Yin Ci Guang turned around upon hearing the voice, his eyes wandering around for a few breaths as if out of focus, before he focused and saw clearly who had spoken.

"Why is Your Highness here?" He spoke in a very slow tone and glanced at Yin Chengyu blankly. Then he remembered that he had not finished feeding him the medicine in the bowl, so he turned around and fed him the medicine.

The concubine Rong, lying on the couch, had a face as pale as gold paper and blue lips. Her beautiful features were corroded by her sickly appearance and she looked frighteningly thin.

Yin Chengyu felt as if his throat was blocked. He stared at Yin Ciguang's thin back for a long while, then he glanced at the imperial physician, slowed down his movements and went outside. The two imperial physicians followed him out.

"Has the eldest prince always been like this these days?"

The old doctor sighed, "The eldest prince and Concubine Rong have a deep affection for each other. Ever since Concubine Rong was poisoned and fell into a coma, he has been taking care of her in Yongxi Palace without sleep. Apart from the inconvenience of changing clothes and wiping her body, he is unwilling to let anyone else do anything else. Whenever he is very tired, he just sits on the floor and leans against the bedpost to take a nap. We have tried to persuade him several times, but it is really useless."

Yin Chengyu asked again: "How is Concubine Rong's situation?"

Ever since he stepped into Yongxi Palace, his brows have never relaxed for a moment.

"This..." The two doctors looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally told the truth: "The poison is extremely toxic and has penetrated deep into the lungs. Now. Now he can only hold on to his last breath..."

This is already an extremely euphemistic way of putting it. If the Empress had not ordered the Imperial Hospital to do its best to treat the patient and also took out the precious medicinal materials stored in Kunning Palace, the patient might not have been able to hold on.

Thinking of this, the two imperial doctors couldn't help but reveal a look of sympathy.

They had dealt with the eldest prince before during the pimple plague. The eldest prince's medical skills were not bad, so how could the eldest prince not see what they could see?

I just don't want to believe the cruel facts.

Yin Chengyu pinched his brows and slowly exhaled a foul breath. There was a gas stuck in his chest, unable to go up or down.

He waved his hand and sent the imperial physician back. He stood at the door of the inner hall but did not go in to disturb them.

All the past events flashed before his eyes, and no one knew better than him how important Concubine Rong was to Yin Ciguang.

In such a tragic situation, no amount of words of comfort would be of any use.

Yin Chengyu stayed in front of the door for a while, and instructed the head lady of Yongxi Palace to take good care of Yin Ciguang and to go to Ciqing Palace to look for him at any time if there was any movement. Only then did he leave with heavy steps.

He did not return to Ciqing Palace, but went to Kunning Palace.

Empress Yu received the letter that he had gone to Yongxi Palace and had been waiting for him there.

She looked tired. She had not been able to sleep well in the past few days since Concubine Rong's accident. Seeing Yin Chengyu coming, her tense expression relaxed a little. She asked the maid to bring the prepared snacks to Yin Chengyu and let him eat some first.

So many things happened just after returning to the capital. Although Yin Chengyu did not say anything, Empress Yu also knew that he would not be able to take time to eat.

Yin Chengyu did not refuse. He quickly ate a few cakes and drank a cup of hot tea before he managed to calm down his dark mood: "Mother, please talk to me about the situation."

Empress Yu then told him what she had found out in the past few days: "The poisoning was most likely done by those in Jingren Palace, but the target was not me, but Concubine Rong."

Now the rumor in the palace was that Concubine Rong had taken the blame for her. After all, that dish of sugar-soaked osmanthus cake was her favorite cake in the past, and the confession of the eunuch who poisoned her also confirmed this.

At first, Empress Yu also thought so, but after the eunuch who poisoned the woman committed suicide, she secretly ordered people to investigate. The more she investigated, the more she found that the purpose of this game was not her, but Concubine Rong.

"Doctor Hu, who usually comes to Kunning Palace to check my pulse, came to me privately and said that my pulse record had been tampered with."

