Chapter XXIII: Poisoning
Last night's heavy rain poured, the wind blowing from outside the courtyard blew off the small flowers on the vines, fell in the mud, very poignant, after the string song got up early, he picked up the flowers in the mire one by one, all put them in the pure water, looking at the flowers floating up and down, the string song heart inexplicably sad.
Since that day, after Concubine Huang Shufei made it difficult for Xiange, Xiange got up early every day and bowed to the palaces to show her peace, but she never thought that Gu Chi had issued a holy decree to exempt her from all her requests for peace, and told anyone not to disturb her.
In the Falling Dust Pavilion, Xian Ge frowned, Gu Chi undoubtedly drove her above the Sixth Palace this time, I don't know how much hatred she has incurred, and the open guns and hidden arrows in the future are afraid that it will be difficult to dodge.
And Du Guifei in the Drunken Moon Palace was lazily leaning on the chaise longue, the clothes made of moonlight brocade on her body were particularly dazzling, and her personal maid whispered in her ear.
"You don't have to make a move, there are people who will deal with the Falling Dust Pavilion, and they will lose both." Du Guifei smiled lightly, and her eyebrows were full of style.
The westernmost side of the drunken moon palace is Huang Shufei's Zhenghe Palace, the house is in a mess, vases and dishes smashed to the ground, the maidservants knelt on the ground and did not dare to make a sound, Huang Shufei sat on the top, her face was flushed with anger, and the white crane on her head shook with the anger of Concubine Shu, a slap slapped on the table, knocked over the teapot, and the tea splashed on the long sleeves, which made Concubine Shu even more upset, with a wave of her big hand, the tea set on the table was thrown to the ground, and the sound of 'pop' was particularly harsh in the hall, and the maids trembled in fright.
"What is she, she actually asked the emperor to personally issue an order to exempt him from asking for peace, if he enters the position one day, he will not ride to the head of the palace." Huang Shufei was angry again, grabbed the porcelain she could hold next to her and smashed it on the ground.
The maidservants were silent, and no one dared to persuade them, only the nurse of the concubine opened her mouth to persuade: "Niangniang is angry, how can that little hoof be compared to Niangniang, the emperor is just a freshness, and you have a big prince, isn't it more than enough to deal with her as a talented person." ”
Huang Shufei slapped the table again, bit her lip, and said hatefully: "Shame!"
The nurse made a look, and the maids retreated, came to the concubine, and whispered: "Niangniang doesn't have to be angry, just do it quietly." ”
Huang Shufei's eyes were fierce, "But the emperor is very protective of him, I'm afraid it's not easy to do it." ”
"Niangniang is confused, hasn't the noble man always wanted to show favor to Niangniang, it is better to borrow her hand." The nurse made a head-killing move.
Huang Shufei smiled weirdly, tidied up her clothes, and said, "Go, call her over." ”
"Yes."
The nurse quickly went to Mo Guiren's Feiyu Xuan and invited her to have tea with Concubine Huang Shu.
After a while, Mo Guiren arrived at the Zhenghe Palace, and as soon as the people entered the door, they began to compliment, "Sister Shufei's Zhenghe Hall is really magnificent, and there are countless treasures, which makes my sister envious." ”
Huang Shufei was stunned, but still smiled, "My sister has it, and my sister will have it in the future." ”
Mo Guiren shuddered, and quickly knelt down, "Niangniang forgives her sins, but the concubine doesn't dare." ”
"Sister don't have to be afraid." Concubine Huang Shufei picked up Mo Guiren, helped her fix her hair bun, and said: "As long as my sister gets the emperor's heart, she doesn't have what she wants." ”
"The concubine is terrified!" Mo Guiren bowed his head in horror.
Concubine Huang Shu picked up Mo Guiren, led her to the cabinet, handed her a box of incense powder painted with gold paint, and said in a low voice: "It's time for you to sleep tonight, you just need to smear this powder all over your body, and the future grace will be self-evident." ”
Mo Guiren took it respectfully, with a light in his eyes, and hurriedly knelt down to thank him, "Xie Niangniang was promoted, and the concubine was grateful." ”
"Sister doesn't have to say thank you." Concubine Shu picked up Mo Guiren, held her hand, and smiled, "If you are favored, don't forget your sister." ”
Mo Guiren's face was flushed, his head was lowered, and he was secretly happy, "The concubine will always be my sister's person." ”
Concubine Huang Shufei smiled, turned her head disdainfully, and her eyes signaled to the nurse, the nurse understood, came in and saluted, and said, "The old slave will send the nobleman."
