Glory all the way

Chapter 305 Miscalculation
"If it's allowed, I would like to see the sachet on Gouzi's body. Is it possible?"

Bai Yingluo raised her voice and asked.

"Why, could the imperial physician wrong you? When you came to greet me, I could see clearly that there was indeed a sachet hanging on him. Do you think that the maid of the East Palace, or the Will it be planted to frame you?"

Seemingly angry at Bai Yingluo's refusal to admit her guilt obediently, what the Crown Princess said was righteous.

Bai Yingluo didn't say a word, but just looked at the princess so firmly, her cold and calm eyes made everyone around her feel that something was wrong.

"Since the imperial physician presents evidence, it is necessary for everyone to see clearly. Present it..."

Emperor Jiayuan spoke.

The concubine's complexion darkened, and she raised her eyes to look at the maidservants in the inner hall just now. After a while, two maidservants came out holding trays, and on one of them was the incense stick untied from Brother Yan's body. In the pouch, on the other tray is the little padded jacket worn by the Second Prince just now.

"Mrs. Du, come and see, is this the sachet on your son's body?"

The queen held it in her hand and looked at it, then put it in front of her nose and sniffed it, Fang raised her head and said to Bai Yingluo.

Thank you, Bai Yingluo stepped forward to take the sachet, smelled it, and said with a firm face: "If you go back to your mother, the sachet must come from the Du Mansion, but the incense is not emitted from the sachet. Yes. I also ask the empress to learn from it."

"Mrs. Du, the Empress Dowager, the Emperor, and the Empress are all here. If you are sensible, you may be able to punish the Jing'an Hou Mansion and the Du Mansion lightly if you plead guilty as soon as possible. If you forcefully argue, it may be counterproductive."

The Crown Princess scolded.

Now, what is not clear about Bai Yingluo?

It was clear that the eldest prince was on the verge of death, and the concubine wanted to get rid of Lin Zhimei by making trouble, but she just dragged herself along.

Among them, it was naturally Dou Xiuqiao's handwriting, and Bai Yingluo knew it well.

At this moment, seeing that the Crown Princess must rely on herself for this debt, Bai Yingluo couldn't help becoming angry.

She allows others to plot against her, but she absolutely does not allow them to plot against her son. If she can't even protect her son, she will be a mother in vain.

Thinking like this, Bai Yingluo looked back at the palace maid and said, "I don't know if there are scissors, lend me some."

There was a hint of hesitation on the maidservant's face, after all, what Bai Yingluo borrowed was a sharp weapon, with so many nobles at the moment, who knows what she will do.

But the queen noticed something from it, she glanced at the crown princess with deep eyes, she turned her head and stared at the palace maid and shouted sharply: "Hurry up and get it?"

Hearing this, the palace maid didn't dare to hesitate anymore, turned around and fetched a pair of scissors from the inner hall and handed them to Bai Yingluo.

After cutting open the sachet in two or three strokes, Bai Yingluo dumped all the contents on the tray in one go.

It's not the incense sticks in ordinary people's sachets, or something next to it, but some dried flower petals.

While fiddling with those petals, Bai Yingluo explained: "My husband always wears a sachet, and a few days ago, I was playing with the dog, and the dog accidentally grabbed the sachet, and he never let it go. , seems to like it very much. He is only five months old, how can he bear such a fragrance? The concubine then replaced the tasteless dried flower petals and hung the sachet on him, thinking that he would catch it when he felt bored. Playing in your hands."

"There are lilac petals, chrysanthemum petals, and lily petals in it, all of which have been exposed to the sun in summer. Even if they have a fragrance, I'm afraid they can't be smelled faintly. But the scent on the sachet But the smell is extremely strong, it doesn't come from the sachet at all, it's clearly someone deliberately doing it."

Bai Yingluo felt indescribably distressed and indignant at the thought of her son's face being wrinkled by the strong fragrance and about to cry because of grievance.

The Crown Princess stood up furiously, as if she wanted to compete with Bai Yingluo.

"Since your son was carried into the inner hall, the wet nurse who served him also followed. Why, don't you still suspect that the people in this palace deliberately framed him and put the fragrance on the sachet?"

At this moment, the princess is not as dignified and steady as before.

"The concubine will prove it."

Speaking confidently, Bai Yingluo cut off the embroidered cloth on the outside of the sachet and spread it out on the tray.

Except for the outermost layer of brocade, there are layers of interlining inside, which are all soft and coarse cloth, which is why it is soft and full in the hand. The color is yellow to white, it can be seen that someone has turned the incense into water and applied it on the sachet.

The temperature in the inner hall was quite high, and the sachet had already been dried, so with a cursory look, it was impossible to notice that the sachet had been tampered with.

Even with the nursing mother guarding the side, it would be easy to tamper with the sachet in the cradle to avoid people's eyes, right?
The Crown Princess' face turned pale, she raised her eyes and stared at the maidservants and said, "Who, who of you did such a thing?"

Several maidservants guarding the inner hall fell to their knees one after another, but no one dared to answer. The Crown Princess's sob became more and more sad, "My Rui'er, my poor Rui'er."

Since the prince entered the main hall, and since he saw the eldest prince, he has been sitting beside him in a daze, without saying a word.

After listening for a long time, he seemed to gradually understand some truths.

His eyes were full of sinister aura, and his eyes glided over the maidservants and nurses in the inner hall. He said in a deep voice, "Who did it? If you don't take it seriously, you will all be dragged to Shen Xingsi and beaten to death with sticks." .”

