After Xiao Fubao's life was stolen, he became the favorite of everyone in the capital

Chapter 328: A Fraud

The little girl's words shocked everyone.

"Niuniu actually knows so much?" The Queen Mother was still in the state of "my baby is the best".

The emperor couldn't help but think: "Your father actually knows how to solve cases?"

Niuniu said: "I don't know if Daddy knows how to solve cases, but he has told me a lot of stories about solving cases, so he should know."

The emperor hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not ask Gu Mingda for help. After all, the matter involved the palace, and he did not want to involve outsiders unless necessary.

"My dear, you come from a family of learned people. Let me test you. Where should I start?" After the emperor said this, he immediately felt that he was desperate and was trying every possible means.

If there was really no other way, I wouldn't ask a six-year-old girl such questions.

Niuniu didn't think the emperor was joking with her. She wanted to help the empress dowager solve the problem, so she tilted her head and asked, "I don't know how the empress dowager got poisoned, but she either ate something, smelled something, or used something she shouldn't have used."

The emperor glanced at Qian Rongsheng.

Qian Rongsheng, who had been watching the whole thing, hurriedly said, "Miss Gu, check everything the Empress Dowager eats and uses, including incense, to make sure nothing is left out."

Niu Niu glanced at Li Shunfu who was standing beside her. It seemed that everyone in the palace called her "Miss Gu", and she was not used to it.

Li Shunfu naturally understood what the little girl was thinking, and gave his colleague an example on the spot: "Niuniu, where do you think there is something missing?"

Qian Rongsheng looked at Li Shunfu in surprise.

Niuniu asked, "Have you really checked everything out?"

Qian Rongsheng: "That's natural. A large group of people checked three times together and there really is nothing missing."

The emperor thought that Niu Niu would be at a loss after hearing this.

Unexpectedly, the little girl frowned slightly, and after a moment, she came close to the Queen Mother and asked in a low voice: "Grandma Queen Mother, have you ever secretly eaten or used anything without telling anyone?"

When the Queen Mother heard this, she couldn't help laughing. She tapped the little girl's forehead with her hand and said, "Do you think I am you? When you were at home, did you often sneak snacks behind your parents' backs?"

When Niuniu heard this, a guilty look flashed across her face, and she said, "Grandma Queen Mother, you and I are best friends, please don't tell my parents about this!"

The Queen Mother liked Niuniu and was just enjoying this intimate atmosphere. She did not continue to embarrass the child and said, "Okay, okay, I promise not to report you."

Qian Rongsheng, who was standing by, seemed to have been reminded and asked, "Empress Dowager, do you have anything that you occasionally ate or used in the past? Not often, but you would use it when you remembered it?"

When the Queen Mother heard this, she gently stroked her temple with her right hand and tried hard to recall, but she couldn't remember for a moment.

The emperor looked at Li Fushun and Nanny Sun, whom the empress dowager relied on the most. These two people were also the only two people in Shoukang Palace who had not been interrogated. He asked, "The empress dowager can't remember it at the moment. Don't you two personal servants remember it either?"

It was Nanny Sun who served her personally more often, and she took the initiative to say, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother occasionally takes tranquilizing soup. During this period, the Queen Mother has been sleeping well at night, and she has not taken tranquilizing soup for a while."

Qian Rongsheng immediately said, "In reply to your Majesty, I have checked Shoukang Palace three times and did not see the so-called tranquilizing medicine. When I interrogated the servants, they did not mention the tranquilizing medicine either."

The emperor looked at Nanny Sun and asked, "Where is the tranquilizing medicine? Where are the herbs?" Nanny Sun quickly explained, "Your Majesty, this tranquilizing medicine is taken every time it is needed. The Imperial Hospital sends five packets at a time. They were all used up before, and they haven't been asked for more. However, it is always prepared by Imperial Doctor Li himself. It is said that his prescription is different from others. The last time he took the medicine was a month and a half ago."

It's normal that I can't think of it for the time being as it's been such a long time.

"Has the person responsible for making the medicine been interrogated?" the emperor asked.

Qian Rongsheng hurriedly said: "The person who boiled the medicine was also the focus of interrogation, and no abnormalities were found."

Nanny Sun explained, "The maid who used to make the medicine made a big mistake, so I sent her away. The one who is in charge of making the medicine now is the new maid."

"What mistake?" asked the emperor.

Nanny Sun said, "That maid is a sneaky person who doesn't do her job carefully. She even often mixes up the medicine that the Empress Dowager wants to use. So I sent her to the laundry department."

From the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace to the laundry bureau, it can be said that it was a fall from heaven to hell. This punishment was very severe.

It was precisely because she was sent away a month ago that she was not found in this investigation.

The emperor just glanced at Qian Rongsheng, and he immediately bowed and walked out.

Not long after, someone brought over the empress dowager's pulse diagnosis from a month ago.

After several old doctors examined the case together, the results they gave made the emperor somewhat disappointed.

"Although the proportion of medicinal ingredients in Li Taiyi's tranquilizing decoction is quite different from others, doctors should make adjustments based on the actual conditions of the patients when prescribing medicine, so it's not a big problem."

"Is it possible that Doctor Li mixed poison into the tranquilizing soup in order to assassinate the empress dowager?" Qian Rongsheng asked on behalf of the emperor.

Upon hearing this, several imperial doctors looked at each other.

"The coming and going of medicinal materials in the Imperial Medical Bureau are recorded. If obviously incorrect medicinal materials were mixed in, it should have been discovered long ago. Unless he mixed the poison into powder and sprinkled it in the medicine bag, if the palace maid who was making the medicine was careless, it might have been mixed in." Doctor Liu said.

Although the truth of this matter has not yet been determined, we now have a direction.

Half a day later, the testimony of the little palace maid who had previously boiled the medicine came out.

Although the young palace maid was careless, she noticed that there was indeed a lot of white powder in the medicine bag every time she boiled medicine.

It’s just that because the tranquilizing decoction contains an ingredient called Poria cocos, which easily forms white debris when dispersed, no one has thought much about it.

Imperial Physician Liu was now trying to take advantage of someone's illness, and he quickly added, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Hospital uses only high-quality medicinal materials, and the Poria cocos used is very solid. The ones used for the Empress Dowager are also the best medicinal materials, which are not easy to loosen into powder."

The emperor did not avoid Niuniu and said to Qian Rongsheng, "Send someone to interrogate Doctor Li again and trick him."

Niuniu immediately said, "I understand. In the case my father talked about, they relied on trickery to get the stupid criminal to confess."

The Queen Mother held Niu Niu in her arms and never expected that a six-year-old child could actually help.

Niuniu puffed out her belly and proudly brought up the past: "Grandma Queen Mother, I told you long ago that I can do a lot of things and help a lot!"