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Chapter 719

Then, it was great. Concubine Yu won a round and was having a great time. Lan agreed and said, "Let's play another round" unconvincedly. Concubine Yu started to have abdominal pain.

Fan Cairen thought, "Sure enough!"

She quickly stood up, took a few steps back, kept her distance from Concubine Yu, and asked anxiously, "Sister Yu, you were fine just now, what happened to you?"

It turned out that he was here to frame me.

"I, my stomach hurts." Concubine Yu's face was twisted into a ball and beads of sweat fell one by one.

Fan Cairen hurriedly shouted to her maid, "Go find Concubine Xie and ask for the imperial physician!"

Then he asked Concubine Yu, "Sister Yu, which imperial physician has been checking your pulse?"

Concubine Yu shook her head painfully, "No one."

For a small person like her, she has to be assigned by the Imperial Hospital.

Lady Fan said to the maid who was running out, "Go quickly! Run faster!"

Concubine Yu was visibly bleeding. Of course, she couldn't just sit outside on the cold stone bench.

Seeing Lan Ying holding the leaf cards in a daze, Lady Fan suppressed her anger and said quickly, "Hurry up and ask your maids and eunuchs to carry Sister Yu in."

"Oh." Lan agreed and swallowed woodenly.

Fan Cairen stamped his feet and said, "Be careful, don't fall or get hurt. You really shouldn't play cards like that."

Concubine Yu held her waist and waved her hands quickly, "Don't bother my sister, Caiyun, help me go back."

Fan Cairen nodded quickly, "Okay. When you go back, everything will be easier to use."

A total of six eunuchs and palace maids carried Concubine Yu back to her own Ningcui Residence.

Fan Cairen did not dare to leave, so she stayed by Concubine Yu's side. Today was truly a sudden disaster.

She thought about it and sent her personal maid Xuanxuan to the Imperial Hospital. In the past, the Empress had to agree before she could invite the Imperial Doctor to come to her home for consultation. Now the situation is special, maybe the people in the Imperial Hospital will make some concessions.

Half an hour later, the one who went to see Concubine Xie did not come back, and Xuanxuan, who went directly to the Imperial Hospital to ask for the imperial physician, came over with Jiang Yu instead.

When Jiang Yu arrived, the first thing he did was to ask Fan Cairen to leave quickly. Although Fan Cairen couldn't wait to get away, the imperial physician was more anxious than her, which made her feel very strange, as if he was afraid that she would discover something.

What was Doctor Jiang hiding? Was it the truth about the deaths of these concubines? Before leaving the room, Lady Fan couldn't help but look back. She saw Doctor Jiang lifting Concubine Yu's eyelids to check.

She noticed that Concubine Yu's maid Caiyun was looking at her, so she quickly turned around and left.

What disease requires eye examination? Why is Caiyun so flustered? Does she know something?
After returning to her room, Concubine Fan dismissed her attendants and left only her personal maid Xuanxuan in the room.

"Do you think Concubine Yu is weird? Imperial Physician Jiang is also weird. They seem to be hiding something. Concubine Yu must have had a bad pregnancy before she came. She is here to frame me."

Xuanxuan nodded, "It seems so."

Fan Cairen asked herself, "What disease would cause pregnant women to have miscarriages one after another?"

Xuanxuan shook her head. She didn't know anything about medicine, so she could only answer based on what she heard from others, "Could the witchcraft story be true?"

"Poison?" Fan Cairen thought about it. She seemed to have seen it in some miscellaneous books before entering the palace. Basically, the person who raised the poison would put insects on the person she wanted to harm, and then the insects would devour the person's internal organs, causing death.

If it was a poison, how did so many concubines get infected?

She put together the emperor's abnormal behavior in the past few months and the emperor's sleeping arrangements with the concubines in the harem, and was surprised to find that the two were completely consistent.

So the emperor was poisoned! It was very likely that he was poisoned by the rebels during the rebellion.

No, there are a few exceptions. Why is Murong still alive? Is it good for the body to be in the cold palace?
Wei Cairen had served the emperor many times. Why didn't she die first? Was it because the contraceptive soup that Concubine Lie gave her had a protective effect?

No, Jiang Changzai, Qin Changzai and Lan Da Ying also slept with him.

It doesn't seem to make sense. Could it be that they haven't had an attack yet?

After pondering over it, she came to a conclusion: the emperor must have contracted some strange disease. This disease might be contagious and could kill people. But it might not occur immediately. And she had never been called because of her miscarriage. The emperor tried to conceal this infectious disease, and Concubine Ning was probably an insider who helped to conceal it.

She instantly felt a blessing in disguise.

While Fan Cairen was thinking, Xuanxuan stared out the window nervously, "My lady, will we be implicated by Concubine Yu?"

Fan Cairen's joyful heart was instantly poured with cold water. She avoided favor, but still could not avoid the disaster.

Xuanxuan said anxiously, with tears in her voice, "My lady, we have never offended Concubine Yu. Why would she want to harm us on purpose?"

She heard that the emperor had a bad temper recently and often executed people from the palace. Today was really unlucky. She just walked with the young lady in the courtyard and ran into Concubine Yu. The status of the people in Zizhuyuan was lower than that of Concubine Yu. She knew it was a trap, but she had to bite the bullet and receive her.

