Chapter 638 Detoxification

Inside the hall, the atmosphere was as heavy as thick ink, depressing and gloomy.

Xing Xing and the imperial physician were busy in the inner hall, using Empress Nie's blood to test which medicine was more effective.

In the end, it was Xingxing who came up with a prescription, using Tianshan Snow Lotus as the medicine to help Empress Nie clear the toxins.

At this time, the sound of Concubine Li knelt frantically outside the palace and cried out for justice, her voice was extremely miserable: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is wise. Mingyi is only eleven years old, how could she collude with the thieves to assassinate Your Majesty!"

After the assassin's plot was exposed, the commander of the guards quickly went to the backstage and captured Princess Mingyi.

Princess Mingyi was a little confused when she was caught.

When Lady Li found out, she was so frightened that her legs went limp and she literally rolled and crawled over here.

But after they arrived, Princess Mingyi was kneeling in the outer hall. Concubine Li was in an even worse situation. She was stopped at the door of the hall and couldn't get in at all.

Concubine Li did not care about the dignity of a concubine. She knelt down and knocked her forehead against the bluestone slab repeatedly. She cried and begged Emperor Jiazheng to spare Princess Mingyi.

——When she came, she heard someone say that Emperor Jiazheng had ordered the guards to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire palace. No ministers or wives who came to attend the banquet tonight were allowed to leave. Anyone who was found to be suspicious would be arrested!

This is clearly a massacre!

Lady Li was terribly afraid.

She cried until her voice became hoarse and her head banged against her head so hard that she trembled with pain, but Concubine Li did not dare to stop.

Ming Yi, who was kneeling in the outer hall, was also frightened.

Before her father entered, he gave her a cold look and said that if anything happened to Queen Nie and Ming Yi was involved, he would make Ming Yi be buried with Queen Nie!

Ming Yi had never seen her father so ferocious before. She burst into tears. Add to that the sound of her mother kowtowing and begging frantically outside. Ming Yi was still young after all, and she couldn't hold on any longer. She fell to the ground and fainted.

The imperial doctors were all busy in the palace trying to poison Empress Nie, and the palace maids were all silent and no one dared to move.

However, Eunuch Hong beside Emperor Jiazheng could not bear it any longer, so he had someone help the little Princess Mingyi who had fallen to the ground to one side, and then went out to pass a message to Concubine Li who had a bloody head injury:

"Empress Li, you are kowtowing and begging outside like this, but His Majesty is busy poisoning the Empress in the palace and can't hear you at all. But Princess Mingyi heard you like this, she was so filial and anxious that she fainted. You'd better stop kowtowing."

When Concubine Li heard that Ming Yi had passed out, she was so anxious that she got up from the ground and rushed into the palace. Eunuch Hong was shocked and quickly asked someone to stop Concubine Li: "Aiya, Concubine Li, you are so reckless, do you want to add another crime to the princess's charge?"

Seeing that neither this nor that worked, Lady Li was at a loss. She cried even harder and even wanted to kneel down to Eunuch Hong: "Eunuch Hong, please help us mother and daughter!"

Eunuch Hong was startled, and hurriedly had Concubine Li lifted up: "Concubine Li, you are embarrassing us! Don't worry, the Empress is blessed with great fortune, nothing will happen to her. It will be better for the Emperor to calm down soon. You are kneeling and crying now, it seems like you are forcing the Emperor. It's good that the Emperor didn't hear it, but if he comes out and hears it, it will be bad."

Li Meiren burst into tears, not knowing what to do: "Then, what should I do... Mingyi is so young, what does she know..."

Eunuch Hong could only try to persuade Lady Li with one sentence: "Don't do anything, just wait here. As the saying goes, thunder and rain are all grace from the emperor."

Lady Li cried even more miserably: "But Mingyi is still dizzy inside..."

Eunuch Hong also took the time to come over and give Concubine Li some advice. However, when he saw Concubine Li staggering and unable to climb up the wall, he was too lazy to care about her anymore: "Concubine Li, that's all the nonsense I have to say!"

Eunuch Hong hurried into the palace. Concubine Li wiped away her tears, but she kept Eunuch Hong's words in her heart and dared not cry anymore. She knelt upright, not daring to cry anymore.

Xingxing was in the hall and heard the faint and miserable crying outside stop, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the emperor was filled with the poison of Empress Nie, so he might not be able to hear it. But if he really heard it later, given the emperor's current irritability, he might drag the man down and chop him off for crying and cursing the empress.

The complexion of Emperor Jiazheng at this moment was no different from that of Empress Nie who was poisoned and unconscious; both were extremely pale.

He sat beside the bed, holding Empress Nie's hand, and asked Xing Xing: "...When will the Empress wake up? Didn't you already give the Empress the antidote?"

