"An An, An An."
Zhao Yiming was extremely anxious as he held Tian An, who had fainted, in his arms.
Deng Xue ran over anxiously as soon as she landed, "Master, the Madam is pregnant. I'm afraid she's had a miscarriage after all this trouble. Hurry and take her to see the imperial physician!"
"What? An Anhuai..." Only then did he remember what the vendor had just said.
"Jingyu stays to handle the scene."
After leaving a word, he carefully held Tian An in his arms and rode his horse towards the palace.
In Kunning Palace, Zhao Yiming carefully placed Tian An in his arms on the bed in the side hall of the Queen's bedroom.
He looked outside anxiously, "Where's the imperial physician? Has the imperial physician arrived?"
"Here it comes, here it comes..."
Outside the door, Doctor Jiang, a master of gynecology at the Imperial Hospital, came trotting all the way in after receiving the news, without even taking a breath, and hurried in.
"Quick, come and check on An An."
Seeing him coming, Zhao Yiming hurriedly made way and pulled Tian An's wrist to make it easier for Doctor Jiang to take his pulse.
Doctor Jiang didn't even have time to sit down before he stretched out two fingers to feel Tian An's pulse.
"Doctor Jiang, what's wrong? Are An An and the child okay?" The queen couldn't help but ask.
Doctor Jiang let go of Tian An's hand, not even bothering to wipe the sweat off his forehead in the cold weather, and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, Your Majesty and the Duke. The County Lady's wife is in good health. Both you and the baby are fine. It's just that she was too frightened and the fetus was disturbed. I will prescribe a prescription for her, and she will recover in a few days."
"That's good, that's good." The queen breathed a sigh of relief and waved her hand for the imperial physician to write a prescription.
Hearing that Tian An was fine, Zhao Yiming finally felt relieved. He tucked the quilt for Tian An and asked Deng Xue and Xiang Tao to take good care of him before going to the outer room to talk with the queen.
"Has the imperial physician arrived? Is An An okay?"
As soon as the two of them arrived at the outer room, the emperor, who had put down his official duties and rushed over, asked anxiously.
Zhao Yiming bowed before saying, "Thank you for your concern, uncle. An An is safe and sound. The imperial physician said that she will be fine after taking some medicine to maintain the pregnancy and recuperating."
Hearing this, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief and sat down, saying, "What on earth is going on? Why did the horse go crazy for no reason?"
He had already learned the whole story from the secret guard.
The queen only knew that Tian An was frightened, but she didn't know that it was because the horse went mad.
She hurriedly asked Zhao Yiming, "Is the carriage An An riding in today the one I sent you?"
Zhao Yiming didn't know if the carriage was a gift from the Queen, so he just said, "There's a royal emblem on the carriage, and on the other side it's written 'Lord of Anping'."
At that time, he was only worried about Tian An. It was not until now that he remembered that it was not the carriage of their Duke's Mansion. He did not expect that it was sent by the Queen.
Upon hearing that it was the carriage she had sent that had caused the trouble, the Queen immediately felt extremely guilty. "I have already specifically informed the Imperial Household Department that An An is pregnant and I must have them choose the most docile horse. How could she still go crazy?"
As he said this, he was about to send someone to call the palace servant who took care of the horses over for questioning.
But Zhao Yiming stopped him, "Aunt, that's not necessary. It's probably not the groom's fault."
"If it's not the groom's problem, then what is the problem?"
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Outside the palace, Jingyu found the most experienced horse breeder to check on the condition of the horses.
He also sent someone to notify the housekeeper of the mansion to take people to visit each household to compensate the vendors whose goods were hit by the carriage along the way.
The horse breeder had been raising horses his entire life, so it didn't take him long to figure out the horse's problem. "Sir, your horse must have been fed bitter horse beans, which is why it went mad.
Bitter horse beans can cure illnesses for humans and are sold in most pharmacies, but they are poison to horses. Going crazy is the least of their problems, but excessive consumption can kill them directly."
"Are you sure?" Jingyu frowned.
Facing Jingyu's doubts, the horse breeder patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, sir, I have been raising horses all my life, so I can be sure of this."
Jingyu nodded and asked the butler to give him some money.
Then he immediately sent someone to check nearby pharmacies along Tian An's route that day to see if anyone had bought bitter horse beans today.
The palace took Tian An's fright very seriously. In addition to Zhao Yiming's secret guards, the emperor also sent Lord Pei, the Minister of the Dali Temple, to conduct a thorough investigation in person.
With the intervention of the Dali Temple, the inspection of the pharmacy went smoothly.
Soon, the five people who had purchased the medicinal herb bitter bean today all had some idea.
Bitterroot can act as a diuretic and reduce swelling. Most of the people who buy it are men. Four of the people who bought this medicine in the pharmacy today were also men, and they all took it together with other medicines. Two of them had their prescriptions written by the doctors in the pharmacy. They took the medicine according to their symptoms and there was nothing wrong with it.
That leaves only the last woman.
"The woman was about eighteen or nineteen years old. She asked for one or two ounces of bitter horse beans as soon as she opened her mouth. Although her face was covered, judging from her clothes and behavior, she should be a maid from a wealthy family." The owner of the drugstore recalled the scene when the person bought medicine during the day.
Normally, with so many people buying medicine, he might not be able to remember them all! But since the other party was masked and only bought one type of medicine, he had a better impression of them.
"Then do you remember what time she came?" asked Lord Pei.
"Well... it was at least around 3 p.m. After I finished lunch, I drank a pot of tea. It was a long time before she came." The shopkeeper recalled.
"In the afternoon. According to my wife's guards, she was in the hot pot restaurant with her friends from the end of noon until the end of evening when she was about to return home, and she did not go anywhere else." Jingyu recalled what the guards said.
"So these bitter horse beans were planted in the hot pot restaurant." Lord Pei concluded.
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