kingnovel Chapter 239 Rui'er Poisoning
Chapter 239 Rui'er Poisoning
Her eyes gleamed with confidence as she looked at Qin Feiling, "Your Majesty, after a thorough investigation last night and a night of questioning, I can now confirm that the person who poisoned the noble lady was none other than her trusted maid, Rui'er."
Everyone was in an uproar, and only then did they see clearly that the person being brought in was Rui'er.
Rui'er trembled as she knelt on the ground. She kowtowed to Qin Feiling and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty, please calm down. I was momentarily bewildered and believed the instigation of others. That's why I wanted to kill the noble lady and secretly poisoned the tea she drank."
"I take personal responsibility for my own actions. Your Majesty, please do not vent your anger on my family. I plead guilty... I am willing to bear all consequences."
Qin Feiling's eyes darkened, and he asked word by word, "Who on earth bewitched you to poison the noble man?"
Rui'er's eyes were filled with hatred. She honestly explained her motive for poisoning the nobleman, "I just said the wrong thing. In fact, no one has instigated me. It was because I couldn't bear the daily insults and beatings from the nobleman that I chose this stupid method and killed the nobleman..."
"I have been serving the Noble Lady Gao since I was thirteen, and I am considered a servant of the Gao family. At first, I served the Noble Lady respectfully, and even earned her a few smiles. But as the Noble Lady grew older, her temper became increasingly overbearing. If she wasn't pleased, she would insult and beat me..."
Rui'er said this, slowly rolling up her sleeves, revealing the old scars on her arms.
She had a bad day every day during these years. Once, the nobleman was so angry that he even picked up a stool and broke her leg.
She lay in bed for six months and almost died.
It was because her father knelt before Master Gao and begged him earnestly that the master of the house showed mercy and hired a royal physician to reconnect her leg bones.
Lines of tears slowly flowed down her face, and Rui'er immediately wiped the tears from her face.
"Later, my leg injury healed, and the master asked me to serve the noble lady again. The noble lady calmed down a bit and stopped beating me violently. I thought she had changed for the better. So, during this selection, the noble lady entered the palace smoothly, and I was willing to follow her... But who would have known that the day after His Majesty summoned the noble lady to sleep with him, she returned from the Sleeping Dragon Palace and, without a word, picked up a bench and threw it at me."
She was almost stunned.
She was hit hard several times, and her leg injury, which had originally healed, began to hurt again.
After venting her anger, Gao Guiren ordered people to lock her in the woodshed.
That night, she covered her aching legs and cried all night.
Who knew that the next day, Gao Wen was reprimanded by His Majesty, who sent two nurses to teach Gao Guiren the rules. Gao Guiren pretended to be respectful and obedient on the surface, but secretly continued to assault Rui'er.
Rui'er was beaten so badly that her head was bleeding...she was almost dying.
Gao Wen didn't care about her life or death, treated her like garbage, and locked her up again.
She had a high fever and pain all over her body.
She could almost feel the coming of death.
That night, she thought she was dead...
Rui'er was lost in her memories, her whole body filled with hatred. She clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth as she said, "I know that if the noble lady doesn't die, sooner or later... I will be beaten to death by her."
"So, in order to save my own life... I lost my mind for a moment and secretly bought poison. When the noble lady was not paying attention, I slipped it into her tea. The moment the noble lady died, I felt a great sense of relief..."
Everyone couldn't help but sigh. They never expected that the truth of the matter would be like this.
The noble lady was actually killed by her own personal maid.
"The nobleman's temperament is indeed extremely domineering..."
"Yes, when we first entered the palace, she even openly provoked Concubine Qin and asked Concubine Lin to kneel three times and kowtow nine times to her."
"That's nothing. Once, I saw with my own eyes that noble lady poured a pot of boiling hot tea on a palace maid. The maid screamed in pain. Even thinking about that sound now, I still feel so miserable."
"It's all your own fault, you deserve it!"
"Yes...I don't feel sorry for the noble man at all."
It seems that the truth behind the noble man's death has been revealed.
However, Concubine Wan looked at Qin Feiling with some hesitation: "Your Majesty, the case of the noble lady should have been settled by now, and it can be confirmed that Rui'er is the murderer who poisoned the noble lady."
"But... I had someone investigate the origins of that packet of poison and discovered... there are some strange things hidden within it."
"That packet of poison has a similar effect to arsenic, but it is colorless and odorless, and an extremely rare poison. I sent people to buy it from pharmacies all over Kyoto, but they couldn't find it. The store name Rui'er mentioned is a fictitious store and doesn't exist at all."
"So I suspect that the poison Rui'er used to poison the noble lady was not purchased by her personally. It was most likely given to her by someone else..."
When Concubine Wan said this, Rui'er seemed very excited.
She quickly interrupted Concubine Wan and said, "Madam Wan, I bought the poison myself. No one else gave it to me. I was so nervous that I forgot the name and address of the store. Is that a problem?"
"Your Majesty, if you want to find the real culprit, as long as this matter has nothing to do with the Imperial Concubine, who exactly poisoned the Imperial Concubine is irrelevant. I have already said that it was I who poisoned the Imperial Concubine. Concubine Wan, please stop making things complicated..."
"It was this servant who killed the noble lady. I could not bear her humiliation and beatings, so I fought back and killed her. This was my motive for murder, and it all made sense... There's no need to investigate further, and there's no need to involve other unrelated people."
The more excited Rui'er was, the more it proved that she was guilty and trying to cover up some truth, as if she was trying her best to shield someone from guilt.
This changed the look in other people's eyes.
Qin Feiling's eyes were filled with fire.
"Investigate, continue investigating... All the clues are on Rui'er. If she doesn't confess clearly, continue to torture her. If she denies, arrest her entire family and torture them together. I don't believe that we can't dig the real truth out of her..."
Concubine Wan breathed a sigh of relief. She had been waiting for the emperor to say this.
With His Majesty's permission, many things will be much easier for her to do.
Concubine Wan immediately ordered: "Come here, arrest Rui'er's family..."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she raised her head, she was met with strong resistance from Rui'er.
She rushed to Concubine Wan, tightly grasped her skirt, and begged: "No, don't involve my family. They know nothing... They are innocent."