PNB Chapter 196 It’s my aunt who wants to end my life!
Chapter 196 It’s my aunt who wants to end my life!
The menacing voice startled Baili Moqing, Beiji, and Zhenli who were discussing matters in the main hall.
Baili Moqing was still sitting in the wheelchair and was pushed out of the main hall by Zhenli.
In the courtyard, dozens of guards surrounded Shu He, and drew their long swords, pointing at the woman who had a calm face and was still picking herbs.
"Liu Xi! How dare you draw your sword in the prince's Biluo Courtyard? Are you planning to assassinate the prince?!"
Bei Ji walked forward with a cold face and shouted, then kicked away several guards surrounding Shu He, creating a gap in the encirclement.
Seeing the woman sitting safely at the stone table, he breathed a sigh of relief.
When Liu Xi saw Bei Ji, his arrogance remained unchanged and his face was full of sarcasm.
"General Bei, last night you trespassed into the Princess's residence and engaged in a fight with the Princess's guards. The Princess didn't punish you, but only locked you up for one night. That was already a great favor! Could it be that you still intend to stop the people in the Princess's residence from doing their work?"
"Just locked up for one night?" Shu He stopped picking herbs and was very dissatisfied with this sentence.
Her previously calm face was now covered in frost. "Then where did his injuries come from? Did he inflict them himself?"
Bei Ji was a little surprised, his eyes fixed on the woman.
Is she protecting him?
"The Princess is truly 'royal'! Not to mention stealing other people's children, now she can even casually injure and imprison General Dingyuan, a fifth-rank official of the imperial court. If you didn't know, you'd think the Princess was in charge of all the military power!"
"Ignorant woman! You, what nonsense are you talking about!" Liu Xi's face lost all color and his body couldn't stop shaking.
This is an extremely serious accusation! If it were to reach the ears of His Majesty the Emperor, wouldn't he suspect that the Princess was trying to gain control of the military?
"It was clearly General Bei who broke into the mansion first! That's why the princess imprisoned him! This is a cause and effect relationship!" Liu Xi hurriedly explained.
"Really?" Shu He stood up, walked up to Liu Xi, and asked coldly, "Why did General Bei break into the mansion? Didn't he say he wanted to help me get my child back?"
"If so, why did the Princess ignore it and even have General Bei injured and imprisoned?"
"Eunuch Liu, do you think the princess could explain the whole story to His Majesty the Emperor?"
"Or do you think that our Emperor doesn't care about the lives of ordinary people? That's why he's so unscrupulous and completely disregards the imperial power?!"
Liu Xi was forced to retreat step by step by her series of questioning, and only stopped when he hit a cracked bluestone wall behind him.
"You bold woman! You, you are talking nonsense!" Liu Xi pointed at her, his hands shaking with anger. "How dare you, a commoner, dream of meeting the emperor and arguing about right and wrong in front of him?!"
"Eunuch Liu, you totally disregard me!"
The indifferent voice with a hint of coldness made Liu Xi's heart skip a beat.
"She is just a little woman and cannot see the emperor. Eunuch Liu thinks that my life is coming to an end and I will never have the chance to see the emperor again, right?"
Liu Xi knelt down suddenly, "Your Highness, that's not what I meant!"
"That's not what I meant. What does that mean?" Baili Moqing looked at him as if he were a corpse. "A eunuch who doesn't even take the fifth-rank General Dingyuan of the imperial court seriously. Besides the eldest princess, who else can you have room for?"
"Your Highness, I am innocent! I was simply too anxious and had no intention of deliberately offending General Bei!"
Liu Xi felt bitter in his heart. He didn't understand why these big shots were picking on him one by one when he was only following orders to take away the criminals who murdered the eldest princess?
No, I have to change the subject immediately. I can’t be so passive anymore!
"Your Highness, I have come here on orders to apprehend the culprit who murdered the eldest princess. Her Highness the Princess has personally given the order. Please do not interfere..."
"To murder the eldest princess?" Baili Moqing's voice revealed a hint of confusion and surprise. He asked, "What happened to my aunt?"
Seeing that Baili Moqing's attention was indeed diverted, Liu Xi was secretly delighted and couldn't help but want to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
However, he didn't dare to move at this moment, for fear of angering that person again. He only replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, the eldest princess has been poisoned!"
Zhenli, Beiji, and Shuhe all changed their expressions, with confusion and worry flashing across their faces.
"What does that have to do with my king's physician? Was it she who poisoned him?"
Baili Moqing snorted coldly, his tone full of displeasure.
"The princess is poisoned, and you should have gone to the imperial physician to find an antidote. But now, you've come to my Biluo Courtyard. Do you think I poisoned your aunt?"
"No, no! We servants absolutely did not mean that! However, this order was given by the Princess herself, and we servants are only following orders!"
Liu Xi knelt on the ground, his knees ached, and the sweat from his forehead had wet the floor.
The yard suddenly became quiet, without a sound.
Every minute and every second that passed was a huge torment for him.
Just as he was about to look up, Baili Moqing's faint voice sounded again, causing him to quickly lower his head again.
"Go back and tell Auntie that if she believes this poison was administered by my men, then please bring evidence. If there is no evidence, then this Doctor He is my life-saving physician. Auntie wants to take my life-saving physician away for no reason. Do you think I've lived too long and am a nuisance to her?"
"Your Majesty, please be careful with your words!"
Liu Xi's heart almost jumped out of his chest when he heard this. Why was the prince's words so serious this time? Was he going to completely turn against the eldest princess because of that woman?
"Your Highness, the eldest princess is your aunt after all, we are related by blood! Are you going to turn against the princess just for a woman?"
"It's not that I want to turn against my aunt, it's that my aunt wants to cut off my life."
Baili Moqing's voice was filled with disappointment and melancholy.
"Liu Xi, go now. I don't blame you for the first time, but next time, if anyone dares to draw a sword in Biluo Courtyard, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"Your Majesty!!"
"go out!"
Before Liu Xi could say anything, he heard Zhenli behind Baili Moqing roar, which scared him so much that he ran out of Biluo Courtyard crawling.
The yard became quiet again.
Shu He frowned, puzzled. How could the princess know that she was the one who poisoned him?
The way she poisoned him was so secretive that even Baili Moqing couldn't figure it out. How did she figure it out?
After there was no one in the yard, Baili Moqing stood up from his wheelchair and walked to the crabapple tree next to Shu He.
"Didn't you say that no one would notice it was poison?"
Beiji was a little worried when he saw this situation. Just as he was about to step forward, he was pulled back by Zhenli.
Beiji looked at him in confusion.
Zhenli said, "There's some movement in Nanqi's room. He must have heard the noise and got worried. Go and take a look."
Beiji stared at Zhenli with a puzzled look. He didn't understand why Zhenli wanted to send him away.
But seeing those determined eyes, he could only agree.
After Beiji left, Zhenli also stepped back, blocking the view of Uncle Zhang and Madam Wang who were watching the fun in the kitchen.
Madam Wang looked at the "human wall" in front of her and was speechless.
Why does General Zhenli look like a thief and doesn't even want to be seen?
Madam Wang showed a hint of regret on her face and continued to prepare her dishes.
Shu He sat back on the stone chair, his expression becoming calm.
"There's no way she could know it was me who poisoned her."