When the color of the day was about to fade, they arrived in front of the Queen Mother's palace.
It is worthy of being an important place in the palace. There are almost three floors of armed guards here. No one needs to guide the way. They can probably touch the place just by walking along the places where there are many guards. Liu Shenghan simply searched behind him.
She was put in. Although His Majesty said that they could go to the bedroom in another courtyard first.
They were resting, but the two of them still stood guard at the door of the palace, looking at each other with a group of guards. Of course, these guards had no weapons. This was the same as the palace of the motherland. Anyone with a knife or a sword was not allowed to approach these places.
What's more, the person sleeping in the room is a middle-aged woman who has no strength to restrain herself.
Two maids followed her in.
As soon as the door opened, a light and sweet smell greeted him. Liu Shenghan walked in and saw that all the curtains in the room had been lowered. Even when it was not dark, they had not been rolled up. The gauze curtains were everywhere.
Yes, in front of the door, in front of the window, and beside the bed. They are almost all a dark pink color, which should be the kind that the Queen Mother likes. The dim interior has a hazy warm rose color, which is very warm even in winter.
"Is the stove here always burning?" Shenghan asked one of the maids, "These doors and windows are always closed."
"Of course we will open the windows for ventilation." She replied, "The time for everything we have to do is very strict. If there is a slight mistake, even if it hurts the Queen Mother's mood, we don't dare to do it."
Another palace maid seemed to have remembered something: "By the way, Madam Liu, you don't dare step on the formation on the ground."
"Array?"
Liu Shenghan lowered his head and looked in the direction of the palace maid's finger.
As expected, a formation was left in the house - surrounding the Queen Mother's bed. The palace maid said that the formation would maintain the minimum supply of spiritual energy for human survival. No one could step through this formation of blue sand, otherwise
The formation will fail and the Queen Mother will starve to death. This is what the Imperial Preceptor said, and the formation was also set up by the Imperial Preceptor.
If other imperial doctors wanted to check the safety of the Queen Mother during this period, they could only pull a silk thread to check the Queen Mother's pulse. The golden thread as thin as silk extended outside the magic circle and was fixed on the table by a needle. Liu Shenghan took the silk thread and tried the Queen Mother's pulse.
My pulse is normal.
She just fell into a deep sleep.
Liu Shenghan looked around the huge bedroom. Nothing was out of the ordinary except that she found two candles at the foot of the wall near the bed, both half-burned. She picked them up, sniffed them in front of her, and smelled them.
This is the source of the aroma that fills the room. They should also be burned and extinguished at fixed points by the palace maids, just like the king of Xiangji Kingdom.
The smell of this candle was exactly the same as the incense candle given to Aoyan by Gandharva. Liu Shenghan could not quickly identify the exact ingredients, but she was sure that it should be full of herbs, most of which were used to soothe the mind and help sleep.
It exudes the smell of ripe fruits that have been piled together and over-fermented. It makes you feel intoxicated after smelling it for a long time.
"How often do you light candles?"
"Let me think about it..."
So, what kind of medicine is Bai Ya's candle? Liu Shenghan recalled for a while, and she remembered some recognizable parts, which were no different from these herbs, but there were still some parts she couldn't recognize.
There were medicines in this world that she, Liu Shenghan, could not identify - this was something she had begun to care about a long time ago.
That's not what matters right now.
There were also many medicines piled on the tables where the needles and threads were placed. Some were balls, some were powders, and some were directly dried original plants. Liu Shenghan picked them up, looked at them, turned around and asked:
"Are these all the medicines Her Majesty takes?"
"Well, it should be." A palace maid glanced at it, "Ah, there are still two flavors missing, but those were put into the stove to burn incense. The Imperial Master sent someone before leaving
Go collect it."
"Girl, do you remember what it is?"
"Well...I'm not in charge of this, I don't know."
"Can I trouble you to go to the pharmacy and copy a list? This is very important. I must understand the Queen Mother's diet and medication in detail before I can make a judgment."
"Ah, okay."
"And this girl." Liu Shenghan turned to the other person and said, "Please go to the imperial kitchen and copy a copy of the Queen Mother's recipe. It will be for seven days - seven days before the Queen Mother falls asleep."
"Okay, let's go now."
It was completely dark, and lights were lit everywhere in the palace.
The two of them stood bored at the door. Bai Ya squatted on the ground, with nothing to do, picked up a small stick and started drawing tortoises.
"You bastard, why are your paintings so ugly?"
"What I drew is Qi Huan."
"He doesn't have pigtails either." Jun Aoyan frowned, "He still has braids that go up to the sky."
"Actually, he's a bastard."
"..." Aoyan's veins twitched, "I took it seriously."
"Then it seems that my painting looks quite similar."
"Like Bastard or Qi Huan?"
"According to you, they look similar."
"?"
"That's what he looks like."
It's quite a bit of a joyful experience.
Bai Ya poked a few more marks on the turtle's back. It looked like turtle patterns and a human face. But no matter which one, it was too ugly.
"Aren't you tired after standing for so long?" Bai Ya lowered his head and continued drawing, and asked Aoyan casually.
"I'm not tired. It's common to stand in the army for a whole day."
"You actually don't have to stand with them."
The door to the Queen Mother's palace suddenly opened. Aoyan lowered her head to look at the painting. Before she could reply, Bai Ya stood up suddenly and almost hit the bridge of her nose. Both of them thought it was Shenghan coming out, but it turned out not to be the case. It was two people.
The little palace maid, Bai Ya stopped them and asked how long they would have to look inside. His legs were really numb.
