As we agreed, Mei Zhuang said that he had slipped and fell into the water, so naturally no one was suspicious anymore. Xuan Ling visited Mei Zhuang more often in addition to his consolation. Mei Zhuang recovered quickly and only pressed the button

She was determined to wait for the opportunity to act, so she just waited for the opportunity and remained calm. Concubine Hua was also calm and did not make any moves.

On April 18th, the 13th year of Qianyuan, I was promoted to the fourth rank Wanyi by the Jin Dynasty. Although I was only promoted to the first level, it was always a happy event anyway, and it made me even more popular since the beginning of spring.

.Welcome to the palace, the harem maintains the surface calm and peace as always. For the time being, I breathed a sigh of relief.

It was nearly May, and the weather was gradually getting hotter. My health had already improved, but Xuan Ling was worried about it, so he often asked Wen Shichu to prepare some qi-nourishing tonics to help me take care of myself.

One day, I was alone on the porch admiring the two new tanks of goldfish sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The large Jingde blue tank. The new lotus plants in it were only as big as a child's hand. They were so fresh and green that it was a pleasure to see. The water under the lotus

There are several crimson goldfish in it. The waves are as clear as blue, the green leaves are like a cover, and the red fish swim leisurely. It is really cute.

When Pei'er saw me feeding the fish leisurely, she suddenly thought of something and said angrily: "That Yu Changyi is really too much! I heard that since he fell out of favor and moved out of the Hongni Pavilion, he has been cursing and using dirty words against his little master all day long.

Insulting the little master."

He stretched out his fingers, sprinkled the fish food into the tank, and said calmly: "Let her go. I act with a clear conscience, and even if I try to curse, it won't work."

Pei'er said: "It's just that her words are really unpleasant. How about I ask someone to seal her residence or report it to the Queen?"

I wiped off the fish food on my hands and waved my hand: "Don't bother with this kind of person."

"My little master is too kind-hearted."

"You have to be merciful and merciful. She will inevitably feel aggrieved when she falls out of favor. It will get better after a while."

It happened that Huanbi came over with the medicine: "Miss, the medicine is ready and you can drink it."

I picked up the medicine cup and took a sip. I frowned and said, "The medicine seems to be more acidic than before in the past two days."

Huanbi said: "Maybe it's the medicinal materials newly prepared by Mr. Wen, so it feels a little sour."

I said "Yeah", frowned and finished the drink slowly, then rinsed my mouth with water. After sitting for a while, I felt a little dazed under the sun, so I asked Huanbi to help me in to take a nap.

Huanbi smiled and said, "Miss has been very sleepy these past two days. She just woke up and wanted to take a nap, but she felt sleepy."

"Perhaps so. I've only heard that 'spring sleeps without realizing the dawn'. It turns out that it's easier to feel tired as summer approaches."

While talking and joking, I felt something was wrong in my heart, so I stopped and asked, "Huanbi, when did I become so sleepy? But a few days ago?"

"Yes, you were sleepy five or six days ago, and you always fall asleep at five or six of the twelve hours in a day. When the emperor came up the day before yesterday, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and you were still asleep. The emperor didn't let us wake you up..." she said

He suddenly stopped, and an expression of doubt and uneasiness gradually appeared on his face.

My hands gradually became a little cold, and I asked, "Do you also feel that something is wrong?"

Huanbi quickly let go of my hand: "Miss, please don't sleep yet. I will go and invite Lord Wen right now."

I hurriedly asked: "Don't alarm anyone, just ask Mr. Wen to check Ping An's pulse."

I walked into the warm pavilion alone step by step and sat down. The brocade tablecloth on the table had a pattern of thousands of branches and leaves, glowing coldly in the sun. I grabbed the tablecloth bit by bit with my hands, and my back felt like it was covered with tingling pain.

The thorns pricked me one after another, and I straightened my waist.

Wen Shichu finally arrived. He looked calm. He took the pulse on my wrist and kept silent for a while. Then he took out a small silver needle and said, "I'm sorry, please bear with the pain."

