The Empress Arrives: Rebirth of Concubine Hua

Chapter 232 Brown Powder
The Yikun Palace was shrouded in dark clouds. Everyone was so nervous that they dared not make the slightest noise. Yinzhen sat on a chair with a gloomy face, waiting for Su Peisheng to bring Yunli.

The last time Yunli maliciously pinched Princess Kangle's face, Ulanara was pregnant and resting well, so she just let it go and kept silent.

This time, Concubine Duan pointed out that the itching poison that Concubine Hua and her son were infected with was suspected to have been given by Yunli, and Ulanara could no longer hide and keep silent.

Ulanara signaled Jianqiu to replace the cold tea in the emperor's hand and served hot tea again.

Yinzhen suppressed his anger, raised his hand to stop Jianqiu, and said.

"I can't drink hot tea right now, I'd rather have cold tea like this."

Ulanara advised.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. The matter is not clear yet. I think it would be better to wait until the Fourteenth Master arrives and Your Majesty asks for clarification before we discuss it.

Concubine Duan just picked up the medicine, but that doesn’t mean the medicine belongs to the Fourteenth Prince.

The emperor is furious at the moment, and drinking herbal tea is not good for his health."

Concubine Duan listened to what Ulanara said, looked up at her, said nothing, and picked up the tea beside her and sipped it.

Yinzhen tapped the table with his left index finger and said.

"Last time, the Queen Mother stopped me, so I only gave Yunzhen a small punishment.

The queen was pregnant at the time, so Se-ran ordered people to move Yun-ti to a new place to live so that the queen would not have to work too hard.

This time, the Queen should think carefully about how to deal with this matter."

As soon as Yinzhen finished speaking, the eunuch outside came with a message.

"The Empress Dowager of Yonghe Palace has arrived~"

Yinzhen sneered in his heart, thinking that he had come at the right time, saving him the trouble of asking someone to go and invite him again.

When Hua Fei and her son were in trouble today, Empress Dowager De did not come. Now, when she heard that her beloved youngest son might have caused a great disaster, Empress Dowager De, who was bedridden, came overnight.

It is truly a love between mother and son that is so enviable.

Yinzhen stood up and went out with Ulanara to greet them.

"Son pays respects to mother. Is mother feeling better?"

Empress Dowager De sat in a sedan chair. The night light shone on her pale face, making her look somewhat terrifying.

Yinzhen looked up at Empress Dowager De. She was his biological mother, but his feelings towards her were complicated.

After just a few days of not seeing her, Empress Dowager De's eye sockets became sunken, and her once plump and moist skin was gone, replaced by a haggard face.

"The Emperor, please get up."

Empress Dowager De stretched out her hand, and Zhuxi and another personal maid helped her up from the sedan chair.

When they entered the main hall of the Yiku Palace, Empress Dowager De sat down, and then Yinzhen sat down again.

Ulanara stood beside Empress Dowager De.

"It is almost midnight. I wonder why my mother came here at midnight?
I remember I had sent someone to tell my mother that Concubine Hua had given birth safely.

Even if my mother wants to see the little grandson, she should consider her own health.

Tomorrow, I will ask the wet nurse to bring the baby to show my mother.

If there is nothing else, I will send someone to take my mother back to rest."

Yinzhen said lightly.

His nonchalant words made Empress Dowager De so angry that she didn't know what to say.

After thinking for a while, Empress Dowager De said.

"I just arrived and the emperor is in a hurry to send me back. But is there something the emperor is hiding from me?"

Yinzhen smiled.

"You are joking, mother. How could my son hide something from you?"

Empress Dowager De said.

"The emperor wanted to hide this from me. I was planning to rest in Yonghe Palace, but I heard that the emperor ordered people to search Fourteenth's residence. Is this true?"

Yinzhen looked at Empress Dowager De, still smiling, and said, "I don't know which servant is so nosy. I wanted to handle such a troublesome matter myself.

Since my mother is here, I will listen to her too. But I didn’t search Fourteen’s residence, I just searched.

I guess Su Peisheng should be back with his men by now."

As they were talking, Su Peisheng brought Yunli to the outside of Yikun Palace.

Before everyone entered the main hall, they heard Yunli speak loudly.

"You little dog slave! How dare you raid my residence in the middle of the night! I'll tell my mother and I'll skin you alive!"

Su Peisheng had no choice but to lower his head and let the gentleman scold him.

Yinzhen's voice came from inside the palace.

"I want to see who you want to skin."

Yunli rushed into the hall and knelt down in front of Yinzhen.

"Brother, I know this servant is yours. But I was asleep when he came with his men and brought me here.

Without saying a word, he turned my house upside down. I don't know why he did that!"

After Yunli said this, he saw Empress Dowager De also sitting at the top, and he hurriedly kowtowed to her.

"Mother, you have to make the decision for me!"

Empress Dowager De was complaining in her heart. This Fourteenth Prince had never had a single day of peace.

Yinzhen looked at his younger brother who looked nothing like him, and thought of the late emperor's preference and pampering for Yinzhen, and his biological mother, Empress Dowager De's love for Yinzhen and her indifference to her eldest son. Yinzhen felt a fire slowly burning in his heart.

Yunzhi hid his hands quietly in his sleeves, but he felt very itchy.

He really regretted that he should have listened to Xiao Liangzi beside him and put the powder in a small bottle so that he wouldn't have to pinch the powder with his hands.

Now that’s a problem, just when I was happy, the whole Yikun Palace was in turmoil, and my hands started to itch too.

Yinzhen looked at Yunli rubbing his hands quietly in his sleeves and instructed Su Peisheng.

"Go, release Yunli's hand for me."

Su Peisheng responded upon hearing this, stepped forward, grabbed Yunli's hands, and tried to pull them out from his sleeves.

Yunzhi wanted to struggle, but Xiaolinzi, who was standing by, didn't care and helped Su Peisheng pull Yunzhi's hand out.

Wen Xianqing hurried forward to check and said to Yinzhen.

"Your Majesty, the Fourteenth Prince's hand should be poisoned by the same poison that Empress Hua and the young prince were poisoned by.

I have already applied the ointment to Concubine Hua and the young prince, but I don't know if this medicine will have any side effects.

There still needs to be an antidote for the symptoms.”

Yinzhen said.

"When Concubine Hua was giving birth, she was poisoned, and both mother and child were in constant itching and pain.

You and Concubine Duan are the only ones in the palace who have this disease, but Concubine Duan said,

Her itching was caused by a packet of powder that fell on you.

What else do you have to say? "

Then Su Peisheng asked someone to bring a tray with a dozen small porcelain bottles of various colors on it.

"Your Majesty, these things were all found in the Fourteenth Master's residence.

I thought these things looked strange and seemed to be medicine bottles, so I brought them here.

Also, I found this in the book that Fourteenth Master was reviewing. "

Yinzhen looked at a piece of paper handed to him by Su Peisheng, which detailed the usage and effects of the medicinal powders in porcelain bottles of different colors.

It also included a bottle of powder that caused constant itching, but according to what was written on the paper, the powder only caused itching and had no other symptoms.

Yinzhen signaled Su Peisheng to open the ochre porcelain bottle corresponding to the medicine, but found that it was empty.

Wen Xianqing stepped forward, carefully took out his white handkerchief from his arms, spread it on the tray, and turned over the ochre medicine bottle again, pouring out some remaining medicine powder.