Ling Xi was pacing back and forth in Qingfeng Garden, Ling Yao had already married yesterday, it stands to reason that Ling Yao would enter the palace with Ye Muzhi today to thank him, but Ling Xi waited for a long time, and he didn't wait for the news of their entry into the palace. Maybe it's the newlywed Yan'er, they will be late, Ling Xi comforted herself like this, maybe only in this way will her heart be better.

If Ling Yao and Ye Muzhi entered the palace, Ling Yao would definitely come to Qingfeng Garden to meet her, she hadn't seen Ling Yao for a long time, I don't know if Jiang Shuangxue would also enter the palace? At this moment, she missed them a little.

After a while, Jiang Mengqi walked into Qingfeng Garden in a hurry, Ling Xi was stunned, why did Jiang Mengqi enter the palace? She looked behind Jiang Mengqi, there was no figure of the bride Ling Yao, and Ling Xi became even more puzzled.

"Why did my sister-in-law enter the palace?" Ling Xi asked.

After Jiang Mengqi saw Ling Xi, her eyes immediately turned red, and she approached Ling Xi in a dejected way, and she didn't even bother to salute Ling Xi.

"Queen Mother, something happened to the Marquis of Pingyuan's mansion."

Ling Xi didn't seem to hear clearly, she looked at Jiang Mengqi, who was already in tears in front of her, and asked faintly: "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about, this palace didn't hear clearly." ”

With a pop, Jiang Mengqi knelt down in front of Ling Xi's eyes, and she said loudly to Ling Xi: "Queen Mother, Mrs. Pingyuan Hou has passed away. ”

Suddenly Ling Xi felt that the sky was dark, and her body swayed a little, Aunt An immediately stepped forward to help her, Ling Xi sat slowly in the courtyard, her expression was dull, she didn't seem to believe Jiang Mengqi's words, she shook her head gently, and muttered, "How can this be?" ”

Ling Xi remembered the scene of her wedding day again, which had become her farewell to Jiang Shuangxue, and suddenly a tear flowed from her eyes.

"Queen Mother, please mourn." Jiang Mengqi comforted softly.

"When is it?" Ling Xi asked.

"My aunt is listening to Yuzhai this morning."

Ling Xi's eyes were full of doubts, she hadn't heard that Jiang Shuangxue was unwell before, she asked Jiang Mengqi puzzledly: "My aunt has always been healthy, why did she die suddenly?" ”

Jiang Mengqi raised her head slowly, she looked at Ling Xi, and said with some anger: "Doctor Xu said that he died violently. ”

"Sudden death?" Ling Xi muttered to himself.

Jiang Mengqi got up from the ground, she carefully helped Ling Xi up, and said softly: "Queen Mother, there is a funeral in the Pingyuan Hou Mansion, the county lord of Anning and Zhong Yibo have gone to the Hou Mansion, a good happy event has become a funeral, the mother must take care of her body, she can't be too sad, the wind is strong in the courtyard, the mother should go into the house." ”

As soon as Ling Xi wanted to ask Jiang Mengqi carefully, she saw Jiang Mengqi's somewhat strange eyes, and soon Jiang Mengqi turned her head and gave a palace person behind her a look, this palace person hurriedly stepped forward and helped Ling Xi up, followed by a doctor with a medicine box on his back. Ling Xi glanced at the doctor, it was actually Doctor Xu beside Jiang Shuangxue.

"Queen Mother, there are still many things to take care of in the Pingyuan Marquis Mansion, and the courtiers have retired first." After saying that, Jiang Mengqi left Qingfeng Garden, but Doctor Xu stayed where he was, and Ling Xi took a look

Doctor Xu, frowning, walked towards the house.

After Ling Xi returned to the house, she waved her hand, and the palace people in the house retreated, she looked at Doctor Xu, remembering Jiang Mengqi's words just now, she was full of doubts in her heart.

"Queen Mother, your face is not good, let me check your pulse." Doctor Xu said softly.

"Doctor Xu, what does it mean to die violently?" Ling Xi asked anxiously.

"If there is no external force, or in the case of poisoning, sudden death refers to sudden death in a short period of time due to a certain disease."

