Chapter 78 You kid, just play around here and buy stocks!
When Xiao Xiazi was surprised that the charcoal burning in the house was silver charcoal, Chu Liuzheng also discovered the real mastermind behind the scenes.
【￥%&*#@%&*#@！ 】
She cursed a series of swear words in her heart!
[They say a servant shouldn't serve two masters. You're just playing around with stocks!]
[Concubine Gao, Xu Wanyi, and Lady Wen, each of them is trying to get away from my hands!]
[I'm just a weak and pitiful little palace maid! These three really think too highly of me, one after another trying to kill me!]
Chu Liuzheng continued to dig deeper.
[Well, there's someone behind the old hag. Chen Chongyi, right? Where's the empathetic and talkative flower? Is it a variant of the Piranha Plant?]
[Huh? Concubine Rong isn't here! I thought she was the one who wanted me dead the most... Wait! Concubine Gao is actually Concubine Rong's person!]
【Isn't Concubine Gao the Queen's person? 】
Chu Liuzheng found that he knew too little about the women in the harem.
[Well, these two have been in the same group since entering the palace, but on the surface they have always pretended to be at odds with each other. In order to convince the Queen, Concubine Rong even punished Concubine Gao several times.]
[Tsk tsk, it turns out this guy is a double agent... er... should I say, he's got the best of both worlds?]
There was too much information and Chu Liuzheng's mind was a little confused.
"Let me sort this out. The old woman is Chen Chongyi's servant, responsible for dispensing medicine for the nobles. With Chen Chongyi's instructions, she mixed a small amount of ginger powder and salvia powder into my medicine powder while dispensing it."
Then there was Xiao Xuanzi. He wanted to be transferred out of the cold palace, so he ingratiated himself with the people in the palaces of Concubine Gao, Xu Wanyi, and Concubine Wen. All three of them thought Xiao Xuanzi was smart and capable, and when they had to handle such a critical task and couldn't assign someone close to them to do it, Xiao Xuanzi came in handy.
[The medicine in Xiao Xuanzi's hand was obtained by Concubine Gao from a young eunuch in the imperial garden.]
The young eunuch was responsible for catching insects and making specimens, which required a large amount of this antiseptic. Concubine Gao sent someone to send the young eunuch away, claiming that the insects had been accidentally spilled, and hid some of the preservatives.
Gaopin's maid gave Xiao Xuanzi the medicine and asked him to sneak into the pharmacy to administer it. Xu Wanyi instructed Xiao Xuanzi to find a way to add something to the medicine that would hinder wound healing. Concubine Wen then had Xiao Xuanzi memorize some commonly used herbs for removing dead tissue and promoting flesh growth, and instructed him to find a way to render them ineffective.
[Getting three benefits for one job, Xiao Xuanzi is making a killing!]
If it weren't for the fact that he was the one harmed by Xiao Xuanzi, Chu Liuzheng would have wanted to applaud him.
After completing his mission, Xiao Xuanzi reported the matter to his three masters one by one. Concubine Wen was the most impatient and ordered her chief eunuch to kill Xiao Xuanzi and dump his body into the well in the imperial garden.
It was a windy day, so no one would have visited the Imperial Gardens at that time, making it a perfect time to dump the body. But as fate would have it, who could have predicted that Lady Zhu would suddenly feel like visiting the Imperial Gardens to see the red plum blossoms?
Chu Liuzheng had to thank God for this providence.
If Xiao Xuanzi had not been silenced, and Xiao Yunzi had not happened to come and join in the fun tonight, and mentioned the ghost encounter in the pharmacy, she would probably have taken several days to realize that there was something wrong with the medicine, and by then it would have been too late.
Even now she didn't know if it could be saved.
Chu Liuzheng sighed lightly and lowered his eyes to look at his troubled hands.
Why is it so hated?
Seeing that she finally made some movement, Xia Qiaoru hurriedly asked, "You were just asking about the medicinal herbs, but what's wrong?"
As she spoke, she looked at Chu Liuzheng's hand, her brows furrowed in worry, forming a shallow wrinkle.
Xiao Xiazi and Xiao Yunzi also looked over.
Chu Liuzheng glanced at the three of them and stretched out his arm, "I might have been caught."