She couldn't eat sweet, greasy or fried food because of her indigestion, which was recorded in the pulse record. There was nothing shameful in the pulse record, so when he first found out that the pulse record had been tampered with, Doctor Hu didn't take it seriously. It wasn't until the poisoning of Concubine Rong was exposed and Empress Yu secretly investigated that Doctor Hu realized something was wrong and quietly reported the matter.

This was one of the reasons that made Empress Yu suspicious.

The second reason was that, due to Yin Chengyu's instructions, Empress Yu was very cautious about what she brought into the palace. On weekdays, all meals in Kunning Palace had to be inspected before use. When dining outside the palace, the cakes were brought out from Kunning Palace.

The cakes that day were given by Emperor Longfeng, so it was inconvenient to test for poison. The Empress followed the doctor's instructions not to eat them, and secondly, she had developed a sense of caution and would not easily use anything from outside.

The method of directly putting poison on the cakes like the eunuch did was too crude.

Moreover, rumors in the palace spread too quickly.

In the past few days, she deliberately suppressed the people in Kunning Palace and spread these rumors, just to see who were fanning the flames.

"What the Queen Mother meant was..."

"I'm afraid someone is deliberately trying to provoke a fight between you and the eldest prince." Queen Yu's brows showed worry: "The person who secretly spread the rumors not only involved Jingren Palace, but also Xianfu Palace."

Xianfu Palace was the residence of Concubine De.

Yin Chengyu's eyes darkened when he heard this: "This time the poisoning was done very carefully, and every step was calculated. It certainly doesn't seem like the work of Concubine Wen."

Although Concubine Wen Gui was a scheming woman, she had become somewhat insane since the death of her son, and was not as calm as before.

Hiding behind the scenes to stir up trouble and watching the quarrels between the two parties is more like Yin Chengjing's style.

"No matter who did it, Concubine Wen was the one who rushed in first." Speaking of this, Empress Yu gritted her teeth in hatred: "It's a pity that the eunuch was interrogated by Gao Xian. When our people went there, he had already confessed and committed suicide. I asked the people you left behind to check the eunuch's network of relationships, and they did find some clues. The eunuch had an affair with a palace maid in Jingren Palace before he died, and they secretly married."

Since ancient times, the custom of eunuchs and palace maids to have sex has always existed in the palace. However, Emperor Longfeng particularly disliked this and had issued a strict ban on sex. Once discovered, the fate of the couple was death.

The eunuch was probably controlled by Concubine Wen because he was caught. Unfortunately, the maid didn't live two days longer than him. The person she secretly sent found the body in a dry well in the cold palace.

"Concubine Wen had been planning this for a long time. Your father is a confused man. After seeing the eunuch's signed indictment, he wanted to make a small matter out of it and only sent a reward to Yongxi Palace."

Regardless of whether he was truly confused or just pretending to be confused, Emperor Longfeng showed that he was unwilling to delve into the matter further.

Empress Yu and Emperor Longfeng had been married for many years, and although they were not close, she knew his character very well. This was the first time that she had pointed out his character without regard for status, and she was extremely angry.

"We can't just let this matter go like this. If Concubine Rong takes it seriously..." She stopped talking halfway, feeling that it was an unlucky omen.

After listening to her, Yin Chengyu lowered his eyes and said slowly: "Since father doesn't want to make a big fuss, why don't we make a fuss?" Without waiting for Queen Yu to ask, he curled his lips, but there was no smile in his eyes: "The living can't make a fuss, but the dead can always."

If Xue Shu were here at this moment and saw him like this, he would know that he was extremely angry.

The angrier you are, the calmer you are.

Queen Yu was inspired by him and suddenly became enlightened.

Although she didn't like the intrigues in the harem, it didn't mean that she was completely unaware of the tricks used in the harem.

"Leave this matter to mother." Queen Yu looked at her son's gloomy face and touched his face. "Go back and have a good rest. If you have time, go and see the eldest prince more often. Don't let him fall ill before Concubine Rong recovers."

Speaking of Concubine Rong, she sighed deeply again.

"I'll save that."

Yin Chengyu sat for a while before going back to rest at the urging of Queen Yu.

Ever since Concubine Rong's accident, the palace has not been peaceful.

First, a female corpse was found in a dry well in the cold palace. A few days later, people heard that ghosts were haunted in the Jingren Palace.

