General Chinci Yutai (middle)

So from that time on, the Queen Mother seemed to have made up her mind to cultivate another heir to the Great Unification, and Yixiang's fate had been decided with his father at that time. If things had started eight years ago, the Queen Mother's final choice of Yiyi to succeed him would have been the safest choice. Because five or six years ago, Yiyi was still a weak-crowned child, just an adult, living in the palace for a long time, not opening a house independently, and every move was under the guardianship of the queen mother and the queen. So he won't have anything to do with this murderous plot.

"At that time, Xinjie used a silver needle to collect poison and concluded that the poison had been in the body for more than two years, although it consumed the body, but the progress was slow, there may be many reasons for this, but it may be that the emperor often takes or uses something to slow down the erosion of toxicity. In order to ensure that the specific time of poisoning can be detected, the mourning family sent people to search the emperor's bedroom and Concubine De's bedroom, and finally found that it may be a kind of Jianyang* that is prepared in large quantities in Concubine De's palace, which is often used to increase the joy of the bed* has a certain effect of nourishing the body's own yangjin and slowing down the onset of toxicity. People are sometimes very strange, as a mother, the mourning family should have reprimanded Concubine De for using this kind of indiscriminate means to tie up my son, in order to achieve the purpose of favoring him in this harem, but it is this indiscriminate thing that delays the emperor's life.

In the palace, the emperor's favoring palace people are recorded, if it is in the palace, even if it touches a little oily skin, it will be remembered, but the emperor does not remember that there has been any physical damage in the palace, not even mosquito bites. So the time was locked in that year, he went to Jiangnan for the draft. At that time, four years had passed since the draft, and the records of the eunuchs accompanying the Ministry of Internal Affairs at that time were quite chaotic, and the emperor had a lot of contacts in Jiangnan and was very chaotic, involving a wide range of people, even involving foreign surnames and foreign royal families. ”

After being poisoned in his body, the emperor, who knew that he could only survive on medicine, and that the poison was incurable, suddenly repented, to be a good emperor, to keep a good prince, and to leave a good country for future generations. So he cooperated very much with the queen's inquiry, and tried to recall and search all the memories. Xinjie originally came to see the record of the trip to Jiangnan, and his scalp was numb, and he was extremely disgusted with the emperor's past behavior, and he didn't want to interfere anymore and wanted to quit, but the queen mother, the emperor and his grandmother tried their best to persuade him to sort out his clues, catch out the black hands behind the scenes, and not let the country fall into the hands of gangsters and eventually endanger the people.

"At that time, we were at a loss, not knowing what was going on in Gangnam, what the enemy was ambushing us, and what the purpose was. So Xinjie was ordered to go to Jiangnan to thoroughly investigate all the old things. For the convenience of him, the emperor specially secretly decreed that he should be named the Golden Sword General of the Sipin Pingluan Pavilion. In the past few years, you may have heard that some of the cheating cases and detailed works in Jiangnan are the credit of your husband. Xinjie frowned deeply, not caring about the Queen Mother's praise.

In the midst of these thousands of clues, we have sorted out some clues, and also provided us with important clues for prevention. In order to trace the source of the poison, Xinjie broke into Miao Xinjiang alone more than two years ago and was injured. ”

"Hasn't there been an ink cicada for so many years?" Lian'er is very strange, how can she only apply half of the poison, and have been silent for many years.

"This is also a strange place, at the beginning I thought there were only two possibilities, the first is that I didn't get the cicada, or there was a problem with the cicada. The second is that the other party may be waiting for the right time, and maybe even after the murder is successful, he will not be the beneficiary directly, and there are other obstacles in front of him. So this shows even more that Yixiang is not the initiator. Later, when I arrived at Youtong Village, I found that there were two reasons. This cicada is also bred by the Pubang tribe of Youtong Village, prepared to be used with poisonous woolly beeples, and is used for animal sacrifice once every ten years. The cicada must be kept in the warm place where the fire in Mingtang is not extinguished all year round, and the pollen of several poisonous weeds on the mountains near Youtong Village must be fed. Whether it's a poisonous beepsticker or a cicada, even if it's stolen from the house, it's not easy to keep feeding them. The poison of the poisonous beetle can be taken first and then stored in the blood of the carrier, while the cicada can only be removed from its belly before the poison is applied, and there is no intermediate carrier to foster. That is, if you want to use it, you have to keep a live cicada. You can find a way to raise it in a short time after stealing it from the oil tung village, but it will be difficult for a long time.

Originally, there were five adult cicadas, 12 cicada larvae, 7 formed poisonous beepsticks and 10 larvae. When I arrived at the village, the owner of Quli Village was tracking down the two lost cicada adults. And they lost two adult beepsticks many years ago, and until I went to the cottage, the people in the village hadn't figured out where the two beepsticks were. The cicada has always been raised by his eldest sister Ah Yilan and three fixed clansmen. Lian'er felt that when Xinjie talked about Ah Yilan, his eyes were a little strange, and he didn't know what was hidden behind.

