Chapter 217, Haunted
"Your Highness, you see, it's exactly the same as Concubine Mei's medicine pot!" Weiyang held a white porcelain incense burner in his hand, and smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth.
King Xiao put down the vase in his hand and hurriedly took two steps to Weiyang's side.
"Found the source of the poison?" King Xiao asked with a frown.
Weiyang nodded, cleaned up the incense ash in the incense burner, Xiao Wang probed to check, and saw that the color of the mud in the incense burner was actually similar to Concubine Mei's medicine pot.
"If cinnabar is added here, the incense will eventually burn to the inner wall of the incense burner, and the cinnabar will become poison once it is heated! Using this method of poisoning, the poisonous smoke can be inhaled directly into the body, and the poisoning is much faster than that of Concubine Mei! Weiyang frowned and said.
King Xiao nodded thoughtfully.
"No wonder it's going to kill her in a month!"
Holding the medicine pot in his hand, Weiyang suddenly remembered the person who made the poison pot.
"Your Highness, can Zhu Ying'er's master Yao Minzhi be caught?"
King Xiao shook his head, his face sad.
"Yao Minzhi is also gone!"
"It seems that Zhu Ying'er's disappearance frightened the mastermind of the poisoning, and he blatantly arrested people! With so many people gone, how could he hide it? ”
Weiyang handed the incense burner to King Xiao, hooked his lips and sneered.
Suddenly remembered that Zhu Ying'er had said that she had sent things to Ziyun Palace before the attack, and now seeing that Lin Guiren was also sick, Weiyang bit her lip, and felt that this matter might not be ordinary.
"Your Highness, Zhu Ying'er once sent something to Lin Guiren before the attack, I don't know what it will be?"
He took the poisonous incense burner in his hand and looked at it, and when he heard what Weiyang said, King Xiao immediately understood what she meant!
"Please ask Lin Guiren to come over and ask." As soon as King Xiao's order came out, Little Beanherd immediately ran out to invite someone.
Where does Lin Guiren dare to go far? It didn't take long for the effort to come.
"Lin Guiren, this king wants to know the situation from you." King Xiao spoke.
Lin Guiren nodded respectfully.
"The concubine must know everything!"
King Xiao nodded, and then handed the small incense burner to the little beanherd.
"Show it to Lin Guiren!"
After saying "yes", the little bean herd came to Lin Guiren with the incense burner.
"Lin Guiren, please keep your eyes on it."
Lin Guiren didn't know what King Xiao meant, so he looked at the incense burner with some confusion, and then asked.
"This is Concubine Chen's incense burner, dare to ask His Highness any questions?"
King Xiao replied: "Does Noble Lin know where this incense burner came from?" ”
Lin Guiren frowned and recalled carefully for a long time, and finally the magpie girl remembered.
"Nobleman, at that time, Concubine Chen had a bad cough and often couldn't sleep well at night, so she went to the Internal Affairs Office to ask for some incense to calm your nerves and help you sleep. At that time, Ruxi went to invite him, and not only brought incense, but also the incense burner. It is said that it is a new kiln object, and the concubines have it, and the mother sees that the incense burner looks delicate and elegant, so she uses it! ”
"Joy? Isn't that the little eunuch who died by the lake? King Xiao asked vigilantly, and his eyes widened.
"Back to His Royal Highness, like Xi and slaves, he was a slave of Concubine Chen Niangniang before, and after Niangniang died, he also stayed here as an errand for Lin Guiren! Unexpectedly, he was actually killed a few days ago! ”
Speaking of Ruxi's death, the magpie's heart is still afraid until now.
So that's what happened!
This Ruxi was originally Concubine Chen's minion, received a poisonous incense burner for Concubine Chen, and united with Gonggong Chen to kill Feng Xiaoxiao, who was treating Concubine Chen's mother, and was finally stabbed to death by Gonggong Chen by the lake!
This Ruxi turned out to be the inner ghost of Concubine Chen's mother, who poisoned Concubine Chen and killed Feng Xiaoxiao together with outsiders, but he didn't get a good result himself, and he was finally wiped out!
It's a retribution!
Ruxi, Gonggong Chen, Yao Minzhi, Sanyu, who are you working for?
poisoned Concubine Chen, and less than a month later, he attacked Concubine Mei again. King Xiao raised his eyes and glanced at Lin Guiren's pale and sick face, and it was estimated that this Lin Guiren had also been tricked.
Such a cruelty to the concubine, what does this person behind the scenes want to do?
King Xiao only felt that his heart was dull, and he couldn't breathe.
"Don't use the things that were sent by the office two days ago, no matter what they are, and don't say anything to anyone what I said to this king today."
After explaining, King Xiao stood up and was about to walk out.
When Lin Guiren heard this, he immediately understood the meaning, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to King Xiao.
"Concubine, thank Your Highness for mentioning something!"
Lin Guiren knew that if it weren't for King Xiao coming, he would probably follow in the footsteps of Concubine Chen! Not for anything else, just for her to live in Ziyu Palace, just for her to be friends with Concubine Chen.
Out of the door of the Ziyun Palace, Weiyang couldn't wait to follow.
"Your Highness, where did the cinnabar come from?" Weiyang caught up with King Xiao and walked side by side with him.
King Xiao rolled his eyes, thinking that he was going to check from this cinnabar!
"Let's go, let's go to the Imperial Pharmacy and have a look!"
Following the pace of King Xiao, Weiyang came to the Imperial Pharmacy again, where she is already familiar with the road!
It's just that now he is no longer Lu Suqiao, even if he meets an acquaintance, Weiyang still stands honestly behind King Xiao, watching the people in the imperial pharmacy busy.
