Chapter 179 Same
In the imperial study, Su Qingqing performed a drama of Little Bailian complaining about her grievances. Then, when she came out of the palace, she breathed a sigh of relief in the cold wind.
In her previous life, she fought many battles and conquered the world. Why couldn't she do something else? Why did she have to play the role of the little white lotus that she hated the most?
Jixiang followed with a smile, and even asked her master about his feelings after the performance, "Did your Majesty believe it?"
Su Qingqing squinted her eyes and looked at the large white jade brick space outside the palace gate that was slightly reflective in the sunlight. "Who knows? It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. The important thing is that he didn't have time to think about it. When he came to his senses later, it was already a done deal."
As he was speaking, a carriage came galloping and suddenly stopped in front of the palace gate. Immediately afterwards, Jingzhao Yin Huang Zhaozhong almost rolled off the carriage.
In a panic and confusion, with a grim face, he was helped to get up from the ground by the coachman, and stumbled straight to the palace.
Su Qingqing opened her slightly narrowed eyes and watched the figure of Jingzhao Yin disappear in the palace road. She turned to Jixiang with great interest and said, "Let's go to Xiangzheng's mansion."
Imperial study.
As soon as Su Qingqing left, the emperor angrily smashed the teacup on the table with a green face.
"The fur and leather business of this dynasty has always been run by the imperial merchants. Zhao Bingchun is just a small county magistrate, but he can actually give away a shop like this as a seal!"
This is a provocation to the emperor's authority.
The eunuch stood at one side with his back bent, and tried to comfort him carefully, "Your Majesty, I feel that the Crown Princess did not seem to be complaining just now, but rather she seemed to be telling you about this matter specifically."
The emperor snorted angrily, "Of course she told me about this. Do you really think she is kind and honest? Even if she didn't know, the prince knew that the fur material was in the hands of the imperial merchant. How could the prince not mention it? It's just that the couple was afraid that this shop would be discovered and blamed in the future, so they revealed it first."
The eunuch chief looked puzzled, "But why didn't His Royal Highness mention it?"
Why didn't the prince mention it?
The emperor knew it very well.
At that time, the prince came back with Lai Xi and the prince of Nanliang, and Su Xiang also came with them.
It was such a shocking scene. If the prince revealed the matter of the wool shop right after that, would I really not suspect the prince then?
If he suspected the Crown Prince, then when he looked at Xi, the Prince of Nanliang, and the Duke of Zhenguo, his mood would probably be different.
The emperor sighed depressedly.
The prince is afraid.
He was afraid that he would do good things but still bring disaster upon himself.
I think the prince at that time must have intended to keep it secret and wait until he found out what was going on with the shop before reporting back. However, he didn't expect that rumors would arise, and the matter of the real and fake General Su would be exposed, and the story was also made up that the prince was deeply in love with General Su.
The emperor was so annoyed that he directly copied the table. At this moment, the palace servant outside reported, "Your Majesty, the Jingzhao Yin wants to see you."
The emperor was stunned with anger. Why did he come again?
Could it be that Xiang Zheng rebelled?
The emperor's temples were throbbing. "Let him in."
Huang Zhaozhong almost fell in. As soon as he entered the room, he didn't even have time to greet everyone before he cried out, "Your Majesty, this is bad! The Second Prince's Consort has been killed!"
boom!
The emperor felt as if blood was rushing to his head.
"who?"
Huang Zhaozhong knelt on the ground, his face as white as paper, "Second Prince's Consort."
Huang Zhaozhong had just finished speaking when the door of the imperial study outside was slammed open.
Not even a word of notification.
The emperor suddenly raised his eyes and saw the queen coming in with the empress dowager.
Obviously, these two also got the news.
"What's going on? I heard something happened!"
Because of the Duke of Zhenguo, the Queen Mother has been in poor health these past few days. She is in a bad mood and looks extremely bad. She looks even uglier at this moment.
The Queen usually disliked Qin Wanru, but she was still her daughter-in-law. The Queen was shaking a little as she supported the Queen Mother's hand, "Is Wanru in trouble?"
Huang Zhaozhong glanced at the emperor quickly, "The Second Prince's Consort was poisoned to death in Lord Xiang's residence."
All of a sudden, the queen felt as if a heavy object was pressing down on her.
Her shocked mind took a while to come back to her senses, and she realized that the heavy object pressing down on her was the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother fainted.
"Someone come quickly! Mother!"
The queen wanted to scream loudly, but when she opened her mouth, no sound came out. She stared at the emperor with empty and terrified eyes, opening and closing her mouth.
The emperor was frightened, but he managed to find a nerve to think, "Call the imperial physician."
The Emperor had been indifferent to the Empress Dowager's illness before, so the Chief Eunuch didn't even blink when the Empress Dowager fainted just now. Now that he received the Emperor's order, he showed just the right amount of urgency on his face and hurried out to deliver the message.
The Queen Mother and the Empress came rushing in, then left on their horses.
As soon as they left, the imperial study suddenly became quiet.
Only the emperor and Huang Zhaozhong were left.
"What's going on! Aren't people from the Jingzhao Yin Yamen here?" The emperor fell back into the large chair behind him and regained his senses.
Huang Zhaozhong said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty died for me."
The emperor's eyes were solemn.
"After I left the palace, I immediately sent someone to tell General Wang Yu that, and General Wang came here immediately after hearing the news.
At that time, General Wang and I split into two groups. General Wang was in charge of guarding, and I was in charge of interrogation.
When General Wang just arrived, Lord Xiang also came back from outside. Lord Xiang was very cooperative and even asked to be held in solitary confinement.
I had been interrogating for a long time and was thirsty, so I sent someone to make tea. Because the person who went there was from the Jingzhao Yin government office and was unfamiliar with the Xiang family, when he was making tea, a kitchen manager at the Xiang family kindly told him where the cups for the guests and the best tea were.
My subordinate was not on guard and believed her words. He boiled water and served tea to me.
Just then, the Second Prince's Consort came over and said she wanted to watch me interrogate her. The tea had just been served and I hadn't touched it yet. The Second Prince's Consort had also been busy for so long and hadn't touched a drop of water, so I'll ask her to drink it first."
Speaking of this, Huang Zhaozhong's voice trembled uncontrollably.
"How could I have imagined that the tea would fill my throat in one gulp."
One bite to seal the throat .
One bite to seal the throat.
The emperor just felt that these four words sounded very familiar.
A flash of lightning flashed through my mind, and Su Qingqing's voice floated in my ears.
"Fortunately, Jixiang changed at that time, otherwise I would have been the one to die. My God, it was a mouthful of blood."
How could it be such a coincidence.
The Crown Princess was nearly poisoned to death in Nanchong, and now , the Second Prince's wife was actually poisoned to death in Kyoto.
It’s all the same, one bite to seal the throat.
A drinking.
A tea drinker.
The emperor always thought that he was extremely talented and had strong logic, but at this moment, his mind was in a mess and he couldn't make any sense of his thoughts.
