Withered vines.

Origin Rong Di, toxic, but the toxicity is not very strong, people will be mentally disordered after smelling for a long time, the body is getting thinner and thinner, and it will cause irreversible damage to the human body.

The last time I happened to strayed into the Empress Dowager Yang's bedroom, I found a clue in the burning incense of the dormitory, and then I knew that someone in the harem wanted to poison the Empress Dowager Yang.

Chen Chao can no matter who wants to kill Empress Dowager Yang, because Chen Chao and Empress Dowager Yang have no half-dime relationship.

But at present, the mastermind behind the murder of Empress Dowager Yang has set his sights on Murong Yue, and Chen Chao can't sit idly by.

The rouge that Murong Yue usually uses to make up is mixed with withered vines.

And the dose is very large.

In the long run, the consequences are unimaginable.

Before Chen Chao and the Empress Dowager Murong Yue arrived at the main gate of the Changqiu Palace, they were pulled by the palace maids to a nearby side hall and waited to change into plain clothes.

When the ministers saw the arrival of Chen Chao and the Empress Dowager Murong Yue, they automatically moved out of the way.

Raising his legs across the threshold, Chen Chao walked into the courtyard and looked up at the clouds hanging over this small courtyard.

The lead-gray clouds did not gather for a long time, and the rain became heavier and heavier.

The courtyard was full of important ministers, and several scholars of Wenchang Pavilion University were among them.

There is also the Empress Dowager Yang's own family, Uncle Yang Guo has many children in it, everyone's face is gloomy, purses his lips tightly, and does not say a word.

The atmosphere in the courtyard was very solemn and depressing.

As they got closer and closer to that room, their eyes fell on Chen Chao and Murong Yue from all directions.

Murong Yue walked straight in, while Chen Chao just walked to the door and stopped to take a look inside.

I saw that kneeling beside the bed was the adopted son Emperor Yongxing, the adopted daughter of the seventeenth princess Yingying, and the biological son of the Empress Dowager Yang, King Li of Guangling.

Empress Dowager Yang was lying on the bed, her face was extremely pale, she had no strength to cough, her eyelids drooped, and she was dying.

Li Wei and Yingying couldn't cry, especially the nine-year-old Yingying, the little girl's little face was wet with tears, her eyes were swollen into two red cherries, and her mouth kept crying, don't go, she knew that Empress Dowager Yang closed her eyes, and she would never see it again.

But Emperor Yongxing did not shed tears.

But it seems that he is also extremely sad, his eyes are red, and he can't hold back his tears.

After a few glances, Chen Chao turned around and returned, drenched in the rain, and quietly waited in the courtyard for the big drama to start.

After a while, the officials of the Ministry of Rites began to prepare for the aftermath of the Queen Mother in advance, and several Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes walked in, sitting cross-legged, chanting sutras in their mouths, and the paper money began to burn, and from time to time the wind blew, and the flames flickered big and small.

Chen Chao looked at it, but he was thinking about other things in his heart.

There were several imperial doctors in the room, many of whom were experts in drug knowledge.

As long as Murong Yue can knock over the incense burner and pour out the ashes to attract the attention of the poison-recognizing imperial doctor, this matter will be much simpler.

To find out who gave Murong Yue's rouge, it is easy to catch the murderer behind it.

But Chen Chao didn't want to do this, he just wanted to make a big deal about this matter and make it out of control.

The emperor, the king of Guangling, and the Yang family, if they knew that the Empress Dowager Yang did not die of tuberculosis, but died of withered vines, would they severely punish the murderer?

The answer is yes.

Chen Chao just wants to borrow the hands of these people to catch the murderer!

Minutes and seconds passed.

After waiting for almost half an hour.

There was a sudden dull sound of "bang" in the house, and the people in the yard looked at each other, and had a bad premonition, thinking that something big had happened, and hurriedly ran to the door to look inside.

I saw that in the house, an incense burner was accidentally knocked over to the ground.