, and then pricked an acupuncture point on his hand. His gesture was very gentle, and he only felt a slight soreness and numbness, but no pain. Wen Shichu gently turned the silver needle while explaining: "This acupoint is called Hegu point. If the little master is just normal,

If you are sleepy and snooty, then nothing will happen; if it is due to medicine, the silver needle will change color when inserted into this point."

But after a moment, he pulled out the silver needle, looked at the sun for a long time and said: "I prepared the prescription, but someone added other things." He put the silver needle in front of me and said, "Please, young master.

Look closely at this needle."

I lifted it up and took a closer look, and sure enough, the silver needle seemed to be coated with a light cyan color. My hand shook, and the silver needle fell into his palm. I looked into his eyes: "What was added? Poison?"

"No. Someone added a few more ingredients to my prescription that were originally very light. The person who used the medicine was very cautious and added a very small amount, so even if I checked for pulse every day, it would not be easy to detect. But even so

, if you take this dose of medicine, you will first feel tired and sleepy, and within half a year, you will lose your mind and be like a dementia."

My face must have changed shape in fear, I could feel that my close-fitting clothes were wet with cold sweat and were sticky. I was shocked and hateful in my heart, but with a forced smile on my face, I said: "You really think highly of me, Zhen Huan, and you use this..."

Use some means to deal with me!"

Wen Shichu hurriedly said: "Don't worry, little master. Fortunately, it was discovered early. I have only taken it for a few days. It will not be harmful to the body if it is taken care of in time." He slowly put the silver needle back into his bag and said worriedly: "It is obvious that it should be put away slowly.

My little master, you are going to die, your methods are too sinister!"

I sighed and said: "The harem has always used all possible means to fight for favor, and it is really impossible to guard against it." I said to Wen Shichu with a moved expression: "If it weren't for you, your Majesty, Huan'er would probably die as if she were in a dream, not knowing why."

Wen Shichu looked ashamed: "It was my negligence that made my little master suffer."

I said warmly: "Adults, don't blame yourself too much."

He solemnly said: "In the future, the little master's medicine minister will be even more careful. From grabbing the medicine to brewing it until the little master takes it, I will do it myself and not let others interfere."

I said sternly: "The top priority now is to find the person who wanted to poison me, so as to prevent something like this from happening again." I looked out the window warily, lowered my voice and said, "You can poison me into the palace.

It must be the people around me. I feel that my physical discomfort started a few days ago, and it happened that a dozen new palace maids came to my palace a few months ago. Although I told Xiao Yunzi and Jin Xi, who are in charge, to pay attention to them early in the morning.

, but there are many things in the palace, and I am afraid that they are not able to do what they want. In my opinion, we need to pay more attention to the little maids and eunuchs in this matter."

"Then what do you want to do, little master?"

"Then Lord Lawen and Huan'er will act in a play together, pretending as if nothing has happened so as not to alarm others with today's incident."

"But according to the little master's orders."

"Liu Zhu, go and open the window. I'm a little bored." Liu Zhu opened the window as he said. I stood up and walked to the window and said loudly: "Since Mr. Wen said I'm fine, I'm relieved." After saying that, I squeezed towards him.

Wink.

Wen Shichu understood and immediately said loudly: "My little master has been sleepy in the spring recently, so it doesn't matter. Why don't you take this opportunity to rest more and recuperate your body."

I smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wen, for taking the trouble."

"The emperor personally gave the order, and the ministers will never dare to neglect it."

"Then it's hard for you, Sir, to run around all day. Liu Zhu, please send Sir out well. I want to rest."

As soon as Wen Shichu went out, I immediately ordered Xiao Yunzi to come in and gave him detailed instructions. He nodded repeatedly. After saying that, I whispered: "You have neglected this matter. Now do as I say, pay careful attention.

Don't startle the grass and scare the snake." Xiao Yunzi's expression turned serious and she continued her work.

I just pretended that nothing had happened. In the evening, Xiao Yunzi came to see me and quietly told me that I found a small hole under the palace wall, which seemed to have been newly opened recently. I kept my composure secretly, knowing that there was Xuan Ling's will.

Except for Wen Shichu and himself, no one else has entered my palace, and none of the maids who serve me have ever left. Someone must have tricked the door and secretly transported the medicine in.

