As the hot summer gradually passed, the freak farce in the palace slowly subsided because of Wu Cairen's "suicide in fear of sin" - of course, it only seems to be the case on the surface.

Taohua finally got the opportunity, and was quietly led by Shen Shu into the palace, and met Zhao Chongyi in the Chunhua Palace.

It's only been two months, and Zhao Chongyi's round face when she was pregnant has been thinned to the size of a palm, and her cheekbones are exposed, making her eyes a little scary. Seeing the emperor come in, she immediately stood up with a smile on her face and took a step forward, asking for blessings: "The concubine asks the emperor for peace." ”

If this smile had been placed on her face in the past, it might have been touching, but now it only looks a little panicked. The emperor had already reached out to help her: "No courtesy." How are you feeling these days? I brought someone to check your pulse. ”

Taohua observed Zhao Chongyi from behind the emperor. Zhao Chongyi's face was not good, and the movements of the blessed body to bow were a little slow, and a little crooked, as if her feet were unstable. But other than that, I don't see too many problems.

Zhao Chongyi raised his eyes and looked behind the emperor. Just now she had already discovered that the woman behind the emperor who was wearing palace clothes was not the palace person who usually served the emperor, but she couldn't see her face clearly when she faced the light. Even now, from a distance, she still couldn't see clearly, and it wasn't until the man took a few steps forward that she recognized that it was the future princess of the county.

There may be something wrong with your eyes. Zhao Chongyi blinked his eyes lightly a few times, and his vision seemed to be a little clearer, but it didn't seem to change. A few days ago, a few imperial doctors were replaced, and the palace people who knew how to treat in the palace almost checked her whole body, as if they were afraid of what poison she was carrying. Although the emperor came to see her several times, he sat down and left each time, only asking her about her illness, and never touched her again.

Zhao Chongyi remembered what Mrs. Zhao had said when she came to see her during the mattress after giving birth. At that time, she was still wearing the hat of "unlucky", and what Mrs. Zhao said to her summed up had only one meaning: forget the deformed child, quickly recover her body, and compete for the emperor's favor again. Other than that, there is no other way!

Zhao Chongyi herself thought the same, especially after the emperor found out that someone had given her a medicine to hurt the fetus, she was simply ecstatic - she finally didn't have to carry the name of bad luck anymore, now she was the victim, and the emperor was no longer disgusted with her, but pity. This mercy can give her an advantage when she competes for favor - she has already lost a child, and maybe the emperor is willing to give her another ......

There was a little itch on his arm again, Zhao Chongyi resisted the urge to scratch, and smiled at Taohua Yingying: "There is Miss Lao Jiang." It was about the height of summer during the mattress, but she didn't dare to use ice in the hot weather, and there were a few red spots on her body, and the medicinal powder prepared with some mint borneol didn't work much. When the palace people who knew medicine examined her body, they said that maybe it was because of too much humidity, and it would be better after the autumn. However, it is now August, and the red dots have not faded at all, and they are still itchy.

"Chongyi Niangniang, please sit down and allow me to check the pulse." Taohua had already noticed that Zhao Chongyi blinked more often than normal, and there were several times when it was obviously forced, rather than the physiological natural blinking, "Is there any discomfort in Niangniang's eyes?" ”

"It's a little flowery." Zhao Chongyi said a word, and regretted it a little, and hurriedly added, "But it's much better now." "Even if the emperor is willing to have mercy on her, according to the rules of the palace, the concubine cannot sleep if she is sick.

Taohua carefully checked the pulse of her two hands, and her brows furrowed slightly: "Does Niangniang still feel dizzy from time to time?" ”

Zhao Chongyi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's much better, I haven't committed it these days." The first half of this sentence is true, her current situation is much lighter than when she was pregnant, but the second half of the sentence is false, because the symptoms of dizziness and even nausea will still appear in the near future.

Momoka's eyebrows furrowed a little tighter. According to the diagnosis and treatment of the previous doctors, plus Zhao Chongyi's own description, and the pulse she is now diagnosing, Zhao Chongyi is probably an ordinary pregnancy-induced hypertension, and her condition has been alleviated after childbirth. But what about someone drugged?

