"You said the princess was poisoned?"

In Princess Wenjun's bedroom, the maid named Qiongying's face changed sharply: "Impossible! ”

Another maid Fangzi muttered: "The princess has been carefully inspected by us for all her daily necessities. Because he was afraid that others would do something in it, he didn't even use spices, but only smoked the house with flowers and fruits. As for the diet, we ate and lived with the princess, and Qiong Ying and I had no reaction, how could the princess be poisoned......"

Lu Tong was silent.

Poison is not something that starts with the spice diet, as long as you have a heart, it can naturally be everywhere.

She looked at the black marks on Pei Yunshu's wrist, "It seems that the princess has been poisoned for a while." ”

Pei Yunshu was like being struck by lightning, her face was so white that there was no trace of blood, she looked up at Lu Tong, and said in a trance: "Doctor Lu, this poisonous ......"

"I can't detoxify the princess until I figure out what kind of poison it is." Lu Tong said.

Pei Yunshu's body trembled, Fang Zi hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and said anxiously: "Doctor, because of her heavy body, my princess rarely goes out of the house on weekdays, and there is no sign before this, besides, the medical officers will come to the door every few days, and they have never found a problem, how can they be poisoned?" ”

Lu Tong pondered for a moment and asked, "How early was the princess when she began to have signs of swollen back of her neck, fever and sweating, dark skin, and abdominal wind?" ”

Pei Yunshu thought for a while and said softly, "Nearly two months ago." ”

"Where has the princess been in the past two months?"

"No, I didn't."

Lu Tong said: "This poison started two months ago, but the medical officer didn't find it, and the symptoms are all traces that may appear in the late stages of pregnancy, and the person who poisoned it is very cautious." It should be a lot, the princess has already been exposed to poison, and it will only appear after a certain period of time. ”

She turned around and looked at Fangzi: "Now you tell me, what the princess does every day, no matter how big or small, don't miss a single thing." ”

When Fangzi heard this, she nervously recalled for a moment before she said: "The princess gets up every day, has breakfast, and walks around the yard at will. When my body was heavy, I was sleepy, and I took a nap at the end of the day, and I fell asleep before the end of the night......"

"We eat three meals a day with our wife, and there is also a small kitchen in the yard, so it is impossible for someone to poison it."

Lu Tong frowned slightly.

Since Fangzi is sure that no one will poison the food, there should be no problem in this. Pei Yunshu's daily life sounds exceptionally simple, just like her bedroom, which can be seen clearly at a glance.

Reading books, playing the piano, and drawing patterns......

Lu Tong took two steps outside, his eyes fell on the guqin covered by silver yarn, paused, stepped forward, and uncovered the silver yarn that shone on the guqin.

The guqin was quiet, like a cold wood, Lu Tong didn't know what kind of qin it was, so he only stretched out his hand and gently brushed it from the surface of the piano.

Qiong Ying just came out and saw this picture, so she said: "The doctor said that listening to more tranquil music can make the child in the womb happy, so the princess will play one or two songs every day. Seeing that Lu Tong did not move, she asked cautiously, "Is there something wrong with this qin?" ”

Lu Tong withdrew his hand: "No." ”

The guqin is very clean, there are no traces of poison, not only the guqin, it should be said that Pei Yunshu's entire bedroom is very clean. As her maidservant said, for fear of trouble, she didn't even put an incense burner, and only placed some flowers and fruits to leave incense.

Lu Tong's gaze swept from the furnishings in the room, and when he swept over the table, his gaze suddenly froze.

Not far from the guqin, a pair of small clay puppets are placed on the low table.

This pair of clay figurines is very delicately made, the colors are bright, and the appearance of a boy holding a lotus pod is made with color painting, and it is also covered with red gauze and blue cages. The clay puppets are lifelike, and the clothes on the puppets are inlaid with pearl gold and jade pendants made of ivory, which look very valuable.

Lu Tong was stunned, Mo Baoluo?

She knew that Moqiluo, every Qixi in the Liang Dynasty, there would be vendors selling such dolls on the street, and people used Moqiluo to worship the Cowherd and Weaver Girl. It is used to pray for the birth of a boy and many blessings.

When she was in Changwu County in the past, she had seen someone sell it when she went out with her family on Qixi Festival, but this small puppet was expensive, so she could only look at it.

