Chapter 275: Empress Dowager Li's Great Limit
Feng Mingxie retracted his gaze, ripped off the tassel silk that Dongting had been holding respectfully in his hand, and shook it off gently.
The moon is reflected in the brocade satin of pearl and silk, just like the stars and frost and snow are contained at the bottom of the pupil.
It's a big thing.
Qiluo golden wisps, Yao Bi brilliant.
The amazement of the ladies was endless.
"Silver cliff Shen Bi, Baisu Huan brocade, the line is as thin as hair mixed with gold wire, picking cold vein chalcedony clam beads carved and embellished, it took three years and three months, by one hundred and eighteen craftsmen to work together." Feng Ming smiled evilly, and his voice was hidden with Mei Xiang, adding a wisp of mystery to this gorgeous costume.
Concubine Jing couldn't take her eyes off it, Rao is she has seen a lot of treasures when she enters the palace, but she has not seen such a brocade, and in a blink of an eye, the scorching brilliance is like the treasures of the world can't suppress half of its glow: "Silver cliffs and deep blue, Baisu Huanjin ......" she muttered surprised, "The concubine has heard of Huanjin, and it is rumored that the clothes made of this cherished fabric do not need to be washed with water, but the moonlight can make the filth fall off and eliminate it, little prince, is there really such a thing?!" ”
Her eyes were shining, curious and envious, she wanted to reach out but didn't dare to reach out, and the first time she saw a rare treasure, she was like a child who had opened her eyes.
"Why don't you try it yourself?"
"Dare," Concubine Jing waved her hand again and again, only to say that Feng Mingxie joked about her, and Da Yan only gave this Baisu Huanjin to the birthday gift of the Empress Dowager Li, who dared to "defile", "The little prince also has the heart to remember it for so long." "It took three years, and the embellishments at the touch of the hand took all the manpower and material resources to complete, who didn't know that the Empress Dowager Dayan was particularly fond of rare and exotic beasts when she was young - it was as if the prince of Fengyang was fulfilling a dream that could not be pursued when he was young for the old man.
Concubine Jing secretly looked at it, and the old queen mother seemed to be dazzled by this scorching brilliance, and she didn't know whether it was shock or surprise in her eyes.
"A courtier is also a son of man, as it should be." Feng Mingxie is calm, every word will be respectful and loved, and it is well known that Empress Dowager Li has regarded him as her own for so many years.
Concubine Jing's face flushed and she couldn't help urging: "Queen Mother, don't be stunned, this winter is cold and the night is dewy, put it on, thousands of people in the Dayan Dynasty are still looking forward to your long life and worry-free." As she spoke, she carefully draped the big coat for the Empress Dowager Li.
The heavy and warm touch shrouded her whole body from her shoulders, Empress Dowager Li's fingertips followed the gold embroidery inch by inch, her eyes were slightly turbulent, Concubine Jing's dexterous fingers were tying the thin belt as if to press some thousand catties on her back, Empress Dowager Li suddenly said: "Let go!" ”
His expression was as if he had seen a ghost.
Concubine Jing was taken aback, and the ministers of civil and military affairs who heard the movement looked sideways, and the Empress Dowager Li suddenly came back to her senses before she realized that she had lost her temper, she rubbed her eyebrows and held the big cage firmly on her side: "I've had a nightmare these days, and I'm a little upset, I'm scared of you......"
Concubine Jing shook her head: "You are too nervous to be busy with the birthday banquet," she saw that the old man accidentally choked on the cold air to cover her lips and coughed slightly, and hurriedly sent the small warm stove that was covered with heat to her arms, "If the queen mother is unwell, the concubine will send you back to the palace to rest for a while." ”
"It's okay, don't let the mourning family spoil your interest." Empress Dowager Li did not refuse, if she had a headache and brain fever, the hospital should be miserable.
