The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 432 The Poisonous Spider
It was night, and Wanyu ordered Yunchan to go to Piandian to ask Mujing about the results of the emperor's daytime draft. When Yunchan came back, she told Wanyu all about this miracle. Wanyu was naturally surprised when she heard the words: "16 people? Will it be like this? Such a thing is really not in his temperament. Even if the emperor has a wrong idea for a while, won't the empress dowagers of the two palaces persuade him? "

Yun Chan sighed helplessly: "The empress dowagers of the two palaces are ill, and the one who is with the emperor today is the imperial concubine."

"Imperial concubine?" Wanyu was silent for a moment, then she said angrily at the desk: "In order to make the emperor have no time to take care of my palace, did she not even take care of the emperor's reputation?"

Shuang Ruo, who had been watching coldly from the side, then spoke up: "Your Majesty thinks this is the imperial concubine's wrong idea?"

"If not for her, who else would it be?"

After finishing the words, a few wild crows were heard from a corner of the backyard of Changchun Palace.

Hearing the movement, Wanlao hurriedly ordered Yunchan and Shuangruo to watch for her if there was any movement in the side hall, and went to the base of the wall where the sound came from alone.

Tapping the palace wall lightly with knuckles, a brick was pulled out from the outside, and the person outside the wall was Shen Ye.

"Master Shen, are you ready?"

Shen Ye took out a small brocade box from his bosom and handed it to Wanyu, and said in a deep voice, "It's not difficult to ask Doctor Bai for some of these things, but the imperial concubine's palace is strictly guarded, so it's difficult to put this thing in her palace." It's difficult."

Wan Yu smiled and said: "This thing is very good for curing boils①. External use is very good. Since I went to the imperial concubine's palace to pay my respects, I saw that the cleaning lady in her palace had boils all over her hands. If you use this Fazi told her that she would naturally go to the imperial hospital to ask for it."

"That's it, I know." Shen Ye finished speaking, and looked at Wanyu through the crack of the wall with a little worry: "Madam, what the doctor Bai said is that this thing is extremely poisonous, you."

Wan Lai smiled and interrupted Shen Ye: "I am well aware of how capable it is, so don't worry about it, my lord."

That night, Wannai lay on her side on the couch, tossing and turning without sleep.

The voices and smiles of Yide and Wenyin couldn't help echoing in her mind, and she couldn't help crying when she thought of the time when she was with them day and night.

He would also think of Rong Yue, but he really couldn't understand why she became such a cruel, ruthless and scheming appearance.

Just as she was lost in thought, she suddenly heard Yunchan, who was resting on the corridor outside the hall, screaming, and then Shuangruo also screamed.

Wan Yu's heart tightened, she hurriedly got up and asked outside the hall, "What's wrong?"

But suddenly, the scene in front of her shocked her.

Yun Chan and Shuang Ruo hurriedly retreated into the sleeping hall, but saw that there were many eight-legged spiders about half the size of a palm on the sleeping hall floor, so they hurriedly took the quilt from the couch and covered the ground, and the master and servant stepped on it. On the quilt, holding a candle in his hand to illuminate the spiders everywhere.

"Quick, protect the empress!" Shuang Ruoxin took a fire-stirring iron rod, and slapped it on the ground.

Although Yun Chan was terrified, she still defended Wan Yu with all her might.

However, no matter how much the two of them struggled and flapped, those spiders seemed to be fearless and climbed toward the three of them.

At a critical moment, Wannao regained her composure, snatched the candle from Yunchan's hand, took the tulle from the couch, lit it, and threw it to the foot of the bedroom.

Sure enough, when the spider saw the light, it turned around and crawled towards the fire. Seeing the spider retreating for a while, Wanyu hurriedly shouted: "Guard Shen! Guard Shen!"

Yun Chan and Shuang Ruo regained their sense after hearing the words, and shouted again and again.

Not long after, Shen Ye broke in with a group of guards. The seven-foot men were quite frightened when they saw the spiders all over the ground. One of them pointed at the spiders on the ground and shouted: "I have seen the pattern on the back. This is a killer spider! It is highly poisonous!"

As soon as these words came out, it made people panic even more, and they retreated again and again.

Shen Ye lit the torch by himself, waved it around to fend off the spiders, and when he got to Wanyu's side, he grabbed her hand and ran out the door.

