"Official! Official! ”

The screams and cries of the concubine have been going on for an hour, the tone has not fallen, and the middle qi is still sufficient, and it seems that it will continue.

Tong Guan couldn't figure out whether the Son of Heaven, who was lying on the imperial couch with a pale face and weak breath, was now angry and breathless, whether it was because of laxatives and emetics, and how much was because of the screams of the concubine.

Anyway, Tong Guan himself already felt that he couldn't stand it anymore.

The screams of the concubine were like someone scratching the glass with their fingernails, and her heart was frizzy, and she couldn't stand or sit, just like covering her ears and hiding far away.

However, when he saw the figure in front of the door flickering, and a person opened the curtain and entered, Tong Guanden breathed a sigh of relief, the concubine's goal was about to be transferred, and he could loosen up a little.

"Wang Zhongzheng!" Concubine Zhu immediately stared at the No. 1 eunuch in the palace who had just come in, "You look at it with wide eyes, and see what the official family is eating?!" ”

Although she sat next to Tianzi's couch and cried for a long time, the makeup on Concubine Zhu's face was still perfect, and Wang Zhongzheng did not find any signs of tears on her face, as if she had not even lost a piece of powder.

However, he didn't look at the concubine a few times, a glass bottle was placed in front of him, which contained a small half bottle of thick liquid, which was very dark in color, and it made people feel sick when they looked at it.

Wang Zhongzheng only glanced at it twice and then lowered his head, he knew very well what was in it, even better than the concubine.

"The old minister doesn't know what this is, and he asks the concubine to make it clear."

"You don't know? I don't know why you took one look at it before and left, and only now you came?! Concubine Zhu scolded hatefully, "The Queen Mother is sick, you slaves are all in charge, and the officials have only come to see it for a long time, are you looking forward to the early death of the officials?" ”

In the morning, Wang Zhongzheng came to visit Zhao Xu's condition, and after a while, he hid out in the name of reporting to the Queen Mother. If you come back now, you won't be able to hide.

The concubine doesn't give face, Wang Zhongzheng doesn't care at all, and his face is not given by the concubine.

lowered his head and changed his self-title, "The old slave doesn't dare, the queen mother is sick, the official family is also sick, the people in the palace are panicking, and the old slave is afraid that there will be traitors who will take advantage of the opportunity, so he has to make a few more rounds." Seeing the appearance of the official family, the old slave was also like a knife, and he couldn't wait to replace him. ”

The heart is like a knife, it is absolutely not, and it is even more impossible to replace it with a body, but Wang Zhongzheng looked at Zhao Xu's weak and short of breath, and sighed twice - it is indeed a great crime to stand up to this mother-in-law.

Zhao Xu began to have abdominal pain in the afternoon, the imperial doctors took the pulse, and took the stethoscope on the emperor's belly, but did not find any major problems, that is, no vomiting, no diarrhea, and no other symptoms, just pain, speaking of which, they can only observe first, rather than rashly administering medicine.

But after the concubine came, after seeing the medical officers busy for a while, she suddenly said, 'Didn't the official family get poisoned?' Then he grabbed the medical officers and asked them to come to the doctor as poisoned, and looking at her appearance, it seemed that she could endure more than the Hanlin medical officer.

The medical officials did not dare to contradict the concubine, and while sending people to report to the Queen Mother and the political affairs hall, they were busy cleaning the stomach of the Son of Heaven.

Laxatives, emetic drugs, a series of poured into the Son of Heaven. There is also sugar and brine to replenish water, which is mixed and poured down at the same time—how much to spit out, diarrhea. Pour as much as you want.

After this toss, the emperor, who was originally fine, was really tossed and could only lie on the bed.

However, as long as it is not really poisoned or sick, it is good to rest for two days. Wang Zhongzheng said, "Please also ask the concubine to relax, the official family has the blessing of the ancestors and ancestors, and there will be no major problems, and there will be no trouble." ”

Concubine Zhu raised her eyebrows and pointed at the Son of Heaven, "The officials are all like this, and they still say it's okay?" Someone poisoned the official family, and you dare to say that it's okay?! Is it because the official family is not good, so it is called something?! ”

The emperor lying on the bed had a blue face and white lips, and his complexion was indeed not good.

But in Wang Zhongzheng's memory, the current young emperor, his complexion has never been better. The situation is no worse now than when I was sick on a regular basis.

"With the imperial doctors here, the official family will be fine."

The concubine turned around, squinted her eyes and swept over several medical officials, and snorted disdainfully, "It's all a bunch of waste, the queen mother's illness can't be cured, and the poisoning of the official family can't be cured, what is the court doing to raise you?" ”

Lei Jian lowered her head, wanting to argue but didn't dare to argue, it was obviously just an ordinary abdominal pain, why did the concubine insist that it was poisoning?

And when he looked up again, he saw that the king was winning.

Lei Jian shook his head at Wang Zhongzheng, he and several Hanlin medical officers had each checked their pulses, and the emperor's pulse did not look like poisoning at all, and there were no symptoms caused by several common poisons at all.

Wang Zhongzheng: "Concubine, even if the official family is poisoned, she has already induced vomiting and used laxatives. If someone really poisoned the food residues spit out by the officials, they would definitely be able to find out. ”

"The official family was not poisoned, how could a good person become like this."

