Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

As she spoke, she took out a silk handkerchief from her bosom, which contained exactly half a piece of dessert.

Doctor Li carefully took the dessert to his nose and smelled it, then he said to Li Junhao thankfully,

"Fortunately, this girl took away half of it. If the Eighth Prince ate it all, no one would be able to save it."

Li Junhao looked at the palace maid again. No matter how they treated the Eighth Prince on a daily basis, this palace maid was quite attentive.

"How could the Eighth Prince be away from others in his current condition? You didn't even notice where he got this snack from?"

Li Junhao asked in a cold tone, "Who was supposed to be on duty last night?"

Another long-faced palace maid crawled out tremblingly. She was so frightened that she couldn't speak.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Fuzi quickly asked, "Don't be afraid. Did you find anything unusual when you were on duty last night?"

The long-faced maid shook her head repeatedly, saying, "No, no, no..."

"Nothing unusual was found? Then did you see who gave the snack to the Eighth Prince?"

"No no……"

When Xiao Fuzi saw this situation, she immediately understood that this long-faced palace maid must have done something else while on duty.

Therefore, no abnormality was discovered about the Eighth Prince at all.

Instead, it was another young palace maid who was not on duty who discovered the abnormality.

Xiao Fuzi thought about this clearly and looked at Li Junhao to see what he meant.

"Drag them all out and let the Ministry of Internal Affairs interrogate them in detail. Except for this little palace maid, all the others will be dealt with according to the rules." Li Junhao said in a cold tone.

Xiao Fuzi agreed and ignored the other people's screams like pigs being slaughtered. He took a few guards and dragged them all out.

The little palace maid was not dragged away, but continued to kneel on the ground trembling with fear, nervously waiting for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to question her.

Li Junhao then continued to ask, "Tell me, was there anything unusual with the Eighth Prince last night?"

The little maid lowered her head in deep thought, as if she was trying to think through the details of what happened last night. Then she raised her head and said, "Your Highness, everything was normal until last night, and we had dinner at the usual time.

However, about a cup of tea after the meal, I saw the snacks in the hands of the Eighth Prince. I was very surprised at the time and looked around nervously, but I didn't find anyone else in the room. I looked under the table.

Because I don’t think that the other maids and sisters would specially save snacks for the Eighth Prince, so this snack must have been given to His Highness by someone outside.”

After hearing her words, Li Junhao nodded, and then she continued,

“I am worried that Your Highness will have indigestion if he eats this dessert after he has just finished a meal, so I put away the remaining half and plan to let Your Highness continue to eat it tomorrow.

At that time, His Highness did not show any abnormality. It was not until around midnight that he started to make uncomfortable sounds, and I realized that something was wrong. "

Doctor Li then asked, "What was the situation at that time?"

"Since I was not on duty tonight, I heard the Eighth Prince's shouting when I woke up, so I ran over and found His Highness lying on the bed vomiting non-stop. The bed was also...

So I realized that the situation was not good, and without delaying any longer, I immediately woke up Madam and the others and informed the masters."

Doctor Li nodded and said, "Calculated this way, it is similar to the effect of the medicine in this snack. It should take about two hours for the medicine to take effect after consumption."

"Well, good, you are quite attentive. Just stay and continue to serve His Highness." Li Junhao said to the little palace maid. The little palace maid kowtowed to Li Junhao in gratitude and then followed the little eunuch back to the eighth prince's bedroom.

"Doctor Li, please take more care of it. I'll leave Old Eight to you." Li Junhao looked at Doctor Li again.

"Don't worry, Your Highness. As long as the disease is under control, I have confidence in what will happen next."

Doctor Li agreed without hesitation, and it seemed that he was very confident about the situation.

Then Li Junhao did not stay for long and took Xiao Fuzi back to the East Palace, and also called the leader of the Imperial Guard Xie Ziming over.

Ask him to immediately start investigating whether anyone had been near the Eighth Prince's residence during dinner time yesterday, and to check all the palace maids and eunuchs.

Xie Ziming took the order and left. Li Junhao angrily crushed the teacup in his hand.

Xiao Fuzi was so scared that she hurried to help clean up. Seeing that his hand seemed to be cut by a piece of porcelain, she quickly took the medicine box and helped Li Junhao apply medicine.

"Why, why are they still unwilling to let Old Eight go even though he is already like this? Don't they have any heart?" Li Junhao murmured softly.

Xiao Fuzi felt sorry for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so she said to him, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, these are the dirty things we have discovered, but there are many more things that happened behind the scenes that we have not discovered, ah..."

"Humph, how abominable! Let's go to the Scholar's Residence to visit Wang Zhuo tomorrow morning. We haven't seen him for a long time."

Li Junhao narrowed his eyes. It was time for them to have a head-on confrontation.

"This, Your Highness, will there be any danger?"

Xiao Fuzi was very nervous. Wang Zhuo and the others had already set their sights on several princes, but it was probably His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who they wanted to get rid of the most.

"In broad daylight, I don't believe he really dares to do it." Li Junhao's finger covered the ring on his thumb again and slowly turned it.

"Your Highness, are you trying to force the other party into a corner and make him attack you?"

"Yes and no."

"???"

"I want him to attack me, but I won't force him. Instead, I want him to...guide them to adjust the timeline. We have to do it quickly."

Li Junhao looked at the hourglass on the table and saw that it was almost dawn.

Sang Mo had also returned by this time and briefly reported to Li Junhao the results of Yan Nangui and his team's actions today.

Then they all took a short rest, and when it was slightly light, they asked someone to deliver a letter to the Bachelor's Mansion.

Wang Zhuo also tossed and turned all night and returned to the Bachelor's Mansion at dawn. He was extremely tired and had just fallen into a deep sleep when he was woken up by the housekeeper Ji Ping.

"Tsk, what exactly happened? Don't you know that I hardly slept last night?" Wang Zhuo opened his eyes and asked unhappily when he saw the dim light outside.

"Master, the concierge just received a visiting card from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, saying that he will visit our house at 9:00 p.m. today."

Ji Ping quickly brought a cup of hot tea to Wang Zhuo to moisten his throat, while explaining to him in a low voice.