kingnovel Chapter 241 I have a way to find out who is behind the poisoning
Chapter 241 I have a way to find out who is behind the poisoning
"I don't have time to deal with your trivial matters! I just want to find out who put the arsenic in the cakes. Come out and confess your guilt, or I will punish you severely!"
The emperor said this with a gloomy face, his eyes, which were originally as sharp as an eagle, were now covered with a layer of chilling coldness.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiangye and Xitang kowtowed in fear and begged for mercy.
Xiang Ye cried out, "Your Majesty, please have mercy! Your Majesty, please see clearly! The arsenic on the cakes was not put there by me!"
Xitang also followed up and said, "Yes, Your Majesty! I am innocent! I have only been in the palace for two months. It is difficult for me to get a dose of medicine for a minor illness. How could I have the opportunity to get something as poisonous as arsenic? Now it seems that I have been framed and become someone else's scapegoat!"
At this moment, Xitang finally realized that he had been implicated by others and was involved in this storm for no reason.
"You all don't admit it, right? Little Li Zizi tortured all the maids in Concubine Xiao's palace!"
The old emperor said this with gnashing teeth. His voice seemed to come from the Netherworld, icy cold and chilling.
Upon hearing this, the maids in Concubine Xiao's palace turned pale and trembled all over.
They knew that this torture was an extremely cruel one that could cause fingers to become bloody and even disabled.
For a moment, the entire palace was filled with cries of fear and pleas for mercy.
However, no matter how much these palace maids cried or begged, the emperor remained indifferent.
He was determined to find out the truth and minimize the danger in the palace. As for the Queen Mother, she was still suspicious about the poisoning, but when she learned that the real murderer was not the person she suspected, she no longer stopped the emperor from investigating the case.
"Your Majesty, Queen Mother, please forgive us! We really don't know anything!"
The palace maids cried out in despair.
They knew very well that as palace maids, they had to rely on their dexterous hands to serve their masters in the palace.
If their hands were seriously injured and became disabled, they would probably have no place to gain a foothold in the palace in the future and would only be reduced to the lowest level of slaves, doing dirty, tiring and hard work.
Thinking of this, everyone cried even more heartbreakingly, and the hall was suddenly filled with annoying cries and pleas for mercy.
Jiang Yimo, who was standing aside, watched everything happening before her eyes and couldn't help but feel a surge of pity in her heart.
She felt that it was unfair for those young palace maids who had nothing to do with the case to suffer such cruel punishment.
Seeing the little palace maids being dragged away by the guards and eunuchs to be tortured, Jiang Yimo's heart softened.
"Wait!" Jiang Yimo suddenly shouted loudly, with firmness and determination in her voice.
She first stopped the guards and eunuchs, then turned to face the emperor, took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, I have thought of a way to find the real culprit without torture."
Her eyes were clear and firm, and she seemed full of confidence.
Everyone's eyes were focused on her, and the emperor narrowed his eyes slightly, examining the woman who dared to interrupt the execution.
The emperor asked curiously, "What is that method? Tell me."
Jiang Yimo replied calmly: "I have a potion in my hand. Pour it into a basin of clean water. As long as the person who has touched arsenic or other poisons washes the basin of clean water with the potion, her hands will turn light purple."
The emperor frowned slightly when he heard this and asked, "Oh? I have never heard of such a magical potion. Does this medicine have any side effects?"
Jiang Yimo quickly replied: "Your Majesty, this potion has no toxicity or side effects. It just reacts with arsenic and some poisons to produce a special color."
In fact, this was all made up by Jiang Yimo. Even if she really had such a powerful potion in her hands, the potion could not be detected as long as the person who had been exposed to arsenic washed his hands with clean water.
She said this to play psychological warfare with the person behind the poisoning.
The emperor nodded thoughtfully and continued, "Is this potion reliable? What if someone deliberately framed someone else?"
Jiang Yimo replied with a firm look, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. This potion was developed by me personally and has been proven to be effective after many tests."
"Moreover, if you pour the potion into clean water, no one will be able to detect any abnormality. The color change will only occur when the person who has touched the arsenic washes his hands. This will avoid miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions."
After hearing this, the emperor's eyes flashed with admiration, but he remained calm and thought.
He pondered for a moment and agreed: "Okay, let's use the method you mentioned."
After the emperor finished speaking, he looked at Little Li Zi again. Little Li Zi had a sharp eye. When the old emperor cast his eyes on him, he took a few young eunuchs to fetch a basin of clean water.
At this moment, Jiang Yimo calmly took out a bottle of unmarked purified water from her small bag and gently poured it into the clean water brought by Eunuch Li.
Then, she swept her eyes calmly over the group of young palace maids and said in a calm tone: "All of you stand up and wash your hands one by one. After washing, if your hands have not changed color, stand behind me."
After hearing these words, Concubine Xiao became more and more nervous.
Although she was not the one who ordered the poisoning of the cake, she was ultimately involved in the matter.
Last night, Jiang Yimo humiliated Lu Jialing in public. To avenge her, she actually ordered someone to put a chronic poison in the empress dowager's pastries.
However, what puzzled her was why the chronic poison turned into arsenic?
She was completely unaware of this.
If she could escape this disaster today, she would definitely interrogate the three palace maids, Xiangye, Xitang and Mei'er.
But after Jiang Yimo finished speaking, there was a dead silence, as if time had frozen. After a long while, everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to stand up and wash their hands first.
This strange silence made Jiang Yimo's heart sink. The purpose of her doing this was to spare those innocent little palace maids the pain of torture, but these people did not understand her painstaking efforts at all.
She scanned the crowd around her, trying to find someone willing to take the lead, but everyone lowered their heads, avoiding her gaze, as if they were afraid of being chosen to be the first to eat crabs.
In desperation, Jiang Yimo had to point to the person closest to her and said, "You, go wash first."
The person trembled all over, hesitated for a moment, and finally stood up slowly and walked towards the wash basin. The others breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time they stretched their necks to look towards the wash basin, wanting to see if the little palace maid's hands would change color.