Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

When the Queen heard that the young guard had disappeared, she dared not bring up the matter of catching the adulterer. She quickly said to the Emperor, enduring the pain, "Your Majesty, I am innocent. This is all caused by the nanny herself. I didn't know anything about it. I just felt a pain in my heart. I remembered that Miss Shen had cured the old lady's heart disease, so I also wanted Miss Shen to help me with the treatment."

"How dare they lock her up in such a room? And why light such poisonous incense? Not to mention locking her up with the guards, how could it be possible? The nanny's son was running errands for my father at my mother's house. I heard that he was beaten to death by the Fang family army not long ago. She hates the Fang family army and the general, so she wants to take this opportunity to murder the cousin of the Fang family. This is definitely the case. This is all the nanny's business. I know nothing about it. Your Majesty, please investigate."

Didn’t Fang Yao say that he kicked the nanny to death?

Then just put the blame on the nanny, there will be no evidence.

Looking at the half-burnt incense stick held by Eunuch Chang in paper, the queen's eyes flickered.

That incense was specially made. It was said that it could make people intoxicated after burning for only a short while. Shen Li was still clear-headed and alert after smelling it. What went wrong?

Shen Li looked at the queen steadily and suddenly smiled.

Okay, I’m convinced.

She can lie so confidently, no wonder she can become the queen.

The emperor stood up and said to the other party, "Come with me to the imperial study."

Fang Yao was stunned and pointed at Shen Li and said, "As for Li'er's matter...Madam is the Empress's person, shouldn't the Empress give an explanation?"

The Emperor walked to the door, thought for a moment, then turned back and said to the Empress, "From today on, the Empress will be confined to Fengyi Palace for a month. Miss Shen is frightened. Empress, you will compensate Miss Shen with a hundred taels of gold from your own pocket. Then, give Miss Shen the nine-turn filigree gold hairpin that I gave you as a reward. Let her take it back to calm her down."

After saying this, he turned and left, regardless of whether the queen was willing or not.

Eunuch Chang and Shen Li were there, waiting for the Queen to bring out something.

The queen's back teeth were about to be broken.

Staring at Shen Li, sparks crackled in his eyes.

……

that night,

The queen had just hidden herself for a while when she was bitten hard by a centipede hiding in the quilt.

When the palace maids heard the queen's screams, they were so scared that their souls left their bodies. They rushed to her side. The queen had already lifted the quilt. The place on her arm where the caterpillar had stung her was in so much pain because of the big movement that she burst into tears again.

Everyone looked closely and saw five or six long and thick centipedes on the bed, entangled around the Queen's legs. It looked so creepy.

As soon as the quilt was lifted, the centipedes stopped entangled and scattered on the bed.

Two of them climbed directly onto the queen's legs, scaring the queen so much that she screamed and hid back.

The big movement of dodging startled the centipede, and the centipede raised its head and bit down, its movements were fast and fierce. The queen screamed like a pig being slaughtered, then her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

……

The lights in Fengyi Palace were on all night.

Several imperial doctors who were on duty in the palace arrived, and all the serving palace maids were arrested. They were beaten all night but nothing was learned from them.

The queen was poisoned by the centipede.

Dizziness, nausea, occasional vomiting, and feeling drowsy.

Combined with the pain from the caterpillar sting, she once thought she would not survive.

The Queen Mother sent someone out of the palace to ask Shen Li if she had any special medicine. She also wanted Shen Li to come to the palace to help with the treatment, but Fang Yao politely declined and sent her back.

Fang Yao said, "When Li'er entered the palace, the Queen locked her in a small dark room. Rats and bugs were running around in the room, and she was scared out of her wits. Now, whenever she hears someone mention the Queen, she runs around with a knife, threatening to kill the evil-hearted person as she runs. No one knows who she's scolding."

