Chu Lanxi looked at those jewelry, the workmanship was exquisite, and a few of them were still royal rewards, she had seen them in the mansion, but in the end, Xiao Qiming did not give it to her. It seems that it should have been given to Xia Ling's cheap girl.

"Where did all this stuff come from?" Chu Lanxi asked.

Qiu Cicada just knelt and was silent and did not answer.

"Did you steal it?" Chu Lanxi asked again.

"No, the princess, these are definitely not stolen by slaves! These are all Aunt Xia's, the slave maid took these to go out of the house to ask Aunt Xia for a doctor, the slave maid has absolutely no selfish intentions! Qiu Cicada knelt with a sincere face.

"You said you were here to hire a doctor for Xia Ling, but who can help you prove that you didn't steal these jewelry?" Chu Lanxi asked unhurriedly.

"Sister Dongxue can help me prove it! This idea of taking jewelry was still helped by Sister Dongxue. Qiu Cicada hurriedly said.

"Call Dongxue here." Chu Lanxi instructed Chun Tao to say.

Dong Xue was taken to the courtyard of Chu Lanxi, and as soon as she saw Chu Lanxi, Dong Xue immediately knelt down.

Qiu Chan said that you and her combined these jewelry, and took them out to Xia Ling to ask for a doctor. But is there such a thing? Chu Lanxi asked.

"Princess, these jewelry were stolen by Qiu Chan alone, the slave maid found out and stopped him, she also threatened the slave maid, saying that if she dared to say it, she would frame the slave and maid for also participating in stealing jewelry. At that time, there was no one else except the two of us, and the slave was afraid that she would not be able to speak, so she did not report her. Dongxue knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

The autumn cicada looked at Dongxue incredulously, and Dongxue didn't dare to turn his head to look at the autumn cicada at all.

Qiu Chan understood that Chu Lanxi not only wanted to harm Xia Ling, but also wanted to harm all the people who helped Xia Ling. Therefore, Dongxue has already been bought by Chu Lanxi, just waiting to frame Qiu Cicada, so that Xia Ling will definitely die.

Qiu Chan understood all this, and knew that there was no power to return to heaven, so he could only sit on the ground in despair, letting Chu Lanxi fall.

"Qiu Cicada stole things from the house, and tried to escape, the crime is added to the crime. His Highness was supposed to be executed, but now that His Highness is not here, come on, first beat the autumn cicada with twenty boards, and then lock it in the firewood room, and wait for His Highness to come back and then send it down. Chu Lanxi commanded.

Immediately, a guard came forward with a stick, held down the autumn cicada, picked up the stick and hit it. After a few sticks, the autumn cicada, which was already thin, fainted.

Seeing this, Chu Lanxi said, "Stop, I'm afraid that Your Highness will blame me if you beat people to death." Drag her to the firewood room. Chu Lanxi glanced indifferently at the fainting autumn cicada, and commanded lightly, like a cold-blooded monster.

The surrounding maids all trembled, and decided that they would never dare to help Xia Ling again, lest they end up with Qiu Cicada.

The autumn cicada was dying in the firewood room, but none of the snobbish maid guards dared to approach. The autumn cicada did not enter the water and rice for a whole day, and was beaten with more than a dozen sticks, lying weakly on the straw pile in the firewood house, unwilling but desperate to wait for death.

Chun Tao really couldn't stand it, so in the middle of the night, while the maid guarding the firewood room slept to death, secretly entered the firewood room, and gently woke up the autumn cicada who was still in a coma.

Qiu Cicada struggled to open her lead-heavy eyes, saw that it was Chun Tao, and just wanted to speak, Chun Tao immediately covered his mouth and shook his head with frowns.

Qiu Cicada immediately understood, someone outside was watching, nodded to Chun Tao, and signaled that he would not speak again.

Only then did Chun Tao put her mind at ease, gave Qiu Cicada the water and the real thing in her arms, as well as the medicine for the treatment of stick injuries stolen from the doctor, patted him on the shoulder, and then looked out of the door through the crack in the door, the house was still quiet in the dead of night, and the maid guarding outside the house was still sleeping soundly.

