The sound of wheels and wheels, rolling a field of snow and water, Prince Qing's car and the house did not stop, until it went out of Ping'an Street, and turned into Dexingfang in the inner city along Qingque Avenue.

King Qing sat with his knees slightly apart, seemingly closing his eyes and recuperating along the way, but he didn't stop thinking about it for a moment in his head.

He was sure that King Fu would not let go of the fifth child.

If it was changed to the past, he never put the second brother of King Fu in his eyes, thinking that as long as the prince fell, the throne belonged to him, and later learned that the third child was also a person with desires, so he reluctantly regarded him as an opponent, in the eyes of King Qing, he was the most valued son of his father, once he was disappointed in the eldest son, no one among the concubines could compare with his position in the heart of the Son of Heaven.

How do you know that it is an illusion, since the case of Maoyingyuan, a series of actions of the Son of Heaven have shown that the third child is the one who belongs.

King Qing, who felt frustrated, no longer dared to be arrogant, and became more and more suspicious that King Fu also had a great ambition hidden under the surface of his indisputability. And about the mind of the Son of Heaven, King Qing no longer has confidence.

At a critical time, we can't be careless.

He has already decided that King Fu must have ambitions, so he concluded that the second brother will not let go of the opportunity to eradicate the fifth child, as he just said, only the testimony of a servant woman can not confirm the crime of the fifth child, King Fu should not act rashly, he will definitely listen to his advice, and the two will work together to target the fifth child first.

This is a trick to invite you into the urn.

And you have to take a risk to make things safe and flawless.

Thinking of this, King Qing couldn't help clenching his fists, opened his eyelids slightly, and the underneath of his eyes swelled up.

At this time, the car has been parked in front of a teahouse, few people know that this is the property of King Qing, but the teahouse decoration is elegant and gorgeous, and only high-ranking officials and nobles will come here for recreation, especially when the prince died in just one month, the brothel wine shop does not dare to patronize for the time being, and the teahouse has become the first choice for the nobles.

King Qing was respectfully invited into a private room by the shopkeeper, and did not sit down, but pushed open a secret door, it turned out that this place was connected by three private rooms, and specially prepared for King Qing to meet those dark lines.

After entering a secret door again, King Qing saw a man in plain clothes standing up and bowing down when he heard the sound.

"Mr. Jiang, hurry up and excuse me." King Qing stepped forward with an arrow, smiling very enthusiastically.

However, when King Qing came out of the elegant room again, his expression was very solemn, he frowned and got into the car, only dropped the sentence "enter the palace", and threw down the curtain at the car door.

King Qing went to Yikun Palace to greet him on this day, and did not delay much, but accompanied the Queen Mother to finish dinner in Ci'an Palace before leaving the palace and returning home.

The personal palace maid beside Concubine Chen found that her master couldn't sleep this night, and she seemed very sad.

Two days later, it was the day when the Jiang Yuan envoy came to Yikun Palace to ask for peace - Jiang Qinggu was the imperial physician of the Son of Heaven, and was not responsible for the safety of the harem concubines, but a few years ago, Chen Guifei was deeply disturbed by it because of vertigo, and the imperial doctors were helpless, and finally it was the Jiang Yuan who made a move to alleviate it, so the Son of Heaven authorized Jiang Qinggu to be responsible for the health of the concubine, so favorable, and also attracted the concubines, especially the concubines, and the like were very jealous, and the concubines even coquettishly entangled for most of the year, and finally coaxed the Son of Heaven to open his mouth, and also agreed to transfer Jiang Qinggu"Give it to her, Li Concubine felt angry.

In the side hall, through the brocade curtain, Jiang Qinggu touched his fingertips on the jade wrist with a silk handkerchief, holding his breath and concentrating.

The imperial doctor diagnoses the pulse of the concubine, if it is not a special circumstance, such as the concubine is bedridden and cannot enter the palace directly, it must be in the main hall or the side hall, generally through the brocade curtain, not closing the doors and windows, and having to be exposed in front of the public.

However, in order to keep quiet and undisturbed, the palace maids are also waiting outside the palace, leaving only two palace maids to wait in the curtain and one palace maid outside the curtain, responsible for waiting for the pen and ink, in order to prepare the imperial doctor to remember the pulse case and prescription in detail after diagnosing the pulse.

The concubine has always been cautious, but this time there is no way, so she has to let the three palace maids who are waiting for her hear her conversation with Jiang Qinggu, so as not to cause right and wrong because she sent the idlers out.

However, of course, the palace maids present are all confidants of the concubine.

The jade wrist was motionless on the table, but the person inside the curtain sighed lightly: "This palace has never asked Mr., why did you enter the palace?" ”

Jiang Qinggu's eyebrows moved, and he subconsciously raised his eyes, glanced at the palace maid who turned a deaf ear, and then stared at the cloud pattern on the brocade curtain, and gradually became melancholy.

