Rouyao picked up some with her fingernails and rubbed it on the palm of her hand, and asked, "What's going on?"
"Someone put drugs in my sachet and rouge." Zi'an said.
Rouyao was stunned. "Someone could drug something that's close to your body? Who did it?"
"No matter who did it, do you know what this is?" Zi'an asked.
Rouyao shook her head, "I can't tell."
She asked several doctors to come over and said, "Look, can you tell what it is?"
Several people came closer to take a look, sniffed it, and one of them even licked a little with his finger. Then he frowned and wiped it off with a handkerchief.
"Is it Wu Shi San?" Zi'an asked.
The doctor said, "It's a bit like it, but it shouldn't be Wu Shi San."
"Have you figured out the trick?" Rouyao looked at him and asked.
The doctor raised his head and looked at Rouyao, then looked at Zian and said, "Princess, I have seen a kind of ecstasy powder that is very similar to this one."
"Soul-Stirring Powder?" Zi'an was stunned. She had never heard of such a thing.
The doctor said, "Yes, it is the Soul-Stirring Powder. It is actually a modified form of the Five-Stone Powder. It was made by a monk and circulated among the children of the nobility. After taking it, people will have hallucinations, fall asleep, and enter a dream. Because this dream is different, if the day is happy, the dream is very beautiful, and if the day is sad, it is a nightmare. Those children of the nobility seek happiness every day, how can their days be sad? Therefore, they rely on this medicine to fall asleep in a dream, and it is not difficult to wake up. When they are asleep, they can ask someone to drink a pill made of Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng, and they will wake up."
Rouyao was shocked, "Isn't this the same symptom you had before?"
Zi'an said in a deep voice: "Yes, these powders are extremely fine and easy to inhale. Moreover, the sachet also contains Datura petals, which are ground and soaked in a lot of flower juice. The concentration is very high."
"Who on earth is it that makes you have nightmares one after another?" Rouyao asked angrily.
The doctor shook his head, "No, dreaming and falling asleep, and hallucinations are only the first step. If inhaled for a long time, people will go crazy and lose their minds. If they are given Wu Shi San while they are crazy, they will become extremely vicious and do things that hurt people."
"What?" Rouyao stood up suddenly, with a blazing fire in her eyes, "Who is so vicious?"
"I suspect it was Nanny Sun for now, but it hasn't been confirmed yet." Zi'an said softly.
"How dare that old thing do that?" Rouyao was so angry that she lost her mind.
Zi'an reached out and pulled her to sit down. Because other doctors were present, he did not want to elaborate too much. He just said, "It's just a suspicion. Now that the facts have not been investigated, everyone is a suspect."
Rouyao suddenly remembered, "Oh, right, didn't you say before that you weren't poisoned? The imperial physician also checked and confirmed that you weren't poisoned."
The doctor said: "This kind of ecstasy powder is not very toxic. Even if it is toxic, it is barely detectable."
Rouyao knew that what was going to be discussed next was who did it, so she thanked the doctors and warned them not to make the matter public.
Those people had life-and-death relationships with her, so of course they wouldn't tell her about these things.
When Nanny Yang sent them out, she stuffed some silver into their pockets, but they said they didn't want anything, so Nanny Yang had no choice but to thank them profusely and send them to the carriage.
In the room, Rouyao sat down, "Madame Sun, this is the person sent by the Empress Dowager, right?"
"That's right, but I don't doubt the Queen Mother." Zi'an said.
Rouyao nodded, "Well, she is not that stupid. You are a doctor. If you are not careful and find out about this, she will be the first person you suspect. I am afraid that someone has bribed her to attack you, and this person will probably not be exposed."
Zi'an pondered for a moment, "So I want to catch it right away, but I'm confused. Yanzhi was able to do it, and the sachet has always been my personal belongings. How did she get it? And how did she put something in it? This two-pronged approach is really driving me crazy!"
"It must be investigated thoroughly!" Rouyao said gritting her teeth. She really hated these cowards who acted behind the scenes.
However, she was also confused. "The only people serving you are Xiaosun and Nanny Yang. They have been with you for a long time, so they should not have any second thoughts."
"I have never doubted them. Besides, Nanny has been taking care of the affairs of the mansion these days and rarely serves me. Besides, I do most of the things I can do myself."
"Xiaosun is the one who serves in the house, but what about cleaning the house? Those maids who sweep the house may not be trustworthy."
"The maids who come in to clean the house are all bought from the people. They have never been to the palace, so they should not be bought by anyone."
Rouyao said, "If he wasn't bribed by someone in the palace, then he could be bribed by someone outside the palace. Have you taken off your scent bag?"
Zi'an said, "Of course I take it off. I take it off when I bathe or at night. But Xiaosun is usually there when I bathe, so I can't get close to her easily."
Zi'an paused when she said this, and she suddenly remembered that it seemed that one or two days when she was bathing in her room, Xiao Sunyin was helping the nanny with things in the mansion, and the job of adding hot water was done by one of the maids. That day, it seemed that her clothes slipped from the screen, and the maid picked them up for her. Could it be that the maid changed the sachet
Her spare sachets were usually in the cupboard and easy to get. When she changed the sachets and added things into them, it was possible that the strings might have been pulled loose because she was in such a hurry.
But she couldn't remember which girl it was.
"Think it over carefully. Be on guard against those around you, no matter who they are. By the way, is Ni Rong not back yet?"
Zi'an said, "After he returned to the court, he went home to visit his sister-in-law. The Seventh Master allowed him a few days' leave, but I think he will be back soon."
"After Ni Rong comes back, ask him to keep a close eye on the servants. Ni Rong is very careful and he can tell at a glance if there is anything unusual about the servants." Rouyao said.
Zian nodded, "Yeah, I understand."
Not long after Rouyao left, Ni Rong came back, carrying a cage of chickens in one hand and a large bag of farm produce in the other, and went straight into Hexu Garden.
Seeing his expression, Madam Yang couldn't help but laugh, "Ni Rong, are you going to empty your sister-in-law's house?"
Ni Rong panted and said, "It won't be empty. There are plenty of them. We can even pull two ox carts."
Zi'an came out and saw a cage of chickens clucking there. She smiled and said, "Did you give your sister-in-law some money for bringing these things back?"
"I gave it to you, but you refused to accept it. You said it was a gift to honor the princess." Ni Rong put the things down and stepped forward to salute.
"Come in and have some water. You look so tired." Zi'an said with concern.
"It's dirty, there's chicken shit on it." Ni Rong sat down on the porch. When he saw Xiaosun coming in, he whistled, "Xiaosun, pour your brother Ni a glass of water."
Xiaosun was happy, "You are finally back? Come in and have a drink, so that the prince can come back and give you a good beating."
The prince hated dirty people the most. Although his house used to be dirty too, he was the kind of person who allowed the officials to set fires but not the common people to light lamps.
(End of this chapter)