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The Imperial Concubine's words immediately involved Concubine Liu, who loved making incense. Concubine Liu happened to be here and had previously testified for Nanny Gong in the Queen's Palace.

The emperor's eyes quickly turned to Concubine Liu. Concubine Liu's eyebrows jumped, but she calmed herself down and stood up.

"Noble Lady Liu, you made all these tranquilizing incense sticks. I have some too. Are you trying to poison me and the Imperial Concubine?"

"Your Majesty, I absolutely do not have such intentions." Concubine Liu glanced at the calming incense and then looked up at Divine Doctor Yunya. "Excuse me, Divine Doctor Yunya, are these calming incense poisonous from the beginning, or did they become poisonous after being soaked by someone?"

Divine Doctor Yunya said solemnly, "It's poisonous from the beginning. These incense sticks have never been soaked."

The Imperial Concubine shook the Emperor's sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, please listen... these tranquilizing incense sticks are poisonous. This means that Concubine Liu wants to poison me."

The emperor's face darkened. "Noble Lady Liu, how do you explain this?"

The calming incense in his palace was poisonous at the beginning, and it was only after Si Yan reminded him that he stopped using it.

Concubine Liu said calmly, "Your Majesty, I enjoy blending perfumes, and I also enjoy making calming incense. Everyone in the palace knows this, and the ladies in the palace all like to get it from me. I was worried that someone would use it to do something bad, but I never thought it would be the Imperial Concubine."

Concubine Liu was well-known in the palace for not vying for favor, and her only hobby was making calming incense.

It is said that this calming incense is a recipe passed down from her ancestors, and she spends all her time every day making it.

The emperor's expression was slightly tense, and he listened to Si Yan's words: "Lady Liu is saying that the Imperial Concubine used these tranquilizing incense you made to frame you?"

"That's right, Lord Si Yan." Concubine Liu puffed out her chest and looked calm, "Your Majesty, these calming incense in the palace of the Concubine were not made by me at all."

She had just peeled open a piece of calming incense to check, and it was not the calming incense she made.

The Imperial Noble Consort immediately shouted angrily, "Noble Lady Liu, you're actually trying to deny it? I clearly sent someone to your palace to get these calming incense sticks, and everyone knows they were made by you. How dare you refuse to admit it?"

Concubine Liu said calmly, "Your Majesty, I am worried that one day I might be framed. Therefore, I meticulously carve each stick of calming incense. The bamboo core of each stick is engraved with extremely tiny characters."

Si Yan looked at the emperor gently and said, "Your Majesty, I remember that you still have some calming incense in your bedroom. Why don't you bring it over and compare it with the calming incense in the imperial concubine's palace?"

The emperor nodded and said, "Gu Yuan, go there yourself and bring those calming incense sticks."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Gu Yuan hurried back to the emperor's bedroom to find calming incense.

Since Si Yan reminded him last time, His Majesty no longer uses calming incense, but he didn't throw away the incense. His Majesty said to keep it, as it might be useful in the future.

Imperial Concubine Xin, with tears streaming down her face, tugged at the Emperor's sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, these tranquilizing incense sticks were indeed given to me by Imperial Concubine Liu. They were truly given to me by Imperial Concubine Liu..."

The emperor said nothing. He also hoped that the imperial concubine had not done these things.

But just after he returned to the bedroom, he looked through the memorial written by Pei Wangjie again. When he thought about the Queen who fainted on the spot today out of anger, his enthusiasm for the Imperial Noble Consort diminished a little.

Eunuch Gu came over quickly, holding a handful of calming incense in his hand: "Your Majesty, everything is here."

The emperor looked at Concubine Liu and said, "Concubine Liu, please come forward and take a look at where the inscription you mentioned is."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Concubine Liu stood up and stepped forward to take a piece of calming incense.

She peeled off the outer layer of the incense, revealing the tiny bamboo core inside.

The bamboo core is thin, not much thicker than a sewing needle, and at first glance, there is no engraving at all.