"Is there anything else wrong with Niangniang?" Taohua carefully observed Zhao Chongyi's face, "Let me look at Niangniang's tongue and eyelids." In fact, the emperor has not yet obtained the evidence that someone has drugged, and it is Wu Cairen's inexplicable "suicide in fear of sin" that has allowed him to confirm this speculation, but what exactly is this medicine and how it is in the diet has not been investigated, so he took advantage of the Queen Mother's relaxation of surveillance on Chunhua Hall in the past few days, and brought Taohua in.

Out of the corner of his eye, Zhao Chongyi caught a glimpse of the emperor beside him, and his tongue couldn't stick out. How can the emperor see her like this? I also have to look at the eyelids, the medical women in the palace have also come to see it before, and they rudely turned up the eyelids, she didn't dare to imagine what the hell she was like at that time, how could she let the emperor see it?

"The doctor has seen it before, and he said that there is nothing." Zhao Chongyi barely stretched out her tongue, and when she saw Taohua reaching out to touch her eyes, she couldn't help but hide back anymore.

"Mother, let me take a look." Taohua was a little irritable about her non-cooperation, "It's about Niangniang's body, and it's not a big mistake to be cautious." ”

Zhao Chongyi suddenly felt disgusted: "My body is already much better!" These days, the emperor has sent the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat me from time to time, and I have given me tonics, and I am almost well. "She really didn't want to hear about her illness anymore. These imperial doctors couldn't diagnose any clues, but they always said that her body was not good, and some palace people privately said that she was ruined by the medicine that hurt the fetus, and it would probably not be better.

How can this be done? Isn't it the appearance and body that the women in the palace relied on when they were young? Now they can't diagnose anything, but they want to say that she is not good, is this to force her to death? If the emperor believed them, would she be able to inherit favor one day? If not, how will she deal with herself when she gets old? A concubine who has an empty position and no children ends up living a cold life in an empty palace.

"Niangniang, this disease is really very dangerous-" Taohua persuaded with a strong temperament.

Zhao Chongyi lowered her head, and two crystal drops of water fell on the back of her hand: "Miss Jiang, I'm not sick, I'm just drugged ......" Later, there was a trace of choking in her voice, "If it weren't for the emperor, I would still be falsely accused of being an unlucky person now, I'm afraid I would die in the Chunhua Palace......"

What is this? Taohua was simply confused. Isn't she here to see Zhao Chongyi? Why didn't he cooperate with the diagnosis and treatment, and he still cried?

"Let Jiang show you." The Emperor finally spoke.

Zhao Chongyi raised her face, although she was already thin, her watery eyes were still very flexible: "Does the emperor also think that the concubine is unlucky?" There are already palace people saying that the Wu family did not drug the concubine, and it was the concubine who was not blessed to bear the dragon fetus, so that today's illness ......"

Taohua felt that she was about to commit embarrassment. Now she finally understands that Zhao Chongyi is using illness to invite pets. Oh my God, not long after giving birth to a malformed fetus, my illness has not yet recovered, so I am thinking about inviting pets, this, this is really dedicated, so dedicated that I don't care about my life?

Of course, it may be that she doesn't understand the dangers of pregnancy-induced hypertension at all, speaking of which, if the previous symptoms were really pregnancy-induced hypertension, then she was drugged and gave birth early, maybe it really saved her life, otherwise it was delayed to term, in case of convulsions, it is very possible that both mother and child will die.

However, even if you want to invite pets, don't do it in front of a doctor, okay? Taohua felt that the corners of her eyes were twitching, and she wanted to avoid it immediately, and come back after Zhao Chongyi finished performing this sad, humiliating, and affectionate part. Zhao Chongyi herself is not awkward, she is not awkward.

