Chapter 53
Chapter 53
In order to give Cangwu Jingyuan a more noble status, Shen Chen agreed to serve the queen, but that night Shen Chen suddenly fell ill with red spots all over his body. cause.
"If there is anything wrong with him today, I will let you all be buried with him." When Cangwu Jingyuan arrived, just as he heard the Queen's angry shout, the court ladies and eunuchs fell to their knees, and the old doctor was also trembling.
"Mother, how is your lord?" Cangwu Jingyuan ran to the window in a panic before she had time to salute. Shen Chen's eyes were closed tightly, and he looked very painful. His usually handsome face was now covered with red spots. In order to prevent him from scratching himself, the queen had to ask someone to tie him up.Cangwu Jingyuan touched Shen Chen's forehead with her hand, and found it was hot.
"Go and call me all the imperial physicians in the entire imperial hospital, and those who dare not come will be executed for resisting the order." The queen was almost furious, and Shen Chen finally agreed to serve her bed, but this happened.
Seeing the helpless imperial physician and the painful Shen Chen, Cangwu Jingyuan suddenly thought of someone, and hurriedly half-kneeled in front of the empress: "Mother, please don't punish the imperial physician, your doing so will put the imperial physician at risk and affect their judgment." Yes. Do you remember that the second brother is also good at medicine and has a lot of knowledge, why don't you let him come over and have a look."
"Go and invite the second prince over immediately." Before Cangwu Jingyuan finished speaking, the queen sent someone to look for Cangwu Lingyu.
Cangwu Lingyu came soon, followed by Bai Qian, Cangwu Jingyuan was a little surprised, but he didn't have the heart to take these things into consideration.
"Empress." Cangwu Lingyu was helped up by the empress just as he was about to salute: "Forget about these red tapes, go and see Shen Chen."
"You all stop talking." Cangwu Lingyu first checked Shen Chen's eyeballs, then at his tongue, limbs, and chest, and then frowned more and more tightly: "The pulse is rapid and chaotic, the chest and abdomen are swollen, and the nails It was light blue in color, the tongue coating was congested, and red spots appeared all over the body, this was not a sudden illness at all, but poisoning."
"Poisoned?"
Cangwu Lingyu nodded, spread out the golden needles, and roasted them carefully with fire: "This kind of poison is called 'seeing the bones', and it will make the poisoned person look like a sudden and serious illness, but in fact it is not at all. The whole body is numb and itchy. People who have been poisoned can't help scratching. It will be extremely painful, and if there is no antidote, it usually cannot survive for three hours—people who are poisoned usually do not die because there is no antidote, but commit suicide because they cannot bear it.”
"Then quickly take out the antidote!" The queen was a little anxious.
"Going back to Queen Mother, there is no ready-made antidote for my son. The Queen can send someone to buy some antidote in some flower halls around the imperial city. To be honest, this medicine was originally used to deal with those disobedient kiln girls and young men. Yes. Although there is no antidote, I can first use golden needles to help Shen Guijun relieve the pain."
Seeing the sharp long needles piercing into Shen Chen's skin one by one, Cangwu Jingyuan suddenly knelt down, weeping uncontrollably.
"Emperor Mother, it's all my sons and daughters who hurt your lord, so punish your sons and daughters." The empress looked at Cangwu Jingyuan in puzzlement, and Cangwu Jingyuan was assassinated in the middle of the night before, and the reward was given to her by others. She said all the poisonous things, and at the end, she said decisively: "It seems that there are some people in this palace who can't tolerate my ministers. I know that I have hindered many people's eyes, but your lord is innocent, and my ministers are human beings." Son, if the murderer is not found this time, I will not be reconciled."
The queen didn't expect that there was such a relationship behind her. She laughed angrily: "How dare you do such a dirty thing under my nose, and you are so unscrupulous. Jing Yuan, you get up first, this matter not only needs to be investigated, but also to be investigated." After a thorough investigation, I would like to see who dared to attack the princess after eating the bear's heart and leopard's guts."
After a while of busy work, Shen Chen really calmed down slowly, but his wrists were red from being strangled by the rope. The empress asked Cangwu Lingyu to find the source of the poison.
Cangwu Lingyu found out that the poison was placed on Shen Chen's clothes just changed yesterday. This time, the empress was careful and did not conduct a large-scale search, but called Zhang Quan over.
"Eunuch Zhang, who sent Shen Guijun's clothes yesterday?"
"Return to Your Majesty, it was delivered by the servant himself."
"Did anyone else touch the clothes when Nannie sent them over?"
Zhang Quan thought for a while before answering cautiously: "When the servant delivered the clothes yesterday, I met the eldest princess and the third princess. The reason was that the servant accidentally dropped a belt on the clothes. So I took the initiative to help the servant hold the clothes, and the belt was picked up by the eldest princess and sent back. Except for the two princesses, no one else has touched this dress."
"Call them both over here, and," the empress ordered in a low voice, "take someone to search their palace, and if you find anything suspicious, report it immediately and don't hide it."
"Yes." Zhang Quan stepped back, and glanced at Cangwu Jingyuan with seemingly absent eyes.
