Divine Doctor's Daughter: The Imperial Concubine

Chapter 7 It's About Her
Chu Lie was scribbling under the candlelight, dealing with military affairs. Suddenly, there was a lot of noise outside the study. Chu Lie couldn't help frowning. He stood up and walked outside the door, looking at the people coming and going in the courtyard. What are you doing!"

"General, Second Miss has been poisoned!" Nanny Li who was beside Mrs. Ye saw Chu Lie coming out, immediately rushed forward and knelt down, crying.

Chu Lie was startled when he heard this, and said angrily, "How could you be poisoned?"

"I don't know, Madam is accompanying Second Miss. General, hurry up and take a look!" Nanny Li couldn't help trembling under Chu Lie's anger, and lowered her head pretending to be calm.

Only then did Chu Lie wave his sleeves and strode towards Dangui Garden.

"Miss, Second Miss has been poisoned, and she is undergoing diagnosis and treatment in the Osmanthus Garden!" Gu Yu hurried in from outside the hospital, panting.

Chu Ruoying's eyes darkened when she heard the words, and she murmured: "I didn't expect her to be willing to do it." Then she nodded and continued to look at the book in her hand.

"Miss, what are you still reading! Do you know that this is Madam's plan!" Gu Yu looked at Chu Ruoying, who had a plain face, and shouted involuntarily.

"Understood." Chu Ruoying helplessly put down the book in her hand, looked at the anxious little girl in front of her, and said softly, "Someone should come to invite me soon, don't worry."

Osmanthus Garden
"Doctor, how is Second Miss?" Mrs. Ye stood anxiously in the hall and walked back and forth, seeing the doctor withdrew her hand, she hurriedly asked.

"Second Miss is poisoned." The doctor frowned and said in a deep voice.

"What!" Madam Ye held her chest and took two steps back as if frightened, exclaiming, "How is that possible!"

"Madam, don't worry." The government doctor said in a deep voice, "This poison is not difficult to cure, but it will be uncomfortable for a few days."

Only then did Madam Ye calm down, looked at Yue'er who was at the side, and said sharply: "How do you take care of Second Miss!"

Yue'er knelt on the ground in fright, kowtowed and kowtowed, "Ma'am, spare me!"

"How is Xin'er?" A voice that implied authority came, and Madam Ye's eyes flashed with joy, and then wiped her tears and knelt down towards Chu Lie who had just entered the room.

"Master, Xin'er was pampered and raised by me since she was a child, how can she endure the misery in the ancestral hall? I have been worrying about myself for the past two days, who would have thought." Mrs. Ye paused, and said with great grief, "Xin'er tonight I have been poisoned, and I haven't woken up yet, as a mother, I wish I could take this pain for her!"

Chu Lie was startled, stepped forward to help her up, and comforted her: "Just relax, Xin'er will be fine."

"How is Second Miss?" Chu Lie then turned his gaze to the doctor at the side and asked.

"Back to the general, the second lady is fine, but the abdominal pain caused by eating too much Glauber's salt, I will prescribe a few medicines, and she will be fine in a few days." The doctor said in a deep voice.

"That's good." Chu Lie felt relieved and nodded.

"Master, why did Xin'er get poisoned for no reason?" Madam Ye interjected at the right time.

Hearing this, Chu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the people in the courtyard, and said in a deep voice, "Who is guarding the ancestral hall?"

"Your subordinate is here!" Two male voices sounded, and Chu Lie looked deeply at the two guards kneeling below, "What happened today?"

"General Qi, nothing happened. When the second lady was poisoned, there was only a pastry box beside her, but no one entered it." The two guards said in unison.

Madame Ye's eyes suddenly lit up with anger, she strode forward, and slapped Yue'er fiercely, "Tell me, did you kill Second Miss!"

"No servant." Yueer's hair was messed up by a heavy slap, but she didn't care about it, and kept kowtowing, "No servant! It's not slave! I will watch it when I go at night. It's Missy!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the courtyard gasped. They did not expect to hear the eldest lady from a maid.

A look of joy flashed across Madam Ye's eyes, but she glanced at Yue'er mockingly and said, "Why would Missy go to the ancestral hall?"

"The servant did not lie!" Seeing that Mrs. Ye didn't believe it, Yue'er said anxiously, "It's really the eldest lady. The servant saw the eldest lady walk out of the ancestral hall with her own eyes. After that, the second lady became unwell!"

Chu Lie looked at Yue'er's pale face, but his eyes were full of determination, and he believed him a little, and said in a deep voice: "Go and invite the eldest lady to come here!"

About two quarters of an hour later, Chu Ruoying walked into the Dangui Garden wearing an ice-blue long dress. Seeing so many people in the courtyard, her eyes were slightly surprised, and she bowed sideways, "Yinger has seen father ,lady."

Chu Lie looked at the calm-faced woman in front of her who was slightly surprised, and asked, "Ying'er, have you ever been to the ancestral hall tonight?"

