The empress is pregnant, and the emperor's incense continues

Chapter 780: Eldest Sister-in-law as Wife 49

In a moment, everyone was attracted by the scream. Prince Fenyang pointed at Xie Ruxue, whose mouth was bleeding, and trembled, unable to ask a single question.

The princess was completely frightened and tried to stand up several times but her legs went limp again.

Only Meng Wen Yao was supported by Xie Chenyi who rushed in and explained the situation tremblingly.

"After the ritual just now, Fourth Sister was worried about the fetus in her belly, so she wanted to take medicine to protect the fetus. Her own maid cooked it. She brought the medicine and the maid from the Marquis' Mansion. She said that the princess had specially ordered it. But Fourth Sister had just taken it, and then..."

After saying this, Prince Fenyang and Xie Chenyi immediately understood that the princess probably did not want the child and had deliberately had an abortion.

"After all, our last name is Xie. Aunt is too cruel. It's ok to abort the child, but she must also harm Xue'er?"

Thinking of Xie Nanan who had passed away, and looking at Xie Ruxue who was in front of him and he didn't know whether he could be saved, King Fenyang felt that his blood was flowing away one by one.

"Someone, go to the Marquis' Mansion and ask the princess to come over. I want to ask her why she is so cruel. Is she going to break off with our Fenyang Palace?"

Xie Ruxue, who was already very weak, immediately struggled to explain when she heard that the prince wanted to ask the princess to come over for a confrontation.

If the princess really came and explained everything clearly, then the fact that Bao had drugged her would no longer be concealed.

She still had to go back to the Marquis' Mansion to live, so she must not offend the princess, nor could she put the blame for the miscarriage on Mrs. Bao, otherwise the princess would definitely forbid her to see Mrs. Bao again.

But she clearly asked for only a little bit of medicine, and she took the pregnancy-preserving medicine from the palace in advance. Even if she only drank two sips to deceive Meng Wen Yao, it couldn't be that serious!

Unfortunately, she didn't have time to think about these things. The most important thing was to keep Prince Fenyang's talents.

"Father, this medicine may not have been given by the princess. The Marquis' Mansion has its own private plans. Please don't ruin the friendship between the two mansions for my sake."

After Prince Fenyang was shocked and angry, he heard these words and thought about how Bao often drugged others. He began to hesitate, thinking that maybe it was not the princess's order.

Seeing Prince Fenyang's hesitation, Meng Wenyao said at the right time: "Fourth sister, what you said is not right. We should not care about the fighting in your mansion, but you almost fed this medicine to my stomach. Has the heir of our prince's mansion become a tool for your mansion to fight?"

"what?"

"You drank it too?"

Hearing Xie Chenyi and Prince Fenyang speak at the same time, Meng Wenyao gently shook her head: "It's too hot. I was about to drink it when I saw my fourth sister bleeding."

"Amitabha!"

At this time, the princess finally recovered and patted her chest in fear: "Fortunately, I usually eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures. The Buddha finally blessed our bloodline that we finally got."

"It's just that Ruxue, since someone could put something in your medicine, the people around you should be investigated thoroughly. Someone, take him out for questioning."

Xie Ruxue propped herself up, still thinking about how to fool people into suspecting Bao, when she saw the people around her being dragged out for interrogation one by one.

Soon, bursts of crying and shouting were heard in the yard, and the occasional words of "injustice" were clearly heard by everyone.

"Unfair?" Prince Fenyang said angrily, "If you don't tell the truth, I will beat you to death. You even dared to poison the master's medicine. You simply don't know how to live or die."

"Why hasn't the doctor come yet? Xue'er, how are you?"

Seeing Xie Ruxue's face becoming paler and paler, Prince Fenyang slowly realized that this was not an ordinary abortion drug. He reached out and plucked a silver hairpin from a maid's head and put it into the remaining medicine.

Under everyone's gaze, the silver-white hairpin slowly turned gray-black.

Meng Wenyao clearly felt Xie Chenyi's body tense up. He held Meng Wenyao tightly and asked again, "You really didn't drink at all?"

"No."

While Meng Wen Yao was answering, she also found a silver hairpin and tried the medicine at hand. Sure enough, the medicine changed color as well. The princess was so scared that she kept chanting "Amitabha".

"Fourth sister, I thought you wanted to harm my child, but I didn't expect it to be poisonous. You drank it without any precautions. It shows that there is someone behind this. Who did you offend in the Marquis' Mansion?"

As Meng Wen Yao spoke, she hid the handkerchief containing the poison. No one could have imagined that the poison had fallen from her handkerchief.

Everyone looked at Xie Ruxue, only to see her face turn paler and paler, as if she had lost all her vitality in an instant.

"How could it be poison?" Xie Ruxue murmured.

Bao clearly told her that it was the abortion drug that was used to confuse Meng Wen Yao. The real abortion drug was placed somewhere else by Bao. In order to clear herself of suspicion, she deliberately drank a sip, thinking that even if she saw blood, she would not have a miscarriage.

And if she gets red and returns to the Marquis' Mansion, she might be able to get the princess's care and be treated as a treasure in the Marquis' Mansion.

But what is going on now? There is poison in the medicine?

Was it the princess who had it done, or was it Mrs. Bao?

She quickly rejected the princess's suggestion because in the Marquis' Mansion, the princess had plenty of ways to make her disappear and there was no need to poison her.

Besides, if the county lord wanted to kill her, she might not be alive today.

The only possibility is Mrs. Bao, her biological mother.

She gave a bitter smile. Bao lied that the medicine was an abortion drug, but she actually put poison in it secretly. Didn't Bao ever think about how Xie Ruxue would get away if Meng Wen Yao was really poisoned to death?

What's more, in order to clear herself of suspicion, she took a sip of it on her own initiative.

While she was still struggling with her inner struggle, one of the maids in the yard could no longer bear it and shouted, "It was the concubine. Before she came, she gave the young lady a packet of things and the young lady asked me to add it to the medicine."

"Impossible! No matter how vicious Mrs. Bao is, she would never harm Xue'er." Prince Fenyang didn't believe it at all.

Not to mention Prince Fenyang, Meng Wenyao couldn't believe that Bao would even give up her own daughter in order to lure her into the trap.

Besides, the silver hairpin turned black, maybe it was because of poison. Could it be just an ordinary abortion drug that could make the silver hairpin turn black?

While Meng Wenyao was thinking, Xie Ruxue had already collapsed due to exhaustion. Prince Fenyang was shocked. This was the second child who was going to die in front of him. He was completely at a loss. The princess angrily said, "Press Bao over."

Before Mrs. Bao came over, the court doctor finally came over. He simply checked the remaining medicine and herbs, and immediately concluded: "My Lord and Princess, this is arsenic."

"what!"

Following a brief exclamation in the hall, Mrs. Bao was pressed over by someone.

She didn't know Xie Ruxue had been poisoned yet, and thought she was just here to perform a ritual for Xie Nan'an. She complained, "It's already this late, the ritual should be over soon, why did you just invite me here? After all, I'm the eldest son's biological mother..."

As she was mumbling, Bao saw Xie Ruxue, who was almost dead. She screamed and rushed over: "Ah! Xue'er, my Xue'er, what happened to you?"

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