"So, it was Xiao Nanzi who drugged the food?" As soon as Ling Ruo finished speaking, Xiao Nanzi quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, you must be aware that this slave has never done anything. It was this slave who was killed by Qi Jia on the way to deliver the meal."
She bumped into it, and then it was the food box she picked up for the slave, so the problem should have occurred at that time."
"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Ling Ruo turned to Qi Jia, who had been silent until now, and said, "Is it true that you poisoned the lunch that Liu promised?"
Qi Jia suppressed the fear in her heart and waved her hands repeatedly, "I have never done anything. I really bumped into Eunuch Nan accidentally. As for poisoning or something, I really don't know anything about it."
Nala said coldly: "I have asked Anlu, and he said that he has often seen you coming in and out of the imperial kitchen recently. Can you please tell me, what is going on?"
Qi Jia glanced at Ling Ruo in panic, knelt down and said, "I don't know what I'm going to say to you, but I probably happened to pass by the imperial kitchen. Besides, what did I do to harm Liu Zheng for no reason?"
Liu's eyes were slightly red and she said: "Why did you poison me? You know it in your heart. It's just because the emperor discovered the evil things you did to me and demoted you to an official daughter. Therefore, he poisoned the food with a grudge."
Fortunately, I was using silverware and discovered that the food was poisonous in time, otherwise I would have lost my life now."
"I don't know what Liu Yaosheng is talking about. Your Majesty punished me as a daughter of an official because I deserved it and am no different than anyone else. How can I hold grudge against Liu Yaosheng?"
He also said it so gracefully that Mrs. Liu was speechless for a moment.
After signaling Ling Ruo to sit down, Nala said: "So, do you really regret it?"
"Yes." As soon as Qi Jia finished speaking, Nala said: "Then why when I heard from Qian Moduo just now that you were resentful of Liu Yao when you first came here, some people even heard you curse Liu.
Yes, how should we explain this?"
Nala's kung fu was very good. He first called people from the Imperial Kitchen and the House of Internal Affairs for questioning, and then ordered Xiao Ningzi to pass on the Qijia clan. Naturally, it was not just the little Qijia clan.
But the person behind her!
Qi Jia was speechless after being asked by Nala, and looked at Ling Ruo as if asking for help. The latter looked at the tea ceremony brought by the palace servants: "I dare to ask, apart from Xiao Nanzi and Qian Moduo's words, is there anything else of substance?
Evidence proves that this matter is related to the Qi Jia family."
Nala glanced at her and said: "As far as I know, Qi Jia has been to the imperial pharmacy, and the medicine in the meal has been proved to be arsenic by the imperial doctor. Qi Jia has never left the palace, so
If you want to get arsenic, you can only get it from the Imperial Pharmacy. I have already ordered someone to send it to Zhao Fang. Very soon.
We'll be there soon. As for Qi Jia's residence, I also asked Du Juan to search it. I believe there will be results soon." At this point, she said to Qi Jia who was kneeling on the ground with a look of panic on her face: "I will.
I will give you one last chance. As long as you are willing to confess truthfully now, I will spare your life."
"Slave...Slave..." Nala's words really made Qi Jia hesitate for a moment, but when she saw Ling Ruo's cold warning gaze, the hesitation immediately disappeared and was replaced by a firm denial, "
This servant has indeed never done this. Just before I stepped into Kunning Palace, I didn’t know anything. Please tell me.”
Nala looked at Ling Ruo pointedly and said, "My concubine, you have been with Qi Jia all this time. Did she really not say anything to you?"
Ling Ruo bowed in the chair and said: "Returning to your Majesty, if I know that the Qi Jia family poisoned Liu Yao, I will definitely make her confess truthfully, but I really have no knowledge of this matter, and I feel that Qi Jia
Mr. Jia is not such a vicious person, there may be a misunderstanding."
Although Ling Ruo spoke implicitly, how could the people present not hear the protective meaning in her words? Mrs. Liu couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty said this just because you want to protect the Qi Jia family?"
The gentle look on Ling Ruo's face gradually disappeared because of her words, and was replaced by endless coldness, "Liu promised, if I deliberately wanted to protect the Qi Jia family, she would not appear here at this moment. You said so
, but you deliberately want to slander my reputation?"
Faced with her question, Mr. Liu stood up and said: "I don't dare, I just expressed my doubts. After all, since I came here, my empress has been helping Qi Jia to speak, and she said she doesn't look like
Such a vicious person. I dare to ask my concubine, if the Qi Jia clan is not vicious, who was the person who tortured my body to pieces because of his status as a noble? Is this also a lie? "
"No one is a sage, and no one can make mistakes. Since Qi Jia is willing to change his ways, why should Liu Yaosheng hold on to the past? I am very curious, has Liu Yaosheng never done anything wrong?"
Ling Ruo's words made Liu's heart tremble, because she suddenly remembered the child who was strangled to death by her own hands. Like Hong Zhan, she was pregnant in ten months. She gave him life, but she also ended his life.
"No!" Although Mrs. Liu answered these two words quickly, how could Ling Ruo not notice her pause in the middle and said coldly: "In short, if this matter is not finalized for a day, Qi Jia's family may not
He is the murderer who poisoned me. Believe it or not, the Queen will have no objection."
Nala nodded and said, "We'll wait until Zhao Fang and Du Juan arrive. Liu promises to sit down. I promise you that I will never let those who harm you go unpunished."
"I obey your Majesty's will." Nala also said something. Liu had no choice but to swallow her anger and sit down again, but her eyes kept wandering on the faces of Ling Ruo and Qi Jia.
Compared to Qi Jia's uneasiness, Ling drank tea as if nothing had happened, not even looking at Liu. After waiting for a while, Zhao Fang arrived first and handed over the booklet Nala requested about the records of medicinal materials in the imperial pharmacy.
Brought it too.
After entering the main hall, Zhao Fang clapped his sleeves and knelt down and said, "I would like to pay my respects to the Queen, to Concubine Xi, and to Liu Xiong."
"Get up." After saying this, Nala did not ask Zhao Fang directly, but looked at Sun Mo who was ordered to pass the news to Zhao Fang, "Is all the arsenic in the imperial pharmacy excessive?"
Sun Mo said respectfully, "Master, I'm over-proportioned. The total is five kilograms, seven taels and three cents worth of arsenic."
Nara nodded, and then stretched out his slender hand towards Zhao Fang. Zhao Fang understood and quickly handed over the booklet he was holding.
Nala flipped through page after page, and read all the records of medicinal materials in the six years of Yongzheng's reign. He originally bought seven kilograms of arsenic, but later spent one kilogram, eighty taels, and seven dollars for various reasons.
In this way, the amount of arsenic is not lacking at all, just right. Among the people who took the arsenic, there was no Qi Jia family or any name related to Qi Jia family.