Chapter 22
The one who was ordered to come up was a young man, dressed in a crescent white school uniform, his face was handsome and clear, and he was neither humble nor arrogant when he knelt down and bowed.
"Renqitang students knock to see Your Majesty."
Emperor Zhaoren let him get up, and when he looked at it, he only felt that he was very familiar, and Ah Hai said lightly on the side, "Your Majesty, this is the third son of Jingguo Gong." β
Emperor Zhaoren was shocked that this was Qiao Li, and he was a little stunned.
It is common for him to see Qiao Mei, but the heir of the Jingguo Mansion, except for remembering that Qiao Yi, the eldest son of the Jingguo Mansion, has been guarding the north all the year round, the others are not very impressed.
And the two brothers, Qiao Jing and Qiao Li, have been living in Renqitang for a long time since they were ten years old and rarely come out.
"Tell him everything you have seen and heard." Emperor Zhaoren bowed his head and said to Qiao Li.
Cao Wei still hung his head, only a gloomy coldness in his eyes.
"Yes." Qiao Li only looked at Cao Wei who was kneeling on the ground without even casting half of his gaze, and said in a clear voice.
"Yesterday, when the student heard that his father was in prison and his grandmother was bedridden, he asked his husband for leave and rushed home. When passing by Wei Pin Xuan, the student remembered that his grandmother liked sweetness, and he was afraid that her old man would not take medicine, so he wanted to go in and buy some dates. β
"After entering, the shopkeeper was talking to a woman, and the student vaguely heard something......" Qiao Li paused, as if in recollection.
The woman didn't know what she asked, but the shopkeeper didn't say that it was gone, and the two argued so much that the student paid attention for a moment.
After Qiao Li said this, another person walked steadily outside the palace gate, with a jade crown on his head and a jade on his waist, but his handsome face was not very good now, and the attendant behind him followed with some sorrow.
And the chamberlain guarding the door of the temple should have received his order and did not come to report it.
"Father." Xie Huaijin waved his hands, his face expressionless, "Erchen has brought the person Qiao Li said." β
Emperor Zhaoren frowned slightly, as if he was blaming him for not coming out, but he still opened his mouth: "Bring it in." β
Hearing this, Cao Wei's expression suddenly turned cold, and his eyes were floating and fierce.
As soon as the shopkeeper came in, he knelt on the ground with a "poof", his hand trembling against the smooth ground, and a handful of tears came out, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, how dare the grass people murder His Royal Highness the Prince?" Your Majesty is clear, Your Majesty is clear, ......"
The woman kneeling next to him was beautiful, with a gorgeous dress, and she was shaking her body and weeping vigorously, unable to speak.
And all the ministers watching from the side hung their heads like noses and noses.
"Shopkeeper, tell me, why are you two arguing?" Having the will of Emperor Zhaoren, Ah Hai took a step forward and asked.
"I ...... The grass people were guarding in the store yesterday, and this lady came in and asked for twenty catties of glutinous flour cakes, but there were not many cakes at that time, so I asked her to go to other shops to have a look. The shopkeeper looked helpless and continued.
"The grass people thought that she came here because of the delicious cakes in the shop, but unexpectedly, the lady said that the glutinous rice cakes were gone, so she gave her glutinous rice flour."
The grass people felt that something was wrong at that time, so they naturally refused to sell her, who knows...... She quarreled with me! The shopkeeper rolled up his sleeves again and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Fortunately, this little brother is here, otherwise I would be accused of bullying a woman!" Your Majesty is aware of it......"
The woman only cried, and listened to the shopkeeper shirk all the charges to her, so she naturally shouldn't, so she wiped away her tears and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the people's daughter just wanted to buy some pastries for Xianggong yesterday, and when she learned that there were not many in the store, she wanted to buy some glutinous flour and go back to make it herself, but this store doesn't sell me anyway......"
Her tears rolled down like beads of fallen thread, and the maiden felt humiliated at that time, so she argued with him. β
"Did you buy anything else?" Xie Huaijin suddenly interrupted her words faintly, and the light in his eyes was like a sharp knife coming out of its sheath.
The woman shuddered, lowered her head, and snorted, "No, nothing else." β
Qiao Li next to him said loudly, "As you know, glutinous rice flour and perilla grass can be ground into powder, which can become colorless and tasteless poison. β
"Your Highness was poisoned this morning."
Everyone was shocked, they all heard some ears when the East Palace was assassinated, and today I thought that Emperor Zhaoren had sent them to talk about it, but how did this involve His Royal Highness being poisoned?
General Dingguo took the lead and couldn't hold back, "Then His Highness's poison can be cured?" Is it a big problem now? β
"It's okay to be alone." Xie Huaijin said lightly and motioned for Qiao Li to continue.
"That's right, the East Palace was indeed assassinated today, but this assassin didn't move His Highness at all, and went straight to His Highness's other courtyard."
Emperor Zhaoren's face sank.
Xu Shun, who was standing next to Xie Huaijin, cried again: "Please also ask Your Majesty to call the shots!" The voice of the assassin struck the west, and he turned his head and let people poison the tea of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince......"
"Now the poisoned servant has confessed, and she has said who is behind the scenes!" Xu Shun looked angrily at the woman who was hiding her face with a handkerchief, the woman touched his gaze, turned her head abruptly, and glanced at Cao Wei again.
Seeing that his face was expressionless, the woman's eyes didn't even give her a bit, her heart sank suddenly, and she "banged" and smacked her head on the ground a few times.
"The folk girl confesses!"
"It was the folk girl who bought glutinous rice flour and perilla grass, and mixed poisonous things for the maids of the East Palace......"
"Everything that the people did was instructed by Cao Shangshuβ"
Cao Wei knelt on the white jade brick, his face was full of mockery, and he looked straight at the majestic and ruthless Emperor Zhaoren, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, how can this third young master of the Qiao family know so much?" β
"Presumptuous!" Ah Hai snorted softly.
"I was in the East Palace yesterday, and His Royal Highness didn't dare to stay overnight, what doubts do you have?" Joe looked at him fixedly, his eyes cold.
Emperor Zhaoren waved his hand, and the forbidden army in front of the palace put on armor and came forward neatly.
"Hahaha......" Cao Wei was held by them and did not resist, only raised his head and smiled, "Desire to add crime, why bother hahahaha-"
The ministers next to him only watched silently, and Cao Wei sneered lightly as he passed by.
"Look, who can laugh until the end......"