Xiao Yunzi shuddered, her eyes widening. "Miss, are you saying that someone tampered with your medicine?"
Chu Liuzheng nodded.
Xiao Xiazi asked in confusion: "How did the girl know that there was something wrong with the medicine?"
"Don't you think the drugstore burglary was a coincidence? I was injured during the day, and something happened at the drugstore that night."
There was no basis for the old woman's story, so Chu Liuzheng could only make a fuss about Xiao Xuanzi.
"I think they're targeting me. You may not know this, but I heard from His Majesty that the thief who broke into the pharmacy that night was Xiao Xuanzi, whose body was dumped in the well. The Empress is still investigating the murderer."
In fact, the tyrant never told her this, but that didn't stop Chu Liuzheng from using it as a banner to make his statement more persuasive.
What's more, what happened to Xiao Xuanzi was too much like a murder to silence the witnesses and destroy the body. The three of them had not just entered the palace. After being reminded by Chu Liuzheng, how could they not think of something fishy?
"I'll go get the imperial physician." Xia Qiaoru was so worried that she couldn't sit still for a moment and stood up to leave.
"Wait a minute, young lady." Xiao Xiazi and Xiao Yunzi stood up, and Xiao Xiazi said, "Young lady, please stay and look after it. We will go."
"Wait!" Chu Liuzheng, the person involved, was not that panicked. He called out to the three of them, "Have you forgotten what day it is today?"
The three of them were stunned.
Today is the Queen Mother's birthday.
On such a happy day, even if the ladies in the harem were sick, they had to endure it and the imperial physician should not be disturbed unless their lives were in danger.
If they went to the Imperial Hospital now, even if they could invite the on-duty physician to Nong Yunyuan, such a big thing had happened, and His Majesty had given the order before, the physician would definitely not dare to act on his own and would have to report it to his superiors.
If this gets to the ears of the higher-ups, wouldn't that be considered an attempt to bring bad luck on such a festive day?
At the very least, he would be beaten with dozens of boards, and at the worst, he would even lose his life.
"If you've figured it out, sit down." Chu Liuzheng offered the three of them an excuse. "It's been about three days now, and the doctor hasn't noticed anything wrong. The dosage shouldn't be too high. You'll be fine if you can just endure it for another night."
"No." Xia Qiaoru disagreed. "Since you've discovered something's wrong, there's no point in just leaving it like that. I'll go boil some water to help you clean up, and then apply some ordinary wound medicine. We'll talk about it after this night."
"Don't." Chu Liuzheng stopped him.
Large-area burns are different from ordinary wounds and not all medicines can be used to treat them.
Chu Liuzheng doesn't want to suffer if he gets a bacterial infection or inflammation.
Xiao Xiazi also had doubts: "Miss Qiaoru, the imperial physician specifically warned us not to touch the wound."
Xiao Yunzi did not comment.
"Qiaoru, I feel fine now. I think I'm fine. Please sit down and let's continue talking."
Chu Liuzheng looked at Xia Qiaoru, his almond-shaped eyes were as gentle as water, making Xia Qiaoru unable to get angry at all.
She sat down depressed. Sometimes she felt useless, and sometimes she felt that Chu Liuzheng was in danger. Her mind was in a mess, so how could she be in the mood to tell jokes?
Seeing this, Xiao Yunzi rolled his eyes, deliberately made a weird face and said some witty words to make Xia Qiaoru happy.
Xia Qiaoru couldn't hold it back any longer and burst out laughing.
Her smile finally made the atmosphere a little more relaxed.
Under Chu Liuzheng's deliberate guidance, everyone chose to ignore the episode about the wound medicine and picked up interesting topics to talk about.
Before I knew it, an hour had passed.
The food on the table has almost been eaten.
Chu Liuzheng yawned and said, "Guess when the banquet will end?"
Xiao Yunzi said, "According to convention, the fireworks will be over when they are set off on the gate tower. It will probably take more than an hour."
Xia Qiaoru suggested: "The fireworks will start soon, let's go to the yard to watch."
Chu Liu was about to agree when he suddenly heard the sound of running footsteps outside, followed by a knock on the closed door.
"Your Majesty has been assassinated. The Imperial Guards have been ordered to search for the assassin. Open the door!!"
(End of this chapter)
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