After hearing what the palace maid said, the emperor's pupils suddenly shrank. Without bothering to ask any further questions, he just walked out.
After walking two steps, he stopped and looked back at Ning Yuxi: "I'll go and see you. You're not feeling well, so you should rest early." After saying that, he strode away.
Ning Yuxi nodded obediently: "Your Majesty, I respectfully send you off."
Looking at the emperor's hurriedly leaving back, Ning Yuxi looked at Luoying beside her and motioned her to go out and inquire.
Even if the palace maid's words just now were exaggerated, she would not dare to joke about her master's life. Is Concubine Jing really in trouble?
But even though she had been ill on and off during this period, it was because she was weak to begin with, and she had been preoccupied with many things recently. How could it be a threat to her life?
Something must have happened!
Yunqing Palace.
Gu Qilan got off the sedan chair and strode into Concubine Jing's bedroom. As soon as he entered, he smelled a pungent bitter smell of medicine.
The palace maids and the imperial physicians were kneeling on the ground, but Gu Qilan ignored them and went straight to the unconscious Concubine Jing on the bed. However, after not seeing her for a day, the person on the bed looked much more haggard.
Her face was pale and her breath was faint. If it weren't for the slightly rising and falling chest, one would have thought she was dead.
Gu Qilan's heart tightened, and he asked in a deep voice, "How is Concubine Jing...?"
The imperial physician at the side hurried forward and said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Jing is... poisoned!"
"Poisoned? How could he be poisoned? Is there a possible cure?" Gu Qilan stared at the imperial physician.
The imperial physician felt his legs tremble as he spoke cautiously, "Your Majesty, the reason Concubine Lan was poisoned was because someone spiked her medicine. I have just cured Concubine Jing of the poison, but... the poison is potent, and Concubine Jing is weak. The poison has already damaged her internal organs. I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."
"What are you afraid of? What is the Imperial Hospital for? They actually mixed poison into Concubine Jing's medicine!" Gu Qilan's voice was filled with anger and murderous intent.
The imperial physician hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the medicine for Concubine Jing has always been prepared by people from the imperial palace who come to the Imperial Hospital to get it and then boil it in her own palace. The Imperial Hospital has all the records of the prescription, the ingredients, and the dosage.
I have already checked, and there is nothing wrong. I also checked the dregs of the decoction just now, and there is no problem at all."
There was no problem with the medicine prescribed by the Imperial Medical Office or the residue from the decoction, so the problem lay with the decocted medicine.
Gu Qilan's compelling gaze fell on the palace maids again: "Don't you know how to check the master's medicine before it enters? Who served Concubine Jing the medicine? Who boiled the medicine?"
At this time, the maid who had just gone to the Shuqing Palace to ask the emperor to come forward, tears still stained her face as she choked and said, "Your Majesty, I am Longxiu, the maidservant who came with your dowry. I personally prepared all the medicine for your majesty.
I guarantee with my life that there is absolutely no problem, and before giving it to Your Majesty, I personally checked and drank it, and only gave it to Your Majesty when there was no problem. Please be clear about this, Your Majesty."
Gu Qilan's deep eyes swept over Longxiu. He remembered that she and Qiandai were both maids who came with Concubine Jing as a dowry. After Qiandai's death, Longxiu helped take care of the affairs around Concubine Jing.
He has known Concubine Jing for more than ten years and has some understanding of the two girls around her. Qiandai will betray Concubine Jing, but Longxiu will not.
Longxiu was a house-born child. Jingfei's parents passed away early, and her relationship with her uncle, Lanpin's father, was average. She was not at ease leaving her close servants at her uncle's house. After she married him, she sent all the old servants close to her family to work in shops or farms to support their retirement, naturally including Longxiu's parents.
Not only is Longxiu loyal, but her parents are also under the control of Concubine Jing, so naturally she wouldn't dare do anything to betray her master.
Gu Qilan withdrew his gaze and thought about who had poisoned him.
Long Xiu was thinking about something, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, after the Queen returned from Shengchen Palace yesterday, Concubine Lan came to Yunqing Palace..."
Gu Qilan looked up at her, frowning slightly.
Long Xiu looked at her master lying unconscious on the bed due to poisoning, gritted her teeth and said, "My queen was about to take the medicine when Concubine Lan, dissatisfied with the emperor's treatment, broke into the Yunqing Palace and cursed at her, even threatening to hit her.
The palace was in chaos at the time, and I wondered if someone had taken advantage of this moment to poison the Master's medicine! But since the Master drank the medicine, there was no way to prove it.
After saying this, Longxiu knelt on the ground and bowed deeply. This was her negligence. She only drank the medicine herself after it was boiled to check if there was any problem. After Lanpin made a fuss and left, she only heated up the cold medicine on the stove again, and did not check if the medicine was poisonous.
She deserves to die. She went crazy after her master was poisoned and fell into a coma. If... if anything happens to her master, she can only die to atone for her sin!
If you think about it carefully, it must have been Concubine Lan who poisoned the bowl of medicine during the chaos. It's a pity that there is no evidence now. The bowl of medicine had long been drunk up by the master, and the bowl had been washed.
Concubine Lan is really good at scheming.
Gu Qilan's anger was like solidified substance. What a Concubine Lan, she framed Concubine Jing time and time again, and now that her plan failed, she even dared to poison her directly!
"Go, bring that bitch here!"
Song Qu, who was standing by, was so frightened by the emperor's anger that he dared not even breathe. After hearing the emperor's order, he did not dare to delay for a moment and hurried to obey it.
After a while, Song Qu brought Lanpin over.
Lanpin was very nervous, but also felt faintly happy.
Does it look like Concubine Jing is in trouble? What a relief!
She has been under pressure since she was a child. When she was a child, she was favored by her grandfather at home, and the other elders only had eyes for that bitch.
Outsiders only knew the eldest daughter of the Lan family. Who knew the second daughter? No matter how hard she tried, everyone only had eyes for Lan Xiang.
Even the emperor is like this, even though she was the one who fell in love with him first!
Now that Concubine Jing is dying, how can she not be happy? What if the emperor summoned her? Without evidence, the emperor can't do anything to her!
Thinking of this, Lanpin gradually calmed down. She slowly paid her respects to the Emperor and then said, "I wonder what instructions the Emperor has for summoning me here?"
Gu Qilan didn't want to waste time talking to her, so he said directly: "Kneel down!"
Lanpin's heart tightened: "This... this is..."
Before she could say anything, her eyes met the emperor's eyes full of murderous intent, and the peace of mind in Lanpin's heart instantly disappeared, and she knelt down with a plop.
In a panic, Lanpin pretended to be calm and asked, "Your Majesty... What does Your Majesty mean?"
Seeing that the Emperor was not going to answer her, she feigned concern and said, "I heard that my sister was ill. I wonder how she is doing now? I am terribly worried."
Gu Qilan stared at her dimly: "Don't you know best what's going on with Concubine Jing?"
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