"Your Majesty, where are the words on this bamboo core?" The Imperial Noble Concubine did not see any words on it.

The emperor didn't see it either, but Si Yan did. Concubine Liu pointed at the bamboo core, and everyone saw that there were indeed tiny words engraved on it.

The emperor took the calming incense and placed it before his eyes. Si Yan read the words on the incense: "May Your Majesty have a long and prosperous life."

The emperor also saw it clearly, and he looked at Concubine Liu with a hint of surprise.

"Are there words engraved on the calming incense you make?"

"Your Majesty, every stick of calming incense I make has words engraved on it."

Concubine Liu lowered her eyes, then picked up another incense stick, peeled it, and pointed it to the emperor.

The emperor took it before his eyes and saw inscribed in very small letters: "May Your Majesty live a long and prosperous life."

Si Yan and Eunuch Gu each picked up a stick of incense and peeled it open, and also found words engraved on the bamboo core.

"I wish your Majesty good health."

"May Your Majesty be blessed with good health."

"..."

Each stick of calming incense contained a blessing for the emperor, which touched the emperor's heart.

The emperor was overwhelmed with emotions. He was not very fond of Concubine Liu, but he did not expect that Concubine Liu would engrave so many words of blessing for him on the calming incense.

The Imperial Noble Consort felt a chill in her heart, while Prince Xin stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

The Imperial Noble Consort argued, "Your Majesty, perhaps the incense given to you by Concubine Liu has inscriptions on it, but the one given to me doesn't."

Concubine Liu spoke slowly, "My Lady, all the calming incense I make, whether for Your Majesty, the Empress, the Lady, or the other sisters in the palace, has inscriptions on it."

At this time, another concubine in the palace also took the calming incense she had taken from Liu Guiren. When she peeled it open, she saw that there were also very fine engravings on the bamboo core, and the engravings on it were also blessings to the emperor.

However, there were no inscriptions on the calming incense found in the secret compartment of the Imperial Concubine's palace.

The emperor couldn't help but sigh, and looked at the Imperial Concubine with cold eyes: "Imperial Concubine, what else do you have to say?"

The Imperial Concubine burst into tears and said, "Your Majesty, this Concubine Liu has harmed me. Concubine Liu has harmed me... She deliberately made two kinds of tranquilizing incense to frame me."

Si Yan chuckled, "My Lady, if you had openly taken out these tranquilizing incense sticks and used them, and said that Concubine Liu had framed you, it would make sense. But if you secretly hid them in a secret compartment, it would be unbelievable."

The emperor's face darkened. He helped Concubine Liu, who was kneeling on the ground, up and looked at the Imperial Concubine coldly.

"Pei Wangjie, a doctor in the Ministry of Justice, has already reported that Fu Rentao has confessed and that you poisoned me."

When the emperor said this, everyone in the harem widened their eyes and opened their mouths in shock.

Prince Xin and Prince Chen felt their legs go weak and they became dizzy.

The Imperial Noble Consort knelt before the Emperor, her eyes blurred with tears as she said, "Your Majesty, how could I possibly do this? How could I possibly poison you? These tranquilizing incense sticks were for my own use, not for you..."

Prince Xin tried his best to calm down and stood up: "Father, Mother would never do such a thing."

Prince Chen also said, "Father, please don't be deceived by this enchantress Si Yan."

Si Yan ignored Prince Chen and spoke to the Emperor, "Your Majesty, I wonder if you still remember that among the soothing incense you gave me, you also found these problematic soothing incense from the Imperial Noble Consort's palace. This means that the Imperial Noble Consort had someone secretly make these soothing incense and mixed them into the soothing incense your Majesty was using in order to poison you."

The emperor remembered that Si Yan had said that the incense in his palace smelled good, so he asked him for some.

Si Yan continued, "That is to say, the person in charge of incense in His Majesty's palace is very likely connected to the Imperial Concubine."

The emperor's eyes darkened. "Gu Yuan, who is in charge of the incense?"

Eunuch Gu quickly said, "Your Majesty, it's Ruizhu."