"Do you want to tell this palace that my aunt died of illness? That's what you're in the palace for? ”

Ling Xi looked at Doctor Xu with sharp eyes, she didn't believe that Doctor Xu entered the palace, just to tell her that Jiang Shuangxue died a normal death, and Jiang Mengqi would not risk bringing men from the outer palace into the palace.

Doctor Xu slowly came to Ling Xi, he took out a green jade hairpin from his arms, and whispered: "I entered the palace because I was entrusted by my wife to bring this hairpin to Niangniang." ”

Ling Xi recognized at a glance that this was the green jade hairpin that Jiang Shuangxue personally carried on her head when she got married, and later she didn't bring it into the palace because of her anger. She stretched out her hand and took the hairpin from Dr. Xu's hand tremblingly, her tears fell again, she remembered what she said to Jiang Shuangxue when she got married, she had ten thousand regrets, she really wanted to say to Jiang Shuangxue, she was all angry, but unfortunately she never had a chance again.

Doctor Xu took a few steps back, he knelt down respectfully in front of Ling Xi, and said: "Queen Mother, after you entered the palace, Madame blamed herself, she would go to Baohua Temple every month, just to pray for Niangniang, Niangniang, Madame is not what you imagined, you don't know Madame." I guess there are some things you should want to know. ”

Ling Xi looked at Doctor Xu in front of her, she couldn't remember when she heard that there was a figure of Doctor Xu in Yuzhai, maybe there were many things she didn't know in Yuzhai.

Ling Xi silently clenched the green jade hairpin in her hand, and couldn't help but put it on her chest, she said bitterly: "Doctor Xu, what do you want to say?" ”

Doctor Xu lowered his head, stared at the ground with a pair of lonely eyes, and said softly: "My name is Xu Ziqing, my family is the imperial physician family of Dongyu Kingdom, thirty years ago, I entered the court at the age of 16 and became the youngest imperial doctor in the court at that time. That year, I was high-spirited, and I was extremely conceited, and I was very bold in the medicine of the palace concubines many times, maybe I was lucky, maybe the palace concubines I had seen were not serious diseases, and every time I could get rid of the disease, I gradually became the most popular imperial doctor in the harem. Later, Mrs. Wu in the harem took my decoction and actually had a miscarriage, and I couldn't argue, I thought I was dead, until a young lady from the family appeared. ”

"It was a young lady from a family who came into the palace to visit the palace concubine, and the young lady said that she saw that Mrs. Wu had eaten refreshments after taking medicine, and it was because of her words that I was saved, and I will always remember the bright smile of that young lady that year, when she was only twelve years old. After this, I became disheartened and resigned from my position as imperial doctor

After that, I opened a medicine stove in Yicheng. Many years later, I saw the young lady again in the city of Yicheng, and in my medicine furnace, the young lady was already slim, and I recognized her at a glance. From then on, I often went to the young lady's house to check her pulse, and as long as I could see her, I would be very satisfied, and I thought I should have fallen in love with this young lady. ”

A slight smile leaked from Dr. Xu's face, but soon he choked up a little, he adjusted his mood slightly, and continued: "Later, I heard that the young lady was married, and I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night, but I knew that I was not worthy of her. After she got married, I moved the medicine stove near her husband's house, just so that I could always know how she was doing. I don't know when I started, I became her doctor, I can see her, watch her give birth to children, help her regulate her body, I am very content, to be able to accompany her through her life, is my greatest happiness, but she died today, and finally she died in my arms. ”

A tear quietly crossed Dr. Xu's face and fell silently to the ground. Doctor Xu wiped the tears on his face with his hands, Ling Xi looked at Xu Ziqing who was crying for Jiang Shuangxue, and suddenly she thought of Ling Xiao, maybe Ling Xiao would not shed tears for Jiang Shuangxue in her life.

"Does my aunt know?"

"I don't know if Madame knows my heart, but it doesn't matter, I never asked for anything, I just want to guard her, no matter life or death, Queen Mother, I'm leaving Yicheng and going to Chenzhou, I will open a medicine furnace there, stay by Madame's side, and never return to Yicheng for the rest of my life." After speaking, Xu Ziqing slammed his head on the ground, and a painful choked sound occurred from his throat.