Chun Tao went back to her room along the same road, but fortunately no one noticed her leaving, so Chun Tao relieved herself and stripped off and fell asleep.

Xiao Qiming came back from outside. After entering the house, Xiao Qiming passed by the firewood room and heard something moving inside.

"Come on, let me out!"

"What's that sound?" Xiao Qiming stopped suspiciously, "Open the door of the firewood room." ”

The attendant didn't dare to disobey, and opened the door of the firewood room in front of Xiao Qiming.

The scene that caught Xiao Qiming's eyes was an unkempt woman, with a blur of flesh and blood behind her, which made people frightened and frightened, and the mouth kept saying "let me out" to indicate that he was still alive.

"What's going on? Who would dare to abuse lynching in my house? Xiao Qiming couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and turned his head to look at the attendant who bowed his head and was silent.

"The minion doesn't know." The attendant knelt down and said tremblingly.

Xiao Qiming frowned, didn't continue to ask, and ordered: "Carry this person out and find a doctor to take a look at her." Immediately, an attendant set up the autumn cicada between the unconscious and the awake and left the firewood room.

Xiao Qiming went straight to Xia Ling's yard, and before he entered the yard, Xiao Qiming heard a pig-like cry: "Let go of me!" My face is so itchy! It's so itchy! ”

Xiao Qiming walked into Xia Ling's room quickly, and saw Xia Ling, whose face was covered with red rashes, was tied to a chair, and Xia Ling was still writhing and struggling desperately because of the unbearable itching.

"What's going on?" Xiao Qiming's face was full of shock and disbelief, Xia Ling's original beautiful face was now so terrifying, this sense of disparity made him really sick to his stomach.

"Your Highness! Help me! I don't want to be disfigured! I don't want to die! Xia Ling saw Xiao Qiming standing in front of her, and immediately asked for help.

"Doctor, come and take a look at her." Xiao Qiming didn't want to get close to Xia Ling, who looked extremely terrifying, but just called his special imperial doctor in the house to treat Xia Ling, and then turned around and walked out of the room.

Xiao Qiming sat in the courtyard outside the room drinking tea, waiting for the doctor's examination results.

The doctor walked into Xia Ling's room, and Xia Ling, who was struggling, immediately lit up hope in her heart when she saw the doctor.

"Doctor, help me, I don't want to be disfigured, I don't want to die!" Xia Ling stared at the doctor, her eyes full of longing and request.

The doctor looked at Xia Ling's terrible appearance with a red rash all over her body, couldn't bear to look directly into Xia Ling's eyes, and lowered his head to check Xia Ling's pulse. As soon as the pulse was in sight, the doctor slowly frowned, and did not speak for a while.

"Doctor, what's wrong with me?" Seeing that the doctor didn't speak, Xia Ling asked anxiously.

The doctor stood up, saluted Xia Ling, and then turned around and left the room.

The doctor opened the door and saw Xiao Qiming drinking tea outside the room, so he walked over to report to him.

"What kind of disease did Xia Ling have?" Xiao Qiming saw that the doctor came out quickly, and he was also a little puzzled.

"Third Highness, Aunt Xia is not sick, but poisoned." The doctor replied.

"Poisoned?" Xiao Qiming asked in surprise.

"Yes. And the poison in Aunt Xia is very rare, it is a three-day itch in Baicao Building. After this poison is infected, the skin will develop a lot of red rashes, and it will be itchy and unbearable. Eventually, the poisoner will lose control of himself, scratch frantically, and die of festering skin all over his body. Because it is no more than three days from the onset of poisoning to death, it is called three-day itching. The doctor explained to Xiao Qiming.

