After the ministers left the Taihe Palace, the palace left the palace maid around Concubine Liang, Imperial Doctor Liang, the emperor, and several concubines and several princes in the Taihe Palace.

"What is the result of Imperial Doctor Liang?" The emperor looked at Imperial Physician Liang's frowning face and hurriedly asked.

Imperial Physician Liang arched his hand towards the emperor, and said with some doubts: "If you go back to the emperor, Weichen has found saffron in many dishes of Concubine Liangniang, but it is just ......."

The emperor looked at Imperial Physician Liang's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and asked a little urgently: "It's just what, even if you say it, if you have me, who dares to threaten you?" ”

After that, he casually glanced at the queen and the concubine, and their expressions did not change, and they all looked at Imperial Doctor Liang calmly.

Imperial Physician Liang shook his head and continued: "Wei Chen just feels strange, although each dish contains safflower, not the whole dish contains safflower, to be exact, each dish only has a little mark stained with safflower, if it is not for the minister to be cautious, I am afraid he will ignore these marks." ”

The concubine's expression was a little strange, she glanced at the queen, and said to the imperial doctor: "Imperial Doctor Liang, there is a question in this palace, you said that there are some saffrons on every dish, is that a small amount of safflower brought out of the imperial dining room?" ”

Her words were clearly aimed at the queen, after all, the imperial dining room was under the control of the queen, but the concubines who were favored on weekdays would allow a small kitchen to open a small kitchen in their palace, which could be regarded as a favor from the emperor.

Concubine Liang's gentle and jade-like temperament naturally made the emperor love Concubine Liang a little more, and Concubine Liang never formed a gang in this harem, so she can be regarded as a more prominent figure in the neutral faction.

The concubine's words are not unreasonable, after all, Concubine Liang's diet in her palace does not touch the imperial dining room, but after all, it is a palace banquet now, even if she doesn't eat much of the dishes on the palace banquet, she will have chopsticks for each dish, so the suspicion of the concubine is not that the person in the imperial dining room drugged Concubine Liang out of thin air.

The queen didn't panic, she looked at the concubine with a sneer and said, "What does my sister mean is that she thinks it's the red flower under the palace?" Concubine Liang's sister has always had no grievances with this palace, how could this palace harm her for no reason? ”

The queen stared at the concubine imposingly, and said aggressively: "You said that it was the medicine given by the people in the imperial dining room of the palace, but you also came up with evidence, just with a few dishes stained with some saffron, you want to splash dirty water on the head of the palace, it seems that my sister's ability to plant blame is a little more powerful." ”

The concubine covered her mouth and chuckled: "My sister is just suspicious, not to blame my sister." After all, there was a problem with the dishes in this palace banquet, and the first person who should be responsible was the imperial dining room. But my sister just said a word, but my sister defended several times, I'm afraid it's not a weak heart, right? ”

The queen listened to the words of the concubine and laughed instead of being angry: "What is my sister talking about, this palace has always kept the harem in good order, and there has never been any mistakes, but now that the sister of the concubine has an accident, but she detains this unjustified crime to her sister, I'm afraid it's a little unreasonable, right?" What's more, Sister Liangfei ate a lot of the sour jujube cake that Sister Liang sent you, if you happened to put safflower in the pastry that Sister Liangfei ate, this is also unclear, isn't it? ”

The queen really has a pair of eloquent mouths, but this concubine is not a soft persimmon to let the queen handle, Ji Yueqin watched the invisible smoke between the two of them, and felt pity for the good concubine who was sandwiched between them.

Qianyu didn't make a sound, but gently pulled Ji Yueqin with her hand, signaling her not to get involved in the struggle between the concubine and the queen. Ji Yueqin also understood Qianyu's thoughts, so she just sat on the side and drank tea quietly.

The concubine felt that the queen was clever, and immediately laughed: "What my sister said really opened my eyes, my sister still has such a ability, to be a roundworm for the concubine's sister, and she also knows how many pieces of sour jujube cake she can eat." Or, how can my sister know which piece of sour jujube cake can be eaten by Sister Liangfei? ”

When the emperor saw that you didn't let me and I didn't let you, the emperor immediately slapped the table in front of him, "Enough, if you two want to quarrel, you two will have to wait until the matter is settled. If I knew that this matter was the hands of the people in the harem, I would not let it go! ”

The two were silent, after all, the emperor was already angry, except for looking at each other with an unkind expression, he didn't dare to sneer and sneer for half a word.

"Imperial Doctor Liang, you go on. Whoever interrupts Imperial Physician Liang's speech again will be dragged out and scolded for twenty strokes. The emperor obviously said this to the concubine and the queen.

The queen and the concubine had different expressions on their faces, and they couldn't see their joy and anger, but they didn't feel too comfortable in their hearts.

Imperial Physician Liang replied and continued: "The old minister also thought of a possibility, not the red flower in the food at the palace banquet, according to the old minister's eyes, I am afraid that the problem lies in the pair of chopsticks used by Concubine Liang." ”

"Chopsticks?" The emperor was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the large dose of safflower actually came from a pair of chopsticks, why would Concubine Liang and the people around her be so careless and couldn't detect the smell of safflower on the chopsticks.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the pair of chopsticks on Concubine Liang's table, and if you look closely, the pair of chopsticks is exquisite, white, and carved from ivory from the Western Regions.

Different from everyone's reaction, when Concubine De heard that there was a problem with the chopsticks, her body was obviously shocked, and there was disbelief in her eyes.

The first person to notice Concubine De's reaction was Ji Yueqin, Ji Yueqin glanced at Concubine De, Concubine De seemed to feel Ji Yueqin's eyes, so she followed Ji Yueqin's gaze, the two looked at each other, and for a moment Concubine De took her eyes back and stopped looking at Ji Yueqin.

Ji Yueqin seemed to see a trace of inexplicable emotion in Concubine De's eyes, but it was only for a moment, and she didn't know if she was wrong.

The emperor looked at the palace maid beside Concubine Liang and asked, "This pair of chopsticks belongs to your mother?" ”

The palace maid replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, this chopsticks are indeed brought by my mother." It's just that these pairs of chopsticks are a gift from Concubine De to Concubine Liang. ”

She glanced at Concubine De a little timidly, and continued: "Concubine De and my mother are like sisters, but I have never suspected that there is fraud in it. In addition, the mother can't put down this pair of chopsticks, and even comes to the Taihe Hall to dine with this pair of chopsticks in person. ”

Everyone's eyes shifted from the chopsticks to Concubine De, and even Nan Xuanjin didn't believe why his mother would do something to murder the imperial heir.

"Mother, it must not be you, right? Someone must have framed you! He looked at his mother in disbelief, and then turned to the emperor and said, "My father must not have done it by my mother, please see it!" ”