Suddenly, Xu Ziqing raised his head and looked at Ling Xi, his slightly reddish eyes were bloodshot, like red threads soaked in blood, piercing his eyeballs, as if there was not only pain but also hatred in his eyes.

"Before leaving, I want to go into the palace to see Niangniang, in addition to telling you that Madame is not a ruthless mother, I also want to tell you that Madame was poisoned and died."

Ling Xi stood up excitedly, one of her hands held the green jade hairpin tightly, and the stinging pain of the hairpin came from her palm, but she was already unconscious, and she looked at Doctor Xu with angry eyes.

"You mean, my aunt was killed by someone? Do you have proof? ”

"No, the poison in Mrs. is very rare, if the amount of poison is very low, it will not be poisoned for ten or eight years, and when the poison occurs, it will be like a normal death due to disease organ failure."

"Who is it? Who poisoned my aunt? Ling Xi asked almost through gritted teeth.

"Niangniang should be able to guess, after Niangniang got married, Mrs. went to Baohua Temple on the first and fifteenth days of each month to go to Baohua Temple to incense, Leng Qiuye couldn't do it in Listening to Yuzhai, so she asked Ling Fu to buy the little novice of Baohua Temple and poison Mrs. Vegetarian Zhai. Yesterday at noon, Mrs. was already poisoned, and Uncle Guo immediately guessed that Leng Qiuye did it, he investigated from Ling Fu, found Baohua Temple, and found the little novice. Xiao Shami confessed, saying that Ling Fu told him that every time his wife went, he only put a little poison on the stars, and Leng Qiuye originally thought

Let the lady die silently. But some time ago, the third lady was almost tied up and sent out of the harem by the palace people, maybe Leng Qiuye had no hope, she didn't want to wait any longer, so they ordered a hundred times the amount of poison, and they couldn't wait to poison Mrs. impatiently. ”

Saying that, Doctor Xu took out a brown porcelain bottle from his arms, and after he raised the porcelain bottle above his head, he said softly: "After this poison reaches a certain amount, you can't drink alcohol, once you drink alcohol, you will immediately die of poison, and the toxicity of this poison will be amplified and decomposed in the wine, that is to say, even the imperial doctor can't detect the signs of poisoning, Leng Qiuye should have calculated it." Mrs. eats fasting and recites Buddha all year round, and does not drink much, but at the wedding banquet yesterday, Leng Qiuye toasted Mrs. Lee, and Mrs. came back with poison. ”

"Didn't you ask A-Niang for peace every month? Why don't you know about poisoning? Ling Xi asked Xu Ziqing with some complaint.

Xu Ziqing's raised hands trembled slightly, he lowered his head, and said painfully: "It's me who is careless, I have been taking the pulse of my wife in the past few years, and I do feel that my wife's pulse is a little weak, but I thought that my wife was worried because of my sad mother's entry into the palace, and it was indeed because I didn't take good care of her." ”

Ling Xi sat slumped on the chair, she looked at the green jade hairpin in her hand, and remembered that when she got married, Jiang Shuangxue said something to her, which actually became the last goodbye words of their mother and daughter, and her heart throbbed.

"Does my father know about this?" Ling Xi said faintly.

"Madame didn't let me tell the Hou Ye, Madame said that the third lady was going to marry into the Duanwang Mansion, this kind of no definite evidence, just based on the words of a little novice, can not prove Leng Qiuye. Whether Hou Ye believes it or not, Hou Ye will make this matter a big thing a small matter, which is the best for the Pingyuan Hou Mansion. ”

Ling Xi sneered, she looked at the green jade hairpin in her hand, and some temperature came from the warm jade, Ling Xi couldn't tell whether this was the temperature in her hand or the breath left by Jiang Shuangxue. She got up forcefully and came to Xu Ziqing's side, she took the bottle of harmful poison, she held it firmly in her hand, and said word by word: "Doctor Xu, you can go to Chenzhou with peace of mind, my mother's matter will not end like this." ”

(End of chapter)