There is such a big thing in the palace, of course, it is impossible to have no follow-up.

In the afternoon of the next day, the servants of Qixiang Palace came to pass the word again, saying that the emperor had summoned him. Shen Yuli didn't hesitate at all, let Huanlin help him, and his steps flickered step by step.

The two of them are considered early, and the eldest prince, the second prince, and the third prince are behind...... and their mothers, all who were in the palace came.

He had never seen so many people gathered in one room, and his ears only felt that there was a buzzing sound everywhere, which was even more noisy than in a sparrow's nest.

Shen Yuli was still standing with his head shampled at first, but later he saw that the eldest prince and the third prince were all carried and half-lying on the chair, he shook it twice, and slowly slid down against the shoulders of the forest.

There was a small exclamation around, but everyone was not too surprised, because the other six princes present were all lying down, and of course the seventh had to lie down to be neat.

Only Qian Zhaorong's face was paler than others', and his two eyes were staring at Shen Yuli as if he were staring at some fierce beast.

After everyone had arrived, the emperor arrived late with a large group of imperial doctors.

The imperial doctors had obviously communicated with each other a long time ago, and as soon as they entered the door, they dispersed to check the pulse of several dying princes.

Shen Yuli was also fortunate to get one here.

The young imperial physician was stretching out his hand to diagnose the pulse, when Qian Zhaorong suddenly opened his mouth: "Lord Zhang, let's take a look at the condition of the Fourth Highness and the Fifth Highness?" Xiao Jiu was critically ill last night, and the two imperial doctors in my palace couldn't leave, if the illness of the other highnesses was delayed, how could I be happy! ”

Ye Guifei frowned slightly, and asked timidly: "Didn't the four highnesses and the five highnesses fail to invite a doctor last night?" ”

Qian Zhaorong blushed, lowered his head and said, "It's the concubine's fault." ”

Mr. Zhang is the head of the Tai Hospital, the most respected old man. Seeing Qian Zhaorong embarrassed at this moment, he hurriedly walked to Shen Qin's side to see him skillfully, and at the same time comforted him in a deep voice: "Zhaorong Niangniang doesn't have to worry too much, there are three highnesses around you who need to be taken care of, so it is naturally more important than elsewhere." Besides, the illness of the four highnesses and the five highnesses is not serious, and there is no need to be ashamed. ”

"Really?" Qian Zhaorong's face was overjoyed, "It's really good that His Royal Highness is not seriously ill!" Take a good look at the Fourth Highness, this kid must be strong, don't be hard! ”

Imperial Physician Zhang turned to Shen Yuli as he said, replaced the young Imperial Physician and took his wrist pulse, looked at Huan Lin and asked, "When did the Fourth Highness become ill?" ”

Huan Lin looked confused, and Shen Yuli had to reply by himself: "I went to bed early last night, and I didn't feel anything." Later, I somehow woke up, but I felt that my body was not listening to the call, and it didn't look like a serious illness. ”

At this time, Huanlin had also woken up, and hurriedly shouted: "Why is this not a serious illness?" You're fainting, you're talking nonsense! ”

Imperial Physician Zhang frowned slightly, put his fingers on Shen Yuli's wrist for a long time, and said, "Now it seems that His Highness's pulse is quite stable......

Huan Lin subconsciously took two steps back, and shouted wildly in his heart: What is it bad to pretend to be sick, this time it is exposed, right?

Shen Yuli's expression was flat and unhurried: "Really? Now that my fever has gone away this morning, I feel much better. Come to think of it, my life is cheap, I don't die so easily. ”

Imperial Physician Zhang looked at him with a blank face, and felt inexplicably that something was wrong, so he choked back the words "not sick at all" in a daze.

However, Qian Zhaorong couldn't help but ask: "I see that the four highnesses are ruddy, which is very different from the rest of the highnesses." Doctor, does this mean that you are completely well? ”

Imperial Physician Zhang stood up and said respectfully: "There are young people who are in good health and recover exceptionally quickly. ”

Qian Zhaorong was silent for a long time when he heard this, and quietly glanced at the Chongxu real person next to him.

