One hundred and twenty-fourth: poisoning
The rain was quite heavy, but at night it was much lighter, as if all the water had fallen since the snow had stopped.
Until the evening, there was no intention of stopping.
On this day of rainfall, the emperor will naturally not come.
When the weather is cloudy, it is difficult to tell the time without lighting in the house, and when it is very dark, I think it is dark, and after a while, the dark clouds blow to the next place, and the area is bright again. The rain continued to fall, and the house was bright and dark.
When I got dinner, four people went out in one go, two with umbrellas and two food boxes, for fear that the heat of this rainy day would blow away the food in the food box, and I was worried that Yao Chuxi would feel uncomfortable in my stomach after eating.
Yuan Shaoyu knew that he had a bad appetite on rainy days, so he deliberately used ginseng soup mixed with bone broth to boil it thickly, soaked it in rice, soaked the rice until it was fragrant and soft, and also made shrimp cucumber and white jade mushrooms, which tasted crisp and refreshing, and also wrapped a small cage of crystal roasted wheat, a cage of four, each with a different filling.
I thought that with such a heavy rain today, nothing would happen in the palace, but as soon as Yao Chuxi finished dinner, Ding Zhou came in and said something.
"Little master, Luo Meiren is here."
"Romei?" Yao Chuxi raised his head and looked at Ding Zhou, "What is she here for?" ”
"The minion didn't know, he just sent something and left." Ding Zhou said and handed the jade pendant in his hand to Han Shanggong.
"Show me it." Yao Chuxi said.
Han Shanggong originally wanted to hand the jade pendant to Yao Chuxi, but where was she such a careless person? Grasping the jade pendant tightly, he said to Ding Zhou, "You go and call the imperial doctor." ”
"On such a rainy day, why let them come over? Blame the trouble. Yao Chuxi smiled faintly, and didn't take this matter seriously, "In the past, you asked the imperial doctor to check the objects sent from all over the place, but it is raining a lot today, and the road is inevitably muddy and difficult to walk, and several imperial doctors are old, don't be." ”
"The little master must not slack off." Han Shanggong said, "The more rainy the day, the more you should check carefully, usually you can't see her Luo Meiren on a good day, but today she came on a rainy day, there must be something weird." ”
Han Shanggong didn't say things too thoroughly, and if he suspected Luo Meiren of doing something on the jade pendant, Han Shanggong only swallowed it in his stomach, afraid that the master would hear his thoughts.
"Father-in-law Ding, I have to trouble you to take someone to the Tai Hospital." Han Shanggong looked at Ding Zhou again, and said slowly, "Be sure to check carefully." ”
Ding Zhou's face understood: "This is natural." ”
These two elderly people have such a big tacit understanding, Yao Chuxi is a little puzzled.
"Doctor Ming'er is here in the next year, why do you have to go today?"
"I want to come to Luo Meiren because I want to take a risky move." Han Shanggong said slowly, and after finishing speaking, he went to the side to embroider the pattern.
left Yao Chuxi with a look of incomprehension.
It didn't take long for Ding Zhou to rush back, and there was a little eunuch who came back with him.
After collecting the umbrella, Ding Zhou flicked the rain and moisture on his shoulder, although it was inevitable that some would be splashed when he opened the umbrella.
"Master, change your clothes first?" Jiang Liu brought a clean handkerchief and handed it to Ding Zhou.
"Nope." Ding Zhou waved his hand: "There is a big thing to say to the small master." ”
When entering the East Hall, Han Shanggong and Ding Zhou glanced at each other, and Ding Zhou nodded slightly.
"Little Lord."
"What's the matter?" Yao Chuxi asked, "But what's wrong with the jade pendant?" ”
"The little master is right, the imperial doctor said that this jade pendant is not an easy thing to obtain, and it is often soaked in venom every day when it is polished, and the venom is made of rare herbs, and if you wear it or play with it, you will inhale the poisonous gas, and in the long run, people will become more and more stupid, and it will be in less than three months..."
"What will it be?"
"You're going to die." Ding Zhou raised his head and looked into his master's eyes, "The imperial doctor also said that this poison is very powerful, and it is easy to prepare an antidote." ”
"Why is it so vicious?" Luo Yu answered from the side and said, "Was it really sent by Luo Meiren?" ”
"Absolutely." Ding Zhou said again with certainty.
"It won't be her." Yao Chuxi shook his head lightly, and looked at the square table in front of him with a dull gaze, "She has been bored in the back garden all the year round, and she has long been cut off from the outside world, how to get out the poison?" And how to soak this jade pendant? ”
Indeed, with the current level of the Romes, it is not like they can come into contact with this kind of people.
"That little lord is suspicious, someone to help her?" Han Shanggong asked.
"It's not like help, it's just that it's not that simple."
Luo Xue had just entered the hall, and when she heard this, she was a little worried about her master, and she wanted to ask something, but she was afraid that Luo Yu would blame her, so she had to kneel beside her master and carefully pinch her shoulders for her master.
