In the end, Xiao Yanshi didn't have time to say anything and stopped breathing in disbelief.
"mother--!"
Xiao Ruyi's miserable cry woke up Zhao Xingyao.
He looked at the silent woman held in Xiao Ruyi's arms in shock, and huge waves arose in his heart.
"I didn't do anything!" With his thoughts in chaos, Zhao Xingyao only had time to defend himself.
Xiao Ruyi hugged her mother and cried miserably. After hearing Zhao Xingyao's words, she said with grief: "Your Majesty, you are so cruel!"
"!" Zhao Xingyao's breath was suffocated, and a flame seemed to be burning in his chest.
His face darkened and his tone became cold and hard. "I told you, I didn't do anything!"
"When I came in, my mother was fine, but after I left for a short while, something happened to my mother. At this time, only my mother and the prince were in this room. If the prince was really so innocent, how could my mother die?
?" Xiao Ruyi couldn't stop crying.
"I said it wasn't me! Why should I kill her?" Zhao Xingyao was so wronged, so hated and so angry!
He couldn't refute Xiao Ruyi's words, so he could only defend himself: "I invited you to come today. I didn't even know that your mother would come, so how could I kill her? Moreover, she was obviously poisoned and died, maybe before she came.
Are you poisoned?"
Xiao Ruyi sneered miserably, "After receiving the letter from the prince, my mother was worried that I would go out alone. She was also worried that there would be another misunderstanding between you and me, so she came with me."
"I didn't stop in the middle, and I never ate or drank anything... Your Majesty, tell me, how did my mother get poisoned?"
"Or, in order to evade the suspicion on yourself, you want to say that my mother was poisoned at Xiao's house. You even want to say that I poisoned my mother?"
"You..." Zhao Xingyao's face turned pale.
It seemed that this was the first time he felt Xiao Ruyi's 'sharp teeth'.
"I don't know where she was poisoned, but it has nothing to do with me!" Zhao Xingyao said irritably.
He shouldn't have come today!
Suddenly, Xiao Ruyi lowered her eyes and said slowly: "I know, maybe the prince's target is me. Today, you asked me out, and in this deserted private house, you even sent me away.
I think the purpose of this entourage is to poison me."
A tear fell from her eyes, and water bloomed on Xiao Yanshi's clothes.
"It's my mother who blocked this disaster for me...Mom, it's me who's sorry for you..." She hugged Xiao Yanshi's body and cried sadly again.
"What are you talking about? That's not the case at all!"
Zhao Xingyao was extremely irritable. Why did this happen?
How did Xiao Yanshi die?!
"I asked you out today because I wanted to ask you why you didn't go to the ring today."
"Dismissing everyone is because I don't want too many people to know about this matter."
"Why should I kill you?"
At most, Zhao Xingyao just wanted to divorce Xiao Ruyi, so how could he think of killing her?
Simply baffling!
"Now, it's just the prince's words." Xiao Ruyi didn't believe it at all.
Zhao Xingyao was so angry that he walked around the room, and his eyes fell on Xiao Ruyi very sharply.
Feeling the change in his eyes, Xiao Ruyi snorted in her heart and said indifferently: "Does the Crown Prince want to kill me too so that he can silence me?"
"I didn't!" Zhao Xingyao said angrily.
Xiao Ruyi didn't seem to hear his explanation, and murmured: "My mother is dead. I have to go back and tell my father so that he can seek justice for my mother."
"No!" Hearing what she said, Zhao Xingyao objected without thinking.
Xiao Ruyi looked at him with red eyes, "Why?"
"..." Zhao Xingyao couldn't give a reason.
His mind is very confused now, and the current situation is not good for him.
Xiao Yanshi died in front of him, and Xiao Ruyi saw it with her own eyes.
Moreover, before that, there were only two of them in the room.
If the matter spreads out, then his suspicion will indeed be high.
especially--
The words of the emperor and his father suddenly rang in Zhao Xingyao's mind. He had become the joke of the whole city yesterday and could no longer embarrass the royal family.
If today's incident were to spread again, wouldn't it affect the face of the royal family again?
"Your Majesty is so guilty, is it really because you are the murderer?"
Xiao Ruyi described Zhao Xingyao's panic as a guilty conscience, which disturbed his mind even more.
From childhood to adulthood, Zhao Xingyao has been the proud son of heaven and the heir apparent of the royal family. He has never encountered such things.
"That's enough! I said, I'm not!"
Zhao Xingyao could only defend himself feebly.
Fortunately, he was not really stupid. A light flashed in his mind, and he sobered up a little: "You said I killed it, so where is the remaining poison? How did I kill it?"
Who would have expected that Xiao Ruyi did not follow the routine at all, and said sadly: "Prince Zhou's palace is so powerful, and the prince is the proud son of heaven, so what's the difficulty in cleaning up all the evidence?"
"..." Zhao Xingyao's eyes widened, as if he realized for the first time what kind of person Xiao Ruyi was.
At this time, the words Ning Qingyan once said came to his mind, and he suddenly felt... so stupid!
Is he going to be so incomprehensible?
Zhao Xingyao is not afraid of killing people.
However, Xiao Yan is the second wife of the Xiao family, not some nameless cat or dog.
If the Xiao family came to the palace to ask for an explanation, how would he explain it?
What's more, Xiao Yan is still his mother-in-law!
"Your Majesty, do you hate me so much?" Xiao Ruyi was heartbroken. "You even want to kill me yourself just to get rid of me?"
"..." Zhao Xingyao was startled.
Yes!
In the eyes of the world, he may not have the motive to kill Xiao Yanshi.
But what about killing Xiao Ruyi?
No! I didn't kill anyone!
Zhao Xingyao was horrified to find that he almost fell into it.
It’s not that I feel that I have killed someone, but that it doesn’t matter whether people kill themselves or not.
Important things, no matter what the truth is, the world will think that the person was killed by him.
Even if he is finally cleared of his grievances, the world will only think that this is his identity and let the government protect him.
Xiao Ruyi clearly saw the change in the expression on his face. When the time came, she said: "Your Majesty, I want to send my mother back to the Xiao family."
Zhao Xingyao stared at her with strange eyes.
Xiao Ruyi didn't care what he thought at all, and continued: "It's just that my mother is dead, and I, a married woman, am homeless."
"I... will accompany you back, and then we will return to the palace." Zhao Xingyao endured the beating of his eyebrows and squeezed out these words from between his lips and teeth.
From an angle that he couldn't see, the corners of Xiao Ruyi's lips curled up almost undetectably.
…
After Zhao Yun left the palace, he returned to Ning Mansion.
What surprised him was that Ning Qingyan was waiting for him.
"Back." Ning Qingyan came towards him with a smile.
Zhao Yun looked a little crazy for a while and could only approach instinctively. "Yeah."
Ning Qingyan blinked, feeling that something was wrong with the way the man looked at her.