"I brought cold food into the palace with the intention of murdering Your Majesty and the young prince, Princess Rui. Do you know the crime?" Xia Huanyu's voice came, his tone was calm and his speaking speed was very slow.
Yun Shang raised her head and looked at Xia Huanyu, "Apologised? Does your Majesty have evidence to prove that it was my wife who did it?"
Hearing this, Xia Huanyu turned his eyes and looked at the queen, "The queen just said that there is evidence? Then take out the evidence and let Princess Rui have a look."
The queen responded quickly, with a bit of a sneer in her eyes, and looked at Yun Shang, who was half-kneeling in the hall, "Of course there is evidence, and there are witnesses." The queen raised her hands and clapped her hands, and the door of the meeting hall opened.
Being beaten away again, Yun Shang turned around and saw several people walking in from outside the palace door. Three of them were concubines in the harem, whom Yun Shang had seen in the Xiang Bamboo Palace. Two of them looked like they were dressed.
Ordinary people, Yun Shang squinted his eyes, they must be people from Jincheng Pharmacy. There were two other people who looked like palace servants, but Yun Shang didn't know what they did.
The queen said coldly, "You brought medicine to Yun Xi into the palace. You admitted it yourself in front of all the concubines. There must be no objection. Yu Jieyu, Wang Guiren, and Liu Huarong testified."
Yun Shang raised her eyebrows, but she didn't have any objections. It's just that the queen and she were the only ones who knew what happened with the medicine.
The queen glanced at Yun Shang, then pointed to the three people in the middle and said, "This afternoon, I ordered people to take your portrait and go to various pharmacies in Jincheng to inquire about it. This is the waiter of Ziyan Pharmacy in Yanyu Lane. According to the
They admitted that they had seen you three days ago, but you were a man disguised as a woman. Because even if you were a man disguised as a woman, your appearance was too outstanding, so they all remembered the prescription you gave you very clearly.
Among them, there are five raw materials for making cold food powder." After saying that, he handed a piece of paper to Liu Wen'an beside him, waved his hand, and asked Liu Wen'an to take it down for Yun Shang to take a look at.
"This is your prescription that I received from Ziyan's pharmacy. Look, this is your handwriting?" The queen's eyes became colder.
Yun Shang came over and took a look, and the handwriting was indeed not much different from hers. Yun Shang smiled and said nothing.
The queen then pointed to the last three palace servants, "These three are serving in Weiyang Palace. After the young prince entered the palace a few days ago, I asked them to serve beside the young prince. In fact, there should be four of them,
There is a palace maid named Yanyu who you should be familiar with. But after something happened to the young prince today, you were exposed and put in jail. The palace maid named Yanyu committed suicide out of fear of crime. The guards searched her house.
Princess Rui, look at these things, do they look familiar?"
Liu Wen'an took the things again and handed them to Yun Shang. Yun Shang straightened up and stretched out his hand to fiddle with the things on the plate, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. The earrings of Qianshui Yiren Pavilion were also worn by Yun Shang.
However, Yun Shang remembered this very clearly. She saw it in the coffin in the morning. Next to the earrings was a piece of paper. Yun Shang unfolded it and looked at it, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.
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"Your Majesty is aware of it, and the Queen is aware of it. None of the things on this plate have anything to do with my wife. These earrings are from Qianshui Yiren Pavilion. You can buy them if you have money. I do have a pair, but they are still in Prince Rui's Mansion.
"It's not this pair. You can ask the shopkeeper of Qianshui Yiren Pavilion to come and take a look at this matter. And this paper..." Yun Shang raised her eyes and looked at the queen, "The queen is convinced that this thing is related to the subject's wife."
related?"
The queen snorted coldly, "This is your handwriting, so it is naturally related to you."
"Oh?" Yun Shang smiled, "Although the prescription just now was not written by my wife, it is still similar to my own, and it can be said to be my wife's. But this one is totally different from my wife's handwriting.
If I insist that it was written by my wife, it would be too much."
When Xia Huanyu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said to Liu Wen'an, "Bring the paper up and let me take a look."
Liu Wen'an quickly presented the paper to Xia Huanyu, and Yun Shang continued, "The handwriting is not very familiar to me, but what is written on the paper is: Add to the medicine sent by Princess Rui every day."
Cold Food Powder. I am ignorant and don’t know the meaning of this paper. However, the medicine that I sent to the palace did not originally contain Cold Food Powder. Someone deliberately ordered the palace people to add Cold Food Powder to the medicine that I sent to the palace.
of?"
When the Queen heard this, a look of astonishment flashed in her eyes. With a bit of surprise on her face, she turned her head to look at the note in Xia Huanyu's hand and murmured, "How could it be?" She waited until she could see the handwriting on the paper clearly.
At that time, he couldn't help being stunned, "This handwriting..."
Xia Huanyu folded the paper, put it on the plate in Liu Wen'an's hand, and said calmly, "It belongs to Concubine Shu."
