jdhmnovel Chapter 216 The Truth
Chapter 216 The Truth
Seeing that Xu Yingying was fine, Li Siqi felt relieved. He reminded Xu Yingying, "You must be careful in the harem. The Imperial Concubine is not a good person. You must be careful of her. If anything happens, send me a message. I have spies in the palace, and they will be arranged to be by your side. If there is anything, go to him and he will tell me."
Since it concerned her own safety, Xu Yingying was not careless and nodded solemnly.
Li Siqi didn't stay long and soon left through the window again. Xu Yingying didn't even have time to let him go through the front door.
After Li Siqi left, Xu Yingying lay down on the bed again, but this time, she fell asleep quickly.
The next day, Xu Yingying got up early and wanted to go out of the palace to check if she could find any useful clues in the entire palace.
But as soon as Xu Yingying left the palace, she noticed that the palace maids around her looked at her with something strange in their eyes.
And no one knew where Dingxiang from yesterday had gone, so Xu Yingying randomly called a palace maid over.
"Where is yesterday's lilac?"
"To answer your question, Dingxiang was called out last night, and I don't know where she went."
Xu Yingying sent the palace maid away and had some thoughts in her mind. After breakfast, Xu Yingying wanted to go out and take a look, but before she went far, she was stopped by the palace maid.
"What are you doing?" Xu Yingying was puzzled.
But the palace maid said nothing, she just stood in front of Xu Yingying and prevented her from leaving.
Xu Yingying forced herself to suppress the anger in her heart and tried to bypass the palace maid and continue moving forward, but the palace maid still stood in front of Xu Yingying.
Xu Yingying suddenly turned cold, "What are you going to do?"
The palace maid still said nothing, but just stared at Xu Yingying, refusing to let her leave.
Xu Yingying realized that this should be the work of the Imperial Concubine. After all, the Imperial Concubine had the greatest power in the harem.
Seeing that the other party clearly didn't want her to find out the truth, Xu Yingying simply didn't insist on going out. Back in the house, Xu Yingying looked at Camellia and shrugged helplessly.
"Do you really not remember anything? Look, I can hardly move in this palace now. Who did you offend?"
Camellia just shook her head, "I don't know, I still can't remember anything. Since someone doesn't want you to investigate, you might as well take a break and think about it. After all, you will know something in this harem."
What Camellia said made sense. Xu Yingying nodded and sat in the house to rest for a while. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she couldn't just sit there and wait to die.
Since there was nothing to do, Xu Yingying thought that she might as well take this opportunity to search the late queen's palace to see if she could find anything else.
This time, Xu Yingying was not stopped and came to the palace. Since there was nothing in the bedroom, Xu Yingying simply started searching in the yard.
After Camellia developed the habit of hiding things, Xu Yingying deliberately began to search from every corner of the palace.
Sure enough, Xu Yingying's intuition was sharp. In the corner, around a flower bed, Xu Yingying saw a female ghost hiding there.
The female ghost saw Xu Yingying, but she just stayed there motionless, as if she thought Xu Yingying would not see her.
Xu Yingying was somewhat curious about this female ghost. It seemed that she was the only ghost in the late queen's harem. She just didn't know why she had been here all the time.
It is better to act than to be moved. Xu Yingying took a step forward and got closer to the female ghost. The female ghost subconsciously leaned back. Considering that she was asking a question, Xu Yingying still showed a kind smile on her face.
"Hello." Xu Yingying greeted the female ghost with a smile.
The female ghost obviously didn't expect that someone could see her. She was frightened and subconsciously looked back, but there was no one else. Only then did she realize that the other person was talking to her.
"Can you see me?" The female ghost pointed at herself in disbelief.
"Of course..." Xu Yingying nodded, but before she finished speaking, she saw the female ghost's face full of fear.
The female ghost knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "My Queen, My Queen, please forgive me, I have no choice but to do this."
Xu Yingying looked back and found that it was Camellia following her. She looked at the female ghost kneeling on the ground thoughtfully.
When Xu Yingying saw the female ghost like this, she knew clearly that Camellia’s death must be closely related to the female ghost in front of her. It is very likely that she was a driving force behind Camellia’s death.
After thinking this through, Xu Yingying no longer smiled at the female ghost. Instead, her face looked serious and cold.
"Tell me what you did, otherwise I will beat you to death and you will never be reincarnated!" Xu Yingying shouted in a low voice.
The ghost girl was also frightened by Xu Yingying. She lost all her thoughts and kept kowtowing, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Queen, it's all my fault, but it was the Imperial Concubine who forced me to do it! She threatened me with my family and asked me to do it to you. I have no choice. Please forgive me, Queen."
"What did the Imperial Concubine want you to do?" Xu Yingying's voice became even colder.
"This, this..." The female ghost hesitated.
"You are already dead and are a ghost now. If you tell me, I might be able to let you reincarnate. Otherwise..." Xu Yingying showed the talisman in her hand.
The ghost girl shrank even more, "Yes, yes, I will tell you everything." She swallowed her saliva and said in a trembling voice, "That day, the imperial concubine gave me a small porcelain bottle and said that the substance inside was mercury. Just a little bit of it would make the queen die without anyone noticing."
"She asked me to put it in the tea that the Empress drank every day. The substance becomes colorless and tasteless when in contact with water, but I had no choice. Empress, my father and mother are in the hands of the Imperial Concubine. Even my three-year-old brother is not spared by the Imperial Concubine. I have no choice. I can't just watch them die like this."
Xu Yingying no longer cared about the ghost, but was thinking about something. Camellia, on the other hand, looked at the ghost in front of her, obviously disappointed, but she still didn't say anything. Perhaps she remembered who she was, and Camellia's temper improved a lot. Now, facing what the ghost said, she was just disappointed. Although she knew how she died, she still didn't want to do anything to the ghost.
I just drifted away to another place by myself.
After making a breakthrough, Xu Yingying turned around and went back to her room.
Mercury, in today's terms, is tribute, so Camellia died of heavy metal poisoning. With current technology, there should not be many people who can make mercury, so in this capital city, there should be even fewer mercury suppliers.