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"Send to the imperial physician quickly! The Empress has been assassinated!" Ah Cheng picked up the Empress and shouted an order.

Zhao Huanya remained motionless in a protective state, Zhongde peeled off the dagger from her hand, and then softly comforted: "Princess, if there is something hidden, just report it to His Majesty."

The imperial physician and Han Qi arrived at the same time.The confrontation between Lin Qiannan and Han Qi was not over yet. After receiving the news from here, he rushed over.

"Brother Qiannan!" Zhao Huanya threw herself into Lin Qiannan's arms as if she had found salvation.

Lin Qiannan hugged her and comforted her in a low voice.Han Qi took the main seat and listened to A Cheng's embellished report, keeping his eyes on the two people who were embracing each other.

"Ya'er, what's going on?" Lin Qiannan must know what happened.

Zhao Huanya didn't say anything, she just cried silently in his arms, but the blood in her hands stained Lin Qiannan's moonlight shirt red.

"It's okay, let's go back to the southern country tomorrow, okay?" Zhao Huanya calmed down a lot, her voice was still trembling violently.

"Okay." Lin Qiannan said.

The chief imperial physicians of the Imperial Hospital gathered in Fengluan Palace, and the diagnosis was completed in a short while. Wei Tao withdrew and reported to Han Qihui: "Your Majesty, the empress's arm was scratched by a knife blade. Fortunately, the wound is not deep and there is no serious problem. Now The Empress has already woken up."

Lin Qiannan relaxed his embrace of Zhao Huanya's hand by two points, and the person in his arms also froze, and slowly revealed a fearful eye to look at the unknown inner hall.

"only……"

Sure enough, before he finished speaking, everyone stared at Wei Tao nervously.

"It's just that the empress's body is extremely poisonous, and she may be in danger of her life!" Wei Tao knelt down quickly and said, "The poison has not entered the body for a long time, and the old minister will try his best to treat it!"

"The queen's three meals are taken care of by a special person, how could she be poisoned?! Let me investigate!" Han Qi looked at the crowd angrily, and ordered sternly.

Zhongde took the order, and led the equally resentful Ah Cheng out of Fengluan Hall.

Wei Tao stood up, walked to the table, picked up the walnut cake on the table, sniffed it, and took out a silver needle to test the poison.When Han Qi looked over, the silver needle was turning black little by little.

"Is this plate of pastries poisonous?" Han Qi walked over and asked.

Wei Tao said: "Return to Your Majesty, the empress just woke up and told me that she only ate this plate of pastries. It seems that this plate of pastries is the source of the poison."

"Do you have something to say?" Han Qi turned to face the kneeling crowd.

The palace people of Fengluan Palace stood in two rows and knelt down together. The palace people who were in charge of meals were even more panic-stricken, pushing me and pushing you, pushing a young maid to reply.

The maid said: "This plate of cakes is actually made by the empress herself! Because the empress knows that the princess loves walnut cakes, she specially ordered the servants to prepare the ingredients, and the empress made the cakes all the way, so the servants can never poison the cakes. !"

"The Queen did it..." Han Qi mused, "Didn't someone else do it?"

"Yes! No one has ever touched it, except..." The maid glanced at Zhao Huanya, then lowered her head.

Lin Qiannan pressed Zhao Huanya's head to prevent her from seeing all this. He said, "What do you want to say? You want to say that the princess poisoned you?"

"Slaves dare not! The relationship between the empress and the princess is definitely not something that slaves dare to touch!"

After Zhao Huanyan woke up, she refused to cooperate with the imperial physicians' treatment and clamored to see Han Qi, so Han Qi could only go to the inner hall to see her.

"Your Majesty... our child..." Zhao Huanyan looked weak and reached out to hold Han Qi's clothes.

Han Qi held her hand, his eyes softened, "The child is fine, you need to take good care of yourself."

"The imperial physician said that the concubine was poisoned, but the imperial physician was checking the concubine's pulse every day, how could the concubine be poisoned?" Zhao Huanyan couldn't believe it.

