"sister!"
Before Sheng Jiayan finished speaking, Yan Sha hurried in from outside and whispered in Meng Qiqi's ear: "Sister is not good, the emperor suddenly coughed up blood, and the empress sent someone to take you into the palace!"
Meng Qiqi stood up suddenly, the situation was urgent, she glanced at Sheng Jiayan hurriedly: "I have something to go to the palace." After that, she turned and walked outside the mansion.
Sheng Jiayan frowned invisibly, summoned his cronies in the army, and asked him to follow Meng Eqi into the palace to see if there was anything that needed help.
Meng Yilian muttered, "What is going on in the palace so hurriedly?"
Her mother Yu Shi gave her an angry look, meaning she wanted her not to talk too much.
Seeing this, Meng Zhihan changed the subject and asked, "Who does Brother Yan want to show us?"
Sheng Jiayan looked at the direction Meng Qiqi was leaving, and finally said, "I won't be too late when Qiqi finishes dealing with the affairs in the palace and comes back to eat."
No one dared to obey his command.
Meng Eqi got into the carriage sent by the palace, and listened to the voice of the coachman driving the horses quickly, she carefully inquired about the details of the news from the palace.
Yan Sha said: "The Empress is not very careful. The emperor's coughing up blood is a serious matter, so she did not make any public announcements. The empress is afraid that something will happen, so she can only ask you and General Nie to go to the palace to discuss the countermeasures first. She can't trust others. If the news leaks out of the palace, there will definitely be a big problem."
Meng Qiqi felt that it was strange that the problematic elixir pill had not been stopped long ago, so why did my uncle still cough up blood so badly? Did he eat something like that again, or did the toxins accumulated in his body suddenly erupt today.
"Yan Sha, before I asked you to check the ingredients of the so-called elixir, have you found it?"
Yan Sha nodded and took out a piece of paper from her waist purse, on which the ingredients of the medicinal pill were displayed. Meng Qiqi looked at it vertically, and found that Lang Zhong used a red pen to circle the herbal medicine. She frowned slightly, pointed to the name and asked, "Wushisan, what is it?"
"Sister doesn't know anything. Wu Shi San is also known as Han Shi San, its medicinal properties are all dry and hot. After taking it, it will make people feel hot all over the body, and produce a short-term effect that confuses people. In fact, it is a kind of chronic poisoning! After the five stones are scattered, people will suddenly feel bright and bright, and their physical strength will increase. However, many people who take it for a long time have died due to poisoning. Therefore, the ancestors have long been alert to the world and let this recipe burn, so that no one can use this to harm others. And— "Yan Sha was a little embarrassed, she resisted her shyness: "Listening to Wu Shi San, although apparently it is to strengthen the body, but the main function is to increase the sex. Although Wu Shi San was a forbidden formula long ago, But there are still many nobles and famous officials competing to take it, so five stone powder is not a rare thing now, and you can get it almost if you want. But in the quiet of the palace, there will never be such a thing. So the slaves guessed that the five-stone powder was obtained by the fake Taoist from outside the palace, mixed into the pills, and brought into the palace to be taken by the emperor."
The more Meng Qiqi listened to it, the more he felt that something was bad. If according to Yansha Institute, the Wushi Powder was a kind of chronic poison, then my uncle had been taking it for a long time! It is no wonder that the hospital's efforts to treat it are difficult to have the effect of rejuvenation.
Yan Sha was also secretly shocked: "Sister, this is someone who wants the emperor's life..."
"Shh!" Meng Eqi hurriedly made a gesture and whispered to Yan Sha: "Wait when you enter the palace, and quietly hand this over to Lord Zhou Zhou of the Taiyuan Hospital. Let him develop an antidote for such a poison. , told him to be quiet, and try not to let too many people know."
Yansha nodded tightly.
Meng Eqi felt uneasy. She had just lost her grandmother, so now she has to watch her uncle leave
She is not that old lady Meng who is pessimistic about life and death. She is just a princess Laiyi who was raised by her uncle and grandmother.
But Yan Sha's words were also heard by Meng Eqi. Someone wants to kill Xie Chongming, who would it be? There is no doubt that Cheng Zhaoyi must be one of the masterminds behind the scenes. But Meng Qiqi never believed that a concubine like Cheng Zhaoyi could contact a fake Taoist priest, and had the courage to give the emperor a chronic poison.
Someone who wants to kill Xie Chongming... Meng Qiqi suddenly thought of Sheng Jiayan's cold face.
She suppressed the bad thoughts in her heart, thinking that it would not be too late to draw conclusions until everything was checked out.
Meng Eqi sat in a sedan chair all the way and was brought to the Qinzheng Hall by the palace servants. She hurriedly put on her skirt and walked up the white jade steps, and noticed that there seemed to be more guards patrolling around the Qinzheng Hall. Meng Qiqi carefully looked at the armor patterns on these guards, which seemed to be soldiers under Nie Xuanlie's hands.
She was a little relieved.
Nie Xuanlie stood at the door waiting for her.
Meng Eqi was about to speak when she saw him. However, Nie Xuanlie was one step ahead of her: "I have sent someone to check Cheng Zhaoyi's household registration in Jiangnan, and someone has secretly told her family that Cheng Zhaoyi has been under the care of my people since you left the palace last time. , she had no chance to communicate or report to anyone, but no one contacted her in a short period of time. Maybe her accomplices knew that she was caught, so they didn't come over and act rashly. But the emperor coughed up blood suddenly, I have asked someone to ask The first week of the Taiyuan Hospital, the adults entered the palace. At this time, he was waiting in the side hall, waiting for orders at any time. Zhou Taiyi had seen it before and confirmed that the emperor only ingested Wushi powder by mistake, and the amount was quite large. Now only the queen's concubine, Doctor Zhou and you and I know about it."