The emperor sighed softly: "Don't talk nonsense. I brought Jiang over today just to treat you. Jiang's medical skills are outstanding, whatever she asks, you just have to tell the truth. After that, he turned around and instructed Zhao Chongyi's personal palace person, "If you hear someone talking nonsense, your master is not easy to deal with, just go and tell me!" ”

Zhao Chongyi bowed down gratefully: "Concubine thank the emperor for his grace." ”

Taohua reluctantly endured it, and waited for the emperor to help Zhao Chongyi up with his own hands, and then said, "Niangniang, what discomfort do you feel recently?" ”

Zhao Chongyi felt that her arm was itching again. She hung her head and scratched it twice with the cover of her sleeve: "It's just dizzy, nothing more." As for the hidden places on her body, there were some red spots, and she didn't want to tell Jiang. Dizziness may not affect the waiter's sleep, but if something is born on the body, it is absolutely impossible. But these red dots are also inconspicuous, as long as they are not in broad daylight, the emperor will not notice......

Taohua always felt that what she said was not the truth, but if she asked these two sentences again, she really couldn't diagnose anything else from the pulse, and finally she could only come to one conclusion: "Chongyi Niangniang's body is badly damaged, and she still needs to take care of herself." At this time, she was a little envious of Western medicine, how good would it be if she could get a blood test or something?

Forget it, if she studies Western medicine, I'm afraid she will be even more blind in this era. Taohua put aside this unrealistic idea and packed up the medicine box.

The emperor got up from his chair: "You are so recuperating, I will come to see you when I am free." ”

Zhao Chongyi was disappointed. It's almost like this these days, the emperor came over, heard that her illness was not cured, and turned around and left, which has almost become a fixed procedure.

"What is the illness of a concubine?" Zhao Chongyi asked softly, with grievances in her voice, "Actually, with the blessing of the emperor, the concubine already feels much better...... "Can you stop saying that she is sick!" At the very least, tell her what the disease is.

Momoka had a hard time answering. Let's talk about pregnancy-induced hypertension, Zhao Chongyi can't understand it, and her condition has been relieved now, and she has no particularly obvious symptoms, so she can't explain it clearly. I said it was drugged, but I don't know what kind of drug she was undergone, and she really can't say anything without a head.

Zhao Chongyi stared at Taohua out of the corner of her eye. It is rumored in the palace that this Jiang family was the person the emperor wanted to receive, and she didn't believe it at first, but now the emperor will let the Jiang family come to diagnose her pulse, which can't help but make her not believe it. Jiang is the one who is about to marry into the Anjun Palace, and the relationship between the Anjun King and the emperor is known to everyone. In such a situation, the emperor still uses the Jiang family, how much trust does this person have?

And what about Chiang? Zhao Chongyi couldn't help but take another look. In terms of appearance, Jiang is indeed more bright and radiant than most of the women in this harem, and her appearance is the kind that the emperor prefers: a dignified goose egg face, two eyebrows like ink paintings - unlike the general women in the south who like to trim their eyebrows both curved and thin, Jiang's eyebrows have hardly been trimmed, let it draw two somewhat heroic lines on the forehead, which makes her eyes black and white, and there is almost a kind of compelling brilliance when she looks at people.

Such a woman, if she enters the palace, she can be ranked as nine concubines with the emperor's favor alone, right? Otherwise, why would the emperor crown her father as a pharmacist? That's just a person who can compile a few books of medicine, how many people who can write sage books are still lying on their stomachs in the Jixian Pavilion, and a person who practices medicine can see the officials of the four grades without having to salute, what is the reason?

"Miss Jiang, what kind of illness am I? How long will this recuperation last? ”

The emperor coughed lightly and interrupted Zhao Chongyi's questioning: "You rest, the Jiang family will naturally leave a recuperation recipe." ”

Zhao Chongyi meekly lowered her head: "That concubine sends the emperor." ”

When the emperor's figure disappeared outside the hall, Zhao Chongyi immediately reached out and grabbed it a few times in the crook of his arm, and then bent over to grab it in the crook of his knee: "Bring that mint ice cream paste!" ”

The personal palace man whispered while taking the medicine: "Why don't you tell Jiang these rashes?" The slave maid heard that Jiang's medical skills are really good......"

Zhao Chongyi said a little irritably: "If the medical skills are good, she is willing to treat me wholeheartedly." Don't you see? Just now she checked my pulse, and only said that I was not well, but she couldn't tell what the illness was, what was the difference between it and the doctors in front of me? ”

The palace people really can't refute this. Originally, she saw that the emperor brought the girl of the Jiang family, and she really had hope, but the result - "Niangniang thinks she has not done her best?" ”

"You said she was going to be the princess of Anjun, why did she follow the emperor here?"

