usatvline Chapter 389 Testify
Chapter 389 Testify
After Shu finished her confession, Cheng Song stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, after arresting Shu, I led people to inspect her meditation room and found no trace of rat poison."
"The master just brought the rat poison over, and I haven't had time to spread it yet. I thought I'd spread it at night." Shu kept making excuses.
"Where do you keep the rat poison now? I'll have someone get it to prove your innocence." Gu Jianchu looked at Shu with an aggressive gaze, and the aura around him was so oppressive that it made people breathless.
Gu Jianchu hadn't spoken since she came in, so she naturally ignored him. "In..."
Shu hesitated and didn't say anything.
Because she hated Gu Jianchu, she poured a whole packet of rat poison into the medicine that Gu Jianchu was drinking.
There is no packet of rat poison that can prove her innocence.
Her mind was working rapidly, trying to think of an excuse that could cover up the matter without leaving any room for flaws.
Before she could think of a perfect excuse, Gu Jianchu spoke first, "Do you forget where you put the rat poison, or have you used it all up?"
Gu Jianchu was helped up by Qiutou and handed the medicine on the small table to Shu. "Does this bowl of medicine look familiar?"
"Your Majesty, are you kidding me? Why do I look so familiar with this bowl of medicine?" Shu's eyes flashed with a hint of guilt where they couldn't see. She was afraid that Gu Jianchu would notice, but she quickly covered it up.
"Oh, aren't you familiar with it? This is the pregnancy-maintaining medicine prepared by the imperial physician for me. Please drink it for me." After Gu Jianchu finished speaking slowly, he sat back down with Qiutou's support.
Hearing this, Shu's face was filled with horror. Her body instinctively struggled, and she overturned the bowl in the struggle. "I won't drink it, I won't drink it. I'm not pregnant, how can I drink the Queen's pregnancy-preserving medicine?"
"It's just a bowl of pregnancy-maintaining medicine. If there is no rat poison in it, it won't kill people. So why can't Mr. Shu drink it? Although this bowl was knocked over by you, there is still some in the kitchen. Even if it is gone, those herbs can still be boiled with a little water, and the effect will be just as good." Gu Jianchu raised his hand to adjust his sleeves and clothes corners, and glanced at the panic on Shu's face that could not be concealed.
Gu Jianchu continued to ask, "Why don't you dare drink it? Is there something wrong with this pregnancy-preserving medicine? Or is it that the rat poison you bought was not used to poison the rats in the room, but was poured into the pregnancy-preserving medicine I took?"
"No, I didn't." Although Shu was trying to argue, her tone was full of guilt.
The little Shani who brought Shu Shi food every day also expressed doubts, "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, this is impossible. Shu Shi's courtyard is locked every day. She can't get out without the key. And the key to the door is always with me. Shu Shi can't get out at all, let alone drug the Empress Dowager."
"Even if I go to open the door, I only serve three meals a day. After putting down the food, I leave immediately."
Shu had never expected that the little monk could actually testify for her. This gave her a glimmer of hope again. She quickly agreed and nodded, "That's right, the door to my yard is locked every day. Without the key, you can't get out."
"I have no way of drugging the Queen. Your Majesty, you must be discerning. You cannot suspect that I drugged the Queen just because I bought rat poison. Perhaps someone is trying to use this opportunity to frame me."
"That must be the case."
"She is the queen, sitting in the position that everyone wants to sit in, and she has the emperor's favor. Now she is pregnant with the prince. I don't know how many people want the queen's life. Even if there are no concubines, there are still those ministers of the previous dynasty and spies from other countries, all eyeing the queen's belly, so you can't put the blame directly on me." Shu Shi kept defending herself.
"Have you assigned someone to guard outside the meditation room every day?" Gu Jianchu glanced at the little Shanni who was speaking for Shu.
Little Shani was stunned by the question and shook his head slightly, "No."
"Since no one is stationed outside the meditation room every day, there is still a possibility of him getting out."
The moment Gu Jianchu finished speaking, Zhongfeng came in, escorting a man. The man was wearing a coarse linen shirt. It would be more accurate to say that Zhongfeng was holding the back of his collar when he came in rather than escorting him.
Chongfeng pushed the man casually, and he staggered and fell to the ground. His body was still shaking with fear.
The place where the man fell was exactly where the little Shanis were standing. When they saw the man falling towards them, the three of them instinctively dodged forward, but when they saw the man's face, the host and the four little Shanis all looked surprised.
After all, the host is someone who has seen the world.
Having served the Emperor and the Late Emperor, he was a bit braver than the little Shani. Even though he was afraid, he boldly asked, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am the accountant of the Wanguo Temple. I don't know what I have done wrong to offend the Emperor and the Empress. I hope Your Majesty can show mercy and forgive him once."
Xie Ci'an and Gu Jianchu remained silent.
Instead, Zhongfeng kicked the accountant and warned him, "Tell me what you did wrong."
The man frantically knelt and crawled in front of the host, hugging the man's thighs. Tears and snot streamed down his face. "Host, you must save me. I have an elderly mother and a sick daughter at home. I can't die. If I die, what will happen to my sick daughter? They still rely on me for their livelihood. Host, you must help me."
The host turned the Buddhist beads in his hand and glanced at Xie Ci'an, but seeing Xie Ci'an's cold eyes, he was not sure what the man had done and was not in a position to plead for mercy.
The host squatted down and pulled the man off him. "As long as you confess the truth, the Emperor and the Empress will definitely deal with it appropriately. I will also plead for you. But if you say nothing, who can save you?"
"Think about your mother and daughter. Don't hide anything. Just tell them what you have to say." The host advised the man again.
The man knelt on the ground, tears streaming down his face. He slapped his thighs with his hands, a look of regret on his face. "It's all my fault. I was greedy for the money to treat my daughter's illness."
"I recruit, I recruit all."
"That day, a young nun came to me and said that the woman in the meditation room in the backyard of Wanguo Temple wanted to see me and said she could help cure my daughter's illness. I thought about it and went without thinking. After meeting the woman, she gave me a key mold pressed out of dough and said it was the key to her box. She asked me to make a copy for her and she would give it to her sister."