Chapter 3
The guards outside the door stepped forward and prepared to take Huo Jiuge away, but she dodged him without even touching her sleeves.

"Even if I haven't married you, I am still the daughter of the Huo family and a hero. What qualifications do you have to execute me?" Huo Jiuge said coldly,
Everyone who heard the words was shocked. They did not expect that Miss Huo, who had always been timid, would dare to say such words to the third prince. They did not dare to step forward for a while and could only listen to the master's next words.

Xiao Chengji didn't take the person in front of him seriously, he just sneered, and then said disdainfully: "Now that you have done such a wrong thing, let alone executing you, the entire Huo family will be buried with you!"

He pressed towards Huo Jiuge step by step, as if he wanted to lead her to a dead end.

But Huo Jiuge didn't fall for his deception. She didn't panic at all. Instead, she raised her head and said: "As long as Dali Temple does not convict me for one day, I will remain innocent. Even if you are a prince, you are not qualified to set up a secret Court!"

Xiao Chengji has lived in the praise of many stars since he was a child. No one has ever dared to disobey him, let alone mention his qualifications in front of him.

Huo Jiuge completely angered him this time. He stepped forward and grabbed her neck, and then warned her word by word: "So what if you are innocent? I want you to die." , who dares to stop me?"

As he spoke, he increased the strength in his hands, and Huo Jiuge became increasingly out of breath.

At the critical moment, a majestic voice sounded from behind the two of them: "What are you doing!"

The emperor had just finished handling the government affairs when he heard the news that the queen was critically ill. When he rushed over, he saw this scene: Xiao Chengji pinched Huo Jiuge's neck, and no one in the palace stopped him, allowing him to dominate.

Xiao Chengji was so frightened that the strength in his hand instantly weakened. Huo Jiuge broke free at the opportunity, ran to the emperor and knelt down in front of him, begging him to make the decision for him.

Xiao Chengji was dumbfounded. He did not expect that the emperor would come so early, nor did he expect that Huo Jiuge, a bitch, would beat him up. When he realized what he was doing, he was already being questioned by the emperor.

"Your mother is seriously ill. As her son, do you care about her so much?" The emperor looked at Xiao Chengji with a look that made him hate steel. He cared more about the majesty of the royal family than the queen's injury.

Only then did Xiao Chengji realize that he had fallen into Huo Jiuge's trap. His father was so angry that he must have heard what he just said.

"Father, don't be deceived by this girl. The reason why I treated her like this is because she wanted to murder my mother. If I hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid she would have succeeded."

Xiao Chengji turned the blame on Huo Jiuge, claiming that he had witnessed her assassination of the queen.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Huo Jiuge said that he was wrongly accused.

"The Queen has always treated me kindly. Knowing that my daughter had lost her parents when she was young, she summoned me to the palace and taught me the rules herself. The purpose was to let me learn the virtues of my ancestors so that I could marry into the prince's palace in the future. I am grateful to you all. If it was too late, how could he murder the Queen?"

Seeing that what she said was reasonable, the emperor frowned when he heard Xiao Chengji's voice: "You are talking nonsense - I told my mother that I would not marry you. All this is just your wishful thinking."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor's expression immediately changed, and the expression on his face became unpredictable.

It's a pity that Xiao Zeji didn't realize this. He continued: "You must be dissatisfied because I rejected you, so you deliberately harmed my mother in order to take revenge on me."

"Your Majesty, please be careful -" before he could finish his words, Huo Jiuge stopped him loudly: "Although Your Majesty, you are a royal nobleman, I, Huo Jiuge, am just an ordinary woman, but I am not the kind of woman you say." A cruel and ruthless person. In the past, when I was young and my parents died young, no one taught me the rules. I did do some things that were misunderstood, but I am definitely not the kind of person who wants to follow others."

These words shocked everyone present, including the emperor.

