Concubine, she is so charming

Chapter 370
"Do you dare to doubt the people around Aijia?!"

The queen mother was immediately annoyed again, and gave the imperial concubine a fierce look.

Concubine Ping immediately smoothed things over, "The queen mother calms down, mother concubine didn't mean that, but you think, queen mother, if someone wants to take advantage of the queen mother's trust to kill people around her, if such people are not caught, stay with the queen mother." It's really dangerous around the empress."

Involving the matter with the queen mother's own safety, it really calmed down the queen mother's anger, and ordered people to bring everyone who had touched the pastry.

First, they were interrogated one by one, and naturally no one recognized them.

Then there was another body search, but nothing was found.

Later, the imperial concubine pointed out that the poisonous powder was sprinkled on the surface of the pastry, because there was a process of sprinkling a little corn flour on the outside of the Yuchan roll, so maybe it was added at that time.

So let these people who have touched the pastry stretch out their hands for the imperial doctor to smell and see.

Obviously, everyone has no hope. After all, the work in the dining room is to be clean, so don't wash your hands frequently.

But this time I have no idea and can only try.

Unexpectedly, this test really found something.

The same poisonous powder as on the pastry was found on the cuffs and inside of the wrist of the maid Lianxin.

"No, no, it's not a servant girl. The servant girl didn't poison me. Madam Fu, please save the servant girl. The servant girl really didn't exist. Madam, mother, godmother, help me, I really didn't poison you!"

The maid named Lianxin panicked immediately and immediately kowtowed.

And she happens to have another identity, she is the goddaughter adopted by Madam Fu.

Madam Fu never married in her life and served the Queen Mother. It is not a big deal to take in a goddaughter all the time, but now she found a poisonous powder on her goddaughter, which is intriguing.

The queen mother threw out the tea cup in her hand angrily, "Fuzhi, what's going on, please explain it to Aijia!"

"Empress Dowager, I don't know about this servant, there must be a misunderstanding here." Madam Fu immediately knelt down, feeling a little unsteady in her heart. She was trained by a servant when she entered the palace at the age of 13, after all these years, not to mention how capable she is, but her character is excellent, she would never do such a thing as murdering the emperor's heir."

In the end, she was the goddaughter she taught by herself, but Nanny Fu begged for mercy.

She still believes in compassion.

The imperial concubine coughed a few times in discomfort, and agreed, "Empress Dowager, Madam Fu is your personal servant, if she has two minds, how can you be safe so far, but this girl is hard to say, if it wasn't for her, How come the poisonous powder was found on her body?"

Although the words seem to be excuses for the Queen Mother, saying that there is something wrong with Lianxin, but it is also mentioned that Madam Fu is loyal, which will always make people think that this poisoning of Lianxin will be the Queen Mother through Fu Nanny again. Mama ordered it.

It's just that this kind of thing has always been clear to the authorities.

The Empress Dowager, Madam Fu and others were deeply involved, and they would subconsciously block out other information, only hearing what was beneficial to them, and didn't hear other meanings, but the concubines next to them all heard it.

If you really want to say that the Queen Mother did it, it makes sense.

The Empress Dowager always hated Ming Zhaoyuan and loved the Eldest Prince, but the Eldest Prince's body, unless the other princes were gone, he would not be able to inherit the throne.

Now that Ming Zhaoyuan is not in the palace, it is a good time to get rid of the fourth prince.

Especially today's snacks were brought by the imperial concubine, but it was too easy to blame her.

At present, it seems that it may be an accident caused by incomplete planning.

"Queen Mother, why don't you take this court lady down for a good interrogation, the children are all frightened now, Hui Zhaoyuan has just escaped from danger, and your health has not recovered yet, Queen Mother." Princess Ping persuaded again in a low voice.

Although it is very sad to enter the palace and encounter such a bad thing, but the thing has already happened and there is nothing to do about it.

