"My..." Xu Yu lowered her head, her hair covering her expression, and her voice said with almost no fluctuations: "When Wang Yu and I returned to the yard, we saw Liang Shan carrying Doctor Zhou's medicine box. I was
He reached out and took it."
"Really, but what you said at the beginning was that you only took the medicine box from Liang Shan after leaving the yard."
Xu Yudao: "No, I didn't. I never said that."
County Magistrate Tang smiled, closed the book that Eunuch Wu and the others had recorded before, waved his hands and said, "I've finished asking questions. Eunuch, please send her back to the cell."
When Eunuch Wu heard this, he came up to him curiously and asked, "What, sir, do you have an idea?"
Magistrate Tang smiled and said: "Although I'm not entirely sure, I'm pretty sure. Xu Yu, do you know what it means to be clever but be misled by your cleverness? After all, you have failed to live up to Dr. Zhou's plea for you, but only the prince has
In anticipation of the birth of a child, if you are willing to confess the person behind the scenes, you may have a chance of survival."
Xu Yu said softly: "This slave is unjustly accused."
Magistrate Tang smiled and said: "There is nothing that Jingzhao Mansion wants to investigate so far. Have you forgotten why Prince Gong is under house arrest in the palace at this time? Do you want to protect him to the end?
People also need to see whether you can really protect them."
"The emperor's anger is not ordinary. Xu Yu, it is too ordinary for people to die in this palace."
Xu Yu lowered her head and stopped talking.
Magistrate Tang waved his hand, and Eunuch Wu had people drag her down.
Eunuch Wu waited until she was far away and then asked, "Master Tang, is there no need for punishment?"
County Magistrate Tang said: "You've been beaten like this and still haven't opened your mouth. There's no point in continuing the fight. It's just an extra life for nothing."
Eunuch Wu said coldly: "It is not a pity to die for such a person."
Magistrate Tang said: "It is not a pity to die, but the dead must also have meaning. She died in the execution, and she died in vain. Death on the execution ground is what she deserves."
His purpose is to find out the truth, not to kill anyone.
Eunuch Wu wanted to remove all the spies in the East Palace, especially those who were harmful to the prince, the princess and the little emperor's grandson. They should be killed as a warning to others.
It was a pity that the prince had promised to spare her life, but the Tang County magistrate did not agree with further torture, so Eunuch Wu could only retreat with regret.
The two walked out of the somewhat gloomy Shenxing Department. Magistrate Tang took out his handkerchief and wiped his hands, then folded the handkerchief and stuffed it into his sleeve.
Eunuch Wu couldn't help but ask: "What is Master Tang going to do next to investigate?"
"Check the people who are close to Xu Yu in the Chongwen Museum, and then check her family members. I will also go to the Taiyuan Hospital..." County Magistrate Tang smiled and said: "Please also ask Eunuch Wu to tell His Highness the Crown Prince,
I will definitely do my best to investigate the case."
Eunuch Wu smiled and said, "Your Highness can certainly trust Mr. Tang in his work."
Lord Tang smiled, then turned around and went to the Imperial Hospital. Seeing that Zhou Man was not there, he asked curiously, "Doesn't Imperial Doctor Zhou usually work in the Imperial Hospital?"
Imperial Physician Zheng explained: "The main responsibility of Imperial Physician Zhou is to compile books, so he spends most of his time in Chongwen Hall."
In fact, before the great battle against Wang Ji and others, they, the imperial doctors, often worked in Chongwen Hall. Not only were there many books there, it was easy to find information, but there were also a lot of pens, inks and papers for them to use at their leisure.
Don't think that it's just a simple pen, ink, and paper. These bits and pieces are very expensive together, especially since they are doing a lot of information and writing a lot of books recently, and the paper is very large.
But they have all moved here now, and although they feel sorry in their hearts, no one dares to say it in front of Xiao Yuanzheng.
County Magistrate Tang nodded and asked: "Your Highness sent the needle bag used by Zhou Tai Medical to the Tai Hospital, right? Have you found out the poison on it?"
"You have to ask Dr. Liu about this matter. This is the responsibility of Dr. Liu."
Magistrate Tang then turned to look for Dr. Liu, and finally saw Dr. Liu in a small room. He and Dr. Wan were gathering together, holding a needle in their hands and carefully burning it on the candle. A smell of medicine came out.
Doctor Liu came closer to smell it and said softly: "Did you smell it? Is this musk?"
"It's musk," Doctor Wan frowned, "This is really cruel, you dare to use musk to soak needles."
Doctor Liu soaked the red-hot needle in a small dish of water. After it cooled down completely, he placed the small dish of water in the middle.
The two old men, who together were a hundred years old, lay down on the table, each dipped a finger into some water and put it on their tongues to taste it. They almost drank up the water before they slowly figured out the taste.
, "And Angelica sinensis and Sanleng."
Doctor Wan added: "There is also the birth of Nanxing."
Magistrate Tang did not come forward immediately, but stood at the door and watched.
The two of them wrote the names of the medicines they identified on paper, and said with a headache: "It took me two days of searching to find the six medicines. I think there must be more than this."
Doctor Liu said very bachelorly: "It's hard to find the rest. I've tried all kinds of methods. I can only ask the people who make the medicine. But these medicines are enough. They are all medicines that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, diuresis and diarrhea."
, giving such medicine to a full-term pregnant woman will not only put the mother in danger, but the child will probably be useless even if it is born."
Newborns are very susceptible to death. There is a high chance that a child who takes such drugs will not survive the third trimester. Even if he does survive, he is probably either a fool or has a body like Yin's.
This method is too insidious.
Both Dr. Liu and Dr. Wan were good at pediatrics and women's diseases, so they were both a little angry.
When Magistrate Tang saw that they were silent for a while, he went into the house.
Doctor Liu and Doctor Wan quickly stood up and saluted, and then showed him the written prescription, saying that they could not distinguish the remaining medicine. If Magistrate Tang wanted to investigate further, he would have to ask another expert.
Of course, the two imperial doctors in the imperial hospital who were most familiar with this type of medicine couldn't find it out, and it was probably even less possible to find out if anyone else found it. However, for County Magistrate Tang, these six herbs were enough.
Magistrate Tang asked: "According to the two imperial doctors, was this injection given inside the palace or outside the palace?"
Dr. Liu and Dr. Wan looked at each other and said, "Even if it is soaked, the medicine must be soaked first. If it is boiled, it will have a medicinal smell. Ordinarily, they would not dare to boil such medicine in the palace."
Dr. Wan Tai said: "But if you prepare it outside, it is not right to just send the needle into the palace. This needle is not effective after soaking it. If you want the medicine to penetrate into the bone when the needle is inserted, then the needle must be soaked for at least three days."
, and the medicine needs to be changed.”
"In addition, after the needle is dried, it must be used within twelve hours. Otherwise, after twelve hours, the medicinal essence will be weak and the effect will be weakened." He said: "This needle was sent to us.
When I held it in my hand, I smelled it carefully and there was still a medicinal smell. After roasting, the medicinal smell became stronger. But today we changed the needle and roasted it again, so the medicinal smell will be lighter."
County Magistrate Tang understood, "So it shouldn't have taken more than six hours from the time the needle was dried to the time it appeared in Doctor Zhou's needle bag."