Time Travel: The actress's acting skills exploded, and she was favored by the harem

While Qi Tong was escorting the people, the Queen called Shen Zhiyao and Concubine Zhuang together to hold a brief meeting in the inner room.

"I feel that there is a high possibility that Hu Xiaoyi and the others have been wronged. This matter needs to be considered carefully." The queen pondered.

"Empress, the investigation has come to this point. Is she wronged? In what way is she wronged? Yinlian should be taken to the Ministry of Punishment and interrogated until she dies. It would be best if the problem can be found out so that Hu Xiaoyi can never turn over a new leaf." Concubine Zhuang was so fed up with Hu Xiaoyi that she wished to confirm the facts immediately.

The queen looked at Shen Zhiyao.

After pondering for a while, Shen Zhiyao said, "Empress, I also think that Hu Xiaoyi is most likely innocent. The greater suspect is Concubine Zhao. But if we continue to investigate and find Concubine Zhao, with Queen Mother Zhao there, the matter will most likely be shelved again."

"In my opinion, we should just check here, which has the best cost-effectiveness..." Shen Zhiyao said, stroking the table with her fingertips.

Seeing that the three of them were of the same mind, the Queen nodded and said, "Then wait a moment, let's do it in this direction."

The three of them immediately left the inner room, and soon Qi Tong took Yinlian to Fengyi Palace, and nothing went wrong this time.

However, Hu Xiaoyi also came along, with a look of grievance on her face.

Shen Zhiyao looked at her pitiful and helpless appearance, and snorted in her heart: If I had known this would happen, I would not have done it in the first place. She doesn't deserve any sympathy at all!

The queen gave Qi Tong a look, and the latter understood and briefly stated the results of the investigation.

"Yinlian, where did you get this poisonous silver needle? Who instructed you to do this?" the queen asked coldly.

Shen Zhiyao laughed secretly in her heart. The Queen's question was basically a confirmation that the poison was administered by Yinlian.

Yinlian felt she had no way to defend herself. She had handed Jiuma a silver needle so that he could test for poison in food. She had never used a hollow needle and had no intention of killing Jiuma.

Jiuma knew more than others, but there was no need to let her take such a big risk to poison. It was simply not worth it!

She gave him money, clothes, bedding and silver needles, all just to let Jiu Ma know that his master was thinking about him and told him not to talk nonsense...

After hesitating for a while, Yinlian knelt down with a loud thump, crying and begging, "In reply to the Queen, I swear to heaven that what I gave Jiu Ma was just an ordinary silver needle, and I didn't do anything with it. Someone deliberately framed me. Please, Queen, please look into it!"

After saying this, he kowtowed more than ten times in a row, crying and swearing an oath that his entire family would be executed.

The queen watched coldly and refused to express her opinion, but she exuded a strong magnetic field from her body, which invisibly put tremendous pressure on Yinlian.

Hu Xiaoyi couldn't stand it any longer, so she stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, I brought this servant from my mother's home. She is naturally timid and would never dare to harm anyone. I swear that I never ordered her to harm Jiu Ma. I sent her to the Ministry of Punishment just because we had a master-servant relationship and wanted Jiu Ma to have a better life."

The Queen turned to look at Hu Xiaoyi and asked in a cold voice: "All the evidence points to her. Unless new evidence can be found to prove that she was not responsible, otherwise, I will have to deal with it impartially."

Concubine Zhuang stepped out to help: "Since the investigation has come to this point, it is better to take Yinlian to the Ministry of Punishment for a thorough investigation. Hu Xiaoyi, you are begging for mercy like this, aren't you embarrassing the Empress? Even if she didn't know, she was the one who delivered the poisoned silver needle. If you can clear your suspicion by swearing, are there still rules in the harem?"

"I don't mean that at all. Yinlian is a maid who grew up with me. She is not an ordinary one. I beg the Queen not to send her to the Ministry of Punishment. We all know what that place is. Just let her live..."

This time, Hu Xiaoyi refused to give in and even knelt down and cried for mercy.

At the moment of stalemate, the eunuch outside Fengyi Palace sang: "The Emperor has arrived..."

Then, Bo Muxi walked in quickly, with anger clearly on his face.

When Qi Tong went to Zheng Fuxuan to escort the people, Hu Xiaoyi knew that she could not resist, so she secretly sent someone to Changde Palace to invite the emperor.

Hu Xiaoyi knew that only by alarming the emperor would she have a chance to compete with the queen.

The queen hurriedly led everyone to pay their respects. After they stood up, no one dared to say anything more for fear of offending others and causing their anger.

The Queen knelt down alone and said, "Your Majesty, it is my fault that I did not handle it properly and always distracted you. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Bo Muxi looked at the queen kneeling on the ground, sighed, and went to help her up: "Queen, get up quickly. This is not your fault."

Bo Muxi knew very well in his heart that this queen had saved him a lot of worries. Both the former court and the harem could help him, but he still had to distinguish between the important and the unimportant.

After the queen stood up, she told the emperor the whole story in detail, and concluded: "This is the first time I have seen such a thing. They could hide the poison in the silver needle for testing poison and let the victim poison himself. It is really sinister."

But the queen knew clearly that Jiu Ma might not have been poisoned by just the poison powder in the hollow silver needle. After all, two kinds of poison were found in his body.

But after investigating to this point, no matter what the inside story is, this is the only possibility.

Bo Muxi's brain was working at high speed at this time. He knew in his heart that Hu Xiaoyi was most likely framed.

But the Queen and the others have already investigated to this point, and the evidence is conclusive. Does it still matter whether he is innocent or not?

It is impossible for Bo Muxi to bother the Ministry of Punishment and other concubines in the palace just for Hu Xiaoyi.

"Your Majesty... I am truly innocent. How could Yinlian do such a thing? Besides, where did she get the hollow needle and medicine? There are many suspicious points in this matter. I beg Your Majesty to look into it clearly!" Seeing that her request to the empress failed, Hu Xiaoyi turned to beg the emperor with tears in her eyes.

The emperor looked at her and felt that as she started crying, her figure gradually overlapped with Qin Man's.

Thinking of the innocent Qin Man who died, he felt a dull pain in his heart.

But the fact that this woman only thought of asking him for help at this time made Bo Muxi feel dissatisfied.

The rumors had been spreading wildly for so many days, but Hu Xiaoyi was unwilling to ask him for help early on. It had come to this point that she only remembered herself. She was still a little arrogant.

Hu Xiaoyi's behavior at this time had a different meaning in the eyes of the Queen.

At this time, this woman only asked the emperor for help, but ignored her, the queen.

Shen Zhiyao shook her head inwardly, not knowing whether to say she was smart or stupid.

Bo Muxi did not go to help Hu Xiaoyi, but turned to ask the Queen: "In your opinion, how should this matter be handled?"

At the critical moment, the emperor handed the hilt of the knife to the queen again. Shen Zhiyao sneered in her heart. It seemed that the emperor's favor was nothing more than this in the face of checks and balances of interests.