In Xiao Yanchu's view, Deyi Kangren is now over forty years old, and Dahe is about the same age as Dachu, so he can get married at fifteen or sixteen.
Based on this timeline, Deyi Kangren should have a large family with many children and grandchildren by now.
It's impossible for someone to take medicine voluntarily like him.
“He does have health problems; he has a deficiency of kidney yang, making it difficult for him to have children.”
Su Ruojin had already discovered this problem when she took Deyi Kangren's pulse, but she wouldn't say it out loud.
For a ruler of a country, the issue of offspring is particularly sensitive, and she would not create trouble for no reason.
"If that's the case, why did he abort the child that Yutai was pregnant with in the first place?" Xiao Yanchu asked, puzzled.
People who have difficulty conceiving should normally take great care to ensure that any woman around them who becomes pregnant will survive.
“Perhaps he was young then, or perhaps he didn’t even know about it, or perhaps his health deteriorated later. Who knows?” Su Ruojin replied.
The human body is inherently peculiar; sometimes illness strikes suddenly, and there are many variables.
Given Deyi Kangren's position, even if a doctor discovers a problem, he probably wouldn't dare to speak up.
Deyi Kangren also had children, so who would want to provoke him in this matter?
"Your Highness, who do you think drugged Deyi Yongcheng?" Yanluo asked curiously.
"Deyi Yongcheng has two kinds of poison in his body, so they shouldn't have been administered by the same person. What I find strange is why they chose this time?"
This is something Su Ruojin can't understand.
If this person could poison and murder Deyi Yongcheng, why didn't they do it sooner, instead of choosing this particular time?
Upon returning to the villa, Su Ruojin immediately went to the pharmacy, as if searching for something.
Half an hour later, she came out.
"Yanchu, I know who poisoned Deyi Yongcheng."
“Izumi Masako?” Xiao Yanchu asked.
Su Ruojin gave Xiao Yanchu an admiring look. "How did you guess?"
"Actually, I'm not sure either, but there aren't many people in the entire shogunate who can get close to Tokugi Yusei, want him dead, and poison him. Izumi Masako is one of them."
"Today, Deyi Yongcheng died, and there wasn't a trace of sadness in her eyes. Instead, she seemed relieved." Xiao Yanchu stated his deduction.
"That's right. Actually, when I first went to the shogunate to take Tokuyoshi Yasuhito's pulse, I felt that Izumi Masako was very cold, not to me, but to Tokuyoshi Yasuhito."
It seems that she didn't care whether Deyi Kangren died or not.
"But none of that matters, Yanchu, look at this." Su Ruojin handed the box she was holding to Xiao Yanchu.
Xiao Yanchu took the box and opened it. A faint, peculiar fragrance wafted out. Inside the box was a small, completely black grass with some barbs growing on it.
"What's this?"
"Snake-kiss hook is an important ingredient in Lingmeizhi, which is the poison that He Deyi and Yongcheng were poisoned by."
My second brother wrote in the booklet that this snake-snout hook is a unique poison of Yamato, growing in the nests of venomous snakes and nourished by venom for many years.
Although the snake-snout hook grows in the dens of venomous snakes, it has a strange fragrance. Anyone who comes into contact with it will be tainted by this fragrance, which will take more than a month to dissipate.
"But today in the shogunate, I smelled this fragrance on someone."
Su Ruojin had smelled this fragrance before when she was in the shogunate, and she felt like she had smelled it somewhere before.
After returning to the villa, it took her a long time to find the snake-kiss hook that she had put in the box.
She and Yanluo studied it and confirmed that Deyi Yongcheng was indeed poisoned by Lingmeizhi.
"Can Masako Izumi make Reimei Zhi?"
Xiao Yanchu found it strange. According to the information sent back by the secret guards, Izumi Masako came from the Yamato noble family and had been a pampered princess since childhood. He had never heard that she knew medicine or how to make poisons.
"No, the one with the scent of snakesnakes isn't Izumi Masako, but rather the woman beside her, Ueno Chinatsu.
That makes sense.
Chinatsu Ueno's position in the shogunate was equivalent to that of a trusted nanny to the Empress of Great Chu, assisting the Odai in handling some affairs of the shogunate.
If Chinatsu Ueno can make poison, what difficulty would it be for Masako Izumi to use poison if she wanted to?
"Won't other people be able to smell it too?" Xiao Yanchu asked.
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