"If it's poisoned, it's nothing more than food. The old slave also made people check outside. These days, the three meals of the official family are all sent by people from the Shengrui Palace, and in addition, there are only some daily decoctions to replenish the body. ”

"Wang Zhongzheng!" The concubine stood up suddenly, her face distorted, like an evil ghost, and screamed, "Could it be that I poisoned my own son?!" ”

That's right, it's your poison. ’

Wang Zhongzheng would not say what was in his heart, "The old slave sent someone to check, and it was Ding Zhijie and Zhang Ming who sent the imperial meal to the official family in the past two days. ”

The concubine sat down and gritted her teeth, "It must be the poisonous hand of these two sluts!" ”

Wang Zhongzheng hung his head and didn't look at Concubine Zhu.

It's really an uninformed woman. is a little better looking, and can give birth, so he was favored by the first emperor. But this character can make people have nothing to say.

When I was a child, I went to three houses, and I always lived by looking at people's faces, and after turning over, I became domineering. This is a common thing, but when the status is high, the mind does not get better.

It wasn't until three days ago that Chen Qinghe and Yan Ying'er, who were close to the concubine, sent the imperial meal to the Son of Heaven, and it was only in the past few days that they were replaced by the eyes and ears of the Queen Mother in Shengrui Palace. Will anyone really believe that Chen and Yan were replaced because they were ineffective?

Wang Zhongzheng didn't want to perfunctory the concubine, just at this time, a medical officer hurriedly walked in, followed by a small eunuch, holding a tray in his hands, on the tray was a white page, and on the page, there was a small piece of black.

"It's been found out!" The medical officer said excitedly.

"Find out what?"

Wang Zhongzheng and Concubine Zhu asked at the same time, but the concubine's voice trembled a little.

"This is it."

The medical officer took the tray and put it in front of Concubine Zhu. If you get closer, you can see clearly that the black on the page is a fine black dust.

"What is this?" Wang Zhongzheng asked.

The medical officer moved the tray a little, and Wang Zhongzheng immediately retreated, and the look of disgust flashed on his face.

As he expected, the medical officer's eyebrows fluttered: "This is something isolated from the official's vomit!" ”

Concubine Zhu's throat moved, and she forcibly resisted the feeling of vomiting, "This is the poison eaten by the official family?!" How doesn't it look like it. ”

"Concubine Mingjian, it's true that it's not poison, but it's not a remnant of food. Isn't this supposed to be" The medical officer who was doing the separation next door with his own hands said: "The minister has repeatedly checked it, and the composition is very clear, it is charcoal powder." When it's dry, it's good to light a fire. ”

"Charcoal?!" Concubine Zhu was taken aback, and her voice suddenly became sharp again.

The medic nodded, "It's charcoal." ”

"When it was brought in from outside the Funing Palace," Tong Guan said, "since ten years ago, the Funing Palace has been changed to hot water for heating, and the boilers are all outside the hall, and there is not a single piece of charcoal in the hall." ”

"It's not charcoal." The medical officer shook his head, "It's a little finer than charcoal, it's ground bone charcoal." Bone char can be used to adsorb toxins in the stomach and intestines during poisoning. He said happily, "The concubine can rest assured, since the official family eats bone charcoal, there will be no danger." ”

The concubine didn't have a smile on her face, she stared at Lei Jian, "This bone char that adsorbs gastrointestinal toxins shouldn't be the medicine you poured down, right?" ”

Lei Jian shook his head and picked up the medication record, "Concubine, please see, I haven't used bone charcoal for the Son of Heaven." ”

Concubine Zhu said: "Who can say for sure who was in a hurry at that time? ”

Lei Jian still shook his head: "Bone charcoal is not very medicated, it is not stored in the Imperial Medicine Hospital, only in the medicine warehouse of the Imperial Medical Bureau." The nobles in the palace use drugs only from the imperial medicine institute, and the drugs from the outside world must go through many procedures to enter the palace, and they must be made one by one, not a day or two days. ”

The concubine was speechless for a while, Wang Zhongzheng restrained the smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked Zhengrong: "Then who brought charcoal powder into Funing Palace?" Can you still make the official family obey? ”

The medical officer shook his head, and Lei Jian said, "The utensils used by the Son of Heaven for breakfast and lunch have been cleaned, and there is no way to check them, and the medicine cup used for the decoction in the afternoon has not been washed, but no residual charcoal powder has been found in it-as long as it has not been washed, and it has been filled with charcoal powder, at least a little will be left - so at the moment I can only be sure that it was taken by the official family before and after lunch." ”

Lei Jian was talking, but his two eyes were staring at the sleeping son of heaven on the bed. The Emperor's hands were clutching the mattress tightly, his exposed knuckles white.

What the Son of Heaven induced to vomit was dark digest, which at first glance looked like bleeding from the stomach. At first glance, the medical officers were taken aback. But after a few closer looks, it was confirmed that it was not vomiting blood. However, it is impossible for vomit of this color not to be tested, and the result of the test turned out to be charcoal powder.

The amount of separated charcoal powder is already quite a lot, and if you add the amount that is still in the stomach of the Son of Heaven, the amount that has not been separated, and the amount that has been taken for testing, the total number will definitely be more.

In other words, the emperor ate at least one or two taels of charcoal powder - even if he was a natural idiot, he would not eat one or two charcoal powder and still be unconscious.

There are too many doubts in this matter, so Lei Jian doesn't know whether to say it now, or to be perfunctory and report it to Han Gang.

Just as he was hesitating, Lei Jian found that Wang Zhongzheng was nodding at him.

Lei Jian's heart suddenly had a backbone, and he looked up at the concubine,

"Judging from the amount of charcoal powder that has been separated at the moment, the amount of charcoal powder eaten by the Son of Heaven in the morning is almost one or two. Charcoal powder is insoluble in water, insoluble in oil and wine, and is very conspicuous when mixed in meals, and the taste is completely different from that of dishes. Therefore, the minister has something unclear - how can the Son of Heaven eat it raw? ”