The Imperial Hospital envoy tremblingly stepped forward and first used a silver needle to pick up a little of the dirty blood that he had vomited in front of the body of the chamberlain.
The silver needle has not turned black.
He got closer and smelled the dirty blood. The poisoned blood had a strong fishy smell.
The chamberlain still had some snacks between his teeth, and he picked them out with a silver skewer. They were indeed consistent with the pastry crumbs at the corner of his mouth, which was the plate of water chestnuts on the table.
The envoy from the Taiyuan Hospital kneaded the horseshoe cake into powder, tasted a little, and smelled it slowly.
"Your Majesty, this horse's hoof has been cut with dead grass."
"Broken Grass?" The emperor thought the name sounded familiar.
The envoy from Taiyuan Hospital said: "It is the poison that King Nanhuai was poisoned at Jinnan Wharf a few days ago."
When Xiao Yu was mentioned, the emperor became angry again, "His injuries were all fake, but this poisoning is real?"
The envoy from Taiyuan Hospital hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the poisoning is real. The detoxification at that time was done by me personally. It is absolutely true that I cut off the dead grass."
This poison attacks one hour after being poisoned. The first symptoms are tenderness and soreness all over the body and distending pain in the lower abdomen, which lasts for about a quarter of an hour before the poison develops.
If you are in good health and can persist for two or three hours, you can detoxify by taking the antidote in time.
Those who are in poor health may die from poison at any time."
The emperor remembered that the chief chamberlain said that he had a pain in his lower abdomen almost an hour ago, so he turned to the little chamberlain and asked, "Has the little Zhezi been found?"
The young chamberlain hurriedly said: "I've returned to Your Majesty, but I haven't found him yet. This is a bit strange. Xiao Zhezi usually serves in the Imperial Study Room. He doesn't dare to waste any time. Even when he goes to the tribute room, he has to say hello specifically, lest His Majesty calls someone.
No one agreed.
I just went out to inquire, and everyone said that I haven't seen Xiao Zhezi for almost an hour or two, I'm afraid..."
Before he could finish speaking, rapid footsteps suddenly came from outside.
The emperor raised his eyes towards the door, and then saw a young chamberlain hurriedly came in from outside, his face turned pale. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty has just ordered to search for Xiao Zhezi. Several servants are searching the palace. Jin Yi is
A corpse was found in the shallow lake at the back gate of the palace. It was dressed like Xiao Zhezi's, but its face was so damaged that it was impossible to tell its true appearance."
The emperor felt as if a jack was pressing on his head.
Why is there so much going on this night?
"The body has been brought back."
The little chamberlain finished speaking and waited for the emperor's instructions.
"How did you die?" The emperor was silent for a while before he found his voice.
The young chamberlain said: "When we found him, he was floating on the water and already dead. There was a rope tied to his feet. The rope seemed to have something attached to the other end, but the rope was terminated."
The emperor has grown up in the palace and has never seen anything like this.
How many people want to silence the person but also destroy the body and eliminate traces? How many people choose to tie a heavy object to the person's foot and then sink it directly into the pond. The body will remain at the bottom of the water silently. If no one dives into the water or other accidents occur, the body will
There is no chance of ever seeing the light of day.
"Go and see if it's Xiao Zhezi."
The young chamberlain who was serving before was sleeping in the same room with Little Zhezi. Apart from the head chamberlain, he knew Xiao Zhezi best. After hearing this, he immediately went to check the body. After a while, he came back with a pale face and said, "Your Majesty, it's Xiao Zhezi. I don't know who it is."
I have such a big hatred for Xiao Zhezi. It’s not just killing him, but also ruining his face.”
Another little chamberlain said: "When the servants fished out Little Zhezi, they found this in Little Zhezi's hands. Little Zhezi held it tightly, and the servants spent a lot of effort to take it out."
The little chamberlain handed over a jade pendant.
The emperor's eyelids twitched.
He didn't even need to look carefully, he recognized it at a glance, it was the queen's thing.
This jade pendant was given to the queen by him not long ago.
The head chamberlain died, and he wrote the character "槿" on the ground with his finger stained with blood. If this did not refer to Jinyi Palace, then how could he explain Xiao Zhezi's death?
Not to mention Qianhu, who died behind Jinyi Palace, still clutching the Queen's things in his hands.
How could Xiao Zhezi have something belonging to the queen, unless he and the queen had an affair at that time.
What on earth is the queen going to do!
