Chapter 175: Murder with a Knife (5)
Zuo Xiyao held her stomach and went to Fengyi Palace, but just before arriving at Fengyi Palace, Leng Xiang's words beside her made her lose her temper suddenly, but she couldn't help but play a trick.
How could the emperor suddenly ask people to search her residence? And these guards brought her to the emperor because they couldn't find anything.
Didn't find anything......
Zuo Xiyao subconsciously touched the medicine bag hidden in her waist, and for a while she wanted to take it out and throw it away.
However, Leng Xiang quickly pressed her hand, and glanced suggestively behind her.
Zuo Xiyao immediately understood.
It's my own negligence. There were guards behind her, too! It looked like she was surrounded by the guards, but in fact she was surrounded by the two of them, so if she made the slightest move, how could she escape the eyes of these guards?
However, it was precisely this that made the uneasiness in Zuo Xiyao's heart even more magnified, and she could even be sure that what the guards were ordered to search for was the medicine bag hidden on her body.
Can...... Why did the emperor know? Did Hou Yuanxiu say it? But what was the point of her doing this? She didn't do anything, but she knew that she had poison on her body, which was strange, right?
Until she entered Fengyi Palace, she still hadn't thought it through, and at this time she had already come to the emperor, seeing that the emperor and the queen mother were there, she was a little stunned, and she even forgot the etiquette.
However, Wei Chimu didn't care about this, because he was already mad at the moment!
Xiao Man was poisoned! Poisoned! Right in this palace, right under his nose!
"You, you have to admit it to yourself. Or do you want someone to search things out of you?" Wei Chimu forcibly suppressed the urge to kill her on the spot, and said coldly.
"Frank...... Confess what?" In front of the furious emperor, Zuo Xiyao was very panicked. If she didn't know anything, maybe she wouldn't be so flustered, but she was suspicious of something, unsure of something, and couldn't even take the initiative to say something, then she was very passive and suspiciously flustered.
"Master Zuo, why did you poison our mother?"
The words that suddenly forked out made Zuo Xi Yao Meng. Only then did she notice that the emperor was kneeling in front of her, it was a palace maid from Fengyi Palace, and Concubine Man and the palace maid Jinxiu were not there. She couldn't name the kneeling maid. But I'm still somewhat impressed.
Concubine Man was poisoned?
Zuo Xiyao looked confused, but after seeing that Hou Yuanxiu was also here, his head suddenly brightened!
How dare this woman!
She glared at Hou Yuanxiu hatefully, and suddenly understood. The woman was calculating herself from the beginning. I want to use this trick to kill two birds with one stone. Get rid of Concubine Man, and get rid of yourself. It's really ruthless! But how did she poison Concubine Man?
Zuo Xiyao calmed down, glanced at Hou Yuanxiu, and said, "Why is Miss Hou here? Isn't it even more suspicious to say that Miss Hou here?"
"Oh, Miss Zuo's words are wrong, it's because I've been here that it's even more unlikely that it's me! Besides, don't think that no one knows what you've done. Hou Yuanxiu retorted unhurriedly.
Following Hou Yuanxiu's words, the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground immediately spoke: "Master Zuo, it's you! ”
"You, you dare to talk nonsense in front of the emperor and the queen mother. Zuo Xiyao was so angry that he really wanted to step forward and tear up the mouth of this nonsense palace maid.
"The emperor, the queen mother, the slave maid didn't talk nonsense, after lunch, the slave maid went to the imperial dining room to get ginseng tea for the mother, on the way the left master's maid Leng Xiang deliberately bumped the slave maid, the slave maid now thinks about it, it must be Leng Xiang poisoned the ginseng tea that the slave maid gave to the mother at that time!" said the palace maid in a heartfelt manner.
The emperor's face was still full of anger, and the queen mother's gaze at Zuo Xiyao became more and more solemn.
Leng Xiang jumped out at this time and said, "The slave did bump into her, but this doesn't prove that the poison was caused by the slave, right?"
However, her calmness did not allow her and her master to get out of suspicion, and Hou Yuanxiu, who had been standing aside silently, spoke at this time.
