Imperial Physician Lin repeatedly emphasized uncomfortably that Qin Ying could not reveal his true body.

Qin Ying reluctantly assured him again and again that she would keep her mouth tight, and she would not say anything no matter what she encountered.

Only then did he carry his medical box and leave, and before leaving, he left his needle box to Qin Ying. Doctor Lin's exact words are as follows: "The calmer the place, the more problematic it may be. If you hold it, you may be able to use it in the Hanlin Temple. ”

Qin Ying was confused for a while, and felt that his idea was all reasonable, so he didn't refuse.

The hairpin lady went back to the Hanlin Courtyard in the evening, and heard about Qin Ying's cold and cold from the palace attendants, so she took some pastries from the ladies to visit her today.

The two exchanged information about what they knew about each other, and the hairpin lady expressed envy for Qin Ying, who could collect information without leaving home.

Qin Ying didn't answer, but just memorized what the hairpin girl said again:

"Today, I first went to the dormitory of the ladies of the Taiji Palace, and checked their makeup boxes from the beginning, and I didn't see any cinnabar disguised as rouge.

"In the afternoon, I walked around the Taiji Palace again, and finally found fresh cinnabar imprints on the shore stone by the Taiye Pool. I used to have a good relationship with your senior brother Li Chunfeng, and he taught me to recognize the appearance and situation of hardware and eight stones. Now it's just right now. I don't know if this is something he has calculated a long time ago, or if it is just a coincidence. ”

“…… Whose dormitory is there by the Taiye Pool? Qin Ying said suddenly.

"The Da'an Palace where the Emperor Taishang lives." The hairpin lady had obviously talked about the next thing, Qin Ying only asked herself now, she was a little strange about Qin Ying's slow reaction, but she still answered.

"It's getting more and more complicated." Qin Ying muttered to himself, turning his left hand a little bit as he drank the empty porcelain cup.

The hairpin lady didn't feel as much pressure as Qin Ying, she poured the cups on the table with ginger syrup, and said to Qin Ying with a calm face:

"Two years ago, His Majesty said that the Emperor Taishang was unwell and needed absolute recuperation. So the Emperor Taishang moved out of the main hall of Taiji Palace and moved to Da'an Palace by the Taiye Pool. However, the location of Da'an Palace is remote, in the south of Yongxiang, which is where the cold palace is located. His Majesty's will, on the surface, was for the sake of the health of the Emperor, but secretly forbade the courtiers to come and go. So...... Da'an Palace has not been in Da'an for two years, and people except for palace attendants and maids have come in and out. ”

Qin Ying shook his head and expressed puzzlement: "How can there be traces of cinnabar on the stones by the Taiye Pool?" The Emperor Taishang was driven there by His Majesty two years ago, and he was afraid that he would not be able to handle government affairs, and he replied with a pen dipped in cinnabar. So did the Emperor take cinnabar to calm his mind? ”

When she was working in the East Palace, she heard from the officials and maids below that the Emperor Taishang was not in good health and had always needed a decoction to replenish qi and blood, but she didn't know if there was cinnabar in the Emperor's recipes and decoctions......

If cinnabar is made out of nothing, the victim of the poisoning case is not only the prince, and the nature of this matter will be bad.

"The top priority is to find out whether the emperor's recipe is consistent with the decoction, and to confirm whether his medicine pot is like the prince, mixed with cinnabar." When Qin Ying said this, he was still shocked.

She was frightened by her speculation. How terrifying should the power of the people who deliberately murder the crown prince and the emperor be in so many dark lines in the palace? What kind of conspiracy does he or she have behind the scenes?

"There's a lot you want to worry about." The hairpin lady was not infected by Qin Ying's tone, she leisurely sipped the spicy ginger syrup, licked her slightly wet lips, and then said, "In the end, all the people in the palace have nothing to do with me, so I won't care about the life and death of the prince or the emperor like you." ”

When Qin Ying first heard it, she felt that the hairpin girl was really cold. But when she thought about it, didn't she have nothing to do with the personnel in the palace? Why should I care about their life and death? Wouldn't it be less troublesome to turn a blind eye and get by?

Qin Ying, who had been silent for a long time, finally raised his head with a wry smile and said, "Since I know, I can't treat it as not knowing." ”

The hairpin lady shook her head for a while when she heard this, and showed an almost lonely smile to Qin Ying: "You and Li Chunfeng go out of the same door, but they are two opposite paths. Li Chunfeng is cold-hearted and ruthless, and he is not moved when he sees life and death; You are warm-hearted and kind-hearted, and you want to help people when they see life and death. ”

"On the one hand, the Taoist people advocate leisure, and on the other hand, they do everything possible to refine the pill and serve the bait, and what they seek is nothing more than to live forever in the world. But they regard their own lives as jewels, and the lives of others as ants. Even if they are lucky enough to get immortality, what is the difference between them living and dying? Qin Ying drank the ginger syrup in one go, and said, "Just pursuing personal ease is useless in the world, and it is better to die." ”

The hairpin lady looked at Qin Ying in surprise, and through the other party's skin, she seemed to see the heroic shadow described in the legend.

"It's a bit biased in the end, but the sharp words are appropriate for your age." The hairpin girl commented, saying that she stretched out her right hand and looked down at the old wound on her wrist:

"There is a good saying, 'It is better to die if it is useless in the world'. Two years ago, I was a maid in the Yeting Palace, and I had the intention of committing suicide. I locked myself in a firewood room and cut my wrists with broken porcelain. Later, he was found and rescued in time. When Li Chunfeng learned about this, he asked someone to send me letters twice in three days, and each letter was written with the same sentence: 'If you think you are the world, if you can send it to the world; Love is the world, if you can support the world. You know where that comes from, right? He encouraged me to value myself with this sentence, so I lived up to his expectations and lived up to my life with the desire to avenge my father. You see, your point of view is not at all the same as Li Chunfeng's. ”

Qin Ying had heard the old story of the hairpin lady twice before, but she couldn't imagine how many painful details there were behind the underplayed past.

It wasn't until she told a story in a casual and delicate and moving tone that Qin Ying got a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the other party.

"The words on that letter are from Lao Tzu's 5,000 words." Qin Ying heard her suppressed crying and said word by word.

The corners of the hairpin lady's lips were slightly hooked, and she soothed Qin Ying's head with the fan of Xuemei Yingchun in her hand, and then said: "Looking back, if it weren't for that nosy official and maid who saved my life, I probably wouldn't have sat here and talked with you at night." I learned to care about the life and death of others, and I should repay the debt of the past. ”

Qin Ying nodded, raised her sleeves to wipe away the tears swirling in her eyes, and asked, "You and my senior brother used to be so good, what is going on now?" ”

"As in all legends, at first they naturally get acquainted with each other, they naturally fall in love with each other in the middle, and finally they naturally become conflicted and alienated." The hairpin lady blinked and said skillfully, obviously not wanting to talk deeply.