Entering the main hall, a pungent smell of herbal medicine hit my face.
The Queen Mother pinched her nose in disgust and muttered: "You are not treating a disease, are you smoking dried human meat?"
Complaining was a complaint, but she still had the courage to have the door closed.
As soon as the door closed, the room dimmed instantly. Looking inside the empty palace, the first thing that caught the eye was the misty gauze. A bed was placed behind the gauze, and there were vague figures beside it.
The man was standing, of medium height, wearing a big robe, with a bulging body, like an inflatable doll.
Gu Jiali's eyes suddenly darkened when he saw the figure, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Who is inside?"
After a moment, someone opened a corner of the gauze curtain, and a middle-aged man with a round face and unshaven beard came out.
His whole face was hidden in the hazy light and shadow, except for his pair of bright eyes, which glowed with a cold light, making his whole person's temperament particularly gloomy.
Gu Jiali looked into his eyes silently, with equally cold eyes, "Why does the Imperial Master not see the emperor's doctor in the Chengqian Palace and Zhaixing Pavilion among his responsibilities?"
Facing his aggressive tone, Sikyong did not react much. He chuckled and said: "It is true that this is not one of the responsibilities of Zhaixing Pavilion, but the emperor sent someone to call, and I can't resist the order.
Bar?"
"Can't you just say that the emperor called you here? What kind of circle are you talking about?" The Queen Mother impatiently interrupted the conversation between the two, waved her hand to Sikyong and said: "You can go out, you have nothing to do here.
Son."
If she stayed any longer, she was afraid that she would lose control and hit someone again.
Sikyong bowed his hands to her and walked away calmly.
As soon as he left, the Queen Mother couldn't wait to rush forward and lift the gauze curtain. When she saw the person lying on the bed clearly, she couldn't help but scream: "Oh my God, how did it happen like this?"
Gu Jiali and Shen Qingqing's expressions darkened upon hearing this, and they quickly ran over to check the situation.
Before you even get close, you can smell a sour smell, which is stronger than the smell of herbs and makes people almost breathless.
Shen Qingqing paused slightly, suppressed the discomfort in her stomach, and continued to move forward. Unexpectedly, the scene on the bed was even more unbearable than the pungent stench in the air!
There was a man lying flat on the couch. The man was neatly covered with a quilt and only his face was exposed.
But that face can no longer be called a face. Looking down, everything is filled with festering pus, white rotten flesh, and wounds that are still oozing blood. Some of the turbid pus mixed with blood is flowing along
The curvature of the cheeks flowed everywhere, causing hair to flow, and the bed became sticky, which made people both worried and sick to see.
The Queen Mother opened the quilt with trembling hands. When she saw the single clothes under the quilt that were soaked in pus and blood, tears fell on the spot. "Qi Rui, Qi Rui, do you want to die of heartache as a mother? How can you be so cruel?"
Being bullied like this..."
She muttered, getting angrier as she thought about it, and finally punched the edge of the bed angrily, turned around and ran out.
Gu Jiali reacted very quickly, stretched out his hand to pull her back, and persuaded with red eyes: "Old lady, let's be patient for a while, the most important thing right now is to save the emperor first, and leave the rest later, okay?
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"Ugh...how could these bastards be so cruel!" The Queen Mother covered her face and cried bitterly.
Gu Jiali comforted her with a warm voice, then turned to ask Shen Qingqing: "Can you find out the cause of the disease? Is it really sick, or was it poisoned, or was it caused by some evil formation they used."
"I have seen the emperor's symptoms in other places." Shen Qingqing looked away with a heavy heart, "Back then, there were a group of children in the Chen family's secret room who had the same condition, with ulcers and pus all over their bodies."
Gu Jiali was excited and quickly asked: "Then do you know the reason?"
Shen Qingqing nodded, "It's poisonous insects. The Chen family raised a group of poisonous insects in Fanyue Mountain. Sometimes they would use live people to test the toxicity of the insects. Those children were the drug boys who were caught to test the poison."
"You mean that the emperor may have been bitten by a poisonous insect like those children." Gu Jiali frowned and thought, "But how could the poisonous insect from the Chen family appear in the capital? Is there still a remnant of the Chen family in the palace?"
"This kind of insect is not necessarily only found in the Chen family."
Shen Qingqing explained in a low voice: "Master Gu doesn't know that Chen Bitian, the ancestor of the Chen family, stole all his Taoist practices from the Si family, a famous monastic family at that time, and Si Jing was probably from that Si family. They
It's not unusual for two people to come from the same school and raise the same bugs."
Hearing the words "Chen Bitian", Gu Jiali couldn't help but think of an exhausting battle on Fan Yue Mountain that day.
If Sikyong, like Chen Bitian, has the unparalleled ability to control souls and beasts, and coupled with a long-sleeved Queen Li who is good at dancing, the future may be difficult to navigate.
Thinking of this, he sighed softly, as if a huge stone was weighing on his heart, which was extremely heavy.
"Stop sighing, come here and catch bugs together." The Queen Mother bent down and rummaged among the bedding. While groping around, she called for him to come over and help. She also murmured: "The prince's face is so beautiful, what if it is disfigured?"
It’s over.”
Shen Qingqing stepped forward and reminded her, "Empress Dowager, you can't find poisonous insects like that."
"Ah? What should we do?" The Queen Mother was confused.
"Use this." Shen Qingqing shook the white porcelain bottle in his hand, opened the cork, and a large black beetle slowly crawled out of it.
The Queen Mother's eyes widened in surprise, "Is this?"
"The Gu King is equivalent to the boss of the bug world. Other bugs will take a detour when they see him."
Shen Qingqing bent down and flicked the beetle's tentacles swinging back and forth, then pointed at the man on the bed, "Get the bamboo shoots, go to work quickly, and I'll give you two baskets of sour bamboo shoots when you're done."
Duoshan turned around in a circle, then crawled onto the bed with the stench, and penetrated the skin from the ulcerated wound on the emperor's wrist.
The Queen Mother had never seen such a scene before. She stayed beside the bed in a daze. For a long time, she stared at Shen Qingqing with bright eyes and asked: "My child, what do you do? Why are you so powerful!"
Shen Qingqing smiled at her, "Just like the Imperial Master who went out just now, he pretends to be a ghost."
"No, no, no..." The Queen Mother shook her head in denial, "He is a stinky bear who pretends to be a god, and you are a fairy daughter with a beautiful heart and a kind heart. You are different!"
Shen Qingqing was amused by her. This completely different double standard attitude really made people like her.
The Queen Mother caught a glimpse of her crooked smiling eyes, and was suddenly startled. She blinked hard and said, "My child, you look very familiar to the Ai family. Have we met before?"
Shen Qingqing thought to herself: Speaking of relationships, I still want to call you mother. With such a close relationship, how can you not look familiar?
However, this cannot be said openly. Before coming, her mother specifically mentioned that she did not want her to have anything to do with the royal family, and she herself was too lazy to wade into this muddy water, so she flatly denied the Queen Mother's suspicion.