Chapter 31: The Shadow of the Deep Palace [4]
When Rong Yan arrived at Yongning Palace, the eunuchs, palace maids, and even the imperial doctors all knelt on the ground, bowing their heads in fear.
On the main throne, sat the youngest emperor of Dayan, Yun Ting.
His face was not good, and his eyes swept towards everyone, but in the end it fell on Rong Yan, who had just stepped into the Yongning Palace.
"Concubine, I've seen Your Majesty!" Speaking of which, Rong Yan hasn't seen Yun Ting for a long time, he is usually busy with government affairs, and she doesn't care about everything.
It can be said that she has the name of the queen and does not have the power of the queen, so a month ago she took the initiative to ask Yun Ting to hand over everything in the harem to Jiang Lianyi.
Yunting agreed, and she was rarely pure and happy.
It's just that this kind of purity and freedom can't last long.
Yun Ting didn't speak, just stared at her, and muttered for a long time: "Empress, what do you have to say?" β
"The concubine has nothing to say!"
Rong Yan looked at Yun Ting and said lightly: "The concubine thinks that this matter has nothing to do with Li'er, Li'er and the Qin nobles have no grievances, why did they poison her?" β
"Queen Mother, why are you so sure?"
It was Concubine Ling who spoke, who had always been good friends with Jiang Lianyi, and her father was also the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the current dynasty.
"Then why is Concubine Ling so sure that she poisoned the nobles of Qin?"
"Yesterday, the Qin nobles went to visit the queen mother, and it happened that the queen mother was taking a nap, so the Qin nobles only sat for a while and left, during which they ate the pastries of Yong'an Palace, and the pastries were brought by Li'er."
Concubine Ling looked at Rong Yan with a calm expression, but she only saw that she was smiling all the time.
"What is the contradiction between the poor and the nobleman? Why did Li'er hurt her? β
"Because before that, Li'er accidentally knocked over the teacup, and Honggui next to the Qin nobleman beat her, but she never thought that she had a bad heart and poisoned the Qin nobleman!"
"What kind of poison did Li'er have?"
Concubine Ling said: "Drunk and hazy. β
Drunk and hazy, the flowers are like mist, the leaves are like bamboo, all year round, often blooming undefeated. From spring to summer to autumn, flowers bloom and fall, one after another.
However, drunkenness is also the deadliest poison, and it happened that at that time, nobleman Qin ate chestnut cakes containing drunken hazy in her palace.
If you just eat chestnut cake with drunken haze, there is nothing.
Because drunken and hazy pollen is edible, but how can it be poisoned?
Rong Yan didn't say anything, and turned his head to look at Jiang Lianyi: "Where is Li'er?" The merits are up to her! Based on Concubine Ling's words alone, this palace didn't believe it. β
"Li'er has killed herself." It was Jiang Lianyi who spoke.
Rong Yan's eyebrows and eyes froze, "You ......"
If you guess correctly, this is murder, she knows very well that Li'er is a child, she is a child who is less than fifteen years old, a little timid, quiet, and even a little naΓ―ve to her daughter's family, but she knows that Li'er will never be poisoned.
I'm afraid this is Jiang Lianyi's deliberate doing, it seems that it was because of Li'er's poisoning, but it was actually against her.
She has been too indisputable with the world in the past few months, and she has lived too many quiet days, but she didn't expect Jiang Lianyi to calculate her.
"Queen Mother, the poisoning of the noble Qin was done by the people in your palace, and you should give an explanation for your feelings."
Concubine Ling has a lot of resentment towards Rong Yan, which is why she is so aggressive against Rong Yan this time.
Rong Yan looked at Yun Ting, who had not spoken: "Your Majesty, what if the concubine can prove that this matter is not the work of Li'er?" β
In fact, Yun Ting didn't care much about this kind of thing, even if the Qin nobleman died, it would only be a dead nobleman to him, but she was the daughter of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and he couldn't sit idly by.
Yun Ting's eyebrows were full of interest: "How can the queen prove it?" β
In fact, he has always observed Rong Yan, during this time, she has not taken a step out of Yong'an, and he has never stopped in Yong'an Palace.
I don't know why he always wants to attract Rong Yan's attention, even if he still pampers that concubine, she doesn't care.
From the beginning to the end, there was only one person in her heart.
"Where's the nobleman?" Rong Yan looked at Jiang Lianyi and asked.
Jiang Lianyi was stunned for a moment, "Queen Mother, what do you mean by this?" β
Rong Yan's expression was still plain: "The imperial doctor can check that the noble Qin is really poisoned because he ate the pastries of Yong'an Palace?" β
It happened that the Imperial Physician Zhong was also present at this time, and the Imperial Physician Zhong said cautiously: "Back to the queen's mother, the old minister has already checked it, and the noble Qin is really poisoned and died." β
Imperial Physician Zhong is a highly skilled imperial physician in the Imperial Hospital, but Rong Yan is not too convinced, so he hooked the corners of his mouth: "Where is the noble Qin now?" β
Concubine Ling snorted coldly: "What do you want to do?" β
"Of course it'......" Rong Yan didn't go down, but looked at Yun Ting: "Your Majesty, can you let the concubine take a look at the Qin nobles!" β
Yun Ting looked at her differently: "Accurate." β
Rong Yan led a group of people to the bed where the Qin nobles were placed, and then stared at her for a long time before turning his head to look at the crowd: "What the Qin nobles said about poisoning is true, but it is definitely not the pastries of Yong'an Palace that caused death, and although Lian'er accidentally knocked over the teacup, she will not poison the Qin nobles." β
Rong Yan looked at Concubine Ling again and said, "Did the noble Qin meet Concubine Ling on the way to Yong'an Palace?" β
Concubine Ling didn't know what she meant, but she couldn't deny it in front of so many people.
She did meet her on the way to Yong'an Palace, and invited her to the pavilion to talk.
But what does this have to do with her!
"So what?"
"Then it all makes sense."
Concubine Ling had a bad premonition in her heart: "What do you mean?" β
Rong Yan smiled coldly: "It should be Concubine Ling who killed the nobleman of Qin!" β
Concubine Ling was not calm when she heard this, "What do you mean, how can I harm her?" β
"Although drunkenness is a poison, it can never kill people, because pollen can be made into cakes, and it is available in every palace, and what Doctor Zhong said in this palace is right?"
Imperial Physician Zhong wiped a handful of sweat and nodded: "What the queen said is that although the drunken and hazy flowers are poisonous, the pollen can be used as pastries. β
Concubine Ling became more and more uneasy, and she felt that Rong Yan had been watching her: "However, what is most afraid of drunk and hazy is the pollen of oleanders." β
Speaking of this, Concubine Ling's face changed, and her whole person trembled a little.
Looking at Concubine Ling's reaction, Rong Yan's guess was confirmed a few points.