Ruliu took a deep breath and said in a clearer voice than before: "My servant said that if the master has the disdain for killing the seventh prince, then you, the humble concubine, also have it!"
"You... are presumptuous!" Mrs. Liu said angrily: "Seventh Brother is the flesh that fell from my body, how could I harm him! You, a slave, dare to talk nonsense here and wrongly accuse me. You really deserve to be beaten.
Someone, drag this slave down and beat him to death with sticks!"
"Wait a minute." Ling Ruo's eyes flashed, and she opened her lips and said, "Quiet concubine, please be patient and wait for the matter to be clarified before making a decision."
"Yes." Although Mrs. Liu wanted to kill Ruliu immediately with a stick to prevent her from continuing to talk nonsense here, she did not dare to be too presumptuous in front of Yinzhen and Ling Ruo, so she had to suppress the anger in her heart and bow her head silently.
Seeing that Mrs. Liu was silent, Ling Ruo turned around and said, "Ru Liu, concubine Qian is the biological mother of the seventh elder brother. Why do you suspect that she killed the seventh elder brother?"
"Returning to Concubine Xi, the slave girl is not innocent. When the master asked why the seventh elder brother died suddenly, the wet nurse and Yushan both mentioned that Concubine Qian had separated them on the grounds of changing clothes and wiping themselves.
Sent out, that is to say, there was only Empress Qianbi at that time
She was inside with the golden girl who was waiting for her, and this period of time was enough for her to kill the seventh elder brother. If the concubine Qian had no evil intentions in her heart, why would she deliberately separate them?" After saying that, she kowtowed hard and said: "My concubine,
Nurse and Yushan are both here. If you don’t believe me, you can ask them yourself.”
Mrs. Liu pointed at Ruliu angrily and said: "That's nonsense. I saw Brother Seventh's clothes were soaked with saliva, so I ordered them to go down and get clean clothes and warm water. How did I get them in your mouth?"
, it becomes that I deliberately sent them away. Besides, I have no reason to harm my own son."
"In order to frame my concubine!" Mr. Shu Mulu said this expressionlessly.
Panic flashed through Ms. Liu's eyes, and she said with sorrow on her face: "Mr. Shumulu, how can you have the nerve to say such things? I have always respected you and been close to you, and regard you as my biological sister. I gave birth to Hongzhan and Hongxun.
Later, I begged even more
Your Majesty, let me adopt Hongxun to you so that I can fulfill the promise I made to you. I ask myself that I have never wronged you in any way, but what about you? Not only did you kill Hongxun, but you also said such hurtful words. What on earth are you doing?
Do you have any conscience?"
"You are the one with no conscience!" Mrs. Shu Mulu's expression was even more distressed than Mrs. Liu's, "Yes, you treated me well before, but that was before I was not as good as you. Later you saw that I was favored by the emperor,
You started to be jealous and hold a grudge. You didn’t want me to surpass you or be on an equal footing with you, so you set up a
Such a vicious plan, pretending to adopt the seventh elder brother to me, is really just to take advantage of my unpreparedness to kill the seventh elder brother, and then put the blame on me. In this way, I will use it to murder the emperor's heir.
Being relegated to the cold palace or even to death will no longer threaten your status. Concubine Qian, am I right?"
The horror in Mrs. Liu's heart cannot be described in words. Except for the fact that Hongxun was born with a congenital defect and would die within two months, Mr. Shumulu guessed almost everything correctly. In this case, he could also guess roughly, this woman
It was really terrible. And this also made Mrs. Liu more determined to put Shu Mulu to death. Once this woman found a chance to counterattack, she would be in great trouble.
Thinking of this, she knelt down and sobbed: "My dear, you are a mother-in-law. You should understand what a child means to a mother-in-law. If Hongxun can be reborn now, I will never give up my life."
No matter what, the Shumulu family said that the concubine killed her own child and framed the blame on her.
I had bad intentions from the beginning..." At this point, she was already crying, as if she had been greatly wronged. After a while, she calmed down and said, "I don't know how she could have such vicious thoughts.
, but if I really killed Hongxun, how can I dare to hold Hongxun now?"
Guarjia frowned slightly and said: "These two people, one is more eloquent than the other, and I don't know which one is true and which one is false. Instead of listening to them blaming each other here, it is better to check the seventh elder brother first to see what's going on.
Dead."
Guarjia's words reminded Ling Ruo, and she turned to Yinzhen and said, "Your Majesty, we can't tell the truth from the lie at this moment. Why don't we ask the imperial doctor to find out the cause of the seventh elder brother's death?"
"That's fine." Yinzhen nodded and said to Sixi who was accompanying him: "Go and ask Imperial Physician Qi to come over."
"Hey!" Si Xi agreed and hurried to the Imperial Hospital to invite Imperial Physician Qi. Physician Qi took Hongxun in the chair, untied his swaddling clothes and inspected him carefully before saying: "Return to the words of the Emperor and Concubine Xi.
, there is a bruise on the seventh elder brother’s neck, his face is pale
There are a few bruises, he must have been strangled to death." Before he could finish his words, Ms. Liu had already hugged Hongxun's cold little body and began to cry sadly. While crying, she kept murmuring:
"My poor child, it was my mother-in-law who harmed you!"
Just as Yinzhen showed a sad look on his face, Doctor Qi said again: "But Wei Chen also noticed something strange, that is, there are several bruises on the seventh brother's body, which must have been pinched out by someone."
These words were completely unexpected by Yinzhen and others, and even Ling Ruo became suspicious. This situation meant that the seventh elder brother had been abused before his death, and Mrs. Liu had adopted the child to Shu Mulu.
There is no reason or opportunity to abuse Hongxun again. Is it really the Shumulu family?
After the initial surprise, Yinzhen stared at Shu Mulu and said painfully: "You said you take good care of Hongxun, then tell me, where did the bruises on his body come from?"
"I don't know." Shu Mulu had thought about checking the cause of Hongxun's death before, but because of Yinzhen's sudden arrival, he didn't have time to check, so these scars were naturally not seen.
Without waiting for Yinzhen to speak, Ru Liuhu stepped forward on his knees, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, can you please allow me to ask the Imperial Physician Qi a word?"
Yinzhen did not speak, but waved his hand to signal her to ask. Ru Liu thanked En and then turned to the Imperial Physician Qi and said, "I dare to ask the Imperial Physician, do you think the scars on Seventh Brother's body are new or old?"
"This..." Doctor Qi thought about the scars he saw just now and said, "The marks are very new, they shouldn't be old injuries."
"In other words, the seventh elder brother only has new injuries and not old ones?" After getting a positive nod from the doctor Qi, she kowtowed to Yinzhen again and said: "Your Majesty, the seventh elder brother has been in Shuiyixuan for a while. If the master
If you really want to abuse Brother Seven or even harm him, why did you treat him kindly before and then suddenly resort to cruelty today? This is totally unreasonable!"