"Yes." Chu Ruoying said lightly.

Chu Lie's eyes darkened slightly. Looking at Chu Ruoying in front of him, he said in a deep voice, "Then why didn't the guards in front of the door see you?"

Chu Ruoying looked at the guards kneeling not far away, and said, "If Yinger says that the guards I saw tonight are not these two, can father trust me?"

"You said, have you ever left?" Chu Lie looked at the two guards and asked sharply.

The two guards shook their bodies, not daring to hide anything, and said: "A little girl said that something happened in the front, so my subordinates left and went to the front, but they didn't find anything."

"Father, can you summon the guards in the mansion so that Ying'er can point out those two guards?" Chu Ruoying said suddenly.

"Okay." Chu Lie nodded in response, and waved his hand to let people go down. After a while, all the guards in the mansion gathered in the courtyard. Chu Ruoying walked slowly past these people, and pointed out two guards after a while.

Chu Lie looked at the two people in front of him, and asked in a deep voice, "You went to the ancestral hall?"

The two guards immediately knelt down, "This subordinate has never been to the ancestral hall!"

Chu Ruoying smiled faintly, walked slowly in front of the two of them, moved her right hand slightly, and a faint fragrance came from her sleeve, and the eyes of the two guards blurred immediately after smelling the fragrance.

"Where are you at Xushi tonight? What did you do?" Chu Ruoying asked calmly with a flash of light in her eyes.

"This subordinate is in the ancestral hall guarding the second lady. In order to wait for the eldest lady, after Miss Fang entered the ancestral hall, she left." The two guards replied in unison.

"Who told you to go to the ancestral hall?" Chu Lie's face was ashen, he couldn't believe that his personal guard would betray him, and asked sharply.

"Your Majesty follows Madam's order."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked, Madam Ye stepped forward quickly, "Who are you, why did you wrong me!"

Chu Ruoying smiled very faintly. Hearing Madam Ye's angry scolding, the two guards suddenly came to their senses. Thinking about what they just said, they couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. They lowered their heads and did not answer Madam Ye's question.

Chu Lie looked at everything in front of him with a sullen face, pointed to the pastries in the pastry box, looked at Chu Ruoying and asked, "Didn't you make this pastry, didn't you make the pastry yourself this afternoon?"

Chu Ruoying smiled faintly, as if feeling endlessly lonely, "Ying'er has not done filial piety for many years, and she feels ashamed, so she made the snacks that her father likes and sent them over in the afternoon, and brought the snacks from my wife to my younger sister."

Hearing this, Chu Lie looked at the pastry box, and sure enough, the patterns engraved on the box were used by Mrs. Ye on weekdays, and Chu Ruoying did not have these things.

Chu Lie's eyes were slightly deep, and he continued to ask: "What are you doing in the ancestral hall in the middle of the night?"

Chu Ruoying was about to speak, but saw Mrs. Ye at the side quietly winking at her, Chu Ruoying suddenly had a plan in her mind, she lowered her head slightly, and said softly, "Ying'er can't say."

"Can't say it?" Chu Lie's eyes suddenly ignited anger, and said sharply: "Why can't you say it? Did you run to the ancestral hall to poison your sister because you were jealous of your sister?"

Chu Ruoying was taken aback when she heard the words, and said in a broken voice, "Is my sister poisoned? How could this happen?"

"Don't you know in your heart!" Chu Lie said harshly.

Chu Ruoying was slightly startled, and looked at Chu Lie full of injuries, "Father doubts me?"

"Isn't it you? You are the only one who entered the ancestral hall tonight!" Chu Lie frowned and said in a deep voice.

Chu Ruoying looked straight at Yue'er, who was kneeling beside her, "Father, there must be something wrong with my sister being poisoned. My sister was fine when Ying'er left. Why did she get poisoned? There must be something wrong with her." eccentric!"

Chu Lie was taken aback when he heard the words, and felt that this matter was really unusual, so he nodded and said, "Ying'er is right."

"This matter needs to be thoroughly investigated. It is definitely not an ordinary person who can quietly poison my sister. If it endangers the Chu family in the future, wouldn't it be even more dangerous!" Chu Ruoying looked at Chu Lie and said seriously.

Chu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly. Indeed, if the person who poisoned him was targeting him, then he wondered if it would be so simple. He said sharply, "This matter must be interrogated properly!"

People are like this, when they don't harm themselves, they put on a calm appearance and sit back and watch the fire, but once they harm themselves, the feeling is different.

"Come on, arrest these two people and lock them up in the firewood room!" Chu Lie pointed at the two guards who were kneeling there, and commanded sharply.

Seeing the two guards being forcibly pulled away, Madam Ye's eyes flashed with panic, she was afraid that the two would confess herself if they couldn't bear it, but she forgot that the two had already spoken out just now, and Chu Lie already had doubts about her.

(End of this chapter)