"Well, we will figure it out whether you are wronged or not. Today is the birthday of your mother, so don't mention these bad things any more." Xia Huanyu frowned and said.
The seventh prince said yes as soon as he saw the displeasure on Xia Huanyu's face. He kowtowed again before he got back to his seat.
There were dancers dancing on the stage. The music gradually became louder and the crowd was a little relieved. They lowered their heads and drank the wine in front of them.
Suddenly a servant rushed in and broke into the dancing crowd. There were screams all around the hall.
Xia Huanyu looked at the panic stricken dancers in the hall, frowning, and patted the armrest of the chair. "Get down on your knees!"
All the other people knelt down in a hurry. Frowning, Xia Huanyu looked at the servant and said, "how dare you panic? What happened? Tell me!"
The servant shuddered at emperor Xia's words. Then he stammered, "your majesty! Your majesty! The son of the former crown prince is shivering violently all over. He seemed to have been poisoned. The imperial physician sent me to report this to your majesty."
The empress' face suddenly turned pale. She hurriedly stood up and brought the wine pot on the table in front of her. The wine pot fell on the ground, and the wine in the pot fell down.
"What?" With astonishment in her eyes, the empress turned around and bowed to Xia Huanyu. "Yunxi is in danger. Please allow me to leave."
Xia Huanyu thought for a while and said, "Yunxi is also my descendant. I should go to see him as well. You can stay here. I'll be back soon with the empress."
They said yes immediately and watched him walk out of the Taiji Palace with the empress.
Yun Shang sat straight and frowned. "When I was in the Wei Yang palace, the empress went to change her clothes and entrusted me to take care of the boy. What happened? Is this a coincidence? Could it be..."
"Oh? I didn't know that." Luo Qingyan was also silent for a moment, and then got close to Yun Shang and asked, "have you ever touched the little boy?"
Yun Shang shook her head. "I felt it weird when I heard the empress' order. There are so many servants and concubines in the Wei Yang Palace, but why was the boy sent to me? So I only ordered the servants to prepare some ordinary food for the young boy, and also sent some servants to bring it to him. I have never touched the young boy."
"That's good. Don't worry. Since you didn't touch him, if anything happened to him, you wouldn't be responsible for it." Luo Qingyan gently patted Yun Shang on the back and comforted her.
Yun Shang nodded. Then she recalled lady Shu's odd smile when she asked her in the Wei Yang palace that the young boy was eating chestnut cakes.
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