Five-year enthronement three-year simulation

Ming Tan sat in the lower seat of the emperor and empress, took the medicine brought by the maid, and took a sip with a half-smile.

How could a mere sweeping lady in the imperial garden sneak into the Kunning Palace where the empress lived, wait for an opportunity to lurk, and almost poison the princess of a country to death?

If it is said that there is no deliberate arrangement by the mastermind behind the scenes... She doesn't believe it at all.

"Simply appalling!"

The emperor sat on the throne, the anger on his face increased instead of diminished, showing the majesty of the Tian family, "Sheng An, tell the empress again."

Sheng An knelt down in the hall, answered "yes", turned his head to pay respects to the tired queen, and said respectfully: "My Majesty, Your Majesty ordered an investigation into the poisoning of the nine princesses last night, and the slaves immediately joined forces with the Imperial Hospital and the Grand Master. The inner guards began to investigate. Earlier today, the person who poisoned was arrested. It was a maid named Xia Tao who was doing sweeping work in the imperial garden. At this time, she was detained by the guards and was waiting outside the palace. The servant brought her in?"

"The sweeping lady in the imperial garden?" The queen was startled, "But Tan'er was clearly poisoned in Kunning Palace..."

"Jiang Taiji of the Taiyuan Hospital tested the sugar porridge that the princess ate yesterday, and found cut sections of Manjusri bulbs in it," Sheng An said. It is highly poisonous, and the bulb is the most. Jiang Taiyi said that although this substance can be used for medicine, if it is eaten by mistake without treatment, it may cause abdominal pain and high fever to the user. In severe cases...even It can kill people by poisoning."

The queen lowered her head and murmured: "The symptoms are exactly the same as Longlin's."

"Since it was found that the root cause was sugar porridge, the servants searched the small kitchen of Kunning Palace with the guards. But the meal waiters on duty yesterday were all familiar faces, and they were also old people in the empress's palace. They would never have any ill intentions towards the princess meaning." Sheng An tried his best to briefly describe the details of their investigation, "So, the servants started to investigate from the ingredients sent to Kunning Palace, and they found a flaw. It was the sweeping maid named Xia Tao. .”

Ming Tan managed to finish the bowl of fishy and bitter Chinese medicine with great difficulty, and after chewing the candied fruit that Du Ye brought up for a long time, he was finally able to ask: "Could it be that Xia Tao sent the ingredients to Kunning Palace yesterday? "

The emperor glanced at her, then suddenly raised his hand to stop Sheng An's words, turned his body sideways, and started to ask Ming Tan instead: "Tell me what you think?"

"It's very simple." Ming Tan swallowed the candied fruit and smiled at the emperor, "Yesterday afternoon, I was tired and hungry after copying the scriptures, so I pestered the queen mother to make dinner. But it was just after three...cough cough, Just after Shenshi, it was too early to serve dinner, so the queen mother ordered the small kitchen to cook a bowl of porridge with hundreds of flowers for me. It is said that it is "a collection of hundreds of flowers from the imperial garden in one bowl". It's incredible!"

The queen nodded lightly, unable to hide her self-reproach, and said: "The hundred flower porridge is a new dish in the imperial dining room. It has become popular in the harem recently. The concubine wanted Tan'er to taste something new, but unexpectedly...it gave the villain an opportunity to commit murder... ..."

The emperor patted her hand and said in relief, "It's not your fault, don't blame yourself."

After saying that, he looked at Ming Tan again, and smiled kindly at his little daughter, "Longlin is really sharp."

Ming Tan made a grimace, and hummed at the emperor: "It's so easy to think of it, father, don't come and make fun of me!"

The emperor patted her on the head, raised his chin, and signaled Sheng An to continue.

"The Ninth Princess is really smart!" Sheng An smiled, his chubby face wrinkled a lot, "The flowers used in this hundred flower porridge all come from the Imperial Garden, and are always given by the palace maids sent by the Imperial Garden. to the palaces."

"But today, out of respect for the empress, the aunt in charge of the imperial garden was supposed to deliver the flowers to Kunning Palace in person, but unexpectedly, a few shrubs that came as a tribute were infested with insects. The aunt in charge was too busy removing insects and had no time for him. Gu, that Xia Tao took the opportunity to find her, and as a matter of course got an errand to send flowers to Kunning Palace."

