Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 803

Hearing this, everyone was stunned and looked up at Yun Shang.

"Who is it? I'll bring someone to take the murder here." A maid said hurriedly.

Yun Shang shook her head, with a helpless look in her eyes. "If I'm not wrong, the murderer should be General Zhao."

Everyone was surprised, and so was Qin Yi. She shook her head and said, "How could it be General Zhao? Lady Zhao is his biological mother, and he is always filial. When Your Highness was busy investigating just now, I saw that General Zhao was very anxious, as if he would rather be poisoned himself than looking at her mother in pain.

With her bulged belly, she felt tired after standing for a long time. She asked someone to bring a chair to the kitchen and sat down. Then she said indifferently, "Yes, but the murderer could only be him."

Seeing the incredulous look on everyone's face, Yun Shang began to explain carefully, "The poison should be put in the pot of jasmine flower. There is no poison in the teacups, water, and tea leaves and the people served here are our own people who wouldn't poison Lady Zhao. Only the jasmine petals picked by Lady Zhao could be poisoned."

Yun Shang paused briefly and said, "In this case, the person who poisoned Lady Zhao had to know her habits very well. If he didn't know that Lady Zhao had the habit of adding jasmines to tea, he would definitely not poison the jasmine as the chance would be too slim. All the servants around Lady Zhao have been changed. You haven't spent much time with her, so you can't know her preferences at all. Only General Zhao is a suspect."

"And I have been thinking that the seventh prince are now imprisoned. Xia Huanyu has just left Huaiyin City. Even if the some spy of the Su clan is with Xia Huanyu, it would take at least ten days for those in the Palace to receive the news. It couldn't be so fast."

Yun Shang paused and continued, "But there is one thing I haven't figured out. The toxicity of the heartbreak grass is extremely high. Even if there was only some spas of the herb on the jasmine, Lady Zhao could've had severer symptoms."

After Yun Shang finished her words, Qin Yi asked in a low voice, "But why did a filial man like General Zhao poison his mother?"

Yun Shang didn't have to think about it carefully and understood, "I'm afraid it's because General Zhao doesn't want Lady Zhao to come back to His Majesty."

Yun Shang could understand what Zhao Yingjie was thinking. After all, Zhao Yingjie was the child of Empress Hua and General Zhao. Although he pretended to be indifferent, he couldn't accept that his mother had been married before, and he didn't want her to return to another man.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Qin Yi frowned and had no idea.

Yun Shang thought for a while and stood up. "I'll talk to General Zhao and take out the pot of jasmine to confirm my guess."

Yun Shang asked Qin Yi and the others to wait outside. When she entered the room alone and was about to lift the curtain at the door of the bedroom, she heard a faint voice from inside. Yun Shang frowned. Didn't Lady Zhao fall asleep?

However, it was indeed Lady Zhao's voice and it seemed that she was mentioned by her. "Her Highness is smart. I'm afraid it won't be long before she finds out that it is you who did it. You silly boy... You should've told me what you were thinking. How could you do like this?"

The voice of Lady Zhao was as calm as usual, but with a bit of sigh.

After a long silence, Zhao Yingjie said, "The imperial palace is a wicked and dangerous place with people who scheme each other. I'm just worried about mother. I've heard that Xia Huanyu has married many concubines over the years, and those women in the imperial household are all vicious. I'm afraid that you can't even protect yourself..."

"Yingjie." Zhao Yingjie was interrupted by Lady Zhao.

After a long time, Zhao Yingjie's voice was heard again, "It's all my fault. I know I was wrong, so I'll apologize to Princess Hui Guo."

Hearing the sound of the chair moving, Yun Shang quickly stepped back and left the room.

When Zhao Yingjie went out of the room, he saw Yun Shang standing in the yard, looking up at the moon, with her left hand gently supporting her waist. Hearing the footsteps of Zhao Yingjie, Yun Shang turned around and stared at him.

But Yun Shang raised her head and looked at Zhao Yingjie, "I'm really sorry."

Zhao Yingjie was a little flustered and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please don't feel sorry. I actually should thank you."

Yun Shang smiled slowly and said, "General, don't worry. It's my negligence that led to the poisoning thing. From tomorrow on, I'll move into this yard house. I won't let such a thing happen again. Since I have promised you to protect Her Ladyship well, I will not break my promise."

Zhao Yingjie was stunned. He nodded in a hurry and said repeatedly, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Yun Shang smiled slowly. "In fact, I do it for His Highness. General Zhao has known His Highness when we were in the State of Ning. You must be familiar with His Highness's temperament. Although he has been regarded as the God of war at a young age, he is a very cold person by nature. This has a lot to do with his growth experience."

At the mention of Luo Qingyan, Yun Shang's eyes softened. "His Highness was saved by someone when he was a baby boy, but soon a natural disaster grabbed everything from him. After that, he had to wander around alone. He went through all the hardships and survived.

"Later, he met my grandfather, the deceased Emperor, and was adopted by him. However, in the Imperial Palace even some real princes might not have an easy life, let alone an adopted son. In order to survive, he started to go into war with the deceased Emperor at a very young age, shuttling back and forth between the blades, which left him countless scars over his body. Later, the deceased Emperor started to pay more attention to him. However, when he was about ten years old, the former Emperor passed away, and my father took over the throne. He was afraid that my father would be suspicious, so he had to stay at the frontier..."

Yun Shang turned to look at Zhao Yingjie with tears in her eyes, but she still smiled, "His Highness has seldom talked about it, but I could feel the pain deep in his heart. I hope that he can be taken care of by his family. But His Highness can't afford His Majesty's care. As the Emperor, even if His Majesty just shows a little more concern about His Highness, that might put him in fatal danger.

"Fortunately, he has you and Her Ladyship now. Although Her Ladyship has lost her memory, she is still His Highness's mother, and you are his half-brother. More or less, it is a comfort to His Highness. His Highness does have many half-brothers and half-sisters in the Palace, but there is no affection between royal members. Both you and His Highness loved the battlefield so much that you could naturally have a lot to talk about. His Highness also appreciated you very much. As the saying goes, if the brothers are of the same mind, their sharpness can cut through metal. I believe that you and His Highness will be able to be invincible. General, do you think I'm right?" Yun Shang looked at Zhao Yingjie with burning eyes.

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