The royal family banquet on the eve of the reunion was sung, and it ended in a rough and shocking way.

During the five days when Jiang entered the Temple of Thought and Punishment, there was no sound in the palace, but there was a lot of emotion in the dark.

The evidence was conclusive and there was no way to deny it. On the third day, the confidant eunuch next to the queen had already admitted that the uncle of the country rarely returned to Beijing and lived in the palace. Once the queen went to visit and happened to see unused black powder in the alchemy room. He was ordered to steal a large amount by cleaning the stove for the uncle of the country.

Part of it was used to destroy the storage in the theater building, and because nothing was done, the rest was reluctant to throw it away, and kept it for future use.

As soon as the words "for later use" came out, Emperor Ning Xi became even more angry when he heard it. She is addicted to killing the prince!
(End of this chapter)