The prince wanted to die, and the doctor raised her hand and slapped him

"Your Majesty ignored the military order and snatched the tiger talisman. He was so arrogant and reckless, completely contrary to his previous respectful and filial behavior. I believe that there must be a traitor who secretly instigated it."

Emperor Mingde pondered. First he poisoned him so that he had no time to take care of other things, and then released the giant crocodile to kill his children. The timing was so clever that he didn't believe that no one had planned it.

He even suspected that there was a traitor around him.

The emergence of this idea made Emperor Mingde a little angry. While the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it. He thought he was the oriole, but now he has not gotten what he deserves, and someone else has become the oriole.

"What Ying Qing said makes sense."

"Your Majesty is already very tired from working on state affairs despite his illness. It is really my fault that he is worrying about such trivial matters." Ying Qiong stood up and knelt. "I am willing to find this person and share the worries for your Majesty."

He put a curse on King Yu and almost took his life.

A life-and-death feud has been formed, and once the King returns victorious, he will be in danger.

Putting aside the selection of the prince, his most urgent task at the moment was to clip the king's wings.

Ying Qiong's enthusiasm made Emperor Mingde suspicious. "What did Ying Qing say? Does that mean you have a suspect?"

"I think the Marquis of Yongning is suspicious."

Ying Qiong noticed the suspicious look from Emperor Mingde, but she didn't care.

As long as the emperor needs to prolong his life, he will not have to worry about his life.

Emperor Mingde leaned on the soft pillow, his expression neither happy nor angry, "Tell me about it."

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the fortune I told you before Prince Yu's wedding?"

Ying Qiong narrated the story, "At that time, I got Miss Su's horoscope, which showed that only if she married Prince Yu could His Majesty's wish come true."

"But the Marquis of Yongning pretended to obey, but secretly disobeyed. He found a country girl from somewhere to impersonate him, which led to everything going off track afterwards."

"Recently, the Third Prince was poisoned, Lord Fang was demoted, the Queen was in danger, and Sun Jun's palace coup, but Marquis Yongning was able to take leave in advance and escape unscathed. I suspect that all of this was planned by Marquis Yongning."

Emperor Mingde spoke slowly, "You mean Su Changyuan is using a self-torture trick in front of me?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Ying Qiong flattered him a little, "Every time Princess Yu went to the Yongning Marquis's mansion, there was a huge fanfare, and the Yongning Marquis often complained to the ministers about Princess Yu's atrocities, but -"

Ying Qiong changed the subject, "From my observation, I found that the Marquis of Yongning only grumbled about severing his relationship with Princess Yu, but he never actually took any action. Even when faced with Princess Yu's beating, he never complained to the emperor..."

"Such inconsistency between words and deeds makes me suspect that Yongning Hou is the one who secretly planned everything."

Emperor Mingde's expression turned serious. "What Yingqing said makes sense."

Su Changyuan, who was not present: I swore and sever my relationship with Su Yinyue, but the emperor wrote an imperial edict to scold me! Now you say I didn't complain to the emperor? What should I do to satisfy you? Is there anyone who speaks up for me?

long silence.

Emperor Mingde waved his hand to let Ying Qiong leave. "Su Qing is my confidant, I don't want to doubt him. The most urgent thing now is to summon Ji Qianming to the palace to detoxify me. Su Qing's matter needs to be proven, so we can discuss it later."

Ying Qiong bowed and left, "I'll take my leave."

After leaving the palace, he sent people to find evidence.

If he can't find it, he will forge it. He is determined to get the silver mine supervised by Su Changyuan.

"Your Majesty, it's time to drink medicine."

Huai En held a bandage on his head and brought the steaming medicine to Emperor Mingde.

After drinking the medicine and talking for a while, Emperor Mingde felt tired and closed his eyes to rest.

Strands of soothing incense wafted out from the gold-inlaid glass beast incense burner and spread little by little in the sunlight.

