Chapter 383: A case that has been pending for many years is revealed today
After the palace maid finished speaking, Yao Ziyun continued to feed the eighth prince several spoonfuls without stopping.
"What do you know? This almond cheese relieves heat and moisturizes the lungs. It is the most refreshing thing." Yao Ziyun's voice was cold.
Although the tenth princess heard it clearly, for a six-year-old child, even though she knew that her brother could not eat almonds, after listening to Yao Ziyun's words, she felt that what she said made sense.
After all, she was the best friend to her mother and concubine on weekdays. How could a child think that she would harm others?
Then Yao Ziyun handed the eighth prince to the eunuch who carried him and said, "Take him away! Don't let anyone see him."
He turned around and said with a smile to the palace maid who was getting snacks: "You have a good memory. I'll give you the remaining almond cheese!"
The palace maid was so frightened that she knelt down quickly. She knew that she had said the wrong thing.
But Yao Ziyun didn't want to spare her, and said: "I don't like people who talk too much. Since you made a mistake while serving me, you must be taught a lesson."
When she said this, Sister Hui went out, and then brought two more people in.
They caught the palace maid and drank some unknown medicine into her.
The palace maid struggled desperately to no avail. At first she was crying and begging for mercy, but later her voice gradually became hoarse and was no longer human.
At this time, Aunt Hui said: "Don't worry, Madam! I guarantee that she will never utter a word from now on."
Yao Ziyun was still worried: "Then we have to keep her in prison and not allow her to leave the palace, so as not to arouse suspicion."
At this time, the tenth princess was already frightened. Although she was still young, she knew the danger and crouched under the bed without daring to move.
The drugged maid was taken down, and then Liang Jing walked in.
Yao Ziyun said: "You came back late and didn't see the good show."
Liang Jing asked what happened just now.
Yao Ziyun said: "The Eighth Prince came to our palace for some reason. I felt sorry for him and fed him some almond cheese. But Yanzi said he couldn't eat it. I remembered it now, but it was already too late."
"Then what did the empress do?" Liang Jing asked.
Yao Ziyun said innocently: "What can I do? I can only let people take him away. I hope Concubine Ying has a good life and this child is discovered early, and maybe he can be rescued!"
As for Yan Zi, I was afraid that she would talk too much, so I asked Nanny Hui to give her some dumb medicine."
"Your Majesty has handled it very well." Liang Jing thought for a moment and said, "We have to tell our people to keep their mouths shut, and no information can be leaked out."
"Yes! If anyone talks too much, she will be shut up forever." Yao Ziyun said and yawned, "I will leave the rest to you. I am really a little sleepy."
"Don't worry, Madam, everything is small." Liang Jing said, helping Yao Ziyun to go to bed to rest.
As they approached, the tenth princess became more and more frightened, and accidentally made a noise under the bed.
Yao Ziyun and Liang Jing were immediately alert.
"Look what's under the bed?" Yao Ziyun said.
Just when Liang Jing knelt down to check, a black cat swung out from under the bed and ran away. Even the tenth princess hid under the bed for a long time without realizing that there was a cat.
"It turns out to be this beast!" Yao Ziyun breathed a sigh of relief and said to Liang Jing, "Get out! I guess something big will happen when I wake up."
The tenth princess still didn't dare to move. After a while, she couldn't help but fell into a drowsy sleep.
When she woke up again, there was no one in the house.
She slowly crawled out from under the bed and walked out the door, but she didn't meet anyone.
She walked out of Qiongzhi Palace and saw many people coming and going in a panic, but no one paid attention to her.
It wasn't until he came to the gate of Mulan Palace that he was grabbed by someone. It was the nanny who usually followed him: "Oh my God! Where did he go? Something big happened in our palace!"
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At this time, the Mulan Palace was extremely lively, with many people pouring in from nowhere.
The emperor is also here.
Many people were crying, and those who weren't crying had dull faces.
The tenth princess was led by her nanny through several doors and entered the west room of the main hall of Mulan Palace.
The Eighth Prince's little body was lying on the bed, no longer breathing.
Ma Chunping cried to death several times, holding her son's body and refusing to let go.
The emperor also looked sad. He liked his son very much, and everyone in the palace knew it.
Although the Eighth Prince is not much older than the Ninth Prince, he is much smarter.
The originally spacious room now became overcrowded.
The empresses from all the palaces came to comfort Ma Chunping, and some even cried with her.
However, it was noisy, like a ball of paste.
The tenth princess was pushed around like a puppet and forgot to cry.
She was only a six-year-old child, and she didn't quite understand how her younger brother, who was playing hide and seek with her just now, had now become a dead person that people said could not be resurrected.
She vaguely heard someone saying words like "almonds", "eaten by mistake", "can't be saved", etc. She looked at Yao Ziyun who was shedding tears with her mother.
She cried heartbrokenly, as if the death was her own son.
The tenth princess looked at her and couldn't help but shudder in the hot dog days.
Then she felt like the world was spinning. Before she passed out completely, she heard someone calling the Tenth Princess, and then she knew nothing else.
The tenth princess's illness was serious and long-lasting.
When she was awake, it was like a dream, but when she fell asleep, she fell completely into a nightmare. Sometimes she was fed poison, and sometimes she was pulled out from under the bed.
She was scared and helpless, so she had no choice but to keep her mouth shut out of instinct, thinking that no one would feed the poison in this way.
By the time she fully recovered, it was already late autumn.
After recovering from the illness, the tenth princess could no longer speak. The imperial doctor said that this rare "muteness" could not be cured.
When Yao Ziyun came to visit, he hugged her and said distressedly: "Why is my son so sick? It really makes me feel bad."
The tenth princess was held by her, as if tightly wrapped by a poisonous snake, but she did not show any resistance at all.
She knew without a teacher that she could not let others find out that she knew the truth.
It was too easy for the noble concubine to deal with a six-year-old child, so she just looked at Yao Ziyun and smiled softly, just like before she got sick.
Regarding the death of the eighth prince, the palace naturally vigorously investigated it, but in the end there was no result.
When he was found, he was in the flower garden at the east corner gate of Mulan Palace, with no one around him, and he had fallen into a coma.
The imperial doctor was invited, but the medicine had no effect. The nannies and palace maids and eunuchs who served the eighth prince committed suicide and died, and not one of them was left.
Many others were implicated in torture and died, but the real culprit was never found.
Many years have passed, and people no longer mention this unsolved case, and have even forgotten about it.