Mu Yun'an and Yuan Jiahe accompanied Queen Yan. When the group arrived at the Qianzheng Hall, they saw that all the officials were there, and even Yan Jingxuan was brought.
In front of the hall stood a man wearing armor, looking majestic.
Queen Yan looked at the man and felt that he looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen this man before, so she suppressed her thoughts and asked, "Are you the leader of the Dragon Guard?"
Xuan Ying glanced at her, neither saluting nor answering her words, his attitude was cold and arrogant.
He turned to face the people in the palace and said: "I know that what I did today has offended everyone, but I still say that if His Highness the Crown Prince had nothing to do with His Majesty's death, I am willing to kill myself to apologize.
And these hidden guards under me and this golden order will all belong to the prince. After the interrogation just now, the eunuch responsible for cleaning up the poison in the palace has confessed and brought him here."
He gave the order, and the guards walked in with a young eunuch in tow.
The eunuch had been tortured and had injuries all over his body. Even so, Mu Yun'an recognized him at a glance. This little eunuch was the one who helped her find the hairpin that day.
She had a bad premonition in her heart, and couldn't help but shake her hands when Xuan Ying asked: "Are you responsible for cleaning up poisons in the palace?
According to the records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the poison had been removed half a month ago, but why are there still poisonous snakes in the palace? And they bit your Majesty?"
The eunuch seemed to be afraid, and said in a trembling voice: "It was the slave who left a green bamboo snake when cleaning up the poison, and then put the poison that attracts poisonous snakes on His Majesty's shoes."
Xuan Ying said in a cold voice: "You are so brave to murder His Majesty. Why do you want to do this?"
The young eunuch lowered his head and said, "His Royal Highness ordered me to do this."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.
However, Yuan Jiahe reacted and spoke first: "You are talking nonsense. How could the prince brother murder my father? Who are you and why did you frame my prince brother?"
The young eunuch shook his head and argued: "I'm not talking nonsense. It was really the prince who instigated me. The prince came to see me at the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday, and many people saw it."
Mu Yun'an sneered: "I don't know that the princess is stupid enough to go to the House of Internal Affairs to see you, a little eunuch, in person. Doesn't this leave an excuse for others?
You said that the Crown Prince instigated you to murder His Majesty? Then what was His Majesty’s motive for doing this? He is already the Crown Prince of Beichen and the future crown prince, so why would he do this?”
She looked at the officials and continued: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a distinguished status. You cannot convict the Crown Prince just based on the words of this little eunuch. Who knows whether he was bribed by someone to deliberately slander His Highness the Crown Prince. Your Excellencies, you think Does what I say make sense?"
"Yes, what the princess said is absolutely true."
Some courtiers agreed, not believing what the young eunuch said.
Xuan Ying looked at the little eunuch with no expression on his face and said: "If you can't explain the doubts raised by the princess, it will be the death penalty for slandering the prince. You'd better incur the truth."
The little eunuch trembled and said in a trembling voice: "This servant is originally from the Yongning Marquis, and he came to the palace just to assist the prince.
The reason why the prince wanted to murder your majesty was because your majesty doubted the prince's life experience. The prince was afraid that your majesty would find out the truth, so he took the initiative.
There is indeed a problem with the prince's life experience. Because of the pain of losing his son, Yongninghou took back Queen Yan's son, but in fact, this child had been replaced by Yongninghou and replaced by his illegitimate son.
But somehow His Majesty got to know about this matter, and he was suspicious that he had been secretly investigating the Crown Prince's background recently. The Crown Prince was afraid that his identity would be exposed, so he found a servant and asked the servant to create an accident and kill His Majesty so that he could successfully ascend the throne."