Several palace maids and two wet nurses kowtowed in disobedience, and called "Your Highness, forgive me", but no one answered. The prince became angry, and raised his voice to order the guards standing outside the palace gate to take the Several people dragged them to the Department of Shenxing.

One of the palace servants knew that she would have to shed several layers of skin after entering the Shen Xing Division, so she hurriedly admitted that when she was going to cover the three children with quilts, the incense bottle in her sleeve slipped out, and happened to fall on the Du Mansion. On the young master's sachet.

Such an excuse sounds too far-fetched, and everyone knows that servants in the palace are not allowed to wear these bottles and jars, especially palace maids, who are not allowed to use incense on their bodies at all.

What's more, what a coincidence that the bottle fell beside the sachet?He didn't pour it on the clothes or quilt, but why did he pour it on the sachet, implicating Brother Yan?

Although it only cleared up the doubts on the sachet, it is an indisputable fact that the eldest prince has lost his breath. The queen mother looked sharply at the imperial physician who was still kneeling beside her and said, "Did the eldest prince really die of asthma?"

Although the sachet was tampered with, the fluff inside the First Prince's mouth and nose was not fake, it couldn't have been forcibly stuffed in his mouth and nose, right?

Doctor Xu nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

The Crown Princess was about to pin the problem on the padded jacket, when Lin Zhimei stood up and grabbed her skirt preemptively, "You are so vicious, you actually wanted to harm my son."

After finishing speaking, Lin Zhimei stood up, grabbed the bright yellow jacket on the tray in her hand, and quickly peeled off the jacket, revealing the sapphire blue jacket inside.

The princess's eyes darkened.

Lin Zhimei has already started crying regardless of her image, "The concubine knew that the princess was not so kind. A few days ago, she had to announce that the concubine was going to hold a half-year-old banquet for the second prince. This morning, the concubine She sent someone to bring this padded jacket, saying that she specially ordered the people in Yuyifang to make it for the second prince. The second prince had already dressed it up, and the concubine thought it was the crown princess's wish, and today was a good day, so she She replaced it for the second prince, but unexpectedly, she had such a plan, my child..."

The little padded jacket was waved wildly by Lin Zhimei, and after a while, tiny catkins and goose feathers flew out of the armhole.

Weeping sadly, Lin Zhimei glared at the princess, left the little padded jacket in her hand, got up and ran into the inner hall.

In an instant, the second prince was carried out. The second prince, who was only wrapped in a small unlined garment, was held in Lin Zhimei's arms. When he opened the unlined garment, the second prince's body was covered with red spots the size of needlepoints.

"Empress Dowager, empress empress, look, my poor Xiang'er..."

Lin Zhimei hugged the second prince and knelt down in front of the queen mother and cried.

The sachet and padded jacket were indeed the work of the Crown Princess, but she did not expect to be exposed. She thought that the death of the First Prince would make Emperor Jiayuan and the Crown Prince angry. When the time came, Lin Zhimei and Bai Yingluo would be punished. As soon as the maidservant in the inner hall was executed, this matter would end like this. Unexpectedly, Bai Yingluo would find out the fault from the sachet.

But at this moment, with the shocking red dots on the second prince's body, the princess felt cold in her heart. She never thought that she would not succeed in plotting against Lin Zhimei, and now she was beaten up by Lin Zhimei. rake.

From the crown prince to the enthronement of Emperor Jiayuan, such things happened from time to time in the harem, and countless princes died because of this.

At this moment, he couldn't see where it was. It was clear that the Crown Princess and the Crown Prince's side concubine had resorted to tactics in order to compete for favor, while the First Prince and the Second Prince had become victims.

Glancing at the empress, seeing her nodding, Emperor Jiayuan stood up and looked at the crown prince, saying: "Getting married and starting a business, family affairs are not peaceful, how can you rule the world?"

"Father and emperor calm down, son and minister are convicted..."

Kneeling down to confess the crime, the crown prince said in a deep voice: "The eldest prince died young. As a father, my heart aches. I don't want to delay my father's handling of political affairs because of this matter. I also invite my father to return to the palace. My son will definitely find out the real culprit and punish him severely." No loan."

Nodding in response, Emperor Jiayuan turned his head and whispered something to the queen mother, and walked out of the East Palace with the queen's left and right arms.

"Mrs. Du, today is not your fault. You have been wronged, and I will come to your house someday to make amends."

The prince knew Bai Yingluo, and before he knew the princess and Du Xuan, he also knew Bai Yingluo's character, and the prince had planned to reuse Du Xuan, and now that something like this happened, the prince was very angry with the princess. Yingluo could only say such comforting words.

Bai Yingluo knelt down to thank her, hugged Brother Yan, and followed the prince's servants out of the palace.

The door of the palace was opened and closed, sending away group after group of people, and the people who had come to the banquet and stayed in the side hall were all sent to the gate of the inner palace by the female officials sent by the queen, and they left the palace in soft sedan chairs. up.

The door of the palace was closed again, and the crown prince sitting in the main seat looked at the pale and weeping crown princess and Lin Zhimei, stared at Xu Taiyi with cold eyes and said: "What happened in this hall, apart from the crown princess, I'm afraid you are the one who knows best. If you tell the truth, you will be punished lightly. After all, you are instigated by others. But if you refuse to confess and murder the prince, it is a crime to punish the nine clans. Your Xu family A family, can bear this disaster of extermination?"

In a word, Imperial Physician Xu trembled like a sieve, and the face of the Crown Princess, who was already pale, was as dead ashes.

(End of this chapter)