When Mrs. Zhao fell to the ground, her face suddenly turned red. She shouted "Yinxuan" and cried uncontrollably. The next moment she began to vomit blood and her body began to twitch.
"Mrs. Zhao!"
Tang Ning was startled and quickly stepped forward to help the person.
She took advantage of the opportunity to wipe her blood to cover it up, and stuffed something into Mrs. Zhao's mouth. Mrs. Zhao buried her in her arms and swallowed it quickly.
Emperor An was startled: "Mr. Yuan!!"
Doctor Yuan stepped forward and saw that Tang Ning's clothes were stained red with blood, and Mrs. Zhao's lips were also black. He said anxiously: "No, Mrs. Zhao has poison in her body. Your Majesty, I must take care of you immediately." She detoxifies, otherwise Mrs. Zhao’s life will be at risk!”
Emperor An said with a sullen face: "Come here, carry Mrs. Zhao down so that she can be treated. We must save her life!"
After Imperial Physician Yuan took the order, Yu Yanfeng quickly ordered someone to carefully carry Mrs. Zhao to the side hall.
There was a chaos of people and horses, and the bustle dispersed. The large mass of blood stains in the palace was horrifying.
Tang Ning stood in the hall with blood on her front clothes, looking like she was at a loss.
Zhao Yuanlang's face was scratched with several deep bloody marks. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed regardless of the pain.
"Your Majesty, Wei Chen has never met any Lu family members. Yue Shi doesn't know why she is talking nonsense. What she said is all false. How could Wei Chen harm his daughter."
Mrs. Zhao also knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, Yue had a cold last night. The doctor looked at her and gave her medicine. I really don't know why she made up these things to wrong us, and if the Zhao family wants to kill her, How could she escape?"
She glared at Tang Ning bitterly: "The Yue family was clearly deceived. Someone wanted to help others and deliberately harmed our Zhao family."
"Old Madam Zhao's words mean something. Are you saying that Princess Xiangning deceived Madam Zhao?"
Cui Lin stood aside and gloated. Anyway, he was happy to see the Zhao and Lu families being unlucky, or Xiao Yan being unlucky.
Tang Ning's eyes widened with astonishment on her face: "Me? How could I lie to Mrs. Zhao? I didn't know that someone would assassinate the fourth prince's concubine."
She then looked up at An Di with some annoyance.
"Your Majesty, after Rongsheng Academy opened, I would go to the academy every day to study. All the teachers in the academy can testify that today is the day of the academy's quiz. I went there early in the morning and after answering the papers with the students in the academy , and chatted with Mr. Tong for a long time before leaving."
"During this period, my brother had a bad appetite due to taking too many medicines. I originally wanted to go to Xijue Tower in the west of the city to buy some snacks for him, but who knew that I met Mrs. Zhao at the intersection of Fengxiang Street. She was in a miserable state at that time. I took her into the carriage, but who knew that I met someone who was chasing her not far away."
"Although it wasn't a busy city when those people started, there were many shops around. Some of them must have seen what happened. Moreover, my maids and guards risked serious injuries to protect us and forced those people to escape. I noticed something was wrong. He took Mrs. Zhao directly to the palace."
Yu Yanfeng stood aside and said: "When Wei Chen met Princess Xiangning, she was taking Mrs. Zhao into the palace in a panic and wanted to see His Majesty. The people around Princess Xiangning were indeed injured."
Seeing that Yu Yanfeng was willing to tell the truth, Tang Ning seemed to be relieved, and then glared at Mrs. Zhao and said angrily:
"I have a grudge against the Fourth Princess, but why should I kill her? Besides, I only met Mrs. Zhao twice. The last time she came to cry and beg me to spare the Fourth Princess, but my aunt directly stopped her. Outside the door, we didn’t even enter the main gate of Tang Mansion.”
