The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 724 Who Poisoned (6)
The emperor ordered someone to summon Imperial Physician Sun and his young apprentice, and Qingchen continued to ask: "Princess Gu, when you came out of the Imperial Hospital, did you go directly to the Shouan Palace? Did you go to any other places along the way?" place?"

Gu Yunfeng replied puzzledly: "When you go back to your mother, it's already getting late. The queen mother summoned me, and I didn't dare to delay, and I didn't go to other places on the way."

"Then when you came back, before you met Little Mencius, have you been to other places?"

Gu Yunfeng still replied: "The imperial doctor is not allowed to be summoned at night, and he is not allowed to walk around in the harem at will. I know the rules in the palace and dare not stay for a long time, so I have never been to other places."

At this moment, Xiao Jun seemed to have understood her intention of asking these words, with an appreciative smile on the corner of her mouth, and Qing Chen continued to ask: "Then after you entered the Shou'an Palace, where did you put the lantern? Is it always burning?" Yes, or is it off?"

Gu Yunfeng recalled: "I remember that after entering the Shou'an Palace, I extinguished the lantern and put it on the corridor outside the palace. When I left, it was the little maid in the Empress Dowager's Palace who brought the lantern to see me out. Walking to the Taiye Lake, the candle will burn out."

Qingchen had already confirmed his thoughts at this moment, and said to the emperor Fushen: "Your majesty, this concubine wants to take a look at Gu Yunfeng's own lantern. Besides, the emperor and sister Li must have heard clearly. Gu Yunfeng said that he owns a lantern. The candles in the lantern were newly replaced, and the concubine calculated the distance from the Imperial Hospital to the Shouan Palace. Even if she walked back and forth with a lantern, there were more than enough candles in the lantern, and she would never burn out halfway. , if the emperor and concubine Li don't believe it, we can find someone to go and test it now to see if what the concubine said is correct?"

"So?" Xiao Jun's gaze deepened a little bit, and he said in a deep voice, "You mean to say that the candle in the lantern must have been tampered with, so it burned out halfway through, so that little Mencius can successfully burn out the candle. The lantern in his hand was given to Gu Yunfeng as evidence that they met at a critical moment. Someone had already planned all this and arranged for Little Mencius to wait for Imperial Physician Gu there in advance."

Qingchen bowed his head and said: "The concubine dare not speculate, what she said was just a candle."

If it was said that the candles in the lantern had been changed by someone, the people in the Empress Dowager's palace were the most suspected. How could Qingchen suspect the Empress Dowager in front of the emperor and everyone?
Xiao Jun had already realized the seriousness of the matter at this time, and ordered with a livid face: "Go to the Imperial Hospital and get the lantern that Gu Yunfeng used, and let me have a look."

Immediately a young eunuch responded, and at this time Sun Dexin also brought his little apprentice to Bixiao Palace, waiting for the emperor to summon him to testify.

Xiao Jun asked a few simple questions, and Sun Dexin replied truthfully, the answer was exactly the same as what Gu Yunfeng said.

Concubine Li walked up to Qingchen and said with a low smile: "I always thought that the queen mother can't tolerate me, so it's fine, but she can't even tolerate you. When she gets rid of Gu Yunfeng, replaces your imperial physician, and dismisses you." The helper of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the next thing to deal with is the child in your womb. If you are unfavored like Xin Chongrong, and the queen mother thinks that you are not a threat from Qin Jieyu, then she may not take action against you. "

Qingchen knew that Concubine Li was taking pleasure in other people's misfortunes, but she didn't want to be with her. That was the Empress Dowager, even if the emperor was not close to her, she was still her own mother. She could plot against others, but the emperor would never allow anyone to plot against her!

Ignoring Concubine Li's provocation, Qingchen said calmly: "As long as you know that I didn't intend to harm you, that's fine, there is no need to say anything else."

Concubine Li asked unwillingly: "The Queen Mother wants to kill two birds with one stone, but the arrow is not only pointed at me!"

Qingchen still looked into the distance, and replied indifferently: "We each rely on our own ability, life and death are fate, we cannot force it."

Concubine Li narrowed her eyes slightly, nodded lightly, gritted her teeth and said, "Very well, so you would rather die than cooperate with me, so I have nothing to say. You are too high on the emperor's kindness to you." Beloved, cut off your favor before you are old, and within three years, when your favor is gone, you will definitely regret today's decision."

"Concubine Li didn't realize that you talked too much today?" Seeing that a little eunuch had already brought back the lantern that Gu Yunfeng used, Qing Chen ordered, "Open it, and let the emperor and Concubine Li take a look at the lantern inside." Candle."

The little eunuch quickly followed orders and removed the base of the lantern, and saw that the white wax had accumulated on the base, but there were some traces of melted red wax, Qingchen asked Gu Yunfeng: "Did you use red wax or white wax that night? "

Gu Yunfeng frowned deeply, looked at the emperor uneasily, hesitated for a while and replied: "The Imperial Hospital has always used white wax."

His voice was not loud, with a slightly heavy meaning. The whole hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence. The quieter it was, the more uncomfortable it would be to suffocate.At this time, Qingchen didn't even dare to make any small moves, for fear of attracting the emperor's attention and making him angry.

There are several places in the palace where white wax is not used. One is where the empress dowagers of the two palaces are. Older people like festive colors, so they have always used red special beeswax, but the empresses do not use white wax. auspicious.As for other places, the white wax uniformly distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs is used.

The base of Gu Yunfeng's lantern was covered with tears of wax, but the top layer had some red tears of wax. Needless to say, the emperor should understand what happened next.It was precisely because she understood that Xiao Jun was so embarrassed at this moment, she couldn't vent her anger, and didn't know how to end it, only hearing the emperor's heavy panting.

There was a clear "crack" sound, and a sapphire teacup in the emperor's hand was thrown out, and the jade balls splashed everywhere on the ground. Everyone was so shocked that they couldn't help but take two steps back, but no one dared to make a sound. They just held their breath and bowed their heads in silence.

"I'm going to ask the queen mother what's going on!"

The emperor was about to go out as he said that, Concubine Li grabbed the emperor's sleeves quickly, knelt on the ground and begged, "Your Majesty, please think twice..."

With a dark face, Xiao Jun turned her head coldly and ordered: "Let go of me!"

At this time, the more people there are, the more difficult it is for the emperor to come down, so Qingchen ordered softly: "Gag the mouth of Little Mencius and imprison him for punishment, and then you all step back. Today's incident happened in Bixiao Palace. If Whoever dares to leak half a word shall bear the consequences."

After the whole room echoed, all the people in the hall retreated, even the maids serving in Concubine Li's palace also retreated wisely.

Xiao Jun asked coldly: "What are you going to do?"

(End of this chapter)