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Chapter 721

When Jiang Xian came over to check Jiang Yuebai's pulse, he told her about Yu Guiren's incident yesterday and thanked her for the prescription as a doctor and researcher. They tacitly didn't mention the source of the prescription.

Jiang Yuebai was playing chess under the window, thinking about this matter.

Li Beichen executed all the palace maids involved in order to silence them and prevent the rumors from escalating further.

Knowing that Concubine Yu went to Ningcui Ju to find someone to take the blame before her death, and that Lan Da Ying and Concubine Fan were both innocently implicated, he still took the opportunity to kill Lan Da Ying as a scapegoat.

Originally, Fan Cairen was to be sentenced to death, but Jiang Yuebai pleaded for mercy and was sent to the cold palace instead. Jiang Yuebai guessed that the emperor knew of her nostalgia and that Fan Cairen might still be of some use to her family, so she did a favor.

Agreeing to Jiang Yu to take Caiyun, who was close to Concubine Yu, to study medicine was not only to win over Jiang Yu, but also to control Concubine Yu and Concubine Xie. After all, Caiyun was Concubine Yu's personal maid and was likely to know a lot of secrets.

This is probably what Li Beichen talked about last night as the way of chess pieces. Be clear about your own goals and situations, make the most favorable decisions for the overall situation by dealing with a bunch of unimportant people, conceal the real purpose, and control the rhythm.

This is probably the way to be a king. After thinking about it, she was quite touched about how to govern the harem and even the country in the future.

Concubine Xie escaped unscathed from the incident last night. If she had participated in it, it would have been a different situation.

The Emperor would never punish Concubine Xie just because she stayed indoors and refused to see anyone in order to "worship Buddha and recite scriptures".

Concubine Xie closed the door and refused to see anyone. Did she see that all the concubines in the harem were poisoned and had anticipated that Concubine Yu would die, so she avoided getting involved? Now that Concubine Yu is alive and surrounded by new people, will Concubine Xie take the opportunity to kill her to silence her?
But regardless of whether she was silenced or not, Concubine Yu had already become a discarded pawn.

Jiang Yuebai smiled slightly and told Xia Zhi to bring Platycodon and Perilla frutescens and prepare a good gift to visit Concubine Yu.

At the same time, he sent a secret letter to Li Beichen, asking him to arrange for a reliable person to take care of Concubine Yu, in case someone took advantage of the chaos to kill Concubine Yu, silence her or frame her. It is also possible to dig out a spy from the Baili tribe.

Li Beichen instantly understood Jiang Yuebai's meaning and made corresponding arrangements. Once the enemy found a way to treat cold poison with conventional drugs, they might take risks and investigate.

At night, around three or four o'clock, a palace maid who was newly assigned to Ningcui Residence sneaked into the inner room, but was surprised to find Caiyun was still awake, sitting next to Concubine Yu, mending something.

You have been taking care of me closely during the day, but you are still not sleeping in the middle of the night. Is you a human being?

It turned out that Jiang Yu left Caiyun to take care of Concubine Yu in the name of learning medicine from her. Caiyun's diligence, loyalty and love of cleanliness left a deep impression on him last night. This is his ideal of how to take care of a seriously ill person.

Caiyun looked up and asked the maid who came in what she was doing. The maid immediately said that she had come to replace Caiyun because she had been working hard day and night. When the maid approached Caiyun, she threw a handful of drugs and Caiyun fainted immediately.

Just when the maid thought she had succeeded, she was caught by the guards lying in ambush. A small bag of powdery substance was found in her clothes.

The situation was too sudden, and the maid was knocked unconscious before she could take the medicine. The guard took out the poison from her mouth.

This was an older maid, who looked to be close to 30. Upon checking the time she had been in the palace, it turned out to be 14 years.

After being tortured severely and unable to live or die, the palace maid finally admitted that she was a survivor of the Baili tribe. She had lurked in the harem shortly after the priestess entered the palace. She had assisted the priestess in poisoning many times in the previous dynasty, including the time when the former crown prince was poisoned.

The original plan was to sprinkle the powder on the quilt, and smear it on the jade Buddha statue and clothes that Jiang Yuebai gave. In this way, Concubine Yu and Caiyun would show symptoms of poisoning. After the powder is smeared on these jades and cloths through a certain technique, it will only appear shiny and glossy, and it is completely impossible to tell that a layer of medicine has been applied.

When asked if there were other accomplices in the harem, the maid laughed arrogantly and said loudly, "Guess?"

He also said that it was worth it even if he died. After all, he had personally poisoned the previous crown prince, poisoned a group of high-ranking concubines, and poisoned the emperor, who would die within ten days. Even if the imperial concubine was pregnant with the dragon seed, it was only five months, and the pregnancy would only result in death if she forced the birth. If the child was not born, he would not be made the crown prince.

The only heir, the eldest prince, was successfully poisoned and would not survive more than three months. The Ming Dynasty would soon fall. She finally avenged the tragic deaths of her clansmen.