Cangwu Jinxiu and Cangwu Lingxue soon came, including Shen He and Lin Fangjun, but their statements were similar to what Zhang Quan said, there was nothing suspicious, and each had their own witnesses.The queen fell into deep thought, and it happened that Zhang Quan also came back at this time. He whispered in the queen's ear and told her that nothing was found in the palace of the two princesses.
Have you wronged them?The empress looked at Cangwu Jinxiu with an aggrieved face, and then at Cangwu Jingyuan. Cangwu Jingyuan instantly understood what the empress meant, and she couldn't help lowering her head in disappointment. The hairpin in the middle fell off, Cangwu Jingyuan reached out to pick up the hairpin, the queen's heart moved, and asked Cangwu Jinxiu and Cangwu Lingxue to present the hairpin in the middle, Cangwu Jinxiu didn't know what the queen was going to do, Then he tore off the hairpin angrily, and when it was Cangwu Lingxue's turn, everyone noticed that the third princess, who had always been calm and composed, actually showed a disturbed expression.
The queen's heart sank, and she said, "Lingxue, show me your jade hairpin."
"Emperor Mother, son..." Even though he was as wise as Cangwu Lingxue, he couldn't think of any excuses at the moment. Zhang Quan said "offended" and presented Cangwu Lingxue's Jade Hairpin to the Queen. The inside of the hairpin is hollow, and Cangwu Lingyu scraped a little medicine from the inner wall, and after a little experimentation, it was confirmed that it was "bone-seeing".
"Cangwu Lingxue, you have disappointed me so much." The empress threw the jade hairpin on the ground forcefully, and the body of the hairpin was shattered.
Cangwu Lingxue's legs softened subconsciously, and she knelt on the ground with a pale face.
"I didn't expect you to be so vicious at such a young age. You are full of sage books. Where have you read them to poison your elders? You don't have the slightest demeanor of a princess!"
"Emperor Mother, Emperor Mother, I don't know, I don't know anything..." Now Cangwu Lingxue has no choice but to shirk responsibility. Although she did not inflict the poison today, if the Empress knows that she deliberately A hollow hairpin was custom-made, and the poison that was previously used in the gifts was contained in this hairpin, so I am afraid that the end will not be any better.
The queen was in a fit of anger, when suddenly the imperial doctor came to report from the inner room, saying that your lord had woken up.
"Everyone stay here, don't move a single step!" The queen gave this order and hurried into the inner room with Cangwu Jingyuan.
Seeing Shen Chen's sweaty head, Cangwu Jingyuan felt very uncomfortable, she walked towards Bai Qian who had been helping inside, and secretly held her hand, both of them had cold palms.In fact, today's events were all jointly planned by Shen Chen and Cangwu Jingyuan. On the one hand, Shen Chen wanted to force out the mastermind who was in the dark, and on the other hand, he didn't want to go to bed, so he resorted to a "bitter trick". Secretly took the medicine and rice, and then Cangwu Jingyuan asked Wuying to put the remaining medicine and rice into Cangwu Jinxiu's hollow hairpin. As for Zhang Quan, she had already arranged it. The hairpin of the fulcrum awakening queen also fell off on purpose—because the queen was framed in the same way in the past, but the queen never mentioned it to others. It was after Cangwu Jingyuan became the queen before her rebirth. Found by accident.
Although the goal has been achieved, Cangwu Lingxue doesn't seem to be having a good time, but seeing Shen Chen's uncomfortable appearance, Cangwu Jingyuan still feels a little uncomfortable.
The queen watched Shen Chen take the medicine before coming out, maybe it was because she really cared about Shen Chen, but this time it was not to punish Cangwu Lingxue to think behind closed doors, nor to deduct her monthly money, but to beat her up and then He was thrown into prison for "poisoning the elders".Cangwu Lingxue didn't expect the queen to be serious at all, and for a while there was no other action except denial of grievances.
Shen He couldn't stand it any longer. Cangwu Lingxue was his ally now. Once she went to prison, she would probably tell the truth about herself in order to protect herself. So he and Lin Fangjun pleaded with the queen and put The matter was pushed to a maid next to Cangwu Lingxue. They said, if Cangwu Lingxue was really vicious, why would she wear this hairpin today? Woe to her.
"Emperor Mother!" Seeing that Shen He was still eloquently shaping the image of the victim for Cangwu Lingxue, Cangwu Jingyuan couldn't bear it any longer, and told the whole story about the assassination at the posthouse.
"As a princess, she poisoned her elders, harmed her siblings, lied to her parents, and disobeyed the law. Such shameless behaviors, if not punished, will only make the virtue of benevolence and unity that our Cangwu Kingdom advocates be criticized. , if the superiors can’t set an example, how can they calm down the world and subdue the common people, if this news spreads today, what is the majesty of my royal family?”
Cangwu Jingyuan's words were resounding, but Shen He actually moved the Shen family out again, and even said that Cangwu Jingyuan wronged people regardless of right and wrong, and she was really vicious.
"Why didn't the emperor say such things when he wronged me in the past?" Shen He choked on Cangwu Jingyuan's words, his face turned red and pale.
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