Looking at the fourth prince who was nestled in Bai Zhu's arms with tears still hanging on his face, and the second princess who was still sobbing and being hugged by the wet nurse, although the queen mother frowned tightly, she still asked someone to take Lianxin down first. .

But at this moment, the imperial concubine fainted.

There was another burst of panic, and the imperial concubine was carried back.

With things developing like this, Princess Ping couldn't go out of the palace to return home, so she had to ask her personal servant girl to send the children out of the palace, and she stayed by the side of the noble concubine to serve her illness.

Naturally, such things cannot be kept from the emperor, even if the queen mother doesn't want to say it at all.

But it was related to the emperor's heir, so after much deliberation, he sent someone to deliver the letter to the mountains in the suburbs of Beijing.

But it was delayed for a while, and it was dark early in winter, and by the time the messenger arrived at Yanqing Temple, it was already dark.

Ning Chen didn't look at it early today when he was free. He was having dinner with Ye Yun when he heard that the fourth prince's pastry was poisoned, and immediately dropped his chopsticks.

It's just that Ye Yun was one step faster than him, and had already rushed in front of the eunuch who sent the message.

"How is the fourth prince? Is there anything wrong with him? Tell me quickly!"

"Go back to your empress, the fourth prince is fine, the fourth prince didn't eat the dessert, it was Hui Zhaoyuan who ate it." The little eunuch called Ye Yun's cold gaze made his voice tremble with fright.

Ye Yun breathed a sigh of relief, but then asked again, "What about Hui Zhaoyuan? Is there a serious problem? Is the second princess okay?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, everything is fine, Hui Zhaoyuan has been rescued, the second princess is just frightened, nothing happened." The little eunuch said truthfully.

After hearing these two sentences, Ye Yun was completely relieved, and staggered backwards if he didn't pay attention.

Ning Chen quickly helped him up, "Don't be afraid, as long as the child is fine, you stay in the temple well, and I'll go back to the palace to see the scenery."

"No, the concubine will go back with the emperor, the concubine is not at ease, the concubine must see with her own eyes that Jing'er is well." Ye Yun shook her head, her gaze firm.

Seeing her like this, Ning Chen knew that she had made up her mind and could not be shaken, so she asked Yuan Jiu to prepare the carriage.

But was rejected by Ye Yun again.

"The road is slippery in winter, and the carriage cannot run fast. The concubine should ride back on horseback."

Nan Zhi hurriedly persuaded her worriedly, "But ma'am, it's dark outside, and it's freezing cold, and you haven't ridden a horse for many years, so what if you fall!"

"It's all trivial. I'm worried about Jing'er. Prepare a horse for me, the fastest horse!" Ye Yun frowned, his eyes were full of anxiety and worry.

"There's no need to prepare her horse." Ning Chen suddenly said.

Ye Yun looked back at him puzzled.

Ning Chen said, "I will ride back with you on the same horse. You are unfamiliar with riding and shooting. What if you fall down? I will take you back."

After speaking, he took Ye Yun's hand and squeezed it comfortingly.

Facing the man's calm eyes, Ye Yun finally felt a little quiet in her heart, and nodded.

Nan Zhi immediately went to find the fox fur cloaks of the two of them and waited to tie them on.

Seeing their master being carried on horseback by the emperor, the two disappeared on the dark mountain road accompanied by the imperial cavalry.

And just as they were rushing back, Mother Fu heard that Lianxin was tortured and refused to confess, so she went to the Punishment Division.

It's just that not long after she entered, Lian Xin pinched her neck like crazy.

Madam Fu wanted to break her hand but was pushed away instead, and her hand was scratched.

When she regained her composure and took a closer look, Lianxin had already strangled herself to death.

When the guard heard the movement, he saw Madam Fu terrified, sitting paralyzed beside Lian Xin's corpse with a wounded hand.

　Recently, I became obsessed with a dish called dry stir-fried lotus root. I have eaten it for three days. Ah~ I may have been a lotus root in my previous life.

　　
　
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