Hongli nodded, "I know what's going on. Go back quickly. After you wake up, remember to ask Jinping to change your dressing. Also, don't get wet until the wound is completely healed."
After Xianyue agreed one by one, he just left with Wu and others. After he left, Xia Qing glanced at the pale Yongyan and said, "My dear, don't worry too much, the fifteenth brother is
With the sign of great blessing, you will definitely get through this calamity safely."
"I hope so." Saying this, Xianyue said: "Concubine Lao Hui stayed here all night, and I really feel sorry for her."
Xia Qing said with a smile: "What are you talking about? Although the fifteenth brother is raised in Kunning Palace, I still treat him as my own son. Now that he has a strange disease, it is right for me to keep vigil here. Think about it."
Sister Ying feels the same way."
Xianyue nodded and said: "I understand that having you love Yongyan so much is a blessing he gained from his previous life."
Xia Qing smiled and said, "I will take my leave first and come to visit my fifteenth brother later."
After she left, Mrs. Hu said softly: "My fifteenth brother's illness is so strange. I'm afraid it's not as simple as we thought. In addition, the situation in the palace is complicated now. Madam, please be careful."
Xianyue nodded and said: "If the noble concubine can still hold on, she can leave later."
In response, Mrs. Hu agreed and personally helped Xianyue to the main hall. After everyone sat down, Xianyue said to Jinping: "Go and send the message of winter. Brother Fifteen, you can watch it yourself.
"
Shortly after Jinping retreated, Dongyi walked in, knelt down and said, "This slave has met the master and Concubine Ying."
Xianyue took a sip of strong tea to drive away some tiredness, "Dong Yi, you have been waiting for me since you entered the palace. Later, when the fifteenth prince came here, I handed him over to you.
You have served my fifteenth brother personally. In the past four years, you have not let me down at last. Why are you so careless this time?"
Upon hearing this, Dongyi knelt down with a plop and said with a hint of tears: "I have always taken good care of Brother Fifteen. I am very careful when eating. I wash my hands immediately if they get dirty."
, I can’t even figure out why my fifteenth brother got sick.”
Xianyue stared at her and said, "Think about it for a moment, where have you been and what have you done before your fifteenth brother got the strange disease?"
Dongyi nodded repeatedly, trying hard to think about Yongyan's whereabouts these days, turning the pages day after day. When it came to April 20th, Hu, who had never spoken before, suddenly said: "
Wait a minute, you said you met Princess Hejia in Wanchun Pavilion that day?"
"Yes, when I took the fifteenth elder brother to play in the imperial garden, I happened to meet Princess Hejia enjoying flowers there. Princess Hejia played with the fifteenth elder brother for a while and gave him a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake to eat. What happened?
I will report this to the Queen when I come back that day."
Xianyue nodded and let Dongyi continue. When talking about the half month before the onset of the disease, Dongyi's memory began to become blurry. He could no longer fully describe the scene of that day and could only tell some fragmentary things.
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Seeing that she couldn't find any clues, Xianyue signaled her to retreat. When the winter mood was about to retreat to the threshold, Mrs. Hu suddenly said: "Did Princess Hejia eat osmanthus cake in Wanchun Pavilion that day?"
Dongyi didn't understand the meaning of her question, so she thought for a while and said, "I remember that when I first stepped into the pavilion, Princess Hejia happened to be eating sweet-scented osmanthus cake."
"Okay, you can go down." After Dongyi left, Mrs. Hu said solemnly: "Madam, according to Dongyi, the only thing that the fifteenth brother has eaten outside these days is Princess Hejia's osmanthus.
Cake, could it be that... there's something wrong with that piece of cake?"
Xianyue's eyes flashed and she said in a serious voice: "Do you doubt He Jia?"
"No, I suspect another person." After a moment of pause, she said: "There is one thing that my twelfth brother once asked me to keep it a secret and not to tell the queen, but for now, it seems that it is better to tell the queen.
"
Xianyue stroked the complicated patterns on her sleeves and said lightly: "But Xia Qing and the third elder brother secretly colluded?"
Mrs. Hu was startled and said in surprise: "How does the empress know? Could it be that Brother Twelve..."
Xianyue shook her head and said, "Yong Cang didn't say it, I guessed it myself." As she said that, she chuckled and said, "Does Concubine Ying really think that I don't know anything about my illness?"
Hearing this, the surprise on Mrs. Hu's face turned into a smile, "It seems that the empress is still the same as before. She keeps everything in her heart. No one or thing can be hidden from you."
Xianyue sighed softly, "In fact, she has hidden this from me, and has made me become so passive without knowing it. I really underestimated her."
"Actually, the key lies with the Emperor. I really can't understand why the Emperor has obeyed her words in recent years without any doubts."
Xianyue's eyes flashed slightly and she said: "Let's not talk about this for now. Do you suspect that Xia Qing is responsible for Yongyan?"
Mrs. Hu nodded and said: "Yes, since she can collude with the third elder brother and use the rebels to harm the twelfth elder brother, it is not unusual to secretly harm the fifteenth elder brother."
"But according to Dong Yi, Xia Qing was not in Wanchun Pavilion that day, and He Jia had also eaten the plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Therefore, unless He Jia was her accomplice, it was impossible to predict which piece He Jia would take.
Give Yongyan some sweet-scented osmanthus cake to give her medicine."
Mrs. Hu thought: "He Jia grew up under the supervision of my concubine. Although she occasionally likes to be a little temperamental, she has a pure nature and a simple mind. She will never help her mother do evil." As she spoke, she tapped the armrest.
, with a face full of confusion: "But if it wasn't her, who else could it be? Or maybe what the fifteenth elder brother got was really just a strange disease with no known cause."
Xianyue slowly said: "Or...she even counts her own daughter!"
Mrs. Hu was startled by her words and said in horror: "This... this is impossible. Even if the tiger poison does not eat its children, she would not harm her only daughter just to harm her fifteenth brother; besides, it's not possible for her to do so."
Haven't you heard that Princess Hejia has a strange disease?"
Xianyue said calmly: "If it is true that she did something, there must be an antidote. Afterwards, she can just use whatever excuse she wants to trick Hejia into drinking it."
"That's true." Mrs. Hu thought for a while and said, "But all of this is just our speculation. There is no evidence, so we shouldn't search Yonghe Palace."
Mrs. Hu said it casually, but Xianyue actually said: "Yes, the best way is to search the palace. With her temperament, she will either not do it, but once she does, she will definitely put the opponent to death. Now
Yongyan is still alive, and according to my guess, the medicine that made Yongyan sick should be in her palace."
Mrs. Hu frowned and said: "This concubine naturally knows it, but the emperor is so fond of Concubine Hui now, how could he agree to the empress's search for the palace without evidence? If it is not through the emperor...it would be better if they are found, otherwise even if it is the empress,