Ning Yuxi smiled and said, "You are too polite, Judge Wang. I just wanted to look for some medical books. I heard that the Empress Dowager was ill, so I thought I could find some tonic herbs and recipes in the books to make some medicinal dishes to present to the Empress Dowager."
When she took Cheng Zhao to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager the day before yesterday, she found that the Empress Dowager was a little unwell. Judging from the symptoms, it should be a gynecological disease, probably because she had not fully recovered after giving birth.
I heard that the Empress Dowager had a difficult labor when she gave birth to the Emperor. After finally giving birth, the Empress Dowager was also injured. The imperial physician originally said that the Empress Dowager would never get pregnant again.
Unexpectedly, ten years later she became pregnant with Princess Yincheng again. Her body was not suitable for pregnancy, so she had some symptoms after giving birth to Princess Yincheng and she was unable to recover.
It just so happened that she knew some medicinal recipes for nourishing the body. Although it has been a long time since the Empress Dowager's condition began, there is still hope that she will get better if she follows the medicinal recipes for a long time. She followed this recipe for conditioning after giving birth, so she recovered very well.
Coming to the medical book today to look for medicinal recipes was just a cover. She mainly wanted to find the musk dew poison recorded in the medical book.
When Wang Yuanpan heard that it was for the Queen Mother's recuperation, he became a little serious. He also knew about the Queen Mother's illness, but the current medical level could not cure it.
He was afraid that Ning Yuxi's random prescription would harm the empress dowager's health, so he asked the Imperial Hospital to help her prepare the prescription.
Ning Yuxi knew what he was worried about and said with a smile, "Since this is to honor the Empress Dowager, I naturally have to do it myself. Don't worry, Court Judge Wang, I won't do anything rash. When the time comes, I will definitely let Court Judge Wang review the prescription."
Ning Yuxi said so, and Wang Yuanpan had no choice but to agree. However, he felt that Ning Yuxi, a woman who had never been exposed to these things, would definitely not be able to come up with any prescriptions.
After all, the Imperial Medical Bureau was helpless against the Empress Dowager's illness, and she just wanted to show the Emperor and the Empress Dowager her filial piety.
How could a girl like her understand those obscure medical books? She would probably get impatient after reading for a while. Since she wanted to show her filial piety, he would just do what she wanted.
Court Judge Wang led Ning Yuxi to the Imperial Hospital's library and said, "All the Imperial Hospital's medical books are here. Your Majesty, please feel free to read them. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them at any time."
"Don't bother Wang Yuanpan. I think it will take me a while to find him. Wang Yuanpan can go and do his work on his own. There's no need to bother me."
When Wang Yuanpan heard what she said, he felt that she was probably just pretending to stay in the library for a while, and that his staying there would only cause trouble. Therefore, he did not say much, but bowed and left.
After sending Wang Yuanpan away, Ning Yuxi, Ruyi Luoying and the other two began to look through medical books. Since they didn't understand pharmacology, Ning Yuxi only asked them to look for records about musk orchid in the books. With a direction in mind, the two of them could be of help.
It was not until lunch time that Ning Yuxi finally found the medical book that recorded Musk Orchid. Seeing that the record was not much different from her memory, Ning Yuxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She took the medical book and a few other medical books as cover and left the library.
At the beginning of the afternoon, Ning Yuxi brought the soup made in the small kitchen to Shengchen Palace.
From a distance, Song Qu watched Ning Yuxi and her servant approaching and hurried over to greet them. He said with a smile, "Oh, what brings Concubine Yi here?"
Ning Yuxi also smiled and said, "You are too polite, Eunuch Song. I guess the emperor is hungry now, so I came to bring him some food. Please let him know, Eunuch Song."
Song Qu responded respectfully and turned to go in and pass on the message.
Inside the palace, Gu Qilan heard that Concubine Yi had come to bring him food. He paused and said, "Let her in."
"Yes." Song Qu agreed and turned around to invite someone in.
When Ning Yuxi came in with the food box, Gu Qilan was still busy reviewing the memorials. After she bowed, she took out the soup from the food box and placed it on the emperor's dragon table:
"This is the pheasant soup I specially asked the kitchen to make. It tastes very good. Your Majesty, please try it."
Gu Qilan raised her eyebrows slightly. When others sent food to her, they would say that they made it personally, but she was honest and directly said that it was made in the small kitchen.
He kept writing: "Put it aside for now, I will use it later."
After a while, seeing that Ning Yuxi had not left yet, he raised his head and asked, "What else?"
Ning Yuxi frowned slightly, her expression showing three parts of grievance, three parts of anxiety, two parts of sadness, and two parts of bewilderment. She said, "I... don't know where I did wrong to annoy the Emperor. The Emperor hasn't come to see Xi'er and the child for a long time..."
Gu Qilan met Ning Yuxi's "complicated" gaze with a hint of pity on his face. He even reflected on whether he had gone too far?
After a moment, Gu Qilan said, "You're worrying too much. I've been busy with state affairs lately. Don't worry, I'll go to Shuqing Palace to see you when I have time."
Ning Yuxi sniffed and said softly, "I know why the emperor didn't come to see Xier. There are rumors in the palace that the death of Liu in the cold palace is related to me."
Upon hearing this, Gu Qilan's face unconsciously darkened. He felt guilty towards Liu and was a little angry at Concubine Yi, who was most likely the murderer of Liu, but he didn't want others to say it directly.
Ning Yuxi naturally noticed the emperor's gloomy expression, but she pretended not to notice and continued to talk to herself, "Your Majesty must think that I am cruel and vicious, so he alienated me. But Your Majesty, I have never poisoned her. I am definitely not a vicious person..."
Hearing her say this, Gu Qilan's gloomy expression eased a little. He thought that she knew his deepest thoughts, but now it seemed that she was just afraid that he would think she was a cruel person.
"You are overthinking it. I never said you were a malicious person."
Seeing this, Ning Yuxi just wanted to laugh. The dog emperor's heart was as unfathomable as the sea. She had to always take the dog emperor's psychology into consideration in order to prove her innocence.
She suddenly wiped away her tears and said seriously, "Your Majesty, I can prove that Liu's death had nothing to do with me."
As she spoke, she took out the medical book she had brought with her in the food box and said, "The imperial physician said that the poison Liu was poisoned by was musk orchid. I checked the medical book and it says that the skin color of people poisoned by musk orchid after death is slightly different from that of ordinary people.
Musk orchid poison primarily harms the kidneys. Purple-red blood clots will form in the kidneys around the lower back ninety-six hours after death, which is more than eight days.
"Today is the seventh day of the lunar month. Eight days ago was the twenty-ninth day, and I was sent to the cold palace on the thirtieth day. Therefore, Your Majesty only needs to send someone to check the lower back of Liu's body to see if there is any purple-red blood clot. This will prove whether it was my fault."
As she spoke, Ning Yuxi handed the page in the medical book that recorded Musk Orchid to the emperor. Gu Qilan saw that it was indeed recorded in the book.
He pondered for a moment, looking at Ning Yuxi with complicated eyes. Ning Yuxi stood straight, not afraid of his gaze at all. After a moment, he finally ordered Song Qu to go to Baohua Palace.
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