Chapter 65: Purslane
Sheng Ping was only seven days old, how can he stand such a toss.
But Nanban and his party were still behind him, and Yin Chen had no way to get out. He could only look at the queen and motioned for her to go to Yongfu Palace to take a look first.
The queen hurried to Yongfu Palace, and when she arrived, the imperial doctor had already arrived and was giving Sheng Ping a needle. The child has stopped withdrawing, but the little face is wrinkled together, not to mention that people just look at it, and it is heart-wrenching just to hear the crying.
Li Shenlan didn't care about any etiquette or impropriety at the moment, and threw herself on Sheng Ping wholeheartedly, and the more the child cried, the more uncomfortable she was.
"Is it really okay for a child to prick a needle at such a young age?"
The queen looked at the dense needles on Sheng Ping's arm, and she was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak loudly.
"The princess's illness is sudden and serious, if you don't stick the needle and don't say whether the medicine can be fed, you can't afford to wait for the time to boil the medicine."
The imperial doctor is Concubine Xiang's person, and his superb medical skills are also reassuring. Everyone could only watch from the sidelines, and they couldn't help if they wanted to.
After about an hour, Sheng Ping finally fell asleep without crying or making trouble.
"Sheng Ping, what the hell is going on?" As soon as the imperial doctor came out of the bedroom, Concubine Xiang couldn't wait to ask.
"The princess was born prematurely, and her body is weaker than a normal child, but this sick Weichen looks like she was brought out of her mother's womb."
"Impossible!"
Li Shenlan denied that since she was pregnant, not to mention the food she eats, she has checked everything she touches on weekdays, even if someone wants to do it, she has no chance.
"Niangniang, you might as well think about what unusual things you have been exposed to before, and Weichen can't diagnose from the surface what is affecting the princess now.
And this disease is very strange, in the future, the princess will not say that she will be careful or a little careless, and the symptoms will be fatal. ”
Hearing this, Li Shenlan was desperate and didn't say anything, and even stumbled under her feet.
Parents don't want their children to be prosperous and rich, but they want peace and smoothness, but now poor Sheng Ping has to live a peaceful life carefully.
Concubine Xiang was afraid that Li Shenlan would not be able to stand steadily, so she was busy helping her. When I got closer, I saw that Li Shenlan had already become a tearful person, and it was the most heart-wrenching thing for people to say that crying was so diverse and silent.
"Shen Lan, don't worry. He'an was also born prematurely, and his body has not been very good, but he still has grown so big. It's okay, Sheng Ping also has the blessing of God and will be fine......"
When it came to the words, Concubine Xiang couldn't help crying, she never believed in ghosts and gods, but now she can only say that she is blessed.
Li Shenlan was desperately thinking about it at this time, which step did she miss to give people a chance?
The imperial doctor went down to boil the medicine himself, and the three of them could only sit there quietly and worry silently.
Yin Chen hurried over half an hour later, and as soon as he entered the house, he saw three women sitting there, especially Li Shenlan's face full of despair.
Seeing Yin Chen coming, Li Shenlan's tear ducts collapsed suddenly, crying like a river dam collapsing and falling into Yin Chen's arms.
After Concubine Xiang, the only one who was quite calm, slowly explained the situation, even this Yin Chen frowned with red eyes.
Looking at the woman who was almost out of breath in his arms, Yin Chen wanted to comfort but didn't know what to say, the only thing he could do was to gently pat Li Shenlan's back.
The line of sight gradually narrowed away, and the lilies outside the courtyard were still dripping with the snow that had just melted last night. Li Shenlan attaches great importance to these flowers, and she has always taken care of them very well, and she can bloom freely even in deep winter.
"I remember Concubine Xiang, you've been investigating."
"Yes, as soon as the matter came out, we escorted Mama Cao to the Shen Criminal Division, but the concubine checked her details and checked everything she had come into contact with in Yongfu Palace. All...... No problem. ”
According to the rules of Daqi, if you can't find out the problem again, you can only let Mama Cao go. Then it means that Sheng Ping's illness has become a mystery.
"Doesn't the Imperial Doctor know the cause of this similar condition?"
Concubine Xiang shook her head helplessly: "This disease is weird, even if there is a similar one, it should not appear in newborns."
It is equivalent to the fact that this matter is now at a loss.
The imperial doctor came in with the medicine and signaled that he was going to give Sheng Ping medicine. I don't know if it's because of the smell, Sheng Ping woke up in the house and cried.
Li Shenlan tugged at her heart and went in and held the child in her arms, and her singing voice was already hoarse from crying.
After taking the medicine, Li Shenlan habitually picked it up and tried it, for fear that a little bit of temperature would burn Sheng Ping.
The endless bitterness in the entrance of the medicine spread in her mouth, and Li Shenlan only felt that the bitterness was like a snake gall. Not to mention Sheng Ping, even he can't stand it.
