Empress looks forward to falling out of favor every day

Chapter 503 Poison
After eating this, he didn't move anymore, waiting for Xiao Yueyao to serve him vegetables.

Li Huan didn't have anything to do with him right now, he was standing bored, secretly staring at the empty seat for him next to the other table.

If he went to sit down at this time, His Majesty probably wouldn't notice him.

Li Huan was about to move.

Suddenly the person on the table let out an exclamation.

"what……"

They stood up in fright.

Li Huan was startled, followed their gaze and saw a young eunuch fell to the ground, motionless, spitting blood.

The maids and eunuchs looked at each other in shock, not knowing what happened just now.

Why did the person who was sitting in front of him alive just now suddenly collapsed?

Ye Mohan and Xiao Yueyao also looked over.

Because of this sudden change, Ye Mohan's good mood today was wiped out.

Li Huan was the first to react. He hurried over and knelt down to check the little eunuch's breath.

"Dead, dead..."

When someone heard Li Huan's words, they cried out in fright, "Why, how...how did they die?"

Li Huan glanced at the face of the little eunuch, and saw that his lips were black, and the blood at the corner of his mouth was also black and blue, obviously he died of poisoning.

Li Huan settled down, stood up, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, this person died of poisoning."

Li Huan's words were even more frightening.

The faces of several timid maids were so frightened that they turned pale.

"Could it be, could it be that there is poison in the vegetables? Could we be poisoned too?"

Luchun is in charge of cooking tonight's meals.

She frowned and said, "There can't be poison in the dish, we all ate that dish, why was he the only one poisoned, and we are still standing here properly."

At this moment, everyone's face was serious, and they couldn't figure out why this person was poisoned.

Li Huan took out a small cloth bag from his sleeve, took out a silver needle, walked to the table where Ye Mohan and the others were sitting, and inserted one dish after another.

All the dishes have been tried, and the silver needles have not turned black.

Lu Chun said from the side, "Look, I've said it all, there can't be poison in the dish, this little eunuch must have eaten something else before."

This little eunuch is the person An promised, and Lu Chun doesn't know his name.

Li Huan nodded, feeling that this possibility could not be ruled out.

He took the silver needle and tried all the chopsticks and plates he used.

All are non-toxic.

Li Huan paused, his eyes fell on the jug beside him, he found a wine glass, poured a glass, and pierced the silver needle.

Everyone stared closely at the silver needle in Li Huan's hand, only to see that the silver needle turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye when it was inserted into the wine.

Someone exclaimed,

"There is poison in the wine...!! It's wine, there is poison in the wine."

Xiao Yueyao frowned, and recalled, "This wine was poured into the jug after opening the wine jug, so it should not be poisonous."

Li Huan asked, "Please tell the slave, who is responsible for handling this wine?"

Xiao Yueyao hasn't spoken yet.

Yuanyuan has already stepped forward, "It's me."

Hearing the sound, Li Huan looked over, startled slightly, his eyes fell on Ye Mohan, he leaned over, waiting for Ye Mohan to speak.

Ye Mo stared coldly at the glass of wine in front of him, "Drag it, kill it."

He was just a little eunuch, nothing more than a servant, and Ye Mohan naturally wouldn't take him seriously, since he was responsible for the wine, and there was poison in the wine.

No matter who poisoned it.

This little eunuch must die.

Li Huan glanced at Xiao Yueyao's expression, this little eunuch is from Kunluan Palace.

He made up his mind, turned around and prepared to go down.

"and many more……"

Xiao Yueyao said, "Your Majesty, Yuanyuan could not possibly have poisoned the wine. He has been serving the concubine for such a long time. The concubine knows his loyalty to the concubine. There must be a mistake in this matter."

Li Huan stopped silently and stood back again.

Yemo's face was cold, and he hadn't spoken yet to say whether he wanted to let him go or not.

His eyes fell on the little eunuch, if he remembered correctly, this was not the first time Xiao Yueyao had protected him.

But if he insisted on killing the little eunuch, Xiao Yueyao would definitely quarrel with her.

She is always like this, the people in her own palace must protect her.

Ye Mohan lifted his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Check, how did this poison get into this wine."

Although he didn't make a clear statement, it was already a tacit agreement.

Li Huan respectfully responded, "Yes."

This was supposed to be a lively meal, but unexpectedly, this happened suddenly.

At this moment, no one has the appetite to eat anymore.

An agreed to sit with Xiao Yueyao, obviously she was also afraid in her heart, they didn't know how the poison was put in the wine.

But she was still trying to comfort Xiao Yueyao.

Xiao Yueyao seemed to be calm. After going through so much, her heart couldn't stand the waves of these things.

Li Huan and Yuanyuan got to know some things. According to the young eunuch of Kunluan Palace, the wine never passed through anyone else's hands.

Li Huan went to check the wine jug, which was non-toxic.

Li Huan led people to check before and after, but nothing was found.

In the end, a little eunuch guessed and took a look under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

Because Yuanyuan had to dig out the wine before, the soil under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree was refurbished.

The little eunuch led Li Huan to the bottom of the tree, turned over the soil on the surface, and saw that the color of the soil underneath was not right.

Obviously also slightly darkened.

"Dig deeper."

Several young eunuchs came to dig up the soil with shovels, and they found a medicine bag wrapped in yellow paper underneath.

The medicine bag had been torn open, and the white powder inside had already scattered out, but there was still a little bit of it on the paper.

Li Huan asked someone to show it to Imperial Physician Xue, who finally judged that the white powder was indeed highly poisonous.

Li Huan reported everything he found to Ye Mohan.

"Your Majesty, the imperial concubine, the servant found this medicine bag under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree. Master Xue has already checked it and confirmed that it is indeed poison. It is presumably because this thing was buried with the wine. Over the years, the medicine has soaked into the wine."

Lu Chun stood aside, looking at the medicine bag, her expression changed.

She remembered that the medicine bag, that medicine bag... was buried in it by herself.

Concubine Ru and the Queen Mother wanted to instigate the empress to poison His Majesty, but the empress refused, so they handed over the medicine bag to her, and she was buried under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

This is how to do ah.

She never expected that the medicine would get into the wine after being buried for a long time.

If His Majesty asks, how should she explain it.

Could it be possible to tell His Majesty that this is the poison that was once given to him? !
She lowered her head and tightly clenched the hand hanging by her side.

If His Majesty asks about it later, she must not let this matter implicate Concubine Xiao.

(End of this chapter)