Emperor Mingyuan and Prince Rui stepped forward to take a look. One of the herbs was made of vermilion, and the other one was light yellow and black.
“The two medicines are different? What’s going on?” Prince Rui asked the imperial physician.
The imperial physician was stunned. “That’s impossible. This medicine is made of a furnace. How can it have different colors?”
“Please check it out and see if it’s poisonous.” Yuan Qingling said…
The imperial physician pointed at the vermillion one. “It wasn’t originally this color. Why is the heart so red?”
He took some medicine and put it in the cup. He poured some water on it, and then put silver needles on it. The whole silver needle was black, which showed how strong the toxicity was.
“Your Majesty!” The imperial physician fell to his knees with a thud and his lips trembled. “That’s impossible. Someone has changed the dressing. The medicine given by the Royal Hospital is non-toxic and has been tested.”
Emperor Mingyuan’s eyes were cold. “Come on, seal the Royal Hospital and investigate carefully!”
The guard took the order and left.
Prince Rui looked at Yuan Qingling and asked, “How do you know that the medicine is different?”
Yuan Qingling explained, “There’s one missing pill. This means that someone has taken one away. Why did they take it away? There must be something wrong with the medicine that had been taken away. Servant Chang said that the last time he gave the medicine to someone, the medicine had fallen to the ground. Then the order might be messed up. The medicine that was taken away was not poisonous, and the one that should have been taken away is still here.”
“You’re right!” Prince Rui’s eyes turned cold. “How dare someone poison Retired Emperor? He’s courting death.”
Emperor Mingyuan vented his anger on the imperial physician. After a moment of hesitation, Yuan Qingling said, “Father, I’m afraid the problem may not be caused by Royal Hospital.”
Emperor Mingyuan looked at her. “What do you mean?”
Yuan Qingling said, “There are three. If you want to take away the poisonous medicine, you only need to take one to replace it. In this way, you won’t arouse any suspicion. But this person can’t take out another Activation Pill. Activation Pill is refined by the imperial physician. Royal Hospital will definitely be able to take out more Activation Pill, so that they won’t be missing one.”
Emperor Mingyuan nodded. “That’s reasonable.”
Yuan Qingling continued, “There are three ways for the murderer to obtain the medicine. One is Queen Mother, the other is Retired Emperor, and the other is at Royal Hospital. According to the analysis just now, Royal Hospital can be ruled out, because since the other party can get the medicine from Royal Hospital, he can take one more. In the same way, the Queen Mother can be ruled out. The murderer directly took Retired Emperor’s medicine to make the poison, because the medicine has a fixed number. After the Retired Emperor is poisoned, the murderer must immediately take away the remaining poisonous medicine.”
Prince Rui was confused. “Why did this man add another poisonous drug? One pill was enough to poison Retired Emperor.”
Yuan Qingling said, “He can’t control the amount of poison in a hurry. Therefore, the second pill is a backup. If he can’t use one pill, he’ll be completely sure that Retired Emperor will be poisoned the next day.”
“Why are you turning around so fast?” Prince Rui praised.
The imperial physician heaved a sigh of relief. The princess’ words had already proven the innocence of the Court of Royal Hospital. There was no suspect in Royal Hospital.
Servant Chang said, “But only we and Nurse Xi can touch these medicines. No one else can touch them.”
Nurse Xi came down and bowed. “That’s true.”
Emperor Mingyuan had absolute trust in servant Chang and Nurse Xi. They had served Retired Emperor for many years and were very loyal. They would never harm Retired Emperor.
“How many people can serve in the hall?” Emperor Mingyuan asked servant Chang.
“Your Majesty, three of them were personally promoted by Retired Emperor.”
“Find them. I want to ask them!” A sharp light flashed in Emperor Mingyuan’s eyes.
“Yes!” Servant Chang left as he spoke.
Those who came into the hall to serve Jorge, who were mainly responsible for walking the dog and bringing Lucky in and out of the hall.
Another one was called Taylor, who served the Retired Emperor to wash up.
The other one was Paul, who was responsible for cleaning the Living Room. The bedchamber was very large, and he cleaned it alone. Retired Emperor didn’t like to be lively, and he was most likely bedridden, so Paul basically spent half a day cleaning it.
Servant Chang brought Jorge and Taylor, while Paul was nowhere to be seen.
Jorge and Taylor knew nothing about this matter. When they asked questions, they answered fluently and didn’t even know where the medicine was.
Yuan Qingling said, “Paul is the key. Since he is in charge of cleaning the bedchamber, he must have touched the box where the medicine was put when he wiped the dust. He knows it’s not strange, so we have to find him immediately.”
Emperor Mingyuan immediately ordered to search the entire imperial palace to find Paul.
An hour later, Paul was found.
However, it’s a cold corpse had been thrown into the abandoned well of the Cold Palace.
It was the guards of the Cold Palace who found the body. Because Emperor Mingyuan ordered the whole palace to search for Paul, the guards of the Cold Palace vaguely remembered that Paul came into the Cold Palace today, so they looked around and found the body.
The guards of the Cold Palace were summoned over to interrogate Emperor Mingyuan himself.
“Other than Paul, who else has entered the Cold Palace?” Asked Emperor Mingyuan.
The guard replied, “Your Majesty, I only see Paul alone. There are only four guards in the Cold Palace. They patrolled the night shift every day, so I really don’t know if anyone came in from behind.”
Servant Chang also searched Paul’s bed and found 1, 000 banknotes.
The banknotes were issued by City Bank.
Yuan Qingling didn’t know about the bank notes, but when she saw the seal of Prince Yu’s residence, her heart sank and she opened her mouth to explain, “Father, it can’t be His Highness.”
Emperor Mingyuan was not a fool. Of course, he knew that if it was Prince Wenhao, he would not be Convertible notes with Prince Yu’s residence.
The whole thing was that someone wanted to frame Yu Wenhao.
Moreover, the plan was rather hasty, so it was obvious that they had been temporarily prepared. This person probably did not expect the Retired Emperor’s condition to improve.
It could be said that Yuan Qingling’s unreasonable intervention made this person’s original plan completely lose. He could only prepare another strategy in a hurry, and this strategy was bound to reveal a flaw.
However, those who were careless would not have discovered this flaw. This was because it had been a while since the Retired Emperor took the Activation Pill and Queen Mother had suggested that he take it. No one would be suspicious of Activation Pill.
When Emperor Mingyuan thought of this, he could not help but look at Yuan Qingling. When Yu Wenhao married her, he was really unhappy. He was not satisfied with his daughter-in-law. However, after such an ugly thing happened, he could only accept it. The royal family could not be criticized.
Now that he looked at her, he found her pleasing to the eye. However, her walking posture was a little strange, like a crab.
He glanced at the imperial physician and said, “Hurry up and see what kind of poison it is.”
The imperial physician immediately replied, “Yes, I’ll check immediately.”
Prince Rui looked at Yuan Qingling and asked, “Do you know?”
Yuan Qingling shook her head. “I’m not proficient in poison.”
The imperial physician heaved a sigh of relief. If the princess understood everything, would there be any need for the Royal Hospital to exist?
In fact, Yuan Qingling could basically guess what kind of poison it was.
It should be cinnabar. Cinnabar could be used as a medicine, but if consumed too much, it would be poisoned. Activation Pill had cinnabar to begin with, and Retired Emperor had been poisoned for a long time, but it was not a big problem for the time being. It would be terrible if it suddenly increased in weight.