Chapter 120: The Inner Wall (3)
Just when I was puzzled, Zhao Wuxian suddenly rushed in from outside the courtyard with a child in his arms: "Ah Shi! Help! ”
"What's going on?" I immediately stood up and took the child from his hand, "Isn't this a child's cry?" What happened to him? Childe cried and twitched, and white foam continued to flow from the corners of his mouth.
"I was ordered by my father to send their mother and son back to the palace, and the car was only halfway there, and the son's cry became like this."
I hurriedly opened Childe's eyelids and looked at it, and touched his left chest, hands and feet - Childe was poisoned! He was poisoned by the same poison as Berlu, the only difference is that Berlu's poison entered the bloodstream, and his poison drank into the stomach!
I stretched out two fingers and inserted them into Childe's mouth, and pressed heavily at the base of my tongue, and Childe immediately lay on my lap and vomited wildly.
I held his forehead and patted him lightly on the back: "It's okay, just spit it out." ”
"Ahh Later, Mrs. Xin Yuan, who came over, saw that her son was crying and vomiting, and immediately pounced on me to snatch her child back from me.
"Don't move! Poisonous in the Evil Fluid! If you want to save your child, stand away from me! I stretched out my hand and pushed her away, pinched Childe's mouth and shouted to Wuxian, "Quick, pour the mare's milk over there into his mouth!" ”
Madame Xin Yuan was so frightened at the moment that she could only cry as Zhao Wuxian and I poured a large jar of mare's milk into Childe's mouth.
Childe cried and vomited twice in a row, and then gradually stopped his convulsions, and his breathing calmed down.
"Okay, he's fine." I took off my venom-stained coat and threw it far away on the grass, and then hugged my son and handed it to Mrs. Xin Yuan, "Madam, think about it, what did the little boy eat before getting into the car?" What did you drink? ”
Mrs. Xin Yuan was stunned, trembled her hands, pointed at Zhao Wuxian and said, "He asked the servant to bring us a bowl of water, I didn't drink it, Ah Qi drank two sips." ”
I looked up at Zhao Wuxian beside me, and said in my heart, why does this matter have anything to do with him again?
I was overwhelmed by what happened one after another. The people of the Zhao family thought that Gongzi had seriously injured the prince Bolu, and Mrs. Xin Yuan accused Zhao Wuxian of poisoning and retaliating against Gongzi. This bad debt is not clear for a while.
The noise outside inevitably alarmed Zhao Ying in the house, and with a black face, he vigorously pushed open the door. At this time, Mrs. Xin Yuan was like a shrew, pulling Zhao Wuxian's collar and crying and scolding, and the jade and gold rings on her head were scattered all over the ground.
"What's going on!" Zhao Ying pressed his sword and shouted, his voice was loud and deafening.
Mrs. Xin Yuan stiffly let go of her shirtless collar as if she heard the thunder, glanced back at Zhao Ying, and immediately sat on the ground like a scalded artemisia vegetable.
Wuxian calmly adjusted his clothes, and strode to Zhao Ying: "Father, the son has been poisoned in our house." The last water he drank was given by my servant. His head was lowered and his voice was calm. I looked at his side face and couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for him in my heart. Poisoning Jin Gongzi, this crime is not light!
Zhao Ying's eyes were as sharp as an eagle's falcon, he swept around his shirtless face, raised his right hand lightly and said, "You go and bring me that poisoned servant!" ”
"No!" With a straight look, he turned his face to look at me sideways, and flew away with his sword.
I leaned over and picked up the linen cloth I had thrown on the ground, folded it in two, and divided the medicine in the clay pot into two parts, one of which I brought to Mrs. Xin Yuan. "Madame, this is the antidote to the little boy, as long as you drink it for two days, it will be fine. If Mrs. Ru might as well think about it, if Zhao Jiazi really wanted to kill his son to avenge the son, he wouldn't come to me to save him, right? ”
Mrs. Xin Yuan glanced at Zhao Ying, who was standing beside me, and nodded silently.
I touched the sleeping childe's cry, and deliberately softened my voice: "Madame, now that someone wants to murder the son and the son, the best way is to let them stay in one place until the murderer is found." This is not only convenient for the prime minister to send someone to protect, but also convenient for me to administer medicine and treatment. For example, the lady may wish to write a letter to the monarch, saying that she wants to take her son to live in the Zhao Mansion for a longer time, and pray for the recovery of Zhao Shizi. Today's incident is afraid that someone is deliberately dividing the monarch and the prime minister behind his back, if the lady is smart, she must know the stakes here. ”
The deep meaning of my words, Mrs. Xin Yuan really heard, she bit her lower lip and was silent, only focusing on feeding the medicine into the mouth of the childe little by little. A bowl of medicine was at the bottom, Zhao Ying also lost the patience to wait, he raised his hand and clapped his hands three times, and four guards in Tsing Yi and armor immediately appeared in the courtyard.
"Madame, if you can trust the old man, leave the son's cry! In ten days, I will give you a satisfactory answer. Zhao Ying personally helped Mrs. Xin Yuan, who was holding Gongzi Cry, up from the ground, and ordered the guards: "Arrange for Mrs. Ru to live in the mansion, and then send a team of people to guard outside the Shizi's courtyard day and night, if something goes wrong between Gongzi and Shizi, everyone will come to see you!" ”
"No!" The four guards responded in unison.
