Unlike Xiao Lan who turned pale with fear, Li Yue looked noble and gentle and was not afraid.
She was wearing a moon-white dress, with a jade hairpin holding thousands of strands of green silk in place, and her broken hair on her temples fluttering lightly, like the moon covered by light clouds, like the snow covered by the flowing wind.
Not only was Yin Yuli puzzled, but even the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty couldn't figure out how a girl who seemed so quiet and well-behaved could be so vicious and frame others up and go to jail.
"Your Majesty, I plead guilty! But I also ask Your Majesty to let my father and family go. They have no knowledge of what I have done."
Li Yue's voice was like an oriole's cry, and there seemed to be waves in his eyes.
"What's the deep hatred between you and Jinse? Why did you frame him?"
"To report to the Emperor, I have no enmity with him, but because he refused to treat my mother, I had no choice but to find another way!"
"Find another way? Do you want to wait until he is ruined and then threaten him and ask him to treat your mother?"
"Exactly so!"
"It's really confusing. That Jinse has a very arrogant temperament and is determined to retaliate. He knows clearly that it was you who framed him, so he would rather die than treat your mother."
"Yes! Your Majesty's guess is correct. In the past ten days, Jinse has refused to agree."
"That's all! I think of your filial piety, so I won't punish you with death! But the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped! From today on, Li Qingshu will be removed from his official position, the property of the entire Li family will be confiscated, and they will be demoted to common people!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing me!" The Li family's father and daughter kowtowed and thanked him.
Huo Ji's face darkened little by little. Li Yue wanted to expose the matter lightly! How could it be that easy?
"Your Majesty! What I said before was only half of what I said. The mother-in-law did not die of illness, but was poisoned!"
Li Yue's expression finally changed, and her heart suddenly fell into the abyss.
"Poison? Huo Qing, have you found the murderer?"
"After Grandma Sun's death, Qiao Yuxin did not bury her alive, but rolled her up in a torn straw mat and threw her in a mass grave. The minister sent people to find the body in the mass grave. After conducting an autopsy, it was found that Sun
My mother-in-law died of a poison called Burial Flower."
"What does this poison do?"
"This poison comes from the Xiliang Cuina tribe, which is Li Yue's mother's family! Those who take this poison will have high fever day and night within fifteen days, but this is just an illusion and will not cause death. They will only bleed from the seven orifices fifteen days later and die.
Death. The poison in the body will not leave traces, but Grandma Sun is old. How could she not die if she really had a high fever for more than ten days? This is obviously not in line with common sense!"
"Do you have any evidence?"
"I asked people to visit all the medical clinics in Phoenix City, and finally found out that Xiaolan went to the medical clinic at the beginning of the month to buy medicinal materials. Those medicinal materials could be used to prepare Burial Flower Toxin. It seems that they did not want to frame Jinse at first, but
It was because I felt ashamed that I killed someone in revenge!"
Xiaolan hurriedly explained: "I bought the tonic for my wife! Our wife is seriously ill. Isn't it right for me to buy medicine for our wife?"
Huo Ji suddenly asked Li Qingshu: "Master Li, your current wife should be supported by a concubine, right?"
Li Qingshu's expression had just recovered a little, but he was so frightened that his heart stopped for half a beat.
"Yes, so what?"
"Master Li, just admit it! Your Majesty, Master Li spoiled his concubine and destroyed his wife. His previous wife also died in a flower burial!"
"You're talking nonsense! Huo Ji! Don't think that just because you have military exploits, you can slander us!"
Huo Ji raised his lips: "Master Li, I have good news here. Do you want to hear it?"
Good news!
The good news from Huo Ji must be bad news for him.
Before he could say anything, Huo Ji said again: "Master Li, in fact, your wife Tang is not dead, and your eldest son is also still alive."
"How is that possible?! I watched her die before my eyes! How could she not die!"
Li Qingshu seemed to have remembered something, and his face turned green and white for a while.
Huo Ji added: "Your Majesty, the scholar Tang Zhixing who won the first prize in the literary competition, his mother was Li Qingshu's first wife! She did not die that year, but fortunately she was treated by a miracle doctor.
The poison had entered his heart and he had been seriously ill for many years. Fortunately, Jinse rescued him and saved his life. A few days ago, Tang Zhixing was chased on the street. When we found his whereabouts, we found that he was already dying.
Fortunately, after several days of treatment, Tang Zhixing's life has been saved, and he and Tang are now outside the palace!"
A trip to the Tang Dynasty?
Li Yue suddenly remembered the man he had met outside Jinxuan Hospital at the beginning of the month. Unexpectedly, he was his half-brother!
"Xuan!"
"The Emperor has an edict that the Xuan Tang family will come to the audience! The Xuan Tang family will come to the audience!" Eunuch Luo shouted again with a prolonged tone.
Everyone turned around and saw Tang Zhixing sitting in a wheelchair, being pushed into the hall by a woman with frosty white hair.
The two of them supported each other and wanted to kneel down to salute, but Yin Yuli waved his hand and said: "No need to be more polite, Mrs. Tang, I ask you, what is your relationship with Li Qingshu?"
Tang Shuxian kowtowed solemnly and then replied: "Back to the emperor, I was once married to him! Back then, he doted on his concubine Yang Ying'er, and they teamed up to take away my dowry and killed my father! Wait until they
After eating away at our Tang family's wealth bit by bit, he gave me the poison of flower burial! I almost died! I was penniless at the time, so I took Xing'er to beg all the way back to my mother's house! But I
It was discovered that the Tang family had been bleeding like a river for a long time, and no one was alive! We, mother and son, lived anonymously and cautiously for many years, until Xing'er said that he wanted to take the imperial examination and seek justice for us, mother and son."
Thinking about the past, Tang Zhixing's mother was heartbroken and burst into tears.
Yin Yuli had never enjoyed maternal love, and he didn't know what the relationship between mother and son was. But when he saw mother and son hugging each other and crying, he suddenly felt a little envious in his heart.
Huo Ji continued: "Your Majesty! Tiger poison cannot eat its children! But after Li Qingshu learned about Tang Zhixing's traces, he sent people to hunt him down! How can there be such a vicious father in this world? He is in vain to be a father! He is in vain to be a husband! He is in vain to be a husband!
As human beings! The father and daughter are guilty of many crimes! And Yang Ying'er is even more of a poisonous woman! Please, Your Majesty, punish the entire Li family!"
"Please, Your Majesty, punish the Li family!"
"Please, Your Majesty, punish the Li family!"
Many ministers responded.
Li Qingshu wanted to argue a few more words, but for some reason, he fell silent again, perhaps because he didn't know how to argue.
Yin Yuli sighed and said: "Eunuch Luo! Tell me my will! Li Qingshu spoiled his concubine and destroyed his wife, and colluded with his concubine Yang Ying'er to poison his wife! In order to plot the Tang family's property, they destroyed their entire family! Li Qingshu's daughter Li Yue ordered his maid and Qiao Yu to harm her
Sun’s life! The Li family’s crimes are heinous! Tomorrow at noon! All of them will be beheaded at the downtown entrance to show the public!”