"The poisonous scorpion was originally raised by his little aunt and several other fixed girls, and after the little aunt got married, it was handed over to another girl in the village, and then the girl fell off the cliff and passed away while going up the mountain to collect medicine, and this happened to the Tonghua girl who returned to the cottage from the city. And there are a lot of doubts about this Tonghua girl. Although the final clues cannot be further investigated because of the Tonghua falling off the cliff in Youtongzhai, at least we have enough clues to rule out a lot of possibilities, and from this line, we have obtained the evidence of the emperor's opponent's eyeliner and Gao Yin's gang of Taiwei Mansion colluding with the enemy, although we have not caught the man who Tonghua fell off the cliff to protect, but we are not far from him.

At that time, because the emperor was already getting thinner and weaker, it became a more important thing to abolish the crown prince. Biyan transferred Xinjie, who had just recovered from his injuries in southern Xiangnan, ostensibly dealing with the affairs of Baihuatang, but was still secretly tracking clues, to Beijing, and asked him to take Baoyi as the priority and send an envoy to the Turks. It is necessary not only to preserve Yiyi, but also to rule out the possible participation of the Turks in these conspiracies, and to reconcile with the Turkic Shiye Khan, so as to pave the way for his future accession to the throne. The emperor issued a holy decree to appoint him as the deputy envoy of the Sanpin Mission, and also issued a secret decree to appoint him as the general of Yutai from the Erpin Pingluan Pavilion, and pressed this major event against the enemy on him, although Biyan and I both knew that he was extremely reluctant to accept it, but for the sake of Sheji, he had to accept it. ”

"Ning'er, you, this husband, is a person who does not envy the feudal marquis but only the immortals. Anything is good, but he is very stubborn, if the mourning family didn't promise him at the beginning, as long as Yiyi takes over the treasure smoothly, Sheji will definitely give him a free body after the safe transition, and he will be his hotel owner to study his medical skills, he will not be ordered to be this Yutai general no matter what. The person who dislikes the official position of the second rank of the imperial court is right in front of you. Lian'er looked at Xinjie and smiled, they know each other too well, and one day they will be able to devote themselves to studying medicine without asking about political affairs, which is their common pursuit.

"Speaking of which, the two of you are still a real match, and neither of you is interested in fame and fortune. When Yiyi said that day that you were going to have a happy event, the mourning family was still thinking that if he was not allowed to marry you, maybe he was stubborn and left everything and eloped with you, is it very possible, Xinjie? Xinjie smiled embarrassedly.

"Well, there's not much time, let's get down to business. Now that the emperor's body is like an oil lamp that is about to burn out, our opponent may be about to appear. We need to be ready. Your wedding and the departure of the crown prince have kicked off this prelude, I hope you two are mentally prepared to face what is about to happen, there may be all kinds of injuries, there are dangers to life, there are countless grievances, I hope you can persevere. Biyan and I are both old, and what we can do is to keep a good monarch with a loving heart for this world, so as to avoid social turmoil and the suffering of the people. Today, I am here, in addition to telling you this, but also to bring the emperor's secret decree, to promote Xinjie to the second grade, still called General Yutai, in the future period of time to unify the dispatch of all the cabinet leaders of the Pingluan Pavilion, in order to ensure the safety of the community. The promotion again did not bring any excitement to Xinjie and Lian'er, it only made them feel that the future was more difficult, and the so-called secret decree was the result of the discussion between the emperor and the queen mother.

"Ning'er, you are not only his wife, but also his most important partner and soldier. You know that the mourning family and Biyan have had high expectations of you for so many years. In addition to the jade waist card given to you that day, this is the jade spy when you were a female official in the palace, so that you can walk around the palace at will, inspect personnel, and this is the inspection of all the files of the Internal Affairs Office, maybe you can sometimes be useful. Xinjie's heart was gloomy, Ning Er was the chief palace official next to the Queen Mother, and now she is given the same jade spy, obviously giving her the right to visit various affairs in the palace, These strange things are full of weirdness, so that he has to worry more about her safety.

After returning to the Tang Mansion, Lian'er got the complete story of Youtong Village and poison from Xinjie.

The sacred relics of the animal sacrifice in Youtong Village have always been raised by unmarried women in the village, and the reason is that these women are relatively simple and will not have evil thoughts and use poisons indiscriminately. This is the case with A Yilan, the eldest sister of the owner of Quli Village. She has never left Youtong Village since she was a child, more than a hundred miles away. Except for the people in the village, and some mountain people around the village, as well as the caravan merchants who came to do business in the village, she hardly saw anyone outside, but she was also careful and arrogant, and looked down on the young men in the village, so when she reached the age of marriage, she still did not get married, but helped raise cicadas at home.