The latter coughed and stood up with a flick of the dust: "Imperial Doctor Zhang, in your opinion, what is the reason why several His Highnesses are sick at the same time?" ”

"This ......" Imperial Physician Zhang stroked his beard, and his face showed a little embarrassment: "The condition is quite fierce, and the symptoms of several highnesses are not exactly the same, I am afraid that it will take some time for everyone in the Imperial Hospital to think about it before they can reach a conclusion." ”

Chong Xuzhen snorted disdainfully: "His Royal Highness the Ninth is extremely dangerous, although he has eaten some food this morning, how dare you say that the illness will not recur?" I have to wait for you to 'consider some time', and I am afraid that the price may not be something you can afford!" ”

Imperial Doctor Zhang was so cold sweat on his forehead by what he said, and he knelt down as soon as his legs bent: "Your Majesty, if it weren't for my hospital's perfunctory, it's really strange to come from this disease......

The old doctor was cautious, but he was afraid that the emperor would be angry, so he hesitated for a moment and didn't know whether to continue.

There was a young imperial doctor next to him who hurriedly picked up: "Your Majesty, although it is said that there are often precedents for many people to get sick at the same time, but this time the patients are all princes, concubines, princesses, and even the people below are safe and sound, which is really unusual." Wechen dared to speculate that if this disease was not poisoning, it was evil! ”

"Bold!" Qian Zhaorong's face sank, "In front of Your Majesty, how can you be allowed to talk nonsense!" There is His Majesty's dragon energy in the palace to protect him, and there is a real person in charge, where is the evil heresy! ”

The doctor was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

The emperor, who had been gloomy and didn't speak, finally pulled his beard and opened his mouth: "There is no evil, that is, poisoning?" Do you mean that someone is playing tricks in the palace and poisoning my sons? ”

Shen Yuyu, the third prince who was swollen all over, was angry: "I don't believe it." I don't have a few days to live, so who bothered to poison me? This is clearly ...... Waste of poison. ”

The young princesses nodded their heads when they heard this.

Qian Zhaorong said hatefully: "That's not accurate." A vicious person is vicious at all times. Maybe that person has an enmity with the Third Highness, and he doesn't want the Third Highness to live in peace. ”

When Shen Yuyu heard the word "enmity", he immediately looked back at Shen Yuli.

Of course, the latter did not respond, and sat with his head hanging on his back around the forest, looking very weak after recovering from a serious illness.

Qian Zhaorong lowered his head and muttered for a moment, patted his sleeve and knelt down: "Your Majesty, the stakes are very high, and you can't tolerate it!" Please give Your Majesty the order to search the palace! ”

"Your Majesty," Ye Guifei suddenly knelt out, and hurriedly persuaded: "Because the stakes are so high, we must be more cautious, so as not to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble!" The concubine thought that the matter should be handed over to the Tai Hospital......"

"Sister Guifei!" Qian Zhaorong interrupted her words angrily, "It is precisely because the Tai Hospital can't speculate out of thin air that the concubine body will propose to search the palace!" When the guards find out the real thing, the truth will be revealed, and it will not be difficult to cure your highnesses' illness! Now my sister is preventing the search of the palace, what is the reason? Is it because my sister has no children and no daughters and thinks that this conspiracy will not fall on your head, or is it because my sister has a ghost in her heart, for fear of finding something in your palace? ”

Ye Guifei was smashed by a few sharp questions, and she could only shake her head and say "no", and she had no power to refute.

Qian Zhaorong, who won a great victory, once again bowed down to the emperor: "Please make a decision Your Majesty!" ”

"Search!" The emperor's face was gloomy, and he said a word coldly.

Qian Zhaorong's face immediately showed a little smile, which made her whole person look a little fierce.

Of course, this is understandable. Her three sons were all very sick, and she didn't know how to be frightened and desperate that night, even if she wanted to swing a knife at this moment, it was reasonable.

So the guards and eunuchs in the palace were mobilized, and they broke into every palace with no one and no one like robbers, from the bedrooms of the ladies to the utility rooms of the eunuchs, and refused to let go of any corner.

It was a huge undertaking that lasted almost an entire afternoon, during which windfall was constantly reported to the emperor.

There is no need to talk about such things as food for palace maids and eunuchs, and no one is willing to listen to such trivial matters as who stole whose jewelry and who hid whose belongings. It is worth mentioning that the affair between the concubine and the guard was discovered two times in succession, and the emperor was so angry that he killed many people on the spot.