Pei Yunshu's house is simple and elegant, only such a pair of bright and exquisite clay puppets are out of place here.

Lu Tong stretched out his hand, picked up one of the clay puppets, put it under the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently, and his eyebrows jumped suddenly.

Qiong Ying: "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Tong's expression turned cold, he clenched the clay puppet, and turned around and entered the back room.

In the inner room, Pei Yunshu and Fang Zi were stunned when they saw Lu Tong coming in with Mojuro. Pei Yunshu said: "This ......"

Lu Tong didn't say a word, went to the table and stood still, peeled off the gorgeous dress on the clay puppet in three or two, picked up the scissors on the table, scraped a shallow layer of sediment on Mo Baoluo's body, and poured the sediment into the tea cup in the tea tray.

There was still half a cup of tea left in the old kiln porcelain cup, and the mud and sand poured into it, and immediately became a muddy ball. Lu Tong picked up the golden needle and stirred it into the water, and the silver kite stood behind her, letting out an exclamation of "ah".

I saw that the original shining gold needle had suddenly turned black at the tip.

"There's poison on this?" Pei Yunshu screamed out loud, and the whole person froze in place.

Her lips trembled, her face frighteningly pale, "This is ...... Mu Sheng sent me, how could he poison his own heir......"

No matter how King Wenjun snubbed her, it was a matter between their husband and wife, but what she had in her womb was Mu Sheng's biological flesh and blood, and he had no reason to attack the child.

But this Mojura was indeed given to her by Mu Sheng. It is precisely because of the auspicious meaning of "many sons and many blessings" that she saw that this clay puppet was exquisite and cute, so she stayed, playing with it every day, never thinking that this clay puppet had a deadly poison hidden in it!

Pei Yunshu was shaky, but Lu Tong stood in front of the table, staring at the clay puppet in his hand tightly, his eyes were cold.

The clay puppet has been stripped of its ornate clothes, but its painted eyebrows and eyes are still there, its hand is holding an unopened lotus canopy, and its slender eyes are smiling like a crescent moon.

In an instant, the smiling eyes depicted with an ink pen coincided with another pair of slender eyes.

Yun Niang's smiling voice came to her heart.

"I once made a poison, this poison is colorless and tasteless, soluble in pigments, pregnant women use it, at first there will be no reaction, gradually, the body will be hot, the complexion will become dark, and after a few months, the shoulders and neck will gradually swell, and at a certain time, there will be abdominal pain and bleeding, which means that the poison has been planted in the womb, which is a sign of maturity."

"That's not the most interesting part, though."

She laughed: "The most interesting thing is that even so, the fetus in the womb of the poisoned person is still stable. Even if a doctor visits, he will only think that these symptoms are ordinary pregnancy signs, and drinking the fetal pill will only make the poison penetrate deeper. At the end of October, a stillborn child was born, but the mother was safe. ”

"So, this poison is also known as 'child's sorrow'."

Children's ......

No wonder she felt strange in her heart when she saw Pei Yunshu's illness before, it turned out that she had heard Yun Niang mention this poison many years ago.

Fang Zi saw Lu Tong's solemn expression, and spoke carefully: "Doctor, do you know what kind of poison this is?" ”

"Yes."

Fangzi was overjoyed: "Great, please detoxify our princess as soon as possible!" ”

There was silence for a while.

Pei Yunshu looked at the silent Lu Tong, and her heart gradually sank, "Doctor......"

"No solution." Lu Tong said softly, "There is no solution to this poison." ”

The eyebrows and eyes of Mo Yuluo in his hand are crooked, as if he can see the corners of Yun Niang's curved mouth through the smiling face in front of him.

The woman said, "I am only responsible for making poison, and there is no antidote for it." Once the poison is planted in the body, it sprouts like a young seed and parasitizes on the fetus. Neither drugs nor acupuncture can alleviate its toxicity. It's like a budding tree, you can only watch it slowly wither, helpless. ”

"Little Seventeen," she smiled happily, "this is the meaning of making drugs." ”

"Doctor!"

Pei Yunshu raised her head suddenly, insisted on getting off the ground despite Fangzi's obstruction, and was about to kneel down with Lu Tong tremblingly, Lu Tong subconsciously stepped forward, stretched out her hand to support her, and was grabbed by her.

Pei Yunshu grabbed Lu Tong's hand tightly, those thin hands seemed to have endless strength, she stared at Lu Tong, her eyes were full of despair and pleading, and her voice seemed to be choked.