Now that Zhao Ying has spoken, Mrs. Xin Yuan didn't dare to say anything, she reluctantly handed over the son's cry to me, and the tears in her eyes made people look pitiful. I hugged my son and gave her a comforting smile: "Don't worry, Mrs. Ru, I will definitely take care of my little son." ”
"It's all up to the wizards!" Mrs. Xin Yuan reached out and touched the delicate face of the child, bowed her head, and followed the guards out of the courtyard step by step.
Hey, the good guys and the bad guys, I've done it all this time.
"The old man didn't look away, you are indeed a transparent child. It doesn't hurt if this matter is known by the monarch, but if it falls into the hands of the other three families, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to my Zhao family. Zhao Ying looked at the son in my arms and cried.
Zhao, Zhi, Han, and Wei were in charge of the military and political power of the Jin State, and Zhao Ying, as the head of the Four Secretaries, knew well the strategies and means of reconciling and restraining the other three. Plotting for political affairs, like walking on thin ice, if one is not careful, the Zhao family may follow the back path of the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and be wiped out by the other three families day and night. The game of conspiracy is always the most dangerous and cruel game in the world.
Shortly after Mrs. Xin Yuan left, Wuxian brought back the corpse of a woman. It was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl with thin eyebrows and a small nose, and a bloody hole in her forehead took up half of her face. I leaned down and took a closer look, and saw that the blood was clotting, and I had been dead for half an hour.
Zhao Ying's face was gloomy, he didn't speak for a long time, and his shirtless face became more and more solemn.
The death of the little maid who delivered the water meant that no one could prove the innocence of the unscrupulous. Although Mrs. Xin Yuan is temporarily under house arrest in the mansion, if the real culprit behind the scenes cannot be found within ten days, once the news of the son's poisoning spreads, I am afraid that Wu Xian will not escape death.
I asked the guards to carry Gongzi into the room, and I had the courage to bring the remaining bowl of medicine to Wuxian: "I still want to decoct the medicine, you can bring it in and feed the prince!" ”
Wuxian glanced at Zhao Ying, and saw that he didn't object, so he took the opportunity to retreat.
Zhao Ying looked at the servant who was already angry on the ground, and said slowly: "The old man knows that people are not killed without mercy. But I'm afraid that today's incident is just the beginning, and the people of good things are still waiting in the dark to see my Zhao family's good show. Zidian, I will hand over these four guards to you, and in the next few days, the safety of Bolu and Gongzi will be entrusted to you first. Don't let the old man down! ”
"Zi Huang Jingnuo!" I knelt on the ground and received the command.
Zhao Ying bowed slightly, and instructed the guards behind him: "You listen to me, in the next ten days, the four of you will only obey the orders of one of the wizards, and if the others have any objections, let them come to me." ”
"No!" The four of them replied loudly.
Not long after Zhao Ying left, Wuxian walked out with an empty bowl, "Father Qing is gone?" He asked.
"Well, how is the son?"
"I've fallen asleep after drinking the medicine." Wuxian was surprised to see the four guards behind me, "What did you just say?" Why did Father Qing hand over all the 'Four Guards' to you? ”
Blame the four guards? I glanced at the four cold-faced guards behind me, and couldn't help but smile secretly, Zhao Ying, this person is really as rumored by the outside world, and he believes in the art of astrology and divination. The Zhao clan belongs to the Seven Constellations of the White Tiger, and the Si Wei is one of the star officials of the Su, with four stars.
"Didn't say anything." I shook my head and teased, "You still have to worry about yourself, pouring a bowl of water makes such a big deal!" ”
"I'll find out about it." At this time, the sky was already dark, and the blue-purple sky light shone on Zhao Wuxian's gloomy face, making people feel cold. The longer I get along with him, the more I feel that he is not like the simple Zhang Mengtan I knew at the beginning.
"I will take care of the prince's side, and you yourself should be more careful these days. Si'er and Wuxian are still in the Taishi Mansion now, can you send someone to pick them up later? I asked softly.
"There's too much going on today, so you should rest early! I'll send them to you tomorrow. He said absentmindedly, turned and disappeared into the night.
"Go down and see me again tomorrow morning." I rubbed my stiff neck and commanded the four guards.
"No!"
At night, I hummed a little tune from Qin Di and cleaned Boru's wounds with the juice of indigo under the dim oil lamp.
"Conscienceless girl, I'm dying, are you still in the mood to sing?" Burru's eyes were half-open, and his voice sounded hoarse and dry, but it was a little clearer than in the afternoon.
"This is the song that the girls sing when they pick blue in the spring, and I dye your flesh and skin as clothes now!" I smiled and raised the blue cloth used to wipe the wound in my hand, "The prince can rest assured, with me, God will not accept you so early, in addition to this indigo can dye the blue cloth, its leaves and rhizomes have the effect of detoxification and swelling, and your wound will definitely produce new meat within ten days." ”
"Thank you." Beru pursed his lips and smiled.
"When you're well, it's not too late to thank you." I used a dry cloth to squeeze away the excess indigo juice from the wound and sprinkled a thin layer of rhino horn powder.
Bo Lu frowned in pain, gritted his teeth and said intermittently: "What I want to thank is what you said to Father Qing. ”