"The fourth prince's concubine wanted to harm me, but I exposed her plan and sent her to jail. Mrs. Zhao is not crazy. Why is she helping the enemies of the fourth prince's concubine to harm your Zhao family?"
"You don't want to think about what you did to make her panic, but you want to wrongly accuse me. It's simply inexplicable!"
Tang Ning looked very much like a little girl who had been wronged. When she spoke, her face turned red with anger, and her eyes were full of anger.
Cao Dejiang's eyes flashed slightly when he saw her jumping up and down in anger, and he said:
"Your Majesty, Princess Xiangning said that someone can go and verify whether Mrs. Zhao was being hunted and when she was rescued by the princess. On the contrary, the Zhao family's veterans are a little confused."
"Listen to Madam Zhao, after the accident happened to the fourth prince, no one in the Zhao family except her had anything to do with her. They were all afraid of being implicated in her bad reputation, but this morning Madam Zhao suddenly entered the palace and begged to be merciful to Your Majesty. After letting the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple intervene, the fourth prince's concubine died suddenly and violently. This is too much of a coincidence."
He Cheng, the Minister of Punishment, and Lu Haifeng, the young minister of Dali Temple, both knelt down.
"Your Majesty, this humble minister is just going to the Privy Council Prison on orders."
"The same goes for Wei Chen. Wei Chen has never met anyone from the Zhao family before. He followed He Shangshu to the prison and something happened to the fourth princess."
They dare not bear the charge of colluding with the Zhao family, or even the Lu family, to kill the prince's concubine.
Lu Haifeng was full of injustice and just wanted to clear up the relationship. He remembered what happened in prison before and said quickly:
"By the way, I and He Shangshu were both shocked when they saw the death of the fourth princess. At first, they thought the fourth princess committed suicide. After all, she left a bloody confession."
"It's Mrs. Zhao. Mrs. Zhao cried and said that the fourth prince's concubine would not commit suicide. She hugged her body and refused to let go. Only then did Wei Chen accidentally discover that the scars on the fourth prince's neck were different and they were harmed by others."
Cao Dejiang: "Oh, this is really a coincidence. Mrs. Zhao is so kind."
Mrs. Zhao: "..."
Her face was pale and she was extremely flustered.
At that time, she only wanted to let people discover that there was something unusual in the death of the fourth prince and concubine. She wanted people to know that she had been "silenced" and she could frame Xiao Yan as the blame. But who knew that after being called out and pulled out, It seemed extremely abnormal, even deliberate.
She suppressed her panic: "I...my wife, I was just sad at the time. I just thought that Yinxuan was so strong, how could she commit suicide? Moreover, I became sick with anger after the incident at Lingyun Temple. She could barely hold on her body this morning. Enter the palace..."
Cao Dejiang quipped: "That's a coincidence. The fourth prince's concubine was fine after being imprisoned for more than half a month. As soon as you entered the palace, she died."
It was rare for Cui Lin to stand on the same side as Cao Dejiang, like a stir-up, wanting to add insult to injury whenever he saw who was suffering.
"I see that Mrs. Zhao is in good health. She kowtowed outside Shou'an Palace and her head was bleeding. She can still go to the Privy Council to cause trouble."
Cui Lin looked at Zhao Yuanlang and several other Zhao family members with a half-smile but not a smile: "But Mr. Cao, don't embarrass others. It's normal for Mrs. Zhao to be old and sick. Maybe the Zhao family has a frailty."
"Although General Zhao seems to be physically strong, he might be as delicate as the old lady on the inside. Otherwise, the fourth prince and his concubine have been locked up for more than half a month, so how could it be that only Mrs. Zhao is running around, but no other members of the Zhao family are seen?"
"The Zhao family's illness is probably not serious. Don't be aggressive, Mr. Cao, lest General Zhao and the others get angry and sick again."
Cui Lin's face was filled with concern: "General Zhao, please take care of yourself."
Feng Qiuli: "..."
Tang Ning: "..."
Cui Lin's mouth is really bad.
