Prince Pampers the Escaping Consort

The long table was filled with all sorts of delicacies: bird's nest, abalone, fish fin, everything. They were all commonly seen in the palace, and there was nothing special about them.

"What's the problem?" Nangong Zhen curiously asked.

"That's the key point." Everyone followed Yan Xiaoxi's gaze and looked over. They saw a black bowl in the lower right corner of the long table that Liu Zhixue was sitting on. The bowl was half filled with yellow medicine.

"There's poison in here?" Liu Zhitian asked.

With that, the imperial physician immediately went to investigate the falsehood.

After he confirmed it over and over again, the imperial physician came up with an answer. "Reporting to your majesty, this is a bowl of ordinary medicine used to nourish the body."

"How dare you, Prince Lin, try to deceive the emperor." Hearing this, Nangong Zhen immediately scolded.

"This imperial concubine doesn't have it. I'm not done yet. There really is no poison in this soup. How about the imperial physician take a look at the chicken soup next to it?" Indeed, there was a jar of chicken soup beside the soup.

That was the chicken soup that Nangong Lin had Xiao Cui order to make for Yan Xiaoxi in the imperial kitchens. He originally wanted to make fun of Yan Xiaoxi and tease her on purpose.

Why is it that every table has chicken soup now?

The imperial physician carefully moved to the side of the chicken soup and carefully examined it. When he found the answer, he reported to Nangong Xiao, "Reporting to Your Majesty, this chicken soup is also not poisonous."

After hearing the imperial physician's words, Liu Zhixue heaved a sigh of relief. Her gaze quickly shifted away from the soup and chicken soup, and asked, "What else does Princess Lin have to say?"

Yan Xiaoxi smiled slightly and looked at the imperial physician. She continued, "Imperial Physician, please adhere to the chicken soup and the herbs within it."

The imperial physician was startled at these words and nodded in realization. He immediately made his second move. First, he looked at the ingredients inside the chicken soup before sniffing the ingredients inside carefully.

When he thoroughly investigated, he was truly shocked by this truth.

So this was what happened. Why didn't he think of it earlier?

"It's high, it's really high." The imperial physician couldn't help but praise him.

"What do you mean?" Other than Yan Xiaoxi, no one else understood what had happened.

The imperial physician clasped his hands together, a serious expression on his face as he reported, "Your majesty, there really is poison inside."

What?

The imperial physician had clearly said earlier that it was harmless, so how could she change her mind in the blink of an eye?

Just because of a single sentence from Yan Xiaoxi, the result had changed.

This …

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it was too bizarre.

"Ridiculous! You talk too much and you must have colluded with Princess Lin." Infuriated, Nangong Zhen pulled out his blade and placed it against the imperial physician's neck.

"Your majesty, please forgive me. The crown prince, please calm your anger. This old servant was careless for a moment, and only then was I able to see through the mystery. Fortunately, after Princess Lin gave me some advice, I was able to come to a realization." The imperial physician hastened to kneel on the ground and plead for mercy.

"Speak, what happened?" Nangong Xiao glanced at Nangong Zhen. Nangong Zhen understood and immediately retracted the weapon in his hand.

It's like this, inside the soup and in the chicken soup there is a type of herb, it can strengthen the body by itself, and is extremely beneficial to humans. However, these two herbs cannot be consumed together, once combined, it will produce a poison, lurking in the human body, and after a long time, it will lead to death. Miss Liu's poison was discovered so quickly because her previous body was too weak, and she could not receive any kind of stimulation. So that's how it was. The Imperial Physician's words made everyone suddenly understand.

"Everyone heard that the Crown Princess is the mastermind behind the plot. The food was prepared by her, and Miss Liu was poisoned because she drank the soup." With the Royal Physician's testimony, he seemed to have gotten rid of all suspicions for Yan Xiaoxi, and pushed them all onto the princess consort.

However, things didn't go as smoothly as she had expected.

The Crown Princess's words brought the matter back to its original point.

The crown prince's wife smiled and said, "Princess Lin is wrong. The food for the banquet was indeed prepared by me, but it is only for the medicinal herbs and chicken soup."

Right now, everything in the harem would temporarily be left to her, so she had personally prepared this banquet.

The medicinal soup was brought up by Liu Zhixue herself, and the chicken soup was ordered by Nangong Lin to be made in the imperial study. She knew this very well.

However, the only thing that puzzled her was that she had heard from the girl by Yan Xiaoxi's side that she was only given chicken soup for her wangfei's table. Why was there chicken soup at every table?

"What the Crown Princess said was true. The medicine on my table was indeed brought up by the attack." Soon, Liu Zhixue had confirmed the authenticity of her words.

"The chicken soup was ordered by This King to be prepared for the wangfei by the imperial kitchens." Nangong Lin agreed.

But with just that one sentence, it had once again pushed Yan Xiaoxi to the heart of the struggle.

Liu Zhixue had been poisoned by the herbs in between the two soups, and the soup had been added by her own body while the other one was related to Yan Xiaoxi.

This further increased the suspicion that she was the murderer.

Even Yan Xiaoxi hadn't thought that after making such a huge detour, she would return everything back to its original point.

In that case, what she had just done was in vain.

Everyone present still believed that she was the culprit. Yan Xiaoxi truly had no words to refute, she was too bitter to speak of.

[Since the Crown Princess isn't the murderer, then what went wrong?

Who exactly was it that wanted to poison Liu Zhixue? For the time being, Yan Xiaoxi could not think of anyone with a suitable reason for doing so.

Just as she was racking her brains and pondering, Nangong Zhen impatiently said, "Father, the evidence is conclusive now. Princess Lin attempted to poison Miss Liu. She is bringing shame to our Imperial Family and is worthy of being your imperial concubine."

"Please seek justice for my daughter." Liu Zhitian couldn't stand it any longer. He was such a precious daughter. He definitely couldn't let the murderer escape so easily.

Nangong Xiao fell silent and fell into deep thought.

Yan Xiaoxi's identity was already awkward and could not be casually dealt with. The war between the two countries had just ended, and if the punishment was inappropriate, it would cause people to become tongue-tied and start another war.

In reality, he was not afraid of the Eastern Mirror Kingdom. It was just that after the last battle, even though the Southern Water Nation had won, it had suffered heavy losses.

"This King shall see who dares to touch a single hair on my woman." Once Nangong Lin said this, the entire arena fell into silence.

Yan Xiaoxi glanced at Nangong Lin in astonishment. She did not expect him to protect her again.

Hmph, what are you trying to do?

Since he suspected her, he would just let her fend for herself.

Why did he do this? It was as if he was showing off his authority. So everyone was afraid of him.