ebookland Chapter 132 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace – Gao Xiyue 32
Chapter 132 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace – Gao Xiyue 32
"I have found out that Doctor Qi has always been the Queen Mother's man. He tampered with my tonic soup because he followed the Queen Mother's orders. The Queen Mother resented my father for proposing to send Princess Duanshu to marry, which separated her from her daughter. So the Queen Mother also wanted my father to feel the pain of losing his daughter!"
"Empress Dowager?" The emperor felt nothing when he heard the news that the Queen Dowager wanted Xiyue dead. What he cared about most at the moment was not that the Queen Dowager wanted to attack Xiyue, but that Qi Ru was the Queen Dowager's person, so did the Queen Dowager want to do anything to him, or did the Queen Dowager use Qi Ru to do something to him?
"Besides that, have you found anything else? What about the sterilizing drug you mentioned earlier?"
Xiyue looked at the emperor who obviously wanted to know whether the empress dowager had used Qi Ru to do anything to him, but pretended to be calm in order to maintain his image as the emperor, and she felt sarcastic in her heart.
It was not until she felt that the emperor was about to lose his patience that Xiyue began to continue replenishing in order to avoid a fight with the "super handsome" emperor.
"My people found a lot of secret letters in Doctor Qi's home, most of which were correspondence between Doctor Qi and others."
"In a letter, Imperial Doctor Qi wrote down the emperor's pulse history, which specifically noted that the emperor had been given a sterilizing drug. The pulse history was dated at the beginning of this year, shortly after Yongqi was born and before the empress began to fall ill."
"In addition, I discovered in these letters that Doctor Qi used spices to harm the Queen, so I initially suspected that the Queen knew about Doctor Qi's actions and thought that the Emperor ordered Doctor Qi to give the Emperor a sterilizing drug in revenge."
"So I went to see the Queen alone last night. The Queen said that the Emperor's infertility drug was not given by her. I believe her. Although I don't like many of the Queen's actions over the years, I believe that the Queen's heart for the Emperor is the same as mine, and she will never and will not bear to hurt the Emperor!"
The emperor's expression softened when he heard this. If Xiyue had given any other reason, he might not have been willing to believe it, but when Xiyue talked about her feelings for him, it was hard for the emperor to disbelieve it. As a narcissistic person, the emperor really didn't think that there would be any woman in the harem who didn't like him. Of course, this was also why he minded Jin Yuyan so much.
Seeing that the emperor was only concerned about the lies and did not find the problem, Xiyue did not remind him, but just took out the "evidence" she had found and handed it to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, here are the evidences I got from Doctor Qi. This involves the Queen Mother, the Empress, and the Emperor. I dare not take the initiative."
"I am not in a position to investigate what is happening next. Your Majesty is requested to handle it next!"
The emperor took the evidence from Xiyue and solemnly promised, "I will definitely have someone investigate this matter thoroughly."
"I have finished speaking, so I will not disturb Your Majesty from his work. I am leaving now!" The emperor gently helped Xiyue up as she bowed and said, "Okay, Xiyue, you go back first. When I have finished my business, I will go to Xianfu Palace to find you!"
Xiyue smiled and nodded, then turned around, walked to the door of the palace and knocked on it. Jinbao opened the door. Xiyue glanced at Jinbao, then looked at Li Yu who was still kneeling on the ground, sneered, and left.
After Xiyue left, the emperor looked through the evidence alone. When he saw the letter that Xiyue mentioned that recorded his infertility, the emperor finally discovered the problem.
"In January of the eighth year of Qianlong's reign, I examined the emperor's pulse and found it was strong and powerful... and confirmed that he was infertile!"
"January of the eighth year? Isn't that this year? My contraceptive medicine has clearly worked, and Yongqi was born. How could he be infertile?" The more the emperor thought about it, the more strange it seemed to him. There were only two possibilities. First, his contraceptive medicine did not work, and Yongqi was not his child. Second, his contraceptive medicine worked, but Yongqi died after he was born!
In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, the emperor ordered his men to secretly control Qi Ru and began to find ways to get the truth from Qi Ru. Strictly speaking, Qi Ru was not a loyal and upright person. After all, a truly upright and loyal person would not be able to be on both sides of the emperor and the queen mother.
So under the torture of the emperor's men, Qi Ru couldn't resist and confessed everything he had done for the empress dowager. However, the emperor looked at Qi Ru's confession and didn't believe that Qi Ru had confessed everything, because it only mentioned Xiyue tonic soup and didn't explain anything else besides leaking his pulse diagnosis to the empress dowager.
"Quanxiao, Qi Ru is not honest! Continue to interrogate him and make him confess everything."
"Also, send someone to check on the Queen Mother. I don't believe that Qi Ru is the only one around me who is hers. Check it out for me!"
"Your servant obeys your order!" Quan Xiao was very silent. He was not like Wang Qin and Li Yu who would flatter the emperor, nor was he like them who always paid attention to the emperor's emotions and tried to comfort him. Quan Xiao just watched the emperor go crazy and smash the entire residence in silence, and then responded steadily when the emperor gave orders.
The emperor's people going to investigate the empress dowager did not prevent the emperor from having fun. It happened that the empress dowager was still dissatisfied with Bai Ruiji's fall from favor, and wanted to continue to select suitable concubines for the emperor, who could help her find out the emperor's thoughts and do things for her when necessary.
Soon, the Empress Dowager selected Lu Muping to serve the Emperor. The Emperor did not like Lu Muping, but he accepted her in order to appease the Empress Dowager.
The queen finally became suspicious of the spices in her palace. She used the connections of the Fucha family to successfully send an inconspicuous female doctor to her side. However, the queen had been poisoned for too long, and the female doctor said that she could only alleviate the symptoms and delay death but could not cure it.
The queen wanted to find the person who had been framing her, and was determined to find out the truth before dying. She stubbornly got up and started to drink the medicine.
"Since she wants to find out the truth while she's still alive, I can give her a chance. I'll stop giving her the medicine in Changchun Palace for now."
The emperor also knew the situation in Changchun Palace. Now he knew that the contraceptive drug was not given by the queen. Although the emperor could not regret wrongly accusing the queen, he felt somewhat guilty. Therefore, he turned a blind eye to the fact that the queen began to live and would not die from illness for a while.
Quanxiao's investigation efficiency was much higher than that of Aunt Yuhu. In just half a month, Quanxiao had found out everything about the person behind Qi Ru.
"Has Qi Ru been the empress dowager's person from the beginning to the end?" The emperor was not surprised by such an answer. What surprised him was the time. If Qi Ru had been the empress dowager's person from the beginning, then he had been using Qi Ru for many years and had taken a lot of medicines prescribed by Qi Ru. No one could tell whether the empress dowager had secretly added anything to them.
"Did Qi Ru confess anything else?" The emperor didn't want to read it anymore. He was eager to know whether the empress dowager had drugged him.
Quan Xiao lowered his head and looked a little ashamed. "I am incompetent and only asked these questions. I think Doctor Qi must be hiding something, but no matter how I interrogated him, he just wouldn't confess."
"However, Doctor Qi said he wanted to see the emperor again. I wonder if he wants to explain to the emperor in person."
"Since he wants to see me, I will grant his wish!" The emperor would not be able to sleep well if he could not find out the truth.