Chapter 242: The enterprising county lord
Yang Nianci urged again and again, and Xuanyuan clarified the context and explained to her.
The little eunuch who died was diagnosed by the imperial doctor as poisoning to death, and then the internal guard investigated the source of the poison. Because he has been following Xuanyuan Ji and relying on Xuanyuan Ji's blessings, naturally all his actions are also under the noses of many palace maids and eunuchs and guards, but it is easy to check.
Except for the things that were used by everyone else, the only difference between this little eunuch was that he used the white jade cake that Xuanyuan Ji secretly gave him.
As soon as the internal guard and Xuanyuan Ji verified this matter, they had to say that it was a coincidence.
It turns out that Xuanyuan Ji's favorite pastry is white jade cake. Use a few pieces every time you see it. But a few days ago, he was taught by the Great Confucian to "like and dislike not to be violent in front of others", coupled with Mrs. Geng's appropriate ear mentioning the face, Xuanyuan Ji endured the love in his heart and began to "quit" the white jade cake.
The little eunuch millet beside him has served him since he entered the palace, and the two are of the same age, and they can talk about it, especially the taste is almost the same, and millet is especially fond of white jade cakes. But how could he, a minion, have the opportunity to use the white jade cake that took so much effort and effort, and only took advantage of Xuanyuan Ji's convenience to occasionally secretly eat a bite and a half.
Xuanyuan is kind-hearted, but he can't eat it himself, but he remembers to save a few pieces of millet for him. Mrs. Geng happened to order the following not to prepare any more white jade cakes, Xuanyuan Ji was powerless, and when he came to the banquet, he was surprised to find that there were white jade cakes on the table. He secretly hid a few pieces and gave them to millet at the racecourse. I was hungry for a long time, and I ate it all right away.
Xuanyuan said this with a sneer and sighed: "If he only eats these, it would be fine, it would really be a disaster from his mouth, and he lost his life for the sake of stuttering." ”
Later, there was also a white jade cake in the dim sum sent by Xu Guifei. Xuanyuan Ji took two more pieces for millet seeds. The dim sum was small, and a piece was still less than a bite, and the previous few pieces of millet had not eaten enough to see that there was a new one, so I ate it all without hesitation.
"Alas, he deserves it, the poison is actually a mixture of two materials before it starts. It's just one of them, and it's just a rare ingredient. Therefore, although there are people who have tested for drugs, of course they can't detect it. ”
Yang Nianci panicked: "My son also ate it." No, I'll have to go to the Imperial Doctor. ”
Xuanyuan pressed her back onto the couch, nodded her forehead and said, "Stupid." You are poison on the side of the road. The poison is rare and tight. How can there be so many of them put in the snack. ”
Yang Nianci suddenly said: "This is for Xuanyuan Ji?" ”
Xuanyuan said politely: "What do you think?" Besides, after a night, isn't my son fine? You won't even think about it for yourself? ”
Yang Nianci patted his chest: "I have to be diagnosed by the imperial doctor, and my heart is steady." ”
Xuanyuan was helpless: "This thing is a family ugly." You go to Baba and ask for a royal doctor. Inevitably, the rumors leaked. Then we will see how my father punishes our family. ”
Yang Nianci was depressed, what is this, and the ugly thing was not done by his own family. Can't even guarantee personal safety?
"If you don't invite you, you don't invite you. You continue. ”
"I just said that the poison is very scarce, and it was only used in Xuanyuan Ji's dim sum, and his dim sum was eaten by the little eunuch again, there is no physical evidence, guess how I just said how to find out?"
Yang Nianci thought about it, yes, the physical evidence went to the little eunuch's stomach, how did the internal guard check it?
Xuanyuan sneered: "This is the wonderful part." ”
Xuanyuan Ji was almost hit, and the emperor was furious, so he asked the internal guards and secret guards to cooperate with the chief eunuch to interrogate all the suspects one by one, but nothing was found.
The emperor was angry and spoke, and when he couldn't find out anything until dawn, he would all apologize for his crimes.
Everyone was bitter, how to check this, I only knew that the little eunuch was poisoned, and I didn't know how the poison was placed. Ask a clever guy for an autopsy? It's too late.
The internal guard rummaged through all the suspicious places, but there was still nothing, and his eyes were red, and he considered whether to find a decent scapegoat to blame. But someone came to report that there was a little palace maid who was sneaky at the end of the day, and ran away after watching near the racecourse for a while.
The commander was in high spirits, and immediately sent someone to arrest the little palace maid according to the description, and under the coercion and persecution, he found out the person behind the little palace maid - the county lord of Jiarong.
After checking here, it was nothing, and people said it conclusively, just because the county lord also wanted to run a horse, but was detained by the concubine Niangniang and could not make the trip, and later heard that they were interested in horse racing, so she sent a palace maid to see who won and who lost.
The lord of Jiarong does have a reputation for superb equestrianism, and occasionally goes to the racecourse to gallop a few laps, and this reason looks like it is in the past.
But -- here comes the blood.
Seeing that the county lord of Jiarong was not suspicious, her henchman palace maid turned back.
A palace maid came out tremblingly, opened her mouth and cried, she didn't mean to, she didn't want to harm Ji Huangsun, I begged Ji Huangsun not to come to her, she was instructed, she was forced...