"Doctor," she hissed, "please...... Save my child! ”

"Princess—" Fang Zi and Qiong Ying exclaimed.

Pei Yunshu insisted on refusing to get up, looking at Lu Tong, as if looking at the only chance in the dead end.

Lu Tong's heart was shocked.

She could see the unfading light in Pei Yunshu's eyes, and she was talking about "children" rather than "herself".

For some reason, she suddenly remembered what Ke Chengxing's little servant Wanfu had said to her in the teahouse.

Wan Fu once said that before her sister Lu Rou died, she was found to be pregnant.

She couldn't know what Lu Rou thought when she knew she was pregnant, but at this moment, she seemed to see Lu Rou's shadow in Pei Yunshu's body.

They were all victimized when they were pregnant, but the difference is that the elder sister did not wait for the person who rescued her to arrive, and was surrounded by those jackals, tigers and leopards, and died alone in the icy water.

Pei Yunshu's tears fell one by one, and Fangzi and Qiong Ying comforted them in a low voice beside them: "Don't cry, princess, the medical officer will be here soon, there will definitely be a way......"

Lu Tong closed his eyes.

Don't be soft-hearted.

You can't be soft-hearted.

The situation in the county king's mansion is complicated, and it is not a good thing for her to be rashly mixed with an outsider. If Pei Yunshu is fine, she has already told the truth about the poisoning of the princess, and she will be hated by the person who poisoned her. If something worse happens to Pei Yunshu, she will only become an angry raft to be buried with the princess of the county for no reason.

What's more, "children's sorrow" is originally a poison without an antidote, Yun Niang never lies, saying that if there is no antidote, there must be no antidote. Pei Yunshu has been poisoned for a long time, and even if this child is born now, he has been watered by the poison and may not be able to live.

She has a blood feud in her body, and the great revenge has not yet been avenged, so she should not put herself in danger for the affairs of these others, and she needs to keep this life to do more important things.

That's right, that's how it should be.

Pei Yunshu's crying in his ears was indignant and helpless, hiding indescribable sadness.

Lu Tong opened his eyes and suddenly spoke: "It's useless." ”

The crying in the house suddenly stopped.

She said coldly: "As the princess said, the medical officer has been here many times before, but he has not recognized the traces of the princess's poisoning, let alone detoxified the princess." What's more, this poison is not harmful to the mother, only to damage the fetus, the princess has been poisoned for many days, and today's abdominal bleeding is actually a sign of toxic maturity. The more the princess drank the fetal pills, the deeper the poison took root, which was counterproductive. ”

Pei Yunshu looked at Lu Tong: "Doctor, do you have a way?" ”

Lu Tong lowered his eyes.

The black marks on Pei Yunshu's arm have spread to the elbow, and it won't be long before the joint is completely gone, and the child in the abdomen will have no life.

Yun Niang said that there is no solution to this poison, it is completely poisoned, but if it is stopped before the poison is completely activated, there may be a slight turnaround.

"Doctor," Pei Yunshu climbed a few steps forward and grabbed the corner of her skirt, in such a humble posture, her black and white eyes were scorching, as if she had grasped all the hope. "Please save my child—"

The house did not answer for a long time.

Just when the light in Pei Yunshu's eyes was extinguished little by little, Lu Tong spoke.

"There's a way to try."

Pei Yunshu's eyes lit up.

Lu Tong turned his head and stared at her word by word.

"Induce labor."

……

In the small room, Meng Xiyan stood in front of the flower table and inserted the autumn flowers in his hand into the blue glazed gallbladder vase at hand.

The maid on the side came in and replied: "The people in the princess's courtyard said that the princess has drunk fetal pills and is much better now, and that Dr. Lu is recuperating and comforting her, so there should be no big problem." ”

Meng Xiyan smiled, gently picked up the silver scissors in the dill, and began to carefully build the extra flower branches, while saying: "The princess is really auspicious, and she can turn evil into good fortune every time." ”

The servant did not dare to speak.

The excess flower branches are cleaned, and the vase of flowers appears to be high and low, and the rhyme is moving. Pei Yunshu looked at it, and her red lips slowly overflowed with a satisfied smile.

If something is an eyesore, it should be cut off neatly.

is like the evil seed in Pei Yunshu's belly.

