Love on the Pillow: Pampering the Unscrupulous Queen

Chapter 62

"Poisoned?" Su Qing froze for a moment, her gaze turned cold.

Empress Dowager Su was also slightly taken aback: "How could it be? Doctor Zhao is the head of the case in the Imperial Hospital. Even if he was poisoned, how could he diagnose the wind and cold?"

Xia Mengdao: "I don't blame the imperial physician for this matter, I'm afraid that no matter who diagnoses it, they will come to the conclusion of wind-cold. Because this poison is not obvious at the beginning, and the symptoms are the same as wind-cold, people often misdiagnose it. It's just that this poison The pulse of the poisoned person is slightly different from that of wind and cold, and there will be abnormal pain when pricking the heart point of the middle finger with a gold needle, and the middle finger will also change color."

After hearing the words, Queen Mother Su lowered her head and glanced at her left middle finger, and she found that the middle finger was faintly bluish-black.

"Then what kind of poison is this? Is there a solution?" Sun Nanny also saw the blue and black spots between Queen Mother Su's fingers, and asked nervously.

Xia Meng thought for a while and asked: "I have heard that the Empress Dowager loves flowers and plants. Recently, has someone presented a Western Region flower called Qiyue Xue to the Empress?"

When Empress Dowager Su heard this, her complexion became ugly: "Concubine Zhou was pleading for her brother before, and sent someone to send two pots of exotic flowers from the Western Regions, but they were not called Qiyuexue, but Qixing Haitang."

Xia Meng nodded: "That's right. Seven Star Begonia, also known as Qiyuexue, is a carnivorous plant. This flower is rare in the Central Plains. It is beautiful and non-toxic, but the branches of the flower are highly poisonous. It is often used to paralyze children. Insects feed on flowers. Ordinary people don’t know and often touch them by mistake, but the poison of this flower is as subtle and silent as spring rain. At first, it will make people feel that it is a disease of wind and cold, and within three months, the toxin will accumulate and cause death.”

Su Qing heard the words, and asked with a cold and pretty face: "How to solve it?"

Xia Meng replied: "It's not difficult at all. Take the rhizome of this flower, dry it, grind it into powder, take it with water for three days, and you will be able to detoxify."

"Concubine Zhou is so bold!" Empress Dowager Su gritted her teeth and sneered, "The Ai family doesn't allow her to be crowned empress, can she not wait? First, she tried to drive Jun'er out of the capital, and then poisoned Ai's family to death. They all belong to their Zhou family! It's really a good plan!"

Grandma Sun thought of something else, she hesitated for a while before reminding her: "Your Majesty, do you still remember that several concubines in the harem suffered from wind-cold disease for a long time and passed away after two or three months? ?”

When Empress Dowager Su was reminded by Nanny Sun, her beautiful eyes opened angrily: "The Ai family underestimated this week's noble concubine!" Seeing Su Qing, she shook her head again and said, "If Li'er hadn't been extra careful today, let this The girl is seeing a doctor for Ai's family, I'm afraid that one day Ai's family will go there without knowing why!"

Su Qing sighed lightly: "Empress Dowager, you have to be more vigilant against Concubine Zhou in the future."

In her previous life, she only thought that the Empress Dowager Zhou was weak and died early, but she never thought that it was the concubine Zhou who was doing it secretly.

Empress Dowager Su sneered twice: "In the past, the Ai family looked down on her. I didn't expect that she was born in a small family, and her heart was even more vicious than Ai's thought. Li'er, you don't have to worry about Ai's, Ai's won't Let's fall for this bastard again."

"Speaking of which, the Ai family passed on that you entered the palace for the prince's fiefdom." The Empress Dowager Su had a pulse check just now, and she seemed a little weak, but she still insisted, "Zhangzhou is a barbaric and remote place. Don't worry, you and the prince will go there. It's just a matter above the court, and the Ai family can't talk about it now, you two must remember to be careful in everything in the future."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the concubine and His Highness the Crown Prince understand." Su Qing saw that the Empress Dowager Su was not in good spirits, but she still did not forget to tell herself, and her heart softened.