Feeling that the pain everywhere in his body had eased a lot, he ordered: "Go to Guanju Palace."

Guanju Palace is the palace where Qi Shunyi lived. She was the biological mother of the deceased eighteenth prince.

After comforting Qi Shunyi, the next to come were Concubine Xia, the mother of the fifteenth princess, Concubine Guan, the mother of the nineteenth prince, and the fourteenth prince whose leg was bitten off by a giant crocodile.

After walking through all these palaces, Emperor Mingde finally had time in the evening to find out what had happened in Hanyuan Palace that night.

Su Yinyue, who lives in Prince Yu's Mansion, wants to know the result, so she has to go there tomorrow.

Now, Su Yinyue is receiving Princess Xiaokang and her daughter.

"I, your concubine, greet the princess."

Su Yinyue quickly helped the two people who were performing the ceremony to stand up, "What are you doing? Get up quickly!"

"Prince Xiaokang is my master's great uncle, and you, Princess Xiaokang, are my great aunt. Aunt Xiuning, aren't you embarrassing me by giving me such great honors?"

Princess Xiaokang stood up with the help of her strength and said with a smile: "You are the princess of the first rank, half a rank higher than me, and much higher than Xiuning, a county lady. You deserve this gift from both of us."

Su Yinyue followed up with polite remarks, "Uncle has helped me a lot. There are no outsiders here, so there is no need to follow those conventional etiquettes."

She could more or less guess why the two of them were so humble.

The two of them came here to help Xiuning County Lady push for the queen.

As expected, Princess Xiaokang mentioned Hanyuan Hall in her next sentence, "Princess, what happened to your face and your hands? But the day before yesterday in Hanyuan Hall..."

Su Yinyue didn't interact much with them and didn't intend to tell them the real reason, lest the news leak out and reach the ears of Jiang Zaiyu's hostile forces.

She smiled and said, "It has nothing to do with Hanyuan Palace. You should have heard the rumors in the capital. Two days before the garden party, a thief sneaked into Prince Yu's mansion and poisoned me."

"These blood spots and bruises on my body are caused by detoxification. They will disappear in a few days."

Hearing this, Princess Xiaokang breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it had nothing to do with Xiuning.

"I'm relieved that you're okay."

Su Yinyue pulled Princess Xiaokang and Princess Xiuning to sit down at the table.

As soon as she sat down, Princess Xiaokang explained her purpose, "Princess, Xiuning and I are here to apologize today."

"The day before yesterday in Hanyuan Palace, Xiuning only cared about herself and let you be chased by the giant alligator. It was wrong."

Xiuning County Lady took the initiative to stand up and bowed to Su Yinyue, "Xiuning was selfish, I hope the princess will forgive me."

Su Yinyue held her arm with her hand, preventing her from actually bowing, "I also failed to help Aunt Xiuning, so I am also wrong."

"Aunt Xiuning, please sit down. I feel embarrassed for you to be so serious."

Princess Xiaokang observed her expression carefully, but couldn't see anything, and couldn't help feeling worried.

The garden banquet was a banquet held by the emperor to entertain officials of the third rank. The quality of the guests was more important than the quantity, and each minister usually only brought one female family member.

Prince Xiaokang could not persuade his daughter to do so, so he took Princess Xiuning with him.

According to past practice, Princess Xiaokang, who stayed in the palace, would be able to see the returning father and daughter that night.

However, it was not until the early hours of the morning that King Xiaokang and his daughter returned home with a look of horror on their faces.

As soon as she saw her mother, Princess Xiuning could no longer hold back and hugged her and cried bitterly.

After asking for a long time, Princess Xiaokang finally found out that Xiuning had pushed the queen, causing the queen to have one of her arms bitten off by a giant alligator.

The most important thing is that the process of Xiuning pushing the queen was seen by Princess Yu!

The two of them came today just to test whether Princess Yu would report it.