Queen Mother, "Poisoned!"
Your Majesty, "Poisoned..."
Bei Mingxuan, "Poisoned?"
Doctor Liu looked at the three people who spoke in unison, "This is just my suspicion, so I need to check the utensils used by Master Tong."
The Queen Mother's face was filled with anger and her words were sharp. "What doubts? If you are not sure about Concubine Tong's condition, how can you control it? Or are you fooling me and not controlling Concubine Tong's condition at all?"
"No." Doctor Liu knelt down in fear. "The Empress Dowager is very perceptive. I dare not deceive you. Master Tong's condition is under control."
The Queen Mother shouted angrily, "Speak!"
"To be precise, Master Tong was drugged," Doctor Liu explained. "It's a drug called 'Linlie'. This drug itself is relatively mild, so even if it's used normally, it won't cause any serious consequences.
But there is one thing: if a person who has caught a cold takes this medicine and does not receive treatment within two hours, he will surely die.
The symptoms are like freezing to death, so as the name suggests, this medicine is called 'Linglie'."
Hearing this, Bei Mingxuan's eyes quickly flashed with a hint of surprise, and his gaze passed across the empress dowager's face and fell on the unconscious Concubine Tong.
Chang'an had been silent since entering the palace, but he observed Bei Mingxuan's reaction carefully. "It's winter, and there's not a single thing in the palace that can provide warmth. If something unexpected really happened, it would definitely make the onlookers feel that there was nothing wrong. So, it seems that the person who poisoned him must have thought about it for a long time."
"This is outrageous!" the Queen Mother cried angrily. "Investigate, investigate thoroughly! I want to find out who is trying to harm my niece."
"Father." Bei Mingxuan suppressed his anger and knelt before the emperor, "Please allow me to add some charcoal to my mother's fire.
If there is no charcoal fire in your current condition, I am really worried."
The emperor glanced at the person on the bed, but couldn't bear it after all. He turned around and nodded to Eunuch De beside him.
Manager Li came with two maids who served Concubine Tong, as well as the utensils used by Concubine Tong. "Doctor Liu, these are the things that Master Tong usually uses."
"Which ones are those Master Tong just used?"
A girl in purple clothes was kneeling on the ground, pointing at a white porcelain bowl and a red spoon, "These are."
Doctor Liu placed water inside these things and then inserted a silver needle, but there was no change in the silver needle.
The emperor asked, "Doctor, this is not poisonous. Could it be that you made a mistake? I was wondering how someone could harm Concubine Tong. No way."
"Your Majesty," Imperial Physician Liu said confidently, "It's normal that the silver needles didn't react. I've just said that 'Lin Lie' is just a medicine, not a poison.
It will only have a toxic effect when it encounters a cold."
“How do we verify that?”
"Put these two things in water and boil them. If there is no medicine, then there will be no reaction.
On the contrary, these two things are like frost, covering the entire surface."
The results soon came out, these two things were surrounded by frost.
Seeing this,
The Queen Mother looked sharply at the two servants kneeling on the ground. Her gaze lingered on them, finally landing on a girl in pink. "Chun Liu, why did you want to harm Concubine Tong?"
The servant named Chunliu looked up suddenly. At this moment, she even suspected that her ears were damaged. "No, no, the Queen Mother is not this servant. This servant did nothing."
"If it's not you, then it must be her." The Queen Mother sneered, "Su Xi is from my Xu family. I personally chose her to serve Concubine Tong. It's definitely not her."
"No." Chun Liu tried to defend herself, "Your Majesty, it really wasn't me. I didn't do these things."
The emperor frowned, and he was also doubtful in his heart. Could it really be the queen, and Chun Liu was arranged by the queen?
"Come here," the Queen Mother ordered, "drag me out and beat her. She won't cry until she's in the coffin. Beat her until she tells the truth."
"Who dares to touch my people?" As soon as the words came out, the person had already entered the house.
The Queen Mother looked at the newcomer and said, "You Queen, you're so arrogant! What's going on? I can't touch your people?"
"Mother, please calm down." The Queen's voice was slightly lower than before. "I don't know what Chunliu did to make you so angry."
"Empress, I want to ask you, who gave a mere servant the courage to poison my niece?"
"Poisoning Concubine Tong?" The queen turned to look at Chunliu.
"Are you still pretending?" The Queen Mother sneered.
"Mother, what do you mean?" The Queen looked at the Queen Mother, then turned to the Emperor, "How should I explain this, Your Majesty?"
"Is it you?" The emperor was suspicious but not sure.
"What?" The Queen laughed, self-deprecatingly, "Your Majesty thinks it was I who poisoned Concubine Tong? Everyone in this palace knows that Chunliu belongs to me. Even if I were stupid, I would never let Chunliu do such a thing.
Besides, I have long been the Empress, the head of the harem. How could I have the right to harm a woman abandoned by the Emperor? I am truly not your concubine."
So, the emperor felt that what the queen said made sense. For a moment, he didn't know where the problem lay, and he couldn't think of who else could get close to Concubine Tong except the queen.
"Haha, the Queen is truly a master of tactics," the Queen Mother said coldly. "She has perfectly executed the 'thief crying thief'. I'm completely impressed."
"I've already said it wasn't me," the Queen said angrily, her eyes filled with resentment. "But you, my Queen, don't believe me. If that's the case, please show me the evidence so I can be convinced. Otherwise, don't blame me for taking him away."
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