Everyone in my harem is talented

Chapter 438 Wine Flask

"I have a clear conscience and have never harmed Shunpin and my twelfth brother. Please understand, father."

The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan was calm and composed. He knelt down slowly in front of Qin Zhi, then looked back at Qin Zhi with clear and bright eyes.

It's not that easy to frame him, just counter his moves.

The jujube kernel wine was poisonous, but the wine had been away from him for so long, how could we prove that he was the one who poisoned it? How could we prove that the wine he gave out was poisonous from the beginning, and not that someone else had done something to it?

Besides, the people who were poisoned, Shunpin and the twelfth brother, were not seriously injured.

The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan looked serious on the surface but indifferent in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the twelfth prince has woken up and is eager to see you." The eunuch came forward and bowed to report.

Qin Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Come on, let's go with me to see your twelfth brother and hear what he has to say."

The group arrived at Jingdu Zhai of Qilin Palace, and the voices of everyone welcoming them reached the ears of the twelfth prince Qin Mingfan.

The twelfth prince Qin Mingfan turned pale and got out of bed, kneeling beside the bed, with cold sweat on his forehead sliding down his cheeks.

"Father, I just heard from the imperial physician that the jujube wine sent by my ninth brother was poisoned. I have evidence to prove that it is impossible that my ninth brother poisoned me."

Hearing what the twelfth prince said, Qin Zhi looked at him sideways, his burning gaze seemed to reveal his plan.

The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan hurriedly supported the twelfth prince Qin Mingfan, who was about to fall to the ground, and with Qin Zhi's tacit consent, helped him back to bed.

"Twelfth brother is weak, so there is no need to rush to defend ninth brother. Since I didn't do it, I won't admit it. Father is wise and sees everything clearly, so he won't wrongly accuse me."

"The word 'innocence' cannot be delayed even for a moment. I know how it feels to be wronged." The twelfth prince Qin Mingfan's brows were filled with anxiety. When he mentioned the word 'wronged', the grievance in his voice had almost turned into actual tears falling down.

Before his tears fell, he quickly changed the subject, fearing that someone would ask who had wronged him.

"The eunuch told me that the poison in my body is less than my mother's because I didn't eat as much. But, but this jujube wine was given to me by my ninth brother to calm my nerves. I drank half of it and still had more to drink. How could it be possible that I drank less than my mother as the imperial physician said?"

The voice of the twelfth prince Qin Mingfan was trembling and anxious.

"How can drinking more poisoned wine reduce the poison in your body?"

"I only had a small amount of the jujube wine I brought to Changchun Palace. I thought this wine tasted sweet and might be liked by mother, so I put the old wine in a new pot and brought it to Changchun Palace for mother to taste. Who knew that mother would be poisoned? I am unfilial. Please punish me, father."

After saying this, he couldn't help sobbing.

"Doctor Zhang, Doctor Yan, could it be that you checked wrongly?"

Qin Zhi raised his hand to smooth down his scattered hair and tuck it behind his ears.

"Your Majesty, we have indeed found poison in the jujube kernel wine."

Doctor Zhang frowned, his brows twisted into a knot, and a trace of confusion flashed through his mind.

"Twelfth Prince, I want to know when Your Highness drank the jujube wine alone. Did Your Highness drink a little more after going to Changchun Palace?

I am wondering if the jujube wine was poisoned after Your Highness drank it alone and before Concubine Shun and Your Highness drank it again?"

Doctor Yan expressed his guess.

In this way, the poisoned wine has nothing to do with the Ninth Prince who gave the jujube kernel wine.

The twelfth prince Qin Mingfan nodded with a wandering look.

"Twelfth brother, what have you remembered?" The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan asked softly with a gentle look.

“No, no…”

The twelfth prince Qin Mingfan's eyes were somewhat evasive when asked by the ninth prince Qin Mingxuan.

Qin Zhi narrowed his eyes.

"Are you planning to protect someone? Even if he harmed Shunpin?"

If you want to frame someone, just say it directly. Don't hesitate.

"No, I just remembered that the wine jar I used to bring the jujube wine to my mother was given by my eldest brother. I started to feel suspicious and felt guilty. It was unfilial of me to have caused trouble for my mother, and now I am even more unfilial to suspect my brother. I am unfilial and unfraternal. I am guilty."