Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

In the women's guest hall.

Everyone lowered their eyes and remained silent, holding their breath.

After a while, the guards brought the doctor.

"Master Blade Bearer, Second Miss." The doctor standing in the middle bowed.

Gong Ziyu looked at Gong Yunzheng.

Gong Yunzheng had the maid search the room of the fourth Miss Song and bring the powder to the doctor for examination. After a thorough inspection, the doctor respectfully replied, "Sir, the powder in this bottle is indeed for treating asthma, but it is mixed with some poisonous powder that will quickly cause a rash on the face."

Just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she was shocked by the doctor's words. Miss Song quickly explained, "No! This is really just medicine for treating asthma. I don't know why it's mixed with poison powder!"

Without listening to Miss Song's explanation, Gong Yunzheng ordered: "Check Miss Song's pulse."

The doctor stepped forward upon hearing this, and Miss Song Fourth stretched out her wrist without hesitation and covered it with a gauze scarf.

After taking her pulse, the doctor reported again, "Fourth Miss Song is indeed suffering from asthma."

Gong Yunzheng asked, "Does this disease require daily medication?"

"Yes," the doctor said, "The miasma in the valley is very serious, and you need to take medicine every day. If you are not careful, the disease will flare up."

Gong Yunzheng then asked Gong Ziyu, "Is this the only bottle of medicine found in Fourth Miss Song's room?"

Gong Ziyu nodded: "There is only this one bottle."

"That's strange." Gong Yunzheng smiled softly and asked Gong Ziyu, "Who would put poison in their own life-saving medicine?"

Before Gong Ziyu could figure out what was going on, Fourth Miss Song was furious: "Someone is trying to frame me!"

"This..." Gong Ziyu thought, "It's also possible that she has a doctor helping her in the clinic. This bottle of medicine is mixed with poison, but someone will send her asthma medicine every day."

Gong Yunzheng agreed with him: "Is there a doctor in the palace who is disloyal? If that's the case, we should investigate all the doctors in the clinic."

"One more thing," Gong Yunzheng asked Yun Weishan, "was the medicine that Miss Shangguan used to treat Miss Yun a pill, a powder, or an ointment?"

Yun Weishan's heart tightened and he looked at the woman standing at the top. Even Gong Ziyu looked at her curiously.

This was just a harmless question, but the problem was that Shangguan Qian was not there and did not collude with the testimony. Yun Weishan was nervous and could only answer the same as she had said to Gong Ziyu before: "It's the ointment."

Gong Yunzheng asked again, "Then why were you naked in Miss Shangguan's room? Did you also have a rash?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire hall fell silent.

Gong Ziyu opened her eyes wide, unable to believe that Gong Yunzheng would ask such a question that would damage a woman's reputation in public.

He looked at Yun Weishan worriedly, and sure enough, tears were welling up in her eyes.

"No." Yun Weishan remained strong, not letting himself lose composure: "It's just that I had a fever that night and wanted to cool myself down."

Gong Yunzheng asked the doctor, "Will this poison cause fever?"

The doctor shook his head. "No. It's just a poisonous powder that causes a rash, not a fever."

Gong Yunzheng asked again, "Are the symptoms Miss Jiang and Miss Yun just described the same?"

"Miss Jiang also has a rash on her face, but she doesn't have a fever. However, she has been poisoned by another kind of poison and is unconscious."

"They drank the same tea. Besides developing rashes on their faces, Miss Yun developed a fever, and Miss Jiang was poisoned by another form of poison. According to the maid's report, they hadn't been anywhere else before heading to Miss Shangguan's room. Their dinner was also prepared by the kitchen in the women's quarters." Gong Yunzheng looked at Yun Weishan scrutinizingly and asked again, "Miss Yun, why did you take off all your clothes? You were obstructing the guards' search."

No clothes, unless there is a reason why the clothes she is wearing cannot be seen by others.

"I..." Being questioned like this, the woman frowned, but she still maintained her composure, "I really do have a fever."

Gong Yunzheng didn't believe her: "I don't want to ask you a third time."

As if she had been framed, Yun Weishan's body was a little shaky. She looked at Gong Ziyu, her watery eyes full of sincerity: "I didn't lie."

"Enough!" Gong Ziyu couldn't help but interrupt, then her momentum weakened again and she advised: "Sister, isn't it a bit too much to ask a woman such a question in public?"

"Although Miss Jiang doesn't have a fever, it's possible that everyone's body constitution is different, so the symptoms may also be different."

"The poison was found in Fourth Miss Song's room. Why do you keep harassing Miss Yun?"

"Besides, I believe Miss Yun. She is not the kind of woman who would poison others."

Gong Yunzheng: "Why?"

Gong Ziyu was full of confidence. "On the way to the ladies' quarters, I saw someone releasing river lanterns. If the person releasing the river lanterns wanted to escape, they would definitely run upstream, which would put distance between them and those chasing the lanterns downstream. But Miss Yun went downstream, trying to leave the palace. Everyone knows that the sword-wielding bride-selector will choose from among the gold medals. How could a bride who doesn't want to marry into the palace do such a thing as poisoning others and making herself a necessary choice?"

Play hard to get.

Use Mrs. Lan to gain sympathy and trust.

Brother Zi Yu's mother didn't want to marry into the palace back then.

Looking at the woman standing below, Gong Yunzheng could already confirm her identity.

"There were three people in Miss Shangguan's room that night: Jiang Lili, Yun Weishan, and Shangguan Qian, but Miss Song wasn't there. After Miss Yun and Miss Jiang left Miss Shangguan's room, Miss Song didn't look for them," Gong Yunzheng reminded Gong Ziyu. "If Miss Song poisoned the tea, how did she get it into the tea? And how can you be sure that it was Miss Jiang and Miss Yun who drank the poisoned tea? A maid testified that there was ash left in the incense burner in Miss Shangguan's room that morning. If the tea wasn't poisonous, then it must have been the incense. And all three of them smelled the same incense, so how did only two of them get poisoned?"

Gong Ziyu ordered: "First check the tea and incense in Miss Shangguan's room."

After examination by the doctor, there was nothing wrong with the tea leaves and incense.

Gong Yunzheng looked at the doctor, who took out some incense and tea leaves for inspection from the package that he was about to throw away, and then held them in his hands.

"Since there's nothing wrong with the tea leaves and incense, then the problem lies with Fourth Miss Song." Gong Ziyu shook her sleeves. "As for the doubts Sister Ayun just raised, I think we'll soon find the answers as long as we interrogate Fourth Miss Song."

Hearing that the other party wanted to interrogate her, Miss Song was incredulous: "You... no matter what, I didn't poison you!"

Gong Ziyu: "Then how do you explain the poison powder in your medicine bottle?"

Song Si felt that he had no way to defend himself.

"Where is Miss Yun?" Gong Yunzheng asked.

"As a victim, Miss Yun is innocent." Gong Ziyu vouched for Yun Weishan.

"If Sister Ayun feels it's not enough, then we can examine Miss Shangguan as well."