"How can you drink it so bitterly......
Sure enough, the smell of medicine entered Sheng Ping's mouth and she spit it out, crying and coughing, Yin Chen looked at the side with red eyes as if she wanted to kill.
"As for the nurse, let the nurse drink it and melt the milk before feeding Sheng Ping."
"That's a great idea!"
When the queen mentioned this, Concubine Xiang hurriedly called the nurse, and then let Sheng Ping fall asleep first.
Li Shenlan looked at the child, the bitterness in her heart and the bitterness in her mouth, a familiar feeling suddenly hit her whole body.
"I remember!"
Li Shenlan suddenly shouted, and everyone looked at her and motioned to continue.
"That day was the day I saw my concubine and the emperor in the imperial garden...... When I came back, Mama Cao gave me the bowl of medicinal soup as usual, but the bowl tasted extremely bitter that day.
But Mama Cao only said that it was because the sugar was instead of honey, and I didn't think much about it because I had been drinking it all the time......
Concubine Xiang knew about the medicine, for fear that she didn't find out at the time, and after Sheng Ping was born, she also went to take the medicine residue to probe, but the imperial doctor also said that there was no problem.
"Where's the dregs?" Yin Chen asked with a gloomy face.
"The residue was discarded after the re-examination at that time, and now it must not be found."
Li Shenlan sat there with remorse and self-reproach, if only she had been sober at that time and a little vigilant. In a trance, she seemed to remember something, and hurriedly got up and ran into the small kitchen.
When she came out again, she was seen holding a porcelain jar for boiling medicine in her arms. Xu had been boiling the medicine, and the tube smelled a flush from a long distance.
And Li Shenlan didn't care if it tasted at the moment, so she hugged the jar in one breath.
"Where's the Imperial Doctor! Come here! ”
The imperial doctor hurriedly stepped forward, scraped off the dirt with a knife and put it in his mouth. After a long time, he suddenly looked at everyone with a sense of enlightenment, and it was obvious that there was something wrong with this medicine jar.
"Although the taste is very light, this thing has a very special smell, and it can't be washed off no matter how you wash it."
"What is it?"
"It's purslane, which is both a herb and a vegetable, and its medicinal properties are cold and smooth. It has an obvious excitatory effect on women, which can increase the number of contractions and increase the intensity, resulting in miscarriage!
But looking at the current taste and the mother's description, it didn't last long. It's just that this thing will leave juice behind once it is overheated, and this medicine jar can be said to have been a poison since that day.
Niangniang's medicinal soup material Weichen has seen it, and I think it is to replace the original anti-branched amaranth in it with purslane. The taste is similar, it is difficult to detect, especially after boiling the medicine, it is basically rotten, and the residue is naturally not visible. ”
Li Shenlan unconsciously took a few steps back after hearing this, so if she hadn't asked bitterly at the time, it would have made Mama Cao think that she was alert. I'm afraid that Sheng Ping won't be able to survive if he is sick.
"But this palace has never had a festival with Mama Cao, why should she harm me?"
Li Shenlan was muttering to herself, but Yin Chen didn't wait to directly order the Shen Criminal Division to torture Mama Cao, and be sure to spit out the truth.
"Your Majesty." Li Shenlan suddenly stopped Yin Chen, she had an intuition that this matter had nothing to do with Wang Jun'er's plan.
"Wang Jieyu saw Mama Cao, that is, everyone knows that there are two sides. The concubine asked for a decree and hoped to try her as well. ”
Yin Chen also wanted to do this, but the rules were that a single suspicion could not convict Wang Jun'er at all, not to mention that there was a queen mother behind her, and it was difficult to guarantee that the queen mother would not come forward to open up.
"Then ground first, the concubine can't live every day watching a person who may hurt my child!"
Li Shenlan's temperament is like this, once her attitude is resolute, it is not easy for anyone to speak. Yin Chen was helpless, although he was unruly, but thinking of Sheng Ping's miserable little face, he finally responded.
Listening to the Bamboo Palace, Wang Jun'er is celebrating the wine and food at the moment. I heard that Sheng Ping's body was afraid that he would not be able to do it, so he was so happy that he almost fired the cannon.
"Master, drink less, this wine is very strong."
Although Cuiyue persuaded her, Wang Jun'er's cup stretched out, and she could only fill it obediently.
"Hongu is happy! In the past, how could this palace live this life unsatisfactorily, why should I be the only one who suffers the pain of losing a child? Now that little thing can't do it now, this palace is happy! ”
Speaking of which, she has never seen her own child, but Li Shenlan is different, she was born easily in nine months, but she was about to die as a sick seedling.
This kind of pain can be hundreds of times more painful than a miscarriage.
The more Wang Jun'er spoke, the happier she became, so excited that she even got up and danced back and forth in the room with a wine glass.
