The Taoist was baffled and begged for mercy: "I really don't know! I really don't know! Someone gave me this pill, and I don't know how to do it, but I know there must be something wrong with this thing, because that person said something. 'Give the emperor a ration, don't let him die so soon', that's why I know this pill is not right!"
Meng Eqi was furious, thinking that her uncle had been taking the wrong medicine all the time. If it wasn't for her doubts, she would not know what the murder would have been like. She raised her hand and slapped the Taoist priest's face with a slap in the face, and said sternly: "You are so brave, you dare to give the emperor such a thing of unknown origin, aren't you afraid of punishing the nine clans! Who gave you this pill? Let you poison the emperor!"
"I really don't know!" The Taoist priest saw that Meng Qiqi was really ferocious, and she only had to shout that a guard not far away would come in and hack him to death, so the Taoist priest told the whole story: "Someone told me to wait at the imperial meal all the time. The back door of the room, and then go to the grass under the second tree at midnight to touch, and there will be this thing! But who put it there, I don't know! That person is very cautious, I always I can't see who it is! But once I saw a figure who left in a hurry, like a woman. Princess Mingjian, my words are true, and I don't dare to deceive you!"
Meng Qiqi narrowed her eyes: "So, you are not a real Taoist priest?"
The Taoist priest bowed his head in embarrassment: "It's just a watcher of incense in the Temple of the City God, not the real Taoist priest Taixu. Once a group of tall and strong people rushed into the Temple of the City God, and they were asked to help with one thing. There are rich rewards. At first, I didn’t know that it was to deliver medicine to the emperor, but it was too late to find out. If they did not continue the threat, they would give it up. This was discovered by the emperor, and it was the crime of beheading. At once… "
"Even now, your death penalty is still inevitable," Meng Eqi snorted coldly, "But if you can help me find out the thief behind the scenes, I can intercede for your uncle, and maybe even let you live! Get down! When was the last time you went to get your medicine?"
"Just… just tonight."
Meng Qiqi fell into deep thought. Why did the other party meet behind the imperial kitchen? Is it more hidden and not easy to be found there? If you think about it carefully, it seems that it is indeed the case. The royal dining room has a lot of traffic. Every day, the maids of the palace ladies come here to deliver meals. If anyone wants to do something in it, it is not allowed. But since there is such a condition to be able to do it in the imperial kitchen, why don't those who want to harm the emperor simply grind the pills into powder and put them in the emperor's meal? Could it be that it is heavily guarded and has nowhere to start
Meng Eqi was full of doubts, and decided not to return to Meng's mansion now, and to stay in the palace must catch this man. So she threatened the deceitful Taoist priest: "You have to cooperate with this princess, or even if you clean the Temple of the City God, this princess will embarrass you!"
The Taoist was inexplicable when he heard it: "Eunuch... The princess knows Eunuch Chenghuang?"
Meng Eqi squinted at him, and the Taoist priest immediately fell silent.
I don't know what the Chenghuang is busy with when it's fair! A believer with such an impure mind came out of the temple, and he still didn't show up to show him some color. When he returned to the underworld, Meng Eqi had to talk properly.
"Tonight at midnight, you meet me in the imperial kitchen. If you dare not come or run away, I will rip your skin alive."
The Taoist priest was frightened and said yes.
At that time, Meng Qiqi sent a palace maid to pass a message back to Meng Mansion, and she would stay in the palace for one night tonight and would not go back, so her grandmother should not worry. Afterwards, she stayed in Hemanman until midnight, during which the queen even came to tell her to have dinner together, but Meng Qiqi refused. She was about to catch the person behind the scenes, and in order not to startle Meng Qiqi, she planned to go quietly without anyone taking her. Just in case, she brought a dagger from He Manman to hide inside her skirt.
After it was quiet, the palace maid came in and turned off the lights for her. Meng Eqi, who was pretending to be sleeping on the bed, turned over and sat up lightly, stepped on the short dunzi and climbed out of the window coffin, all the way to the imperial dining room against the wall.
Along the way, she carefully avoided the patrolling guards and the maid carrying the lamp. When she passed the Fengyi Palace, Meng Qiqi's inner tension was more than half relieved. She knew that another uninhabited Yanxi Palace was the direction of the backyard of the imperial kitchen. And the queen is not in the Fengyi Palace today, she personally accompanies and takes care of the emperor in the Qinzheng Palace. So presumably no one will come out of Fengyi Palace at this moment, Meng Qiqi walked over with confidence.
She just took a step, but she collided with a big palace maid who came out of the side door of Fengyi Palace! Meng Eqi's heart was alarming, and she hurriedly lowered her head and stepped aside, wanting to invite the maid of honor to go first.
The palace maid had a suspicious look on her face, took three steps and turned back, and finally just stood there and didn't leave. She looked at Meng Eqi with a faint inclination to make people. Meng Qiqi hurriedly gave a simple salute, and was about to continue running towards the imperial kitchen. She did not dare to look up, for fear that the palace maid would recognize her.
"Stop, what about you! That ass-picking!" The palace maid sternly stopped behind her.
