"Lilac? Lilac!"
She called out twice.
Dingxiang strolled in slowly.
Song Xibai pointed to the wet nurse Qiao on the bed and asked her, "Did you figure it out?"
Dingxiang pouted.
"I can see that, but as you instructed, we only need to save their lives; the antidote isn't ready yet!"
She just went to the small kitchen to find a medicine pot to brew the medicine.
Granny Fangqi listened to the two speaking in riddles, not quite understanding, and couldn't help but ask.
"What are you saying, Your Highness? What have you noticed?"
Song Xibai said with a slight smile.
“Granny, don’t you understand? She was poisoned with arsenic, a common poison in the palace. Normally, a small amount of arsenic is enough to kill a person, but the amount she took was just right, leaving her between death and survival.”
Granny Fangqi thought for a moment and replied, "Perhaps she didn't eat enough."
“Yes! It was indeed a very small amount, only a tiny bit,” Song Xibai continued. “But as an elder in the palace, you should know the symptoms of arsenic poison, right?”
Granny Fangqi fell into deep thought.
Before she could figure it out, Song Xibai continued.
"After ingesting arsenic, one will experience dizziness, abdominal pain, vomiting, and even convulsions. But it would never be like this, vomiting blood all over the floor. That's too exaggerated."
As far as Song Xibai knew, the poisons in the palace were prepared in a way that made as little noise as possible, so that people could die quietly. If they really wanted to torture someone, there were other ways.
The poisons commonly found in the palace wouldn't cause someone to vomit blood like this.
This isn't a TV drama.
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