"The bulbs of Manjusri are among the flowers sent by Xia Tao, right?" Ming Tan smiled coldly, "The waiter in the small kitchen doesn't understand flowers and trees, they only think of them as ingredients for cooking porridge, but they don't know where they are. It's a poison that hurts people."

"As the princess said," Sheng An kowtowed, "that Xia Tao has already confessed, she managed to sneak into the small kitchen of Kunning Palace, and when the meal waiter was cooking porridge for the princess, she took the opportunity to instruct him to put the bulbs of Manjusri in it." Into the pot, it caused the princess to be poisoned."

That's the story of the matter.

The empress was so angry that her whole body trembled, hated and angry, she almost shed tears again, "Why... why on earth did she want to kill my concubine Tan'er!"

She has always been weak, and Ming Tan was afraid that she would be angry, so he quickly jumped off his seat, moved in front of the queen, put his arms around her arm and acted like a spoiled child, "Mom, don't be angry, didn't Tan'er not be harmed by her? Have a drink?" Tea, defeat the anger, but don't be spoiled by those petty anger!"

The emperor glanced at the empress's arm held by his daughter, and then at Ming Tan who was speaking softly, his eyes were a little hot.

But he didn't show any flaws at all, instead he quickly withdrew his eyes, with a sullen face, and ordered in a cold voice: "Bring that maid in here!"

Sheng An bowed in response, exited the hall, and walked in with two guards holding people up after a while.

Ming Tan let go of the Queen's arm, turned his head to look, and saw a figure thrown to the ground mercilessly by the guards.

Perhaps the wound touched the ground, and she let out a feeble moan of pain.Moaning, unkempt and embarrassed, even the clothes on his body were soaked in blood.

Evidently he had just been tortured.

The queen let out a low cry, and was about to reach out to cover Mingtan's eyes, but the emperor next to her suddenly spoke and interrupted her movements.

"Dragon Scale, are you scared?"

Ming Tan lowered his eyes, stared at the miserable state of the maid, and said indifferently: "Longlin is not afraid, I just feel happy."

The emperor raised his eyebrows, watched his daughter lift the corner of her skirt, walked down the steps step by step, stood in front of the kneeling maid, was silent for a moment, and then asked condescendingly, "Tell me, Xia Tao, why do you want to kill me?" ?”

The palace maid named Xia Tao trembled, her head drooped gloomily, and despite the pain in her body, she uttered a clear sneer from her throat.

"Why did you want to kill you?"

She raised her head abruptly, with a look of hatred on her blood-stained face, she gritted her teeth and stared at Ming Tan, "Even the five-year-old children in the folk know that Princess Yonghui in the palace is arrogant and domineering, and she does all sorts of evil—don't you But I don't remember how I used to do evil!"

Xia Tao's voice was sharp and sharp, which startled Sheng An, and immediately wanted to go forward to protect Princess Jiu, but was stopped by the latter's raised little hand.

"For evil?"

Ming Tan smiled, squatted down halfway, held his cheek, and showed her a lovely smile.

"Xia Tao," Ming Tan said with a smile, "You are cruel, secretly poisoning, to make an eight-year-old child die of high fever... Such an act is extremely vicious. Is there anyone in this palace who is more vicious than you?"

Every time she said a word, she laughed more and more happily, like a little girl who tasted honey, innocent and innocent, but it made Xia Tao's heart feel cold for no reason, and her whole body trembled involuntarily.

"Murdering the emperor's heir," Ming Tan tilted his head, stood up, his eyes were half pity and half sarcasm, "according to the law, we should punish the nine clans."

As soon as the words fell, Xia Tao seemed to be stimulated, she stood up suddenly, her eyes were full of undisguised hatred, and she reached out to grab Ming Tan——

However, she was firmly held down by the guards who had been prepared for a long time, unable to break free, she could only let out a stern laugh of resentment: "Hahahaha! The Nine Clans—the Nine Clans!"

Ming Tan took a step back, frowned slightly, and looked at the prisoner indifferently.

Xia Tao's fingertips had long bloodstains on the ground, and the stains on her face were washed away by tears to make it even more messy. She cried and laughed, as if she had suddenly gone mad, her voice full of hatred.

