Chen Shaoxuan nodded, and the middle hall suddenly fell silent, with a faint weirdness floating in the air.
"It seems that someone really framed Xiao Bao'er, and Xiao Bao'er was blocked by someone without knowing it!" Zhao Yuan clenched his fists, feeling a sense of self-blame in his heart. Not only did he let Leng
Chang Xi was in danger alone, yet she still didn't trust her so much.
"I'm afraid things are not that simple." Chen Shaoxuan said slowly.
"What do you say?" Zhao Yuan looked at him, not caring about the discomfort in his heart at this moment. Even if he was a love rival, as long as he could find out the truth and Leng Changxi was innocent, he would not care too much.
"Actually, what I brought back to Qingtao that day was not arsenic!"
Chen Shaoxuan's words immediately made Zhao Yuan feel a sudden shock in his heart.
"Lingfeng and I both felt that it was too strange for her to suddenly ask for arsenic from us, so we did not actually give arsenic, but used supplements such as ginseng powder and snow lotus powder as powder." Chen Shaoxuan continued.
Zhao Yuan and Chen Shaoxuan looked at each other, their expressions becoming more solemn. He originally thought that someone just wanted to use Leng Changxi's hand to get rid of King Xi, and Leng Changxi was just used as a scapegoat. But now, listening to Zhao Yuan
After those words, he actually had the feeling that the person coming was not only targeting his father, but also Leng Changxi.
"If the things that little baby put in his meals were really these, there would be no problem at all. But my father was poisoned by arsenic, and the arsenic was also mixed with other drugs that delay the effects of the medicine.
After passing the test of the food testers, it was clear that he was going to kill my father..." The more Zhao Yuan spoke, the more frightened he became.
"Not only that." Chen Shaoxuan glanced at Zhao Yuan solemnly: "I sneaked into the dungeon last night and asked Xiao Baoer before I found out that Qingtao gave her a note after she returned, saying it was written by me.
Yes, it said that King Xi wanted to harm her, and I asked her to put medicine into King Xi's meal. The medicine was just a laxative. When King Xi sent people out of the mansion to find the doctor, I could take the opportunity to sneak into the mansion.
I rescued her, but I didn’t let her bring any note to Little Baoer at all. That night, because Little Baoer couldn’t get out of the courtyard door of the west wing, Qingtao volunteered to help her with the medicine. But she couldn’t do it anyway.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a frame-up."
Hearing this, a deep murderous intent flashed across Zhao Yuan's eyes. He didn't expect that someone would come up with such a vicious plan to kill two birds with one stone, and he obviously almost fell into the opponent's plan.
He slapped his palm heavily on the coffee table beside him. Suddenly, a crack appeared on the pear wood coffee table.
"If what you say is what you say, there is something very wrong with this Qingtao!" Zhao Yuan squinted her eyes and pursed her thin lips tightly.
"I'm afraid Qingtao is just an abandoned child, and the person behind her is the real mastermind." Chen Shaoxuan expressed his innermost speculation.
Zhao Yuan immediately understood what he meant and called Butler Zhao in with a deep voice: "Butler Zhao, ask someone to bring Qing Tao over! I want to bring him to trial in person."
Butler Zhao raised his head and glanced at Zhao Yuan in surprise, then at Chen Shaoxuan, and immediately realized shrewdly that there might be some conspiracy behind the prince's murder case, so he hurriedly turned around and walked towards the dungeon to take custody in person.
Green peach.
After a while, Butler Zhao escorted the embarrassed Qing Tao to the middle hall. He wanted to retreat, but was stopped by Zhao Yuan: "Butler Zhao, you are here to watch and be a witness."
Qingtao had been trembling on her knees since she was brought here. She had been frightened for several days, had not had enough to eat, and had been exposed to the cold in the dungeon, which made her chubby body seem to have shrunk a bit.
"Are you Qingtao?" Zhao Yuan asked coldly, looking at Chen Shaoxuan.
After Chen Shaoxuan took a look, he nodded gently.
"Yes, this slave is Qingtao..." Qingtao's head was close to the ground and she didn't dare to lift it up at all.
"Then do you know what crime you have committed?" Zhao Yuan's voice was a little colder again, which was chilling to hear.
The aura around him crushed Qingtao to death.
"Yuan, Young Master Yuan..." On the way here, Butler Zhao had already warned her that it was Zhao Yuan who was going to interrogate her today: "Slave, I just did what Miss Leng said! Young Master Yuan, please have mercy!"
"Hmph! Are you still unwilling to tell the truth?" Zhao Yuan snorted coldly.
"Mr. Yuan, what I have always told you is the truth. I confessed everything to Butler Zhao that day. The medicine was indeed given by me, but I didn't know it. Miss Leng said it was a tonic and asked me to put it in.
"Qing Tao's voice was trembling.
"Is that medicine hers?" Zhao Yuan recalled everything Butler Zhao had reported to him before, including Qingtao's insistence that the medicine belonged to Leng Changxi.
"Yes!" Qingtao nodded.
"Are you sure it's hers? Not someone else's?" Zhao Yuan pressed again.
"Yes!" Qingtao kept her head down since she entered the door, so she didn't notice Chen Shaoxuan's existence at all.
When Chen Shaoxuan heard her answer, he sneered at the corner of his lips and said slowly: "Then how come I remember that I gave you the medicine?"
As soon as he said these words, Butler Zhao's whole body was shaken. At the same time, Qing Tao's entire face suddenly changed color, and he was shocked.
"That, that..." Qing Tao panicked and knelt on the ground uneasily, her eyes fluttering around.
At this time, Butler Zhao also saw some clues and looked at Qingtao angrily with his eyes.
"Tell me, what did I ask you to bring to Little Bao'er?" Chen Shaoxuan asked slowly.
"Mr. Young Master..." Qing Tao bit her lower lip lightly and decided not to admit her guilt: "Did Young Master admit that he was wrong? Qing Tao has never met Young Master, let alone knows who Young Master is. Young Master must not accuse Qing Tao unjustly!"
The sneer on Chen Shaoxuan's lips widened, this Qingtao is really not simple: "Why do you want me to bring everyone who saw you that day to confront you?"
"Sir, if you want to make false accusations, there is really nothing I can do about it. Of course the people you called all accused me in unison!" Qingtao relied on Chen Shaoxuan's lack of evidence and decided to fight to the death.
Chen Shaoxuan narrowed his phoenix eyes with a cold look on his face. When Zhao Yuan heard what she said, he glanced at Chen Shaoxuan lightly.
"Evidence?" Chen Shaoxuan's voice became colder again: "Then let me find it for you!"
As he spoke, he stepped forward, grabbed Qingtao's hand with one hand, and carefully pinched her cuff with the other.
When Qingtao saw this, she felt guilty and struggled: "Master, please let go. Although I am a prisoner now, I still have self-respect!"
Why did Chen Shaoxuan care so much about her? The more she struggled, the more it proved that there was something wrong up her sleeve. Therefore, Chen Shaoxuan searched more carefully.
Sure enough, it didn't take a moment for Chen Shaoxuan to discover something hidden in the interlayer of her sleeves, so he tore it open without ceremony and quickly took out the thing.