"I don't know, it will take a while." After saying that, the maids left in a hurry.
Aoyan rolled her eyes: "You have numb legs, just stand there for a while."
"I don't."
It was already late at night when the three of them finally got together to talk.
Liu Shenghan looked at the medicine list and recipes as a matter of course, and it was true that she sent them away. While she and the sleeping queen mother were the only ones in the room, she said that she had been rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for a while. When she said this, her expression changed.
She was gloomy, with no smile at all. Rather, she had a straight face from the moment she left the Queen Mother's palace. Those low-key, slight smiles in the past were also suppressed under a heavy shadow.
It was as if she had brought out some secrets.
There is indeed a secret, but she still doesn't know whether it belongs to the Imperial Master or the Queen Mother. The gold thread connecting the pulse is not a mortal thing, but a long thread stretched out from practical gold. This kind of thread can accurately transmit the patient's pulse.
Minimize the error to the greatest extent. However, this kind of gold wire has been soaked in medicine and injected with some magic. As for what it is, Liu Shenghan cannot identify it.
"There are also candles." She said, "The incense candles are the same as Aoyan's. They soothe the mind and help sleep. They only need to be burned for two moments and can be used for three hours. They have to burn them for half an hour in the morning and evening, which means they can be used for the whole day..."
"Is it used to drive away dreams?" Bai Ya raised his eyebrows slightly, "To prevent her from having nightmares?"
"...No, it's to keep her asleep."
"What?"
The two of them almost suspected that they had heard wrongly. But looking at Shenghan's serious face, they knew that this was definitely not a joke. She never joked.
"It has nothing to do with any disease or medicine.
It was the aroma of incense and candles that kept her from waking up."
"How could this happen?" Jun Aoyan frowned, "What the Gandharva gave me was such a dangerous thing?"
"The incense candle itself is not dangerous." Sheng Han said, "The time I put out the incense candle for you is never more than two seconds. But the Imperial Master deliberately let her fall asleep..."
"What's the purpose of Kinnara?" Bai Ya felt a headache. "His Majesty said that the Goddess of Song was out for a longer time this time. I think she kept the Queen Mother unable to wake up because she wanted to hide something - she couldn't let the Queen Mother tell her. matter."
"Things that cannot be told to us outsiders, to people in the palace, to our own daughter..." Jun Aoyan thought together.
"More than that." Liu Shenghan still had a straight face, "There is also Talisman Water. I found it in the cabinet in front of her bed, and there was still half a bowl. I couldn't take it out. The powder had melted, and I don't know what was on the Talisman. What is written? The bowl is a red pottery bowl, and there is something special about it. But to be honest, I don’t know much about Onmyoji and the like. If Mr. Qi were here, I could probably tell you a little bit about it."
"...Any more?"
"There are many doubts."
Almost all night long, the three people gathered around the small table in the guest room to discuss, analyze, and discuss. However, the part they knew was still too limited, and it was difficult to understand the full picture of the matter. What was certain was that those medicines looked Although they are all nourishing qi and blood, they can be hidden from the eyes of the imperial doctors, but they cannot be hidden from Liu Shenghan.
A grass is a medicine when it blooms, but when it withers, it is a poison. It can save people or kill people. A leaf can dispel cold and nourish the stomach in spring, but it hurts the liver and qi; in autumn, it can grow muscles and heal bones, but it can damage the spleen and cause bleeding. Some Too much poison becomes a medicine, and too much poison becomes a poison. Some medicines are mixed with another medicine and become poisons. Some poisons are mixed with medicine, so one kind of toxicity is lost and another kind of toxicity is strengthened. No matter The dosage of medicine or poison should be controlled. Different parts of the same plant, different time periods, and different growth environments are closely related to the toxicity of the medicine. There is almost nothing in the world that Liu Shenghan doesn't know, so he wants to deceive her. Not easy.
She knew that the God of Songs, Kinnara, was not that skilled and had limited knowledge of such things. Otherwise, she would not have had to go to the God of Fragrance again and again. If anything happened, just grab a messenger and send a message, nothing better than this Is it convenient?
They knew that the imperial master was destroying Queen Mother Qiu Ruoyun's organs bit by bit and stripping away the spiritual power from her body bit by bit. She was slowly plundering her vitality in a just-right time and way. And Xiao The young Majesty is so obedient to the teachings and arrangements of the National Preceptor. If she wants to seize the power of the country from this little girl in the blink of an eye, it will certainly not be difficult. Or, more honorably, she can use her as a shield. Just a fake puppet, listening to politics behind the curtain, directing the country, and holding great power.
No one would doubt her. The impression she will leave on the world is that she is a wise deity who tried her best to save the empress dowager's precarious life and valued love and justice.
Although the gods have never saved the world.
"Stop the incense." Liu Shenghan said before the rooster crowed. "As long as you don't let the maids light the incense, the Queen Mother will naturally wake up."
"The palace maid will definitely not let it go, and neither will your Majesty," Aoyan said weakly. Her mouth was a little dry.
"Then change it. Ahem -" Bai Ya pinched the bridge of his nose, cleared his throat, and continued, "She must know this."
They heard from His Majesty Qiu Weiyu that there were only three days left until the day when the Imperial Master said he would come back. If nothing unexpected happened, she should be in a neighboring country now, drinking and talking with him in the Gandharva's Fragrant Garden. .
Or maybe he is planning some unknown and vicious conspiracy.
"It's not easy to steal incense and candles. There are heavy guards outside the palace, and besides - they are afraid that they have countless incense and candles and they can't steal them all."