"I will find out the truth." Han Qi glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw Lin Qiannan walking in with Zhao Huanya.

Zhao Huanyan looked behind Han Qi, and she said softly, "Sister, don't be afraid, I believe you didn't mean it."

"What happened?" Han Qi frowned.

The people in the hall seemed to be dumb, because Zhao Huanyan signaled everyone not to speak with his eyes, and the maid who answered before seemed to muster up her courage, and stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the servants heard the princess outside..."

"Say." Han Qi was impatient with their concealment.

The maid kowtowed and said: "The princess said...she hates the empress, because she hates the empress's status, and the princess can only wander outside, and she will be persecuted by gossip when she returns home."

Zhao Huanya got annoyed, and shouted desperately: "I didn't!"

"It was the princess who stabbed the empress!" said the maid.

Han Qi's half-belief fell into Lin Qiannan's eyes. He still didn't know what happened, and everything seemed to be going in a bad direction.

"I..." Zhao Huanya didn't argue again, she blocked her mouth and looked at Lin Qiannan.

"Ya'er, is it true?" Han Qi rubbed his forehead and looked at Zhao Huanya coldly.

"I stabbed my sister." Zhao Huanya admitted.

Lin Qiannan was startled, and said: "I guess there is something hidden, Ya'er will definitely not hurt the empress."

"Shut up," Han Qi shouted, "I didn't ask you, don't rush to argue for her."

The atmosphere in the hall fell into dead silence, and no one dared to show their air. Only Zhao Huanyan kept shaking her head. She broke the silence and said, "Ya'er definitely didn't do it on purpose, she was just being naughty."

Zhao Huanya smiled with some despair, and looked at her: "Sister, why did you say something different in front of him than in front of me?"

Zhao Huanyan coughed and vomited a mouthful of black blood. Han Qi supported her and handed her a clean silk scarf to wipe the corners of her mouth.

"Bengong has always been responsible for what he said, dare to speak and act," Zhao Huan's eyes changed, just to show Zhao Huanya, "Ya'er must be crazy, she definitely didn't intend to hurt Bengong."

There was something in the first half of the sentence, and only Zhao Huanya understood the meaning; she was telling Zhao Huanya that since she dared to say that she wanted to kill Lin Qiannan, she would naturally have a way to do it.

Zhao Huanya's complexion was no better than Zhao Huanyan's. She took her hand away from Lin Qiannan's and knelt down.

"The courtier did stab the empress, it was intentional." Zhao Huanya said.

"No, Your Majesty!" Zhao Huanyan was still pretentious, grabbed Han Qi's hand and said, "My sister will not hurt my concubine."

"Wei Tao, what do you think?" Han Qi asked the least relevant person.

Wei Tao looked around and replied: "The most important thing is to detoxify the empress first, but the empress said that only the princess and the empress have eaten this walnut cake."

Lin Qiannan knew that it was useless to be anxious, but he had nothing to do with this matter, so he couldn't speak, so he could only watch the situation develop.

Zhao Huanya said: "My daughter did not get poisoned after eating the walnut cake!"

"But the empress is poisoned." Wei Tao reminded at the right time.

Lin Qiannan looked at Wei Tao inexplicably, and gradually closed his hands.

"Search." Han Qi got up and ordered, "Wei Tao continues to diagnose and treat the queen."

Zhao Huanya struggled to resist, Lin Qiannan stood in front of her to protect her, the old nanny couldn't do a body search, so she had to say: "Please cooperate with the group leader, so that we can pay the princess justice."

Zhao Huanya had no choice but to follow her wishes and said to Lin Qiannan: "Brother Qiannan, let her search, I didn't poison the queen, no one can slander me."

Lin Qiannan reluctantly returned to the main hall. There were two cups of tea in front of Han Qi. He raised his head and asked Lin Qiannan to come and sit down.

"It's impossible for Ya'er to poison the queen." Lin Qiannan said firmly.

"I know, but Ya'er did stab the queen." Han Qi withdrew his arrogance towards outsiders in front of Lin Qiannan.

