Chapter 95 Poison (2/2)
”A cat died.”
”A cat?” Tang Xia felt confused and thought it would not be a big deal as many wildcats haunted in the imperial palace.
Lyuyou nodded, ”You should go and check out with me, Your Grace. There is some mystery about its death.”
Tang Xia knew that this matter was not normal according to Lyuyou's look. So she stood up and went to the place where the cat died in the guidance of Lyuyou.
That place was not far from Tang Xia's palace. A little palace maid was crying, kneeling on the ground. Another elder palace maid seemed quite angry. And there was a broken jade bracelet on the ground.
The dead cat lay over there. It was a black cat whose blood came from the five sense organs with its mouth wide open. What's more, its look was quite twisted as if it had suffered much pain.
”Please forgive me, Your Grace.” The little palace maid trembled more and prostrated herself at the sight of Tang Xia.
”What happened?”
The elder palace maid knelt on the ground and explained,
”I found the bracelet given by His Majesty was abraded while I was cleaning the room. So I had the craftsman repair and planned to give it to you today. But she broke it into pieces!”
The elder palace maid wore a quite angry look. Tang Xia knew they did not lie according to their facial expressions.
It seemed that the little palace maid was frightened by the black cat when she turned a corner and broke the jade bracelet by accident. So the elder palace maid rebuked her in anger.
It was just a jade bracelet that Tang Xia did not care much, so she was about to let it go. But Lyuyou stopped her. Tang Xia turned around and saw that Lyuyou was pointing at the black cat.
”Your Grace, have a look at the black cat.”
Tang Xia looked at the cat, ”Is it poisoned?”
Lyuyou nodded her head and wanted to say something. Tang Xia had a look at her and said, ”Talk truly. What do you find out?” If it was just related to a dead cat and a jade bracelet, Lyuyou would not take Tang Xia here so seriously.
”Your Grace, I fed the cat just now.”
As Tang Xia stared at her, Lyuyou said, ”You told me to throw the soup away, I regard it too wasteful so that I fed the cat with it.”
Tang Xia would be too foolish if she could not understand what Lyuyou meant.
”Really? Are you sure?”
”Absolutely. Although there are many wildcats in the imperial palace. But there is only one all black cat. I am quite sure!”
Tang Xia lowered her head, pondering. Then she wore a smile, ”Good! How dare you, Concubine Lan! How dare you to poison me!”
Tang Xia thought that Concubine Lan just desired to excel over others, she would not be that bold to poison her. However, it turned out that Tang Xia was too naive because Concubine Lan who was as vicious as Lengmei wanted to doom her to death!
Although Tang Xia wore a smile, her anger was so obvious that the little palace maid who knelt on the ground could not stop trembling.
”Let's go! I'll hear what Concubine Lan wants to explain to me!” Tang Xia disregarded those two palace maids and walked off in a huff.
Concubine Lan, as the first rank imperial concubine, lived in Xiangtan Court which was in the opposite direction of Tang Xia's palace. So it took Tang Xia fifteen minutes to get to Concubine Lan's dwelling.
As Tang Xia just got to the place, she heard the whine from Xiangtan Court—palace maids and eunuchs were crying loudly.
Tang Xia was still short of breath and turned her around, looking at Lyuyou. Then Lyuyou shook her head, not knowing what was going on.
When Tang Xia stepped into Xiangtan Court, she found that maids and eunuchs were trying to avoid her with a terrified look, which irrigated and puzzled Tang Xia.
After Tang Xia stepped into the interior court, palace maids were crying more loudly, which disturbed Tang Xia. And she heard one palace maid's shout something like 'Your Grace, if you die, what should we do?'
”Die?” Tang Xia froze for a while, ”How could Concubine Lan die?”
Lyuyou standing aside was also puzzled rather than angry.
After Tang Xia and Lyuyou came into the room, they found that Concubine Lan was lying on the bed with a pale look. And blood came from her five sense organs that were as twisted as that black cat, which showed that her death was quite painful.
Tang Xia was so terrified that she closed her eyes. At the sight of Tang Xia, the palace maid who served Concubine Lan for the longest time threw herself towards Tang Xia.
”It is you! The vicious woman! Her Grace may be a little sharp-tongued, but she never harmed others! But you poisoned her to death! You vicious woman!”
The palace maid said in such a sad and thrilling voice that people would regard Tang Xia as the person who poisoned Concubine Lan to death. Lyuyou could not stand it anymore and rebuked the palace maid loudly, ”You are talking nonsense! It is your master who poisoned my master!”
”Nonsense?” palace maid's eyes turned red, ”Her Grace was poisoned to death because of your soup! My master has been confined, why did you harm her?”
What? Tang Xia and Lyuyou were both froze. Their soup? When did they give soup to Concubine Lan?