All the clan members and wives in the hall were also shocked.
In the end, Princess Zhou was the first to react: "Someone poisoned me! Where are the military guards on the left and right?!"
With this sound of "landing", the moment in the main hall came to life. A few moments later, the left and right military guards who were escorting outside rushed into the hall, guarding the emperor.
Looking at the entire palace of clan members and married women, some screamed, some cried softly, some were confused, and some were confused and didn't know what to do.
Ying Zheng's face was also a little pale. After calming down, he said sternly: "Silence! The military guards on the left and right are already escorting you in the palace. Don't worry about anything. If there is anyone who keeps crying again, he will be dragged out immediately. !”
This sound directly blocked the sound in the whole hall, and the sound of crying and talking stopped.
Seeing that the situation had stabilized, Ying Zheng continued: "Everyone, please stay still on your original seats. Pay attention to the behavior of those around you. Leave the soup and snacks you have eaten in the same place. Taiping, send the imperial doctor over immediately!"
There was no need for him to give orders on this matter.
Taiping was already astute, and when he saw a human being killed at the palace banquet, he immediately asked someone to call the imperial doctor - for such a big ceremony, there must be someone on duty at the imperial hospital.
The Empress Dowager finally came to her senses at this time. Looking at her mother's corpse in her arms, which had not lost its warmth, she felt her heart ached, and two lines of tears rolled down her cheeks.
She is one in sixty this year, which is already considered an old person, and Mrs. Feng is seventy-eight, which is even more longevity. However, no matter how old her parents are, seeing them pass away will not make her feel very good, let alone It is said that Mrs. Feng did not die without illness, but died of poisoning!
The palace servants and chamberlains stood aside, intending to support Mrs. Feng's body. However, seeing the empress dowager crying and holding her mother's body in grief, they finally did not dare to step forward.
The imperial doctor on duty was hurriedly brought in by the chamberlain. When he saw this situation, he immediately took out the silver needle, went over to apologize to the Queen Mother, and then used the silver needle to explore the faintly blackened lips of Mrs. Feng. blood.
The Empress Dowager was the closest and saw the silver needle turn black, her eyes flashing with fierce hatred.
The imperial doctor swallowed his saliva and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, this is poison."
The people around him gasped.
This is a poison that only exists in the palace.
Almost at the same time, the Empress Dowager's heart stopped and she suddenly turned her gaze to Ying Zheng. His expression was so ferocious that she almost wanted to eat his flesh alive.
bane……
This is the poison she plans to use on the emperor!
How dare this bitch——
It was inevitable that the eyes of the people in the clan would be constantly exchanged between the emperor and the empress dowager.
Ying Zheng was visibly startled when he met the Empress Dowager's hateful gaze. His face immediately turned pale and he looked a little hurt.
After a while, he softly ordered the imperial doctor: "Let's check out the food in the palace again."
The imperial doctor responded respectfully, and after looking around, he reported back: "Only the bowl of lotus seed soup that Mrs. Feng ate was poisoned."
With such a sound, the expressions of the people around him changed again.
Isn't there an internal fight between the Empress Dowager and the Emperor?
Poison and other methods have been used, so why should we abandon the Queen Mother to deal with Mrs. Feng?
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but have a flash of hesitation on her face.
Ying Zheng made a decision immediately: "Such a murder occurred at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet today. It must be serious. Please go to the side hall for the time being to calm down the shock - Concubine Shu!"
Feng Lanruo stood up quickly and said, "Yes."
Ying Zheng ordered: "You accompany the clan members to go and rest for a while, and then find the imperial doctor to watch over you. If you have any needs, try your best to satisfy them."
Feng Lanruo responded again: "Yes."
Ying Zheng called out a few more people: "Uncle Dai Wang, Uncle Cheng, Princess Wu, and Princess Zheng. Today's incident is full of doubts. He dares to kill people during the birthday banquet in the palace. It is a heinous crime. Please forgive me." Several people observed the case and thought they were witnesses!"
The people who were pointed out were all elders of the clan and were old and virtuous. They were involved in their own affairs, and the emperor invited them. There was no reason to evade it, and the suspicion in the Empress Dowager's heart was once again weakened - the emperor had no big things. The meaning of making things trivial seems to be that he intends to investigate the case thoroughly. Could it be that his mother's death really had nothing to do with him?
The sadness in my heart subsided for a while, and doubts and uneasiness came to my mind.
If not him, who could it be?
Tears flowed down her cheeks silently, mottled the makeup on the Empress Dowager's face, perhaps because of sadness, perhaps because of decadence. At this moment, she showed her age.
Ying Zheng summoned the people from the Si Shanfang and the small kitchen of Xingqing Palace in an orderly manner.
The lotus seed soup was collected by the kitchen staff under the order of the Empress Dowager. After collecting it, it was sent to Xingqing Palace.
Those lotus seeds must not have problems at this step.
Because it is impossible for the people in the kitchen to inject poison into certain lotus seeds, and there is no guarantee that all the poisonous lotus seeds will be delivered to Mrs. Feng's bowl.