The originally small room was instantly covered with ashes, everyone coughed, waving their sleeves, and the palace maids quickly got busy, returning the room to normal in the shortest possible time, but a white-bearded imperial doctor standing in the corner of the room gradually frowned and stopped the palace maids who were about to go out:

"Wait a minute."

He came to the palace maid, took the incense burner in his hand, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it carefully, and then twisted the ashes of the cleaned stove with his fingers and smelled it, and then his face changed slightly, and then several other imperial doctors stepped forward and asked what was going on.

Several imperial doctors talked in a whisper for a while, their faces solemn.

After a while, the white-bearded imperial doctor came behind Emperor Yongxing, who was kneeling in front of the bed to serve, and whispered in Emperor Yongxing's ear.

After listening to this, Emperor Yongxing turned his head in astonishment, glanced at the incense burner in the hand of the imperial doctor, and then looked at the Empress Dowager Yang who was angry on the couch, and the palm in his sleeve couldn't help but clench a little.

And at this moment, the cries of Li Wei and Yingying, who were kneeling beside the bed, suddenly became louder, and their voices raised a few keys.

When I looked at it again, Empress Dowager Yang had already closed her eyes, and her palms had slipped from the side of the bed.

"Queen Mother, ....."

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Empress Dowager Yang finally closed her eyes, and the Ministry of Rites dealt with the Empress Dowager Yang's aftermath in an orderly manner, and was busy until late at night, when Empress Dowager Yang was put into a coffin, and a mourning hall was set up in the Changqiu Palace, and prayer flags and white silk fluttered in the wind.

Li Wei led Yingying to kneel in front of the mourning hall, looking sluggish, numbly throwing paper money into the brazier.

The flames dried the tears on the faces of the two men, forming a shallow black mark on their faces.

The rain outside was getting heavier and crackling.

Meanwhile.

In the side hall of the Changqiu Palace, there is a completely different scene.

Emperor Yongxing was dressed in linen and filial piety, sitting on the main seat in white, his fists clenched tightly on his knees, his eyes were fierce, and anger was accumulated in his chest.

When Chen Chao was invited over, the side hall was already overcrowded.

The Empress Dowager Murong Yue was also in the side hall, sitting next to Emperor Yongxing, and there was a case between the two.

Murong Yue saw Chen Chao coming, and asked with his eyes what the hell was going on?

Chen Chao secretly pressed down on her hand, telling her not to worry.

Wait and see what happens next.

The Yang family, represented by Yang Changye, didn't know what was going on, and they looked left and right, talking and talking in a whisper..... Several elderly imperial physicians repeatedly confirmed that there were indeed withered vines in the incense burner and ashes, and finally nodded to Emperor Yongxing.

"Come on, bring that slut to me!" Emperor Yongxing slapped the case, and the bang startled everyone in the house.

Several little eunuchs twisted the arm of a woman who, like Emperor Yongxing, wore linen and filial piety.

"Concubine Ling?"

Murong Yue stood up in surprise and looked at the woman who was brought in.

This woman is none other than the only concubine by Emperor Yongxing's side, Concubine Ling.

Murong Yue also went on a night tour of Guangming Pool with her some time ago.

"Your Majesty, what happened?" Uncle Yang Changye has a very sad face on his face, he is the elder brother of the Empress Dowager Yang, and the relationship between the brother and sister has always been good.

Empress Dowager Yang has been seriously ill all these years, and her body is not as good as day by day, Yang Changye is looking for not a hundred but eighty famous doctors outside, just to cure the Empress Dowager Yang, but in the end, Empress Dowager Yang is still gone.

Emperor Yongxing did not answer Yang Changye's question, but gave the imperial doctor in the room a look, and the imperial doctor stepped forward with the incense burner and incense ashes, and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is found in the main hall of Empress Dowager Yang's bedroom, and the ashes of this incense burner are mixed with withered vines."

"And the withered vines, poisonous!"