Chronicles of the Modern Empress Dowager

When Li Wei returned to Chongqing Palace, he couldn't wait to announce a few people. First of all, the six people who served in the Hanyuan Hall that night were detained. Then she had to inquire carefully.

If someone really started, it would definitely be one of these six people. Then she announced several imperial doctors who had been suspended before, and even found the director of the imperial dining room.

Then she started to deal with the matter, and she asked the doctors first.

"Before the emperor died, I already knew what was going on from your records. I just want to ask, do people have shortness of breath and can't breathe when they are poisoned?"

The Yu Physician Shang said hurriedly: "If you are the Queen Mother, people do have such a reaction when they are poisoned."

Li Wei glanced at a few people: "So according to what you see, would the emperor die by poisoning?"

The four of them were puzzled, and Fang Zheng was even more astonished: "No, who would poison the emperor? This is the death penalty of the nine races."

Li Wei sneered, "But what if it happened? Who of you can guarantee that it won't happen. Although the emperor's illness was a bit more dangerous before, it has obviously improved. Why did he suddenly turn around? There is an incentive. The emperor’s body is not that bad. You know better than me, why he suddenly became ill and died suddenly."

The four imperial doctors all had difficulty in arguing.

"I'll give you another chance. You must explain clearly the details you found that night. If there is any concealment, the life of the whole family will be paid."

All four of them knew in their hearts that no one dared to bear the charge of murdering the emperor, which was a serious crime that afflicted the nine races. Everyone also expressed their willingness to cooperate well.

Li Wei asked Fu Lili’s pulse and various reactions before the end of his life. When asked whether there was an almond smell in Fu Guang’s mouth, another Qiao doctor replied: "Weichen seems to be true. I heard a strange smell in the emperor's mouth, but didn't understand what it was at the time, and didn't remember it for a while. When the Queen Mother said this, it really smelled like almonds."

"Then I ask you if eating more Ringo seeds will cause people to be poisoned?"

Yu Yu doctor Qiao hurriedly said: "This Weichen has never heard of it before, and Weichen has never heard of it."

"Okay, I can't count on what you offer, go ahead."

Fang Zheng waited and retired. When he left Chongqing Palace, Fang Zheng wondered: "Is the Queen Mother suspecting something?"

Jiang Yuan said: "It looks like it is."

The Shang Yu doctor immediately glanced at the Qiao Yu and complained: "You can do it, you know everything. If you go down and take credit, wait for the Queen Mother to reward you again."

Yu Yu doctor Qiao said disdainfully: "I'm just telling what I knew at the time. Otherwise, I won't report it. I'm afraid I will lose my head. I don't dare to play around."

Here Li Wei had sorted out his thoughts, and then met with the director of the Imperial Kitchen and the related personnel of the Twelve Yamen. Most of the day has passed. Although she has discovered some things, she has not yet touched the truth.

In the end, she called several people from the Hanyuan Temple to question alone. The first one was brought here by Hongling, who was serving food and tea. If she wanted to say suspicion, her suspicion should be the greatest.

So Li Wei changed the method of interrogation.

Hongling was brought over.

"You kneel down for me!" Li Wei decided to bluff first, to see if he could explode something.

Hong Ling panicked and knelt down quickly.

"What have you done yourself, you know it, you don't want to recruit it soon, maybe I can still see that you have spared your family's lives for your confession."

Hong Ling's eyes hurriedly begged: "Queen dowager, what did the slave servant do?"

"Don't say yes, then I ask you, where are the fruits that are withdrawn from the house every day?"

"It's all taken care of. The rotten and inedible ones have been lost, and everyone who is good is divided."

"Oh, then I ask you, where are the seeds?"

Hong Ling's eyes widened and said, "Seeds? The servants don't know?"

"Then did you secretly collect these seeds?"

"The servants don't plant trees, so what do they do to collect seeds."

"Of course it is boiled medicine. The imperial doctor found ringo seeds in the emperor's mouth. You are serving diet soup and medicine. How do you explain this?"

Hongling heard that he was busy and tremblingly kowtow to plead guilty: "The queen mother is aware of it, but the servant girl really doesn't know."

"I don't know? Just a few of you were in front of you that night, but who else would you be?"

Hongling just kowtowed and said that he didn't know.

After the interrogation, Hong Ling did not reveal any flaws. Li Wei was also tired, so he asked Hongling to be taken away, and then went to invite others. When she saw Caiyan, she still asked questions like this, and Caiyan also said that she didn't know.

Several people said they didn't know, what could be the problem, or someone lied?

Li Wei finally asked Zhang Chaoen to come, and she was more polite to Zhang Chaoen.

"I don't quite understand Zhang Banban's situation, so I will ask you for advice."

"I really don't dare to ask for advice, please order from the Queen Mother."

"When did the Hanyuan Temple offering Ringo begin? Where did the withdrawn fruits go? How to deal with the rotten ones. It stands to reason that the amount of five catties a day is not small. If you want to eat it, you can’t eat it. Finished."

Zhang Chaoen replied: "Our emperor doesn't really like eating such fruits. Most of the remaining fruits are divided among the people below."

Li Wei immediately felt that something was wrong and hurriedly asked: "But I asked them, saying that only one fruit can be distributed in ten and a half months, so where do you go for the remaining sum?"

"This should be handed over to the tea house."

Seeing Zhang Chaoen's uncertain answer, Li Wei was a little annoyed: "You are the manager of Hanyuan Palace, why don't you know these things?"

Zhang Chaoen said in a sweat: "It's the negligence of the slave."

Li Wei then said: "We found Ringo seeds from the emperor’s mouth. This thing is said to be poisonous. The people below are collecting these things for the purpose of poisoning. If such a big thing happens, you can’t even do it at all. I don't know."

Zhang Chaoen's face turned pale when he heard the words, and he was eager to plead guilty.

Li Wei said sadly: "Even if you find it out now, you won't be able to save the emperor's life. If you divide your labor more carefully and clarify your responsibilities, you won't fall to this point."

There was a mouse in the Hall of Hanyuan, and Li Wei was not convinced that he could not catch the mouse. There is a mess among these people. It seems that they can't see the coffin without crying. When necessary, they can only be sent to the Department of Criminal Justice. They don't believe it or ask anything.

However, before Li Wei sent someone to the Shen Xing Department, news came that Hong Ling hanged himself to death.

With Hongling's sudden hang of himself, the truth of the matter gradually emerged.