Chapter 418: A Sudden Turn of Events

After that, Xie Yuanjiu turned around and asked the eunuch to bring up the maid she brought with her.

The little maid knelt on the ground and trembled all over when facing the emperor and the prince for the first time.

"I... I was one of the maids who served the second lady before."

Xie Erye recognized her: "Are you Honghe?"

He frowned in increasing confusion.

When sending Xie Yuanjiu away, he clearly sent Honghe and most of the maids and servants in the second courtyard to the side courtyard to take care of Xie Yuanjiu.

Honghe didn't dare to look up at him at all, and only said in a trembling voice: "I have to admit that before the second lady was imprisoned, the second master gave me a drug that made people crazy, and asked me to sprinkle it on the food that the second lady drank every day."

Xie Erye's face changed, and he angrily scolded: "Liar!"

The emperor narrowed his eyes.

Seeing this, Xie Suzhi bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this maid is full of nonsense and wants to frame someone."

Xie Yuanjiu lowered his head, looking miserable: "My mother died suddenly in prison a few days ago, and Honghe secretly paid tribute to her in the mansion. I caught her and tortured her until she told the truth."

Fang Qingdai couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, Mr. Xie is not such a person."

The emperor raised his hand to stop everyone from talking.

He looked at Honghe who was kneeling on the ground.

"Do you know that if I find out that you lied, not only will you die, but your nine clans will also be implicated by you?"

As soon as the emperor finished speaking, there was a crisp sound of Shen Ningning cracking melon seeds.

"Crack--" The fragrant melon seeds fell into his mouth.

Honghe trembled all over, and kept glancing at Xie Yuanjiu.

Shen Ningning blinked her big eyes: "But, when Honghe was serving the second lady, Aunt Qingdai had not returned to Beijing yet, so what reason did the second uncle have to harm her?"

Xie Yuanjiu was startled, and a trace of panic flashed across her eyes.

Her voice was full of resentment: "But at that time, the news of General Liang's death had already been reported back to the capital. My father probably had planned it long ago and wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of my mother, who was a burden."

"Yuanjiu!" Second Master Xie scolded angrily, his eyes bloodshot and red: "I have never treated you badly, why do you treat me like this?"

Second Madam Xie designed to sleep with him, and after she became pregnant with Xie Yuanjiu, the then-living Old Madam Xie forced Second Master Xie to take responsibility and marry Second Madam Xie back.

So, although he disliked Second Madam Xie and was not close to Xie Yuanjiu, he never deprived the mother and daughter.

He never missed out on the money his father should have paid, and even asked his elder brother Xie Suzhi to invite famous masters to give Xie Yuanjiu lessons to cultivate her skills in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. He let her do whatever she likes.

Why did she file a petition to the emperor today?

The emperor said in a deep voice: "Besides this witness Honghe, do you have any other evidence?"

Xie Yuanjiu raised her head, her eyes filled with tears of resentment: "And, there is also the minister herself."

"Some time ago, the minister was infected with the plague. Princess Funing hated the minister and refused to give her life-saving medicine. The minister knelt at the door of the Xie Mansion and begged my father to show mercy. However, my father avoided me. If it weren't for my good fortune, I would have died long ago."

At this point, she cried and looked at Mr. Xie: "When have you ever regarded me as your daughter? In your eyes, my mother and I are the culprits who ruined your life, right? Now she is dead, are you satisfied!"

Mr. Xie looked at Xie Yuanjiu's accusation in astonishment, as if he had never known her. His heart was blocked and painful. At this moment, he saw clearly that Xie Yuanjiu might have hated him a long time ago.

Xie Suzhi on the side shook his head and sighed calmly.

He had known for a long time that Xie Yuanjiu's character had gone astray. During the years she had been in Changzhou, not only had she failed to correct her bad habits, but they had become worse.

The emperor had also heard that Xie Yuanjiu had almost died of the plague, but at the time he thought it was a family affair of the Xie family, so he did not intervene.

But now it seems that it was a bit cruel for a father to refuse to give his daughter the life-saving medicine.

The emperor looked at Mr. Xie with a cold look.

Xie Yuanjiu seized the opportunity and said, "Not only that, I also found that Xu..."

"Uncle Emperor, I have doubts!" ​​Shen Ningning interrupted her bluntly.

The emperor looked at Shen Ningning, and his expression was a little gentler: "Ningning, let's leave your questions until your uncle has finished questioning them, okay?"

Shen Ningning shook her head.

"This doubt is very important. Xie Yuanjiu keeps saying that my second uncle poisoned the second wife, but I just sent someone to the prison to deliver food to the second wife yesterday. She is not dead, so how can she be poisoned?"

Xie Yuanjiu was shocked and blurted out: "What? Not dead?!"

The emperor keenly noticed that her tone was wrong, and everyone looked at her with a deep sense of scrutiny.

Xie Yuanjiu immediately changed her words and cried, "Princess, no matter what grievances we had in the past, my mother is dead now, and the dead are the greatest. Do you still want to spread rumors that she is resurrected from the dead?"

Shen Ningning pouted: "I didn't lie to you, she is really not dead."

Mo Lingwei nodded at this time and ordered outside the palace: "Bring the person up."

Everyone looked back and saw two prince guards carrying a woman with messy hair into the palace.

She was lying in a mess on the throne. The emperor frowned and looked at her for a long time: "Is she Madam Xie Er?"

The figure on the ground moved and raised her head. Xie Yuanjiu, who was closest to her, was immediately frightened out of his wits.

It was really her mother!! She was not dead!!

Second Madam Xie stared at Xie Yuanjiu with her resentful eyes through her messy hair.

"I'm not dead, you're surprised, aren't you?"

Xie Yuanjiu trembled all over: "You, how could you..."

Shen Ningning spoke up and solved her doubts.

"Before, I went to visit Second Madam Xie on behalf of my second uncle. Unexpectedly, I accidentally discovered that the food Xie Yuanjiu sent to Second Madam Xie was poisonous. Rats would not die instantly after eating it, but would go crazy. So I asked the genius doctor to check it out."

"It turns out that the food Xie Yuanjiu gave to Second Madam Xie is the chronic poison that really makes people crazy. A little at a time, if you take too much, you will die suddenly, and the coroner can't find out the reason."

Second Madam Xie cried and kowtowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Princess Funing is true. Xie Yuanjiu's actions will be punished by heaven and earth. She wants to poison me to frame my father!"

Xie Yuanjiu still couldn't come back to her senses. She clearly saw Second Madam Xie covered with a white cloth with her own eyes, and the jailer said...

No!

She suddenly reacted and looked at Shen Ningning fiercely.

The little girl sat high on the prince's chair, like a beautiful moon.

It was Shen Ningning who designed to harm her!

She made her mistakenly believe that her plan was successful, so she attacked Mr. Xie.

Little did she know that Mrs. Xie was just faking her death!

It's over...

Xie Yuanjiu's face was pale.

The emperor's voice was cold and murderous: "Xie Yuanjiu, what else can you quibble about?" (End of this chapter)