Chapter 1410 The Foolish Empress 33
When she poured the medicine before, she was pretending to be sick, but now she was really poisoned.
Xi Ning sniffed the medicine and found that it contained some heat-clearing and detoxifying smell, and indeed contained some Coptis chinensis ingredients.
Well, drink, drink, for the health of this body, you should drink.
Xining closed his eyes and drank it all in one breath, but the bitter taste surged out. He felt nauseated and poured the medicine back.
"Don't vomit, don't vomit!" The people around her were even more nervous than she was.
Xining covered her mouth with her hand and took a lot of effort to swallow the medicine again.
"Hurry up and squeeze one." The queen put the bayberry into her mouth at the right time.
The sweet bayberry finally dissipated some of the bitter taste in her mouth. It was so bitter that her tongue almost went numb.
Xining held the bayberry in her mouth and frowned: "Do you still have the medicine?"
The queen was stunned: "There are still some medicine residues that have not been poured out. Your Majesty still needs to take it?"
Because of the poisoning, the queen was also very careful. When boiling the medicine, she did not throw away the dregs of the medicine and asked someone to watch it. If anything happens, the medicine residue can be taken out immediately for inspection.
"Great!" Xining said angrily, holding the bayberry in his mouth: "Make another half a bowl of the concoction inside. Whoever gives me a prescription in the future, he will drink it too. Let him know it too. , it’s so painful that you’ll almost die of pain if you drink it.”
The Queen burst into laughter: "This is not good. If Your Majesty suffers from diarrhea in the future, wouldn't it be difficult for the imperial physician who prescribes the prescription to come out for three or four days? Otherwise, I will ask someone to make it and let the imperial physician take a taste. Let’s see if tomorrow’s medicine is still so bitter, okay?”
It's good to be a reminder first, what the Queen said makes sense, so Xining nodded, caught the spat out bayberry cores, put them on the tray, took two more from the plate and threw them into his mouth.
The palace maid brought a small bowl. Xining looked at it and frowned to the point of knotting: "Do you want to drink more?"
The palace maid smiled, and the chief steward next to her laughed happily: "This is not for Your Majesty to drink. Didn't His Majesty just say that he would let the imperial doctor take a sip of the medicine that His Majesty drank."
Oh, yes. Xining reached out and picked up the bowl and looked inside.
This was squeezed out of the remaining medicinal residue, so the color was turbid than what she drank just now, and it was definitely much more bitter than what she drank.
She looked at the Queen, a little unwillingly: "Just let him take a sip?"
"A small punishment but a big warning, just one bite is enough. The imperial doctor should understand what your majesty means." The queen said with a smile.
"Okay then!" Xining put the bowl back: "Take it to him to drink."
The palace maid was about to leave when she shouted: "Wait!"
Feeling unwilling to do so, I looked at the concoction as thick as ink in the bowl and thought to myself: "Go get a small wine cup."
Because the emperor drank from bottles, there was no small wine cup prepared here. Xining just sat, eating bayberry, and playing dice with the queen.
The Queen tried her best to smile from time to time, but Xi Ning could see it clearly. She shook the dice and rolled her eyes: "You are smart, so you should think carefully about how to find the person who poisoned her."
Now the queen could no longer laugh: "A little chamberlain died in the Jiaofang Palace. He was the one who was carrying the plate of honey that day."
Xining asked: "Have you ever asked a widower to be tested?"
The queen looked around, and Xining responded calmly: "There is no need to avoid it. Anyway, at least seventeen or eight people should know about this kind of thing. It doesn't hurt to have a few more."
The queen lowered her head slightly: "Your Majesty is wise, I am ashamed of myself. The man said that the person who seemed to have hanged himself was actually strangled to death first and then hung up on the beam. Moreover, the techniques were sophisticated. If an ordinary man checked these hanging marks, they would be obvious. He thought he committed suicide." Xi Ning understood very well that the person must have been brought by Dong Zhongchen: "Because he was from Da Sikong, of course ordinary people can't compare. The lower jaw is upward. If you commit suicide out of fear, you will bear all the blame after death. Someone wants to interrupt the clue."
Da Sikong is the Yushi Dafu. Currently, his rank is higher than that of the Yushi Zhongchen. He belongs to the Three Dukes, but his functions have gradually been transferred to the Yushi Zhongchen.
The queen lowered her head: "I am incompetent!"
"This is normal. If this one is not dead, the other one will die. It can always be related to honey." She picked up a red bayberry and put it in her mouth. "I don't expect you to get to the bottom of it this time. It's just that Let me let you know that being the master of this palace is not easy, and there are places for you to show your strength. There are thousands of people in the palace, and each of them has his or her own account. Neither male nor female..."
The chief steward held the fly whisk, raised his head, and blinked a few times, which made her and the queen couldn't help but laugh.
The Queen smiled and replied: "I know."
The small wine cup was brought, and Xining waved: "Come on, come on!"
The palace maid brought it over and saw that the empress was sitting, so she bent her knees and lowered the plate so that the empress could see it.
Xining picked up the medicine bowl and poured the dark, thick concoction into the wine cup. It was a shallow cup, but not full.
Seeing that there should be a mouthful of it, he put the medicine bowl aside: "Li Defu, take it and don't say anything, just say that I gave it to you. Drink it while you watch, and tell me when you finish."
After the general manager smiled with a cracked mouth, he immediately straightened his face: "Yes, I will go now!"
The chief steward also called two young eunuchs and went away with a small cup of concoction.
The Queen couldn't help laughing: "Your Majesty, if you do this, will you scare the imperial doctor to death?"
Xining thought for a while: "This imperial doctor is still in his prime. If the imperial doctor orders it, he can't afford to be scared. Keep playing, it's your turn!"
Imperial Physician Ling is almost seventy years old. Even if he is strong and healthy, he would not dare to be frightened like this.
After the empress and the queen played a few more games, the chief steward returned.
The chief steward described it vividly: "After the medicine was served, the imperial doctor cried on the spot and asked why he was given death."
"The old slave had a straight face and drank quickly. After drinking, the old slave can go back to life as soon as possible. By the way, if you have any other words, you can stay now. At that time, his face turned pale, as white as flour …”
The queen laughed so hard that her whole body trembled. Although it was not good to tease people, it was so funny.
"I went to get the 'poisoned wine' with trembling hands..." The chief steward imitated the imperial doctor, his hands trembling like leaves in the autumn wind, and he deliberately raised his orchid fingers. He closed his eyes suddenly and took a "drink".
The eyebrows and eyes were wrinkled together, then he opened his eyes, widened his eyes, and smacked his mouth a few times...
"Hahaha..." The Queen couldn't help it anymore and laughed out loud. He smiled but quickly looked at the empress beside him, and found that she was also smiling with her mouth wide open, so she continued to laugh with confidence.
The chief steward saw that the empress and the queen both laughed, and waited for a while until they were almost done laughing. Then he continued: "The old slave then said to him..."
Lifting his body, he pretended to be slightly arrogant: "The medicine is too bitter. Your Majesty will let you taste it."
The queen burst out laughing again, but the palace people around her couldn't bear it anymore and had to cover their mouths with their hands, trying hard not to laugh out loud.
(End of chapter)