Chapter 452, scheming deeply
The eldest grandson of the emperor was poisoned in the palace, and the news reached the former dynasty and the middle palace, and the emperor and queen were shocked. In addition to sending people to inquire, he even sent the imperial doctor and rode straight to the East Palace.
The emperor and the queen came over, and the prince didn't care about continuing to find the truth, so he led the crown princess first, and Concubine Chen and others came forward to salute.
The emperor raised his eyebrows, looked sideways, held a solemn face, and sat on the top seat. The queen sits first in the lower right. "Get up, prince, you say, Ting'er is really poisoned, can you find out who did it?"
"Back to my father, the imperial doctor and the crown princess have confirmed that Ting'er was indeed poisoned. It's just that the incident happened suddenly, and Erchen has not yet been able to find out who poisoned him. ”
Before coming, although the emperor had confirmed it from the mouth of the imperial doctor, he still had some suspicions. It wasn't until I listened to the words of the crown prince that I believed that there was really a bold person who dared to do a great rebellion in the inner courtyard of the palace.
A palm slapped angrily on the back of the chair, "Check, I want to see who borrowed the courage from heaven and dared to poison my imperial grandson." ”
The queen was worried about her grandson, and when she saw the crown princess standing behind the prince, she hurriedly beckoned to her, "You are Ting'er's mother-in-law, and you know medical science, so the matter here will be handed over to your father and the prince, and that person will definitely be found out and give you an explanation." ”
"Don't worry, just take care of Ting'er. The son was not awake yet, and Lu Ruxue didn't want to leave half a step, but when she saw that the queen let her in to take care of her son, she hurriedly thanked her and got up.
But before she could take a step, she saw Concubine Chen kneeling forward, "Queen Mother, Concubine Chen has something to do." ”
"Say it!" The queen's impression of this Concubine Chen is not bad, looking at the way she wants to speak and stops, she should know something.
"Just now, the crown prince has already asked a few servants who are close to the emperor's eldest grandson. The emperor's eldest grandson only ate a few pieces of dim sum made by the crown princess in the morning, and did not eat anything else. ”
The concubine was worried that someone had poisoned the dim sum made by the crown princess, and the eldest grandson of the emperor had eaten it by mistake for a while. It was the incompetence of the concubines who failed to discover in time that there was a person with ill intentions hidden in this east palace. I also asked the queen mother to punish her. ”
Lu Ruxue glanced at Concubine Chen coldly, this woman is so scheming. If this kind of thing happens in this east palace, she will be punished as the crown princess.
Now this Concubine Chen stood up before her, and it seemed that she was suffering for Lu Ruxue, the crown princess, but in fact, she drove her out, causing trouble to the east, forcing the emperor and the queen to be dissatisfied with her.
The prince listened to Concubine Chen's words, and his sword eyebrows tightened a little more. His eyes were cold, and he glanced at Concubine Chen.
Concubine Chen had been carefully observing the expressions of the emperor, the queen and the crown prince, and naturally felt that the prince was dissatisfied with her words.
But there is only one chance, if the crown princess cannot be pulled off the horse at this time, then all that she has done will be in vain. So regardless of the prince's eyes, he refused to back down.
"Crown Princess, what Concubine Chen said, but the truth?" Although the queen was sure that Concubine Chen would not dare to be untargeted, she was even more convinced that it was impossible for the crown princess to poison her son. But since Concubine Chen pointed out the suspicions, the queen also had to ask for clarification.
After returning to her mother, what Concubine Chen said was true, and her daughter-in-law had verified that the poison did come from those dim sum. Lu Ruxue replied while nodding towards Cai Qing.
Cai Qing kept holding the plate of open crisp in her hand, and when she saw the princess signaling, she came up with the tray.
The emperor looked at several imperial doctors, "You all go and check it." The doctors came closer, smelled and tasted the snacks with them, and even tried them one by one with silver needles, and then knelt down and replied.
"Back to the emperor, in this plate of dim sum, only these two pieces of dim sum wrapped with desiccated coconut are poisonous, and the others are non-toxic. ”
Whether it is two pieces or one, as long as it is detected to be poisonous, the crown princess will inevitably have nothing to do with it.
At this time, Cai Cai came in with the decoction of the medicine. Lu Ruxue got up and took it, wanting to feed her son medicine and detoxify first, but was stopped by the emperor.
"Wait! This medicine is a prescription from the imperial doctor?" Several imperial doctors came with the emperor, and the imperial doctor who arrived first did not have time to prepare a prescription in the future. Therefore, several people, including the envoy of the Tai Hospital, shook their heads again and again.
"Then this medicine is fried according to the princess's prescription? Envoy Chen, can you go and see if there is a problem with that medicine?"
It seems that the matter of dim sum still made the emperor suspicious of the crown princess. Even the decoction has to be tested one by one.
Several imperial doctors stepped forward to test the medicine, and Lu Ruxue didn't stop her, but her face was a little colder. My son took some mung bean soup, but it was not an antidote, just a temporary dose of toxicity.
One more minute of delay would be more dangerous. But if the imperial doctors are not allowed to check, the emperor will definitely not allow it. Although she is the mother of the emperor's eldest grandson, she can't be the master.
was anxious, and couldn't help but look at the prince. At this time, he can only hope for the crown prince.
Regardless of whether the emperor and queen suspected the crown princess, Mu Xuanyang firmly believed that his wife would never poison her son.
"Father, the crown princess is Ting'er's mother, how could she poison her own children. Ting'er was still waiting for this antidote to detoxify, but he couldn't delay. ”
"It's not bad for a moment, it's better to find out. "The harem has always been used for favor. Although the emperor knew that his son doted on the crown princess, he also heard that the side concubine Chen had also won the prince's favor recently.
Will the crown princess use any means to consolidate her position? And the crown princess suffers from soul disorder, and the relationship with the emperor's eldest grandson is bound to be much worse than before.
All kinds of coincidences come together, and the emperor can't doubt it.
Several imperial doctors tried the medicine, but they still had some doubts in their hearts, so they ordered someone to take the remaining residue of the medicine. After reading it, the faces of several imperial doctors were all pale, their foreheads were sweating, and they knelt in front of the emperor with trembling bodies.
"Envoy Chen, what do you see?"
"Back to the emperor, this Tang Yaochen and the others really don't see any problems, but this medicine residue contains a slightly poisonous herb. ”
"What!?" The news was so shocking that the emperor and the queen couldn't believe it, and they asked in unison and sat up in shock.
"Go and bring me the dregs. Zheng He, the chief eunuch beside the emperor, was ordered to put the poisonous residue picked out by the imperial doctor into a porcelain white tea bowl and handed it to the emperor.
Looking at all this in front of her, Lu Ruxue just tightened her eyebrows, the cold in her eyes was pressing, but she didn't rush to defend herself.
When the imperial doctor came to test the medicine just now, she had also tasted it herself, so she knew best whether the medicine was poisonous or not. As for what was going on with the poisonous dregs, she could more or less guess.
Even the dim sum was tampered with, and when she entered the temple, she was already aware of it. That's why Cai Qing kept the dim sum, just because he was afraid that someone would destroy the evidence. But the emperor didn't ask, and she wasn't in a hurry to explain.