"If she really didn't do this, then there must be someone behind her who is more powerful and poisonous than her, and he will use her as a bird." Yao Chuxi said that he was a little scared in his heart, although he didn't touch the jade pendant, but it was almost there, "This is really a risky move, if any of us are greedy and lazy, and think that it is not good to trouble others on a rainy day, so we accepted this jade pendant directly without checking, the consequences are really unimaginable!" ”
As he spoke, Zili of Baihua Pavilion had been hiding in the dark with an umbrella, his eyes didn't even dare to blink, seeing that Ding Zhou had gone out and returned to Yingxue Pavilion, he hurried back to Baihua Pavilion to report to his master.
But what Ling Zili didn't expect was that after Luo Meiren knew about this, she collapsed directly on the low couch.
"Little Lord, what's wrong with you?" Zili hurriedly helped his master up.
"It's over... It's over..."Luo Meiren's eyes were hollow, and her fingers trembled, "It's really a dangerous move..."
"What kind of risky move?" Zili picked up her master with the strength of one arm, but her strength was not great, Ziyi also came over to help her from the side and poured a cup of tea for her master.
The tea was hot and steaming hot when poured into the cup.
But Luo Meiren didn't look closely, she took a few bites, her hands were still trembling, and she splashed a lot of tea.
"Why am I so shameless! It's a good day, but it's a good day, and it's fun to be in the Snow Pavilion when it's released! Luo Meiren threw the cup hard, hit the wall and shattered it, raised his hand and slapped himself.
Zili and Ziyi were stunned, and quickly pulled their master's arm hard, "Little master, what are you doing?" ”
"Concubine Qing, she was just provoking me, and I obviously knew her intentions, but I had to bet here as she wished! Losing is also losing here! Luo Mei was so angry that she slapped her face hard, and ripped off all the jeweled jewelry on her head, and her hair was scattered.
"Little master, what are you talking about? What did Concubine Qing say to you? ”
"Don't ask me... Don't ask me..."Luo Meiren's tears and snot flowed down her face, and she pushed Ziyi and Zili in a panic, "It's over... Finished... She must have known this time... I must have known that I was going to harm her..."
The liveliness of the Baihua Pavilion here will not be known to others, except for the Baihua Pavilion, the Yingxue Pavilion is also lively.
Ding Zhou was ordered to find out who Luo Meiren had come into contact with in the past few days and where they had gone, and he didn't come back until it was dark.
"Luo Meiren has been stuffed in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion all day today."
"Could it be who Luo Mei came into contact with a few days ago?" Luo Yu asked.
"I can't." Ding Zhou said: "This harmful method can be seen at a whim, if it doesn't rain today, I'm afraid that this incident won't happen, and I told Luo Meiren in advance that it would happen overnight, in case she repented?" ”
"That's right." Falling rain muttered.
"The servant also found out that she went to the Imperial Garden today, and before going to the Imperial Garden, the people from the Fule Palace had sent a post to the Hundred Flowers Pavilion."
"What post?" Yao Chuxi asked.
"This minion doesn't know, I just know that not long after the post was sent to the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, Luo Meiren braved the rain to go to the Imperial Garden, and came back after sitting for a while, and then came to us."
"It's weird." Yao Chuxi said.
"The strangest thing is that a little eunuch in Sihuafang said that he only saw Concubine Qing and Luo Meiren sitting in the pavilion, and the rest of the palace people were standing under the pavilion with umbrellas, but because it was raining all the time, they didn't hear what they were saying."
The palace people are all standing under the pavilion with umbrellas? They couldn't help but believe it.
"Don't say anything about it beforehand." Yao Chuxi stabilized his thoughts, thinking about not wronging others, and instructed Han Shanggong and them, "You go outside to inquire and check again, and see if this matter is still weird, as for the emperor's side, don't say it yet, just wait." ”
"The little master is thoughtful." Han Shanggong responded and said.
Indeed, there is no evidence at all, and there is no way for the emperor to convict Concubine Qing of the crime.
A little Luo Meiren, she can't make much splash if she wants to, if she is afraid of it, she can't get any peace and tranquility.
Yao Chuxi didn't have any harmful thoughts, but Concubine Qing regarded her as a thorn in the flesh, and they couldn't wait to pull it out quickly, not just the idea, they had already done it.
I think that if it weren't for Luo Meiren's hatred of her to the bone, she wouldn't have taken the risk to come here.
This is a risky move, if she wins Luo Meiren, she will have nothing but a favorite concubine, but she may not be favored again, it is not good for her, but if she loses, she will never recover, I am afraid that the emperor will not let her go easily.
For three days in a row, there was no figure of Luo Meiren in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, only that she was stuffy in the house, but she never saw her come out.
Ding Zhou arranged for people to keep an eye on it all the time, but he hadn't seen Luo Meiren since he was guarding there.
Later, I don't know who came out with the news that Luo Meiren was sick, and Concubine Qing of Fule Palace also had some coughs.
The weather is getting warmer, why are you still infected with the wind chill?
This matter is not clear to others, but the whole Yingxue Pavilion is clear, and they only see Concubine Qing and Luo Meiren pretending to be confused.
Concubine Qing has also been arranging for people to guard Yingxue Pavilion, Ding Zhou knew, but he didn't attack those people, thinking that they didn't know what to say every time they went back to inform their masters, they felt funny.
Of course, Concubine Qing also knew that this matter had failed.