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Chapter 439: The Poison in the Pot

"A wine jug? Why do you doubt your elder brother?"

Qin Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly and raised the corners of his lips, it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry.

"Your son, your son." The twelfth prince Qin Mingfan stammered and glanced at the ninth prince Qin Mingxuan with a wandering look.

Qin Zhi followed his gaze and looked at the Ninth Prince Qin Mingxuan, and said with a half-smile: "Mingxuan, do you know?"

The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan nodded.

"My father asked me to investigate the case of Concubine Yu. When I was investigating the relationship between Concubine Yu and my third brother as foster mother and son, I also asked someone to investigate the relationship between Concubine Shun and my eldest brother as foster mother and son.

By comparing them, I was able to solve the mystery of why Shunpin and the eldest brother were famous for their loving mothers and filial sons, but when Yu Guipin got into trouble, someone slandered the third brother. I then turned to the two accidents that Shunpin encountered when she gave birth to the twelfth brother. "

"My twelfth brother has been studying beside me these past two days. Perhaps he saw these two unexpected things, and because of this incident, he has developed a grudge against me."

The twelfth prince Qin Mingfan lowered his head and said in a dull voice: "Once is an accident, twice is an accident, but three times, I don't believe in accidents again and again."

"I do not want to believe that my eldest brother would do such a cruel thing. Please order someone to find out the truth and clear my eldest brother's name."

The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan knelt down. Although his body was a little thin, his back was as straight as a bamboo, pine or cypress, and his voice was sonorous.

"My son and my eldest brother are the eldest and the legitimate sons. We have been subjected to a lot of attacks since the incident. I think that these difficulties are not caused by any brother pretending to be kind and framing us, nor is it because the friendship between brothers is weak. It is actually a group of people with ulterior motives who are obstructing us and trying to manipulate power and control..."

"You believe in your eldest brother's innocence, and have faith in the purity and sincerity of your brothers and your brotherhood. When investigating the case of Concubine Yu, you don't check the concubines, but instead suspect your third brother?" Qin Zhi's eyes flashed.

"I am not doubting my Third Brother, but I am spreading rumors to slander him. I want to eliminate my Third Brother's suspicion first and stop people from talking about him."

The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan looked into Qin Zhi's eyes seriously.

A smile appeared in Qin Zhi's eyes.

"Your Majesty, the wine jug has been brought." the eunuch reported.

"Doctor Zhang, Doctor Yan, come and take a look at this wine jug. If it is poisoned, can you tell?" Qin Zhi casually glanced at the silver-gray wine jug on the tray.

"A wine jug must be washed before it is filled with wine. If it is coated with poison, it can still diffuse into the wine after washing..." Doctor Zhang pursed his lips, frowned and thought for a moment.

"Your Majesty, I need to carefully examine the wine jug containing the jujube wine before I can make a judgment."

When testing for poison before, we immediately found that the wine in the cup was poisonous. We never thought that it involved the Ninth Prince's wine and the Eldest Prince's pot.

It's really confusing.

Doctor Zhang picked up the wine pot suspiciously, looked at it carefully, poured out all the jujube wine in the pot, reached his hand in and touched it again and again, and scratched the wall of the pot with his fingernails again and again.

Doctor Yan, who was standing by, snatched the silver-gray wine jug and knocked it on the tray in the palace servant's hand.

"This sound, is this a lead-tin kettle?" A trace of solemnity crossed Doctor Yan's heart.

That's the problem with the pot.

Did the eldest prince do it on purpose, or was it an accident?

"What is a lead-tin kettle?" This touched upon Doctor Zhang's blind spot, and he asked hurriedly.

"Can you bring some clean wine?" Doctor Yan pushed Doctor Zhang.

"What do you mean by clean wine?" Doctor Zhang was stunned.

"Nothing poisonous, anything except wine will do." Doctor Yan rolled his eyes, glanced at Qin Zhi, and immediately became humble again.

Doctor Yan took the wine handed to him by the palace maid and poured it into the pot. After shaking it vigorously, he poured it into a clean porcelain bowl and tested it for poison.

After repeating this for a while, he looked at Qin Zhi confidently and said with certainty: "Your Majesty, it is indeed the poison in the pot."

The lead-tin kettle contains salt poison and cannot be used to hold wine or vinegar. When filled with water, the water is non-toxic. However, if wine or vinegar is put into the kettle instead, the salt poison will seep into it and people will be poisoned if they drink it.

"Someone, come and call the eldest prince." Qin Zhi said slowly.