Concubine Rebirth: Your Highness, I am sick

Chapter 177 This is a strange thing
Yongrou is not a fool.She could see the context of the whole thing.

Mrs. Cui missed her daughter who was in confinement, and made clothes for the child in her womb.In order to get the clothes into the palace, Cui Hailin sent an invitation post to Yongrou, inviting her to Cui's house for dinner.

From this point of view, this is a simple favor.

Yongrou can see the harmony of the Cui family, Mrs. Cui's concern for Sister Haitang, and the painstaking efforts she put into these little clothes.

She believed in her own eyes, and also believed in the character of Sister Haitang and Cui Hailin.It is absolutely impossible for them to use themselves to avenge the queen.

What's more, apart from itching and fatigue, what kind of pleasure can this poison have for revenge?

Involuntarily, Yongrou looked at the queen mother's hand.

Probably because those hands were too ugly, Empress Yin herself couldn't bear to see them, so she put down her clothes to cover her hands.

"The child dare not argue for them. Is the mother's hand still itchy? Are you uncomfortable?"

Yongrou has complicated emotions, and her concern for the queen mother is also sincere.

"This medicine is cool, but it's okay, but the mother will not be able to go out for a few days. If she accidentally touches something, she is afraid of infecting others. It's really a way to make it narrow."

Yong Rou endured it for a long time, and finally said: "Mother, please don't punish Mrs. Cui and Brother Hailin. Mrs. Cui is getting old, and Brother Hailin is a good official, and he is still needed to manage the river."

When the queen heard this, she became very angry, saying "Brother Hailin" is simply out of order.

I can only blame myself for being too jealous of her bad temper in the past, for fear that she would disappear in a fit of anger, and I was too spoiled for her.

"Don't worry about the Cui family in the future. She used to be your third brother's side concubine, but now she is just a criminal woman. The Cui family is one, and the three of them have been imprisoned. It's time to get rid of the relationship."

Yongrou was so anxious that she burst into tears, got up and was about to go outside.

Empress Yin said angrily: "Just now, she looked concerned about Ben Gong, and turned her face when she said she would turn her back on her. Ben Gong really raised her for nothing!"

"The queen mother insisted on punishing the Cui family, so the boy had no choice but to tell the third brother and let the third brother decide."

Empress Yin was so angry that she slumped on the chair: "It's the other way around, and you actually hijacked me, come here, stop her!"

While crying and fussing, a report came from outside: "His Royal Highness is here!"

Yongrou broke free from the eunuch, and ran to the door joyfully as if she had caught a life-saving straw, shouting: "Third Brother, come quickly, Third Brother, come and save them!"

If Chu Baichuan hadn't rushed to the palace to save him, Qin Yan would have no idea that Madam Cui and Cui Hailin had been taken into the palace.

He immediately sent someone to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to rescue Cui's family first, and then immediately transferred Nie Changfeng to find out why the Habayashi Army captured Cui's mother and son. He just got the report and came to Fengyi without stopping. palace.

After hastily saluting, Qin Yan said before getting up, "Mother, you have suffered."

Empress Yin thought that the prince came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, and the thorns all over her body were already erected, but she didn't expect that his first sentence was such a comforting word, her heart softened, and she felt that he was really sensible and filial.

Qin Yan had already arranged for the other side of the Ministry of Justice, knowing that Cui's mother and son would be safe for the time being and would not suffer, so he could negotiate with Empress Yin in a stable manner.

"If you came to see the queen mother's illness, the queen mother would like to thank you. If you came to intercede for the Cui family, you would have given up a little earlier. This poison is contagious. If you don't want to suffer like the queen mother, you should go back to the main hall to do business. let's go."

Empress Yin is also very powerful, with a few words, Qin Yan's back road was blocked to death.

Unexpectedly, Qin Yan said calmly: "The queen mother is ill, and I should serve you. I don't want to intercede for the Cui family, but I just feel that this matter is strange. It may not be the Cui family's fault. The real culprit must be caught. "

This is cleverly said.

What is intercession.When you make a mistake, asking for forgiveness is called intercession.

But if it proves that he did not make a mistake, it is not called intercession, it is called reasoning.

"This thing was directly handed over to the Queen Mother by Madam Cui, and it was not handled by others. They did not do it. Could it be that the Queen Mother gave it to herself?"

Qin Yan saw that she was very angry, so he didn't bother with her, and said, "Mother, please don't get angry. My son is only speaking according to common sense. This package has not passed through anyone else's hands. It is indeed true, but when the mother looks through it, she will never be angry." Is Rou there? Can you look through it with your mother?"

Yongrou nodded quickly: "Yes, what I watched with my mother was the one I showed to my mother."

Qin Yan said: "That's right. Yongrou brought the package back from Cui's house and showed it to the queen mother. The contact time will only be longer than the mother mother. Why is she not at all, but the mother mother is poisoned?"

Queen Yin was stunned.

I have to say that Qin Yan's doubts are very reasonable.

Subconsciously, Yong Rou stretched out her hands under her eyelids, turned over and over, looked at her palms, and then at her palms, imagining that if she was also contaminated with the poison, her hands would be as terrifying as the queen mother.

"I... I washed my hands in the morning, otherwise I can let the imperial doctor take a look." She said dully.

Qin Yan comforted her: "You are fine now, so you must be fine. We have to settle the matter here with the Queen Mother." Then he said to Queen Yin, "I don't know when the Queen Mother will notice something strange."

The maid next to her replied on behalf of the queen: "His Royal Highness, the empress felt unwell after breakfast."

Qin Yan asked the imperial doctor again: "The package I came into contact with last night, why did I not feel any discomfort until this morning? What kind of medicine is this, and the onset is so slow?"

Generally speaking, this kind of contact poison should develop or spread quickly. It is a bit strange that the symptoms of discomfort appear only after one night.

The imperial doctor said: "The medicine powder on the clothes is the tree powder from deep mountains. It is not a highly poisonous thing in the first place, but once it is contaminated, it will make people feel painful and unbearable. , Therefore, the time for a stick of incense is not too short, and it is not too long to have another attack in one or two days, it varies from person to person."

It seems that the exposure time does not prove the poisoning time.Qin Yan looked coldly at the furniture that had been wiped brightly, and asked again: "Then from the moment my mother touched the package last night, until this morning when my mother felt unwell after breakfast, who has been to Fengyi Palace?"

The maid said: "That's too much. Every morning, the concubines will come to pay their respects. The empress has no appetite just after waking up. Usually, she waits for the concubines to pay her respects before having breakfast."

"Where is the package?"

"It has been placed on the low cabinet in the outer compartment. After looking at it last night, it has not been touched. When the imperial doctor inspected the package, it was still in place."

Qin Yan nodded: "Understood, you all step back first, I have something to tell the queen mother."

When the palace maids and imperial physicians all retreated outside, Qin Yan said seriously: "I'm afraid the medicine in the mother's hand did not come from the package. The son-in-law asked the mother: If the mother wants to investigate further, I'm afraid I have to ask the Dali Temple Minister to come directly to investigate." gone."

(End of this chapter)