Meng Xiyan's expression was cold.

The poison called "Xiao Er Chou" was given to her by her cousin in the palace.

At that time, Pei Yunshu had just been diagnosed as pregnant, and the entire county palace was very lively. King Wenjun, who has always snubbed Pei Yunshu, greeted Pei Yunshu for the first time, and even those lowly servants in the palace began to see the wind and rudder, and tried their best to curry favor and flatter Pei Yunshu.

Meng Xiyan hated it in her heart, followed by worries about her future. If Pei Yunshu gives birth to a son, she will be the son of Wenjun Wangfu in the future, and even if Meng Xiyan gives birth to another heir in the future, Pei Yunshu's mother and son will be able to crush her forever.

No matter how favored she is, in the final analysis, she is just a side concubine, and the princess of the county who seems to be high-minded is probably about to become more expensive than her mother and son.

She had something on her mind, and when she entered the palace, she inevitably hung on her face, and her cousin, who was a palace concubine, saw it and asked her what happened.

Meng Xiyan expressed her worries and thoughts, and her cousin smiled after hearing it.

"What should I do to annoy you like this, but you are pregnant, there are so many pregnant concubines in the palace, but how many can really give birth, and even if they do, how many will grow up safely. The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, why don't you vent yourself half of your anger first. ”

Meng Xiyan was annoyed, "Niangniang doesn't know, I want to do something, but Pei Yunshu is extremely cautious in eating now, and I can't find a chance to start." Moreover, after all, she is the daughter of Zhaoning Gong, if something goes wrong, I am afraid it will not end well. She looked at her cousin tentatively, "Why don't you show Xiyan a clear way?" ”

The cousin also needs a family honor guard in the palace, and the king of Wenjun pampers himself, so the palace of Wenjun can stand by his cousin's side, which is also a help for his cousin.

The cousin didn't speak, her eyes wandering across her face, as if to gauge whether she was worth the risk.

Meng Xiyan's heart went up and down until she heard her cousin laugh softly.

She said: "There is a clear road, it depends on whether you dare to use it." ”

The cousin gave Meng Xiyan a letter of medicine.

The hem of her brocade skirt brushed the soft carpet in the hall, and the sparkling gems reflected in the embroidery on it were like fine pieces of sunlight, and her tone was as pleasant as a spring breeze.

"The name of this medicine is 'children's sorrow'. Originally, it was a forbidden drug in the palace. ”

"When the emperor was alive, there were concubines in the harem who made this poison plot to kill the emperor's heir and was discovered, and later the palace ordered to ban this drug."

"This medicine is colorless, odorless, and easily soluble in pigments. Pregnant women take it, there will be no reaction at first, gradually, the body will be hot, the complexion will darken, and after a few months, the shoulders and neck will gradually swell, and at a certain time, there may be abdominal pain and bleeding. However, even so, the poisoned person still had a stable appearance in the womb. Even if a doctor visits, he will only think that these symptoms are ordinary pregnancy signs, and drinking the fetal pill will only make the poison penetrate deeper. At the end of October, a stillborn child was born, but the mother was safe. ”

"This poison does not harm the mother, but harms the baby and the fetus, so it is called 'children's sorrow'."

Meng Xiyan looked at the medicine bag in front of him, and suddenly retracted his hand like a stinger.

When my cousin saw her movements, she smiled disapprerovingly: "Xiao'er sorrow is almost extinct now." However, because I had some friendship with the people at the Imperial Medicine Center, I learned about this secret. ”

"I don't dare to use this medicine in the palace, but you can give it a try."

She whispered close to Meng Xiyan's ear, "Xuanyilang's favorite concubine, but it was because of this medicine that she gave birth to a stillborn child." ”

Hearing the last sentence, Meng Xiyan's heart moved.

She knew that Xuanyilang's beloved concubine played the piano well and was very favored by Xuanyilang. Originally, he was pregnant not long after entering the house, and Xuan Yilang was taking care of it, but who knew that when it was time to give birth, the fetus born was out of breath.

The little concubine was hit by this incident, and she couldn't afford to fall ill, and died soon after. The wives of her colleagues in Beijing all said that she was unlucky, and she never thought that she had been poisoned.

Thinking of Mrs. Xuanyilang's gentle and virtuous appearance, Meng Xiyan couldn't help but shiver.