Mo Guiren followed the nurse out of the Zhenghe Palace, Concubine Shu took off the hand towel, wiped her hands in disgust, and threw the hand towel aside, Lianbu moved lightly, sat in front of the dresser, picked up the powder, and depicted her eyebrows little by little, after painting, she smiled fiercely at the mirror, as if she was saying to herself, "Xian Ge, you just wait for death." ”
That night, Gu Chi really recruited Mo Guiren to sleep, and Mo Guiren also firmly grasped this opportunity, Gu Chi was very useful, rewarded her with a lot of jewelry, and painted her eyebrows with his own hands, which made the people of the Sixth Palace jealous.
Caiwen paced from the door, walked to the string song, and sighed leisurely, "I didn't expect that Mo Guiren was actually favored." ”
"Being able to win the emperor's favor, that's her ability, why make a fuss." String Song lazily swings on the swing.
Cai Wen pouted, "It's just a little sigh." ”
Xian Ge quipped: "Otherwise, find an opportunity to let the emperor seal you too." ”
"The master laughed." Caiwen hurriedly knelt down, looking a little flustered.
"Get up, I'll tease you." Xian Ge smiled and looked into the distance.
Caiwen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and shook the swing for the string song by himself.
In the evening, the clouds burrow into the twilight, the stars rise in the sky, the soft chirping of insects emanates from the grass, and the flowers of the night try to sleep in the hope of blooming in the early morning.
Xian Ge meditated for a day, and finally calmed down in the evening, and slowly ate the meal, and Feiluan, the maid of the concubine, carried the basket to the Dust Pavilion.
Cai Wen saw that it was Feiluan, so he saluted and said, "Sister Feiluan is good." ”
Feiluan picked up Caiwen and handed the basket to her, "This is the food sent by Concubine Shu." ”
"Thank you, sister."
"It's all the grace of the mother." Feiluan smiled secretly, and after paying attention to the direction of the string song, he returned to the Drunken Moon Palace.
Xian Ge drank the soup, and saw Cai Wen walk in with a basket and asked, "What is that?"
Caiwen opened the basket and took out the food inside, which turned out to be a plate of pumpkin pie, and said with a pout: "The food that the lady gave to the master." ”
"Bring it." Xian Ge took out a piece of silver from his bosom, threw the silver on a cake next to him, and waited for a long time, the silver was as bright as the same, and it did not change, so she let go of her heart, picked up the cake in the middle, and took a bite, sweet, it was the taste she liked.
Eating the cake, Gu Chi came uninvited.
"What are you eating, so fragrant?"
Xian Ge saluted and said, "Do you want to taste the pumpkin pie sent by Concubine Shu?"
Gu Chi sighed, "It's so fragrant, I want to taste it too, but I don't like pumpkin, so I'll leave it to you for exclusivity." ”
Xian Ge smiled, "The emperor is a picky eater?"
"That's not it, it's just that after eating it once when I was a child, I had unbearable abdominal pain, so I stopped eating it later." watched the string song eat happily, and said, "You love to eat everything." ”
Xian Ge doesn't speak, she eats by herself, and since she was a child, Yu Yan has loved to make delicious food for her, and she has all the ingredients, so she doesn't have anything she doesn't like to eat.
A few pieces of pumpkin pie went down, and Xian Ge was a little supportive, rubbing his stomach with his hands, and then asked Caiwen to withdraw from eating.
When Gu Chi saw Xiange's move, he laughed with a 'poof', causing Xiange to be slightly horizontal.
"It's pretty edible." Gu Chi quipped.
Xian Ge's face was full of embarrassment, and he didn't have a good seizure, so he continued to rub his stomach, "It's okay." ”
Gu Chi was stunned, glanced at the furnishings in the house, as if something was missing, and asked, "Why don't you see the purple jade grapes I gave you?"
"It's too precious, I'm afraid of falling dust, so I asked Caiwen to put it away." Xian Ge suddenly felt sleepy, and raised his hand to press his temple.
"What's going on?" Gu Chi stretched out his hand to probe Xiange's forehead, but Xiange instinctively avoided it, "It's okay, it's okay." ”
Gu Chi withdrew his hand in embarrassment and coughed lightly, "That, I'll go back first, and I'll come to see you tomorrow." ”
Xian Ge barely pulled out a smile, and Gu Chi left in a huff.
Yawning, Xian Ge felt extremely sleepy, everything in front of her became blurry, she shook her head, she wanted to wake up, but she was still groggy, so she dragged her body, slowly walked to the bed, and fell asleep.
This night, it seems that I slept very sweetly, and I had no desire to wake up at all.
The next day, Caiwen got up early and saw that Xian Ge was still asleep, so he didn't wake her up and started cleaning the yard by himself.
Another hour passed, and before Xian Ge got up, Caiwen muttered, "The master gets up early on weekdays, why is he so sleepy today." ”
With curiosity, Caiwen entered the inner room, and when he saw that Xian Ge was sleeping sweetly, he quietly retreated again, leaned against the door frame and began to nap.
After the early dynasty, Gu Chi came to the Dust Pavilion and woke up Caiwen, who quickly knelt down, "The emperor forgives the sin." ”
Gu Chi waved his hand, looked around, and asked, "Get up, where is your master?"