Huo Jiuge was usually soft-tempered and timid. He never spoke loudly. He was a docile and easy-going person. How could he ever be so harsh and harsh?
Still remember when she jumped into the cold lake just to make Xiao Chengji happy, how could she become like this now?
Xiao Chengji snorted coldly, "Who knows if you said these words deliberately to excuse yourself?"

"My lord, even if you don't like me, you don't have to deliberately speak so badly of me. As a woman, although I, Huo Jiuge, cannot go into battle to kill the enemy and be loyal to the country like my father and brother, I can't be slandered in vain. Even if I Even if I become a nun and stay under the green light all the time, I won't be able to marry someone who looks down on me!" Huo Jiuge's words were so powerful that everyone present was stunned.

Xiao Chengji wanted to continue to refute her words, but was stopped by the emperor.

The emperor glanced at Huo Jiuge, who was kneeling in front of him. He didn't know where the girl had lost her naivety and youthfulness, and the shadow of her father Huo Xin could be vaguely seen between her eyebrows.

It is said that a son is kind like his mother, and a daughter is cruel like her father. It seems that the little girl in front of her is not the weak and incompetent person everyone says.

Thinking of his relationship with Huo Xin, the emperor did not deliberately make things difficult for her. He only asked the imperial doctor to treat the queen first, and then questioned the two of them personally.

"Since you said that the Queen's poisoning has nothing to do with you, then why are you here?" After all, the Emperor was the one who successfully ascended the throne during the eight kings' succession. He was born with a submissive temperament. If it were anyone else, he would have been frightened. He didn't know what to say. Even the prince Xiao Chengji didn't dare to have too much communication with him. The friendship between father and son was greater than the ethics of monarch and minister.

Huo Jiuge was calm. She said that she only learned that the queen was critically ill, and the imperial doctors in the palace were sent to deal with the plague and were not in the palace. However, she had read through some medical books and could temporarily stabilize the queen's condition.

Hearing that she had medical skills, the emperor frowned slightly, seeming to be a little curious about her.

It stands to reason that as a young lady from a well-known family, she should learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but why did she study medical books instead?

Seeing that the emperor was silent, Huo Jiuge went on to say: "The poison that the queen was poisoned by was a highly poisonous poison from the Western Regions - wolfsbane. This poison is colorless and odorless. If someone eats it by mistake, it will cause drowsiness in one day; Then the high fever will continue, and when the toxins spread to the internal organs, you will die in three days."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Chengji immediately pointed at her and cursed: "You're talking nonsense! My queen mother obviously became like this after drinking the soup you boiled, and you were clearly the one who poisoned her. Now there are both human and material evidence. Now, you still dare to quibble!"

As he spoke, he was about to take out the sword he carried with him and slash at Huo Jiuge, looking extremely ferocious and terrifying.

In order to save his life, Huo Jiuge could only hide behind the emperor. Perhaps he did not expect that she would do this, but Xiao Chengji's sword followed her movement and pointed directly in front of the emperor.

This is great disrespect!

By the time he reacted, the things in his hands had been taken away by the guards, and he was slumped on the ground like soft mud, as if he had lost his soul.

He was so frightened that he couldn't even finish his sentence. He only said: "Father, my son, I didn't mean it."

Although the emperor didn't show anything on his face, his voice was slightly angry. He ignored Xiao Chengji and turned to ask the queen's maid beside him: "Is everything he said true?"

The palace maid Suo Hu reported back: "The queen did suddenly feel unwell after drinking the decoction prepared by Miss Huo."

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the imperial doctor who came over. Judging from the panic on his face, it seemed that the queen's condition was not optimistic either.

Sure enough, what he said was almost the same as what Huo Jiuge said before. The queen was indeed poisoned by wolfsbane grass.

"This poison is unique to the Western Regions and is very dangerous. If it had not been treated by an expert, the Queen would be in a very bad state now."

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Huo Jiuge, because she was what the imperial doctor said was an expert.

(End of this chapter)

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