"Oh? I don't know what the hairpin lady wants to inquire about the previous dynasty, and whether Qin can help you. Qin Ying was not in a hurry to agree to her, and the hairpin lady took the lead in mentioning yì, which showed that she had the upper hand.

"An old incident between the DPRK and China two years ago." The hairpin lady poured a full cup of tea for herself and Qin Ying, and said solemnly.

Qin Ying originally thought that the hairpin lady would ask herself at most to pay attention to the big and small things of the early dynasty, but she didn't expect the other party to open her mouth and let her go to check what happened two years ago.

"Qin is just a nine-grade waiter of the Medicine Collection Bureau, and he is also the six-rank edict of the Hanlin Academy. There is no way to find out if an official is low. ”

"If you don't want to understand the cinnabar poison case, just refuse. Besides, the court affairs two years ago were also related to Lord Ouyang, in addition to wanting to understand the cinnabar case, Lord Qin also wanted to find out who persecuted Lord Ouyang, right? The hairpin lady spoke very skillfully, first arousing Qin Ying's interest, and then attracting the other party to be willing to take the bait.

"You help me find the truth of the cinnabar case, and I will help you find out the details of the affairs between the DPRK and China?" Qin Ying weighed it carefully, and felt that he didn't have anything to lose. "Need a note?" This is considered a promise.

"Pen and ink are here." The hairpin lady seemed to have expected that the other party would not refuse her, so she took out the ruler from the chest of drawers behind her, and then pushed the pen holder and book inkstone on the table to Qin Ying.

"――You classified the cinnabar case as a harem, do you know any clues?" After Qin Ying signed his name, he asked eagerly.

"From west to east, the Imperial Palace is the Yeting Palace, the Taiji Palace and the East Palace. The Taiji Palace in the center is bounded by the Zhuming Gate and the Qianhua Gate, and the former and the harem are separated.

"There is a problem with the medicine children of the East Palace Medicine Bureau, and their predecessors are from the Taiji Palace Imperial Medical Department. This makes it easy for people to point the finger at the Imperial Physician's Office, thinking that there are courtiers in the Imperial Physician's Office who have ill intentions towards the prince. The hairpin lady said to Qin Ying.

Qin Ying pondered for a moment before nodding and saying, "...... What else do you think? She was indeed the same as the hairpin lady said, the first suspicion was the medical order and others of the Imperial Medical Department, as well as those courtiers who had a lot to do with the Imperial Medical Department. However, the official trial of Dali Temple has not yet come down, and everything is hidden in the fog.

Since the hairpin girl experienced Aya's debasement and exile, her mind has been forced to grow rapidly, so now she has a good analysis of clues and clues:

"Lord Qin might as well think about it the other way around, if the Imperial Physician Department really poisoned the prince like this, wouldn't it be tantamount to destroying his future. When His Majesty finds out the truth, those people in the Imperial Doctor's Department will be charged with losing their heads.

"I think the mastermind behind the cinnabar case should have had a holiday with the imperial doctor's decree and the prince of the East Palace, so that he can kill two birds with one stone."

Qin Ying snorted and laughed when he heard this: "That chief envoy may also have a deep holiday with me. What he used to poison was not good, he had to use cinnabar.

"In addition to being able to find cinnabar in the three medical pharmacies in the palace and His Majesty's imperial study, you can also find a few taels in my room. After all, during the period when Qin prayed for the prince, he drew a lot of runes with cinnabar.

"I serve medicine in the Lizheng Hall every day, and I am also suspicious in the eyes of others. If Qin had not drunk the poisonous decoction that night, and if His Majesty had not been able to track it down, then Qin would have betrayed the black cauldron that murdered the prince in the end. ”

The hairpin lady sighed and said, "It's not a good thing that Your Majesty has appointed your eldest son Chengqian as the prince so early. The courtiers of the previous dynasty did not know how to keep a proper distance from the crown prince: too far away could be ostracized by the new lord, and too close might be unpleasant to His Majesty.

The concubines of the harem are secretly watching the East Palace, and their sons can't get the position of the prince because of their concubines, but let those jealous women watch His Royal Highness the prince succeed to the throne, I'm afraid they can't be reconciled. Besides, this year's Qingming, the prince's sudden illness is also very strange......"

"Could it be that this is the work of one person, who wants to abolish the prince in secret? But the prince is only thirteen years old now, how can that person be heavy-handed! Qin Ying unconsciously raised her voice. The day before she came to the Hanlin Academy, she had a dispute with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. But she was the prince's physician after all, and Qin Ying couldn't allow her patients to be counted so thoroughly.

"It's probably a little bit early to start. But it is understandable that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has gradually emerged in front of His Majesty, causing others to be uneasy.

"I remember that in March last year, Du Ruhui, the right servant, was unfortunately seriously ill, and His Majesty asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go out of the palace to visit Du Mansion on his behalf. In the following May, His Majesty ordered the prince to 'order a lawsuit', and also said, 'From now on, the complainant will only be in Shangshu Province, and he will be instructed in the East Palace to make a decision. ’

"It shows that His Majesty has begun to rely on the crown prince, teach him how to win people's hearts, and cultivate his ability to inherit the throne."

Qin Ying was stunned and speechless for a long time.

In her previous life, she had been in the palace for ten years, and she thought that she had seen through the gray shades behind the resplendent here. But she was still naïve, she was actually very well protected in this secluded place of the Hanlin Academy.

So she didn't know that there was such a big difference between the front and back harems. The women of the harem are far more complex and terrifying than the men of the previous dynasty.

"You mean, behind the cinnabar case...... Most likely a certain concubine in the harem? Qin Ying spoke with difficulty, she covered her mouth, and she felt like she had exhausted all her strength when she spit out every word.

The hairpin lady nodded, and said: "In the first year of Zhenguan, His Majesty succeeded to the throne and ordained the four concubines of the palace. Among them, the most powerful should be Wei Guifei. However, there is no conclusive evidence now, so this needs to be considered from a long-term perspective......" Halfway through her words, her voice lowered, and Qin Ying stretched her neck and held her breath to hear clearly.

After listening to what the other party said, Qin Ying thought that she had underestimated the hairpin lady. Seeing such a young and beautiful lady in the corridor in the morning, Qin Ying subconsciously felt that the other party was just good-looking, so she got the blue eyes of her senior brother Li Chunfeng, so she went out of the court and entered Hanlin.

But she forgot a little, this palace simply can't accommodate people who have no ink on their chests and no city government. What's more, the hairpin lady is still a woman, and she has been able to get to her current position step by step, not just by virtue of her beautiful face and hairpins.

"You're done talking, should you talk about me?" The hairpin lady said a lot, and when she was thirsty at this time, she drank a sip of the light coniferous Baihao tea soup, and said quietly.

Qin Ying nodded silently after hearing this, and thought in her heart, it seemed that it would be difficult for her to have the upper hand when she cooperated with such a smart lady.

"Everyone in the palace calls me the hairpin lady, but there are few people who actually know my real surname. Empress Eldest Sun counts as one, your senior brother Li Chunfeng counts as one, and you will count as one immediately. She put down the teacup and sighed.