Could the paper that had wrapped the powder still be in the palace?
Li Yu looked around quickly, trying to find the paper, but now there was no paper on the floor of the room except for a little dust.
Li Yu realized that this memory might not be before Pu Liu left, and although the emperor sealed the palace, it did not mean that every object in the palace was still there. The paper that fell on the floor at that time was most likely to have been picked up long ago.
Li Yu gritted his teeth. He was already a jinlu, and he wished that he could have the good luck of a jinlu in this matter.
Li Yu calmed down, sat down again, and compared the details he saw in the secret with the reality.
No useful clues were found for the time being.
Li Yu saw the sewing basket again. Without much hope, he took out all the things in the sewing basket. Under some scraps of cloth, he found a cloth tiger.
In his memory, Pu Liu had made a half-finished cloth tiger. This one had been sewn up for the most part. It should be the same one. Li Yu had always thought that Pu Liu had made it and it had been torn apart by the children. But he didn't expect that she had made more than one cloth tiger for King Jing. This was not difficult to understand. Children's toys are usually easy to break. There would be many of them. The same was true for Dabao and the others.
Li Yu took the cloth tiger in his hand, looked at it carefully, and rubbed it vigorously.
As he rubbed it, he suddenly felt that the belly of the cloth tiger was a little uncomfortable, but the cloth tiger that the children had broken before was not like this.
Li Yu and King Jing looked at each other, took out the scissors, and carefully cut the cloth tiger open.
First, the lining, on which the Chinese characters "Puliu" were embroidered, was exactly the same as the ones Li Yu had seen before.
After the cloth tiger was unpacked, a corner of the paper appeared in the cotton.
Li Yu paused and pulled out the paper. It turned out to be a folded piece of paper. Because it was hidden in the belly of the cloth tiger, it was almost not stained with dust.
Li Yu carefully unpacked the paper and found that it contained a handful of powder as big as the nail of his little finger.
Could this be...
Li Yu recalled the paper that wrapped the powder in his memory. The color of the paper package looked exactly the same.
"Tianchi!" Li Yu shouted excitedly.
King Jing nodded and handed Li Yu a porcelain bottle. Li Yu folded the paper package again and put it in the porcelain bottle.
He was still not sure what the powder was, but he hoped it was poison-related, so he had to hand it over to the old doctor as soon as possible.
Li Yu hurried out of the palace. Palace servants were kneeling outside the palace, asking Li Yu earnestly if he needed help. How could Li Yu easily entrust the clues he had finally found to others? He put the porcelain bottle in his pocket and rushed to the Imperial Hospital with King Jing.
Imperial doctors can usually find out the prescription based on the drug residue. If there is powder, they should be able to identify what it is, right?
Li Yu personally handed the powder to the old doctor who was treating King Jing.
The old doctor still didn't quite believe that it was poison, but King Jing and his wife were there, so the old doctor couldn't fool her, so she smelled the powder carefully.
"Strange..." The old doctor couldn't believe it. After obtaining the consent of Li Yu and King Jing, she took a small amount, tasted it, and spit it out immediately.
"Your Highness, Princess, please give me some time..." The old doctor wiped his lips and rushed into the inner hall in excitement before he finished speaking.
Is there finally an idea?
Li Yu did not go anywhere else, and sat in the Imperial Hospital with King Jing waiting.
King Jing's mood had calmed down, but the old doctor never showed up. Li Yu was waiting anxiously, and King Jing would rub his head and tell him not to worry. He would take out a small goldfish with a bulging belly and four small fish in a string from his arms and give them to Li Yu to play with. When
King Jing wanted to please him, he always liked to give him small goldfish of various shapes, and the small goldfish were full of memories.
Li Yu fiddled with it for a while, and felt very uncomfortable.
What if he still couldn't find it after all this?
Then keep going! It doesn't matter if he has to dig three feet underground!
After the old doctor left, there was no news. It was not until nightfall that she hurried out with her head down, holding a thick medical book, and one of her feet was not wearing a shoe or socks.
"Doctor!" Li Yu called out hurriedly.
The old doctor looked up and found Li Yu and King Jing. She was surprised and said, "Your Highness, Princess, why are you still here?"
It turned out that the old doctor had completely forgotten that they were waiting.
Li Yu did not care. Seeing the doctor holding the medical book, he asked hopefully, "Did you find anything?"