The problem will only arise in Xingqing Palace.
This was obviously difficult for the Queen Mother to accept.
The person responsible for cooking the lotus seed soup was the small kitchen that the Empress Dowager was used to, and the person responsible for presenting the lotus seed soup to everyone in the palace was also the chamberlain of Xingqing Palace.
There is no doubt that by the time the person was found, the chamberlain had already committed suicide. However, at the same time, someone pointed out that the chamberlain had interacted with people around Princess Zhang in the past few days.
Once the matter is investigated here, all suspicions on Ying Zheng can be removed.
One is the emperor, and the other is the late emperor's concubine. Who would believe that they would be involved?
There was no trace of blood on the Empress Dowager's face. She unconsciously grasped the clothes on her body tightly with both hands, and squeezed out almost every word through her teeth: "Why don't you take that bitch?!"
Immediately, someone went to the side hall of Anfu Palace to look for Concubine Zhang.
Although Princess Zhang is called the Princess, she is very young, about twenty-three or four years old. Even though she did not wear gorgeous makeup because of the death of the late emperor, she is still naturally beautiful and beautiful.
After being brought from the side hall, she admitted it on her own without even needing an interrogation: "Yes, I did it."
Concubine Zhang met the Empress Dowager's hateful gaze and smiled: "Empress Dowager, does it feel good to see your dearest relative die in front of you?"
Then she gritted her teeth bitterly, and her expression suddenly turned cold: "You can finally taste the pain I suffered that day!"
The Queen Mother was furious: "You bitch! How dare you, how dare you -"
Concubine Zhang snorted coldly, but did not look at her. Her eyes swept over the faces of King Dai, King Cheng, and the two concubines in turn, with intense expressions of grief and anger: "You are all elders of the clan, and you are very old and virtuous. Today I have a baby." "I want to ask you about something - but I don't know whether the world today is owned by the Murong family or the Feng family?"
Several people exchanged glances with surprised expressions, and finally Zong Zheng, the eldest generation king, solemnly spoke out: "Of course, the world belongs to my Murong clan!"
"Okay, in that case, please be sure to listen to me tell you my grievances!"
Concubine Zhang responded enthusiastically, then lifted up her clothes and knelt in front of King Dai: "Uncle King Dai, you are the elder of the clan, and more importantly the Zongzheng of this dynasty. Although I am wise, you are still a junior after all. Some things are not good. I have to call you to make the decision after all. I am the late emperor’s concubine, and today I shamelessly call you ‘Uncle Wang’. I also ask you to make the decision for me and the princes and princesses who died in vain for the sake of the late emperor!”
The king never thought that Concubine Zhang would hit the heads of the late emperor's princes and princesses who had died early. He was shocked when he heard this, and for a moment he didn't know what to do: "You, this..."
Concubine Zhang did not give him any time to continue to be stunned, she sobbed every word with tears streaming down her face: "Before the late emperor passed away, I had the honor to give birth to a prince for the late emperor. How happy was the late emperor at that time? It was only the second day after the prince's birth. Then he died young..."
This is something everyone in the clan knows.
At that time, Concubine Zhang was Shuyuan. After the death of the late emperor, because she had given birth to a prince, the succeeding emperor promoted her to Concubine De. However, the palace people used to omit the word "De" and call her concubine instead.
In other words, if the prince born to Concubine Zhang survives, he will no longer be the emperor at this time, but the two palaces will stand side by side, and Concubine Zhang and the Empress Dowager will be respected as the Queen Mother.
Concubine Zhang burst into tears when she said this. After a while, she continued: "At that time, I only thought that I was not lucky enough to keep the prince, so I didn't think much about it. This enchantress even pretended to be sorry and offered many consolations. That's why I never noticed her wild ambitions, and regarded her as a close relative! It wasn't until I ascended the throne today and lived in the side hall of Xingqing Palace that I accidentally heard that when I was pregnant, this monster The woman secretly poisoned someone, causing the prince to be deficient in the womb, falling to the ground and dying in infancy, and all the children of the late emperor who died in infancy also died at the hands of the temptress!"
How can these rhetorics be matched by the Thunder?
When the Queen Mother heard that she had pinned the crime of exterminating her family on herself, she was so angry that she couldn't sit still and said sternly: "Nonsense! She openly committed murder at a palace banquet, and she admitted it herself - not yet How long will it take to kill this bitch?!"
It's just that the truth revealed by Princess Zhang was too shocking, and for a moment, no one in the palace made a sound.
King Dai changed his color, and the other three clan members and concubines were also surprised.
After a long while, Dai Wang just said: "This matter is very important, do you have any evidence?"
The Empress Dowager almost shouted at the top of her lungs: "Uncle Dai Wang!"
Concubine Zhang immediately said: "It has been a long time, where is the evidence?"
