Chapter 190 - The Crown Prince Was Almost Deposed (1/2)

Shi Qingxue was extremely astonished and almost stared at Mo Junwen blankly for a long time before she came to her senses.

But she had complicated feelings and was restless.

Logically, they barely had connections in the past, and Mo Junwen had no reason to consider so much for her. Would he do it because he felt pity for her?

Of course Shi Qingxue wouldn’t believe such a ridiculous reason. But Mo Junwen was calm from the beginning, so she couldn’t doubt that he did that just to please her.

It was unnecessary and impossible.

Then…

Before Shi Qingxue figured it out, Shen Luo was brought by somebody in a hurry. Behind him were the emperor Mo Xiangbin and the royal family members as well as noblemen, who were supposed to be at the party.

Mo Junyu’s face darkened, and he glared at Mo Junjiu.

Mo Junjiu didn’t deny it but shrugged and told the crown prince directly that he had informed the emperor. “Something so big happened to the colorful phenix. We can’t hide it from Father.”

“You win because you are so cruel!” Mo Junyu forgot the gentleman style and brotherhood and whispered in Mo Junjiu’s ear coldly. Then he walked quickly to Shen Luo.

He pulled Shen Luo into the room in haste and stated in a low voice, “The colorful phenix is still alive. Please do save it. Thanks.”

Shen Luo was unable to reply. He was a miracle-working doctor, but when did he say that he could even cure a bird?

But he worked for Mo Junyang, who was a “loyal” follower of the crown prince. No matter how much he wanted to say, he had to bite the bullet and step forward to examine it as Mo Junyu invited him in front of so many people.

The colorful phenix was out of breath and could hardly breathe in. Shen Luo had been a doctor for many years and thought that it would die in two to four hours.

Shen Luo sighed and dipped the black blood the colorful phenix had spat with his index finger. When he was about to put the finger in his mouth, Shi Qingxue stopped him. “Be careful. It must be poisonous.”

Shen Luo raised his head and found that Shi Qingxue stood behind him, with evident concern in her eyes.

Gee, it appeared that he didn’t waste time on looking after Shi Qingxue in the past few days.

Shen Luo felt warm and relaxed a lot. He shook his head at Shi Qingxue, responding softly, “It’s fine.”

After pausing for a while, he glanced at the crowd who paid close attention to the room in the distance but didn’t dare to step forward while advising her gently, “Go out. Be careful. You might get yourself into trouble.”

It was the second time that Shi Qingxue was advised, and she was not foolish. Then she shrank back, trying to hide herself.

But it was too late.

“Qingxue, come to me.”

The Empress Dowager, Ling Ruiyin’s voice came, so Shi Qingxue had to walk to her obediently and bow to admit her fault. “Your Majesty, I let you down as I failed in welcoming the colorful phenix. Please punish me.”

“It’s not your fault.” Ling Ruiyin kindly grabbed Shi Qingxue’s hand and patted it. Then she looked at the room again before asking worriedly, “But you need to tell us what has happened. Yesterday the colorful phenix looked in high spirits, but why did it become like this today?”

Shi Qingxue glimpsed at the pool of blood on the floor and thought, “Isn’t it obvious? The colorful phenix was poisoned.”

But Ling Ruiyin asked her and apparently wanted her, a neutral to justify Mo Junyu.

“Your Majesty, I followed the crown prince and the others as you told me to…” Shi Qingxue told everything after she came to the East Palace and before she saw that the colorful phenix fell on the floor as it was poisoned, and then she mentioned what happened before all of them gathered in the East Palace.

She told everything frankly without showing any personal feelings.

Ling Ruiyin grabbed Shi Qingxue’s hand more tightly all of a sudden, but soon she relaxed, and nobody noticed except Shi Qingxue. She maintained her composure and asked, “Could it be that the colorful phenix has never been to the central land and falls ill as it is unaccustomed to the food and weather in the capital city?”

She just talked nonsense.

If nobody saw the colorful phenix full of vigor the previous day or there were no suspicious dark blood on the floor, somebody might believe her words, but now everybody stayed silent.

They couldn’t refute her, and nobody would echo her.

Ling Ruiyin felt awkward, so she turned her encouraging eyes to Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue couldn’t speak a word.

She was merely an innocent outsider.

“It’s not true,” Shen Luo stated abruptly, which attracted everybody’s attention.

He gave a conclusion calmly, “The colorful phenix became like this because it was poisoned. If I guess right, somebody intentionally poisoned its drinking water, and it drank it by accident, so it was poisoned and fell on the floor.

“Remaining poisonous water is found in the colorful phenix’s mouth and the bamboo tube containing water, which is the best evidence.”