Chapter 1440 Where is the Stone?
Xiao Yuanzheng's body stiffened, and he almost immediately thought of Zhou Man.
He thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Doctor Zhou's medical skills are indeed excellent, but she is the only female doctor in the world. Why not grant her an official position and recruit her into the Imperial Hospital?"
But she was not happy about it. Zhou Man had already refused once. The emperor could see that she really didn't like to be a royal physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
The prince sat aside drinking tea and did not participate in their conversation.
The emperor thought about it and felt that the matter was not urgent, so he waved his hand and asked Xiao Yuanzheng to leave first.
After everyone left, the prince put down his teacup and said, "Father, there is something I have never told you."
The emperor asked in a good mood, "What's the matter?"
"After the state banquet, someone presented a gemstone to the emperor. It turned out to be poisonous, and I, your son, was poisoned."
emperor:……
He opened his mouth slightly, "Then, then you..."
"Zhou Man discovered this after arriving in Beijing and has already removed the poison from his son."
The emperor's heart finally settled down, and he frowned and asked, "Who did this?"
The prince said, "My investigation is limited. I can't even find out where the stone came from. That's why I want to report it to the emperor and ask him to investigate."
The emperor squinted his eyes and looked at the prince for a long time. After a while, he nodded and said, "Okay, I will let Yin Li investigate."
Yin Li didn't expect that just as he had made some progress in the investigation of the prince's drunken case, cases would come one after another.
There was the Zhou Man carriage overturning case, the carriage knife throwing case, and now it’s even better, with the prince poisoning case.
Yin Li was quite helpless. Although he was terrified, he still accepted the emperor's order and took Tang He to the East Palace to take over the case.
The prince has already found out a lot of things, and the next step is to leave the capital to investigate. Obviously, compared with the emperor, the prince is not as convenient.
Tang He looked at the information the prince had found out and arranged the four cases on the table in front of him.
Yin Li sat across from him, watching. He then put the Crown Prince's poisoning case and Zhou Man's car accident case together and said, "Both cases are very vicious, both aiming to kill people. Could they be the work of the same group of people?"
Tang He nodded, "Looks like it."
But his intuition was not right, and intuition cannot be used as a criterion for judging a case, so he did not say anything.
Yin Li said, "The prince said that the gem is very colorful, like jade. That's fine, but it also glows at night, like a night-shining pearl. Go back and find Zhou Man and bring it back for a careful inspection."
Tang He agreed.
So the next day he went to find Manbao and waited for her outside the palace.
When she was escorted out of the palace by the Imperial Guards, he stood in front of the palace gate and waved to her, saying with a smile, "It's just right. I just came out of the Ministry of Justice. Shall we ride in the same car?"
Manbao didn't know why Lord Tang was looking for her, but she nodded anyway.
So the two of them were sent back to Changqing Lane together.
Manbao asked Lord Tang to come in, as there was no one at home.
Mr. Tang smiled and said, "It seems that spring is in full bloom and everyone is out having fun."
Manbao went to the kitchen and brought a pot of boiling water to make tea. He asked curiously, "Master Tang, why are you here?"
Lord Tang smiled and said, "I came here on orders."
He raised his eyes to look at Manbao and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has handed the Crown Prince's poisoning case over to Lord Yin for investigation."
Manbao was surprised. He didn't expect that the prince would report the case after he let it go.
Seeing that she had no reaction at all, Lord Tang asked, "The gem is with you, right?"
Manbao froze and blinked. He definitely couldn't cheat, otherwise, as soon as he entered the palace and asked the prince, wouldn't he know everything?
But the thing has been taken away by Teacher Mo for research. Teacher Mo has rarely been online during this period because he is obsessed with the stone. Where can she turn a stone into something for him now?
Seeing her strange expression, Lord Tang stared at her suspiciously and asked, "You didn't embezzle it, did you?"
Manbao said: "I destroyed it."
Lord Tang: ...
Manbao nodded vigorously, as if this would make it more convincing. She said, "That stone is poisonous. Even if it's buried underground, it will pollute the land and affect the human body, so I destroyed it."
Mr. Tang leaned back in his chair and said calmly, "Okay, I believe you. What about the stone after it was destroyed?"
“It’s gone.”
Lord Tang asked with a smile, "How could it be gone? If you smash it, there will be slag. If you roast it, there will also be residue. Tell me how it disappeared?"
Manbao hesitated for a moment and thought to himself, if iron can be refined into water, can't stone be refined into water and poured away?
But she didn't dare say it, because stones might be able to be refined into water, but the stoves in their homes definitely couldn't do it.
Manbao sighed, lowered his head, and said, "Master Tang, please let me think about it for two days. I'll see if I can help you find it."
Mr. Tang: "...You're not really going to sell that stone, are you?"
He frowned, "That's a poisonous stone!"
Manbao said, "Am I that kind of person? Forget it, it's hard to explain right now. You should leave first. I'll help you look for it and see if it's still there."
After saying this, he pushed Lord Tang away.
After sending Tang He away, Man Bao turned around and ran back to the room to find Ke Ke, "What should I do? What should I do?"
Koko said: "We can only forge it."
"Stone can be forged?"
"Of course, but there doesn't seem to be such a store in the mall. You can find Teacher Mo. This thing is not expensive. You can pay a few hundred points in that world. You can forge it into anything you want."
Manbao calmed down after hearing this and immediately went to find Teacher Mo.
Teacher Mo was not online, so Manbao sent him several messages and waited for nearly an hour before he finally answered.
As soon as he came online, Manbao told him what happened here and said, "They want stones to investigate the case now, and I must return a stone to them."
Teacher Mo didn't even frown and said directly, "Then I'll have someone make you an identical piece of stone based on this one."
Manbao asked, "Does 'exactly the same' mean even the poison is the same?"
"Of course not," Teacher Mo said, "Toys cannot contain substances harmful to the human body. But don't worry, we have many kinds of luminous materials here. It's not difficult to make a stone that glows like the poison stone."
"But it's not poisonous. They'll know after being exposed to it for a long time," Manbao said, "and then it will be me who deceived them."
Teacher Mo: "...There are also many toxic substances, but are you sure you want to do this?"
He frowned and said, "We are doctors. Our job is to cure illnesses and save lives. How can we poison something that humans often touch?"
"So you remove the light and keep the color," Manbao said. "Then I'll tell them I removed all the poison from the stone."
Teacher Mo hesitated, "Can this be concealed from others?"
Manbao sighed and said, "I don't know, but I think they are exactly the same. If they are not poisonous, it will be even harder to hide. My friend is very smart. If they look the same and are not poisonous, I think he will be more accepting of it."
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(End of this chapter)
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