noffsinger Chapter 386 Something is wrong with the medicine today
Chapter 386 Something is wrong with the medicine today
Concubine Shu was frozen in the snow for a long time. Finally, she waited until the ministers left. She untied her cloak and emerged from the snow in a gauze dress. She was about to dance on the path the emperor had to pass by when she fell into his arms, which aroused his old feelings for her. But she didn't know that the emperor would carry her out.
All her good wishes were instantly shattered. Concubine Shu immediately found a place to hide. She also unexpectedly heard the news of your pregnancy, which instantly aroused this woman's hatred.
[Shu Guifei feels that if it weren't for you, she wouldn't have been banished to a nunnery, much less locked up in this Wanguo Temple, where she can only chant sutras and pray in the meditation room all day, unable to do anything else. She thinks that if it weren't for you, the position of Empress would have been hers, and even the woman favored by the Emperor and pregnant now would have been her.]
Concubine Shu is truly shameless, not even considering her own weight. Simply because she's the Empress Dowager's niece, she's already lost. Since the Emperor dislikes the Empress Dowager and is wary of her, he can't just support someone from the Shu family to ascend to power. She became a Concubine not because the Emperor valued her, but because the Empress Dowager contrived to secure her the position, not because the Emperor gave it to her.
[Even if I weren't there, it wouldn't be her turn, and another woman would have become the queen.]
[I think this imperial concubine is suffering from hysteria from being imprisoned.]
If she had known better, she wouldn't have ended up in this situation today.
【and after? 】
Now Gu Jianchu only wanted to know how the imperial concubine poisoned her.
Later, Concubine Shu was afraid her sneaking out would be discovered, so she quickly sneaked back before Xiao Shani noticed. She knew her current situation was very dire. If the host knew she had sneaked out, they would definitely take advantage of your presence and ask what to do with her. She couldn't let anyone see her, especially since she had finally gotten the key, so she could sneak out when Xiao Shani wasn't paying attention.
[She also learned from Xiao Shani that you and Xie Ci'an were unaware that she had been moved from the nunnery to the Wanguo Temple. Since you were unaware of her existence, she could easily act in secret.]
I never thought that after being demoted to a commoner, I would actually gain some brains. However, this brain is no different from not having any.
After returning to her meditation room, Concubine Shu felt increasingly that if you and the child in her belly were gone, she could seize the opportunity to ascend to power and, by the way, relieve her hatred for you. So, the next morning, when Xiao Shanni came to deliver her food, she told her that there were mice in her room, making so much noise that she couldn't sleep at night. She asked Xiao Shanni to help her find some rat poison so she could spread it around the room to keep the mice away.
Little Shani didn't think much about it and tried her best to satisfy Concubine Shu's request.
In the afternoon, the young nun bought rat poison for Concubine Shu. After sending the young nun away, Concubine Shu quietly escaped from the meditation room. She knew that it was difficult to tamper with your food, so besides testing for poison, since you were pregnant, she would definitely ask the young eunuch to do the same. However, the abortion-preserving medicine prescribed by the Imperial Hospital would not work. So, she secretly sneaked into the pharmacy, found the abortion-preserving medicine prescribed by Imperial Physician Lin, and poured a packet of rat poison into your medicine. The young eunuch didn't pay much attention when he cooked the medicine. After all, the medicine was prepared in the palace, so he thought there wouldn't be any major problems, so he just cooked it.
[Right now, Concubine Shu is in her meditation room, anxiously awaiting news of your poison taking effect.]
I thank her. She has been hoping for my death.
However, Xie Ci'an still needs to be informed of how to deal with this matter.
After all, Concubine Shu is the Empress Dowager's niece, and this matter is also closely related to Xie Ci'an.
Gu Jianchu put the medicine to her lips but didn't drink it. Instead, she sniffed it and said, "Your Majesty, I smell something wrong with this medicine today. There seems to be a strange smell mixed in it."
Xie Ci'an knew that it was the Queen who was giving him a hint.
The queen has always been very smart and never reminds him proactively. Every time she reminds him in a roundabout way to arouse his suspicion.
Xie Ci'an took the medicine from Gu Jianchu's hand and said, "Don't drink it."
"Qiutou, go call Doctor Lin over and ask him to take a look at what's wrong with this medicine." Xie Ci'an gave a cold order to Qiutou who was waiting on the side.
Qiutou didn't expect there would be a problem with the medicine, so she hurried out to call Doctor Lin.
"You are pregnant now, and you don't know how many eyes are watching you. We should be more careful now and be on guard against others. It is better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go." Xie Ci'an held Gu Jianchu's hand tightly to relieve his tension.
"Your Majesty is right. I hope I am just overthinking it." Gu Jianchu looked at the black medicine in front of her and still felt a little scared. She had been on guard against everything, but she had not anticipated the danger of Concubine Shu.
Gu Jianchu leaned fearfully in Xie Ci'an's arms.
Doctor Lin, who received the message, thought that something had happened to Gu Jianchu, and almost ran to the east courtyard. Although the road had been cleaned by Xiao Shani, it was still slippery. Doctor Lin walked too hurriedly and almost slipped several times.
As soon as Doctor Lin entered the meditation room, before he could even greet him, Xie Ci'an pushed Gu Jianchu's pregnancy-maintaining medicine in front of him and said, "Check to see if there's anything added to it."
When Doctor Lin saw the pregnancy-preserving medicine that Xie Ci'an pushed over, a bad premonition spread in his heart.
He put the pregnancy-maintaining medicine between his nose and smelled it, then used a spoon to put a little into his mouth. After tasting the pot, he immediately spit the medicine onto the handkerchief he was carrying. His originally anxious expression turned into a serious and pale one.
Xie Ci'an's voice then rang out in the Zen room, "Is there a problem?"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me. This pregnancy-preserving medicine has been added with a sufficient amount of rat poison, which is made up of several poisonous herbs. Once Your Majesty takes it, she will be in imminent danger. It is only because of your humble servant that someone tampered with this pregnancy-preserving medicine. Please punish me, Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Doctor Lin knelt on the ground, his body shaking like a sieve.
Since this matter concerns the Queen, the Emperor attaches great importance to it. Doctor Lin can already imagine his own fate.
He was also careless, thinking that there were some insignificant little monks everywhere in this temple, so there should be nothing to worry about. So after giving the medicine to the eunuch to boil, he did not check it and directly ordered someone to send it to the queen. Fortunately, the queen did not take it. If something unexpected happened after taking it, he could not afford such a big responsibility.
"I didn't expect that there would be someone so bold as to poison." Xie Ci'an slapped the table, and the table shook and a crack appeared. With a little more force, the table would break into two pieces in an instant.
The palace servants in the room immediately knelt down.