investigation
After stealthily hanging the sachet back around the Queen's waist, she suddenly spoke softly, "Do you know what poison your Majesty is suffering from? Can you cure him?"
"Your Majesty, no."
Yu Heyi pretended to leave, and then secretly followed the queen after she left.
First, find out the location of the queen's bedroom and her daily routine.
The queen's life was well-organized. She ate three meals a day on time and had a very regular schedule.
And she didn't do anything, occasionally drinking tea and playing chess with the prince, looking like a person who was content with her lot.
Ever since she had her conversation with Yu Heyi, she would visit the emperor every now and then to check on his condition, and sometimes she would even send him some food on a whim.
However, after she left the emperor's bedroom, all the food was thrown away by Wanqi Si.
After all, their primary suspect was the Queen.
A few days later, Wanqi Si lifted his legs, grabbed Yu Heyi's wrist, leaped up, and landed on a tree branch.
As he looked, he saw a man standing not far away, talking to the people around him.
——It’s Lin Jian.
The person who originally wanted to instigate the doctors of the Imperial Medical Service to attack them.
"Lin Jian is the deputy director of the Imperial Hospital." He broke off a branch and casually inserted it into Yu Heyi's hair. "The identities of the other medical officers are normal, but he is a little special."
"He seems to have no background. He went to Yandong alone a few years ago and took the position of Vice Minister. But you should know that it is difficult for someone without any background or status in the human world to hold such a position."
Yu Heyi frowned and remained silent.
As he said, what ordinary people value most is status and position. People who have no one to rely on and no background will often be squeezed out by those who are powerful.
And this Lin Jian, who was alone and had no background support, was able to sit in the position of deputy director of the hospital, and it seemed that no one among the medical officers was dissatisfied with him.
Unless he is very capable, it is impossible.
He continued, "So I investigated his situation in detail. Four years ago, he came to Yandong and settled there. He opened a medicine shop on Anru Street to make a living."
"Everyone in the neighborhood knows him. He lacks the ability, but he has the dream of becoming a medical official."
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Four years ago, Lin Jian came to Yandong, eager to make a name for himself here.
Unfortunately, the reality was cruel. He was just a drug dealer who was ignored by everyone. He used up all his savings and barely bought a shop on Anru Street.
He thought that Anru Street was bustling and wealthy families liked to gather here, so his business would get better and better.
But reality dealt him a heavy blow.
The wealthy families who came to Anru Street walked around but never stopped in front of the medicine shop for a moment.
Other shops even had long queues, but his shop was always deserted, day after day.
This went on for nearly half a month. He finally couldn't help asking his neighbors, "Why do people like to visit your shop but ignore mine?"
"Everyone comes here to shop, to buy beautiful things for fun. Who would come here to buy medicine?"
"But people will get sick eventually. Don't they take medicine when they are sick?"
The neighbor glanced at his shop with disdain: "Even if I were sick, I wouldn't come here to buy medicine. Who knows what kind of medicine you sell? Who will be held responsible if something goes wrong? Everyone goes to the pharmacy to get medicine. It's safe and guaranteed. It hasn't changed in all these years."
Later, Lin Jian went to a pharmacy and found that the medicines sold there were expensive, but there were still people willing to buy them at high prices.
Most of his medicines cost three or five cents, and the highest was only ten cents, but no one was interested in them.
The owner of the pharmacy saw that he was dressed shabbily and standing at the door motionless, so he thought he was there to cause trouble and kicked him out.
He was depressed for several days and did not continue to operate his medicine shop.
After an unknown amount of time, an old man came to visit, who seemed to be his distant relative.
Lin Jian sold his shop and took his relative to a restaurant for a feast.
Later, when the neighbors on Anru Street went to the pharmacy to buy medicine, they found Lin Jian standing there, followed by a group of guards.
He waved his hand, and the guards came forward with knives and killed the owner of the pharmacy and several of his employees.
The neighbors were so scared that they ran away. After returning to Anru Street, they heard that it was the pharmacy that was selling fake medicine, which made His Majesty unhappy. Lin Jian was ordered to come and take the head of the pharmacy owner.
But no one knows why Lin Jian, who was once down and out in Anru Street, suddenly turned into a phoenix and became a medical officer in the Imperial Hospital.
Those who had previously looked down on him now scrambled to curry favor with him.
A year later, he became the deputy director of the Imperial Medical Service.
Very majestic.
"He seems to have already found information that the Imperial Hospital Director is harmful to the royal family, and he's already compiling the information to report to the royal family. Once the Director is executed, he will naturally become the new Director of the Imperial Hospital."
Yu Heyi pulled out the branch stuck in his hair and threw it back into Wanqi Si's hands: "Lin Jian was once down and out, but the appearance of that so-called 'relative' changed the trajectory of his life."
"Do you suspect there's something wrong with his relatives?"
He shrugged and watched Lin Jian's figure slowly disappear from their sight.
It would be a lie to say that there is no doubt. It is difficult for ordinary people to make a person undergo earth-shaking changes in a short period of time.
In the human world, one must rely on power.
But Lin Jian has no power or influence, so it is impossible for his "relative" to have power or status, otherwise Lin Jian would not have emptied his savings to buy a shop.
Since he had no power or influence, how did he manage to rise to the top?
