This is a good question, and everyone, including the chef, didn't catch it.

Liu Yunxiang asked the prefect Li Chong again: "The coroner should have already experienced it. What kind of poison is there in the place where the concubine Yuan Fangfu?"

Li Chong said silently, "Crane Top Red."

"This poison is very domineering. After taking it, it will be poisonous in just a moment, right?"

Li Chong stroked his beard, "Indeed, the coroner also inferred that the poisonous amount was very high, and the poisoned person died of poison almost instantly."

Liu Yunxiang lowered her eyes, stopped asking or saying anything.

The queen was stunned, "What does it mean?"

Li Chong turned around and thought to the queen and said, "It means that this cook is lying. He did not poison the concubine Yuan's food, or he did not have time to poison him."

The queen frowned and turned to see Jiang Yunying.

Jiang Yunying turned her mind and looked up at the chef, "No matter what, who told you to poison the food?"

"I dare not say..." the chef lowered his head.

Jiang Yunying sighed, "The Empress is here, and the people from the government are here, so that person dares not harm your family."

The chef seemed hesitant and slowly turned his head to look at Liu Yunxiang.

"It's... the princess instructed me!"

After saying this, the ladies all showed excitement.

"I'll just say it's her!"

"The heart is really dark enough!"

"One corpse and two lives, it's so cruel!"

Jiang Yunying continued: "Since the princess has the intention to murder Concubine Yuan, she must have another plan. Concubine Yuan can't even hide, so sooner or later will be the result."

The queen nodded: "Concubine Jiang is right. Yuan Qingyue was poisoned in the royal palace. No one can do this except you, Liu Yunxiang!"

"If you conspire to murder the emperor and report it to the emperor, it will definitely be a death sentence!" Feng also interjected.

Liu Yunxiang sneered, and the three of them eagerly grabbed the pot on her, hoping to suppress her and make her confess quickly.

"Prince Li, what do you think?" Liu Yunxiang looked at Li Chong.

Li Chong looked at his eyes for a while and said, "Who poisoned Concubine Yuan? Let me let it go in advance. It's just the princess, did you really instruct the cook to poison Concubine Yuan?"

"What if I ordered it?"

"The crime is accused of murder."

The queen's eyes stern, "Mr. Liu, it's you!"

Liu Yunxiang spread her hands: "Did I admit it?"

"You just..."

"I'm just an example. The queen seems to be eager to make me plead guilty and doesn't care who the real murderer is."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "Just just now, the cook said that he had old men and young men. I threatened him with the lives of his family. Have you heard this?"

Liu Yunxiang looked at the wives of the aristocratic families. Most of them were looking at the queen, so she refused to accept this sentence.

The Duke of Zhenguo nodded at this time, "I heard it."

Feng, the third wife of Duke Yang's Mansion, also nodded, "I heard it too."

Li Chong also said: "My subordinates also heard it, but I don't know what the princess asked about this meant?"

Liu Yunxiang called the butler and asked, "As long as he was recruited into the royal palace to work, you must have checked his details, butler, right?"

The housekeeper nodded, "That's natural. If some bad intentions come in and harm the royal palace, it will be the old slave's sin."

"Then this cook really has old men and young men?"

The housekeeper sneered, "His parents have passed away. Because they often gamble, they owe a lot of gambling debts and can't even afford to marry their wife. He promised me to do it well and I let him enter the mansion."

Liu Yunxiang looked at Li Chong, "This matter cannot be lie. You can ask the official to go below to check it out."

Li Chong stepped forward and kicked the chef, "I won't tell the truth!"

"I really don't have family... but the princess said that if I don't listen to her... she will kill me!"

Liu Yunxiang sneered coldly, "Can a person full of lies still use his words as a proof of confession?"

Li Chong breathed a sigh of relief, "Of course not."

At this time, the housekeeper called a few servants from Jingshui Pavilion. After Yuan Qingyue had eaten the meal, they ate the rest, and none of them were poisoned. This matter was already obvious. The cook did not poison, but was instructed to frame Liu Yunxiang.

Li Chong pondered for a moment and called all the servants of Jingshui Pavilion to the yard, including the maid next to Yuan Qingyue.

"Before the poisonous concubine Yuan had eaten something else before she had used supper?"

The servants who were serving outside didn't know that only the maid next to Yuan Qingyue knew. The maid knelt there in a rustling manner, hesitated for a while before shook her head.

"No, no."

"It's really not?"

“It’s true.”

At this time, the woman Liu Yunxiang was planted in Jingshui Pavilion spoke, "Yes, when Concubine Yuan returned to the house, she said she was disgusting, so she came out to get the dried fruit for Concubine Yuan."

Li Chong asked the maid again: "Did Concubine Yuan eat dried fruit?"

"this……"

"You'd better be honest, you can also verify it if you break the coroner!"

The maid was startled and waved her hand: "Don't, don't tear my girl open her stomach! I said, "My girl... did eat dried fruit, and then she kept vomiting blood, and she was gone in a while."

Speaking of this, the maid burst into tears.

She has been serving Yuan Qingyue for so long, but she actually has feelings.

"I just asked you, why didn't you say it?"

"I...I dare not say it."

"Where did this dried fruit come from?"

The maid lay on the ground, her body trembling. Li Chong repeatedly asked, but she could no longer hold on.

"I brought that dried fruit to Concubine Yuan." Jiang Yunying stood up and said.

Everyone was shocked when she came out, including the queen.

Jiang Yunying clenched her fists under her sleeve and said, "Concubine Yuan has always had a bad appetite and wants to eat sour things. When I came to visit her yesterday, I brought her a pack of dried fruit. The dried fruit was bought from Dian Dianzhai on East Street. I didn't take it over and sent it directly to this maid."

She said this to clear her suspicion, but this sentence was obviously not worth enough and could not make her prove her innocence. Moreover, the Fourth Prince is in power, but she is suffering from the lack of a male heir. The Seventh Prince is also favored by the emperor and has a crown prince. If one more is born, the Fourth Prince will be at a disadvantage, so Jiang Yunying has the motivation to harm Yuan Qingyue.

At this time, the official candidate found a pack of medicine powder under Yuan Qingyue's pillow, and the coroner said it was used for slimming the fetus.

When asked the maid again, how could the maid dare to ask again? Then he said that the medicine powder was also given to her by Jiang Yunying.

This almost confirmed the fact that Jiang Yunying poisoned Yuan Qingyue.

The queen looked calm and did not speak, and the wives of several aristocratic families dared not say anything.

After a while of silence, the Duke of Zhenguo stood up and said, "It seems that this case is very complicated and cannot be clarified in a short while. It is the matter of the government. We will not get involved. We just hope to find the real murderer as soon as possible to comfort the spirit of Concubine Yuan in the sky."

After saying that, the Duke of Zhenguo left first.

The third wife of Duke Yang Guo said something to Mrs. Yang Guo Gong in a low voice, and the sisters-in-law also left.

Seeing this, the others were afraid of being guilty of the queen, so they hurriedly left.

Liu Yunxiang smiled: "The Empress still remembers what she said just now, and she will never tolerate the real murderer. Tsk tsk, this murder of the imperial heir is not only a death sentence, but also an implicated family, right?"
Chapter completed!