Chapter 195: The Strangeness of This Poison
The whole body of the fifth prince was awake, even if he was tormented by the cold like freezing ice, he felt that his heart was beating rapidly at this moment.
When he was still in the palace, he was already very uncomfortable, and there was almost no thought in his head. However, there are people in the palace who want to hide all this, although he is a prince, but after all, his biological mother's background was too low at the beginning and was not valued. Although he was raised under the name of Mei Guifei, in fact Mei Guifei was his enemy, and Mei Guifei was bent on having a child of her own, except in front of outsiders, she was not very enthusiastic about him in private.
This time his poisoning was quite strange, in addition to his investigation touched the core secret that some people tried to hide was extinguished, Mei Guifei knew very well the difference in him, and should also be able to think that he was poisoned, but pretended that nothing had happened, did not summon the imperial doctor for him, nor did he inform his father of the matter, but locked him in the palace, and sent someone to monitor his every move.
Until he was taken out of the palace and brought to the eldest princess's mansion, he had always been in a daze, if it weren't for Fang Xiaoyu who used his internal force to ward off the cold for him, I'm afraid he was still in a dying state, with only some vague impressions of the outside world, and even the ability to think was almost deprived.
"The one who spies on you is the one who poisoned you?" Fang Xiaoyu observed the reaction of the Fifth Prince, he seemed to be very afraid of those who were watching him, thinking that something must have happened that made him not dare to act rashly.
The fifth prince shook his head and said, "I don't even know who the person who poisoned me is, but there are some suspicious clues." Those who were spying on me were sent by Concubine Mei, and I went to greet her as usual. She clearly saw that I was sick, but she remained silent, and secretly sent someone to monitor me. I was not allowed to step out of the palace gate at will. Several of the palace maids I served were killed because they wanted to hire a doctor for me or because they wanted to report to my father and the crown prince......"
"Who did you see before you were poisoned? What have you eaten? Fang Xiaoyu was a little puzzled. She thought that the five princes were poisoned because they touched the truth about Jian An's death, and it was likely that following the content of the brown paper, the five princes found out what was discovered, so they wanted to kill him.
However, if the matter is caused by Jian An's matter, then the people behind the scenes should be Zhou Guifei Zhou Ling and the second prince Ye Shucheng. What did Mei Guifei suddenly pop out for? Isn't it possible that Mei Guifei and Zhou Guifei are together on weekdays? Disagreeing with each other is just a trick to outsiders?
And most importantly, there is a very suspicious suspicion that she can't explain clearly, if she wants to kill people. Wouldn't it be better to poison the five princes directly? In this way, there is no need to worry that the five princes have time to tell others everything and expose the plan, so why bother to find the strange poison of the ice kiss and torture the five princes day and night. How much hatred does this have to be?
"I don't know when I got the poison. If you only talk about the day before yesterday, in addition to asking Concubine Mei for peace, you will go to your father to report your homework. The fifth prince couldn't figure out what was wrong. If it is about the possibility of poisoning, there are no more people in the palace who can poison his food and tea, and there is no way to trace it. And he was never allowed by his father to go out to open a mansion, so he could only live in the palace. There are so many people in the palace that they can't be counted, and anyone they meet may be a murderer. Can't recall at all.
"Do you remember the symptoms of the poisoning at first?" Fang Xiaoyu frowned. She always felt that something was wrong, but something was hindering her train of thought.
The fifth prince thought for a moment. A little uncertain: "At first, I was just chilling, but my body still had a temperature, and it was clear that the sun was shining brightly, there was no wind and no rain, but it was always like a gust of wind blowing behind me, and it was cold and biting in an instant." Gradually, I felt that my tongue did not feel it, and although I could eat the taste of food, even if it was steaming, it was cold......"
"Huh?" Fang smiled for a moment. The situation mentioned by the Five Princes did not match the symptoms of the Ice Kiss Poison at all.
Rather, it's the opposite.
If a person is poisoned by the ice kiss, he will not feel cold for the first three to five days, on the contrary, he will get hotter and hotter, even if it is covered with snow in winter, he will almost sweat profusely. After three to five days, it will be a turning point, the body will start to gradually chill, the whole body will start to be a little cold, and the temperature on the skin will gradually subside, in exchange for the touch like ice.
However, the body is cold, but the sense of taste is not as the fifth prince said, you can eat the taste, but everything is cold. On the contrary, people who have been poisoned by ice kisses have no taste for anything they eat, and their mouths are extremely sensitive to heat, and they will have a feeling that hot food will be hot after entering the mouth, but this feeling will only be for a moment, and it will tend to be cold.
