The surprise in her eyes was so obvious, her eyes widened slightly, showing a cute and naive look.
Qi Yan only gave her a reassuring look, then stepped forward to salute the queen: "I'm sorry for disturbing you late at night. I just heard the slanderous words. The foreign minister felt unbearable for a moment, and then he said something that choked the imperial doctor.
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"If the empress is punished, all the foreign ministers will bear it without saying a word."
The queen raised her eyelids and glanced at Qi Yan.
This Qi Yan is really a person who knows etiquette. Since entering the palace, except for looking at Ling Yutong and talking to her, his eyes have always been lowered, and he has never exceeded the rules.
And she admitted her mistake as soon as she entered the palace. Is this still the second generation ancestor in the capital that she knew?
"Excuse me. I won't punish you. It was Imperial Doctor Liu who spoke rudely. I was angry after hearing these words. It is right for Fourth Young Master Qi to be upset for a moment."
Doctor Liu's expression froze.
Qi Yan bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, empress, for understanding."
"But you just said that you told Miss Ling about the secret poison of Northern Xinjiang?" The queen narrowed her eyes: "Do you know that your family is now related to Northern Xinjiang, but..."
"The foreign minister knows. But it was indeed the foreign minister who informed Ling Yutong about this poison."
Qi Yan spoke without hesitation, and his decisive attitude made his words fall heavily on Ling Yutong's heart like a weight.
Ling Yutong's eyelashes trembled. She dared to tell the source of the poison because she had prepared a story in her mind. But Qi Yan, what should he say? As far as she knew, although Qi Yan had also been on the battlefield, he
Their experience and time on the battlefield are far inferior to Brother Ce and Brother Zekai.
How can he explain it clearly?
You can't lie in front of the queen to protect her, right?
The impulse rising from the bottom of her heart at that moment made her want to shut his mouth and tell him to stop talking. But Qi Yan, as if he knew what she was thinking, turned to look at her with a helpless expression.
"You, my father said that this is something that must not be revealed as a last resort. How come you are so impulsive and don't listen to advice?"
Ling Yutong was confused, what?
The queen cast a puzzled look and joked: "Oh? What are you trying to say? Is it possible that Fourth Young Master Qi wants to admit something here in this palace?"
Qi Yan lowered his eyes: "No, it's just that this poison involves an old incident involving my father."
"Your Majesty, you still remember that in the spring of five years ago, my father was seriously injured in northern Xinjiang. Medical treatment in the frontier was limited, so he returned to Beijing urgently."
The queen's eyes flashed: "Of course I remember that the Holy Emperor sent precious medicinal materials in boxes at that time, and the royal doctors also sent to the Qi family, just to save General Qi's life."
She also glanced at Doctor Fang and said, "Really?"
Imperial Physician Fang was the Holy Hand of the Imperial Physician sent at that time. At this moment, he quickly wiped the sweat on his face and said: "I don't dare to bear the honor of the Holy Hand, but I also remember this."
Qi Yan pursed his lips and looked gloomy.
The queen's eyes flashed and she frowned: "You...could it be that General Qi has been poisoned by this poison?"
Qi Yan nodded: "Yes, at that time... I decided to hide it. It was also because of this that my father had been suffering from a disease for many years, and foreign ministers knew about it. At that time, Yutong was worried about my father's condition, so he waited outside and heard a few words."
He glanced at Ling Yutong: "Yutong is smart and can guess the whole story from just a few words. I told her at the time not to reveal it..."
The Queen suddenly lost her strength. The reason why the Holy One wanted to reward him so generously at that time was because the battle started because of him. The fact that General Qi was injured in such a way had already caused a debt to the Holy One. It turned out that when they didn't know it, General Qi still had the root of his illness.
At this time, Doctor Fang's eyelids twitched: "I remember, at that time..."
After talking about it, everyone in the hall fell silent.
Ling Yutong breathed a sigh of relief and finally made things right. There was a hint of joy in her lowered eyes, but she had no impression of what Qi Yan said.
Among the people, only Dr. Liu was unhappy. He squinted his eyes and was about to ridicule. This was not enough to prove that the Qi family was not suspicious, when he heard the sound of panicked footsteps coming from the front door of the palace.
The palace maid's eyes widened in panic, and she trembled: "Dead... that guard is dead!"
What?
Ling Yutong suddenly looked back, and she saw the bloody body of the guard being carried outside the palace.
Bleeding from all the orifices, skin all over the body... Such a miserable death... This person was obviously alive not long ago, yet he was still yelling at her fiercely!
She looked at the angle and subconsciously took a step to the side to block the queen's view. "Move the person further away, don't disturb the queen!"
After she finished speaking, she wanted to go out to see if there was any chance of saving the guard.
The next moment, she looked up and saw Qi Yan's back.
He turned his head and said to her: "The person has lost his pulse, you don't need to step forward to check."
While they were talking, the man was carried away.
The Queen said with a cold face: "Okay! Let's do this one by one. I don't want this palace to be peaceful tonight! Aunt Gui, take the suspicious Dr. Liu to be interrogated, as well as the guard, and all relevant people.
I’ll check it out!”
Aunt Gui immediately responded.
The Queen's surging anger made her cough twice. Ling Yutong looked back and said worriedly: "My Lady, you are still weak now..."
The Queen raised her hand to stop her words, and said majestically: "I am fine, go and invite the Holy One here, we will definitely get to the bottom of what happened today!"
She lowered her eyes and followed Xueqiu's fur. She liked to smoke some bamboo incense on the tent. No one knew except the palace maids who were waiting nearby. Xueqiu was often naughty, and occasionally scratched her tent. She also grew older recently.
Such cute actions.
He can get close to Snowball and her, and he can also hide things in Snowball's nails. This person...
While the queen was meditating, Ling Yutong's thoughts were not idle either. She lowered her head and said: "My queen, if there is such a person, she approaches Xueqiu with malicious intentions and even touches Xueqiu's fingernails, then with Xueqiu's personality, she will definitely be affected by her
Leaving marks on hands or body."
The queen pursed her lips: "Check!"
All the maids in the palace stood waiting for inspection. At this time, the identity of the dead guard was also found out. He was not the one who mainly patrolled this area!
Instead, they made a temporary shift and switched with the guards in Concubine Wan Gui's area, and made a special inspection of the palace where Ling Yutong and Qi Yan lived.
After hearing this, Ling Yutong turned cold and said respectfully to the Queen: "I'm afraid, the personality of the guards transferred was also deliberately arranged, and even... Xueqiu's temperament was calculated."
She recounted what happened with the guards on the way here.
The queen sneered: "Okay, this game is actually laid out in an unusually big way! Each link is connected one by one. This is because I am worried that my life will be prolonged!"
The power of the queen made people sweat with cold sweat. A palace maid who was about to be inspected in the palace had panic in her eyes. She was so frightened that she knelt down on the spot!
"Your Majesty, please spare your life... I didn't do it on purpose, I'm slave..."