"Baicao Building? How could he have been poisoned by this? Xiao Qiming felt more and more strange, "Xiao Yan, you go and check it on me, His Royal Highness wants to see who dares to poison His Highness's mansion!" ”

Xiao Yan asked the maids and attendants everywhere in the mansion. But only Chun Tao and Chu Lanxi really know about this matter. When they asked the other maids, they had already been threatened by Chu Lanxi in advance, and they couldn't talk nonsense. Moreover, in the matter of poisoning, only Chun Tao and Chu Lanxi really knew what happened, and the other maids only dared to secretly reveal that Xia Ling had drunk a bowl of ginseng soup, and this situation slowly appeared. And this bowl of ginseng soup seems to have been sent by Xiao Qiming.

After Xiao Yan found out, he immediately told Xiao Qiming about these situations.

"The ginseng soup I sent?" Xiao Qiming's expression was gloomy and uncertain, others didn't know about it, didn't he Xiao Qiming know if he had done it?

Xiao Qiming immediately found the maid who delivered the ginseng soup and asked her to come for questioning.

The maid's name is Xiaolan, she is not very beautiful, and she is just a cleaning girl who does rough work on weekdays, so she and Xia Ling are obviously on an errand in the study, and only Xia Ling can be favored by Xiao Qiming and become a concubine.

Xiaolan knelt at Xiao Qiming's feet, and probably guessed in her heart that she was looking for him to ask what was going on. She weighed it in her heart, no matter what, in this palace, the biggest one is Xiao Qiming, even if Chu Lanxi is still in charge on weekdays, but if she dares to lie at this moment, it will be a little worse than Chu Lanxi to her.

"Who asked you to deliver that bowl of ginseng soup?" Xiao Qiming looked at the kneeling maid on the ground, and his right hand unconsciously tapped on the table, not knowing at all that this would bring Xiao Landuo a lot of psychological pressure.

"Sister Chun Tao asked me to send it. She also said that she must not let Aunt Xia know that she asked me to send it. Xiaolan decided to tell the truth.

"Spring peach?" Of course, Xiao Qiming knew that Chun Tao was Chu Lanxi's person, and Chun Tao didn't have the courage to dare to send it herself, this little girl didn't dare to say it, but everyone who heard it knew that this was what Chu Lanxi instructed.

Xiao Qiming immediately flicked his sleeves and went straight to the courtyard of Chu Lanxi.

Chun Tao, who was guarding outside the house, saw Xiao Qiming coming angrily, followed by Xiaolan, and immediately knew that the matter was exposed.

When Xiao Qiming saw Chun Tao, he didn't need to ask her thoughts, he directly pushed away her block, and was about to enter the room to find Chu Lanxi's theory.

"Your Highness, the princess is sick and resting." Chun Tao knew that she couldn't stop Xiao Qiming, so she could only make a final effort to reverse Xiao Qiming's opinion of Chu Lanxi.

Xiao Qiming thought that Chu Lanxi was really pretending to be sick and wanted to escape, so he directly slammed the door open, and just wanted to scold Chu Lanxi loudly, but he didn't expect the room to be quiet.

Xiao Qiming swallowed the scolding he blurted out, and walked lightly to Chu Lanxi's bed. Chu Lanxi on the bed was flushed, his lips were chapped, and he still had a towel on his forehead.

"Your Royal Highness, the princess has been having a high fever that does not go away, and there is no way for the imperial doctor to come, but he just told us to let the princess rest more, and change the towel soaked in cold water in time and put it on her forehead." Chun Tao, who rushed over, hurriedly knelt down and explained.

Xiao Qiming looked at Chu Lanxi, who was on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, and then looked at Chun Tao and the maids who were kneeling, and was silent for a while, but he still didn't say anything after all, only ordered: "Let the princess have a good rest." After speaking, Xiao Qiming turned around and left the courtyard of Chu Lanxi.

In Xiao Qisheng's mansion, Xiao Si was reporting to Xiao Qisheng the news he got from Xiao Qiming's palace.

"Xia Ling? The three-day itch of Baicao Building? Xiao Qisheng muttered and repeated Xiao Si's news report on the key points of poisoning, "There are really surprises everywhere in this third brother's mansion." ”