After crossing, I was dragged by the bamboo horse and became a queen

Chapter 429 The so-called acute illness
Yingxia and Yingyue, who were standing by the side, understood. They immediately greeted Xiaoying who was serving lunch together, turned around and went out, and carefully closed the door.

"The sudden illness that your mother said..." Shangguanjing asked: "What do you mean? Could it be that there are intractable diseases that the hospital doesn't see well?"

"It's good to see." Lu Zhaoyi replied: "However, you still have to ask the prince and princess for instructions first. The concubine and elder brother don't dare to make their own decisions."

"Oh?" When Lu Zhaoyi said this, Shangguanjing calmed down. She nodded to Lu Zhaoyi and said gently: "It seems that it is not an ordinary intractable disease! Why don't you tell me about it, Mrs. Zhaoyi? Anyway, time There are many, I would like to hear the ins and outs."

"It does look unusual." Lu Zhaoyi replied, "It's just a closer inspection, but it's very strange."

This matter is not complicated.After the incident at Shujing Palace, Lu Zhaoyi sent a message to her elder brother Lu Shilang according to Shangguanjing's instructions, asking him to pay more attention to Zhou Baolin's family.

Of course, Lu Shilang was very active in this regard, so he specially sent someone to buy a house in Changchun Lane near the Prime Minister's Mansion, and monitored the movements of Zhou Baolin's family nearby.

As expected, although Zhou Baolin's family has been expelled from slavery by the Prime Minister's Mansion, they still have frequent contacts with the Prime Minister's Mansion. At least Lu Shilang found that the chief steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion often came to Zhou's house in Changchun Lane.

Moreover, the life of the Zhou family seems to be very well off.Logically speaking, this family was born as a domestic slave, and they can be regarded as dignified figures in the prime minister's mansion. The things about servants of big families are basically the same. If this family is released, it can be done with a small amount of money, and it can be done by a rich man. Dagui is of course impossible.

However, Lu Shilang soon discovered that Zhou Baolin's brother had sent his son to Kaimeng, a famous academy in central Beijing.In this generation with distinct classes, if the children of common people want to enter the academy where the children of the aristocratic family gather, the price must be paid a lot, and the ordinary citizens of the well-off level can't do it. The Zhou family looks better than ordinary people imagined. , much better off.

Lu Shilang is a cautious person, he sent people to buy a house nearby, and arranged for people to live nearby, but the time of being a neighbor is still short, so his people have never had too close contact with the Zhou family. Be an ordinary neighbor.

Not long after, the Lu family's servants who were watching nearby discovered that the state of the Zhou family was a little strange.First, the stewards of the Prime Minister's Mansion visited frequently, then the young grandson of the Zhou family dropped out of the academy, and after that, Zhou Baolin's mother became seriously ill.

"This is a step up!" Shangguan Jing couldn't help but sneer when she heard this.

"Yes." Lu Zhaoyi nodded: "But the scary thing is yet to come!"

Of course, all the Zhou family's movements could not be hidden from the Lu family's slave who pretended to be a neighbor.The people sent by Lu Shilang immediately reported all this to the master.

In order to avoid alarming others, Lu Shilang first sent Zhou's "neighbors" with some gifts to visit Zhou's house, just as a neighborly friend, and didn't say anything else.

But this time, the kind-faced woman sent by the Lu family failed to visit Zhou Baolin's mother in person. Everyone in the Zhou family was frowning, but when they mentioned the mistress's illness, they all kept secret. Let the people sent by the Lu family be more vigilant and suspicious.

After Lu Shilang found out, he immediately sent a servant who was a neighbor of the Zhou family to come forward, saying that he could introduce a famous doctor in Beijing.

"Have you hired a medical officer from the Imperial Hospital?" Shangguan Jing asked again.

"How dare a concubine." Lu Zhaoyi shook her head: "The medical officer of this imperial hospital often travels to and from the harem, and my concubine is not sure that I can invite people from the imperial hospital to help out, so that I can hide it from Queen Chen's eyes and ears. Therefore, my elder brother, In the end, I chose a doctor that the Lu family can trust, this person has been taking care of the concubine's mother all year round, and his medical skills are also good."

"Oh?" Shangguan Jing nodded: "The doctor went to Zhou's house? Did he see Zhou Baolin's mother? What is the disease?"

"Going to go," Lu Zhaoyi replied: "The Zhou family also has high expectations for the doctor we recommend. But the truth cannot be told to the Zhou family. Zhou Baolin's mother is actually not sick, but was poisoned. .”

"Poison?" Shangguan Jing raised her eyebrows slightly. She was not surprised by this answer: "Are you sure?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry," Lu Zhaoyi nodded: "The doctor hired by the concubine's family does not have to be inferior to the medical officers in the hospital. Zhou Baolin's mother was poisoned, and he is sure. The detoxification is actually not difficult, just prepare the antidote. It just takes some time. These are all easy, but the concubines and the family don’t dare to make good decisions, and ask the crown prince to show us whether we should care or not.”

"Heh..." Shangguan Jingle, she did not answer Lu Zhaoyi's question, but asked again: "When did Zhou Baolin's mother get 'sick'?"

"The day before yesterday." Lu Zhaoyi replied: "The concubine's elder brother sent the person who had only been neighbors with the Zhou family for two days, so if we make a move at this time, it would seem a bit weird, and I'm afraid we will recruit someone from the Prime Minister Chen's mansion." Suspect."

The day before yesterday, didn't that coincide with the day when Weiyang Palace had unusual movements?Shangguan Jing sneered.

She roughly figured out the thinking of Chen Chengxiang's family.Everything was aimed at the child in Zhou Baolin's belly.

At the beginning, he spent a lot of money to resettle the Zhou family, and then gave up the money. As the former master, he promised the Zhou family future benefits and sent Zhou Baolin's nephew to study in the academy where the family gathered.

All of this is not the favor of the master, but the compensation from the prime minister's mansion to the Zhou family, in exchange for the child in Zhou Baolin's stomach.

It's a pity that the superior master mentality of Chen Chengxiang's family did not expect that Zhou's family may not object to such an arrangement, but Zhou Baolin himself is not happy.

Therefore, when Chen Baolin went to ask her for conditions, she was bitten by her instead. Not to mention the bad luck, Queen Chen was also implicated.

Based on the news channel between Empress Chen and her mother's family, it is impossible to hide this kind of matter from Prime Minister Chen.Therefore, instead of lure and coercion, it is natural to change it into coercion.

Zhou Baolin's mother was poisoned at this time, nothing more than to threaten Zhou Baolin in Shujing Palace to compromise.

But... whether it works or not, we have to wait and see!

"Forget it for now." Shangguanjing thought this way, and smiled slightly at Lu Zhaoyi: "Ms. Zhaoyi should know why Zhou Baolin's mother was poisoned, right? I think that Prime Minister Chen will not let her die easily. Wouldn't it be useless? Lady Zhaoyi think about it, is this the truth?"

　——Here is the dividing line for the Chen family to have children——
　　Empress Chen, who is sure to get Zhou Baolin's child, threatens if she can't buy it, or directly kills the mother after the child is born. There are many methods.

　　To tell the truth, Zhou Baolin found it very difficult to resist the queen and snatch the child.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)