Chen Palace

Chapter 40 Curse Poison
She pushed hard, and the door came in. There was no sound in the hall, and there was no one. The queen suddenly felt uncomfortable, and tried to call: "The queen mother..."

Seeing that no one answered, she suddenly felt a warning sign in her heart, and rushed straight behind the bead curtain, ignoring the pain on her face, her eyes flicked around, only to see the smoke in the back hall, the incense burner tilted to one side, and two figures falling down. on the ground--

"Mother————————!"

She was so frightened that her scalp was numb, and her whole body was soft like cotton wool. She struggled and shouted hoarsely: "Come on, someone!!!"

As the tide of people poured in, a bold one touched his nose tremblingly: "There is still help!"

The imperial doctor and Yuan Qi arrived almost at the same time, Yuan Qi's face was solemn, and the anger in his eyes made people dare not look at it——

"What exactly is going on?!"

The empress told the situation just now in a trembling voice, the imperial physician had already diagnosed the pulse, he looked distressed and hesitated.

"How is the Queen Mother?"

Yuan Qi asked in a deep voice.

"The Empress Dowager's pulse is disordered, and her face is slightly green... It seems, it seems to be..."

"What?!"

"It's... what kind of poison..."

After the imperial doctor stammered, the empress screamed and almost fainted on the ground. She convulsed all over and grabbed the empress dowager's hand tightly. No matter how much the palace officials tried to persuade her, she refused to let go.

Her bright red and lustrous Kou Dan was tightly leaning against the empress dowager's blue and white wrist, as if the empress was grasping for some life-saving straw.

"Let go, don't mess around!"

Yuan Qi shouted in a low voice, looking at her crazy look, a bit of boredom flashed in her eyes.

"No... I won't let go... all of you are uneasy and kind..."

The whole body of the queen was trembling, and the water-colored satin undulated and shone on her thin body, and there was a kind of frailty that I felt pity for, but unfortunately, there was a haze between her brows and she was crazy——

"Your majesty...you, you also hope that the queen mother will die, right...you hate our Lin family..."

The queen murmured, smiling very strangely——

"And you!"

She turned her head and glanced at the rushing concubines one by one with her shiny black eyes: "Among you... who is really sad and who is secretly happy, I know very clearly... ..."

Her eyes were full of madness, and under the eerie treachery, some concubines were so frightened that they cried aloud.

The queen looked at Concubine Zhou——

This woman, at the banquet that day, was dressed in black, as if at a funeral... Could it be her?
She stared at Concubine Qi again——

She, as the daughter of an important official who disagrees with the queen mother, is the most likely person to covet the queen's throne...

Or was she, who was deprived of her own child, now the emperor's new favorite, Concubine Mei Gui?

She looked at them one by one, and felt that everyone was suspicious, and that anxious and worried expression turned into a sneaky and grinning painted skin female ghost... She became more and more horrified, and grabbed the queen mother even tighter, muttering non-stop, no one could tell. Can't hear what she's saying.

"enough!"

Yuan Qi couldn't bear her madness anymore, and said to the left and right: "The queen is too anxious, please go back to the palace to rest first!"

He motioned for two palace servants to help the queen, and dragged her away from the hall.

The queen struggled, turned around, and stared at Yuan Qi with a sinister gaze that she had never seen before——

"Your Majesty, don't be too cruel! The Empress Dowager is your biological mother!!"

As soon as her words came out, everyone fell silent, and those who were timid had already turned into sieves.

Yuan Qi was furious after hearing her vicious and cryptic accusation. He took a breath, suppressed the fire in his chest, and continued to ask the imperial physician, "Can you explain in more detail?"

The imperial doctor ordered the apprentice to pour milk for the queen mother, wiped the sweat from her head, and said: "I am ashamed to say that this old minister has been working in the imperial hospital for more than [-] years. I have never seen such strange symptoms. The empress dowager's face turned green. , It looks like poisoning, but the pulse is rapid for a while, slow for a while and almost stops—I'm old and incompetent, and I can't recognize what kind of poison it is!"

"Can you let the old slave try?"

The one who spoke was Aunt E who hurried over. Seeing that the life and death of the old master were uncertain, she was so anxious that she boldly stepped forward to ask for instructions.

When Yuan Qi saw it was her, he thought of Qu Yun's secret report, and felt annoyed, but now that the Queen Mother's life was at stake, he couldn't pursue it, so he said, "Go and see!"

Aunt E stretched out her hand, her eyes sparkled, showing an expression of disbelief——

"how is this possible?!"

Seeing the emperor's questioning eyes, she no longer had the heart to hide anything, knelt down and said: "This old slave was born in the grass, and I have dabbled in this poison...but I have never seen the poison of the Queen Mother before!"

She gritted her teeth, took a strange-looking jade bead from her neck, ground it into powder with a hairpin, and fed it into the Queen Mother's mouth. If there were any, she also fed it to Aunt Ye.

Yuan Qi saw that she was behaving strangely, but he didn't try to stop her, but just stared at the Queen Mother intently.

Half a moment after the pearl powder went down her throat, the Empress Dowager's complexion turned slightly pale, but her breathing was still short.

"This bead is a rare treasure to avoid poison, but it can only keep the Queen Mother for 48 hours... If you still can't find the right medicine, I'm afraid..."

Aunt E choked with sobs, unable to speak any more.

Yuan Qi waved his body and ordered her to go down, and asked Gong'e to carry the Queen Mother and Aunt Ye into the Palace of Compassion, dismissed the people watching, and asked the imperial doctor some questions before returning to the Palace of Qianqing.

He didn't go to bed, but sent his guards to bring all the stewards from the Empress Dowager's palace, ready to ask them clearly.

After everyone talking about it, he knew the living situation of the Queen Mother today——

In the past few days, the Empress Dowager has been in a very bad mood, and the angina pectoris, which is not common on weekdays, has also become frequent. When the imperial physician was helpless, she summoned the trustworthy real Yuxu and asked him to pray for her recovery .

The real person burned a watch, invited the Venerable Sanqing, recited the secret mantra of Huang Zangzhong, and refined the burned paper ashes into the Queen Mother's pills. It took an afternoon.

During this process, the concubines who came to pay their respects, at the request of the real person, also silently prayed to the alchemy furnace, hoping that the queen mother could take the medicine as soon as possible.

Yuan Qi has never believed in these strange powers and gods, and he has no good impression of Yuxu, who pretends to be a ghost all day long.

He asked the steward to find the remaining paper ashes pills in the palace, and tested them on the cats and dogs in the palace. As expected, his whole body turned green and he died.

Yuan Qi was startled and angry: "Go ahead quickly and bring Yuxu this beast!"

The guards were about to take orders, only to hear a clear female voice: "Hold on, Your Majesty!"

He looked up and saw Chen Lu wearing a shawl, looking dusty.

Yuan Qi frowned and said: "You finally came back, it took several hours to leave—why did you stop me?"

Chen Lu took off her shawl, looked at Yuan Qi's anxious appearance, and said softly: "The Queen Mother's illness, the emperor had better keep it secret."

Yuan Qi stared: "What?!"

(Today is relatively rare, because it is a special day-although I don’t know how many more months I can do it, but I’d like to congratulate myself, Happy Teacher’s Day!
Another: My friend Ye Zi helped me build a group: 46541628, everyone can join, just write it as a reader of Chengong... I am worried that the following packages may not be enough to add, it seems that I have to get a few groups back)

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