This palace person is her dowry maid, she is the henchman of her heart, and she is clever and capable, and her face can't help but change slightly when she hears her voice: "Niangniang, these words are all from the queen's side, and the slave maid thinks that it can't be true." "In the eyes of the queen, probably any woman is her enemy, and such crazy words can only be believed half of it at most.

"I didn't believe it." Zhao Chongyi smeared the ointment on the itchy area, and the cool feeling made her feel much more comfortable, "But the king of Anjun and the emperor are - if the Jiang family is towards the king of Anjun, naturally they will not heal me wholeheartedly, but if they ......are towards the emperor, "then they will not be able to treat an opponent who is competing for the emperor's favor."

The palace people feel that this is also reasonable, and it is not too much to live in the palace, even if you are cautious. For example, this time, they are careful and careful, but in the end, they are not in the way of others?

"I don't know if the emperor has found out, what kind of medicine did the Wu family give to Niangniang!" The emperor only found out a clue here, and the Wu family committed suicide all of a sudden, and then the clue was broken.

Zhao Chongyi didn't answer. In fact, she was faintly afraid in her heart - when she was pregnant, the imperial doctor who served the Chunhua Hall said that she would hurt the fetus if she thought too much, but she didn't take it to heart. Looking back now, she can't help but wonder if she gave birth to a terratic fetus because she panicked day and night, worried and thoughtful?

Of course, she would never say this, and the Zhao family is also desperately preaching the theory that poisoning causes teratosis outside, but in Zhao Chongyi's own heart, she feels weak - Wu Cairen is just a person who came to greet her, and she didn't have the opportunity to contact her diet, if she wanted to poison it, it might be good, but if she really had the opportunity to poison, Zhao Chongyi didn't believe it. She always suspected that this was the scapegoat found by the emperor, and the purpose was to smooth out the matter of the deformed fetus - the royal blood actually gave birth to a deformed fetus, and her biological mother was certainly an unlucky person, and it was not a shameful thing for the emperor.

It was precisely because of such a secret fear that Zhao Chongyi wanted the Imperial Doctor to immediately announce that she was in good health, and only in this way could she be freed from that unspeakable pain. Because of this, she was faintly hostile to the imperial doctor who came to diagnose her pulse, and she didn't want to talk about some minor problems at all.

Taohua didn't know that Zhao Chongyi had concealed the rash on her body, so she was still frowning and thinking about it until she left the Chunhua Palace, and after a long time, she found that the emperor had taken her onto a silent path, with clumps of bamboo on both sides, and moss grew in the cracks of the stones that paved the road, which showed that few people walked.

The Emperor walked leisurely ahead and asked, "What has been diagnosed?" ”

Taohua thought about it, and could only tell the truth, and explained the symptoms and dangers of pregnancy-induced hypertension a little: "I suspected that Chongyi Niangniang was this disease, but now the pulse does not match." But now that it has been a few months since the delivery, it is not impossible for the disease to recover on its own. If it is said to be the result of the drug - as far as is known, it is impossible to confirm. ”

The emperor didn't seem surprised by this conclusion, and sighed slightly: "The Queen Mother was watching closely a while ago, and I really can't bring you in." ”

"Hasn't the emperor found that medicine until now?"

The Emperor nodded: "I am only suspicious, and there is no evidence. He took a lot of effort to set up a game, but in the end, he only forced out a Wu Cairen who "committed suicide in fear of crime".

A piece of paper wrapped in medicine was found in Wu Cairen's residence, and the powder on the paper was confirmed by the imperial doctor to be □□, but the emperor knew in his heart that Wu Cairen had no chance to do it at all, and this piece of paper was just a false accusation. However, this incident is enough to prove that the person who drugged it exists, and he may be very close to the truth, otherwise the person behind the scenes would not push Wu Cairen out to confuse the public.

