Chapter 46: The Highest-ranking Imperial Concubine Was So Caring (1/2)

Translator: Li Wenting

Proofreader: Prof. Zhu Yuan

In order to check whether these treasures were poisonous or not, someone needed to run a poison test, pure and simple.

Who would be the Emperor’s choice to run this poison test?

Ruan Qingqing was harboring intense hatred towards Ruan Jiujiu. Upon hearing the Emperor’s words, Ruan Qingqing went all out to get rid of the guards clamping their hands on her. Then she screamed: “Your Majesty, I’m equipped with medical skills. Let me run the poison test.”

The Emperor made no response, frowning slightly.

Ruan Jiujiu insisted that it was Ruan Qingqing who told her the treasures were poisonous.

He didn’t trust Ruan Qingqing.

“Your Majesty, Ruan Qingqing did possess medical skills. You may let her have a try,” Empress Xiao, having been kneeling on the ground for a while, proposed. She looked carefully at the Emperor as she was trying to figure out what the Emperor would do next. She continued: “We are here to welcome our brother. There is no need to waste our time dealing with those unimportant matters.”

The Emperor nodded his head slowly. What Empress Xiao said hit home. His original intention was to humiliate Beiming Xuan. Why would he devote his energy into something else?

Empress Xiao’s words smoothed his ruffled feathers. He raised his hands and signaled to Empress Xiao: “The Empress may stand up.”

Empress Xiao expressed her gratitude and stood up. She cast a glance at Ruan Qingqing with a comforting look in her eyes as she turned round.

Ruan Qingqing, however, bore a grudge against Empress Xiao.

The Empress finally came to realize the need to bestow some favor on her? Empress Xiao didn’t even intercede on her behalf when her life was at stake just now.

She was no fool! The Empress thought it easy to get her deceived!

“Your Majesty, Ruan Jiujiu claimed just now that it was I who insisted that the treasures were poisonous and people would die upon touching it. I’m going to run the poison test. If I stay alive, then we can conclude that Ruan Jiujiu was lying!” Ruan Qingqing raised her head and pronounced every word in emphatic voice.

Ruan Jiujiu intended to drive her into a corner? She would pay Ruan Jiujiu back what Ruan Jiujiu did to her!

If those treasures were proved non-toxic, Ruan Jiujiu would definitely be sentenced to death!

The Emperor nodded his head. Ruan Qingqing trotted to those boxes.

She couldn’t bear Ruan Jiujiu’s presence any longer. She felt that she would go mad as long as Ruan Jiujiu stayed alive.

Ruan Qingqing walked as if on wings, in complete disregard of her wounds which were still aching.

She walked to the Jade Beauty and reached her hand.

All of a sudden, .a small object flew to Ruan Qingqing. Ruan Qingqing felt a dull ache in her forefinger. Then something strange happened. Her forefinger fractured with a snap, her hand twisted out of shape!

A sharp pain!

What happened to the ten fingers would be passed on to the heart.

“Ouch!” Ruan Qingqing cried. She fell to the ground and passed out in pain.

Silence descended upon the scene. Everyone turned to Ruan Jiujiu.

Ruan Jiujiu put on a regretful tone as she was fiddling with a stone: “It was a slip of my hand! I shouldn’t have hit her so hard.”

A slip of her hand? Nobody bought her story!

The Emperor turned angry and roared: “Ruan Jiujiu, how dare you!”

“Your Majesty, I think it is inappropriate to let my sister run the poison test,” Ruan Jiujiu said seriously, pretending not to notice the Emperor’s fury.

“What do you mean?” The Emperor’s face darkened with anger.