The ladies frowned slightly: "Why did the imperial physician suddenly order the doors and windows opened? Could it be that Song Xizhi really poisoned her?"
Consort Liang slightly curled the corners of her lips, appearing perfectly fair and righteous: "I will not let anyone who poisoned me get away with it."
Upon hearing this, Madam Zhao finally perked up.
She saw several imperial physicians making a great fuss by opening the doors and windows to ventilate the room, and assumed that they had discovered something extraordinary in her room.
Madam Zhao turned around hastily and saw several imperial physicians hurrying out of the room. She immediately asked:
"Imperial physicians, did you find poison in my room that can cause skin to swell and ulcerate, nausea and vomiting, chest tightness and dizziness, and even frequent urination?"
The imperial physician coughed lightly: "I did find some clues in the room."
Upon hearing this, Madam Zhao's eyes lit up, and she stretched out her hand again, inviting the imperial physician to take her pulse: "Last night I did call for a female physician, but her medical skills were not as superb as those of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital."
"She actually said I wasn't sick, but how could I have a rash all over my body, a swollen face, and be vomiting and having diarrhea if I wasn't sick?"
As soon as Madam Zhao finished speaking, she saw the imperial physician withdraw his hand with a strange expression:
“You are indeed not sick, nor do you show any signs of poisoning.”
Everyone present was stunned. Madam Zhao's eyes widened: "What's going on?"
The imperial physician waved his hand, and a young apprentice brought out the items he had found inside the house.
After the young doctor brought out all the clothes, bedding, chests, and boxes from Madam Zhao's room, everyone was surprised to find that the faint stench was becoming increasingly obvious.
"What exactly does this taste like?"
"Why do Madam Zhao's bedding and clothes smell so strongly? No wonder she usually uses such strong incense!"
"Hey! Look, there seems to be something moving up there!"
Upon closer inspection, everyone discovered a dense swarm of ants on it.
Everyone present was horrified by what they saw.
Lady Zhao, a person of high standing and influence, and even the maternal aunt of Prince Yu, had her clothes and bedding crawling with ants!
Hearing the murmurs of the crowd, the imperial physician nodded: "This is the strange thing I found in Madam Zhao's room."
Madam Zhao's face froze, her mind went blank for a moment, and she could only mutter to herself, "Impossible! This is impossible! How could there be ants on my clothes?"
The imperial physician had never encountered such a situation before, so he reasonably deduced: "It is probably because Madam Zhao has poor living habits and does not pay attention to cleanliness, or she may have accidentally spilled food scraps on the bedding and soft couch."
“In the past, there was little vegetation and few mosquitoes in the mansion in the capital. But after coming to this mountain, there are many ants. They climbed onto Madam Zhao’s bed, bit her, and caused her to fall ill.”
Madam Zhao could not accept this explanation!
After she moved in, she vaguely noticed a foul smell in the room, but the maid took her clothes to be washed every day, and the nanny cleaned the room every day.
So she assumed it was because of the dampness in the mountains, and increased the amount of incense she burned.
But to everyone's surprise, the imperial physician said that her current condition was caused by her lack of attention to hygiene!
"You're saying I didn't pay attention to cleanliness, so I got bitten by ants. Ant bites can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, and difficulty breathing? This is clearly poisoning!"
The imperial physician shook his head: "Madam, please calm down. Ants can secrete venom, which can indeed cause this situation."
Madam Zhao angrily pointed in Song Xizhi's direction, almost roaring, "That's you! You're the one who sent ants to bite me! Song Xizhi, you did it on purpose!"
Song Xizhi looked at her innocently: "Does Madam mean that I can command ants to crawl onto your clothes and bed and then bite you?"
Madam Zhao's eyes turned bloodshot in an instant: "That was you! You left food scraps on the bed before you left! You weren't so kind as to give me the room!"
Song Xizhi shrugged, his expression even more innocent: "You forced me to give you the room. Didn't Madam Zhao clean the room before moving in?"
Madam Zhao was speechless after being choked by Song Xizhi's words.
It was cleaned, but it was too late, and it was getting dark. The room had just been cleaned, and there were still traces of cleaning, so the maids and nannies didn't clean it again carefully.
Only someone like Song Xizhi, who has loved drinking milk since childhood, knows that if milk is spilled in a corner or nook, it will still have a smell even after careful cleaning.
The lingering smell will attract ants.
And how could bedding and clothes not smell sour when they are exposed to milk every day?
Madam Zhao sent people to wash the clothes every day, but they couldn't find the problem. So they could only use incense to suppress it, barely managing to not feel anything. But ants have a sense of smell that is a hundred times more sensitive than humans.
"Enough!" Consort Liang suddenly spoke up.
She stood in the cold wind for so long, trying to get justice for Madam Zhao, but in the end she came to such a ridiculous conclusion: Madam Zhao was bitten by ants because she didn't pay attention to hygiene?
This is a joke!
She was such a fool that Consort Liang could no longer tolerate her.
"Zeng Yaxian, now that things have come to this, what do you want to say?"
Zeng Yaxian was Mrs. Zhao's maiden name.
Madam Zhao knelt down, her face ashen, her body trembling, her heart filled with resentment: "Your Majesty, I am innocent! No matter how wretched I am, I would never be bitten by ants simply because I don't pay attention to cleanliness!"
Consort Liang sneered: "Injustice? How will you refute that?"
She knew perfectly well that all of this was Song Xizhi's scheme, and he was using such a simple trick!
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