However, the emperor did not tell Taohua about the details here. This woman is about to become the princess of Anjun, and there are some things that she can no longer listen to. He just said what happened □□: "If it is really □□, why is Zhao Chongyi fine?" ”

□□ the symptoms of poisoning, the imperial doctors did not know it, and they could also diagnose it on the pulse, so the emperor was very sure that what Zhao Chongyi was in was not the poison of □□.

Taohua frowned slightly. The doctor should be familiar with □□ acute poisoning, if it is a small amount of chronic poisoning, the symptoms are different. Of course, judging from the situation shown by Zhao Chongyi, she is not □□ chronic poisoning, but this gave Taohua an inspiration: Zhao Chongyi, could it be heavy metal poisoning? Long-term, small amounts of heavy metals in the diet caused her fetal malformations and caused her pregnancy-induced hypertension - or it was not pregnancy-induced hypertension at all, because dizziness and dizziness could also be caused by heavy metal poisoning.

Tao Hua really hopes that there is a device in front of her now, so that she can immediately do a blood test for Zhao Chongyi, and she can immediately know whether her judgment is right or not. Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

"Can the emperor find out where this poison is?"

"It's still in the middle of the diet." The Emperor frowned slightly. It is said that what he doesn't talk about, ordinary people will stop asking, Taohua is asking now, it is already a bit out of bounds, "It's just that Zhao Chongyi has a palace person who can identify medicinal herbs, how can this medicine be hidden from that palace person, I am still a little puzzled." In this world, is there really a colorless and tasteless poison that can't be used? ”

There are certainly colorless and odorless poisons, but they are not easy to extract in this day and age, but if you only put a little bit at a time, even if they have a taste, it will be difficult to notice.

The emperor stopped and turned to look at Taohua: "You say, chronic poisoning? Originally, according to his thoughts, Chunhua Palace's precautions were so strict, and the person who gave the medicine should have finally found a chance to poison successfully, but according to Taohua, wouldn't it be poisoned many times? If so, then the scope of his search could be narrowed down a bit.

Taohua nodded: "If it is poisoned in small amounts, it is difficult to detect, but when it accumulates, it is very easy to affect the fetus in the womb." "It was precisely because Zhao Chongyi gave birth to a deformed fetus that she thought more about heavy metal poisoning, "It's just that Chongyi Niangniang said that she was okay today, and I always feel that Niangniang seems to be hiding something." "But why hide it, she couldn't find a reason," ...... Maybe I'm suspicious......"

The Emperor turned around nonchalantly: "That's enough. If she wants to hide it, let her go. ”

By her? Taohua didn't understand for a while: "But if the poison in Chongyi's body is still there, then in the future-" Even if she gets pregnant again, it may happen again, and it will also hurt Zhao Chongyi's own body.

The emperor snorted lightly, did not answer Taohua's words, and just walked forward. Taohua followed inexplicably, and after walking a few steps, she suddenly understood what the emperor meant, and suddenly felt a trace of coolness creeping up on her back - the emperor clearly wanted Zhao Chongyi to fend for herself. Since she refuses to confess, then she bears the consequences.

Although it was noon, it was about the reason that the bamboo forest on this road was dense, and the bamboo leaves almost completely covered the sun, and Momoka only felt that the wind blowing over was so cold that it was refreshing to the muscles and bones. This seemingly gorgeous palace is so terrifying when it is quiet.

The Emperor didn't notice the change in Momoka's mood, he only quickened his pace slightly. Taohua followed abruptly, only to feel that the bamboo forest had reached the end, and there was a palace in front of him. Taohua followed the emperor into the small door on the palace wall, and saw an apricot-red figure in the courtyard smiling and directing the palace people to pick the fruits on the banana tree from a distance, only to suddenly realize that this place was originally Tingyuju, but this time they came in from the corner gate, so she didn't see it for a while.

The emperor stood on the edge of the corner gate, and did not rush inside, but just watched Lu Ying and the palace people in the courtyard, and bursts of laughter echoed in the somewhat empty courtyard.

Taohua watched silently, feeling that the sunlight falling on her body gradually became hot, dispelling the chill of Fang Cai's body - after all, this emperor still has some warm and soft things on his body...