The old doctor smiled and nodded, "Thanks to the Princess and Your Highness, it's finally there."
Li Yu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked the old doctor to sit down and talk in detail.
It turned out that the old doctor found that the powder sent by Li Yu was very similar to the previous health-preserving prescription, but there was an extra medicine.
The Chinese medicine is based on the principle that the slightest mistake can lead to a huge difference. If one more ingredient is added, the efficacy of the whole medicine may change.
The old doctor just went to determine which ingredient was added.
After verification, it was confirmed to be the snow crow seed.
Li Yu and King Jing knew nothing about medicinal materials. The old doctor explained: "The snow crow is a kind of tree that grows on the top of the snow mountain. It blooms once every sixty years and bears fruit once every sixty years. The fruit is the snow crow seed. The snow crow seed is rare and has a great tonic effect. It is not easy to see in this dynasty, even in the Imperial Hospital. Because I was fortunate to see a snow crow when I was young, I know the medicinal properties of the snow crow seed."
Li Yu was startled: "This is a tonic?"
Does that mean it has nothing to do with poison?
The old doctor nodded and said, "It is a tonic. But there is a taboo when using snow crow seeds. Snow crow seeds must not be taken together with angelica root. If mixed with angelica root, it will become toxic. In this medicine powder, this old minister tasted both snow crow seeds and angelica root, which means..." "
This medicine powder is indeed poisonous."
The old doctor made a final decision, confirming half of Li Yu's guess. Li Yu clenched his palm anxiously.
"Then, was Your Highness poisoned by this poison?"
Li Yu told the old doctor how the medicine powder was obtained, and also mentioned that the wet nurse Pu Liu had eaten the medicine powder. He suspected that the poison was passed through breast milk to King Jing, who was still in his infancy at the time.
The old doctor's eyes lit up: "This is very possible. I still need to check the medical books... But thanks to the princess, I am finally not at a loss."
The old doctor stroked his beard with relief: "I should be able to confirm it within half a month."
Li Yu seemed to see the dawn of hope and said he would wait for good news from the doctor.
Although it was not completely confirmed, he still asked the old doctor to keep it confidential.
King Jing has been poisoned for a long time. Li Yu, the poisoner, has temporarily targeted Pu Liu. But why would a little wet nurse want to harm the queen's son? There is also the eunuch who is fighting with Pu Liu. From memory, Pu Liu was not happy to take the poison. At least the existence of the eunuch means that the poisoning itself is definitely not Pu Liu's idea alone.
Li Yu actually looked for the eunuch, but because the eunuch looked like an ordinary person, Wang Xidao said that there were eunuchs like this everywhere in the palace, and compared with the eunuch, it is obvious that Pu Liu's position as a wet nurse is more likely to become a breakthrough, so Li Yu focused all his attention on Pu Liu.
Now think about it, Pu Liu was driven out of the palace, so what about the eunuch? Is it possible that the forces that poisoned King Jing still exist in the palace, and even the emperor is unaware of it?
This is almost certain, but it has been more than 20 years now, which means that the other party may be in a high position of power, and may be a person they did not expect.
For the sake of prudence, it is not appropriate to disclose it to the outside world. What if the other party wants to attack King Jing again?
Li Yu came out of the doctor's office and went straight to the Qianqing Palace.
The emperor was still very happy that there was a clue about the poison King Jing was poisoned. Although the old doctor has not confirmed it yet, just knowing that there was a paper bag with poison hidden in the cloth tiger, the emperor felt that Pu Liu must have been involved in the poisoning. Li Yu also suggested that the emperor keep it secret, and the emperor felt the same way.
"Thank you very much." The emperor said in a gentle voice.
In the past, the emperor appointed Li Yu as the principal wife of King Jing, and treated Li Yu kindly, mostly for the sake of King Jing and the children. During this trip to the hunting ground, he and Li Yu got to know each other more. After witnessing the affection between King Jing and Li Yu, and the efforts Li Yu made to find clues, the emperor, although he did not say it, had become very trusting of Li Yu. Now he felt that King Jing had a very good vision.
Li Yu said that he wanted to keep the secret, and the emperor agreed. The emperor thought more deeply than Li Yu.
Pu Liu poisoned King Jing, who was still in his infancy, so what about the other two princes she had brought up, the eldest prince and the fourth prince?