Also, she had long seen that tonight was a setup and had deliberately entered it. After being caught, she did not commit suicide because she wanted to tell all of this to make Li Beichen suffer and regret and let him die with a clear conscience.

She was almost in a state of madness throughout the whole process.

After saying this, he laughed wildly and bit his tongue to commit suicide.

Now it all makes sense.

Why did someone poison him with broken porcelain pieces from an explosion at close range on the night when the Queen Mother moved her coffin? It turns out there was a hidden Baili clan inside the palace. Damn it.

After hearing the woman's confession, Li Beichen, who was usually calm, suddenly flew into a rage and ordered her to be executed by slow slicing and her bones to be crushed and scattered.

He took strict precautions and placed the eldest prince in the Qinzheng Palace, yet he was able to poison the eldest prince.

What the hell is this harmonious ethnic policy? This is an irreconcilable hatred that kills people's parents and destroys their descendants!
Kill! Kill them all!
During the interrogation, news came that Concubine Yu had died of poisoning. It turned out that the packet of medicine on her body was just a cover.

The poison had already been injected during the day and only took effect at night.

What is coming can never be stopped.

The maid's confession turned out to be true, she had taken the initiative to join the game. There was no way to know whether the maid was the priestess's military advisor, nor was there any way to know whether the real mastermind was still standing aside and watching from the sidelines, but the Baili tribe's decades of planning was really meticulous, interlocking and full of hidden dangers.

When Jiang Xian heard that the eldest prince was poisoned, he was terrified.

Two months have passed since the eldest prince was born on July 24th. He has been working diligently as a pediatrician, on call 7 hours a day, just to protect this only child.

The eldest prince was relatively weak due to his premature birth. He fell ill every other day and suffered from neonatal jaundice and neonatal lung disease. However, he had examined the eldest prince many times and did not find any abnormalities such as poisoning.

After examining the two wet nurses, no abnormalities were found.

Why did the palace maid say that the eldest prince had been poisoned?
Who poisoned the eldest prince and how?
There were two wet nurses and four palace maids who took care of the eldest prince. These four palace maids were arranged by the Shanggong Bureau. They were all older palace maids who had experience in serving the children of the previous emperor and his concubines. In recent years, there was no record of any violation or punishment.

Obviously, there is someone among them who is trying to murder the eldest prince.

Before the torture began, one of the four stood up and said that she was a descendant of the Baili tribe and could be killed or sliced ​​at will. She had a mother Gu in her body and the eldest prince had a son Gu in his body. If she was killed, the eldest prince would die. And there was no solution.

Unlike the Baili maid who confessed earlier, this maid claimed to be named Aya. As long as she was alive, the eldest prince would grow up safely and look like a normal person.

But if she is tortured and cannot bear it, she will have to die, and the eldest prince will be buried with her. His words showed that he was indifferent to life and death and was in control of the situation.

This means that the only heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty is controlled by the Baili tribe, and even the emperor may be coerced by her.

When Li Beichen heard this, he almost ordered the palace maid to be executed by slicing, but he suppressed his anger and grief and summoned Yuan Diqi.

After hearing that it was the mother-child Gu, Yuan Diqi shook his head helplessly and told Li Beichen that the mother-child Gu was different from the cold poison. The cold poison would cause death.

The mother-child Gu means both parties live and die together. The cold poison is just difficult to cure, not incurable. The mother-child Gu has no cure. According to his speculation, the Gu raised by this woman will not only make the eldest prince obey the Baili woman named Aya, but it is also very likely that the eldest prince will fall in love with her.

No wonder the maid named Aya was so confident. She knew that Li Beichen had no legitimate heir.

This reminded Li Beichen of the real emperor in Ming Dynasty history who was madly obsessed with his wet nurse. He felt so sick that he wanted to vomit.

Seeing Li Beichen's gloomy and cold expression, and the jade seal ring on his hand repeatedly turning, Jiang Yuebai knew that Li Beichen was planning to execute the palace maid, but he had not made the final decision yet.

After dismissing the attendants, she advised, "Your Majesty, I want to meet that palace maid and persuade her. Perhaps I can find a way to cure the poison."

She thought maybe she could give it one last try with the Truth Talisman.

Li Beichen shook his head resolutely, staring at Jiang Yuebai's abdomen, "This is too dangerous, you can't go. The eldest prince has already done this, you can't make any mistakes."

Jiang Yuebai smiled bitterly in his heart, but said gently, "But the eldest prince is the emperor's own flesh and blood, and he is the only prince at present. He plays an irreplaceable role in stabilizing the people and the court. The eldest prince is not in danger of his life at this time, and he is no different from an ordinary person. It is better to take a long-term view. Maybe, just like the cold poison, we can find a way to detoxify it."

Jiang Yuebai thought that after she gave birth safely, she would have enough time to use the truth talisman on the palace maid.

Li Beichen's expression became extremely gloomy.