The concubines in the east side hall quietly listened to Wang Jun'er's crazy words in the main hall, and couldn't help but tremble when she remembered the conversation between Mama Cao and her.
"What a madman this woman is!"
Listening to the outside of the gate of the Bamboo Palace, a group of guards suddenly ran in, and the one led by a meteor strode towards the main hall.
The concubine looked out through the window and knew that she was afraid that the east window incident would happen.
"Hurry up, send a message to the contact......"
In the main hall, Wang Jun'er was still dancing wildly, and the head of the guards who was suddenly pushed open said that the emperor ordered the closure of Tingzhu Palace, and Jieyu Wang was not allowed to come out unless he was summoned.
"Impossible!"
Wang Jun'er's wine suddenly sobered up more than half, "What mistake has the palace made, the emperor wants to be grounded!" ”
"Wang Jieyu, let's ask yourself, Mama Cao is being tortured now, and there will be an answer to the matter in just a few days."
This guard is none other than Qin Ye.
Knowing that Li Shenlan was hurt, because of his love for Bang Chun, he naturally had to take a good look at Wang Jun'er, and absolutely let the flies not be able to fly into the Listening Bamboo Palace.
In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Yin Chen just summoned the imperial doctor to come over for questioning.
Sheng Ping's body bones are weaker than He'an's, and it would be better if He'an escaped the world in the national temple. But Sheng Ping can be said to be at ease by watching all the time, and it is obviously impossible to stand the fatigue of the journey.
What's more, if you send Sheng Ping to the National Temple, I'm afraid that Li Shenlan will go crazy.
Yin Chen sat there quietly, and Concubine Xiang's imperial physician only cared about the medicine jar, and didn't notice the lily in the courtyard for a while.
The lily was specially arranged by Yin Chen to enter the Yongfu Palace when he was afraid of the Li bloodline, and the lily was not conducive to pregnant women, and even dizziness would occur if they were inhaled too much. So many lilies, more or less contraceptive.
But Yin Chen didn't expect Li Shenlan to still conceive a child in that environment, but he also had other thoughts.
Li Shenlan's face is too similar to Ah Ming, Yin Chen really wanted to hold the child when she learned that she was pregnant, even if it was just to see what her child Yu Ah Ming looked like.
So after she was pregnant, Yin Chen couldn't deliberately take away the lily, so she asked the Tai Hospital to put neutralizing medicine in her fetal pill. didn't expect that someone else would hurt her after all......
"Go and send the people of the Qin Heavenly Prison here."
For a long time, Yin Chen said calmly.
Outside the palace, the eldest princess received a letter from the secret guard, and couldn't help frowning after knowing that Sheng Ping had an accident.
It is said that she may have had a rebellion, and even thought about how to kill the Queen Mother every day. But she never thought of hurting her nieces, so when she knew that Sheng Ping was sick, she was really distressed.
"It's also pitiful, the meaning of the concubine's letter is that the eight achievements are Wang Jun'er's handiwork."
The banquet to welcome the Nanban King was canceled early in the morning, and the Nanban King understood and prepared to return to Fangcheng with King Cheng.
"Inform King Cheng that you're ready to do it."
"Princess, this is a month earlier than originally planned, will it be too rushed?"
The eldest princess smiled coldly when she heard this, "Doesn't their Yin family like to be surprised?" Sheng Ping has such a big thing, the imperial brother will definitely take King Cheng lightly for a while. ”
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Sheng Ping didn't pull out for the past two days, but he kept having a high fever that didn't go away, did he cry like he was talking nonsense.
Thinking of the witchcraft that the pregnant Shen family used on her at the beginning, Li Shenlan was really worried that she would affect the child because of this.
Although the imperial doctor found the cause of the premature birth, he still did not find out the root cause of Sheng Ping's disease. The Queen Mother came over yesterday to see what was evil, but she and Li Shenlan were also afraid of witches, so she found someone to do it today.
At night, Yin Chen was lying on the bed with Li Shenlan in his arms. Because of Sheng Ping, he has been with her for the past few days, for fear that he will not sleep well at night.
"Your Majesty, when the concubine was a child, I heard that if the blood of the child was cut and the ashes were melted for the mother to drink, the mother would suffer for the child......"
"What are you thinking nonsense, let's believe the Imperial Doctor and say that Sheng Ping has a fever today?"
Yin Chen interrupted without waiting for her to finish, he also felt sorry for Li Shenlan, but in the end, this matter may have something to do with him. Sometimes looking at Li Shenlan's back, he didn't even know how to face her.
Late at night, Yin Chen was already asleep, Li Shenlan looked at the top of the bed with her eyes open, this was the third day of her insomnia.
She wanted to get up and go to see the child, but Yin Chen couldn't move with her arms around her. forced himself to close his eyes, but Yin Chen's murmur suddenly sounded in his ears:
"Ah Ming......