The voice no longer sounded like that of a high and mighty emperor, but rather that of a husband who was simply concerned about comforting his wife.

Xing Xing comforted her, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. The Queen has just taken the antidote with Tianshan Snow Lotus as the initiator. I estimate that her pulse will stabilize in a quarter of an hour. But she won't wake up until tomorrow at the latest."

Emperor Jiazheng nodded silently.

Eunuch Hong personally brought a cup of hot tea to Emperor Jiazheng: "Your Majesty, please have a drink of water."

Emperor Jiazheng turned a deaf ear and held Empress Nie's hand. After a while, he put Empress Nie's hand into the quilt, pulled the quilt up himself, and patted Empress Nie's hand gently.

He then took the hot tea from Eunuch Hong, drank two sips, and handed it away, continuing to sit beside Queen Nie's bed to accompany her.

A quarter of an hour after Xing Xing said that, the pulse of the unconscious Empress Nie returned to normal. The imperial doctors who were kneeling on the floor in the inner hall wept with joy: "Your Majesty, the Empress has passed the critical period of the poison. She is fine now."

"Okay." Emperor Jiazheng then stood up, looking relatively calm. However, as soon as he raised his foot, he missed a step. If Eunuch Hong had not quickly caught him, he would have nearly fallen to the ground.

Eunuch Hong was shocked: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"

Emperor Jiazheng smiled and said, "The Queen is fine, Lao Hong, did you hear that? The Queen is fine."

Eunuch Hong burst into tears: "Yes, yes, yes, I heard everything. The Queen is blessed with great fortune and is a person blessed by God. How could anything happen to her?"

Emperor Jiazheng smiled.

He stood there motionless for a while, then he seemed to remember something, his face suddenly turned cold: "Have you caught the thieves?"

Supervisor Hong said cautiously: "The commander of the guards is still investigating..."

"Where's the eldest princess?"

Supervisor Hong replied cautiously, "Princess, I just fainted..."

Emperor Jiazheng said angrily: "How dare she faint!"

Xing Xing whispered, "Your Majesty, that thief's tactics are wrong, and the poison he used is also very strange. It doesn't seem like the poison we use in Da Xia. I'm afraid there's something else going on."

At this moment, Emperor Jiazheng was still very willing to listen to Xingxing's words.

He nodded and said coldly: "Xingxing, you know something about the poison. It was thanks to your warning that your elder brother was able to react and prevent the assassin's blade from injuring the queen's heart and lungs. Come with me to the outer palace and interrogate that rebellious girl!"

Xing Xing knelt down and responded.

Emperor Jiazheng went to the outer hall with a frosty look on his body.

In the empty outer hall, apart from the guards and palace maids, there was kneeling Ming Yi, who had just woken up from a coma and was still shivering all over.

Mingyi is not very old, he is only eleven years old at the moment.

When she saw Emperor Jiazheng coming out, she didn't dare to cry out loud, but just held back her tears and kowtowed to him: "Father...I have not colluded with the villains, how dare I..."

Emperor Jiazheng said nothing, but just looked coldly at his daughter who was kneeling on the ground.

He was an emperor, and before he ascended the throne, he walked hand in hand with Empress Nie for so many years without ever leaving.

But his father handed him a broken kingdom ravaged by frequent natural disasters.

In order to balance the forces of all parties, he could only use the harem to balance the previous dynasty, so as to avoid adding a man-made disaster on top of the natural disaster, which would mean that the people of Daxia would have no way to survive.

Mingyi was born under such circumstances.

When she was born, in addition to the eldest prince and the third prince born to Queen Nie, there were also the fourth prince and the fifth prince.

Mingyi was the first daughter of Emperor Jiazheng.

Logically speaking, Emperor Jiazheng should be very fond of Mingyi.

But, in reality, Emperor Jiazheng seemed to treat all princes and princesses who were not born to Empress Nie equally.

It cannot be said to be bad, but with the Crown Prince and the Third Prince in front of them, the fatherly love that Ming Yi and the others received seemed to be the leftovers in the corners.

Since childhood, Mingyi was taught by his mother, Li Xiurong, to please Emperor Jiazheng and to strive for honor.

But little Mingyi found that no matter how hard she tried to please her father, she could never compare to the status of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or the Third Prince in her father's heart.

Her father would reward her with jewellery and precious cloth, but he would not carry her on his shoulders to fly a kite.

No one knew that when she was three years old, she had a fever because she saw her father, who was always out of her reach and high above her, in a corner of the Yu Garden. In front of her third brother, he became an ordinary father who chased his son across half of the garden with a feather broom.

She was extremely jealous.

Mingyi was looking forward to Emperor Jiazheng.

