This sentence shocked everyone. It meant that if no evidence was found that Xia Qing harmed Yongyan, Xianyue would give up her position as queen.
Hongli was the first to react and hurriedly scolded: "Don't make such a joke!"
Xianyue said seriously: "Your Majesty, I am not joking. If there is no evidence that Concubine Hui harmed Yongyan, I am willing to ask for the abolition of the position of queen!"
Seeing that Xianyue still refused to change her words, Hongli's face darkened, he stared at her and said, "Do you know what your words mean?"
Xianyue met his gaze calmly, "I know that I am willing to use my position as queen to prove to the emperor that I have not wronged Concubine Hui!"
Her words made Xia Qing's eyes flash with deep joy. It's true that there is a way to heaven but you don't take it, and there is no way to hell but you have to break in. Na La Xianyue, you asked for this!
"Okay!" Hongli spat out the word slowly, and the next moment, he said coldly: "Search Yonghe Palace for me immediately. Every inch of the brick wall has been searched carefully, and no inch can be missed."
Xia Qing's pupils shrank, not even an inch could be missed...Does Hongli really want to find evidence? Huh, I didn't expect that Hongli was so attached to her that he still wanted to protect her at this time. Unfortunately...Today, he is destined to...
Pick the back of Nala Xia Yue!
Following Hongli's words, Xiao Wu led a dozen palace officials into the palace to search. Following Hongli's instructions, they searched inch by inch and carefully tapped the brick walls to see if there were any holes.
In the main hall, no one spoke, everyone was waiting for the results of the search. After about a while of touching a stick of incense, Xiao Wu walked in quickly and said: "Your Majesty, I found this bottle of medicine in a cabinet."
As he spoke, he handed over the porcelain bottle in his hand. Hongli opened it, took a look, and said, "What kind of medicine is this?"
Xia Qing said with tears in her eyes: "Does the Emperor think this is the poison that harmed Brother Fifteen?"
"Answer me." Faced with Hongli's words, Xia Qing choked up and said: "This is the medicine I used to help me get pregnant. Since Yongxuan left, I have been thinking about it all the time, always thinking about being able to have another child.
Or... let Yongxuan be reincarnated into the womb of the concubine, so he asked for a prescription to give birth to a child in the future a few years ago. He said it was a tried and true method and he took it every day, but... the concubine was in the body.
My son is dissatisfied. I have been taking medicine for two full years without any effect. I know that this is the will of God. God is not willing to give me another child. It is not willing..." At this point, Xia Qing was already
He couldn't stop crying. After a while, he managed to stop crying and said, "So I locked this medicine in the cabinet later. If I hadn't dug it out today, I would have forgotten it."
Xianyue's eyes were cold and she said: "I'm afraid this is not the medicine for seeking a child that the imperial concubine said."
Xia Qing said sadly: "Why do you have to accuse me so unjustly? It's just because I slapped Brother Twelve, so you want me to pay with my life?"
Xianyue ignored her and only said to Hongli: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask the imperial physician of the Song Dynasty to come and examine me."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wu immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think we should not just invite one imperial doctor to do the examination. Why don't you send in the imperial physician Cui for a joint examination?"
Hongli nodded and said: "Okay, send Song Zihua and Cui Jin together."
The two of them quickly arrived at Yonghe Palace and each took a medicine to study. After a while, Cui Jinxian said: "I would like to inform the emperor that the ingredients in this medicine are motherwort, white ginseng, poria and so on.
medicine."
After Song Zihua glanced at Xianyue, he also said: "Your Majesty, what Imperial Physician Cui said is true. This is a medicine that only regulates a woman's body and is beneficial to pregnancy."
Xia Qing wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked at Xiayue who looked frightened and said, "How is it? Are you willing to believe me now?"
"It's impossible...impossible..." Xianyue murmured, shaking her head and saying, "It's obviously you who harmed Yongyan, how could it be a fertility drug? Impossible!"
Xia Qing said every word: "I have never...never harmed anyone!"
Nala Xianyue, I have finally waited for this day. Don’t worry, I will not take your life. I will only make you lose everything you own little by little, making your life worse than death!
Hongli's face was as gloomy as the coming storm. He had never thought about deposing Xianyue as the queen. As early as the time of the canonization, he had promised... What had he promised...
His memory was broken again, and he could not recall what he had promised. The only thing that was clear was that he did not want Xianyue to move out of Kunning Palace.
At this time, Xiao Wu hurried in again and said with a hurried look: "Your Majesty, this servant found this on the top shelf of the rosewood wardrobe in the inner hall."
When he could clearly see what was in Xiao Wu's hand, Hongli's face changed with horror. He was even uglier than before. What Xiao Wu presented was not other things, but three puppets. Each puppet had a piece of paper on its chest.
paper, each with a birth date written on it, and dozens of slender silver needles inserted into each doll, making people shudder.
After recognizing the three birth dates, Hongli stared at Xia Qing with a ferocious expression as if he wanted to bite someone. He threw the puppet at Xia Qing's face and said in a cold voice: "How do you explain this?"
Xia Qing's face felt stinging. When she saw what fell on the ground clearly, she looked shocked and shook her head repeatedly: "I don't know what this is. I have never seen it before. This is not my concubine's."
Hongli laughed angrily, "The things were found from the cabinet in your bedroom, but you say they are not yours?"
Xia Qing couldn't figure out why these witch puppets appeared in her palace, and said eagerly: "They really are not my concubines, and... I don't recognize the birth dates written on them either."
"Don't you know?" Hongli sneered repeatedly. The next moment, he stepped forward and slapped Xia Qing hard on the face, and said in a dark voice: "You don't know, do you? Well, I'll tell you, these three birth dates are respectively
Queen, Yongxun and Yongyan; the Queen has not wronged you, but you really harbor hatred because of Yongxuan’s death and want to kill the Queen and them all!”
Xia Qing ignored the pain in her cheeks and shook her head vigorously: "No, I have never done such a thing. These witch puppets must...someone must have deliberately placed them in my palace to frame me!"
Witchcraft and bewitching are the most taboo things in the palace. Once anyone is found to be related to it, they will be executed. She can't... She hasn't taken revenge yet, and she hasn't made Xianyue's life worse than death. She can't die...
She didn't understand that what happened today was supposed to be a trap she set for Xianyue, but why did it turn out like this? What went wrong?
"Framed?" Hongli sneered: "Then you want to tell me who framed you, the Queen?"