The poisoned person will be sensitive to this process of turning from hot to cold, which is also a kind of torture for people.
And what the fifth prince said, after feeling unwell at first, he immediately felt chills all over his body, which in itself is inconsistent with the ice kiss.
Fang Xiaoyu did not interrupt the reminder, but continued to listen to the fifth prince: "I noticed something wrong with my body, and I asked the imperial doctor to see it, and the imperial doctor said that it was a sign of wind and cold. I don't believe it, it's reasonable to be infected with wind chills, but I've never heard of people infected with wind chills have an effect on the tongue. I think that the imperial doctor often diagnoses Mei Guifei's pulse, thinking that maybe he is Mei Guifei's confidant, and he won't say anything to me, and even wonder if this matter is related to Mei Guifei, after all, I am her enemy, although she may not know that I already know the truth at that time, and have hatred for her, but she raised me under her knees, after all, it was not voluntary, and I was not her biological mother, and my biological mother was still victimized by her, and it was common sense to be wary of me. Therefore, I secretly went out of the palace and went to the doctor outside the palace for a consultation, and the doctor said that I was poisoned, which was made of a rare ice wheel flower on the snowy mountain, although this poison will not be fatal for a while, but it will slowly destroy the body, if you do not find the antidote, you will eventually become disabled, and you will no longer be able to live like an ordinary person in your life, and you will slowly no longer feel the temperature. ”
The fifth prince glanced at Fang Xiaoyu, and seeing that Fang Xiaoyu seemed to be thinking about something, he continued: "The doctor said that this poison is difficult to solve, and the medicine that needs to be configured with an antidote is even more difficult to find. There was nothing he could do, but there was a way to temporarily alleviate the spread of the poison throughout his body, so he prescribed a prescription for me. I am afraid that this man is a quack. I deliberately looked for a few more doctors to see them, and the conclusions I got were generally the same, so I believed the doctor's words, boiled the prescription, and drank a bowl. That night, I felt better, and my body not only stopped feeling cold, but felt extremely hot. I thought it was medicine that worked. I am also glad in my heart that although it cannot be cured, it can at least be suppressed. I can also slowly look for antidote herbs and completely uproot the poison in my body. ”
The cold light in Fang Xiaoyu's eyes flashed, and he asked, "How long has your body been feverish?" ”
"Five days. The body is cold and hot, but it is also a lot more comfortable. It can be about five days. Then there was no improvement. Not only is it useless to the body, but it feels colder than before, and there is no taste in the mouth, and everything you eat is not cold like before, but there is a momentary feeling of heat, and then it seems to be frozen in the mouth, and it instantly turns into a cold burn. I went to look for the doctor again, but the doctor's clinic was empty. Gone. I felt like I had been fooled and never took the drug again. Since then. The body gradually became cold and had no temperature, and even now, even the blood is frozen and cannot flow out. Maybe my life is short, but I think it has something to do with the death of Princess Naan. The people who were suspicious in the hearts of the fifth prince were naturally the second prince and Zhou Guifei, but Fang Xiaoyu felt that there were too many strange things about this matter.
"If Concubine Zhou and the second prince want to kill people, they won't use such a troublesome way to harm you. Just poisoning you with a dose of poison will be fine, why leave you alive and make you suffer day and night, but it also gives you the possibility to pass on the news. Fang Xiaoyu's doubts were like this.
The fifth prince shook his head and smiled, and said, "After all, I am a prince, even if I am not valued by my father, I am also a royal bloodline." If he dies suddenly and inexplicably, his father will definitely not pursue the matter, so he is likely to expose the two of them. That's why he used the method of chronic poison, trying to grind me to death day by day. ”
"That's not right." Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and retorted: "The poison of the ice kiss, if the poisoned person dies, the death is very abnormal, and the whole person is like an ice sculpture, which will shatter when knocked out." All the internal organs will be frozen, and even the corpse capital cannot be dissected. If you are the fifth prince and you are so dead, wouldn't it arouse the emperor's suspicion even more? In this way, it is difficult to escape the blame for raising your Mei Guifei, but Mei Guifei is in the deep palace, and where did the Great Zhou Qi poison come from will also make people suspicious. In addition, Concubine Mei is the daughter of Prime Minister Mei, and her body is stable in the previous dynasty, so the emperor will not make a hasty decision about this case, and it will inevitably be investigated carefully. With the emperor's means, it may not be possible to find Zhou Guifei and their heads. Rather than this, it is better to poison you to death with a dose of poison, cleanly, as long as you plan a little, you can completely push everything on Mei Guifei, or sacrifice a few pawns, and completely wash their own innocence, there is no need to use such cumbersome means to take your life. ”
The fifth prince also suddenly paused. He was poisoned before, his body was cold, and his brain was muddy, so he couldn't think about it at all, but he tried hard to tell himself that this matter must be related to Zhou Guifei and the second prince. But now that I heard Fang Xiaoyu mention this, there were too many doubts, and there seemed to be a subtle strange feeling. It's like ...... It's like someone deliberately wanted to blame Zhou Guifei and Ye Shucheng for his poisoning and even his death......