She knew that Xuan Yilang doted on the concubine, and when the concubine was pregnant, whenever she had a headache and brain fever, she would ask the medical officer for a post. Even the medical officer of the medical court did not find out the clue of this, until the concubine entered the ground, it was only determined by the unhealthy pregnancy.

If Pei Yunshu is given this medicine, he can silently poison the evil seed in her abdomen.

Meng Xiyan couldn't help but be moved.

So she accepted her cousin's "kindness".

After all, directly harming Pei Yunshu's life is a little too obvious. But if Pei Yunshu is alive, and even stays peacefully until the day of delivery, but the baby she finally gives birth to is breathless, it is no wonder that others.

Those previous fevers, headaches, and wind wreaks from time to time have all become evidence that Pei Yunshu's fetus was already unstable.

If Pei Yunshu can end up depressed because of this, it will be even better.

Meng Xiyan cut two more clusters of miscellaneous leaves, and until she couldn't find any more bad ones, she put the scissors back into the basket, and suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Has the medical officer seen Pei Yunshu?" ”

Pei Yunshu has been ill for more than an hour, and the medical officer of the medical officer hospital should have arrived. As my cousin said, every time Pei Yunshu felt a little unwell, the medical officer came to see it, and he only said that it was an ordinary pregnancy, so that Pei Yunshu didn't have to worry, just drink a few fetal pills.

At first, Meng Xiyan was still a little worried, afraid that those medical officers would find out something, but after a few months, no one felt that something was wrong, and Meng Xiyan gradually put her mind at ease, her cousin didn't lie to her, this forbidden drug, really few people knew.

The servant replied softly: "Just now, the royal doctor came, but he was rejected by Qiongying next to the princess." It is said that the princess is much better at the moment and is resting. Doctor Wang was still a little unhappy when he left. ”

Meng Xiyan was stunned: "Pei Yunshu refuses to see the medical officer? ”

"Yes. I think that Dr. Lu has already appeased the princess. ”

Meng Xi's face was suspicious.

Since Pei Yunshu became pregnant, she has been extremely cautious in her food and clothing, lest something go wrong with the heirs in her womb. Even every time I went to the medical officer's hospital to ask for a medical officer, I changed to a different medical officer to see him, so as not to be bribed by others.

As for the stable woman she invited, she had a good relationship with her mother's family, so it can be seen that she has made all preparations.

Today, Pei Yunshu has abdominal pain, let the medical woman surnamed Lu go to see it because the incident happened suddenly, even though Pei Yunshu is no big problem now, but the medical officer of the medical officer hospital is at the door, Pei Yunshu let the medical officer disappear, and believes in a little-known medical woman, isn't it a little strange?

Xu is a thief with a weak heart, and Meng Xiyan can't help but speculate in his heart about any abnormal behavior of Pei Yunshu.

She thought for a while, and then asked, "What did that doctor girl do after seeing Pei Yunshu?" ”

The maid thought about it carefully and replied: "Doctor Lu first went to see the princess's illness, and then said that there was nothing serious, so he asked the maid next to him to go to the nearest pharmacy to grab some medicine and take it to the fetus. ”

I just prescribed some tocolytic pills, which didn't sound like a problem.

But...... Fetal pills?

Meng Xiyan's face suddenly became difficult to look at.

There is a fetal medicine in the house, Pei Yunshu has it in her own small kitchen, and I heard that she had already drunk a bowl when she had abdominal pain at the beginning, how could she go to the pharmacy outside to buy it?

Could it be ...... What did the medicine girl find?

As soon as this thought came out, Meng Xiyan immediately shook her head, impossible, a little doctor girl in a broken medical hall, she may not even recognize all ordinary medicinal materials, let alone a forbidden medicine that has been lost in the palace for a long time. Lu Tong couldn't be better than those medical officers in the medical hospital.

But for some reason, there was still a hint of uneasiness in her heart, as if something was out of her control and was moving uncontrollably in a direction she didn't want to think about.

Lu Tong stayed in Pei Yunshu's house now and didn't come out, and now she can't go directly to Lu Tong in order to avoid suspicion. Besides, this is all groundless speculation, because I am afraid that I will think too much.

So......

Meng Xiyan hesitated for a moment, and instructed the maidservant in the house: "You find someone to go to the pharmacy where Lu Tong's maid just went, and ask her what medicine she just bought." Be quick! ”