He said calmly, "We have to continue investigating."
While Wanqi Si was investigating Lin Jian, Yu Heyi was also busy.
The emperor's condition has improved and she no longer needs to stay by his side. Princess Shaolin will take care of him.
After figuring out the queen's daily routine, she sneaked into her bedroom while the queen was out for dinner.
Unlike the emperor's bedroom, her bedroom was filled with various aromas, the smells intertwined together and a bit pungent.
Yu Heyi pinched his nose and began to search carefully in the hall.
That day, the Queen almost beat Concubine Jing to death. Her intuition told her that the Queen was involved in this matter.
Perhaps once Concubine Jing dies, the Queen will announce the identity of the murderer and the case will be closed hastily.
What's more, the people mentioned by the emperor included not only Concubine Jing, but also the queen.
Concubine Jing and the Emperor would definitely not have meals in the bedroom, but the Empress would sleep with the Emperor.
This would indicate that the emperor had come into contact with the queen before he was poisoned.
If it is said that the Queen deliberately took Concubine Jing's jewelry and hid it in a secret place in the Emperor's bedroom in order to frame Concubine Jing in the future, this makes sense.
What's more, the queen smells like poppies.
Poppies are implicated in so much.
Shen Xu's madness is related to poppies, and Shen Xu's father has a close relationship with the demon clan.
The same thing happened in the palace. The queen was suspicious, and she smelled of poppies. In addition, she believed that the "matters in the human world" she heard from the second demon and the old man at Xunyan Peak were related to the emperor's poisoning.
Twin poisons are extremely rare. Although they are recorded in medical books in the human world, they are not recorded in detail.
Let’s just say that the two poisons in the Twin Poisons coexist. One poison needs to be obtained in a place shrouded in fairy mist, and the other poison needs to be obtained in a dark place. Therefore, mortals cannot obtain the materials for the Twin Poisons.
She understood the meaning of the book. Simply put, there is a trace of poison in the fairyland and a trace of poison in the devil's realm.
However, the two worlds of immortals and demons repel each other. Immortal mountains do not tolerate demons, and there are no immortals in the demon realm, so the twin poisons are difficult to appear and remain unknown.
Therefore, the book records that there is no antidote for the twin poison.
Fortunately, she has a treasure like the Blood Spirit Pill, which can be regarded as a divine object.
The entire wall behind the queen's cabinet was hung with sachets.
The fragrance that filled the hall came from these sachets.
Yu Heyi patiently looked through them one by one.
Jasmine, osmanthus, wood fragrance, orchid...
There was an entire wall without any sachets made of poppy flowers.
Where does the faint scent of poppies on the queen come from?
She suddenly remembered something.
From the moment I stepped into the Queen's bedroom, I was filled with a pungent fragrance, but none of it was poppy.
Was she wrong? The queen didn't have a sachet made of poppy flowers, or was the sachet not placed in the bedroom?
After thinking for a moment, she abandoned the first idea.
The Queen must be related to this matter. When she answered the three words "twin poisons", the Queen's expression was quite interesting.
There was shock, surprise, and anger.
What are you angry about?
He was probably just angry that she was meddling in his affairs.
The emperor was seriously ill, and all palace affairs were temporarily handed over to the queen.
Another place she would go... was the study.
Thinking of this, she jumped out of the window and looked for the location of the study.
The study is next to the main hall. Looking out the window, there is no one in the study.
Judging from the time, the Queen had probably finished her meal.
According to her past observations, the queen would go for a walk by the pond after dinner and visit the emperor and the princess in his bedroom.
This was her unwavering behavior from the first day she observed the Queen.
But somehow, when she was standing outside the study, she found that the door was opened.
Looking out the window, she couldn't see who was coming, so she leaned over the windowsill and took a peek through the gap.
The person in the window had his back to her and seemed to be holding something in his hand, like a piece of bamboo.
Although I couldn't recognize who it was, I was sure that it was not the queen.
Apart from the empress, who else can enter the emperor's study?
Yu Heyi stared at the figure in the window suspiciously, and when she approached stealthily, his legs went weak.
She lowered her eyes and saw something buried in the soil, with a small pointed corner exposed.
When she bent down and brushed away the dirt, a sachet suddenly appeared before her eyes.
The sachet was wrapped in the smell of soil, but also gave off the scent of poppies.
Here it is!
The poppy sachet was here! Her guess was right!
The queen buried it in a pile of earth under a tree outside the study window!
In other words, the queen was indeed involved in framing the emperor and she pinned the blame on Concubine Jing.
And the figure in the study might be her accomplice!
She picked up the sachet, brushed off the dirt and looked up again. The figure in the window disappeared out of thin air, as if it was just an illusion that had just appeared to her.
Was he discovered by that person?
She took two steps back cautiously, and when she was about to tell Wanqi Si about this, she turned around and bumped heavily into something, which seemed to be a person.
Oh no…
In this situation, no matter who you hit, you won’t be able to explain yourself.
Standing stealthily outside the emperor's study window, who knows if she will climb over the windowsill in the next second to steal important secrets?
As expected.
The moment she looked up, the other person's voice rang in her ears.
"It is a grave taboo to trespass into His Majesty's study. Come! Kill her on the spot!"
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