"The courtiers should stand." Chen Ying bowed her head and said in a faint voice: "The courtiers are used to standing, but it is uncomfortable to sit down." ”

"It's up to you." Empress Dowager Xiao seems to have lost her anger at all, and her attitude is very kind.

Queen Situ didn't persuade any more, only smiled: "I summoned you into the palace today to ask you about your situation yesterday." ”

"That's it." Empress Dowager Xiao said: "Yesterday, you were taken to the front for questioning, and the mourning family didn't know what was going on, so I was confused all night, and I didn't sleep all night, so I have to listen to you clearly." ”

"Yes, sissy." Chen Ying bowed slightly, automatically raised her head and glanced at the queen, and asked, "I don't know where the queen wants to hear from?" ”

"Let's start with the incense." The queen said, picking up the teacup on the side.

Chen Ying organized her language slightly, and then spoke: "When the courtiers came out with a handkerchief yesterday, they actually wanted the two ladies to take a look at the powder stains on the handkerchief. Qiao Xiurong had a layer of yellow powder on her face, and the courtiers occasionally discovered this, so they thought that not only was she not poisoned, but it was likely that even the slippery fetus was fake, and she might not be pregnant at all. Based on these two points, the courtiers proposed to use living creatures for verification. ”

Whether it is poisoning or slippery tires, it is a very harmful thing to the body, even if Qiao Xiurong only hits one of them, there is no need for her to fake her face.

Chen Ying guessed at the time that Qiao Xiurong was likely to lie about being pregnant, and then took a little laxative on the night of the poisoning to deceive people's eyes, and then wiped her face yellow with medicinal powder, making everyone think that she was poisoned and slippery.

The dormitory of the Changqiu Hall was already dimly lit, and if it weren't for Chen Ying's extremely keen observation, he wouldn't have been able to find the slightest unnaturalness on Qiao Xiurong's complexion.

And even so, Chen Ying didn't think about it, he just thought that it was just a common battle between concubines, such incidents must often happen in the palace, and even the queen mother and queen only thought of this layer.

Hearing what Chen Ying said, Empress Dowager Xiao and Empress Situ glanced at each other, and their faces were a little dull.

"Wang Lian is dead." Empress Dowager Xiao opened her mouth suddenly, with a cold expression.

"The person that the Queen Mother said is the one who broke out that the contouring lady is pregnant?" Chen Ying immediately asked.

Speculating back from the stabbing incident, it can basically be locked that the imperial doctor who diagnosed Qiao Xiurong as pregnant, poisoned and slippery should be the same person, and this person must also be related to the assassination.

Empress Dowager Xiao really nodded, and her face became more and more gloomy: "Wang Lian is good at women's medicine, and he has been in the Imperial Doctor's Department for three or four years, so I didn't expect him to be a traitor." ”

Chen Ying immediately captured the key words in this passage.

Wang Lian spent three or four years in the Imperial Medical Department.

Four years ago, it was the time when King An rebelled.

"That's it, let's not talk about these bad things, let's talk about yesterday." Empress Dowager Xiao didn't seem to want to talk too much about Imperial Physician Wang, so she inadvertently diverted the topic: "How do you know that the fragrance is a mist incense?" ”

When she asked this question, there was a hint of scrutiny in her expression.

A delicate girl raised in the deep boudoir, where does she have the opportunity to identify the fragrance? This is really puzzling.

Chen Ying understood what Empress Dowager Xiao was thinking, and said calmly: "The courtiers said before that the courtiers like to read miscellaneous books, and when they read the "Shennong Materia Medica", the courtiers found that there was a kind of flower called Yang Hee, which had the effect of causing people to fall into a coma. At that time, the courtiers were still young and very curious, so they asked someone to find this flower, and they became familiar with its fragrance. And yesterday, the courtiers smelled the smell of sheep heels on the handkerchiefs and on the sleeves of General Manager Jiang. ”

Empress Dowager Xiao looked at her silently, but Empress Situ was not as serious as her, and asked with a smile: "Do you mean that the yellow powder that Qiao Xiurong used to wipe his face also contains this herb?" ”

"The Queen Mother is right." Chen Ying's head said: "I saw that Qiao Xiurong's face was a little unnatural before, so I rubbed it on her face for some reason, and there was a little yellow powder on my hands; And because Manager Jiang once helped Qiao Xiu lie down, his sleeves were also stained. It's just that at that time, the courtiers and the general manager Jiang were all from the Changle Palace, and the queen mother's palace burned the moon incense, the smell of this incense was relatively quiet, and the fragrance was long ago, so the smell of the sheep's heel was covered, and the courtiers did not find it for the first time. ”

"That's what happened." Empress Situ understood, slowly put down the teacup, and a little emotion appeared on her face: "This is also because you are as careful as a hair, and you have changed others, where do you want to get so much?" ”

Empress Dowager Xiao was still silent, Chen Ying knew that she was afraid that she still had doubts, so she explained: "The courtiers actually don't know how to prepare incense, but they know that both sheep heel and mandala have the effect of causing people to fall into a coma. The courtier's daughter thought of several unnatural places in this poisoning case, and then she suddenly became enlightened. ”

"What do you mean by unnaturalness?" Empress Dowager Xiao finally opened her mouth, and the scrutiny in her expression had disappeared.

Although she didn't like Chen Ying, she also knew that if it weren't for this Chen San girl, yesterday's incident would definitely cause a catastrophe, no matter from which point of view, she shouldn't doubt it.

When Chen Ying heard this, she bowed down and said, "The courtiers initially thought that this case was strange because of the cautious meaning revealed in this case. ”

"Cautious?" Empress Situ asked, with a hint of puzzlement on her face: "Where is this case cautious?" ”

"Although it was poisoned, there were no dead people in the case." Chen Ying said bluntly, with a calm face: "After verifying the living creatures, this feeling of the courtiers became more and more distinct. Niangniang thought about it, if it was to compete for favor, Qiao Xiurong should try her best to make things bigger and get a few more lives, so as to attract His Majesty's attention enough in order to achieve the effect of framing him. However, in this case, even the little eunuch who tried the dishes survived, which shows that some people don't want to make too much noise. In other words, as long as the matter is narrowed within a certain range, His Majesty and the Empress will not care too much, and they will not order someone to investigate the matter thoroughly. And this is indeed the case, if it weren't for the courtier's coincidence to enter the palace, I am afraid that the case would be vague. ”

Empress Dowager Xiao's face was a little ugly, but she still agreed with Chen Ying's statement, nodded and said: "What you say is also reasonable, if it really causes death, then you must check it out." ”

When she said this, there was a little indifference in her eyes.

There are one or two slippery tires in this palace every year, and everyone is used to it, although the damage is the dragon heir, but it is not a big deal. Although the poisoning is a big deal, but the oleander is flowing out of Changle Palace, Emperor Yuan Jia takes into account the face of the Empress Dowager Xiao, and will not ask people to investigate it carefully.

If he came, he was right in the hands of the assassin.