Chapter 139: Her Choice
"Vomiting and diarrhea, isn't this a symptom of the plague that has happened in the capital recently?"
"Yes, but after seeing the Queen Mother in the afternoon, the young lady has already cleaned herself at the queen's side, so it should be fine. So the grass people deduced that it was the strange man who did it. β
The queen said with a white face, "Jin'er was there in the palace at night, and the palace prepared a soaphorn for her to bathe and cleanse herself, so it stands to reason that she should be fine." She pursed her lips and tightened the handkerchief in her hand.
Huixin stepped forward, patted the queen's hand and said, "Don't worry, don't you have to go over to see this?" When He Lao went over to see it, he knew if the young lady was infected with the disease. β
"Imperial Doctor Tang?" The queen bit her lip and said, "Old He wants to stay in Cining Palace to guard the Queen Mother and let Imperial Doctor Tang go over." β
"The Tang Imperial Doctor is in Longyun Temple, and he was afraid that it would be too late in the past. Elder He, you go and have a look first, and I will summon Imperial Doctor Tang back later. β
He Kun received the order, and hurriedly followed Ming Ge to leave. Waiting for He Kun to leave, the emperor sighed and said, "It's all gone." Then, he comforted the queen and said, "Don't worry, it'll be fine." β
The queen nodded, snuggled in the emperor's arms, and there was a little more doubt in the panic. After returning to Zining Palace, because the emperor was woken up, he had no interest in continuing to stay in Zining Palace. He sent back to the queen and ordered the palace maid to take the palace lamp to Chengqian Palace, and it was a lot of trouble tonight, he really wanted to find a place to be quiet.
The queen sat on the felt table, looking a little uneasy. Huixin brought clean water, handed it to the queen, and said, "Queen, drink saliva and suppress the shock." β
"How can you be so good that you vomit so much?" Rao knew that Su Jin would not be infected, but she was still a little surprised, even afraid.
"In the afternoon, the slave maid knew that the girl would stay in Cining Palace to accompany the queen mother to eat, just in case, the slave maid had already asked people to change the food."
The queen snorted and slapped the small table on the felt table, causing all the water in the cup to splash out, "Today should be her last day, but because of Jin'er, this palace has to change her attention." As she spoke, she paused and said, "Since you have changed your food, it is impossible for Jin'er to be poisoned." β
"The slave thinks so too, maybe it's an ordinary illness?"
The queen frowned, but she couldn't say why. Half a salary, she paused slightly, and then said again, "Go check it, what else did she do after leaving the palace." β
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At that time, the water in the Su Mansion was impassable, and Su Yi was still anxiously waiting for news outside. Su Jin sat on the edge of the bed, looking at He Kun's angry face, looking more and more calm.
It's just pretending to be sick and doing something angry.
"So, just because of those words of the Nine Princes, you pretended to be sick?"
"Yes." Su Jin lowered her eyelids and said lightly, "I have no other way, what Nangong Ling said makes me have to care." β
"Okay, then even so, do you think that if you pretend to be sick this time, the queen will believe it?"
"So...... I can only bet. When she came back, she asked Mingge to check on the person she met on the way. The man had just entered the country the other day, and it was the same day that the woman and her child were sick. It was a strange and coincidental matter, and she didn't have time to make more detailed preparations and plans. If the queen really planned to take the queen mother's life, then the queen mother would not be able to survive tonight.
So, she made a gamble, and it was her aunt who gambled all this. Bet that her aunt accidentally got poisoned when she knew she had met the man on the road. And because of this, the queen was forced to come up with an antidote.
Of course, in the end, it may be that the queen won't care at all, and she may not even believe that she Su Jin was really poisoned.
After a while, Su Jin got up, picked up a bag from his sleeve, and handed it to He Kun, "This is what I fell from when I came back and met someone on the road." I have opened the medicine bottle and looked at it, and I can only find out two ingredients in it, one is the ground snake, and the black ginseng, both of which are highly poisonous. There are other things that I don't know. β
Hearing this, He Kun took the medicine bottle from Su Jin's hand. He was very curious, what it would be, and even Su Jin couldn't know after groping for a long time. Since she was nine years old, Su Jin has been studying medicine with He Kun, and now, not to mention whether her medical skills have reached an amazing level, but it must be on par with those imperial doctors in the palace.
He Kun opened the medicine bottle and sniffed it, his brows suddenly furrowed. After half a salary, Su Jin didn't see He Lao speak.
"What's wrong with this medicine?"
He Kun thought for a while and said, "This medicine bottle does contain two flavors, the earth snake and the black ginseng, I can't think of a connection between this bottle and what happened in Jingzhou recently." However, if this thing is really related to the so-called 'plague', I can probably guess that one person ......"
Su Jin couldn't help asking, "Who is it?" β
"A man who has been dead for more than a decade." He Lao pursed his lips and said, "More than ten years ago, there was a person who was good at using poison on the rivers and lakes, and the medicines he made were extremely rare and very vicious. At that time, many people in the rivers and lakes were deeply poisoned by him. Therefore, he was hunted down by passers-by on the rivers and lakes all year round. Later, after he was finally caught, some people on the rivers and lakes first tortured him in various ways in order to vent their hatred, and then used five horses to split the body to kill him, and finally even his body was not spared, and all of them were burned. β
When the words fell, Su Jin was quite shocked.
"What kind of disciples does he have?"
He Kun shook his head and thought for a while and said, "I don't know, the rivers and lakes only know that he has been alone, and I don't know what disciples he has, if there really is, after this person died, his disciples would not be spared." As he spoke, he plugged the cork back of the medicine bottle and continued, "It's too naΓ―ve for you to rely on things to deceive the queen, the queen has been in the palace for many years, she looks gentle and virtuous on the surface, but in fact she is vigorous and resolute. Moreover, take 10,000 steps back, if the queen is really a murderer, as the same Su family, can you really be ruthless? β
"Then how should I deal with this matter?" She stood up with a blank look at her, "When I was five years old, when my mother died with Wanyue's mother, I was sad for a long time, and my aunt stayed up with me all night at that time. I'm grateful, but I've been conflicted because of that gratitude. Also, the Feng family's case, presumably He Lao should know about it now, right? β
He Kun paused, noncommittal. As early as when Su Jin came out of Qingyuan Pavilion, he already knew who the spy was, but Rao was like this, so he chose to pretend not to know for the time being, and also chose not to tell Nangong Yu for the time being. This matter is a difficult thing to choose for Su Jin, and it is also a difficult thing to choose for Nangong Yu.