daughter in power

Chapter 53 Three Inch Nails

Huaqiu spoke tremblingly, before Gong'e could stop her, she finally pushed open the carved door.

In the hall, the four people stared at her coldly, causing her face to change in shock.

King Xiaoyang stepped forward, and said with contempt: "Huaqiu, what do you mean by breaking into the inner palace of this king at night? The prince is critically ill. If you don't go to the imperial medical office to teach the imperial physician to heal the prince, who are you going to Yangxi palace to arrest?"

Hua Qiu was stunned, and lost his momentum first: "Nu... I just want to ask Miss Feng to move to the East Palace, and find out what kind of poison His Royal Highness is poisoned by?"

How could Feng Qiqi know what kind of poison His Royal Highness was poisoned by?King Xiaoyang's expression turned ugly, and he snorted, "It's late at night, I'm tired, what do you want to ask, please ask quickly."

Huaqiu's eyes turned red, "Putong" knelt down on the ground, kowtowed like garlic and said, "Your Highness...the crown prince's life is hanging by a thread, but the imperial physicians are helpless. If His Royal Highness can't wait tonight, I'm afraid it will be, it will be..."

She couldn't cry, and sobbed: "Your Highness, you are proficient in the art of Qi and Huang, and you can control Kyushu with nine tunes. No one in the world will praise you for your excellent medical skills. I beg you to move to the East Palace and take a look at the disease for His Royal Highness."

King Xiaoyang is not the savior of the world. The battle for the throne has been going on for many years. After finally waiting for the crown prince to be poisoned and died, how could he save others with his own hands?He smiled coldly, and raised his voice: "This king can only develop such a poisonous medicine as Jiuqu Dan. If the crown prince doesn't dislike it, he will take one back and take it."

A critically ill person has already been poisoned for a long time, and if he takes Jiuqudan again, it will only get worse and faster.Huaqiu's face turned pale, tears streaming down her cheeks, she kowtowed to her forehead and said, "Your Highness... I beg you."

Feng Qiqi's eyes flashed, and he said: "The crown prince is critically ill. Didn't the empress ask Dali Temple to investigate what's going on?"

Huaqiu didn't know what she meant by asking, but she still answered honestly: "I have sent people to investigate. The entire palace has been sealed off, and Master Zeng Youyou, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, is investigating one by one. It is the young lady who attended the Spring Return Conference this morning. They were also confined at home to ensure the smooth investigation of the case."

Feng Qiqi sneered: "Changsun Yan'er was ever grounded?"

Hua Qiu raised her head: "As soon as Miss Changsun heard that His Royal Highness was seriously ill, she immediately entered the palace to serve the sick, and she did not confine her feet."

King Xiaoyang didn't know what Feng Qiqi meant, so he turned his head and said, "What does Qi'er want to say?"

Feng Qiqi smiled slightly: "This morning, I saw with my own eyes that Changsun Yan'er took the hairpin on her head and stabbed the prince's fingertips. But at that time, no one noticed this detail, and the prince didn't seem to be serious. Obstacle, so it didn't stretch out."

King Xiaoyang's eyes flashed: "The hairpin?"

Feng Qiqi nodded and smiled.

The crown prince was seriously ill, and the poisoning incident involved Sun Yan'er, the palace was immediately on alert.King Xiaoyang wanted to go away, so he took Feng Qiqi to the East Palace.

Going all the way, the entire palace is extremely solemn.Although it was midnight, there were still many maids walking around quietly, probably because the masters of each palace were paying attention to the development of the situation.

Hua Qiu originally went to arrest Feng Qiqi, and hoped that King Xiaoyang would rescue the prince because Feng Qiqi was involved in the incident.Who knew that Feng Qiqi revealed the mystery in one word, only then did he know that there was something else hidden about the prince's critical illness.

The queen sat in front of the prince's bed, her eyes were black and blue.She is too old to stay up late, and she is very haggard when she stays up late.

King Xiaoyang and Feng Qiqi walked in, her face was ashen, and she said indifferently: "The seventh king really has a heart, your prince's elder brother is critically ill, and you rushed to rescue him regardless of the past. Thank you very much."

The queen is not favored, the prince is not favored, but King Xiaoyang is the one who is favored by Emperor Wuwei.The two of them are not speculative, and they don't control each other, so the atmosphere is naturally a little weird.