As soon as King Xiao entered the door, Huang Siyao, the director of the imperial pharmacy, hurriedly came over to greet him.
"Why did His Highness come in person? If you need something, give me an order, and the slave will send it to you! ”
This Huang Siyao is the old man of the imperial pharmacy, she knows everything about the palace, and she doesn't have much to do with it, and her reputation in the palace for so many years is very good.
Xiao Wang waved his hand at her, Huang Siyao understood what Xiao Wang meant when he saw it, and hurriedly sneaked the people in the house out.
"Your Highness, is there something wrong?" When everyone was gone, Huang Siyao asked in a low voice.
Xiao nodded at her, frowned and said.
"Huang Siyao, there's something I want to trouble you!"
King Xiao now has no power to thoroughly investigate the harem, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to check the records of the imperial pharmacy, so I have to take a personal relationship!
Not knowing what he wanted to ask, Huang Siyao had to answer out of caution.
"As long as it is within the slave's share, I will tell the truth!"
"This king wants to see the use of cinnabar in the past three months!" Although he saw Huang Siyao's vigilance, Xiao Wang still opened his mouth to give it a try.
As soon as he heard King Xiao mention cinnabar, Huang Siyao's face changed slightly.
"Your Highness, the use of cinnabar has always been strictly managed in the palace, and I haven't gone out a few taels in the past three months, but it's ......"
As soon as Huang Siyao's voice fell, he looked up at Weiyang and Xiaodou Dou, and King Xiao immediately understood what she meant.
"It's all my own people, Huang Siyao, but it's okay to say it!"
Huang Siyao nodded, lowered his voice and said.
"A few months ago, there was an evil spirit in this palace, I heard that the soul of the eldest prince who had been dead for many years came out, and the emperor also specially invited a Taoist priest to make a French style, and since then, the spirit of the queen has not been good."
"At that time, the Vermilion Bird Palace did receive a lot of cinnabar, saying that it was for the queen's mother!"
Sure enough, it's the queen!
At this time, King Xiao has been guessing who the mastermind behind this scene is, and every time he guesses, he feels that the queen is the most suspicious.
Just because the five princes finally fell into her hands, King Xiao felt that she had bad intentions.
poisoned Concubine Chen, took away the five princes, and then got rid of Concubine Mei, so that King Xiao lost the support of his mother.
In this way, step by step, she can support the five princes to sit on the throne of the crown prince, and after the emperor dies, she can sit on the throne of the queen mother with peace of mind.
King Xiao narrowed his eyes, hating the queen's viciousness!
got the answer he wanted, King Xiao no longer stayed, and walked out of the imperial pharmacy.
There is really a lot of news from this trip, and King Xiao wants to sort out his thoughts first, but the queen is the most suspected of poisoning the concubine, and King Xiao almost believes that it is her hand at this time.
"The Great Prince? Why haven't you heard of it before? After pondering for a long time, Weiyang opened his mouth to ask King Xiao.
Haunted in the palace? Eighty percent of these ghosts are made by people, and she is a connoisseur of haunting.
It seems that she is not the first to pretend to be a ghost, someone has already used this trick!
"The eldest prince was born to Wan Niangniang, and when he was ten years old, he went into the water to fish and drowned, I was still young at the time, and I also heard from others. For many years afterward, the father did not allow the prince to go fishing in the waters! Hearing that the eldest prince was asked, King Xiao replied sideways.
Glancing at the small beads of sweat on Weiyang's forehead, King Xiao slowed down, in order to discuss the case with him, Weiyang trotted after him all the way, and was already tired and out of breath!
"Look at this sweat, don't catch a cold!" King Xiao handed her a handkerchief.
Weiyang was not polite, so he took it and wiped it.
Seeing that the Xiao Dynasty was walking in the direction of Luofu Palace, Weiyang hurriedly asked.
"Your Highness, are you going back?"
"The facts of the case are already very clear, I will go back and write a note, explain these circumstances to my father, and ask for a decree to raid the Vermilion Bird Palace, and turn out Sanyu and Yao Minzhi."
King Xiao is sure that the queen is the mastermind behind the scenes.
"Your Highness, slow down!" Weiyang hurriedly stopped him.
"What's wrong? It's been a long time, I'm afraid that if she kills those two people, we won't find evidence! King Xiao was a little anxious, and at the same time a little confused.
"I always feel that things are not so simple, Your Highness, have you noticed that there is another person here?" Weiyang pressed his eagerness and told him to calm down and think about the problem.
King Xiao stopped completely, thought sideways for a long time and asked.
"Who are you referring to?"
Weiyang shook his head helplessly, this matter is related to his mother, and people can't judge it normally!
As smart as he is, he is also anxious to avenge his mother, but he ignores important clues.
"Wan Niangniang of Xia Rong Palace!" Weiyang replied.
"First of all, Chen Julian, the deputy head of Xia Rong Palace, appeared in your sight, he was so much like the sunken corpse of Chen Gonggong by the lake. Although he has a record of leaving the palace that night, can that record be fake? ”
"Today, I learned from Huang Siyao that the queen had received a lot of cinnabar to ward off evil spirits, but there was another crucial clue, that is, there was a ghost in the palace a few months ago. So many people have died unjustly in the palace, this ghost is not a bystander, why is it the eldest prince, the child of Wan Niangniang of Xia Rong Palace? ”
"I don't believe in ghosts in the world, but why would this haunted man pretend to be the Great Prince?"
Weiyang raised her own questions, she never believed that there were so many accidents and coincidences in this world.