"I dare not provoke her. If I insist on letting her into the palace, I'm afraid that not only will she not be able to cure the Queen's illness, but she might even hurt her in her excitement. Please go back and tell the Queen Dowager that it's not that I won't go, but I simply can't. Please ask the Queen to find someone else. Alas, I can't help you. I'm so ashamed."

When the messenger returned and reported the incident, the Empress Dowager sighed deeply and said to Madam Zheng, "The Queen has brought this upon herself. She deserves to die."

……

Let’s talk about the Shen Mansion.

The old prime minister took Xiao Zhao away that very day. When Shen Shaokun and Shen Yao heard the news and rushed to Ansheng Courtyard, they only saw Shen Zhaojiang sitting alone in the corner, motionless.

No matter how Shen Shaokun and Shen Li shook him, he didn't say a word.

Before the old prime minister left, he analyzed with him who did it.

After much analysis, it is impossible for outsiders to interfere in such matters. Only people within the mansion are most likely to do so.

He thought it was his second brother's wife, Wan.

After all, Wan had suffered a lot at the hands of Xiao Zhao. When the two were arguing, Xiao Zhao had mocked her family for being poor more than once, and for the fact that the entire second wife's family had to rely on the first wife for their livelihood. She warned Wan to be careful that one day the second wife's children would have to rely on the first wife for their marriages, and warned her to keep a low profile.

Mrs. Wan is not a generous person. She might have been preparing to make little Mrs. Zhao suffer at any time.

The old prime minister disagreed.

If it was just a trivial matter, Mrs. Wan wouldn't have taken such harsh measures.

Even if she disliked Xiao Zhaoshi in her heart, Wanshi did not dare to ruin Shen Zhaojiang's plan because the second house had to rely on the first house to stay in the capital.

What's more, Wan was just a lady in the inner palace, and she didn't have that ability.

The old prime minister suspected it was Shen Li.

But after hearing what Mother Li said just now, he also knew that not only had Shen Li not been home for several days, but she was also summoned to the palace early today by the Queen and has not left the palace yet, so she had no chance to plot against Xiao Zhao.

Speaking of it, it was Xiao Zhao who stirred up trouble in front of the Queen. Shen Zhaojiang and the old Prime Minister were so anxious that their hands and feet were cold and their backs were covered in cold sweat.

Seeing that little Zhao showed signs of waking up, the old prime minister waved his hand and two secret guards jumped in. They also tied up little Zhao in a sack, carried her on their shoulders and jumped out.

After leaving the Shen Mansion, the old prime minister sat in the carriage in a bad mood. The streets were crowded with people. He leaned against the wall of the carriage, without any strength in his body.

Bang bang bang.

Someone knocked on his window and the carriage stopped.

The old prime minister lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw Fang Yao at a glance.

He was riding on a horse, followed by a sedan chair.

The old prime minister took a closer look at the sedan chair, and the other party nodded and said, "The person inside should be Miss Shen, right? Well, I was going to go to the palace to bring her out. Since General Fang has already done it, it just saves me the trouble. I don't need to go to the palace anymore."

Fang Yao waved his hand, and a soldier rode up on horseback and came to the old prime minister's carriage.

An old woman was lying on the man's horse. Fang Yao waved his hand, and the soldier picked up the old woman and threw her onto the shaft of the old prime minister's carriage.

The carriage shook violently, and the horse kicked its hooves restlessly, almost shaking the old prime minister off his seat.

Two figures rushed out, with a flash of sword, protecting the old prime minister's carriage.

Fang Yao smiled contemptuously and waved his hand. Several men in tight clothes quickly surrounded him, holding weapons in their hands, all ready to attack.

"Stop." The old prime minister shouted and slowly got off the carriage.

Fang Yao raised his hand, signaling his men to pause. He looked at the approaching old Prime Minister and said coldly, "That thief was your daughter's dowry maid. Her surname is Zhou. I just caught her at the palace gate. Prime Minister, thanks to your daughter, my Li'er almost met with an accident. What happened? Give me an explanation."