I said: "Just pretend you don't know, and don't pay special attention there. Just let Xiao Lianzi, you and Jin Xi pay attention tomorrow when the medicine is boiled. Make sure that both the person and the person get the stolen goods, so that he can be caught off guard."

Xiao Yunzi gritted his teeth and said: "Yes. Xiao Lianzi has some skills in his body. He will not be able to escape that villain who is trying to eat him in and out!"

At night, I was lying on the bed, looking at the bright moonlight outside the window through the embroidered bed curtain. For the first time, I felt that there was a terrifying and fierce murderous intention lurking in my Tangli Palace, approaching me.

Even though I tried to be vigilant, I still slept until the sun rose. The medicine was still given, and when I saw the dejected looks on several people's faces, I knew that the reason had not been found out.

Xiao Lianzi said: "The servants have been guarding outside. Pin'er has been watching the medicine being cooked. No one else came near during this period, let alone administered the medicine."

I couldn't help but be suspicious, maybe someone had noticed my presence, so I glanced up at Xiao Lianzi, Xiao Yunzi and Jin Xi. Jin Xi hurriedly said: "The slaves are very careful. At that time, the slave was talking to Jingqing about dinner outside the kitchen.

"Xiao Lianzi directed the little eunuch to clean the courtyard, and Mr. Yun looked around as usual, but nothing was revealed."

I picked up the medicine bowl and took a sip of the medicine, but there was still a faint sour taste. I was so angry that I vomited it all on the ground and said bitterly: "What a cunning thing! It's still drugged!"

Jin Xi and others were horrified, and they all knelt down and said, "The slaves must have been careless enough. I hope that I will forgive you, my master."

I didn't ask them to get up, I just said: "It's not entirely your fault. If I could have put the medicine in under the noses of a few of you without being discovered, and no one came close to the medicine jar, there must be something in it."

eccentric."

Little Yunzi kowtowed and said, "I remember something, please allow me to go away for a while."

I nodded in agreement and ordered Jinxi and Xiao Lianzi to get up. I said to Huanbi, "Go and pour the medicine into the bucket!" Huanbi hurriedly went, and I asked, "You poured the medicine without anyone seeing it."

Bar?"

"No, all the slaves fell into the bucket in the back hall, and no one saw them."

Xiao Yunzi came back soon, holding a purple clay medicine jar and medicine spoon in his hand and said: "I secretly thought that if someone didn't personally administer the medicine, then I would have to manipulate these guys."

I nodded and said, "You're not too confused after all." I reached out and took the medicine spoon. After looking at it carefully, there was nothing wrong with it. Then I took the medicine jar and looked at it. It was a purple sand medicine jar made in Yizhou.

, completely black and purple, in the shape of a watermelon, with Wei Zhuang's words engraved in cursive script on the surface of the jar, with dragons and phoenixes dancing, which is very exquisite.

I opened the lid and looked at the inside of the jar in the sunlight. There was nothing wrong. I put the medicine jar on the table. Just when I thought that Xiao Yunzi had made a mistake, I was about to speak when I suddenly smelled that I was holding the lid of the medicine jar.

There was a very faint sour smell on my fingers. I immediately picked up the lid and looked carefully. The color of the lid was lighter than the can body. You would never notice it unless you looked carefully.

I handed the lid to Jin Xi: "You have been in the palace for a long time, what is the reason for this?"

Jinxi looked at it carefully for a long time and said: "The lid of this medicine jar was boiled in water with medicine. The lid absorbed the medicine, so it changed its color." Jinxi looked at my face and saw that my expression was as usual, so she continued

Said: "As long as the lid is touched when the little master's medicine is boiled and rolled, the medicine will be mixed into the little master's medicine."

After a long time, I sneered and said: "What a meticulous work! It's strange that we can't find out the person who administered the medicine. It turns out that it was prepared long ago." I asked Jinxi: "Who usually keeps these things?

?”

"Originally, Pei'er was in charge, but now the new palace maid Hua Sui is in charge."

I said "hmm" to Xiao Yunzi: "You just brought out the medicine jar, did Huasui see it?"

"Never seen it."
To be continued...