"Mr. once said that the palace is difficult and dangerous, and advises the palace to think twice." The voices of people inside the curtain are like mosquitoes and flies.

There was silence for a while, and the people in the curtain did not get a response, nor did they rush to ask.

The outsider replied in a deep voice: "I can't rest assured that I can't help it, although I know that it won't help you......"

"Qinggu, don't call yourself humble." The man inside the curtain interrupted him: "You know I didn't have a choice then, don't blame me anymore." ”

The fingertips on the white silk trembled slightly, and the eyelids of the people outside the curtain drooped heavily.

"It's a life-threatening time, Qingya, please agree." The person inside the curtain sighed again, but his voice became more and more low: "I know that I shouldn't let you get into danger, but Qinggu, you also know what will happen after the abolition, my situation is not much better than hers, I only have this one choice, it must be so." ”

There was silence again.

"Mother, this is dangerous, not just for me."

"I know." There seemed to be some hesitation in the tone of the person in the curtain, and after this sentence, he was silent for dozens of breaths before continuing: "Please ask Mr. Tuo's person to make up his mind, besides, I can trust you, Qinggu, I know that you have a way to ensure that he can save the day and achieve his wish." ”

"Qinggu, this kind of thing, I promise that this is the only time, and I will not embarrass you in the future."

Jiang Yuan smiled silently and bitterly, raised his eyes, and did not have a chance to see the face of Chao Si Dusk, or even a faint outline.

But he had no way of refusing her request.

"Okay." A very short word, and then leaving the table, Jiang Qinggu paced to the side, wrote down the pulse prescription, and left without looking back.

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Xuanye took out a dish of kimchi from the jar and cut it into thin slices and put it on the bookcase, looked at King Fu very worriedly, and took a step back, as if she felt King Fu staring at her coldly, and her fingertips trembled heavily.

"This is something that came in from outside, and you just served it to the princess's dining table?"

Being forced to ask like this, Xuan Ye immediately landed on her knees, only to feel her heart beating like a beat, and replied calmly: "The slave doesn't dare, the bottle that Mama Xiao sent in, the slave and maid tried it in person before presenting it to the princess...... This time, it was because of the prince's instructions that the slave maid did not try it. ”

King Fu exhaled lightly, picked up the plate of kimchi, and threw down a sentence: "You come with me." ”

Xuan Ye watched King Fu insert a silver needle into the dish, and couldn't help but widen her eyes, completely convinced that the master suspected that this kimchi was poisonous.

But the silver needle did not change color.

King Fu tossed another plate of kimchi into the meat and placed it in front of a yellow dog who had already smelled the meat and was excited to raise its paws and stand upright.

Moments later, the yellow dog barked wildly and fell to the ground.

Both the master and servant's faces turned very pale.

"It is inevitable that the princess will be worried and afraid, which is not conducive to the fetus in the womb, so this matter will be concealed for the time being." King Fu gritted his teeth and suppressed his anger, and clenched his iron fists: "Call the mother-in-law surnamed Xiao and judge her in person." Seeing Xuan Ye turn around in fright, King Fu added another sentence: "The steward surnamed Ai in the sewing room, let Changshi detain her, and don't leave her alive!" ”

Xuanye hurriedly agreed, and he didn't come back to his senses when he walked out of the distance, and what happened to the needlework room Ai's?

When Xiao listened to Xuanye tell the "prince edict", her heart was already seven up and down, she was a rough mother-in-law, not to mention meeting with the master, even Xuanye's internal stewardship could not be common, so he took another way first, and it was easy to get acquainted with Xuanye's mother-in-law, and only after all the bends did he find an envoy for his daughter in the inner house, hoping that there would be a glimmer of hope that the stewards would be able to carry him out, and he would be able to fight for some dignity in the future, and with Xuanye's face full of frost, Xiao Shi became more and more unsure of whether it was a blessing or a curse, and he entered the study tremblingly, and his eyes did not dare to skim a little. Lying on the ground, he kowtowed heavily, and only the hem of the prince's jade-white brocade robe and the pair of soap boots were in sight.

King Fu had calmed down at this time, and although he didn't let people get up, his tone was still softening: "When you made that jar of kimchi and salt water, were you your own hands?" ”

"When I went back to the prince to ask, it was done by the slave maid herself." Xiao Shi beat a drum in his heart, could it be that there was something wrong with the jar of salt water?

"Was there anyone else there?"

