si-mexico Chapter 248 The Truth
Chapter 248 The Truth
"Empress Dowager, it wasn't Ulanara who killed the princess. Nor was it the Imperial Noble Consort."
"I know who killed the princess."
"Princess Wan?"
The empress dowager narrowed her eyes slightly and calmly asked Fujia to invite Concubine Wan in.
"How do you know it wasn't Ulanara who killed the princess, nor was it the Imperial Concubine who killed the princess?"
Wanpin was still afraid of the Queen Mother, even though they had been mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for nearly twenty years. Wanpin still didn't dare to look up at the Queen Mother.
"Why didn't Ulanara kill the princess? Ulanara is right there. The Queen Mother only needs to ask. How can she deny what Ulanara did?"
Hongmei became visibly panicked and pointed outside desperately, and Ruyi was detained outside.
"Bring her in and give her the antidote for the mushroom."
The Queen Mother had doubts in her heart, but since Hongmei had her suspicions, she had to give her an explanation.
Following the Queen Mother's instructions, the palace maid gave Ruyi a potion that could neutralize the mushroom poison.
The Empress Dowager did not notice that Ruyi had lost some weight in the past three years, which shows that Ruyi was still quite sad about being deposed.
Thinking back to what Fu Jia had said, Ruyi cried for half a year when Ling Yunche died. The Empress Dowager also felt that Ruyi's heartache was probably not for the emperor.
The Empress Dowager was confused. As women of the same clan, Yixiu was loyal, but Ruyi seemed not to be.
The Queen Mother stood up and walked over to Ruyi and asked her.
"Do you remember what you did?"
Ruyi's hands were still stained with Jingse's blood, and her mind was a little confused. She remembered that she had gone mad, and she seemed to have stabbed Jingse with the rose hairpin given by the emperor.
But why? Why did she run out of Yikun Palace? Why did she want to hurt Jingse?
Ruyi tried desperately to think about it and remembered what Jingse said.
"Wei Yanwan, it was Wei Yanwan who framed me. She harmed Yongjing and me."
Ruyi pointed at Wei Yanwan as she spoke. But she couldn't remember anything more. Her head hurt like it was about to explode. Ruyi shook her head with difficulty.
Doctor Bao hurriedly said:
"Empress Dowager, Ulanara has been taking mushrooms for too long. Her behavior and consciousness are confused, and I have found that Ulanara has not only taken mushrooms, but also has a lot of problems.
She had taken psychedelic drugs not long ago. She had no idea what she was doing or saying.”
"Not long ago. Doctor Bao should make it clear how long ago it was."
Wanpin interrupted.
Doctor Bao hesitated for a moment, at most, no more than half an hour.
"Half an hour ago?
Half an hour ago, we didn’t know Jingse was murdered.”
Yan Wan had a suspicion in her heart, which made her say this. Yan Wan turned to look at Hong Mei. Hong Mei was silent.
"Let me tell you what's going on."
Concubine Wan bowed to the Empress Dowager and asked for her instructions.
"Now that things have come to this, there is nothing left unsaid."
Wanpin turned to look at Hongmei.
"Doctor Bao, take a look, this is the hallucinogen that Ulanara used."
Shunxin handed Doctor Bao a handkerchief with a mess on it. Doctor Bao examined it carefully.
"It is this medicine. This medicine is the mandrake from the Western Regions. This medicine can make people hallucinate and go crazy."
Wanpin nodded in agreement and said:
"Please ask Doctor Bao to take a closer look at those things. They are rice paste."
Doctor Bao did not examine the patient and said directly:
“It’s rice cereal.”
After hearing Doctor Bao clearly say that the thing on the handkerchief was indeed rice paste, Hongmei became slightly nervous.
"Rice porridge. Ulanara is not old enough to eat rice porridge. I think the only one who still needs to eat rice porridge is the princess.
I remember that Jingse didn't trust the people in the palace to take care of the princess, so Jingse and his predecessor were responsible for all the food.
I don’t think this rice paste was made by someone else to poison the princess.”
The Queen Mother also went to see Hongmei. Hongmei didn't dare to speak and her body began to tremble.
It was obvious that all the rice porridge was fed to Ulanara's mouth. I really have no idea where Wanpin got it from.
"I picked this up from under Jingse's bed. It accidentally dropped when you and Jingse were force-feeding Ulanara's rice porridge."
Wanpin saw through Hongmei's thoughts and expressed her doubts.
Hongmei looked up in surprise.
"You, you saw it all."
This was the only result Hongmei could think of. There were not many people in the princess's bedroom while the princess was taking a nap. Only Wanpin could know every detail if she saw it with her own eyes.
Wanpin sighed heavily.
"Yes. I saw it. I saw everything you did."
"You should remember that a few days ago the princess asked me to embroider a small hat for the princess, saying that it was cold in winter and the princess was weak. I embroidered the hat today."
Wanpin took out a small tiger-head hat from her sleeve. The little tiger embroidered on it was lifelike. In order to please the princess, Wanpin specially embroidered a pink little tiger.
Wanpin didn't want to be blamed for this hat, as she had witnessed a tragedy with her own eyes.
While Wanpin was looking through the hat, she took out Ruyi's gold hairpin from it.
"Princess Wan, why did you take off this hairpin?"
Yanwan cried out in surprise. Wanpin had always been timid and she had no idea that she had the courage to take the weapon that killed Jingse.
Wanpin was also afraid in her heart, but she had to continue speaking. Wanpin asked someone to present the tiger-head hat and rose hairpin to the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother took a look, closed her eyes and sighed:
"What a sin, what a sin, I presented something like this to the princess instead of giving her this kind gift."
Wanpin also felt sorry for the tiger-head hat she had worked so hard to embroider, and was saddened by everything she saw, so she turned around and stopped looking.
Said softly:
"I brought this thing with me because it was the murder weapon that the princess used to commit suicide."
"suicide?"
Yan Wan's eyes widened in disbelief, and she almost stood up in excitement.
This result was really something she didn't expect.
She seemed to understand something suddenly.
Her memory went back to the day when Langya fell into the water, and to the day when she first used Jingse to please Langya.
Maybe, maybe Jingse never believed Yanwan from the beginning to the end.
The Queen Mother seemed much calmer than Yan Wan. As for Hongmei, she shed two lines of tears, sighed and lowered her head.
"It was suicide. Not entirely."
"After the princess called Ulanara and fed her the mandragora, she told her a lot about the imperial concubine's plans."
Wanpin was making a difficult choice in her heart.
"It is said that the Imperial Consort will soon replace Ulanara as the new empress.
The Imperial Consort will soon take the throne that Ulanara once held, and help Ulanara gain the Emperor’s favor.”
“The princess’ original intention was to make Ulanara jealous and kill the imperial concubine.
Who knows, maybe the amount of mandragora was not properly controlled, or maybe it was the mushroom that harmed the Ulanara family. "
"Ulanara accidentally stabbed the princess' throat with the golden hairpin when the princess and Hongmei were not prepared."
Whenever Wanpin thought of that scene and saw Jingse's desperate and surprised eyes, she was always filled with fear.
"The stab from Ulanara could have killed the princess, but if she had received timely medical treatment, she might have been saved. However, the princess did not ask Hongmei to invite the imperial physician.
Instead, push the golden hairpin harder."
"To die to slander the Imperial Concubine and the Ulanara clan."