When the imperial concubine heard her words, she frowned and immediately gave Xiyan a look.
Xiyan immediately waved her hand and drove everyone out of the inner room.
Seeing Xiyan closing the door, the imperial concubine began to ask cautiously.
"Shupin, please be careful with your words. What exactly did you mean by what you just said? Are you deliberately plotting to murder the Queen?"
Shupin quickly knelt on the ground to explain to the imperial concubine: "No, it was not my intention to murder you, but the snakes that Your Majesty had people bring in, for some reason, attracted one or two poisonous snakes."
"When the Queen was teasing those venomous snakes, some of the venom soaked into the Queen's handkerchief. However, the Queen didn't notice, and the venom attached itself to her hand."
"I never imagined that after angering those reptiles, Your Majesty didn't even wash her hands. When the imperial physician inserted the needles, the venom entered her body."
The imperial concubine frowned, wondering what the empress meant by catching those long bugs without washing her hands.
Yaoguangyue, who was lying on the side entertaining herself, opened her mouth wide and couldn't help laughing in her heart for a long time.
[She's the queen of a country, how can she be so unhygienic? She didn't even wash her hands after playing with a snake. Oh my god, please don't touch me from now on. If she gets a fungal infection, I'll be so sad!]
The imperial concubine couldn't help but criticize herself in her heart. How could she let the queen touch her?
"Shupin, are you sure the queen was poisoned by snake venom? But the imperial physician hasn't diagnosed it!"
Shupin lowered her head and began to cry.
"Because the venom is light when it enters the body, and this kind of snake is rare. After swallowing other venomous snakes, its own venom has changed. This kind of snake is rarely recorded, and it lives in the deep mountains. I don't know how it appeared here!"
Yao Guangyue uttered “oh” several times and couldn’t help but scream in her heart.
[I remember that Shupin's brother was harmed by this snake venom. At that time, they didn't know how powerful this snake venom was.]
[Later, when Shupin's mother was pregnant, she accidentally ate this poisonous snake, which caused Shupin's younger brother to be born with a defect in the womb.]
[So Shupin is the one who knows the most about these venomous snakes, but she's also probably the one who's most afraid of them. How could she have brought one in? Could it have been the Queen herself?]
After hearing what Yao Guangyue said, the imperial concubine thought of the plot that Yao Guangyue had mentioned before.
The heroine once sacrificed Shupin's younger brother and developed a method to treat children's fetal deficiencies, which won her praise from many people.
In other words, the Queen's illness is the same as Shupin's brother's. If the imperial physician can be summoned to cure the Queen first, it will also benefit all the people.
And Shupin's brother doesn't have to be sacrificed, which is a good thing. But can the imperial physician find a way to treat the queen now?
"Concubine Shu, I want to ask you, why do you know so much about this snake venom?"
Shupin cried and told the imperial concubine about her brother's situation, and then explained again: "Your Majesty, that poisonous snake was not brought into the palace by me. The snakes I brought were all non-venomous. I really don't know how that snake got in!"
The imperial concubine nodded, believing this, and then asked, "Then tell me, is your brother the only one who has been harmed by this snake venom?"
Shupin shook her head, crying inconsolably at this moment.
If the matter is really related to her, it would be a crime of murdering the Empress, and then her whole family would be in trouble.
"My brother is not the only one to be harmed by this snake venom. Most people in the mountains, as well as pregnant women at the foot of the mountain, will also suffer from this disaster."
Yao Guangyue was a little confused now. The plot had mentioned that Qin Xuezhen had said that this disease was called paralysis, but she had not mentioned in detail how to treat it. She only knew that Shupin's brother had been sacrificed.
Thinking of this, Yao Guangyue couldn't help but call the system.
[Paralysis? Why does it sound so much like an infectious disease?!]
[Congratulations to the host for answering correctly. This disease is contagious! ]
【infect! 】
The word "contagious" scared the imperial concubine so much that she dropped the teacup in her hand to the ground, which also frightened Shupin.
"Your Majesty?" Shupin looked at the Imperial Concubine in panic, thinking she was angry. She asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, don't you believe me?"
The imperial concubine cleared her throat and replied, "It's not that I don't trust you, but this matter is extremely difficult to handle. Please go back first. I will send someone to summon you when I come up with a solution."
Only then did Shupin breathe a sigh of relief, and then walked out with many thanks.
At this time, the imperial concubine suppressed her thoughts and sat closer to Yaoguangyue.
[System, if it spreads, will the Imperial Palace be in trouble?]
[Host, don't worry about this disease. To be precise, it's hereditary and not contagious. The reason you're in this state right now is because of that snake.]
[Next time, don’t breathe heavily when you speak! ! ]
[Host, don't be anxious. Listen to me slowly! ]
When the imperial concubine heard this, she hurriedly picked up Yao Guangyue and went to find the emperor.
Fortunately, the emperor happened to arrive just as he left the house. He had just received news from the third prince that something had happened in the disaster area.
The price of Artemisia annua has been driven up to sky-high prices, and the disaster area is now quite uneasy.
The emperor came in a hurry just to tell Yao Guangyue about this matter and see if there was any solution.
As a result, he almost bumped into the imperial concubine when he entered the room, and at this time he happened to hear the most crucial part.
"System, you mean this paralysis is polio, and the polio virus exists in human feces."
[The Empress became like this not because of poisoning, but because the snake got into human feces, became infected with the virus, and was then brought into the palace and inhaled by the Empress?]
[Congratulations, host, you got the answer right. From now on, just get rid of the snakes around the Queen. No one should touch them again, or it will become an infectious disease.]
The emperor was shocked. When he thought about the queen having encountered a snake that burrowed into human feces, he felt that he could never look the queen in the eye again.
Also, what is polio, and what is its connection to the Empress?
The emperor was thinking about this, but the imperial concubine hurriedly bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
The emperor smiled gently and helped the concubine up.
"It's okay. I just came to see the little princess today. The disaster area is not peaceful. I am overly worried. I feel more at ease knowing the little princess is by my side."
When the imperial concubine heard this, she thought it was perfect and asked the emperor to come over and listen, otherwise she would not be able to tell him some things.
"Then your majesty, please come in!"
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