Yang Nianci didn't hear it right: "Wait, didn't you say that Emperor Ji's grandson is fine, and it was a little eunuch who died?" Why did the palace maid seem to think that it was the emperor and grandson of Ji who died? ”
The corners of Xuanyuan's mouth hooked: "So it's a wonderful show." ”
Yang Nianci said "ah": "Is there a problem with that palace maid?" ”
"So, Jia Rong's brain is not enough."
As soon as the palace maid shouted, everyone knew that there was an inside story. The internal guard immediately raised someone for secret interrogation, and this question, everything was revealed.
The reason for the incident was that on the day when King Duan conspired with Xu Guifei when he entered the palace before, the county lord of Jiarong sneaked behind on a whim to listen to the corner and knew about Xuanyuan Ji's threat to King Duan. This girl quietly made up her mind to do something that her grandmother and father had not done - to get rid of Xuanyuan Ji.
Later, after thinking about it hard, he decided on this poisonous plan. The poison she got out of nowhere, and the two harmless materials mixed together became a piercing poison. I inquired about Xuanyuan Ji who likes to eat white jade cakes, and thinks that Xu Guifei's birthday banquet is an opportunity.
She planned very well, eat one at the birthday banquet, and wait for Xuanyuan Ji to leave Ning'an Palace and then use it for him, when the time comes, no one will suspect Ning'an Palace, let alone her. She is the county lord and the granddaughter of Xu Guifei, so it is naturally cheap to do her hands and feet at the birthday banquet. Later, the dim sum soup on the racetrack was also sent by Xu Guifei, and she also touched it. Originally, she hesitated, after all, it was sent by Xu Guifei, would it arouse suspicion, but after thinking about it again, Xuanyuan Ji has been dining with the emperor's grandfather these days, and no matter how capable she is, it is impossible for her to be less courageous than the imperial diet. In this way, after Xiaomizi used the white jade cake in the racecourse, it was complete, poisoned, and dead.
This strategy is really good, but the enemy is no more than a clever word, who would have thought that Xuanyuan Ji had only quit white jade cake for a few days, and this news had not been detected yet. I didn't expect that the grandiose grandson would hide snacks for a minion, not once.
It can only be said that Xuanyuan Ji is too lucky, and the lord of Jiarong is really back.
Taking a step back, even if Xuanyuan Ji was poisoned, there was no physical evidence at that time, and the human evidence was pinched in her hand, who could find out? At least not on the same day. Duanwang's position is stable, and he can suppress this matter even more. Taking a step back, Xuanyuan Ji only eats one, and that is nothing.
Without that greedy little eunuch, or without that little palace maid who turned back, the county lord of Jiarong would not be in danger. It was a coincidence, and there was artificiality, so she was found out.
As for the motive, the little palace maid is Jia Rong's confidant, so she naturally knows a little bit of her hidden thoughts, and she mixes the true and the false, and says that Jia Rong is the princess of the former dynasty who almost succeeded in rebellion.
The internal guards tried this, and broke out in a cold sweat, which was too much to do, they didn't dare to make private claims, and they were busy reporting to the emperor. When the emperor saw the confession, he was even more furious, his sons attacked each other, and his granddaughter had to join in the fun, so vicious at a young age!
The emperor was angry, but he was still a little incredulous in his heart, wondering if his granddaughter would be used by others, so he brought Jiarong and the palace maid to confront him face to face, and he personally interrogated him.
The county lord of Jiarong came in with a white face, and when he saw the hideous appearance of the little palace maid who was eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood, he knelt on the ground and shouted that he had been wronged and was falsely accused.
The little palace maid even kowtowed again and again, and the blood on her forehead was not stopped, and she said her confession again in front of the county lord of Jiarong, and finally said that although she was appreciated by the county lord, the county lord's actions were really vicious and she also tried to cholera the dynasty, and reported her out of loyalty to the emperor and the country.
The lord of Jiarong only said that he must be strict with the emperor, and he was hated by this slave and maid, and he was looking for such an opportunity to take revenge.
The little palace maid bluntly admitted that the dim sum in the white jade cake was her own hands and feet, and even took out two pieces of dim sum with ingredients to ask the imperial doctor to check it, and said that there was still poison left in the county lord's bedroom, but she didn't know where to put it.
As soon as these words came out, Jia Rong's face changed. The emperor sighed in his heart when he saw it, and ordered someone to investigate.
The little palace maid also gave evidence that she had collected the poems and articles secretly written by the lord of Jiarong on weekdays, and the thoughts in them were clearly revealed, so she asked someone to take them together to inherit the royal reading.
The county lord of Jiarong changed his face even more, and only then did he wake up and scolded: "Who are you?" ”
The emperor looked at her with pity, she was still too young and scheming, and she didn't have the ingenuity and forbearance to match her ambition, so it was no wonder that she would be planted under the opponent's chess pieces.
As for this little palace maid, it is clear that someone inserted it early and kept it for a critical moment to fight back. can become her confidant, must not help Jia Rong do things, let alone instigating behind her back. As for whose person is this chess piece? The emperor said that the Xu family and the Qian family have been in love with each other for a long time.
The emperor didn't know whether to mock or mourn. The irony is that the Xu family has placed nails in the palace, and the Qian family has turned against them several times. Sadly, his harem has become a battlefield for other people's families, and all kinds of discord have become a sieve.
The internal guard quickly took the evidence, and the emperor just flipped it over casually, and said to the lord of Jiarong, "You are an enterprising person", and then asked people to take the collapsed and lost soul of the county lord of Jiarong and the little palace maid who was bent on death, and called King Duan and King Ning to give a lecture. (To be continued......)