Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

Xiao Zhan looked at the Queen with a playful smile, "Mother, when I first came in, I saw this girl hitting Ninth Sister's back with a stick. Palace maids shouldn't be so violent in disciplining, right?

According to what you said, beating a dog depends on its owner. The Xiao family is of royal blood. Isn't this tantamount to slapping the face of the royal family and the emperor? Is this palace maid guilty of insubordination? Should she be punished?"

Jiang Xue followed closely behind: "Besides, there is indeed arsenic in Xiao Gui's body. Although the amount is not large, it is enough to make her have difficulty breathing and her breath is weak. If your majesty does not believe it, you can ask the imperial physician of the Imperial Medical Bureau to diagnose and confirm it."

Sun Xiurong felt pity. As a mother, she imagined if her child suffered the same treatment, her heart was filled with sorrow: "Xiao Gui is so pitiful. He has to endure such cruel treatment at such a young age."

Faced with the four people's repeated questioning, the queen was speechless for a moment.

Ye Zhaoyi and Sun Xiurong, one has children and the other is favored, she dare not offend them easily; Xiao Zhan and Jiang Xue, both have the support of the empress dowager behind them, and she is not someone she can easily provoke now.

The queen was filled with rage and could only vent her anger on the kneeling palace maid.

"Come here, drag this treacherous and unrepentant slave away and beat him to death!"

Upon hearing this, the palace maid was so frightened that her face turned pale and she struggled desperately: "Empress, I am only doing what you order! I am yours! You can't turn your back on me!" The queen coldly ordered her mouth to be sealed and watched her struggle as the eunuchs dragged her. In the end, she bled to death on the spot.

Jiang Xue witnessed this cruel scene and secretly sighed at the brutality and ruthlessness of the palace struggle.

"Your Majesty is wise." Xiao Zhan calmly withdrew his gaze and bowed respectfully to the Queen. "I have discussed this with the Empress, and the wedding is scheduled for the second day of February. I will send someone to deliver the invitation later. If you are free, you are welcome to attend our wedding banquet."

After saying this, he exchanged a glance with Jiang Xue, and then glanced at the unconscious Xiao Gui: "Ninth sister is in poor health, I will take her downstairs to recuperate first. I may not be able to come to pay my respects to you in the near future. I hope you will understand."

"After all, Xiao Gui is a girl. It would be inconvenient for Prince Gong to take her back to take care of her. It would be better for her to stay here with me. I will arrange for the best doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau to treat her."

The Queen was thinking that Xiao Gui was a princess under her name. If word got out that Prince Gong had taken her away to be taken care of, people would probably accuse her of neglecting her. Especially someone like Lin Wan, who might even fabricate charges against her for abusing a royal descendant.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. Changle is fortunate to be taught by Shen Yunshen, a medical expert on Changle Mountain. Your Majesty should know that Master is a skilled doctor. Xiao Gui and I have similar personalities, and I will definitely do my best to take care of her.

Furthermore, it seems that this is not the first time that the maids in the Majesty's palace have been disrespectful to the princess. If one is caught today, there is no guarantee that there will not be a second or third one. The princess must be extremely afraid of such maids. If she continues to stay in the palace, she may not be able to recover physically and her heart will be hurt. If there is another mistake, it will affect the reputation of the Majesty, which will be bad."

After Jiang Xue finished speaking, Xiao Gui's voice for help echoed in her mind, and the helpless self in her previous life seemed to appear before her eyes. If someone could pull her out of the desperate situation at that time, perhaps there would not be such a tragic ending in her previous life. This time, she would never let Xiao Gui go.

"Princess Changle, do you mean that I condoned my servants in neglecting Xiao Gui?" The Queen could hear the hidden meaning in Jiang Xue's words, and her face was as gloomy as the calm before a storm.

This Jiang Xue, she has been contradicting me again and again! Did she really think that she, the queen, was easy to mess with?

"Changle dare not, but considering that the Queen is busy with government affairs, it is inevitable that she may not be able to take good care of Xiao Gui occasionally. In this case, I happen to be free during this period, so why not let me take care of Xiao Gui."

Jiang Xue responded calmly, neither hurried nor slow.

"Mother, you have been very busy recently, and Changle is here to share your worries. What do you think, my two queens?" Xiao Zhan cleverly brought Ye Zhaoyi and Sun Xiurong together, leaving no room for the queen to refute.

"I feel that it is more appropriate for Princess Changle to take care of her." Ye Zhaoyi agreed.

"Your Majesty, I have personally seen Princess Changle's medical skills, and they are indeed superb. I believe Xiao Gui will be well taken care of in her hands."

Sun Xiurong also stood on Jiang Xue's side. The situation of four to one was already formed. Even if the queen was unwilling, she was powerless to save the situation.

She glared at Jiang Xue, then angrily returned to her bedroom.

"Thank you both for your help." Jiang Xue turned around and bowed to Ye Zhaoyi and Sun Xiurong to express her gratitude.

"You're welcome. We all saw how much Xiao Gui suffered at the hands of the Queen. It's just that we couldn't intervene due to our status. If we can help today, it can be considered as compensation for the child."

Ye Zhaoyi patted Xiao Gui's head gently, exchanged a glance with Sun Xiurong, and then the two left.

The Queen was furious. It was not appropriate to perform the formalities of paying respects at this moment. It would be better for her to return home and have a good rest.

Jiang Xue and Xiao Zhan brought Xiao Gui back to Prince Gong's Mansion. As soon as they stepped into the mansion, Xiao Yun came to greet them. Seeing Xiao Gui's pale face, his heart tightened and he hurriedly followed them into the house.

"Fourth brother, what's going on? Baoyu..." Privately, Xiao Yun and Xiao Gui have the best relationship, and he always calls her by her name directly.

"Ninth sister is injured, and someone has poisoned her with arsenic." Xiao Zhan's face was darker than a dark cloud. To him, Xiao Gui was more than just a sister. When his biological mother was sentenced to death, she secretly came to comfort him; when he was banished to the inner court by his father, she risked her life to bring him food. Now, looking at his tortured sister, his hatred for the queen increased a little more.

"Arsenic?" Xiao Yun was shocked and angry when he heard it. "Who did it? I will skin him alive!"

"Speak softly, she is weak now and needs to rest." Jiang Xue gave Xiao Gui an acupuncture injection to force out the toxins in her body. Looking at the scary black blood in the basin, she felt sorry for this girl who was two years younger than her.

Previously at the poetry gathering and the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, Xiao Gui was still that lively girl with a bright smile. But now, her face is pale and she is lying there dying. It is really heartbreaking.

"What happened?" Xiao Zhan asked Tie Yi to take the excited Xiao Yun out first, and he stayed to watch Jiang Xue rescue him. The half basin of black blood was like a huge rock pressing on his heart.

"Come and help." Jiang Xue instructed Fu Dong Xiaochun to prepare hot water and clean clothes, and then asked Xiao Zhan to come over and help Xiao Gui. She used scissors to cut open the clothes on Xiao Gui's back, revealing her smooth back, and inserted the heated golden needles accurately into the acupuncture points.

About a quarter of an hour later, the golden needle was taken out and Xiao Gui's chest began to rise and fall violently.

"Take the basin." Xiao Zhan handed over the basin, which just caught the dirty blood that Xiao Gui vomited.

"The blood color has returned to normal." Jiang Xue breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the blood at the corner of Xiao Gui's mouth turned bright red.