"Since it is not your poison, then you must not be afraid of being searched, and if you want to poison Concubine Man, it must be at the behest of your master, this body search...... Look, even your master has to be searched. ”
Looking at Hou Yuanxiu's shrewd and calculating smile, Leng Xiang hesitated in her heart, she was smart but was mistaken by being smart, she was really going to be searched, and her master really jumped into the river and couldn't wash it.
Of course not, not to mention that her status is just a slave, not even her master, and if she opposes it, she will be a thief. Hou Yuanxiu is really ruthless!
Seeing his master's pale face, he couldn't say a word in horror, Leng Xiang made up his mind and took the initiative to confess: "No need to search your body, it's the slave's poison that is good, but this has nothing to do with the master, it's all the slave's idea." ”
Yu Chimu's handsome face was as terrifying as Shura at this time, and he said angrily: "Drag her down for me and beat her to death!"
"No, no, don't! Your Majesty, the poison is not under Leng Xiang, this qiē is all framed by Hou Yuanxiu, this woman is her! It is her! The poison must have been given by her!" Zuo Xiyao did not know that Leng Xiang was the Savior's heart and confessed, but this poison was clearly not given by them, she would not admit it, and she would not let Leng Xiang admit it, even if she knew that the poison was on herself, which was quite unfavorable to them.
"I gave the poison, so why should your maid confess?" Hou Yuanxiu sneered: "It seems that the poison is indeed under the cold incense, but she is poisoned by your will, right?"
"Your Majesty, the courtiers didn't poison them, and the courtiers did have a medicine bag on them, but ......" Zuo Xiyao had no choice but to send Leng Xiang to follow Hou Yuanxiu out of the palace and find a qiē, to her sent Leng Xiang to steal Hou Yuanxiu's medicine bag, told the truth, and also presented the medicine bag.
Hou Yuanxiu said under Wei Chimu's cold gaze: "Your Majesty, don't believe her exculpation! The courtier did go to see a traveling doctor outside the palace, but it was to ask for medicine for Concubine Man, and the medicine courtier also handed over to Jinxiu, and the emperor asked Jinxiu about this. ”
Jinxiu is the eldest palace maid of Fengyi Palace, and she is quite trusted by Chi Xiaoman's side, and she is the person personally selected by Yu Chimu, who is worthy of trust.
Wei Chimu asked Jinxiu, who was taking care of Concubine Man, to come over, and asked, as Hou Yuanxiu said, and the medicine has also been verified by the imperial doctor in the palace, and it is a medicine that helps to conceive.
And the medicine bag on Zuo Xiyao's body was naturally confirmed to be the same poison as the poison in Concubine Man.
At this point, Zuo Xiyao's face was like ashes, and Hou Yuanxiu seemed to be afraid that she would not be able to kill her, and she was still talking about seeing that she had asked the Queen Mother to let Leng Xiang out of the palace early in the morning, presumably to let Leng Xiang get the poison......
Although she also mentioned that she let Leng Xiang out of the palace this morning, would the emperor and the queen mother believe her? She couldn't come up with evidence that the poison was stolen from Hou Yuanxiu, but Hou Yuanxiu had one set of evidence after another that there was no poison......
She couldn't hear what Hou Yuanxiu said afterwards, and she was full of hatred for Hou Yuanxiu!
I didn't expect Hou Yuanxiu's scheming to be so deep, the trick is one link after another, so that she can walk into the trap, and she can't extricate herself after all.
Yu Chimu finally ordered Zuo Xiyao to be sent to the prison, after all, she is the daughter of a hero, but she can't be directly executed like a slave.
And Hou Yuanxiu, watching Zuo Xiyao being dragged out by the guards, shouting all the way for her to die, a contemptuous smile appeared on her lips.
Want to fight with her? Zuo Xiyao is far behind!
She had already discovered that Leng Xiang had been secretly spying on her, and she even deliberately let Leng Xiang change the medicine bag she was carrying, and she had never said that there was only one pack of medicine!
As for poisoning Concubine Man's diet, it would be easier. In fact, the poison was given by the palace maid in Fengyi Palace who went to the imperial dining room to get ginseng tea, and the palace maid was bought by her as early as when she ran to Fengyi Palace these days.
However, Hou Yuanxiu thought that she had used this trick cleverly, but she didn't know that she was just a pawn of Fang Qi, a pawn used to borrow a knife to kill people. (To be continued......)