Nie Xuanlie realized that he had too much, and asked Meng Qiqi, "What else do you want?"
Meng Eqi was dumbfounded. Nie Xuanlie did all the things she was going to do, so she shook her head: "I'll go see my uncle first, and I'll interrogate Cheng Zhaoyi in person later."
Nie Xuanlie nodded: "I'll be waiting for you outside."
Meng Qiqi turned around and was about to go in, but Nie Xuanlie called out, "Princess Laiyi."
She turned around in confusion, Nie Xuanlie hesitated, but said, "It's alright."
When Meng Qiqi went in, he saw that the queen was feeding the concoction into Xie Chongming's mouth. The medicine entered Xie Chongming's mouth, and then flowed out from the corner of his mouth. I'm afraid that a bowl of soup and medicine didn't drink much.
The queen was so anxious, but she didn't dare to show it on her face. If she was panicked, no one would be able to preside over the overall situation.
"Laiyi," the queen saw her coming in, handed the medicine bowl to the surrounding palace servants, and instructed: "The emperor didn't drink much, you can boil another bowl over." His own maid of honor supervises the whole process.
Meng Qiqi walked up to him and saw that Xie Chongming was still in a coma. She went outside with the queen and asked, "Auntie, how is your uncle?"
When the queen saw that there were no palace servants around, she couldn't help choking: "He can't drink the medicine prescribed by Zhou Taiyi, the person is already in a coma and unconscious, and the ginseng soup can't be fed. "
Meng Qiqi bit her lip and thought for a while, and said, "Auntie, you can find someone to get a slender bamboo tube over, then let my uncle lie down and pour the medicinal soup into the bamboo tube slowly, try this, If it doesn't work, let's think about something else."
The queen complied immediately, turning around and instructing the palace servants to do the same.
After bringing a slender bamboo tube, Meng Qiqi watched the palace servants clean the bamboo tube, and then let him slowly put it into Xie Chongming's mouth, and slowly pour the soup medicine into the other end. Seeing that Xie Chongming's Adam's apple moved slightly, the queen and Meng Qiqi knew that they had drunk it. The queen was overjoyed and hurriedly fed Xie Chongming and drank the rest of the medicine in person.
As long as you are willing to drink medicine, there is still a chance to be rescued.
Meng Qiqi said, "Auntie, you stay here for a while now, and General Nie and I will go to find out what's going on."
When Meng Qiqi went out, Nie Xuanlie was explaining something to his subordinates with a serious expression.
She vaguely heard a few words, "Sheng Shi's mansion... keep it..."
Meng Qiqi walked over, and Nie Xuanlie stopped his voice, and his expression was nothing special: "Just do what you told me just now, go down."
"Yes!"
A hint of suspicion arose in Meng Qiqi's heart, but she still held back and didn't ask, "Where is Cheng Zhaoyi being detained now?"
"In Yanxi Palace."
Meng Qiqi nodded: "I'll go take a look."
Nie Xuanlie quickly followed: "I'll go with the princess."
On the way there, the two walked side by side, relatively silent.
When they arrived at Yanxi Palace, Meng Qiqi asked Nie Xuanlie to wait outside, but Nie Xuanlie insisted on going in with him.
"Then Cheng Zhaoyi, I'm afraid that I'm a martial artist. It will be bad if I hurt the princess. I'll go in with me."
He was like this, and Meng Eqi couldn't, so he could only agree.
A candle was lit in the hall, and Cheng Zhaoyi was sitting on the bed of Luohan embroidering. She looked soft and in no hurry, as if these things really had nothing to do with her.
Meng Qiqi snorted coldly in her heart, and did not rush to speak, instead she whispered to Nie Xuanlie: "Find someone you can trust, and carefully interrogate these maids around Cheng Zhaoyi, where did Cheng Zhaoyi often go when she was in the palace, I have often come into contact with someone, or I have encountered a suspicious person without asking them all. Remember to promise them a lot of benefits, both gold and silver, and this princess will pay for the money.”
Nie Xuanlie saw that her face was so serious. Although the problem was serious, he couldn't help but want to wrap Meng Eqi in his arms and let her escape these ups and downs.
"What are you doing?" Meng Qiqi frowned and urged, "Go and make arrangements, General Nie."
Seeing that he turned around and arranged to go, Meng Eqi gave him a strange look.
Nie Xuanlie is good at everything, but he is dumbfounded occasionally. Did he fail to teach him well
Putting aside these questions, Meng Eqi walked slowly to Cheng Zhaoyi and looked at her condescendingly.
Cheng Zhaoyi was embroidering a pair of colorful butterflies. She was very good at embroidering. The pair of colorful butterflies seemed to have souls, and they were about to flutter in the next moment.
Meng Qiqi saw it, and said with a touch of sarcasm: "A pair of colorful butterflies should sing about their loyal and unswerving feelings, and the friendship that accompanies them. Uncle treats you well, why do you want to help others to harm him? Why do you still yearn for the free companionship of Caidie?"
Cheng Zhaoyi looked up and smiled: "Princess Laiyi, you still don't understand your age."