Half of the feast on this winter night was opened, eating, drinking and playing were already in the limelight, and the dancers and musicians took turns to play, and it was irrelevant whether Empress Dowager Li was in charge or not.
Scholar Zhou Jiming saw the carriage of Chonghua Hall quietly leaving through Gong'e's flying flower sleeves, and wondered: "Isn't the queen mother's body hard?" ”
Why can't this stand?
Ren Zaifu just sipped a glass of wine, which was a bit intriguing: "Someone used the topic to play and poked the old woman's heart. He already understood why Empress Dowager Li's expression had changed.
"How?" Zhou Jiming didn't understand, "Is it the little prince?" He thought about it left and right, but it was just a rare treasure, indeed, he was also amazed by Feng Mingxie's good intentions, could it be that he had committed any taboos?
"It's not the first time the Queen Mother has seen Bai Suhuan Jin." Ren An said in a low voice, there are people who still have grudges.
Zhou Jiming bared his teeth, but when he saw the old man raising a glass to the moon, let's just turn a blind eye, no one can control the royal affairs.
Midnight hustle and bustle to the Milky Way, Taichen Garden was about to do a non-drunk, non-returning, non-night, suddenly, a small lamp on the quiet palace road into the park was knocked over to the ground, clang, the palace E panicked "poof" knelt in front of the Ninety-Five Zun and didn't even dare to raise his head for half a minute, and the surrounding music stopped suddenly.
"It's not good, it's not good-Your Majesty, Concubine Jing asked the slave maid to pass it on, and the Queen Mother ...... The Queen Mother has an accident with her old man! ”
The audience was in an uproar, and the wine woke up half in an instant.
Empress Dowager Li, something happened.
The face of the Son of Heaven changed suddenly, the wine cup was poured, and when the man rushed to the Chonghua Palace, Concubine Jing was kneeling in the outer hall crying pear blossom with rain: "The concubine just sent the queen mother back to the palace, and the road is all good, but the inner hall has not yet arrived, she, she fell unconscious, and the concubine immediately announced the imperial doctor...... "The concubine sobbed and didn't dare to make a loud noise."
The Ninety-Five Zun hurriedly opened the curtain and entered, the night breeze blew into the inner hall, Chonghua is the old hall where the Empress Dowager Li lived for decades and had not been repaired, there was an old bone bell hanging on the plain curtain at the corner of the bed and ringing with the wind, the brake was good, but now no one was in the mood to listen carefully, the Son of Heaven saw his mother lying on the bed with a pale face, the slight rise and fall of her chest proved that her breathing was failing, and the knuckles outside the bare quilt were bruised and dead, as if they had been poured lead, heavy and stiff, withered and terrible.
Hu Liangtai from the Tai Hospital was already waiting beside him, and even Gu Qingxun had just been announced to Chonghua Hall on the front foot.
The Ninety-Five Emperor was shocked, how could this be a sign of a small injury and a small pain, Empress Dowager Li has always been healthy and healthy, how could she suddenly fall down: "What the hell is going on?!" ”
Hu Liangtai's head was pressed low, and he wanted to speak again and again, not because he couldn't speak, but because he didn't dare to say: "...... In the opinion of the old minister, it is a sign of poisoning. ”
It was deliberately chosen on the day of Empress Dowager Li's birthday.
How vicious.
"Poisoned?" The Son of Heaven is incredible, he paced back and forth, this is simply unheard of, if there is a problem with the food in the Taiyuan Garden, then everyone is exactly the same, how can the Queen Mother be poisoned.
Gu Qingxun had just checked the pulse of the Queen Mother, her wrist was as cold as a stone, and the stiffness was constantly spreading along her arm, he had never seen such a strange poison: "The minister has some speculation, maybe it is not poison but insect poison." ”
As soon as these words came out, Concubine Jing remembered: "Yes, the queen mother did have a stinging pain in the crook of her arm before entering the palace, saying that she was bitten by some insect, and the concubine thought it was just a common thing on a winter night......"
