Xia Lin explained: "The poison my elder sister gave me is a wax-wrapped red thorn. It is deadly if it comes into contact with blood. If you bite it, the poison will take effect immediately and the poison will only be in the throat. Therefore, even if wolves and birds devour their bodies, they will not all die. Only if they eat their poisoned throats will they die."
"What kind of poison was this people infected with?" Zhuangzhuang asked.
Xia Lin squatted down, picked up the tiny crumbs on the ground, examined them carefully, and tested them with a poison needle.
"It's a powdered poison. If you inhale it, you will die. The poison will remain in your body because before you die, the poison will be transported to various parts of your body through breathing."
Zhuangzhuang was very surprised, "Powder? The assassins are the same group of assassins, why do they use different poisons?"
"I don't know about that, but it's definitely not the same poison." Xia Lin said firmly.
Zhuangzhuang remembered that the emperor was assassinated when he was offering sacrifices to heaven. Zi'an said that he had taken the poison from the assassin's mouth. It seemed that he had to go back and test what kind of poison it was.
When Zi'an returned to the palace, she had just finished an operation and her condition was not very good. The dagger that injured her had a barb that injured her spleen, and when the dagger was pulled out, it hooked her intestines. Although it was repaired, she had lost too much blood and her bone marrow could not be stimulated to produce blood after the operation. Whether she could survive or not depended on her luck.
Considering the poor medical conditions in this place, this operation was performed very meticulously.
Sun Fang'er hasn't woken up yet and the critical period has not passed.
After hearing what Xia Lin said, Zi'an asked, "Linlin, do you remember the poison I showed you last time?"
"I remember," Xia Lin took out the poison she had just given him, "I remember it was the same as this one, the same kind of poison, honey wax wrapped around a red crested thorn, it kills instantly when it strikes blood."
"That is to say, these two assassins are the same group of people as the assassins who previously assassinated the emperor, but the ones who died are not?"
The same group of people came down, but why did they use different poisons? And they had to bite the poison to commit suicide. Hiding the poison in the mouth was the fastest. At the critical moment, who could spread the poison powder
Moreover, the same group of people were carrying out the same task, but they used different poisons. We can't say that they used poison powder instead because there was not enough poison, right
"Linlin, is the poison that Sun Fang'er said she was poisoned with the first time the same as the assassin's?" Zi'an suddenly asked.
Xia Lin nodded, "Yes, the same, but the poisoning of that sister was very light. It should be because she was already injured at the time and her breathing was not heavy, so she didn't inhale much."
"And the second time she was poisoned, was it thiamethoxam?" Zi'an asked again.
"No, it's poison!" Xia Lin said.
"Poison?" Zi'an knew that poison was very common in the palace, and most of the death sentences were imposed by putting poison in wine, because poison was highly toxic and caused quick death.
Zhuangzhuang was surprised and asked, "She took the poison, but she's not dead yet?"
Xia Lin said: "Her body can detoxify itself, but because of the injury, the detoxification is slow. However, it is much better than others. At least, it won't kill her immediately. I have just given her a detoxification pill, and her poison should be detoxified."
"Yes, she is no longer poisonous." Zi'an said.
Three kinds of poison appeared today. It was obvious that Sun Fang'er was poisoned by the Noble Concubine. The Noble Concubine wanted to kill Sun Fang'er. Although I don't understand why she wanted to kill Sun Fang'er, I can make this guess first.
The second type of poison was an inhalable poison powder, but the Imperial Concubine and Sun Fang'er were in the palace. Sun Fang'er inhaled it and was poisoned, but the Imperial Concubine did not. The only possibility was that she had taken the antidote in advance.
If she was the one who spread the poison powder, then that would make sense.
Zhuangzhuang also thought of this. "Of the seven assassins, five died after inhaling the poison powder. The other two were probably far away and covered their mouths and noses, so they were not poisoned. They were afraid of the poison powder spreading and did not dare to move forward. Therefore, they were restrained by Ah Fu and the secret guards. The imperial guards arrived soon after, and they did not have time to bite the red jelly in their mouths to commit suicide and were captured."
"Let's take a look at the results of the interrogation first, and then we can make a guess." Although Zi'an felt that this guess was reasonable, he still had doubts in his heart.
According to their speculation, the noble concubine must have been well prepared and took the antidote in advance.
The Noble Concubine knew that Prince Nan Huai would attack her, so it was not surprising that she had made preparations in advance. However, based on the signs of Sun Fang'er being poisoned, she was injured first. That is, she was injured by the Noble Concubine before the assassin entered the palace. Although Sun Fang'er did not know martial arts, the fact that she was ambushed by the Noble Concubine only showed one thing. She believed that the Noble Concubine would not kill her.
Why was she so sure that the noble concubine would not kill her? Because the noble concubine was the mother of the Gu, and her blood was needed to remove the Gu.
But unfortunately, the noble concubine took action.
Sun Fang'er was the one who poisoned the body. She was sure that without her, the poison could not be removed, so she had no defense against the noble concubine. The noble concubine, who was poisoned, did not take this into consideration. Could it be that she really didn't want to die
This is what Zian couldn't understand.
"Isn't this matter very clear? As for the interrogation, I think since those assassins have hidden poison in their mouths, they are determined to die. And you said they are all death warriors, I am afraid you can't pry a word out of their mouths." Zhuangzhuang said.
Zian nodded. "It's normal for them not to say anything. I don't expect them to say anything. I just hope..."
Zhuangzhuang looked at her, "Just hope for what?"
Zi'an looked up at her and hypothetically asked, "What if the two assassins were not the same people as the dead? Is it possible that they deliberately did not commit suicide but left them alive to testify against someone?"
Zhuangzhuang shook his head. "That's impossible. The old lady said that there were seven assassins. There were seven of them when they came, and they attacked together. If they were not from the same group, how could they attack together?"
That’s true!
Seeing that she was troubled, Zhuangzhuang said, "Forget it, don't think too much. Just like you said, we can deal with it as it comes."
Zian hummed, "Yes."
There is no point in thinking too much now. Everything depends on waiting until Sun Fanger wakes up.
Just thinking of this, Zi'an couldn't help but worry, will Sun Fang'er wake up
The palace servant came in to announce, "Princess, Princess, County Lady Rouyao is here."
"Please ask her to come in." Zhuangzhuang said.
"yes!"
After Rouyao came in, she looked around. Zi'an asked, "Rouyao, what are you looking at?"
Rouyao pouted, "I heard that she was injured. Come over here and I'll see if she's there."
"She?" Zi'an was surprised, then he realized she was talking about Sun Fang'er, so he said, "She is in the room."
"She..." Rouyao bit her lip, "Is she okay?"
Zhuangzhuang said: "Rouyao, you still care about her? Don't you hate her to death?"
"Who cares about her?" Rouyao snorted, "I just want to see if she's dead. If she's dead, I'll be happy."
Zi'an said, "Rouyao, she's not dead yet, but I don't know if she can survive."
Rouyao's face turned pale and she exclaimed, "Is it that serious?"
"She was stabbed in the abdomen and poisoned. Her condition is quite serious. At least she is not out of danger yet."
(End of this chapter)