Yun Chan and Shuang Ruo followed behind, and finally escaped from the main hall without any danger.

However, to the surprise of the three of them, the spider seemed to be looking for Wannai, and when it left the main hall, there was not a single one in the huge courtyard.

When several people were still in shock, Shen Ye kept checking Wanyu for any injuries, and after making sure that she was safe, he said, "It's fine as long as there is nothing wrong with your mother."

Wanyu clutched her chest, panting heavily, "Okay, why are there so many spiders gushing out from Changchun Palace?"

Shen Ye saw a few conspicuous sachets hanging in front of the main hall door, and thought that he had seen this thing in the dormitory just now, so he stepped forward and pulled the sachet off, and after sniffing it carefully, asked with a frown: "This sachet , Where did the empress come from?"

Shuangruo replied: "Two days ago, when the season changed, there was a lot of typhoid fever in the palace, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent this thing to all the six palaces in the east and west, saying that it can ward off the sickness." Shuangruo pointed to the side hall and continued. : "It's also hung in the side hall where I often live."

Just as she was talking, Mao Jing, who lived in the side hall, also got up startled by the movement, hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?"

Shen Ye ordered a guard to take down the sachets hanging in the side hall, disassemble them two by two, and pour the medicinal materials inside them on the ground for everyone to compare.

Sure enough, the sachets hanging in Lao Jing's palace are all common medicinal materials such as lantern grass, three citadels, sage root, licorice, and Bupleurum.

But the ones in Wanyu Palace are all black hay chips.

Wanyu picked up a piece full of suspicion, put the tip of her nose to sniff lightly, suddenly felt a stench, and threw the piece of grass on the ground with disgust on her face: "What is this?"

Seeing this, Yun Chan took a piece and sniffed it, frowned and said, "The servants have heard of the sachet when it was delivered, so there is nothing wrong with it. How could it be?"

"The herbal smell that the girl smells is probably contaminated on the fabric of the sachet, not the herbs inside." Shen Ye handed the sachet with the hay slices out to Yun Chan, and Yun Chan nodded after sniffing it.

Shen Ye took another piece of grass and said in a solemn voice: "This thing is 'Spider Grass', which is mostly used by farmers in the countryside to lure mountain stream spiders and catch them for medicine. The sachets hanging in the empress's palace are probably all taken Humans have replaced this thing. Especially sleeping halls, so it is not difficult to explain why those spiders ran away to the empress."

Shuangruo asked suspiciously: "But even so, where are there so many spiders in the palace? And they are all poisonous killer spiders?"

Wan Yu's expression was clear, and she sneered unknowingly: "Master Shen, please take all the guards to search carefully under the wall of Changchun Palace. I think I should get something."

After about a quarter of an hour, everyone made a discovery.

It was originally a very remote place where weeds grew, and it was dug through by people, leading from the outside of the palace to the inside of the palace. Presumably those spiders were thrown into the palace from here.

Seeing this, Shen Ye cupped his hands and said apologetically, "I deserve to die, I didn't protect my majesty well, and I hope my majesty will forgive me."

Wan Yu shook her head indifferently, stared at the dark hole, and said angrily: "What's the use of guarding against such a meticulous method? It's hard for her to look down on me so much, and she is so anxious to get rid of me to be at ease."

Mu Jing, who had been watching this scene from the side, was also scared out of her wits, and hurriedly said: "You scared the concubine to death, this is going to take your mother's life!?"

　Remarks ①: Furuncle is an infectious disease that often occurs on the face, hands and feet.Furuncles can not only cause skin damage, but also ulcerate and form furuncles and carbuncles in severe cases.At the beginning, furuncle is a conical inflammatory induration raised by follicular abscess, shaped like milia, yellow or purple in color, red, swollen, hot, and painful. The induration increases within a few days and the pain intensifies; then abscess forms and induration It becomes soft, the pain is relieved, and the abscess cavity collapses after the ulceration, and gradually heals.If it occurs in the extremities, there are red threads running up the affected area, which is called "red thread boil".If you see chills, high fever, delirium, headache, and vomiting, it is a systemic suppurative infection, which is called "fever and yellowing" in traditional Chinese medicine.

　　
　
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