Some things are horrifying to think about. The death of the eldest prince and the fourth prince is a pain that the emperor cannot touch. Now he has to be ruthless and investigate.
If it is really a man-made disaster...
The emperor stared at the red pen in his hand for a long time. No matter who the opponent is, he will tear him into pieces. Only in this way can he give an explanation to the Empress Xiaohui in the underworld.
After getting the half-month guarantee from the old doctor, Li Yuchu went to the system to test the system and asked many soul-searching questions.
Is the poison in King Jing related to the snow crow?
Can King Jing's muteness be cured?
Can King Jing speak again after his muteness is cured?
...
The fish that was always cheated by the system finally rose up and cheated the system many times.
The series of silences of the system that cheated fish made the carp spirit stand straight.
"There is still half a month, and there will be results in half a month!" Li Yu reminded King Jing happily.
King Jing saw that Xiaoyu was running around for him and found the poison powder, and he was no longer worried that he would leave first.
Xiaoyu had saved him again, and King Jing thought with tender eyes that he should continue to occupy the carp spirit and repay it with his body.
"Tianchi, if one day you can speak, what would you like to say?"
The muteness was related to poisoning, and it has not been "confirmed" yet. Li Yu cannot tell King Jing hastily, but he can't help but look forward to it.
If there really is such a day, King Jing has actually thought about it himself. He wrote with a smile that he would like to call his father and his children.
What he wants most is...
He paused and looked at Li Yu.
What I want most is to call your name, King Jing wrote.
Li Yu sniffed with emotion and imagined that if he could really hear King Jing calling his name, he would not be afraid even if he turned into fish bones and fish ashes.
Finally, half a month passed in Li Yu's ardent anticipation.
During this period, Luo Zongguan, who was sent by the emperor to look for Pu Liu, reported back that Pu Liu had died on her way home after leaving the palace.
Pu Liu's death made the matter of King Jing's poisoning even more confusing.
Although he encountered difficulties in the pursuit of Pu Liu's whereabouts, the old doctor gave a gratifying answer.
The old doctor had been reading medical books for half a month and tested the medicine on herself. She confirmed that King Jing was poisoned by the toxicity of snow crow mixed with angelica root. This was within Li Yu's expectations, but Li Yu found it difficult to accept the old doctor's method of detoxification.
The toxicity of snow crows is very difficult to eradicate. The old doctor believes that the only way is to fight poison with poison, but this method is quite dangerous. The two toxins will fight each other, which will make King Jing weak. If he is not careful, King Jing is more likely to face the danger of another poison.
The reason why the old doctor dared to say this is because the imperial hospital has an antidote for the other poison, which is much easier to deal with than snow crows.
Li Yu was still a little hesitant, but King Jing nodded in agreement.
Xiaoyu tried his best to clear the way for him. How could he not take this road seriously?
After King Jing took the poison, he vomited more and more black blood. The old doctor said that the method of fighting poison with poison worked. King Jing tossed and turned in pain, and his underwear was soaked. It was not until the black blood was vomited out that the old doctor let King Jing take the antidote.
After taking the medicine, King Jing fell into a deep sleep.
Li Yu stayed by his bed, feeling distressed. The emperor also came to visit several times and comforted the children for King Jing, but perhaps because the other poison was too strong, even after taking the antidote, King Jing did not wake up for a long time.
The emperor was almost dying of anxiety, and the old doctor could not figure out what was wrong. Although King Jing's pulse was weak, he was not completely lifeless.
Li Yu was very afraid that King Jing would become a vegetable, so he kept talking to him every day and told him some interesting things about his sons.
On this day, Li Yu was talking about the emperor's decision to send Dabao and others to Yu's study to be taught and enlightened by the Grand Secretary. The Grand Secretary had no way to deal with these lively and lovely children.
Dabao was very serious in class. He could sit up straight at the age of one. After he was enlightened, he had already found the mistakes about "rice" on his own initiative.
Erbao and Sanbao had a very good relationship. They took turns to listen to the lectures and play with each other. The university scholar didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Sibao slept through the whole class. I don't know who this kid looks like.
Li Yu was speaking with great emotion. When he turned around to pour water because he was thirsty, he suddenly heard someone calling in a hoarse and unclear voice: "Little fish..."
For a moment, he thought he had heard it wrong.
The voice was very hoarse and the pronunciation was not even correct, but the deep affection it contained seemed familiar.