lcionline Chapter 284: Crane's Crown Red Falls Out of Shen Nanqiao's Body
Chapter 284: Crane's Crown Red Falls Out of Shen Nanqiao's Body
Before Zhou noticed anything, Shen Nanqiao's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he subconsciously looked down at his chest.
During the time she was married to the Lu family, Lu's mother and Lu Jiangyue always tried to take away her dowry. There weren't many things left for Shen Nanqiao, and the collar she was wearing today was one of them.
There is a piece of jade hanging above, with an agate bead inlaid on each side.
It would have been fine if Shen Nanqiao didn't look, but when he did, he was shocked!
Why is there only one agate bead left of the two on the collar?
Although she didn't know what was going on, she understood the principle of keeping out the trouble. If other people found out about this, she would definitely get into trouble!
Shen Nanqiao hurriedly tried to unbutton his collar and hide it, but in his panic, he knocked over the wine jug.
Now, everyone's eyes fell on her, and they also saw her panicked movements...
Their eyes all fell on the collar she wore on her chest. Someone with sharp eyes noticed something was wrong: "Look! Are the agate beads on Mrs. Lu's collar the same as the ones in the hands of the eunuch of the Ministry of Punishment?!"
"It's true! And there's a gap in the inlay on the left side, which means there were originally two agate beads on the collar, but one fell off!"
"So the agate beads that Eunuch Su found belonged to Mrs. Lu?!"
"Why did Mrs. Lu's things end up on Dongyan?!"
"..."
Shen Zhinian's heart suddenly sank!
Although Shen Nanqiao likes to pretend to be noble, he definitely does not have the courage to kill anyone in the palace, and he has no motive to attack Liu Changzai.
This idiot must have been tricked by someone!
Shen Zhinian finally understood the conspiracy of the person behind the scenes!
What she did, that she asked the imperial physician to say that Concubine Liu was ill and ordered the Jingshifang to take away Concubine Liu's green card, were all just excuses for the murderer to confuse her.
The murderer's real purpose was to make her relax her guard and think that she had gotten away with it. Then the murderer could pin the crime on Shen Nanqiao and catch her off guard!
After all, no matter how bad the relationship between Shen Zhinian and Shen Nanqiao was, in the eyes of the world, they were sisters who were closely connected. She asked Shen Nanqiao to help kill Liu Changzai, and Shen Nanqiao would not disobey her for emotional and rational reasons.
In this way, all the explanations Shen Zhinian just made became excuses for getting away with the crime in the eyes of others!
The person who set up this game behind the scenes is really very resourceful!
Shen Zhinian rationally analyzed various possibilities and thought about ways to break the impasse...
Shen Nanqiao's face turned pale with fear, and he said hurriedly: "Don't talk nonsense! I don't know what's going on!"
In this life, she has already left the harem, so why can't she escape the fate of being framed?
Concubine Liu didn't know what was going on, so she could only say, "Su Quanye, go and compare the agate beads you found on Dongyan with the ones on Lu Shen's collar. Are they the same?"
"Slave, you obey!"
Su Quanye walked up to Shen Nanqiao and said politely, "Mrs. Lu, please lend me your collar."
Even if Shen Nanqiao was unwilling, he could not let her refuse and had to hand over the collar he had untied.
Shen Maoxue looked at this scene and also understood that she was being plotted against today, but he did not speak rashly.
Soon, Su Quanye's expression changed when he saw Shen Nanqiao: "The agate bead that I found on Dongyan is indeed the one on Mrs. Lu's lapel!"
Now that they have decided to throw dirty water on Shen Zhinian, they can’t stop. Jiang Wange hurriedly said, “Come quickly, take this girl down!”
"The evidence is all here. She must have instructed Dong Yan to put the red crested thorns into the water given to Liu Changzai!"
Shen Nanqiao was angry and scared: "It's not me! This is my first time in the palace. I don't know Dong Yan at all!"
However, during her struggle, a package fell out of her sleeve...
Before Shen Nanqiao could react, the guard quickly picked it up and handed it to the imperial physician for examination.
After a moment, the doctor's face changed slightly: "This, this... this is the highly poisonous substance, Crane's Beak Red! It is exactly the same ingredient as the one that poisoned Concubine Liu to death!"
If the agate beads just now only proved that Shen Nanqiao and Dongyan had contact, but did not mean that she was the murderer, then this pack of Hedinghong was irrefutable evidence!
The guards at the side reacted very quickly, took Shen Nanqiao down, and forced him to kneel in the middle of the hall!
After receiving Jiang Wange's eye instructions, the concubines of the Zhenguo Mansion immediately took advantage of the situation and said, "Mrs. Lu is entering the palace for the first time. She has no grudges against Concubine Liu in the past or in the present. Why would she go to such great lengths to poison her?"
"Do I even need to ask? She and Concubine Rou are sisters. This must have been ordered by Concubine Rou!"
"Now that you mention it, I remember it. Not long ago, didn't Concubine Rou and Madam Lu go out to change clothes at the same time? Maybe they were plotting how to poison Concubine Liu!"
"I used to think that Concubine Rou was really kind, but now it seems that she is so hypocritical and terrible! On the one hand, she said that she never took Liu Changzai's words of offense to heart, but on the other hand, she secretly instructed her sister to poison Liu Changzai!"
"Who says it's not true? Seeing how consort Rou is pretending, I really believe that this matter has nothing to do with her. It's true that you can't judge a person by his appearance!"
"Mrs. Lu didn't wear a veil on her face before, why did she cover it after going out? She must have done something wrong, so she can't face others!"
"..."
Shen Zhinian sneered in his heart!
It turned out to be exactly as she expected!
As long as Shen Nanqiao is framed as the murderer, everyone will think that she was the one who ordered this!
Even if she ignored Shen Nanqiao and said that she had no idea whether Shen Nanqiao did these things, no one would believe it.
Even if she was not implicated by Shen Nanqiao, from now on she would be branded as a murderer, and the image she had worked so hard to build would be completely ruined.
Shen Zhinian's gaze swept across the faces of the palace concubines who were criticizing her. She ignored them and looked at the emperor on the high platform.
Her bright little face was filled with a mixture of grievance and anger: "Your Majesty, I have behaved uprightly and have never poisoned Concubine Liu. I really don't understand why there are always people who want to put the blame on me in a roundabout way!"
"My concubine and my elder sister did go out for some fresh air and exchanged a few words. When my elder sister missed her step and fell on her face, I even helped her up. Apart from that, there was nothing else."
"It's a complete fabrication to accuse us of plotting to poison Concubine Liu!"
Everyone suddenly realized what was going on. No wonder Mrs. Lu covered her face.
Gu Jinxiao's expression was somewhat subtle.
Mrs. Lu's face was clearly swollen because of Concubine Rou's order to beat her.
She didn't even blink when she lied...