The palace maid had a twitchy look on her face, lowered her head and remained silent, staring only at her toes, her body trembling slightly.
The steward said angrily: "Why are you still standing there?"
The palace maid finally raised her head, looked at the steward in front of her in a panic, and said in a trembling voice: "My father-in-law, I haven't washed it yet. I haven't washed it yet."
When Zhu Yan heard this, he was happy and said hurriedly: "Hurry, bring it over quickly, don't wash it, don't wash it."
As soon as the palace maid heard this, she quickly turned around and ran to a pile of unwashed clothes. She rummaged through them for a while and took out a piece of coarse cloth full of bloodstains with a big hole in it. She originally planned to throw away the clothes. Yes, I didn’t expect His Highness Prince Jing to come to pick up the clothes in person. Fortunately, I had a stomachache just now and had to squat in the hut for a long time, so I was delayed. Otherwise, it would have caused a big disaster.
The palace maid hurriedly handed the clothes to Prince Jing's hands, her body still shaking, nervously watching the changes in Prince Jing's face, fearing that the next moment, Prince Jing's expression would suddenly change again.
Sure enough, after rummaging through the clothes for a while, Prince Jing found nothing, and his expression changed again. He asked the palace maid in a deep voice, "Where are the things in these clothes?"
The palace maid hurriedly knelt down and said with a trembling voice: "Go back to your lord, this dress was like this when it was delivered. There is nothing inside. Please tell me."
Zhu Yan looked at the palace maid and said, "You'd better tell the truth, otherwise you must have heard of my king's methods."
Zhu Yan took the clothes and turned away. Xing Fang said to the steward: "Ask carefully. The stakes are very high at this time. Don't dig your own grave."
When the steward heard this, his legs were weak with fear. When he saw Xing Fang walking away, he hurriedly approached the palace maid and asked in a low voice: "Tell me the truth, is there really nothing in this dress? "
The palace maid almost committed suicide to show her determination, and choked with sobs: "Every word of my servant is true. If you tell the truth, the sky will strike with thunder."
When the steward saw her like this, he was half convinced, but he was still worried and fearful. He simply ordered people to sort out the pile of clothes and spread them out, and let the maids search carefully one by one to see if they could find them. Something fishy.
The laundry department was so busy that Zhu Yan took the clothes back to the political hall and handed the clothes to Po Gu.
Gu Po looked through her clothes and sighed: "Fortunately it's still there, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to prepare an antidote in a short period of time."
Zhu Yan looked confused and said: "There is nothing in these clothes!"
Gu Po smiled and said, "You'll know it soon." She handed the clothes to Xianxian.
Xianxian understood, walked to the table, took an empty tea cup, bit her finger, dripped her own blood into the tea cup, and then put her clothes next to the tea cup. After a while, black threadworms appeared Crawling out from inside the clothes, it turns out that some of the dense threads on the clothes have this kind of nematode hidden in them. They look very natural and there is no difference at all.
The nematodes crawled into the tea cup and ate the sweet blood in the cup. Xianxian took out a porcelain bottle from her arms and sprinkled some of the white powder in the tea cup into the tea cup, only to see those black nematodes coming into contact. After reaching the white powder, it immediately turned into blood.
Zhu Yan looked at this scene in surprise and asked quickly: "Is this the antidote?"
Gu Po said: "This is the medicine that those people in Beiming Kingdom want. This medicine can save the emperor's life, or it can harm the emperor's life. It depends on how the person who uses it uses it."