The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 1106 The Intentions Are Sinister (22)
Qingchen was thinking about something, and accidentally tripped over the uneven cobblestones under his feet. Fortunately, the emperor supported him. Xiao Jun said with some distress: "Your eyes have not recovered yet, and you have to run this trip in the middle of the night. Thank you for your hard work." .”

"It's okay to work hard, I hope Mrs. Shu Gui will be fine." I was a little annoyed in my heart, although Mrs. Shu Gui had been disrespectful to her before, but Qingchen didn't want her to lose her life at this time, otherwise it would be very difficult Some people thought that she was taking personal revenge, and secondly, she was killed just after taking charge of the Six Palaces for the empress, which is not an honorable thing after all.

When he arrived at Deqixiang Palace, Qingchen saw that all the palace servants in Shu Guiren's palace were kneeling outside to receive him, but Ziyun and Zixi, who were his personal attendants, were not outside, so he knew that they must be guarding their master in the inner room Woolen cloth.

As the emperor entered the palace, he saw the two maids kneeling outside the threshold of the inner room. They couldn't see their expressions when they were lying on the ground, so Qingchen ordered: "Come in, I have something to say. to ask you."

The two girls hurriedly got up and followed in. Qingchen followed the emperor to visit Shu Guiren first, and saw her lying on the bed with a pale face, but her lips were dark purple, and her nails were also a little blue. Those who arrived couldn't help but feel a chill.The person was in a coma, the emperor sat by the bed and picked up her arm to take a pulse, and opened Shu Guiren's eyelids to look at it, and then he said in relief: "It doesn't matter, although the appearance is terrible, but Shu Guiren's poisoning is not considered serious. Deep, there is no danger of life for the time being."

Before the emperor finished speaking, he saw Sun Dexin and Gu Yunfeng hurried in and knelt down: "I wait to see the emperor, the emperor is auspicious, and the noble concubine Jin'an."

Xiao Jun got up and said, "Don't be so rigid about etiquette at this time, come quickly to see Mr. Shu Gui, it's important to save people first."

The two imperial physicians hurriedly agreed to open their respective medicine boxes and started to work. Taking advantage of this gap, Qingchen asked Ziyun who was kneeling on the ground: "How did your master get poisoned? Mr. Shu Gui is currently under confinement, it is impossible If you come into contact with outsiders, then there must be an inside ghost at work, so you'd better tell the truth, otherwise don't blame me for being merciless!"

Both Ziyun and Zixi had expressions of panic, probably because Shu Guiren's sudden poisonous hair frightened the two of them, even after so long, their complexions are still so bad, with panicked expressions.

Ziyun kowtowed and said: "Madam, slaves dare not lie. Since my young master was banned from coming here, slaves have become more careful in serving them. All the things that come in from outside have been tested for poison with silver needles. There is no problem. Today's For dinner, the servants were rewarded with the leftovers after the young master used them. The servants had eaten everything the young master had eaten, but for some reason, the young master was suddenly poisoned, but the servants were safe and sound. I'm so stupid, I can't figure out why?"

Qingchen snorted coldly in his heart, Mr. Shu Gui really wanted to let her go, but he was just being defensive, and he was still being calculated.

"There is no problem with the diet, then Mr. Shu must have eaten something that you have not eaten. Think about it carefully, what else did Mr. Shu eat after dinner?"

Zixi and Ziyun looked at each other, thought for a long time, and said firmly: "If you go back to your mother, the young master didn't eat anything after dinner, and I didn't even touch the new cake made by the servant, just drank it. Two cups of lotus seed tea, but the tea was brewed by the slaves and brought up by their own hands, there is no way someone tampered with it, if you don’t believe me, you can ask the two imperial doctors to examine it.”

It doesn't need to be so troublesome, Qingchen turned his head and saw a cup of tea on the kang table with a lot of leftovers, so he pulled out the silver hairpin on his head and tried it in the tea. The hairpin didn't change color, which proved that Tea is indeed non-toxic.

This is so strange, looking at Mrs. Shu Gui, the poison must have entered from the mouth, otherwise she would not have been poisoned so badly, could it be that she took the poison deliberately, just to win the emperor's sympathy?If the reason for this matter cannot be found out, the emperor must have to appease her, just to get those few words of gentle comfort, at the expense of hurting himself, wouldn't the price be too high?Besides, this is poison. Even if the dose is not fatal, if it is delayed for a long time, there is no guarantee that it will not hurt the body. Isn't this too risky?

Qingchen thought about it, then looked around the room, and seeing a few empty shelves in the corner, he knew that Mrs. Shu was suddenly demoted from a concubine to a nobleman, and those people from the House of Internal Affairs must have come to trample her, otherwise she should have The place where things are placed will not be empty.

Seeing her frowning in deep thought, the emperor didn't make a sound to disturb her, and let her take a closer look at the things in the room, and finally her eyes fell on the needlework basket on the heating kang.

Seeing that her gaze was getting colder and colder, the emperor seemed to be thinking about something when she was staring at the needlework basket, and was about to reach out to take it, when Qingchen stopped her and said, "Your Majesty, don't touch that thing, if you don't find Mr. Shu Gui Before the cause of poisoning, the emperor should not touch anything here."

The emperor asked thoughtfully: "Do you suspect that she was poisoned because she moved something?"

"The concubine is just guessing." Qingchen turned to Zixi and asked, "Did your little master do any needlework tonight?"

Zixi nodded hastily and said: "Yes, after dinner, there is nothing to do, so the young master embroidered a fan under the lamp, but she was poisoned suddenly before she embroidered halfway."

Qingchen continued to ask: "Then a few days ago, after the confinement, did she do any embroidery work?"

Zixi thought for a while and said: "No, the young master was in a bad mood a few days ago, so how can I have the heart to do these things, it is only two days before I get used to it, and I have nothing to do tonight, so I let the slaves make some tricks and say I want to do embroidery..."

Before she finished speaking, Qingchen asked again: "When did Mr. Shu get the silk thread used for embroidery?"

"There are some that are left over from before, and some that have been newly delivered in the past few days." Zi Xi glanced at the bamboo basket and said, "The silk thread that my lord used tonight seems to be the one newly sent by someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "

Having said that, Xiao Jun already understood what she meant, and immediately told Gu Yunfeng, "Come here and see if there is anything wrong with these silk threads."

"Yes, I obey the order." Gu Yunfeng and Imperial Physician Sun gave the antidote to Shu Guiren just now, and at this moment he was about to detoxify her with acupuncture and moxibustion. Hearing the emperor's order, he handed the silver needle in his hand to Imperial Physician Sun, and then Come forward to check the silk thread that Mr. Shu Gui used before.

He took a few strands out of the silk thread that Zixi pointed to in the basket, and threw them into the teacup that Mrs. Shu used to drink tea. Later, he tested the tea with a silver needle, and sure enough, the silver needle was immediately coated with a layer of black. green.

Zixi's face changed drastically, and she exclaimed from the side: "How could this happen? This silk thread is actually poisonous. No wonder the young master was poisoned all of a sudden. It turns out that there is something wrong with this silk thread."

(End of this chapter)