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.