"Miss!"

Jianqiu ran over in surprise and saw the queen covering her face with a terrified expression.

"Jianqiu, my face......"

Jianqiu squatted down and looked at the queen's face carefully, and found four clear red cat claw marks on her left cheek.

"My lady, I will call the imperial physician right now!"

But at this moment, Su Peisheng stood up and blocked Jianqiu's way.

"Aunt Jianqiu, that cat?"

Only then did Jianqiu remember to give the cat to Su Peisheng.

She glared at Su Peisheng fiercely, picked up the unconscious Pine Nut on the ground, and stuffed it into his arms.

"Give."

Su Peisheng bowed towards the queen.

"Thank you, Queen."

Because of the injury on her face, the queen seemed to have lost her soul and did not say a word.

Seeing that she did not respond, Su Peisheng did not stay any longer, but picked up the unconscious Songzi and left.

Jianqiu gritted her teeth as she watched Su Peisheng and everyone leave.

"Hmph, a dog relies on human power!"

The queen covered her face, stood up dazedly, and sat back in her chair.

When she saw Su Peisheng and others walking away, the hostility in her eyes gradually spread.

"Why don't you call the imperial physician?"

Jianqiu was frightened by her sudden voice, and quickly knelt down to salute and replied,

"Slave, go now."

The imperial physician came and was also shocked when he saw the injuries on the queen's face.

But he didn't dare to ask the reason and just applied the medicine to her carefully.

"Will this injury of mine leave a scar?"

The doctor hesitated, "It depends on one's constitution. If one's constitution is better, he will recover better and no trace will be seen."

The queen asked again in a cold voice, "If your physical condition is not good, will it leave scars?"

The doctor nodded, "Theoretically, that's right."

The Queen slammed the table.

"Come here, take this quack away and give him twenty lashes of the cane!"

The imperial physician was already an old man in his fifties. When he heard that he was going to be beaten with twenty sticks, he knelt down in panic.

"Your Majesty, I remember that Doctor Wen has an ointment for scar removal!"

"You're smart!" The Queen waved her hand and asked Jiang Fuhai to take the two strong eunuchs away.

Then, he looked at the imperial physician and said, "Then go and invite Imperial Physician Wen."

"Yes." When the old doctor heard that the queen wanted to replace him, he picked up the medicine box and left quickly, as if he had escaped a disaster.

After a while, Wen Shichu came to Jingren Palace carrying a medicine box.

After carefully examining the wound, he bowed and reported.

"Your Majesty, your wound is not serious. It will only take ten days for the scab to heal. This is the scar removal ointment I developed myself. After the scab falls off, use it once in the morning and evening. The wound will gradually fade until it disappears."

After hearing Wen Shichu's words, the queen finally felt better.

She stroked her face and stared at Wen Shichu without blinking.

"Tell me the truth, what disease did Concubine Hua have?"

Hearing the Queen's question, Wen Shichu raised his eyes, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"If you have anything to say, just say it. I will never tell anyone else."

Wen Shichu knelt on his knees and kowtowed to the ground.

"I, your humble servant, cannot say."

The queen narrowed her eyes dangerously, "Doctor Wen, think it over carefully before you speak."

Wen Shichu kowtowed, "Your Majesty, the Emperor has told me not to speak."

"Your Majesty?" The queen sneered, the jealousy in her eyes almost drowning her.

"You mean to say that the Emperor already knew that Concubine Hua would not live long?"

Wen Shichu looked up in shock.

"How do you know, madam?"

The queen looked at Wen Shichu and smiled sinisterly.

"I just learned the truth from your expression."

It turned out that Concubine Hua was really dying.

That's why the emperor dotes on Concubine Hua so much.

After thinking through all this, the Queen no longer felt so uncomfortable with the Emperor's preference for her.

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"Your Majesty, the dragon, phoenix and tiger soup is ready."

The people in the imperial kitchen were very efficient. In less than half an hour, they had cooked the soup and brought it to the Yikun Palace.

Because of the addition of seasonings and various Chinese medicines, this dragon, phoenix and tiger soup smells particularly fragrant and appetizing.

"come here."

The young eunuch who was tasting the food walked over with a bowl and filled it with soup.

He first tested the soup with a silver needle and found that the silver needle did not change color.

He breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the bowl of soup and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking it, he couldn't help smacking his lips.

"Delicious."

Su Peisheng rolled his eyes at him and said, "You are in luck."

The young eunuch chuckled and said, "It's all thanks to Eunuch Su's support."

He had a smile on his face, but his nose and mouth began to bleed.

Feeling something was wrong, he pulled Su Peisheng, who was facing away from him, and shouted with his last bit of strength,

“This soup… is…” poisonous.

The words are not finished yet.

The young eunuch fell to the ground with a thump.

Su Peisheng, who was close to him, was the first to notice it.

He turned around and was shocked to see the young eunuch who was tasting the food bleeding from all his orifices.

"The soup is poisonous!"

He shouted subconsciously, then turned around and found Songzhi was about to feed Concubine Hua the dragon, phoenix and tiger soup. He was so frightened that he took two steps at a time and used the whisk in his hand to knock the bowl out of Songzhi's hand.

There was a crisp sound of "crack".

The soup bowl was knocked over.

"Eunuch Su, you!"

Su Peisheng turned sideways and pointed at the little eunuch who was bleeding from all seven orifices on the ground.

Songzhi understood everything.

She stood up angrily, "Who is so vicious that he wants to kill the queen?"

The emperor had been sitting on the edge of the bed with his back to Su Peisheng, so he did not notice that something was wrong at first.

After the bowl was broken, he finally knew what had happened.

He stood up, walked to the young eunuch who had died of poisoning, and gritted his teeth.

"How dare you touch Concubine Hua right under my nose! Su Peisheng, arrest all the people involved tonight and interrogate them thoroughly."

Su Peisheng bowed and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Suddenly, the lights in Yikun Palace were bright and screams were heard continuously.

The news soon reached the ears of the queen.

She shook her head in disbelief, "Impossible, this is impossible!"

The medicine she gave Songzi would not cause bleeding from all seven orifices!

Jianqiu was completely unaware of this.

"Your Majesty, this must be a frame-up by the Yikun Palace. The Emperor will never believe it!"

After hearing Jianqiu's words, the queen also thought it made sense.

Who would poison someone so blatantly?

There was no way the emperor could believe that he was the one who did it.

Around the hour of Hai, the Yikun Palace finally became quiet.

When the emperor looked at the confession presented by Su Peisheng, his eyelids twitched violently!

"I have tolerated her again and again, but I didn't expect that she would not restrain herself, but instead became more aggressive and did evil things!"

Su Peisheng lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is full of doubts. Perhaps we should investigate it more carefully."

The emperor looked at the unconscious Concubine Hua and sneered.

"No need to check, I will ask her myself."

"The Emperor has arrived!"

Just as the queen was lying in bed, tossing and turning, Su Peisheng's loud voice rang out in Jingren Palace.

The queen quickly stood up and was about to put on her coat when hurried footsteps were heard outside the room.

She just stood up and took a few steps forward.

The door was pushed open and a gust of wind blew in.

"Snapped!"

Then came a slap, hard on the face.

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