Feng Qiqi glanced around, saw a few ministers who usually stood in the prince's camp sighing, and saw a few little princes sitting silently at the other end of the palace, wondering what they were thinking.

Eldest princes, one is missing.Even Emperor Wuwei was nowhere to be seen.

Feng Qiqi's eyes flashed, and he felt that the prince was critically ill, and that the entire Great Xia Kingdom was under a turbulent tide.

The queen said: "Miss Feng."

Her tone was exceptionally indifferent, revealing the unique dignity of being a queen: "You said gentleness poisoned His Highness the Crown Prince, do you have evidence? The Crown Prince argued with you this morning, and the disease started at noon. He is still in a coma and has never touched you again. anyone……"

She paused sadly, raised her head and raised her chest, and said, "I think that rather than being gentle and poisoning the prince, it is better to say that you hate the prince and Wenrou despises you, so it is more reasonable to hide poison and harm others."

The empress naturally believed in her niece, Feng Qiqi didn't argue, just smiled and said: "In the pond in the Furong Garden, there are still Changsun Yan'er's hairpins, if the empress doubts, why don't you send someone to fish it out to see clearly When the time comes, won't the truth be revealed?"

The queen sneered: "Master Zeng Youshan, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, has already sent guards to catch it. You don't have to be stubborn. After the imperial doctor has personally seen it, let's see how you can refute it!"

After all, the crown prince is not the queen's own son, and when faced with life and death, she can still maintain a temporary composure.

This composure is particularly majestic at this moment.

Hairpin flowers were delivered quickly from the outside, Feng Qiqi saw the style of the hairpin flowers clearly, and confirmed that it was the one Changsun Yan'er often wore on her head.The imperial physicians didn't dare to wait any longer, and hurried up to pick up the hairpin for a closer look.

Upon closer inspection, nothing could be seen.It is just an ordinary hairpin, although it is expensive, there is no mechanism for hiding poison.

The hairpin flowers are snow-white, and there is no sign of blackening from poisoning.

Changsun Yan'er's suspicion was to be ruled out, and the imperial physicians discussed in low voices, but they didn't dare to make up their minds.

To be honest, when everyone heard what Feng Qiqi said, it was just a formality with the hairpin.Everyone knows that Changsun Yan'er is the prince's cousin, and she will be Princess Xiaoyang tomorrow.How could she shoot herself in the foot with a stone, so as to hide poison and murder the prince?

Don't say they don't believe it, even the eunuchs in the palace don't believe it.

Everyone was in a dilemma, and someone raised a hairpin and wanted to report it.King Xiaoyang saw it, snorted coldly, and stepped forward.

Seeing this, the imperial doctors hurriedly delivered the hairpin to him.

King Xiaoyang took it with his hand, looked at it carefully, and said with a sneer, "Are the imperial doctors all useless? Such an obvious poison, how can you be so blind?"

He stretched out his hand and flicked the stamen of the hairpin, raised his head and said solemnly: "Dissolve the poison in the middle of the stamen, and find out what poison it is?"

Everyone was startled, several imperial physicians rushed forward to check, and some imperial physicians backed away calmly, for fear of causing any trouble.

The queen's eyes flashed, and she said sharply, "Is it really poisonous?"

King Xiaoyang was noncommittal, but what he said was not enough to lie and deceive others.

The queen clenched her fingers tightly and shouted loudly: "Quick, find out what the poison is, and find a way to prepare the antidote!"

Everyone started to move, and the imperial physicians were busy coming in and out, and finally they were a little more calm than before.

The queen glanced coldly at the pale prince on the bed, and finally revealed a radiance of a loving mother, and said softly: "Ze'er, don't be afraid, if you find the poison, you can find the antidote, don't be afraid..."

After she finished speaking softly, she took out a silk handkerchief to wipe the sweat from the prince's forehead, then turned to Huaqiu and said, "Where is the gentleness, find her quickly!"

Huaqiu was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly responded: "Here."

The night was getting dark, and the entire East Palace was brightly lit, revealing a different kind of gloom.Now that the hairpin has been found to be poisonous, it is one step closer to preparing an antidote.The prince's life was hopeful, the queen's face was slightly relieved, and she walked out of the bedroom holding Gong'e's hand.