Inevitably, the atmosphere grew more and more solemn. According to this trend, once the real culprit of poisoning the princes this time is caught, the emperor's accumulated anger will be doubled and vented, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

It was rare for the forest to be so quiet, staring wide-eyed and observing everyone's faces, trembling with fear.

However, Shen Yuli had always seemed to stay out of the matter, leaning on the back of the forest and falling asleep, completely ignoring the gazes that came to him in the open and in the dark.

After a long time, no one paid special attention to him.

The sun gradually became dark, and even Qian Zhaorong, who was strongly advocating the search of the palace at the beginning, became nervous, and the fan bone in his hand was almost broken.

In the evening, the massive search finally ended.

When the last group of guards returned, they were nervous and excited and took out a rather inconspicuous wooden box and presented it to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the things are here!" ”

The emperor subconsciously shrank back and urgently called to the imperial doctor: "Come and see what kind of poison this is!" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not poison!" The guard hurriedly said, "It's something else, you can see it at a glance!" ”

Hearing this, Chong Xuzhen hurriedly stepped forward to open the box for the emperor, and immediately frowned: "How could it be ......?"

The emperor and the people of the concubine's palace who were standing close to him also saw it at the same time: in the box was a row of crudely made little people, and their hearts were full of needles.

Although not everyone understands these things, just looking at this appearance, everyone is already frightened and white.

Qian Zhaorong was the first to exclaim: "Oh my God, this is ...... Take it away, take it away! How could such a filthy thing appear in front of His Majesty's eyes! Are you crazy? ”

Concubine Liu Xian, who had not spoken much, glanced at it with a complicated expression: "There really is such a thing." It seems that the illness of several highnesses is inseparable from this thing! ”

When Qian Zhaorong heard this, he cried: "Naturally, this is the reason, but this thing is not something that everyone can do, so there must be some evil arts...... Even the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace are children of serious families, how can they understand this? It must be those lowly thieves who will know about these crooked ways......"

When the emperor heard this, he looked at Chongxu Zhenren again: "These broken papers can really make people sick?" It's your Taoist sorcery, isn't it? ”

Chong Xuan Zhenren was in a trance, and when he heard the words, he suddenly trembled, and hurriedly defended: "Serious Taoists don't have these things, but those crooked and evil ways below will indeed do this." In the name of Taoism, he practiced some tricks, and the real master of heaven has always hated it. ”

The emperor stared at the contents of the box and was silent, and Qian Zhaorong couldn't help but ask, "Where did you find these dirty things?" ”

The guard at the head looked up at her, and the expression on his face was very strange.

Qian Zhaorong shivered inexplicably, hurriedly looked at the box again, and suddenly felt like a slap on the top of his head, and the whole person was instantly dizzy.

This box! Where did this box come from? How could she never remember anything like this?

Before she could figure out a clue in her mind, the guard had already bowed down to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, this box was turned out from under the bed in Qian Zhaorong's bedroom. ”

"Impossible!" Qian Zhaorong immediately screamed, "How can it be in my room, it's obviously in-"

Her voice paused abruptly.

Ye Guifei refused to let go of this conversation, and immediately picked it up and asked, "Sister Zhaorong, where should this box be?" ”

At this time, Qian Zhaorong had already reacted, and asked with a dark face: "How do I know where it should be?" I've never seen anything like this! ”

After saying this, her gaze subconsciously moved to Shen Yuli's body.

Ye Guifei sneered: "Sister Zhaorong won't want to push it on the Fourth Highness, right?" As far as I know, the former dwellings of the Fourth Highness were so dilapidated that there was not even a single intact plank of wood that it was impossible to hide such a box; As for today's Tingshui Xuan, a few furnishings are newly added, and they are very clear in the booklet. My sister might as well summon the servant in charge to ask, is there such a box in the hands of the Fourth Highness? ”

"Not mine!" Shen Yuli heard him mentioned, and hurriedly raised his head and interjected: "Guifei Niangniang, what's in that box?" Poison? I used to be locked up in the palace, and then I was locked up in the palace, and there is no way for me to go out and learn some crooked ways......"

