When Xie Pu was talking to King Yan, Xie Mulin also ushered in the arrival of his future sister-in-law, Zhu Pei, the county lord of Yongping, again.

The county lord of Yongping looked a little pale, and his expression was quite calm, but Xie Mulin had seen her a lot, and he intuitively felt that something was wrong, and the county lord of Yongping must be in a bad mood this time.

Xie Mulin waited for the girl to serve tea, and immediately sent the people out and guarded them in the courtyard to avoid anyone approaching. The county lord of Yongping also arranged the female guards who accompanied him under the corridor, and when he saw that Xie Mulin didn't need to be instructed, he was so eye-catching, and he was a little happy in his heart.

When Xie Mulin came back from closing the door, before he opened his mouth to ask, the county lord of Yongping took the first step to speak: "Something happened to His Royal Highness!" ”

Xie Mulin was taken aback: "What's wrong with him?" Could it be that his whereabouts have leaked?! ”

"It's impossible!" The county lord of Yongping showed an anxious look, "The henchmen around him and the henchmen sent by the emperor went to Putuo Mountain with the honor guard of the four highnesses all the way, and they did a very good job, and they did everything that should be done properly, and they didn't let people find out that the four highnesses changed their ways halfway." The news has not leaked at all, and it stands to reason that except for the people on the Queen Mother's boat and Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess Yongning, as well as our people from the Yan Wangfu, no one will know that the Fourth Highness is on the Queen Mother's ship. The eldest princess didn't even hide her horses! "Because the Ma family took another boat and accompanied the queen mother's boat. As long as the insider doesn't mention it, the Ma family doesn't dare to run to the queen mother's boat without authorization, and the fourth prince pays a little attention to covering up his whereabouts, and it is not difficult to hide it.

Xie Mulin saw that the county lord of Yongping was unclear, so he hurriedly asked more clearly: "What happened to the fourth prince?" Did someone assassinate him? Is he okay?! ”

"Not an assassination." The county lord of Yongping sighed, "At least it's not the kind of assassination with a knife and a gun, but he's poisoned!" ”

Xie Mulin's eyes widened: "Is it because of those pastries that you ate in the palace?" ”

The county lord of Yongping said irritably: "I don't know yet! Anyway, the elder brother said in the letter that they had carefully questioned the people around the Fourth Highness, and that the Fourth Highness did eat a bite of the poisonous pastry that day, but because it was not the craftsmanship of the cook he was used to, he didn't like it, so he casually rewarded it to the little eunuch below. If it weren't for the fact that the little lady fell ill and was suspected of being an epidemic and sent out of the palace, His Royal Highness and Qiao Meiren would not have suspected that there was something wrong with the pastry and found out the real poisoner. ”

The person who poisoned him was not the one who made the pastries, but the palace maid who helped the cook in the small kitchen of Qiao Meiren's palace. She has been an assistant to the cook for more than two years, and she has experienced three chefs before and after! This time, if it weren't for the fact that the original cook happened to get the epidemic and was sent out of the palace, another palace person sought the position of the cook in order to get the position, but the pastry made was not in line with the taste of the four princes, so the little eunuch ate it, and accidentally exposed that there was a problem with the pastry, but I am afraid that the palace people of the kitchen can continue to lurk for a few years!

After these kitchen palace people were exposed, they were locked in the palace riot room, waiting for interrogation, but who knew that the eunuch in charge of the interrogation ordered someone to open the door of the riot room the next day, and when he was ready to interrogate the prisoner, he found that the palace man was dead. Who killed her, and how? It's still a mystery. It was precisely because of this kind of thing that the emperor realized that there was a force in the palace that he could not control, and it could threaten the lives of himself and his son at any time. That's why he decided to send the four princes out of the palace, and he also strengthened his defenses, striving to find out the true face of this force as soon as possible.

Before the four princes left the palace, they were treated by several Tai Healers to make sure that he was in good health. He went all the way out of Beijing, changed his route halfway, and met with the Queen Mother, without revealing his whereabouts all the way, except for the henchmen and guards who brought him out of the palace, he had no contact with anyone. After boarding the ship, he stayed in the cabin of the Queen Mother's ship, occasionally watching the scenery through the window, but never openly ran to the deck, also to avoid being discovered by others.

The four princes, who were so secretive, were occasionally sneezed by the wind when the queen mother's fleet passed through Huai'an, so that the queen mother was worried about the wind and cold he was infected with, and summoned the accompanying imperial doctor to check his pulse, and was unexpectedly diagnosed with symptoms of poisoning in his body.

The poison in the four princes does not seem to be deep, but it is relatively stubborn, and the two imperial doctors accompanying him are not good at detoxification, and they can find out that the four princes are poisoned, all because one of the younger imperial doctors once read a medical book that records a variety of poisons, and they found out about the symptoms. But this imperial doctor read that medical book a few years ago, and he doesn't remember the details, and the book is left in his hometown, so there is no way to check it now. Therefore, he and the other old lady doctor were a little blind to the symptoms of the Four Princes.

It is impossible to tell when the four princes were poisoned. Was it the palace maid who helped the cook poison the pastry earlier? Or is it outside after leaving the palace? Was the person who poisoned the four princes or the people on the queen mother's boat?

This time, the people who escorted the Queen Mother to the north, except for a few generals from Beiping, most of them came from the Praetorian Guard. They all have good family backgrounds and different backgrounds, so they can only ensure that they are not obviously connected to the Cao family, the Lin family, and the Xiao family, but it is difficult to say how they are in private. In order to keep it secret, the queen mother did not allow the palace people around her to get off the ship to contact the foreign ministers, but the eunuchs still had the task of running errands and delivering things, who knows if any of them had met privately with the Praetorian Guards?

The Queen Mother and the eldest princess of Yongning summoned Zhu Rui to discuss, and also asked for the opinions of the four princes, but they all felt that it was too risky to stop the boat halfway and seek medical treatment on the spot. They were not sure that the local doctors and medicinal herbs were reliable, and they did not know if there were any spies among the people accompanying them. They could only reach a consensus and try to speed up the journey as much as possible and strive to arrive in Beiping as soon as possible. The itinerary is in a hurry, and even if there are spies in the entourage, there is not much spare time to sneak around to find out the news, which is not good for the four princes. Even if the spies spread the whereabouts of the four princes, and someone wanted to rush to murder him, he might not be able to catch up with the speed of the Queen Mother and her party.

When they arrived in Beiping, the city was under the control of King Yan, and the huge army could form an absolute suppression of the Praetorian Guards, and the Forbidden City had not been inhabited since it was built, and there were not many idle people. As long as the Queen Mother and her entourage live in the Forbidden City, only a few henchmen are left to wait closely, and the rest are separated from the four princes, and the henchmen of the Yan Wangfu are transferred to serve, it can be guaranteed that there are no ill-intentioned people around the four princes.

Also, the poison on the body of the four princes needs to be removed as soon as possible, which is indispensable to a doctor with excellent medical skills and reliable conduct, as well as a sufficient supply of medicinal materials, as well as the careful care of the people around him. The news of this matter must not be leaked, so as not to cause panic in the outside world. The imperial doctor around the Queen Mother is certainly reliable, but these two really can't cope with the work of understanding poison. However, Zhu Rui remembered the old house doctor, and knew that his old man's medical skills were quite extraordinary, and he was well-informed, so he should be able to deal with the poison on the four princes.

Finally, the most important point is that the young imperial doctor who discovered the poisoning of the fourth prince, his ancestral home in Tianjin, when the group passed by his hometown, they could also stop by and piggyback on the book he had read.