But before the King of Dai frowned and the Queen Mother's face relaxed, she continued: "After the prince was born, there were blue spots on his body. This was evidence of residual poison in his body, and I dressed as a human to serve in the palace. Mammy has long inquired about the death of many princes and princesses - even the eldest Princess Chongqing died! If it is not caused by poisoning, how can it be explained? "
She looked at Ying Zheng almost pleadingly: "I would like to ask Your Majesty and Uncle Wang to make the decision to open the cemetery of the prince and princess, and let us do an inspection and find out. When the late emperor was here, white-haired people sent black-haired people so many times that After exhausting her hard work and dying of grief, this witch cut off the former emperor's heirs, and her hands are stained with the blood of the emperor's heirs. How can she continue to occupy the Xingqing Palace and show off her power? She should be cut into pieces and the nine Feng clans should be slaughtered. This is my condolences to the late Emperor!"
This time, not to mention the Empress Dowager, even the King Dai hesitated in his tone: "Although the mausoleums of the princes and princesses are not imperial mausoleums, they are buried with the late emperor's mausoleum. If they are moved, the whole world will be shocked. How can we Unauthorized driving?"
Concubine Zhang said: "But this is the only clear evidence. If not, would Uncle Dai Wang want to make the late emperor hate Jiuquan and all the princes and princesses die in vain?!"
At this point, she even took a step back and swore to the sky with a strong voice: "Among the late emperor's many descendants, my son and Princess Chongqing passed away the last. I would like to ask these two to leave." Coffin autopsy - just open the coffins of these two people! If these two people were not killed by poisoning, they can cut my body into pieces with thousands of knives and destroy the nine Zhang clans!"
This oath was too vicious and extreme, and it left no room at all.
For a moment, Dai Wang also hesitated.
And doubts and speculations arise spontaneously - will Mrs. Zhang use her own life and that of the nine tribes to frame the Queen Mother?
This is not something out of thin air. As long as the coffin is opened, everything will be revealed.
Princess Zheng and Princess Wu also exchanged glances secretly.
The Empress Dowager slumped on the seat, her chest heaving violently, and she gasped in fright: "You cheap maid, how dare you try to grab the late emperor and slander the honor of this palace?!"
Concubine Zhang immediately said: "In that case, please don't hinder the opening of the coffin, the Queen Mother. As long as you examine the bodies of my son and Princess Chongqing, you can immediately cut my body into pieces and kill me to vent the anger of the nine Zhang family members. Wouldn't it be wrong?" Are you happy?!"
The Empress Dowager was speechless: "You!"
Concubine Zhang stared at her, her eyes as sharp as a knife: "Empress Dowager, are you guilty of being a thief?!"
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but squeeze her fingers tightly, but she breathed a little softly: "Ms. Zhang, I know that you are heartbroken due to the pain of losing your son, but this is definitely not the reason for you to disturb the imperial mausoleum. Do you want to see the emperor secure the throne today? After that, I couldn't help but start to think about what would happen if your child survived? But after all, he has gone, so why should you disturb his undead and make him fearful and uneasy in the underworld. "
Concubine Zhang suddenly laughed, her laughter getting louder and louder, almost harsh.
"Feng Minghua, you cheap maid!"
She called the Queen Mother by her name sternly: "My child is my own flesh and blood who was born in ten months of pregnancy. Do I want his soul to be disturbed?! What hatred does Princess Chongqing have between me and Princess Chongqing? I must disturb her." Her peace?!”
Concubine Zhang beat her heart and her voice was like a cuckoo weeping blood: "I am also a mother. Now I ask to dig up the grave of my own flesh and blood and open his coffin. My heart hurts more than anyone else! But even if So, I want to open the coffin too! Let my child die unjustly, and when the day comes, how can I see him, how can I see the late emperor?!"
The Empress Dowager's lips trembled for a few times, but before she could speak, Concubine Zhang wiped away the tears on her face and knelt down in front of King Dai: "Uncle Dai Wang, King Cheng, and the two princesses - I am the concubine. The speech has reached this point, but the witch still dare not open the coffin. What is the truth, can't you still see it?"
King Cheng was silent. Princess Zheng and Princess Wu saw that the Queen Mother was blocking them blindly, and they already made a judgment in their hearts.
The king slowly looked at the empress dowager: "The empress dowager..."
The Empress Dowager felt her hands and feet were cold, but she bit her head a little bit: "The deceased has passed away, why did Zhang's nonsense disturb their peace? That is the late emperor's mausoleum, and this matter must not be done!"
Concubine Zhang burst out laughing, but her laughter could not conceal her sorrow: "It's true, it's true! You don't dare, you're afraid, hahahaha!"
Although the acting king is Zongzheng, he cannot dig the grave of the emperor's mausoleum based solely on Concubine Zhang's words. But seeing the Empress Dowager acting like this, he has already believed most of what Concubine Zhang said...
After hesitating again and again, he stood up and solemnly said to the emperor, who had been silent since Concubine Zhang opened her mouth: "I will ask your Majesty to judge how this matter should be dealt with."
King Cheng and the two queen concubines also left the table and said, "I would also like to ask for your Majesty's Holy Judgment."