Hu Liangtai jumped up when he heard this, regardless of whether it was respectful and reasonable, grabbed Empress Dowager Li's wrist and put his shirt over his arm: "Gu Qingxun." He drank in a deep voice, and everyone looked at each other, and sure enough, there was a bite mark on the old queen's forearm, red on the outside and blue on the inside, "It's not the right tooth, it's strange." Imperial Doctor Hu muttered, but Gu Qingxun understood, ordinary insects should have formed some kind of symmetrical tooth marks after biting, but this trace was different.
Concubine Jing didn't understand what the people in the hospital were muttering, she was a lady in the inner garden, and at this time, she couldn't help anything, and she could only wipe her tears without fighting, which already made her feel guilty, she wiped the corners of her eyes, and reached out to pick up Bai Su Huanjin, who had slipped to the ground from the Empress Dowager Li, carefully.
It's just that this shake, "pop", actually fell something out of the big cloud.
Concubine Jing looked at it intently, and suddenly exclaimed in disgrace.
The swarthy insect crawled extremely the ground, and Imperial Physician Hu jumped forward, it was a scorpion.
Everyone's expressions were sudden, and they all looked at the Empress Dowager Li on the bed, isn't it - this scorpion stung the Empress Dowager?
Gu Qingxun gasped: "This is a stone digging scorpion, the symptoms appear immediately after being bitten, and the joints will be bruised within three cups of tea, and the whole body will be as stiff as a stone in two hours." ”
The Ninety-Five Venerable stared angrily, and said incredulously: "You are saying that the Queen Mother has been hit by this scorpion venom, can she be cured?" ”
Hu Liangtai trembled and panicked even more than Fang Cai.
Gu Qingxun frowned, sighed heavily, and decided to speak bluntly: "It's not more than three days." ”
"What did you say?" The Son of Heaven's tone was low, as if a black cloud was pressing down, and he obviously heard the meaning of his words.
"The life of the queen mother is no longer than three days, and the stone scorpion has no natural and no way to heal in the inland of the Central Plains, it only lives in the desert wind and sand in the northwest, and the merchants who move are extra careful, once the horse and camel are stung, they will die of exhaustion."
The entire inner hall was silent, Ding Ling Ding Ling, only the small bone bell hanging in front of Empress Dowager Li's bed fell with the wind with a cold and crisp sound.
Trample.
Someone's slope fell on the door of the Chonghua Palace, he did not enter the hall, but through the vermilion lacquer through the candlelight, few eyes, it was the wind that came later, Feng Ming evil.
Everyone's eyes were on him.
No one dared to speak, and even at this moment, even breathing was superfluous.
"Brother Huang means that Brother Chen, murdered the Queen Mother." The man said lightly with a little understanding and coldness.
Obviously, there was a non-existent poison in the big scorpion he sent, which was about to end the old life of the Empress Dowager Li, if it wasn't for Concubine Jing unintentionally discovering it, if it wasn't for Gu Qingxun to recognize this thing, if it wasn't - this scorpion hadn't escaped from the hall yet, it should have been a seamless "poison killing" at all.
No one dared to speculate on the suspicion and-for-tat of these two imperial relatives.
Imminent.
The Ninety-Five Emperor looked at the figure that was meaningless and unwilling to step into the Chonghua Hall even at this moment, his eyes were about to split, his mother was lying on the bed half-dead, today's wedding banquet was about to turn into a mourning banquet, and there was the biggest suspect standing in front of him, his own brother, this man was not in a hurry as if he was talking about the wind outside his body, it was simply - a big rebellion!
The Son of Heaven rarely became angry before he could say such a sentence, and the fingertips under the dragon robe twisted fiercely, as if he had been punched hard by someone he trusted, and shouted unbearably: "Come on, put King Fengyang in prison pending trial." ”
An angry rabbit, a roar that is almost on the verge of collapse.