Chapter 136 The secret poison kills invisible people
When Xue Hengzhao said this, Concubine Fu immediately became nervous and asked: "You said there is something wrong with this bracelet? Can you possibly see what the mystery is?"
"Yinu, it seems that the weight of this bracelet is a little wrong," Xue Hengzhao said, looking at the bracelet against the light, "The light transmission is also a bit bad."
Xue Hengzhao said and took the string to his nose again and smelled it: "There is nothing wrong with the smell."
"Take a closer look," Concubine Fu bowed slightly, "What are you suspicious of?"
"I can't say for sure now, but there must be something wrong with this bracelet." Xue Hengzhao said, "Maybe it was poisoned, or something else."
"Poison?!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
"Why is this poisoned? I've been wearing it for more than a day, and I don't feel any discomfort." Lan Ning said and stretched out her wrist. Her skin was white and soft, and she didn't see any abnormalities.
However, Xue Hengzhao firmly believed in her judgment. She asked Concubine Fu for instructions: "Can the empress ask someone to prepare three bowls? Put water, wine and oil in them respectively. Just put half a bowl in each."
Concubine Fu asked people to do as she was told, and asked Xue Hengzhao: "Do you want to invite an imperial doctor?"
"No need for now, I'll give it a try first," Xue Hengzhao said, "But you can't do it in the house. If it's poisonous, it will inevitably hurt people."
So everyone came outside the house and sat on the stone table in the shade of the flowers.
When all three bowls were brought, Xue Hengzhao first put the bracelet into the water bowl. After a while, there was no change.
Take it out, wipe it clean, and put it into the oil bowl again, but there is no change.
But after putting it in the wine bowl, after a while, the transparent wine suddenly turned light red. Everyone was surprised and looked closer.
Xue Hengzhao hurriedly asked everyone to stay back and saw that the color in the bowl was getting darker and darker. After a while, the bowl of wine seemed to have turned into a bowl of thick blood.
The original aroma of the wine seemed to have changed, and it seemed like rotten pus and blood, making people almost nauseous after smelling it.
Xue Hengzhao knew that if poison is attached to certain objects and cannot be easily detected, this is the easiest method.
Because generally things are either soluble in water, soluble in wine, or soluble in oil.
"There is indeed something wrong with this thing!" Zi Yan and Fang Nian's faces turned pale, "Who wants to harm our master?!"
Although I don’t know what kind of poison this is, I can tell at a glance that it’s not a good thing.
"It must have been the strong alcohol that brought out the poison in here." Wei Zhong said, "This is really amazing."
"Your Majesty, the fifth prince, this is all I can do. As for what kind of poison this is, I can't tell." Xue Hengzhao said truthfully, "However, this matter should not be made public for the time being, so as not to alert others."
"There was a Sui official in Taiyuan Hospital. According to his medical skills, he should have been the judge of the hospital.
But because he made a mistake many years ago, he was demoted.
I once said a few nice words for him, which was considered a favor to him.
Now we might as well call him here and let him identify what kind of poison it is. It is possible to keep this matter secret." Concubine Fu thought of a person.
"In that case, I will send Xiao Liuzi to go. If I go in person, I'm afraid it will be a bit conspicuous." Wei Zhong said hurriedly.
Just now, Xue Hengzhao said that if he went outside to test poison, he had already cleared out some irrelevant people in advance.
The ones who stayed behind were the people who always served Fu Fei and Lan Ning.
After a while, Xiao Liuzi indeed brought people from Tai Hospital.
This man is about fifty years old, with a gray beard and hair.
There is a vertical needle line between the eyebrows, which shows that there is always depression in the heart.
Sui officials came up and paid their respects to Concubine Fu and the fifth prince.
Concubine Fu asked him not to be polite, and then said straight to the point: "I invite you here today to ask for something. Can you identify what is in the bowl?"
The Sui official stepped forward, looked at it, and smelled it, and the needle pattern between his eyebrows became as if carved with a knife.
He turned around and asked for instructions: "Your Majesty, I dare to take this thing to the grass and heat it with a charcoal fire."
"Just do it," Fu Fei said, "Just don't hurt anyone."
So Sui Limu took the bowl to the grass over there. Someone had already brought a few pieces of carbon and placed it beside the bowl. After a while, the liquid in the bowl gradually heated up and white steam came out.
Sui officials did not allow anyone to get too close and told everyone to keep quiet.
After a while, I heard a rustling sound, and many centipedes, spiders, scorpions and other poisonous insects crawled in from everywhere.
Some timid ones were so frightened that they closed their eyes, did not dare to look, and shrank back.
Everyone was also busy helping Concubine Fu and Lan Ning to retreat.
"Your Majesty, I've already figured out what kind of poison this is." The Sui official raised his hands and said, "This is the poisonous mother from the Miao border, specially used to attract poisonous insects."
"How did the poison from Miaojiang come here?" Concubine Fu turned pale. The person who poisoned her clearly wanted to kill people.
"The reason why this poison is called poisonous mother is because the poisonous insects cannot resist its smell.
This thing is actually a kind of strange grass juice that has never seen the light of day, mixed with the powder of the corpse of the dead Gu King. It is originally colorless and odorless, but it turns red when exposed to wine and emits a fishy smell.
It is a secret medicine of Miao territory and was originally used by them during sacrifices.
Smear this thing on the body of the person who is being sacrificed. In about seven days, the poison will penetrate the skin and enter the blood, attracting countless poisonous insects. Soon, the flesh and blood of the person will be bitten clean by the poisonous insects.
I just heated it up just to speed up the process."
"So that's it." Lan Ning already understood, "Someone tempered this thing on the bodhi bracelet. Although it was not directly applied to my skin, it will have the same effect as long as I wear it for a long time.
”
"Yes, once this thing penetrates deep into the skin, the whole person will become a poisonous bait. No matter where you go, you can't escape the fate of being bitten by poisonous insects.
And this is the time of summer and autumn, when there are the most poisonous insects, so it is difficult to prevent them." The Sui official stroked his beard, "Thanks for discovering it in time."
Almost everyone present broke into a cold sweat.
"Li Mu of the Sui Dynasty, this matter must be kept secret." Concubine Fu warned again, "This is also to protect you."
"Don't worry, Madam. I'm already over fifty years old in this humble position. If this mouth wasn't tight enough, I would have been reincarnated several times." Sui Limu knew the pros and cons of this.
Then Empress Fu Fei asked him to check Lan Ning's pulse again and made sure it was safe, so she felt relieved.
After the Sui officials left, Concubine Fu looked at everyone, and finally her eyes fell on Xue Hengzhao: "Your guess is indeed good, do you want to investigate further?"
"Although we can't make any big announcement, we still need to try our best to find out who did it." Xue Hengzhao said, "It's better to be careful in the future."
"Eunuch Meng sent it to me. You might as well ask him." Zi Yan said.
"Now I can only ask him." Xue Hengzhao sighed softly.