Chapter 85: No Way to Defend Oneself
When Shen Chuliu finally returned to Cuiyunxuan, he felt really sleepy.
After three consecutive days of poor sleep, Shen Chuliu and Shen Baolin finally felt something was wrong.
Shen Chuliu looks like she is... pregnant.
I am sleepy and have a good appetite, but I dream a lot at night.
Zi Rui was convinced that she was pregnant, but she also knew that her master was always using the sachet, so she shouldn't be pregnant.
"Don't be suspicious. Go report to the Queen first and ask her to ask the imperial physician for me." Shen Chuliu said.
Zi Rui went there in person.
"Where's Yuanxiao? You guys, go search the palace. Ask Yao Baolin's men to come along."
"Master, you...you mean, someone is trying to harm you?" Zizhu was stunned.
"What else? If I can get pregnant, so can Yao Baolin? Do you think she has been acting the same as me these days?" Shen Chuliu said listlessly.
Zizhu bit her lip and said, "I will search right away."
Her mind was spinning rapidly. What could it be that the masters were touching but the servants were not reacting to? On the one hand, Yuan Xiao led people to search the palace, and on the other hand, the imperial physician had already arrived.
After taking the pulse, the imperial physician looked a little strange.
"What's wrong?" Shen Chuliu asked.
“This…my beauty, your pulse feels like…like a happy pulse…” The imperial physician also felt that something was not right. It felt like it, but also not like it.
"Perhaps it is because of the lack of months, or perhaps it is because I am not very knowledgeable..."
"I'm not pregnant." Shen Chuliu interrupted the doctor: "It can only be the drug or the disease. The doctor will take another look. If it doesn't work, please send someone else."
The imperial physician became even more nervous and hurriedly checked again: "I really can't tell. Please go back and ask a more experienced imperial physician to come."
"Okay, let's go now. I'm not pregnant. I hope you, the imperial physician, won't use this statement to say anything. If people in the palace spread rumors at that time, you will have to bear the consequences." Shen Chuliu said.
The imperial physician quickly agreed.
Yao Baolin came over, also looking pale: "What's going on?"
"Sister, think about it. Whatever we have touched, we servants cannot use. We have been tricked." Shen Chuliu smiled bitterly.
The aftereffects of being favored.
Soon, the young imperial physician invited Imperial Physician Zhao to come.
Doctor Zhao had seen this last time, and now he knew that this person was very important, so he dared not neglect him.
After paying his respects to Shen Chuliu and Yao Baolin, he confirmed, "This is a medicine that can make people look good when taken. But... when you first use it, there will be some reactions similar to those during pregnancy. Even the pulse can be mistaken for real. And it really affects menstruation for a few months. It will return to normal after three or four months. As long as you use it more, it won't do much harm to people. This medicine was used by the women in the harem during the previous dynasty. It was called Jiaoyan Pills. The characteristic of this medicine is that it is effective whether taken orally or applied. I see that the beauty has used it for a longer time, probably half a month. Yao Baolin's is lighter, but it has been about ten days."
"Will it harm your body if you use it for so long? Will it affect your offspring?" Yao Baolin asked.
"No, now that I've found it, I won't use it anymore."
Doctor Zhao confirmed.
"That's good. I don't mind. Jing Mei is still young." Yao Baolin sighed.
"Sister, don't say that." Shen Chuliu stood up: "The days of peace are always short. It took me half a month, and your sister only took ten days. That's because the hair is oily." Shen Chuliu said.
Sure enough, not long after, Yao Baolin's maid Baochuan'er and Shen Chuliu's maid Jimei brought the rose hair oil together.
Doctor Zhao checked and confirmed that this was it.
Shen Chuliu sneered: "Yuanxiao, go and ask the Queen to come."
Yuanxiao responded and left.
When the queen heard this, she did not hesitate and asked someone to invite the emperor.
In Cuiyunxuan, Shen Chuliu and Yao Baolin did not look very good, but they were both dressed well.
Even when meeting the queen, he was very polite.
The queen was not in a hurry and was naturally waiting for the emperor.
The emperor had nothing to do, so after hearing this he frowned and went to Cuiyunxuan.
After listening to Yuan Xiao's retelling, Qi Yixiu sneered: "Very good, the banned drugs of the previous dynasty? You are really good at it."
"On the fourth day, check."
Chusi agreed and quickly took people to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
After the Ministry of Internal Affairs learned about it, they did not dare to neglect it. In just two hours, they found a young eunuch.
The young eunuch admitted it without saying a word.
He said that it was the beautiful lady Li who asked him to do it, and then he hit the pillar.
Li Meiren and other concubines in the harem arrived at Cuiyun Pavilion. Li Meiren knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I am innocent. My people did look for Wu Bing and did ask for hair oil. But it was lily-scented. Now that Wu Bing has been hit and killed, I have no way to defend myself. But how could I have the ability to get the forbidden drug from the previous dynasty?"
"My sister came from the Duke of Qi's Mansion." Chen Baolin said dimly.
Li Meiren looked back at Chen Baolin: "You are an idiot."
Thinking of adding insult to injury at this time, the previous example of Lu Xiaoyi is still fresh in my mind.
"It's hard to say about this." Concubine Feng smiled, "It's not necessarily that Lady Li won't be able to get the medicine, but... Lady Li isn't the only one who can get it. The Jiaoyan Pills have benefits. If the imperial physician is inexperienced, wouldn't this mean she's pregnant? If she's pregnant now, maybe Lady Jing will be promoted."
This means that Jing Meiren might have eaten it herself in order to fake pregnancy and get promoted.
"Can Jiaoyan Pills make people more beautiful?" Lu Xiaoyi asked Concubine Feng Shufei as if she didn't understand.
"Oh, I actually forgot about this. That's right. That's why people flock to it." Concubine Feng said.
"Your Highness, are you saying that I ate it myself? But I'm already pretty enough, I don't need to be prettier. I'm still hoping to have children in the future. I don't want to kill myself."
Eating too much of this stuff can cause infertility.
"Your Majesty, I also think that this is not what Lady Li said. Your Majesty has mercy on Lady Li and me. To be frank, apart from Concubine Yi, we two sleep with her the most. Lady Li is always smart, how could she harm me? There is not much benefit for her to harm me."
It seems that I can be favored now, but a beauty like her, doesn't that mean I have to deal with her?
"The person behind the scenes used this Jiaoyan Pill to kill two birds with one stone. I think he wanted me and Lady Li to die together. It just involved Yao Baolin. If I hadn't given a bottle to Yao Baolin, and I had used it myself, I might have really suspected that I was pregnant. By then, no matter it was a false pregnancy, or my body was ruined, or the person behind the scenes waited for an opportunity to find out that I used this, I would have no way to defend myself."
"Your Majesty, I am of the same background as Lady Li, but I have never heard of this pill. I cannot get it either. Please, Your Majesty, please help me."
This is a low-grade medicine that big families really don't bother to use.
"Lady Jing is trying to clear herself of the charges by saying this all the time." Concubine Feng sneered.
(End of this chapter)
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