Xiao Shi was stunned for a while, thought about it for a long time, and then said: "Steward Ai is also here, she usually loves this mouthful, I heard that the slave's craftsmanship has won the appreciation of the princess, so she grinded the slave maid to teach her how to pickle, and the slave told her the method of soaking salt water, and demonstrated it herself, and she was always helping at that time." ”

King Fu's eyes flashed, and he asked again: "Are you familiar with Ai's family?" ”

"Slave maid...... Steward Ai is a warm-hearted person, and he usually loves to chat with slaves and maids...... "The bottomless servant woman became more and more flustered.

"She introduced you to Aunt Yu?" King Fu asked.

Aunt Yu is Xuanye's mother-in-law, and her son is the long-term follower of King Fu, and she can be regarded as a bit of trust.

Xiao's forehead almost touched the ground, and a cold sweat hung on the tip of his nose: "Exactly...... Steward Ai listened to the slave maid talk about the second girl, and promised to help......"

"Let me ask you, how did you come up with the idea of sending Aunt Yu pickles?"

"Slave, slave and maid, ......" Seeing that the topic went back to the kimchi, Xiao was drenched in cold sweat and was at a loss, trembling for a long time and unable to say a word.

King Fu rubbed his brows: "You don't need to be afraid, just return as you are." ”

"Yes......" Xiao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, calmed down, and quickly recalled, and then decided: "It's Ai Steward who said, although people in Beijing often love to eat with pickles, but they rarely have the opportunity to taste kimchi, slave maid because of Sichuan, will be this craft, you might as well send some to let people try it, it is also a piece of mind, Ai Steward also said, she heard that the princess because she is pregnant, her appetite is not very good, so she loves a sour taste, Sister Yu's daughter-in-law Xuanye is the most trusted by the princess, if it tastes good, recommended to the princess, The messenger of the slave and the maid is also settled. ”

Xuanye, who was standing on the side, reacted to Ai's role in it, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, she was a vigilant person, when the princess was about to get married, the eldest princess reminded her, but all the food and drink that came from outside could not be rashly presented to the princess, over the years, she had not dared to be careless, and she had tasted Xiao's kimchi that day, so she dared to present it to the princess, and there was nothing wrong with it that time, but this time...... She didn't dare to be careless, she would definitely try it first, and she would only present it after she had no trouble, thinking of the yellow dog who was poisoned by blood and fell to the ground, Xuanye couldn't help but grit her teeth - Ai's poisonous woman dared to poison the princess, and she deserved a thousand cuts!

King Fu also felt that there was no need to retry the Xiao family, even if he was bribed, he didn't have such the courage to dare to add poison to the meal he presented, wouldn't it be a dead end, and sure enough, it was just like what the fourth said that day-

"Although the eyes and ears of the second brother's house are in charge, they have not handled food and drink, and they will not have the opportunity to directly poison the second sister-in-law, and besides, she must also protect herself, what can a servant woman come up with? Even the fifth child did not have a perfect strategy, so he summoned his cronies and staff to brainstorm, that Ai Shi had a bad heart, and intended to get acquainted with the servants everywhere, so he reported these trivial personnel she mastered to the staff in detail, to see if they could use it, and naturally also said that the second sister-in-law had a poor appetite because of pregnancy, and one of the staff members heard that Xiao was from Sichuan, and when he had something to ask for, he had an idea, and asked this Xiao if he could make kimchi......

So this plan was set, first let Xiao's kimchi be favored by Yichen, and Ai's soft grinding and hard soaking to "learn art", in fact, when Xiao was unprepared, he was poisoned in the kimchi jar that was about to be sent to the palace, and the staff even carefully deduced that the princess would first test the poison with a silver needle, so they did not use arsenic, but used a poison that could not be detected by a silver needle, and they did not expect that there would be a maid to test the poison, but most of the poisons that will not occur immediately after taking it are not very toxic, and there is no guarantee that people will be poisoned, there is no other way, and they can only hold a heart of forgiveness, It is expected that Princess Fu did not take precautions, or that there were no accidents after using kimchi at first, and this time she will relax her guard.

"The second brother thinks about it, if you really let the fifth child succeed, the person you suspect first is also Xiao's, and she thinks she is innocent, she will only shout grievances, how can she calmly ponder the incident carefully, and she doesn't notice that she was yin by Ai's at all, even if the second brother finds something strange and guides Xiao's memories throughout, when the suspicion is locked on to Ai's, she has already been killed by the fifth child, and has become a corpse that can't speak anymore, and this case is another confusing matter."

King Qing especially bit the word "again" that day, which has a deep meaning.

The crown prince died of poisoning, and if Princess Fu was the same, he had to let people link the two cases.

King Fu brushed his sleeves and left, and asked the chief of the palace, Shi Si, to strictly interrogate Ai's family, and before evening, Ai's confessed to the five princes.