The medical concubine arrives: Prince, don't be arrogant

Chapter 349
"Your Majesty, you were the one who sent the sedan chair to pick up Concubine Jing into the palace, and you were the one who ordered me to sit in the place of Concubine Jing. Have you forgotten all of this?"

Fan Xianshu turned her head to the other side with great effort, so that there would be less hair covering her face.

"What's more, Princess Jing and I have never had any grievances or enmities. Does the empress really not know why we quarreled in the hall?"

What happened in the hall, apart from the few wives who were present at that time, no one else knew about it.

However, the queen personally sent a sedan chair to pick up the person, which is well known.

"Empress, do you still need me to explain the twists and turns clearly?"

Hearing this, the queen frowned, and raised her hand to slap Fan Xianshu in the face.

"Lies, but you will go to the [-]th floor of hell! Xianshu, I think you are the wife of a scholar, and I don't plan to make this matter public."

"But if you insist on being ignorant of good and bad, then I can't do anything about it."

The queen swallowed the turbulent anger in her throat, and hid all her fear while speaking.

"King King, can you allow me to have a few words with her alone?"

Suddenly, the queen turned to ask King Jing who was beside her.

"Your Majesty, what bargaining chips are you trying to use to seduce me?"

Without waiting for King Jing to respond, Fan Xianshu uttered such provocative words.

"That day, you called me and Fu Wanzhen, saying that there was a big plan to discuss. In the end, this so-called big plan was just trying to do our best during the banquet to make things difficult for the princess."

Speaking of this, Fan Xianshu suddenly figured out the ins and outs of the whole matter.

"First you intentionally designed Princess Jing to come late, and then you used me to give her a bad name, and you deliberately asked me to sit in her seat, which caused a quarrel between the two of us."

"Let's not say it's you now, all the madams in the capital have already determined from the bottom of their hearts that I am the real culprit who assassinated Princess Jing! Empress, you played a big game of chess!"

Firstly, it was planned that others would turn their attention to the quarrel between the two, and then, poison was added to the tea. In this way, no one would doubt that she did not do this matter.

As for why she did this, let the Queen arrange it behind her.

After thinking about this point, Fan Xianshu no longer had any hope for the queen, only the resentment after being cheated.

"Based on what you alone said, do you think King Jing would believe your bloody words?"

Hearing her utter these identification words, the queen did not panic, after all, she had expected it long ago.

"Is there any evidence for what you said?"

The queen waited patiently for her next speech.

When doing these things, except for the three of them, there was no one around, so she didn't believe that she could produce any decent evidence.

Sure enough, after a while, Fan Xianshu still had nothing to say.

"Since you don't want to say it, then I will tell you for you. The Japanese Palace did send a carriage to welcome Princess Jing into the palace, but it was because Eunuch Cao misremembered the time, which caused Princess Jing to arrive late. This palace only found out about it later.”

"As for what you said about discussing the big plan, I didn't understand a single word. Before the banquet, I never summoned anyone else. There are records in the palace. If you don't believe it, you can check it. "

The queen raised her hand and straightened her bun as if nothing had happened, as if the words she said were all nonsense.

"Since you said that when the Japanese palace called you and Wanzhen to enter the palace together, King Jing can ask Wanzhen to ask if the palace has summoned them alone."

It is impossible to count on Fu Wanzhen's side.

She is the empress's niece, and she understands the relationship between prosperity and loss, so how could she do the thing of betraying her own aunt?
"Come on, call Wanzhen over..."

"No need."

Seeing that King Jing had been silent for a long time, the queen made a gesture to ask someone to invite Fu Wanzhen.

Unexpectedly, King Jing opened his mouth to reject her order.

"There are only witnesses to this matter, but there is no physical evidence, so it is impossible to say anything."

Compared with what people say, King Jing believes in real evidence more.

"It's just that I still don't understand one thing. Since the Empress discovered Fan Xianshu's quarrel with the concubine early in the morning, why did she arrest and bring him to justice after many days?"

Hearing King Jing's words, the queen thought that he was about to convince her, so she completely relaxed.

"At first, I was only skeptical, but I didn't know when Fan Xianshu committed the crime. Therefore, at the very beginning, I just investigated from the people in my own palace."

"Until later, after a step-by-step investigation, I began to investigate Fan Xianshu. But due to her identity, we had to do it in secret first, so it was a waste of time."

The queen's words sound reasonable, but there is still a lack of evidence.

Seeing that King Jing still looked suspicious, the queen then took out the evidence in her hands.

"According to the report sent by the palace, some suspicious poisons were found in Fan Xianshu's room. The poison is called zinnia, and it is made from a poisonous pollen."

"Coincidentally, I ordered the imperial physician to check all the wine glasses and teacups that night, and found this kind of poison in one of the teacups!"

In this way, Fan Xianshu's identification as the murderer is well-founded and well-deserved.

After finishing speaking, the queen glanced at King Jing who was beside her, and then at Fan Xianshu who had her head down.

This time, Fan Xianshu didn't even have the slightest rebuttal, and both of them quietly listened to her testimony.

"Is the empress finished? If there is any other evidence, you might as well tell it together."

Fan Xianshu's voice was clear, not like someone who had been seriously injured.

If it weren't for her bloody body, the queen would have doubts.

"Why, aren't these irrefutable evidences enough to convict you?"

The queen looked at her mockingly, with the corners of her eyes slightly raised, as if admiring her dying struggle.

"If the Empress wants to accuse me of a crime, I won't be able to get rid of it no matter what."

"What do you mean by that?"

Fan Xianshu raised her eyes slowly, and met the queen's playful eyes.

Her bloodshot eyes were full of hatred and unwillingness.

"From the beginning, have you been planning for today? Do all people, in your eyes, at a suitable time in the future, become scapegoats for you to go to the eighteenth floor of hell?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Let me tell you, slandering the mother of the country will make you more guilty!"

(End of this chapter)