But Xu Chuchu's gaze fell on the pond. Seeing the things she had carefully prepared fall into the pond, her heart suddenly tightened.
Damn it, how could this woman suddenly fall down? The gift I carefully prepared was wasted.
Although she felt like vomiting blood, she still had to pretend to be very caring at this moment and asked Li Ai Mi, "Sister, are you okay? Why did you fall down so suddenly?"
Li Emi, who had just stood up from the ground, patted the dust off herself and said to Xu Chuchu embarrassedly, "It's okay, it's okay. I was singing just now and some people are tired, so I accidentally fell. I'm just sorry that all the rock sugar snow pears you gave me are wasted."
Xu Chuchu was furious, but she had to pretend to be generous at this moment: "It's just a bowl of rock sugar snow pear. I'll ask the imperial kitchen to send you another bowl later."
Seeing that her plan today had failed, Xu Chuchu no longer had the heart to continue playing nice with Li Eimi.
So, after a while, she found an excuse and slipped away.
By the pond, Li Ai Mi watched Xu Chuchu's back gradually disappear into the distance. Only after she could no longer see him did she turn around and look towards the pond.
It wouldn't matter if she didn't look, but once she did, the maid beside her screamed in surprise: "What's going on?"
But in just a short moment, all the fish in the pond turned their bellies up and floated up one by one.
Judging from the appearance, these fish are clearly dead.
Thinking of the bowl of rock sugar and snow pears that had just fallen into the pond, the palace maid seemed to understand something. She was about to leave to call for help, but was stopped by her master.
"What are you doing?"
"There's something strange about these fish. I'll go call some people over." The little palace maid wasn't sure whether her master understood what was going on, and she didn't dare to tell her master directly.
But what she didn't expect was that her master didn't seem to care about the situation at all. "Alright, these fish must have accidentally eaten something wrong. Why bother alerting others? Wait until the people in charge of the pond come over and see what's happening. They'll take care of it."
And so, the master and the servant left.
"Your Majesty, recently many palace maids and eunuchs in the harem have suddenly fallen ill. Their symptoms are that they cannot hear or speak." The eunuch came over and reported the matter to Situ Yao.
This incident happened too quickly, even Situ Yao didn't know what was going on. Suddenly, many palace maids and eunuchs lost the ability to speak. If it was a disease, he didn't believe it.
He didn't know of any disease that could cause an adult to lose their hearing and speech ability instantly. And the disease seemed to be contagious.
"Does the imperial physician have any treatment options?" Even though he couldn't figure it out, he still had to solve the problem anyway.
The eunuch's face was embarrassed for a moment. Situ Yao understood that the imperial physician was probably helpless in this matter.
"This is definitely not a disease. Go check if there is something wrong with the food in the imperial kitchen." Situ Yao had to attribute the matter to the food.
Perhaps it was because of the mistake made by the imperial kitchen that some stale or problematic food was shared by these palace maids and eunuchs, causing them to become deaf and dumb.
After hearing what Situ Yao said, the eunuch immediately gave orders. However, not long after, someone came to reply that the things in the imperial kitchen had been checked and there was no problem at all.
"What is going on?" There was nothing wrong with the food in the imperial kitchen, but Situ Yao was a little confused and muttered to himself.
"Your Majesty, although the imperial kitchen is responsible for food in all parts of the palace, there are inevitably some people who want to steal food and eat other things secretly." The eunuch saw that Situ Yao was a little worried, so he spoke.
After hearing what the eunuch said, Situ Yao realized that, yes, there were always some people who secretly hid something. It was all his fault that he only wanted to check the imperial kitchen for a while, and he didn't forget these things.
At this moment, after being reminded by the eunuch, Situ Yao immediately ordered: "Since that's the case, then go to various places in the palace to check if there is any place that has food or anything that can be eaten."
As expected, they discovered some problems. Someone came back to report to him, saying, "Your Majesty, I found some traces of fire in a wood near the cold palace, as well as some fish bones. It seems that someone was roasting fish there."
It seems that the problem lies here.
On the other hand, Su Mengyan learned that some deaf-mute people suddenly appeared in the palace, and she was very concerned about this matter.
However, at this moment, the person sitting in front of her was Li Ai Mi, who discovered many dead fish floating in the pond that day.
"Your Majesty, when I was practicing at the pond yesterday, I met a lady named Xu Chuchu. She had a hoarse voice, but had she suffered any injuries before?" Li Aimi asked.
Su Mengyan didn't want to say much about why Xu Chuchu's voice was hoarse, so she just made a few excuses.
"Your Majesty, you may not know that although Xu Chuchu and I met for the first time yesterday, the sisters were indeed very welcoming. Not only did she praise my singing, she also gave me the bowl of rock sugar and snow pears she brought with her, saying that it was to moisten my throat. She is indeed a kind person." At this point, a smile appeared on Li Aimi's face, but the next second she looked disappointed. "It's just a pity that I didn't get to drink from that bowl of rock sugar and snow pears, because I accidentally fell and dropped the rock sugar and snow pears into the pond."
Seeing Li Emi say this, Su Mengyan couldn't help but comfort her: "That rock sugar snow pear is not a rare thing. If you want to drink it, just go to the imperial kitchen and get it."
Although Su Mengyan didn't like Xu Chuchu very much, she didn't stop the people in the harem from making friends or anything like that.
However, what Su Meng did not expect was that Li Eimi did not stay unhappy about this matter for too long. The next second she brought up another matter.
"But it's strange. Later I found that all the fish in the pond had their stomachs turned upside down. They died inexplicably. I don't know what they ate wrong." Looking at Li Eimi's expression, it seemed that she felt very sorry for the fish.
But after hearing her words, Su Mengyan's expression suddenly changed. Some of the unanswered questions in her heart seemed to have answers at this moment.
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