Empress Dowager Su loved her very much since she was a child, but now is the time when the battle is fierce, but she cannot be by Empress Dowager Su's side.

"Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived." Someone came in from outside the door and preached.

As soon as Su Qing turned her head, she saw Feng Jun walking in from outside the big shop in court clothes, her handsome face was covered with frost, her phoenix eyes under her sword-shaped eyebrows were sharp and indifferent, and her whole body exuded an aura of not getting close to strangers .

The palace people outside did not dare to breathe. Although the Prince Dianxi was not liked by the emperor, everyone knew his temper.May I ask which prince dared to argue with the emperor when he was eleven or twelve years old, and finally made the emperor give up the idea of ​​sending troops overseas to seek the fairy mountain?

At that time, the dispute between the emperor and the prince in the imperial study made the atmosphere of the whole palace solidified and tense, and the prince, who was in his teens at the end of the dispute, drew his sword in front of the emperor and chopped off the Taoist priest who urged the emperor to go out to sea to visit the immortal. .

Naturally, the prince was inevitably punished by the emperor, but the emperor's desire to go to sea was forcibly suppressed by the prince.The prince was punished with a stick for thirty times outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but he managed to hold on without making a sound.This also made everyone look at His Royal Highness with admiration.

The palace people who had experienced that quarrel would still break out in cold sweat when they recalled that 11-year-old prince exuded a fierce aura that was not inferior to that of the emperor.

Since then, no one in the imperial city who is used to stepping on the low and flattering the high has dared to neglect His Highness the Crown Prince.Seeing that the prince is in a bad mood now, everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to breathe.

Empress Dowager Su thought that Feng Jun was dissatisfied because she was kicked out of the imperial city by the emperor's own words, so she sighed and waved to Feng Jun: "You child, you don't know how to hide it too much. Come here and let the Ai family see you."

Feng Jun walked over and gave a slight salute: "Grandson has seen the Queen Mother."

"Sit down." Empress Dowager Su signaled Feng Jun to sit down, and Feng Jun sat down directly on the chair beside Su Qing, and the palace servants next to her immediately poured hot tea and carefully placed it on the table.

"You go down first." Queen Mother Su waved her hand, and even Nanny Sun also retreated.

The frost on Feng Jun's face melted instantly, and a smile appeared on his handsome face: "I don't know if Grandmother asked grandson and Li'er to come over, but do you have something to order?"

Before the queen mother could speak, Su Qing told Feng Jun about Xia Meng's discovery of the poisoning of the queen mother just now.

After Feng Jun listened, she was silent for a long time before she raised her head and looked at Queen Mother Su: "What does the imperial grandmother think about this matter?"

The Empress Dowager said: "Prince, you and Li'er are going to Zhangzhou. The Ai family was worried, so they called you over. As for the matter of Concubine Zhou, the Ai family will take care of it themselves, so you don't have to worry about it."

Feng Jun pondered for a moment and then said: "Grandmother, how many people in your Fengyi Palace are your own people?"

Empress Dowager Su was taken aback, not knowing why Feng Jun asked the question suddenly.She thought for a while, then sighed softly and said: "Although the emperor was able to ascend to the throne thanks to the Mengsu family's credit, it's just that the Su family is the one he is most wary of now. The palace people here, except for the personal servants, are all It was appointed by the emperor later. Maybe there is also eyeliner arranged by Li Guogong and others."

Rubbing between her eyebrows, Empress Dowager Su said again: "Anyway, Aijia doesn't bother to pay attention to these people now, if they want to send eyeliner, they can send them over."

Feng Jun's eyes darkened, and he said lightly: "I also ask Grandmother to draw up a list for grandson, and leave the rest to grandson."

When the Empress Dowager Su heard the words, she paused before ordering the people outside: "Come here, I will serve you with pen and ink."

(End of this chapter)