It is said that in the middle of the night, one can always see two shadows crying quietly inside Jingren Palace, and they look like a man and a woman from the way they are dressed.

At first, this matter was only circulated among the palace maids in Jingren Palace, and there were many speculations about the identity of the ghost. Those who knew more spread the rumor secretly, saying that judging from the dress of the female ghost, she looked like the jadeite who died in the cold palace!

The fact that the palace maid Feicui and the eunuch were in a relationship was not a secret. The palace was lonely, and there were always palace maids and eunuchs who could not stand the loneliness and had secret contacts with them.

A few days ago, I heard that Feicui's lover committed suicide after failing to poison the queen, and within two days, Feicui also disappeared. When her body was found, people who knew her knew that she had committed suicide for love.

After sighing for a while, he forgot about it.

Who could have known that this dead couple could actually come back to life? !

Counting the days, it was indeed the seventh day after the death of that dead eunuch.

At one point, all the palace servants in Jingren Temple who knew Feicui quietly burned paper money, hoping that the ghost couple would quickly go to the underworld to reincarnate and not disturb the living.

As more and more people came to burn paper money, the story of the haunted house reached Concubine Wen.

Concubine Wen Gui did not believe it at all. She stroked her bright red nails and said with a scornful smile, "You are useless when you are alive. How dare you come here to complain after you turn into a ghost after you die?"

What she said made sense, and the female official who came to report immediately calmed down: "Then I will go and stop the people below from burning paper money."

"Go ahead." Concubine Wen Gui showed a bit of disgust: "Pass the word down, whoever dares to touch these mysterious things again will be beaten to death and thrown into the mass grave."

The female official nodded in agreement and hurried off to pass on the message.

After everyone left, Concubine Wen got up leisurely and went to the garden to enjoy the scenery.

In fact, there was not much to see in the late winter and early spring, with the snow falling and the branches still withered, giving the whole garden a bleak look. But she was very happy to see that her enemy was not doing well. She changed into bright clothes and put on her makeup before going out to visit the garden.

Because I was in such a good mood, I even had a warm pot dinner in the garden.

When she returned to Jingren Palace feeling refreshed, it was already dark. After washing up, Concubine Wen went to see her son's portrait before returning to her bedroom to rest.

She has been in a very good mood and sleeping well these days.

But for some reason, this night, she always felt that someone was watching her in the room before going to bed. She lay on the bed for a while, then couldn't help getting up and looking around the bedroom, but she didn't find anything unusual.

The feeling of being spied on also disappeared.

She frowned and lay down again. After a while, the feeling of being spied on came back again. There was even a faint thudding sound under the bed, as if someone was knocking on the bed boards.

One by one, very regular and rhythmic.

She somehow recalled what the court lady had told her during the day about the haunting in Jingren Palace.

The hair on her body stood up, and she finally sat up. She didn't look under the bed, but rang the bell to call someone in, trying to stay calm and said, "It seems that there are rats in the bedroom, please check it out."

The confused palace maids and eunuchs searched the entire bedroom, but they didn't find any mice, let alone insects.

And all the previous feelings of being wrong are gone.

Concubine Wen frowned and thought for a moment, then changed her habit and let the palace maid who was on night watch sleep on the footstool.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong this time and I finally slept peacefully.

But in the middle of the night, she always felt very cold, and something seemed to be moving on her face, itching. Unable to bear it, she finally opened her eyes impatiently, and was about to scold the palace maid who was on guard, but she was suddenly faced with a sly face with a long tongue hanging out.

The face was hanging right above her, facing her, its complexion was blue-gray, its long scarlet tongue was hanging out, and its messy long hair was all over her face.

After a few moments of silence, a heart-wrenching scream rang out, waking up half of the people in Jingren Palace.

The palace maid who was on guard heard the cry first. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Concubine Wen rolling and crawling off the embroidered bed. On the top of the embroidered tent, a piece of her long black hair was slowly pulled up, and a blood-red eye could be vaguely seen from the messy hair.

The palace maiden on night watch was so frightened that she lost her voice and could not react.

Concubine Wen was unable to call her back, so she stepped over her in panic and rushed to the door of the bedroom, shouting, "Someone come! Someone come quickly!"