Yun Shang raised her eyes, "Oh? Why did Concubine Shu write this note to the palace servant who was waiting for the crown prince? She also deliberately framed the fault on the concubine..." After a pause, she continued, "And this morning in Shuya
When they were in the palace, my wife felt something strange. Concubine Shu said that she had lost consciousness, but Eunuch Liu, who was only separated by a wall, didn't realize it. According to my wife's knowledge, Eunuch Liu should be a person with martial arts skills, and his hearing was also bad.
He is a bit more sensitive than others. Your Majesty is in Shuya Palace and is protected by many secret guards. Who could sneak into Shuya Palace so unknowingly? It is really unbelievable."
The Queen gritted her teeth, raised her eyes to look at Yun Shang, and said in a cold voice, "Don't change your subject. Then tell me why someone in the pharmacy pointed out that you bought the raw materials for making Hanshi Powder?"
Yun Shang smiled slightly, raised her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, I have a request."
"Huh?" Xia Huanyu was stunned, then nodded, "Go ahead."
"A total of three people came to the pharmacy. These three people who came here must have met my wife. I have a way to know whether these three people have lied. I ask the emperor to separate these three people with screens.
Separately, I asked my wife a few questions and asked them to write the answers to the questions on paper. Just by looking at whether their answers are consistent, I will know whether they are telling the truth."
Xia Huanyu was silent for a moment, then turned around and ordered the palace servants to prepare the screens. After a while, he moved three screens made of golden nanmu to separate them between the three people.
The palace servant distributed pens, inks, paper and inkstones to the three people. Yun Shang saw that the three people had nervous and uneasy expressions on their faces. Yun Shang curled her lips and saluted Xia Huanyu, "Your Majesty, my wife.
Have you started asking?"
"Ask." Xia Huanyu whispered.
Yun Shang pondered for a moment and then asked the first question, "On what day and what time did you see me?"
Yun Shang looked at the three people writing and then asked, "What color were the clothes I was wearing that day?"
"How can they remember if you ask such a detailed question?" The queen frowned, with some displeasure in her eyes.
Yun Shang smiled and cupped her hands towards the Queen and said, "Reporting to the Queen, the Queen also said earlier that they remembered my wife because they thought she was outstanding in appearance. In this case, they will naturally remember her like this.
of things.”
"What kind of medicine did I buy? How much is each medicine? How much money is it in total? How much money did I give you?" Yun Shang asked several questions in succession.
Yun Shang saw that the three of them were hesitant when writing, so she stopped and waited for a long time before asking again, "Will I have any servants that day? Is it a maid or a servant? How many people will I bring?"
After all three of them stopped writing, Yun Shang turned around and saluted Xia Huanyu, "I've finished asking my questions."
Xia Huanyu nodded and ordered the palace servant to collect the three pieces of paper and present them in front of him. He turned over them one by one and said after a long while, "Except for the time when two people answered the same question, the rest all had different answers.
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Yun Shang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you must have made a decision. These three people were clearly bribed to slander my wife. If I don't remember the color of my clothes, I don't even remember what medicine I took."
I know, but something is wrong. I don’t remember what medicine I took, so why do I remember that the ingredients of Hanshi Powder are in the prescription? I think these three people don’t even know what Hanshi Powder is made of.
Bar."
Xia Huanyu was silent for a long time and then said, "Pull these three people down and interrogate them severely. Ask them who asked them to slander Princess Rui."
The three people repeatedly begged for mercy, but were dragged down by the guards. Yun Shang pondered for a moment before saying, "Since the confession in the pharmacy is false, and the paper found in the maid named Yanyu's room shows that the medicine sent to the palace by the courtier's wife was not included in the medicine.
There is no cold food powder, but someone added it in, so the crime of my wife cannot be established. I have one more thing to ask the emperor to make the decision for me."
Xia Huanyu frowned, "What about this note?"
Yun Shang shook his head, "This is one, and the other is that the lady was imprisoned in the sky prison just now. Some guards used the name of Your Majesty and said that Your Majesty had sent me a bedding. The lady believed it was true, so she leaned on it
I was resting on the quilt, but I didn't expect that the quilt had been tampered with. There were thirty or forty leeches hidden in the quilt. Some people also took advantage of my wife to rest and burned incense into my cell.
If I hadn't noticed something was wrong, I'm afraid I would have fallen asleep on the tampered quilt. When I was sleeping, those leeches would have crawled into my body and sucked my blood. Soon I would have
He will bleed and die."
Yun Shang glanced at the Queen from the corner of his eyes and saw her sitting in her seat with a calm look in her eyes. However, Yun Shang saw that her lips were slightly white.
"My wife pretended that nothing happened, and left the prison together with the guards who came to summon her. The guard who made the move hurriedly found an excuse to go back to the prison to check, but was caught by my wife and other guards.
It's all right. I'm afraid that some people are afraid that my wife will see through their framing scheme and intend to harm her. Please make the decision for my wife." Yun Shang continued. (To be continued)
