When Eunuch Xu heard what Concubine De said, he looked panicked.
He said hurriedly, "You are talking nonsense, Concubine De, I have no grudge against you, so why do you want to frame me?"
As Eunuch Xu spoke, he suddenly pointed at Concubine De and looked as if he suddenly understood, "I know, you must be dissatisfied with the death penalty, so you made up these lies to frame the old slave.
But I was forced to do it, I didn’t want to kill you, I just obeyed my orders, why did you frame me?"
"I framed you falsely?
Are you worthy?"
Concubine De said, raising her head arrogantly, "I did not make this up at all, but I heard it with my own ears.
Back then, Chu Yao loved me very much, so he often invited me to sleep with him.
That night when you came to Prince Yao's Mansion to plot this matter with Chu Yao, I slept in the dormitory inside. At that time, you must have thought that I was asleep, but in fact, my sleep was very light.
When I heard you coming, I was woken up. Then I secretly hid behind the wall and eavesdropped, and I heard your plot to poison the late emperor.
It's a pity that I was very afraid of Chu Yao at the time, and he was my husband. I was afraid that I would die if I revealed this matter, so I acted unconscionably and pretended not to hear about it and reported it to him.
The matter has been buried in my heart for so many years."
"And you also performed great service for Chu Yao by killing the late emperor with poison, so you are still favored by him.
But you didn’t expect that he would abandon you at the critical moment, right?”
When Eunuch Xu heard this, he was stunned for a moment.
Concubine De continued: "Now Chu Yao no longer wants us, and he also wants you to kill us.
It was him who was unkind in the first place, so of course I couldn't bear it and wanted to tell what happened."
Everyone was shocked when they heard what Concubine De said.
Everyone stood there in disbelief, too scared to say anything.
It turned out that the late emperor was poisoned to death by Emperor Hongyuan.
Then Eunuch Xu hurriedly said: "My lord, please don't listen to her one-sided words. She has no basis and what she says does not count at all.
This is simply slander and frame-up, you must not listen to her!"
"Eunuch Xu! Now that things have happened, do you still dare to quibble?"
At this time, Su Ming suddenly stood up and stared at Eunuch Xu coldly.
"Master Su, you..." Seeing Su Ming stand up, Eunuch Xu was suddenly startled.
No wonder Su Ming didn't run away with the emperor, no wonder he took the ministers to greet Chu Xuanchen.
No wonder he was so respectful to Chu Xuanchen just now, almost standing in front of him to respect and entertain him.
It turned out that he had betrayed the emperor a long time ago and wanted to switch to Chu Xuanchen.
"Eunuch Xu, it doesn't matter if you don't plead guilty. I have another witness here."
After Su Ming finished speaking, he looked at Chu Xuanchen and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, Eunuch Xu is not the only witness to what happened back then. I have two other people here. They also know the secret of that year. Please allow them to come to the palace."
Chu Xuanchen looked at Su Ming dimly, but he didn't expect Su Ming to find a witness.
It seemed that he had already prepared for this day.
Chu Xuanchen raised his eyes and said coldly: "Okay, Mr. Su, call the witness."
"Come here, bring witnesses into the temple."
Su Ming waved his sleeves toward the outside of the hall, and immediately several guards walked in with two elderly men.
At this time, all the officials and concubines looked at these two people in shock.
There are many newcomers here who have entered the palace later. They don't know what happened back then, so they all open their eyes and want to know the truth.
After the two old men walked in, Chu Xuanchen suddenly discovered that he was very familiar with these two people.
One of the old men was Pang Yu, the head of the Taiyuan Hospital at that time, who was also the doctor in charge of my father. The other old man was the father-in-law who served my father personally. His name was Zhang Yuan.
The moment he saw Zhang Yuan, Chu Xuanchen was startled.
Because this Zhang Yuan was also the one who covered his mouth in the dark and saved his life when his mother was killed.
He immediately walked over and asked, "Are you Eunuch Zhang?"
The moment Zhang Yuan saw Chu Xuanchen, he quickly looked at him.
Seeing the former boy grow so big in one leap, his eyes immediately turned red!
He immediately knelt down in front of Chu Xuanchen and said: "Slave Zhang Yuan, please bow to Your Highness."
"Eunuch Zhang, please get up quickly."
Chu Xuanchen supported Zhang Yuan and helped him up.
Pang Yu, who was next to him, also knelt on the ground and quickly saluted Chu Xuanchen, "Slave Pang Yu, kowtow to Your Highness."
However, he was different from Zhang Yuan. His eyes were full of guilt and guilt, as well as deep self-blame.
At this time, when Eunuch Xu saw Pang Yu, his body trembled with fright and his eyes were also very shocked.
Chu Xuanchen looked at Pang Yu coldly, with murderous intent in his eyes, "Doctor Pang, so you are still alive?"
Pang Yu nodded hurriedly, "Yes, after the late emperor was poisoned and died, Chu Yao was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he wanted to kill several of us involved imperial doctors to silence them.
At that time, the other three imperial doctors were silenced by Chu Yao first. The younger one knew that Chu Yao would definitely not let me go. The younger one had some friendship with Lord Su at that time, so he went to ask Lord Su for help."
"Mr. Su felt sorry for Xiao Xiao, so he gave Xiao Xiao a bottle of fake death medicine. When Eunuch Xu brought poisonous wine to poison Xiao Xiao, Xiao took advantage of his unpreparedness and replaced the glass of poison wine with a glass of poisoned wine.
Wine that fakes death.
Then, after the little one drank the wine, he fainted! Because the little one had taken the fake death drug in advance, the corners of his mouth were bleeding and he showed symptoms of poisoning, so he deceived Eunuch Xu.
Later, Master Su sent people to collect the body of the little one, and he sent people to take the little one out of the palace, and gave him the antidote, and then he saved his life."