The crown prince took the other side concubines to serve the prince, but she never came out.

Feng Qiqi stood in the main hall of the East Palace, looked into the empress's dark eyes, and remained silent.If the prince hadn't been poisoned, she and King Xiaoyang had already left the boundary of Liuhuo City at this moment.

Unexpectedly, the eldest grandson Yan'er made troubles, so that she could only stand in the east palace building and drink the wind in the dark night.

Feng Qiqi was in a bad mood, she didn't have a good face when she saw the eldest Sun Yan'er who entered the door.

Changsun Yan'er's eyes flashed, she jumped into the main hall, and ran towards the queen: "Aunt Queen, is the prince's brother okay? Rou Rou went to make medicine for the prince's brother herself just now."

The queen looked at her innocence, and sighed secretly: "What kind of medicine did you get? Your prince's brother is dying in bed, and the imperial doctor can't do anything. How can you heal him?"

Changsun Yan'er tilted her head and smiled: "Of course. In the past, Seventh Brother taught me how to dispense medicine gently."

King Xiaoyang lay down on his gun inexplicably, and had no choice but to smile at Feng Qiqi, but only got Feng Qiqi a contemptuous look.

The queen didn't answer, and pushed the tray with snow-white pearl flowers to Changsun Yan'er, and said seriously: "Is this your hairpin flower?"

Since it was a birthday present given to her by the empress herself, Changsun Yan'er should of course remember it. She glanced at the hairpin with a smile, picked it up and put it on her head, and said playfully, "It's the gentle hairpin, thank you aunt for bringing it up for Wenrou gone."

After finishing speaking, she pointed at Feng Qiqi from a distance, and said bitterly: "That's the bad woman who snatched the gentle hairpin to kill someone, and even kicked the hairpin into the water."

The eldest Sun Yan'er, who was so angry that he bumped into a pillar to seek death, lost his memory and turned into a teenage child, didn't look like a bad person no matter what.On the contrary, she identified Feng Qiqi everywhere, as if the prince's poisoning was the poison of Feng Qiqi.

Feng Qiqi smiled coldly, and said disdainfully: "Many people saw you pulling out the hairpin this morning and trying to kill me, and you can deny it as much as you want, and no one will believe it."

"Presumptuous!" the queen scolded coldly, glaring at Feng Qiqi angrily, and said, "Young is the prince's cousin, how could she have the motive to kill someone. But you, hate the Great Xia for destroying your home country, hate the seven kings for robbing you After leaving Da Xia, I’m afraid I’ve already harbored a grudge and waited for an opportunity to retaliate.”

She stretched out her hand to point at Feng Qiqi, and said angrily: "Tell me, what kind of poison did you infuse on the gentle hairpin to make the prince unconscious! Hurry up and hand over the antidote, I will save you from death!"

Feng Qiqi really admired the Queen's ability to talk nonsense, but she would never admit to things she didn't do: "I didn't kill anyone, why should I admit it? If you want an antidote, just ask Changsun Yan'er. She is now Aren't you afraid of being poisoned with hairpin flowers?"

The queen's eyes flashed, and she turned to look at Changsun Yan'er.In the end, there was still a trace of doubt in her heart.

Changsun Yan'er was taken aback for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Aunt Queen, is there any poison in the hairpin..."

Before she could finish her sentence, an imperial physician hurriedly came to report from the other side of the palace: "I report to the empress, the name of the poison on the hairpin is the three-inch nail. It was developed from a poisonous flower called "Half Step Drunk". Whether it is a human or an animal, as long as a drop is touched, the internal organs will feel as uncomfortable as being driven into a three-inch long nail. If there is no antidote, you can only live... Live 12 hours."

The imperial physician was fairly well-informed, the queen's face became hot, and she hurriedly said, "Has the antidote been prepared yet?"

The imperial doctor hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, wishing he could cut off his own head: "The antidote is only half, and to relieve the half-step drunkenness, you must have the flower 'Yao Sang' in the western domain. But here... no one has ever seen Yao Sang , let alone planting Yaosang..."

The queen was shocked, and her eyes widened: "If there is no Yaosang, will the prince be killed?"

The imperial physician was silent.

(End of this chapter)