Meng Eqi was angry, and stopped but did not turn around: "Who's picking your butt! I'm adjusting the skirt."
When she said this, she deliberately lowered her voice, to protect her face from being seen, and also to protect her voice from being recognized by the palace maid. Meng Eqi couldn't help applauding her wit in her heart.
"Aren't you the palace daughter of Fengyi Palace? Behind this is Yanxi Palace, and beyond is the imperial dining room. What are you doing by yourself?" the palace maid said, walking slowly towards Meng Qiqi.
Meng Eqi listened to her approaching voice, her forehead was covered in fine sweat.
"Aunt Qinghe, what happened?" A familiar female voice came from the side door.
Oh no! Xie Yaohua is coming out!
According to Xie Yaohua's ancestor's personality, he would definitely turn Meng Qiqi's body up to make it clear. So Meng Eqi took advantage of the time the palace maid was talking back, raised her foot and ran away.
"Princess, the servant found a suspicious person... eh! Don't run! Someone! Catch the assassin! Someone!"
Aunt Qinghe's duck-like voice resounded throughout the palace hall from behind, Meng Eqi kept her footsteps and rushed forward like a fly. When she reached the corner of the alley, she hurriedly dodged and went in, and climbed up the wall to the inner courtyard of the imperial dining room, hiding in a pile of debris piled up in the corner.
A pile of smoke filled the air. Meng Eqi was about to sneeze when she heard the sound of guards collecting from the other side of the wall. She suppressed the sneeze and sighed in her heart.
If they find a way, they will definitely startle the snake. I don't know if the person who put the pills will come today, and the fake Taoist who was kidnapped and deceived will not be caught. Meng Eqi will not be able to protect him by then.
An uneasy heart was stalemate like this, and soon the other side of the wall lost the voice of the guards. The bright moon hangs high in the sky, the summer wind blows, and the thin layer of sweat on Meng Qiqi's forehead is already cool.
Why didn't the goddamn fake Taoist come? Won't really get caught!
Meng Eqi was anxiously feeding the mosquitoes when suddenly there was a rustling sound in the grass in the distance in front of him. She quickly held her breath and stared at the person who came.
The man had a cat on his waist, looking around while walking and seemed very nervous. Meng Eqi couldn't see the other side's face when they were far away, but could only vaguely see that it was a woman. The woman quickly moved to the second big tree, and she began to hide things in the grass just as the fake Taoist said.
Meng Qiqi knew that the time was right, and she rushed out of the sundries in a hurry, and before the woman could react, she overwhelmed her to the ground. The woman was frightened and kept struggling, Meng Eqi just happened to see her face clearly, she was a palace maid she had never seen before.
Meng Eqi rode on top of her and tightly squeezed her wrists: "! Who are you, and what are you putting on this!"
The palace maid clenched her teeth and refused to speak.
Meng Qiqi sneered, and was about to ask further questions, when she heard other movements behind her.
not good! Someone is behind!
Before she could turn around, she was slapped on the neck by the other party, and she fell softly and fainted.
She was careless...
Meng Eqi felt remorse for a while and sank into the deep darkness.
The palace maid under her immediately turned over, stood beside her accomplice, and kicked Meng Qiqi's back: "Hmph, you still want to arrest me, you want to be beautiful! Fortunately, the empress had already anticipated that, otherwise the slaves would be discovered. ."
The person she called Empress curled her lips into a smile, then looked at Meng Qiqi, who had passed out, with a cold light in her eyes: "Since she already knows about us, she can't keep her mouth alive. Kill her now, and then throw her in the In the pool of too liquid."
The palace maid took the knife handed by her mother and walked towards Meng Qiqi step by step.
Seeing that the blade was about to approach Meng Qiqi, the sound of a sharp arrow breaking through the air suddenly came from behind them. The palace maid's arm was pierced by an arrow on the spot, she screamed in pain, and the knife fell from her hand.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the lady hurriedly turned around and ran away.
The person who came followed closely after a few steps, but the empress was actually a light-hearted woman, and she disappeared on the top of the palace after a few breaths.
Nie Xuanlie stopped in his pursuit, and looked gloomily at the place where the other party disappeared. Several guards rushed over behind him: "General, are you chasing?"
Nie Xuanlie looked back: "If you don't pursue it, check carefully which palace this maid is from."
Then he bent his knees and picked up Meng Eqi horizontally, and ordered his subordinates to find an imperial physician. He held Meng Eqi and strode toward the river.
The night was dark and the wind was heavy.
In the long river, Nie Xuanlie looked at Meng Qiqi, who was still unconscious on the bed.
He suddenly thought that his own Meng Eqi was once lying on the couch so thin, he watched her life go by, but he couldn't do anything.
"General." A voice from outside interrupted Nie Xuanlie's thoughts.
"Come in."
The guard said across the screen: "The subordinates are guilty, let the maid find a chance to bite her tongue and commit suicide. But the subordinates found this from her."
Nie Xuanlie took what he handed from behind the screen.
He looked at it under the candlelight, and immediately frowned.
This Pixiu jade pendant is familiar to him, and he vaguely remembers that Sheng Jiayan once wore it.