"My mother died of dystocia after giving birth to me. My father was a gambler, beat and scolded me frequently, and lost all the family's money. I could only live with my sister. Later, we were sold into the palace, and we were even more cold-eyed. After all the suffering, only my sister is still willing to treat me well... She works for me, shares my meals, and is punished with me—in this deep palace, we only have each other left, and there is no other clan to punish ?”

The wound seemed to be torn open because of her agitation, and the blood dripped from the cuff to the ground, splashing tiny drops of blood.

But Xia Tao didn't seem to feel any pain at all, she still stared at Ming Tan with terribly cruel eyes.

"However, my good sister," she said in a trembling voice, "was beaten to death by you—Ming Tan—in the imperial garden!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was shocked.

beat to death...

Even for a court lady, this way of handling her is too cruel.

The queen gasped, knelt down in front of the emperor, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty! Don't listen to her nonsense! Although Tan'er is usually self-willed, she always knows how to behave, and she rarely even punishes palace officials. If so, how could they kill someone for no reason?"

The emperor frowned, and just when he was about to say something, he heard Xia Tao scream again: "What I said is not a half lie! The Shang Palace Bureau has clearly recorded this matter. Since my sister Qiu Bai’s birthday horoscope, and the ins and outs of how she bumped into the Ninth Princess in the imperial garden and was ordered to be killed by her! Please find out clearly, Your Majesty!”

After shouting, a decisive light flashed in her eyes, and she touched it with her backhand, and pulled out a shiny short knife from her waist!

Sheng An reacted very quickly, and pulled Ming Tan behind him, shouting: "Guard! Guarantee!"

But Xia Tao had no intention of attacking others, but laughed three times, held the handle of the knife backwards, and stabbed it into her chest with a "poof".

"Ming... Tan..."

Blood dripped from the corner of Xia Tao's lips, she stared at Ming Tan behind Sheng An, and said sadly: "Even if I am a ghost, I will avenge my sister..."

After finishing speaking, she fell to the ground again, dying of breath.

"..."

Ming Tan gradually tightened his fingers hidden under his sleeves, and turned his head to look at the unpredictable emperor in the hall.

Her heart sank.

Sure enough, when Ming Tan looked over, the emperor stood up and walked in front of her step by step, his tone was not as gentle as before, and asked majesticly: "Is what the maid said true or false?"

"Of course it's false."

Ming Tan glanced at the corpse, lifted his skirt, then knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the emperor, and said calmly: "What she said just now is clear and well-organized, and her hatred is clear. If you want to pour this pot of dirty water on Long Lin, how can you be a revenge palace lady who really feels the pain of losing her sister?"

"Furthermore, the flowers, plants, fruits and trees in the imperial garden are taken care of by special personnel. Even if you pick one, it will be registered in the register. There is no possibility of hiding it privately, let alone a poisonous flower like Manjusri. Xia Tao is nothing but She is a housewife, no matter how capable she is, she can only do a little errand for the aunt in charge... The ingredients for cooking Baihua porridge for each palace should have been prepared a long time ago, so her manjusri is from Where did it come from? According to Long Lin, there must be something strange about this matter, it is far from that simple."

The emperor looked at her small figure, was silent for a moment, and asked instead: "Tell me, have you ever killed a court lady with a stick?"

"Never."

Ming Tan smiled, raised his head, and met the emperor's eyes frankly.

"Father should know Longlin best... Even though Longlin has always been domineering, he would not be so cruel just because of the word 'collision', beating a living girl to death in the imperial garden."

"..."

There was another half hour of silence.

Behind the two of them, the Queen's heart was in her throat.

She bit her lower lip, afraid that the emperor would not believe Ming Tan's words, and when she was about to continue to argue for her daughter, she heard the former smile softly, and waved his big hand: "Get up."

Ming Tan loosened the nails pinched on his palm, but stood up calmly, looking at the emperor whose expression had gradually softened.

The latter laughed calmly, took a step forward, and rubbed the top of Mingtan's hair, not even looking at Xia Tao's corpse on the ground.

"Don't be surprised, stay calm and calm, and be able to spot all the doubts in this matter at the first time... Well, you are indeed my Dragon Scale."

He looked at Ming Tan lovingly, his tone soft and proud.

"As a father, why don't I believe my own daughter, but instead believe a one-sided statement of a court lady?"