But at this moment, Mingyi saw Emperor Jiazheng looking at her coldly, and she felt cold all over. She could only hold back her tears and kowtow to Emperor Jiazheng desperately to prove that it was not her.

Emperor Jiazheng frowned: "Enough! How come you are just like your mother, who only knows how to kowtow when encountering problems? You are my princess, the most noble daughter of Daxia! If you have it, you have it, and if you don't have it, you don't have it!"

Ming Yi trembled all over and froze there, with his head down, unable to straighten his back: "Father... your daughter doesn't have one!"

"Then how did that villain disguise himself as you and go on stage to dance, but it was actually an assassination?!" Emperor Jiazheng thought again of the scene when Empress Nie stood in front of him. He felt a chill all over his body, and the voice of accusation he gave Mingyi sounded like it was squeezed out from between his teeth.

Ming Yi was even more shocked and trembling: "My daughter, my daughter really doesn't know. It was Jin Baolin, Jin Baolin!... My daughter sprained her ankle yesterday and couldn't dance, but my daughter thought about it for a moment and just wanted to make father happy with that dance, so, she listened to Jin Baolin's words and asked a little maid in her palace to wear a dance costume and a veil and dance for me... My daughter really doesn't know... really doesn't know..."

Mingyi couldn't continue. She was shaking violently all over.

Emperor Jiazheng had cold eyes and no expression on his face, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

He asked Xingxing to go and check Mingyi's foot to see if it was sprained as she said.

Xingxing went forward as she was told. In fact, there was no need to check. Once Mingyi's skirt was lifted up, she could see that Mingyi's ankles were already swollen a little under his socks.

To be on the safe side, Xingxing gently pinched Mingyi's ankle. Mingyi gasped in pain and dared not move.

Xingxing confirmed that this was indeed redness, swelling and inflammation caused by a sprain.

At this moment, the commander of the guards also hurried to report that they had found Jin Baolin and found that Jin Baolin had hanged himself and left a suicide note.

The suicide note said that she hated Daxia, and hated Xidi even more for sending her to be a plaything, so that she and her beloved would never see each other again in this life.

If the assassination was successful, she would have made a fortune with Emperor Jiazheng accompanying her to hell.

If the assassination failed, then a rift would have occurred between Emperor Jiazheng and Xidi, and she would not have suffered any loss.

At the end of the letter, Jin Baolin also wrote that he had given Bai Fei's belly a big gift.

After reading the letter, Emperor Jiazheng was furious: "Cut Jin Baolin's body into pieces and throw it into a grave!"

He took a deep breath, frowned, and asked someone to call Bai Fei over.

"Both are hostages from the Western Di..." Emperor Jiazheng's face was gloomy.

After Concubine Bai arrived, her actions seemed no different from usual, and she was acting coquettishly with Emperor Jiazheng.

Emperor Jiazheng coldly pushed Concubine Bai away and threw the letter in her face.

When Concubine Bai saw this, she trembled all over and knelt down in front of Emperor Jiazheng, crying, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is wise. I have never had any contact with that bitch Jin Baolin. I know nothing about what she did! Your Majesty, Your Majesty is wise!"

But no matter how Concubine Bai cried, Emperor Jiazheng just looked at her coldly.

Bai Fei seemed to remember something, she covered her stomach with her hands, her face showing pain: "... Your Majesty, that bastard Jin Baolin said that he had sent a great gift to my stomach... My stomach hurts so much..."

Seeing that Concubine Bai didn't seem to be acting, Emperor Jiazheng looked at Xingxing again and said, "Xingxing, go and take a look."

Xingxing responded and stepped forward to feel Bai Fei's pulse.

Just taking her pulse, Xingxing's face changed.

"...Empress Bai, what did you take?" Xing Xing asked.

Bai Fei's face turned pale with pain: "... Earlier, Jin Baolin gave me a bowl of sweet soup. I liked it very much when I was in Xidi..."

Xing Xing nodded and said to Emperor Jia Zheng: "The poison that Concubine Bai was poisoned with is from the same source as the poison that Concubine Empress was poisoned with."

Tears of blood flowed from Concubine Bai's eyes. She fell to the ground and stretched out her hand to Emperor Jiazheng: "Your Majesty, I, your child..."

After all, the woman in front of him was pregnant with his child. Emperor Jiazheng couldn't bear it. He sighed and asked Xingxing if the antidote she had prepared for Empress Nie was still there.

There is no shortage of Tianshan Snow Lotus in the palace, and the rest of the rare medicinal materials are naturally enough. Xing Xing nodded and asked someone to prepare another antidote.

"Madam Bai Fei drank the poison, so it takes longer to take effect than the Empress." Xing Xing said, "But I'm afraid the baby in her belly can't be saved."