"And also, the poisoning reaction when you felt sick was too different from the poison of the ice kiss, the doctor outside the palace you mentioned was right, at the beginning, what you were in was just the poison of the ice wheel, which is a counterfeit of the ice kiss, but its poison is completely incomparable to the ice kiss."
Fang Xiaoyu snorted coldly and said: "The poison of the ice wheel is taken from the stamens of the ice wheel flower that blooms once every ten years on the Great Snow Mountain, its stamens are similar to osmanthus, and even the smell is very similar, if ordinary people can't tell the difference, they are likely to eat it as osmanthus." If it is taken with snow clam cream, it is more toxic. But its poison is not lethal, in addition to keeping the body in a cold state, even the skin can feel a little hot, and it is not easy to be noticed. But the ice kiss is different, it will slowly turn the person into an ice sculpture, and when the blood and internal organs are frozen, the mind will no longer exist, and at this time, the poisoned person will be like a living dead, with no signs of life. ”
"But!" Fang Xiaoyu said again: "At the beginning, what you were in was indeed the poison of the ice wheel, until you went to the doctor outside the palace and took that medicine, but the symptoms reflected by your body were exactly the same as the poison of the ice kiss. In other words, the prescription given to you by the doctor is a strange thing on the list of strange poisons in the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as Ice Kiss. ”
The fifth prince's fingers trembled slightly, but he didn't expect that it was he who led the poison to his body, but he said strangely: "But this prescription, I also looked for the doctor from the Tai Hospital, and he said that there is no problem, on the contrary, it is beneficial to the body......
"You also said that the imperial doctor often treats Mei Guifei, and it is likely to be Mei Guifei's person." Fang said with a smile.
The fifth prince shook his head and said, "But I'm looking for another imperial doctor." ”
"Who stipulates that a person can only buy one imperial doctor to do things for her?" Fang Xiaoyu sneered.
"You mean, that person is also Mei Guifei's person?" The fifth prince's face was pale, how could he easily believe this person, instead of looking for a few more people to take a look. If it was other doctors who were not bought by Mei Guifei, they should be able to see the problem when they saw the recipe.
"Do you remember the contents of that recipe?" Fang Xiaoyu asked suddenly.
The fifth prince was stunned by Fang Xiaoyu's question, and then reacted and said: "Not only do I remember, but because I noticed that there was something wrong with that doctor, I always carried that prescription with me, just because I was afraid that someone would destroy the traces and make it impossible for people to find out." ”
As he spoke, he took out a thin piece of paper from his arms, the handwriting on the paper was decent, there was nothing special, but as soon as he touched the paper, there was a cold feeling, it should be the cold air that had been hidden in the ice kiss dyed in the arms of the fifth prince.
"How? Is this prescription the poison of the Ice Kiss? The fifth prince hurriedly asked.
Fang Xiaoyu sighed and said, "It seems that this person is very careful, and there are no clues everywhere. As he spoke, he raised the recipe in his hand and said, "The medicinal materials in this recipe are indeed things that inhibit the poison of the ice wheel, and there is nothing wrong with it. If you drink the herbs in the recipe, you can suppress the poison of the ice wheel flower in a certain part of the body and prevent it from spreading at will. ”
"So, there's nothing wrong with the doctor?" The five princes were confused.
"Not necessarily." Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "Fang Zi has no problem, but it doesn't mean that the doctor is also fine." The appearance of this doctor is too strange, and the disappearance is too strange. There is also a possibility that there are people in your palace who are in the same group as this doctor. They gave you the poison of the ice wheel in order to cover the eyes and ears of the imperial doctor, and after you left the palace to find the doctor, someone in your palace replaced the medicinal materials in the recipe with the poison of the ice kiss. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the peace charm of [Chang Omen] and the ten starting coins of [Yun Xueyan]~