"The master is still asleep, so I'll call it." Caiwen hurriedly went to the inner room to call Xian Ge, but no matter how to call it, Xian Ge just didn't wake up, which made Caiwen anxious, she hurriedly ran out and reported to Gu Chi, "Your Majesty, it's not good, I'm afraid something has happened to the master." ”
Gu Chi listened, walked into the inner room quickly, and saw Xian Ge lying quietly, a bad premonition rose in his heart, and he quickly stretched out his hand to probe Xian Ge's snort, fortunately, there was still breathing, patting Xian Ge's face, with anxiety in his tone, "Wake up." ”
But no matter how Gu Chi called, the string song was motionless.
Gu Chi's expression darkened, and his voice was low, "Was there anything unusual in the Falling Dust Pavilion last night?"
Caiwen knelt on the ground, with tears in his eyes, "No." ”
"Pass on the Imperial Doctor!" Gu Chi exclaimed urgently.
Cai Wen was relieved and hurriedly ran to the imperial doctor.
About a quarter of an hour, a group of people from the Tai Hospital hurried to the Dust Pavilion with medicine boxes to diagnose the pulse of Xiange.
After the Imperial Physician Chen, who was the leader, checked the pulse, he shook his head secretly, Gu Chi saw this, and there was already great anger in his eyes, "What's wrong?"
Imperial Physician Chen arched his hand, "I'm afraid that Mingcai people are poisoned in such a state." ”
"Poisoned?" Gu Chi frowned slightly, and there was a murderous aura on his face.
"The ministers are just guesses, and the exact situation is unknown." Imperial Physician Chen trembled a little, he saw Gu Chi's expression, if this talented person couldn't be saved, the Imperial Hospital would suffer, thinking of this, Imperial Physician Chen actually had cold sweat on his forehead.
"Can you find out the cause and poisoning?" Gu Chi opened his mouth coldly.
Imperial Physician Chen led everyone to kneel down tremblingly, and shouted in unison, "The emperor forgives the sin, and the ministers are incompetent." ”
"Incompetent? Three days is the limit, if the only one can't wake up, you can tell the old man and return to his hometown. Gu Chi felt a faint pain in his head, everything in the Dust Pavilion was arranged by himself, and the meals were checked every time, but why was Xiange poisoned, could it be, pumpkin pie!" Caiwen, bring the pumpkin pie sent by Concubine Shu yesterday. ”
In a moment, Caiwen brought the pumpkin pie.
Gu Chi motioned to Imperial Physician Chen, "Let's see if it's poisonous"
Imperial Physician Chen stepped forward, carefully picked up a piece of pumpkin pie, sniffed it carefully, tasted a little more, and after confirming, said, "Back to the emperor, it is non-toxic." ”
"Go down, you still have three days." Gu Chi's expression returned to normal, but his tone was still cold.
The doctors hurriedly returned to the hospital, flipped through the medical books, and discussed the treatment method.
Gu Chi sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Xian Ge, she just fell asleep quietly, without words, without expression, which made him very scared, such a scene reminded him of the fifth sister, he already had regrets, and he didn't want to have any regrets, especially after he became the emperor.
He gently picked up the string song and took her to his bedchamber so that it would be easier to take care of her.
In the dark, a little eunuch sneakily ran to the Zhenghe Palace, knelt in front of the hall, and told Huang Shufei everything in the Dust Pavilion, after learning the news, Concubine Shu breathed a long sigh of relief, with a smile on her face that could not be hidden, and picked up a piece of gold and rewarded the little eunuch, "Continue to star, there is news to report at any time." ”
"Slaves obey!"
The little eunuch happily took the gold and quietly went back to guard it.
The nurse walked in from behind the curtain, her face was full of smiles, but she was a little blessed, and the flesh on her face was piled up, looking a little funny, "Congratulations to the mother." ”
"It's still a nurse." Concubine Shu stepped forward to hold the nurse's hand, and secretly sighed in her heart that she was still not hot enough.
The nurse didn't know what Concubine Shu thought, so she withdrew her hand, and then held Concubine Shu's hand and said, "Niangniang doesn't have to be like this, didn't you handle Wang Zhaoyi very well in the past." ”
Listening to the nurse's words, Huang Shufei smiled ruthlessly, and her shoulders shook, no matter who it was, she had to get rid of it, and when the matter of the string song was over, it would be Du Lefeng's turn, and what about the concubine, she was not her opponent.
As if she remembered something again, Concubine Huang Shufei smiled and whispered in the nurse's ear, "If the emperor eats pumpkin pie, how will it end." ”
"Niangniang don't worry, everyone in the palace knows that the emperor doesn't like pumpkins, so they deliberately avoid making pumpkin food." The nurse gave Concubine Shu a calm look to reassure her.
After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled, planning their next move.