"That's you!" Qian Zhaorong screamed, "You went out of the palace to give Concubine Chu a funeral a few days ago, what's so strange about bringing back some unsightly things from outside the palace!" ”

Shen Yuli smiled mockingly, and Ye Guifei had already retorted for him: "When His Royal Highness returned to the palace, he didn't bring anything, and his clothes were still soaked, and this matter was seen by the palace guards and several adults in the court!" Why does Sister Zhaorong still have any doubts about this? ”

Qian Zhaorong sat down on the ground in a dejected manner and muttered, "No, no! This thing...... How could I have such a thing in my house! Someone planted it! Your Majesty, this must have been framed by someone...... That's right, Third Highness! His Royal Highness also just came back from the palace a few days ago, and he suffered a big loss outside, so it was hard to guarantee that he would not take revenge on others, and even wanted to drag all his brothers to accompany him to death......"

"You're enough!" The emperor couldn't bear it anymore and slapped the table angrily: "Who else do you want to rely on?" Do you want to take care of everyone in the room? Or try to get to me again? ”

Qian Zhaorong hurriedly shook his head, threw himself on the ground and cried: "Don't dare to concubine!" But Your Majesty, the concubine is really wronged! This kind of thing...... If the concubine knew that she had such a thing in her house, she would definitely cover it up in every possible way, how could she take the initiative to propose a search of the palace! ”

The Emperor pinched his beard and thought for a while, as if he felt that there was some truth in her words.

Qian Zhaorong saw that this sentence had a role, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, and cried: "Your Majesty, others have at most one son, and there are three concubines alone, and there are many people in the palace who are jealous of this, and it is not impossible to frame him, please Your Majesty to investigate!" ”

After she finished speaking, the Eighth Emperor and the Ninth Emperor finally understood the severity of the matter under the explanation of the little eunuch, and hurriedly dragged the sick body over, kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly.

Originally, according to the emperor's temper, at this point, he should wave his hand and say the word "chop". But looking at the first two crying little sons, the emperor's heart, which had been cold all his life, suddenly felt a little unbearable, so he hesitated for a while.

Seeing this, Ye Guifei immediately felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly pointed at Qian Zhaorong and scolded: "At this moment, you shouted injustice yourself, why didn't you say that you were wronged when you wanted to push it on the third and fourth highnesses before?" According to this palace, you just want to frame others and can't do it, so you lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot! ”

What she said was a guess, but Qian Zhaorong had a ghost in her heart, and she trembled again when she heard the words, and subconsciously looked at Shen Yuli.

The latter was still at a loss.

Qian Zhaorong knew that he couldn't bite him anymore, so he hurriedly looked away and cried: "It was true that I was in a hurry to say something before, but I was only like this because I was frightened by this change...... Sister Guifei has no biological children, so she naturally doesn't know what she wants to be a mother with! Look at Xiao Jiu's illness like this, last night...... He almost couldn't make it last night! If something like this happened to my own child, how could I not be a mother! ”

Ye Guifei wanted to say something, but Concubine Liu Xian next to her quietly pulled the corner of her clothes, so she didn't say anything.

Qian Zhaorong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, hurriedly raised his head and brushed his crying hair, eased his tone, and continued: "Your Majesty, no matter how crazy the concubine is, it is impossible for the paper man to curse her child!" Just look at these paper figures with the names or characters of your highnesses written on them, and you'll see! ”

The emperor was reminded by her, and really picked up the paper figures one by one and looked through them carefully, and then his face sank again.

Concubine Liu Xian looked at it from the side, and her face was shocked: "This ...... Sister Zhaorong, there are no more than five paper figures here, and the names of the five highnesses are written, except for the three highnesses in your palace! ”

"How is that possible!" Qian Zhaorong jumped up again, "Obviously it should be seven!" ”

"Huh?" The Emperor keenly caught the slightest hint of something wrong.

Next to her, Ye Guifei was also so frightened that she shed tears and exclaimed: "If Sister Zhaorong doesn't know, why do you think that the paper figures should be seven?" ”

The emperor considered himself rude, but not stupid. The truth of the matter has been revealed, he slammed the table and ordered: "Come on, drag Qian Zhaorong down-"

"Father, wait!" A clear sound of young people filled the hall, successfully stopping the next move of the guards.