Fengqi crabapple

Chapter 98 Black tea is poisonous
After Haitang and the Sixth Prince parted ways, as soon as they arrived at the gate of Qinghe Palace, they saw Concubine Ji preparing to leave the palace.

When Concubine Ji saw Haitang coming, she smiled and said, "Just in time, you accompany me for a walk. I heard the other day that the emperor had granted marriage to your brother and Princess Qingyao, but I haven't had time to ask you properly."

The two of them walked along, talking about the marriage between Cheng Hanbai and Princess Yao, Prince Chu and Princess Yilan. While Concubine Ji praised this good marriage, she also sighed that the Cheng family did not have a mistress to take care of it.

Before they knew it, the two of them walked outside the queen's palace door.A team of servants was walking in with a few things in their hands, when they saw Concubine Ji and the others coming, they stopped to make way.

"The Queen is ill, why are you rushing to deliver something so important?" Concubine Ji asked casually.

"Returning to the empress, this is a tribute from the Shu land. The concubine Ji Guifei ordered that there is no rush to say anything else, but this black tea is what the empress wants to drink all day long. It has a mellow taste and there is no antidote. That's why I was in a hurry to send it. Come." The young father-in-law from the Ministry of Internal Affairs replied eloquently.

Concubine Ji waved her hand and they filed in.

After going in to see the Queen, Haitang looked at the Queen's complexion and found that her liver energy was just stagnant and nothing serious.It seems that the queen is just out of sight and out of mind, claiming to be ill and avoiding the world.

The queen asked people to see the tea, and the tea they brewed was the Sichuan black tea that the waiter had just mentioned.

The queen said: "I like to drink black tea every day. It was a tribute from Shudi last time, and there is not much left. Prince De heard that I like to drink it, so I specially gave it to me this time. Do you know if it’s okay?”

A palace maid next to her hurriedly replied: "We've already got the new ones. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has just sent them in. Do you want to try the new ones?"

The Empress smiled and said: "You are stingy too! Go and make some new ones for Concubine Ji and Miss Haitang to try. In a few days, Princess Qingyao will marry into the Cheng Mansion, and Miss Haitang and Qingyao will be serious Sister-in-law, isn’t it right for me to try the things from my sister-in-law’s house first?”

The words made several people laugh, and a palace maid down below had already made three more cups of tea.Haitang had drunk this kind of black tea before. As soon as she took the tea and smelled it, she immediately stopped Concubine Ji and the Queen from coming: "Your Majesty, don't drink it, there is something wrong with this tea!"

Concubine Ji and the empress were both startled. The empress quickly called the palace maid who was making tea to kneel down, and then had the palace door closed and interrogated her carefully.

The tea maker was a second-class palace maid named Chunhua.When she heard that the tea was poisonous, Chunhua was so frightened that she sat down on the ground:

"Your Majesty, the tea was just delivered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The slave didn't even have time to change the tea jar, so she took it out of the tea bag and brewed it directly. When the slave made tea, as usual, she washed the tea leaves twice with boiling water. It was brewed. From the beginning to the end, there was only one person in the tea room, the slave. There is indeed no witness, but the slave did not poison me, please be careful!"

Haitang tried the tea with a silver hairpin on the side. The silver hairpin did not change color.She tasted a little more tea with the tip of her tongue, then tasted the tea leaves, and then said: "My Lady, the poison in this tea is not extremely poisonous, nor is it freshly added, but has been immersed in the tea leaves for a long time. When making the tea, it often The poison is slowly released after soaking in hot water."

After hearing what she said, Chunhua, who was kneeling on the ground, was obviously relieved. She glanced at Cheng Haitang gratefully.Haitang picked out a few more tea leaves from the tea bags in the palace maid's tray, smelled them carefully, and tasted them again. She nodded and confirmed her judgment. "Prince De is so brave, he dares to poison me!" the queen said angrily.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. How stupid is Prince De to inject slow poison into the tribute he gave you with his own name and surname? The poison in this tea must be drunk for at least seven days before he dies.

During these seven days, there is no guarantee that he will not be discovered.Did Prince De inflict such poison just to expose himself?My dear, please think again! "Haitang knelt down and explained.

"This poison is called Seven Days Kill. Taking a large amount at one time will cause hallucinations. The most terrifying thing about it is that it is not easily excreted through vomiting or excretion. After accumulating in the body for seven consecutive days, its toxicity begins to corrode There is no medicine to treat the internal organs. Madam, this poison is a kind of insect poison produced in Yunnan."

"Yunnan? If I remember correctly, Ji Chuan's mother is from Yunnan, and she once had a pair of peacocks in her home." The queen said calmly.After listening to Haitang's words, she had calmed down and felt that Haitang's analysis was correct and there must be someone else who poisoned her.

Concubine Ji was shocked and guessed: "Could it be that someone wants to frame Prince De for the crime?"

The Queen was silent, and she waved her hand towards Concubine Ji tiredly: "You guys should step aside first. Don't say anything about the poisonous tea leaves. I only said that I don't like to drink tea when I am sick. Let's see what other tricks she has. "

Concubine Ji knew who the queen was referring to after hearing the word "she".Without saying a word, he hurriedly took Haitang to leave, and the two hurried back to Qinghe Palace.

"The harem kills people without seeing blood. I don't know when, but the person is going to die of illness. Even if he is well-dressed and well-fed, what's the point of living this life?" Concubine Ji said with a bitter smile.

She patted the back of Cheng Haitang's hand and said: "Actually, with a sincere child like you by my side, I can feel more at ease even in this deep palace. If it weren't for you today, the Queen might At once……"

Haitang held Concubine Ji's hand and said: "Your Majesty, now Prince Duan may have to get involved in the fight for the crown prince, so your goals in the palace will be even greater, and you must be careful yourself. When you turn around, I will send you some detoxification Even though the pills can't cure all the poisons, they will always have some effect and buy you some more time."

While Concubine Ji was sighing, Haitang told the story of how she met the sixth prince by chance in the imperial garden today and how she diagnosed the sixth prince. She even asked Concubine Ji to recite Buddha several times in a row.

Concubine Ji said: "It's not that the imperial physician is incapable of making a diagnosis, it's that person who refuses to allow the imperial physician to diagnose him. If you can cure him, treat him quietly, and don't make a fuss about it. Concubine Yuan does not know how many tears she shed for this son! Alas, Lao Liu has been sick for nothing all these years, and he is also a poor child..."

Concubine Ji sighed a few times, gave Haitang a few words of advice, and then asked Chang Gui to escort Haitang out of the palace.

(End of this chapter)