Lin Qiannan couldn't refute it, judging from the situation just now, Zhao Huanya had indeed hurt Zhao Huanyan, but they didn't know what happened in between.

"I will find out the truth, trust me." Han Qi said.

Lin Qiannan looked at him uncertainly and nodded slowly.

"Your Majesty! This old servant has found out!" Mammy stumbled over.

Lin Qiannan put down the teacup that hadn't been brought to his mouth, and waited with Han Qi for Mammy's reply.

Mammy unfolded the handkerchief, and there was a little red powder inside, which was hard to detect unless one looked carefully.Mammy took a silver needle and tried it, but the silver needle quickly turned black under the eyes of everyone.

The powder is the source of the poison.

"The powder was found under the princess's nails!" Mammy claimed credit, "It would be difficult to detect if I handed it over to others, but this old servant's eyes are sharper than an eagle's, so I scraped it out carefully!"

Lin Qiannan narrowed his eyes and said, "Scratch?"

The mother was frightened by his questioning, and hurriedly said: "The emperor said that you must search carefully, the seams of your nails are not easy to search... First you pricked it with a silver needle and found it was poisonous, then scraped it off with a knife , although the old servant is not serious, but for the princess's innocence..."

"You're courting death!" Lin Qiannan took out his dagger, and Han Qi stopped his killing intent.

Mammy crawled backwards in a daze.

"She did nothing wrong. It is true that I ordered a thorough investigation. What are you so anxious about?" Han Qi asked.

Lin Qiannan held the knife, shook off Han Qi's hand, and walked towards the inner hall.The inner hall was in chaos, most of the people gathered around the bed, a few maids wanted to help Zhao Huanya who was hiding behind the screen, but Zhao Huanya kicked them away with both fists and kicks.

"Ya'er." Lin Qiannan called her softly.

Zhao Huanya didn't cry, her ten fingers were bleeding, and she blew cold air on her fingers "huhu". Seeing Lin Qiannan walking in, she quickly hid her hands behind her back.

"I asked Mammy to get the stuff out of my nails," Zhao Huanya explained, "I have to prove my innocence, Brother Qiannan, trust me, I will never poison you!"

"I know." Lin Qiannan held out his hand to her, "Show me your hand."

Zhao Huanya's eyes were red, she shook her head persistently and said, "It's okay, Ya'er doesn't hurt."

"It seems they won't believe you anymore," Lin Qiannan said, "Let's go home."

"En!" Zhao Huanya stood up, wiped away her tears with her sleeve, and followed Lin Qiannan into everyone's sight.

Han Qi sat on the edge of the bed, listened to Wei Tao's words, then told him to prepare things, and then stopped Lin Qiannan and Zhao Huanya who were about to leave.

"Where are you going?" Han Qi hid sullen anger.

"Ya'er didn't do it." Lin Qiannan stood in front of Zhao Huanya and refused to back down, "Even if Ya'er stabbed the empress, that's my responsibility and has nothing to do with Ya'er."

After Acheng returned to the palace, he had been standing beside Han Qi. Hearing Lin Qiannan's words, he rushed in front of Han Qi angrily and said, "The princess has no reason to hurt the empress. I'm afraid someone is behind the scenes to instigate and confuse you." The princess is murdering!"

Lin Qiannan didn't leave the dagger in his hand, and the hall was full of Han Qi's people, so his advantages were too few.The most disappointing thing is Wei Tao who is not in the same heart with Lin Qiannan.

Wei Tao seemed to remind Han Qi intentionally or unintentionally that it was Zhao Huanya who was doing something bad for the queen.

Uncle, what are you thinking?

The fellow generals from the Southern Kingdom were stationed at the station outside the imperial palace and could not provide support for a short period of time. Lin Qiannan knew the horror of being alone and helpless, but he still made up his mind to protect Zhao Huanya.

"Please make it clear, Your Majesty," Lin Qiannan dropped his self-esteem and knelt down in front of Han Qi, "The Princess returned to Yu Kingdom for the sake of the friendship between the two countries, not to hurt her own sister."

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