Fan Cairen's face turned pale. After thinking for a moment, she took out the hairpin that Jiang Yuebai had given her from her dressing box and handed it to Xuanxuan.

If the emperor wants to kill her to silence her, the only one who can save her is the imperial concubine.

"Hurry, go to Wutong Pavilion and ask Concubine Ning for help. Ask her to help me once for the sake of my relationship with Jinxiu. I will definitely repay her in the future." She thought for a while, wrote a letter and asked Xuanxuan to take it.

After opening the door, he found four guards and two eunuchs guarding outside.

Concubine Fan didn't expect that the emperor's men would arrive so quickly, and she had no chance to ask Concubine Ning for help.

The empty-handed eunuch took out a piece of letter paper from his sleeve:
"According to the Emperor's order, the criminal Qiu poisoned Lin because she was jealous of Lin's pregnancy with the Emperor's heir. Fan, as a high-ranking concubine in Zizhuyuan, did not discipline Lin and allowed her to act recklessly. She was demoted to a concubine and banished to the cold palace."

Qiu is Lan Da Ying.

"I want to see His Majesty, I want to see Concubine Ning. I was framed, framed!"

Fan Cairen screamed uncontrollably.

"Young Master!" Xuanxuan shouted in surprise.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was killed by the guards with a knife.

The bloody and cruel scene before her made Fan burst into tears and speechless. The guards were afraid that she would scream, so they blocked her mouth with a cloth and dragged her to the cold palace.

Fan Cairen had only one thought in her mind: the rumors turned out to be true, and all this was done by Jiang Yuebai. Only she could be so cruel and kill them all. Only she became the beneficiary of the successive deaths of the concubines.

Fan Cairen's eyes were filled with despair and resentment.

The eunuch who announced the decree turned around and said, "Except for Fan, there are seven people in Zizhu Garden. Clear them all out. No one should be left alive."

A big fire was also set ablaze in Zizhu Garden. The maple leaves looked even more red under the moonlight. The autumn wind was bleak, and the flames burned fiercely.

When the guards counted the number of people, they found that one person was missing. It was the maid Tingting who was sent by Lady Fan to fetch the imperial physician.

Concubine Xie closed the door and refused visitors. Tingting begged outside for a long time but no one opened the door. She then ran to the Qinzheng Palace to ask Imperial Physician Jiang Xian but to no avail. Finally, she ran to the Wutong Pavilion to ask Concubine Ning for help.

At this time, the emperor had already issued an oral order, explaining how to deal with Concubine Ning. Tingting was taken to a secluded place by someone arranged by Liang Xiaobao and executed.

Ningcui Residence.

Jiang Yu was so busy that he was sweating profusely.

Although there were only two infected people left, and although he had failed again and again, Jiang Yu still did not give up trying.

This time, he changed his strategy and gave Concubine Yu a honey pill first. This honey pill was the last potentially useful anti-poison prescription in the prescription Jiang Yuebai gave her, and then he gave Concubine Yu Ma Fei San to relieve the pain.

Regardless of the bleeding, and not dealing with the miscarriage.

This anti-poisoning prescription is included in the modern pharmacopoeia. It originated from Mongolian medicine and is very different from the conventional idea of ​​using medicine. As an ancient person, Jiang Yu had never seen it before.

He reasoned that the conventional laxative and emetic prescriptions were ineffective, but this one contained a large amount of aromatic herbs that could promote the flow of qi and open the orifices, which might be useful.

Because it was impossible to ask Concubine Yu to take off her clothes for moxibustion on her back, and it was also impossible to see the concubine's feet, Jiang Yu could only settle for the next best thing and teach the palace maid Caiyun to moxibustion the acupoints on Concubine Yu's hands.

After Concubine Yu excreted a bunch of messy things, the room was stinking, but he still insisted on staying and instructing Caiyun to give Concubine Yu some hemostatic medicine.

All in all, I tried my best.

Jiang Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked out of the house.

Looking up at the bright round moon above his head, he vaguely realized that it was almost the fifteenth day of the lunar month.

Time passes so fast and yet so slow.

He sat outside on the steps and waited.

Except for Caiyun, all the palace maids were killed. If he left, Concubine Yu would be dragged into the burning fire and burned together with her, regardless of whether she lived or died.

He watched the burning flames grow from high to small and then go out, and the piled up figures gradually turned into a pile of ashes.

He shed many tears silently. He couldn't tell for whom he shed them. He just felt great sadness and heartache.

He sat on the steps of Concubine Yu's door all night. The morning light shone on his unshaven face, which could not hide his elegance, but also made him look particularly vicissitudes of life.

The guards and eunuchs waited quietly, waiting for the final news. After so many times, they, like Imperial Physician Jiang, sincerely hoped for a miracle.

He patted his thighs, which were somewhat numb, and could not stand up. The guards ran over to help him, but he stopped them with a gesture.

He turned tragically and walked into the inner room, already prepared for the worst.

Who knew that after entering the house, the house was cleaned up. He didn't know how this little palace maid in front of him did it, which made people admire her.

He thought that even if she was killed in the next second, the little girl would probably still be calmly fixing her hair in the previous second. This positive and optimistic attitude is impressive.

"Your servant greets Lord Jiang. I found the room was too dirty, messy and smelly, so I cleaned it up." The palace maid Caiyun said in a low voice with a rag in her hand, lowering her head.

"How is your young lady? Did she wake up last night?" Jiang Yu asked.