The queen is the daughter of Ning Guogong, and what the queen wants to do must be what Ning Guogong wants. The emperor suddenly felt frightened and looked at the plate of horseshoe cake on the table.
Cold sweat fell down.
He vaguely remembered that the head chamberlain told him today that the queen had sent a plate of horseshoe cake.
At that time, he was meeting the head of the Yumen Sect. He didn't want to eat this. He waved it casually and told the chief chamberlain, "Split it."
The emperor stared intently at the plate of water chestnuts.
Is this the plate the queen sent?
Could it be that the queen... wanted to kill him instead of the chief chamberlain?
Cold sweat broke out instantly, and the emperor stumbled back half a step in agitation.
There was no chief chamberlain to serve on one side, and the little chamberlain was not so considerate, so the emperor almost stumbled and fell.
The Minister of Punishment slowly closed the eyes of the chamberlain: You have done enough for the prince, leave the rest to me.
The Minister of Punishment took a deep breath, stood up, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, this jade pendant looks familiar. Can I take a closer look?"
The emperor was filled with doubts in his panic, "Does it look familiar?"
The Minister of Punishment nodded, "I should have seen this jade pendant before."
He took the jade pendant from the hands of the young chamberlain, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then said with great certainty: "Your Majesty, I have indeed seen this jade pendant. It belongs to the Queen."
The emperor looked at the Minister of Punishment.
Of course he knew it was the queen's jade pendant.
But the Minister of Punishment is a foreign minister, how can he know the things of the female family members in the inner palace?
"Are you sure?" the emperor asked.
The Minister of Punishment said: "I am sure that a few days ago, my niece went to the palace to play with Her Royal Highness the Princess. When she returned, she had such a jade pendant hanging on her body. She said it was a gift from the Queen.
The minister was frightened, fearing that the empress wanted to propose marriage, so he asked his eldest sister-in-law to go to the palace to return the jade pendant.
My niece is fifteen this year, and she has reached the age of marriage. I had vaguely heard that the Queen intends to marry her to the third young master of Duke Ningguo.
Your Majesty, I'm sorry. It's not that I want to take Qiao or anything like that. In fact, because the Duke's family has a big business, there must be big rules. I only have such a daughter in my eldest brother's family, so I don't really want to marry high.
So at that time, I would rather offend the Queen and send the jade pendant back."
The emperor's heart was in turmoil.
This jade pendant was given to the queen personally by him, but the queen turned around and treated it as an ordinary object to reward others?
And the queen wants the niece of the Minister of Punishment to marry the third young master of Duke Ningguo?
The emperor had vague doubts before, whether the Minister of Punishment was too close to Xiao Yu... The person who could be won over by the queen must have nothing to do with Xiao Yu.
After figuring this out, the emperor didn't feel relieved.
If the queen fails to win over the Minister of Punishment, she will definitely win over others.
Looking at the body of the chamberlain on the ground, the emperor felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave for the first time.
Who can he trust in the whole court?
After walking around in circles, his eyes fell on the Minister of Punishment.
At this time, the fire in the Princess's Mansion burned half of the sky in Kyoto.
Xiao Yu and Ping An rode across the street and headed straight for the city gate.
Behind him were the Imperial Guards who were in hot pursuit. In front of them, at the city gate, soldiers from the Xishan Camp received the order and came to stop Xiao Yu alive.
Xiao Yu galloped on his horse, in the hunting night wind, "Peace~"
"exist!"
One person in peace shouts out the power of thousands of troops.
"Our prince is good at setting fires. You must have heard about it. Now, you might as well see whether the foot of the city gate tower is land or kerosene!"
Ping An galloped forward, shouting at the top of the city gate at the top of his lungs.
There was a sudden commotion above the city gate.
"If you want to live and die together, let's go to the fire and go to hell together. If you want to live, open the city gate for me. Your life is yours. Now think clearly whether it's worth your while or not!"
Real men who are willing to follow our prince, let’s go together tonight!”
At that time, we agreed with Yang Tinghe that Yang Tinghe would go to Beiji Temple first, but now the emergency plan has changed temporarily. Ping An can only hand Yang Tinghe a ladder. Can he catch it...
As expected, they all followed Xiao Jiyuan.
The moment Yang Tinghe rode Xiao Yu to the city gate, he drew his sword and shouted, "Follow General Xiao to the death! Follow the young prince to the death!"
He originally had 1,500 elite soldiers of his own. This shout immediately received a response from 1,500 people. In an instant, the entire city gate tower became restless.
Yang Ting and the people arranged underneath early in the morning took advantage of the situation to open the city gate tower.