Chapter 123
Could this piece of paper with the powder still be in the palace?
Li Yu hurriedly looked around, trying to find this piece of paper, but there was no paper on the floor except for a little bit of dust.
Li Yu realized that this memory might not be from before Pu Liu left. Although the emperor sealed the palace, it didn’t mean that everything in the palace was still there. The paper that fell on the floor at that time might have been cleaned up.
Li Yu gritted his teeth. He was already a koi. He hoped that in this matter, he could also have the luck of a koi.
Li Yu calmed down and sat down again. He compared the details he saw in the secret with the reality.
For the time being, he didn’t find any useful clues.
Li Yu saw the needle and thread basket again. He didn’t have much hope and took out all the things in the needle and thread basket. Under some rags, he found a cloth tiger.
In his memory, the cloth tiger that Pu Liu made was half finished. The one here was more than half sewn, so it should be the same one. Li Yu always thought that the cloth tiger that Pu Liu made was broken by the children. He didn’t expect that she made more than one cloth tiger for King Jing. This wasn’t difficult to understand. Children’s toys were usually easy to break, so there would be many of them. Dabao and the others were the same.
Li Yu took the cloth tiger in his hand, carefully looked at it, and rubbed it hard.
After rubbing it, he suddenly felt that the belly of the cloth tiger was a little uncomfortable. The cloth tiger that the children broke wasn’t like this.
Li Yu and King Jing looked at each other, took out scissors, and carefully cut the cloth tiger open.
First, the inner lining was embroidered with the name “Pu Liu”. It was exactly the same as the one Li Yu saw.
After the cloth tiger was opened, a piece of paper was exposed in the cotton.
Li Yu’s hand paused, and he pulled the paper out. It was a folded piece of paper. Because it was hidden in the cloth tiger’s belly, there was almost no dust on it.
Li Yu carefully opened the paper and found that there was a pinky fingernail-sized powder inside.
This couldn’t be …
Li Yu recalled the paper that contained the powder in his memory. The color of the paper seemed to be the same.
“Heaven Lake!” Li Yu shouted excitedly.
King Jing nodded and handed Li Yu a porcelain bottle. Li Yu folded the paper bag and put it into the porcelain bottle.
He still wasn’t sure what this powder was, but he hoped that it was related to poison. He had to hand it over to the old imperial physician as soon as possible.
Li Yu hurriedly left the palace. Outside the palace, a palace servant was kneeling down, eagerly asking Li Yu if he needed any help. Li Yu had finally found the clue, so how could he easily entrust it to someone else? He put away the porcelain bottle and rushed to the Imperial Hospital with King Jing.
The imperial physicians were usually able to determine the prescription based on the dregs of the medicine. If there was a powder, they should be able to identify what it was, right?
Li Yu personally handed the powder to the old imperial physician who treated King Jing.
The old imperial physician still didn’t believe that it was poison, but King Jing and Princess Jing were both present. The old imperial physician couldn’t be fooled, so he carefully sniffed the powder.
“Strange …” The old imperial physician couldn’t believe it. After obtaining the consent of Li Yu and King Jing, he took a small taste and immediately spat it out.
“Your Highness, Princess Consort, please give this old official some time …” The old imperial physician wiped his lips and rushed into the inner hall before he finished speaking.
Did he finally have a clue?
Li Yu didn’t go anywhere else. He sat in the Imperial Hospital with King Jing and waited.
King Jing’s state of mind had already calmed down. The old imperial physician didn’t appear, so Li Yu waited anxiously. King Jing would rub his head and tell him not to worry. He took out a small goldfish with a round belly and a string of four small fish for Li Yu to play with.
When King Jing wanted to please him, he always liked to give him all kinds of small goldfish. The small goldfish was full of memories.
Li Yu fiddled with it for a while, but he felt very uncomfortable.
If he still couldn’t find it, what should he do?
Then he would continue! He wouldn’t mind even if he had to dig three feet into the ground!
After the old imperial physician left, there was no news of him. It wasn’t until night fell that he hurriedly came out with a thick medical book with his head down. He didn’t even wear shoes or socks.
“Imperial physician!” Li Yu hurriedly called out.
The old imperial physician looked up and saw Li Yu and King Jing. He said in surprise, “Your Highness, Princess Consort, why are you still here?”
It turned out that the old imperial physician had completely forgotten that they were waiting.
Li Yu didn’t care. Seeing the imperial physician holding the medical book, he asked hopefully, “Did you find something?”
The old imperial physician smiled and nodded, “It’s really thanks to Princess Consort and His Highness that we finally found something.”
Li Yu’s eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked the old imperial physician to sit down and explain in detail.
It turned out that the old imperial physician had discovered that the powder that Li Yu sent over was very similar to the nourishing prescription from before, but there was an extra ingredient.
Traditional Chinese medicine had a difference of a thousand miles. If there was an extra ingredient, the effect of the entire medicine could change.
The old imperial physician had just gone to confirm which ingredient was added.
After investigation, it was confirmed that it was snow crow seed.
Li Yu and King Jing didn’t know anything about medicinal herbs. The old imperial physician explained, “Snow crow is a kind of tree that grows on the peak of a snowy mountain. It blossoms once every sixty years and bears fruit once every sixty years. Its fruit is snow crow seed. Snow crow seed is rare and has a great tonic effect. It’s not easy to find in this dynasty, and even the Imperial Hospital doesn’t have it now. This official was fortunate enough to see a snow crow when I was young, so I know the medicinal properties of snow crow seed. ”
Li Yu was startled, “This is a tonic?”
Then it has nothing to do with poison, right?
The old imperial physician nodded and said, “It is a tonic. However, there is a taboo when using snow crow seed. Snow crow seed can’t be taken with angelica. If it is mixed with angelica, it will produce poison. This old official tasted both snow crow seed and angelica in this powder, which means … ”
“This powder is indeed poisonous.”
The old imperial physician made the final decision, confirming half of Li Yu’s guess. Li Yu anxiously clenched his fists.
“Then this poison, was it His Highness who was poisoned?”
Li Yu told the old imperial physician how he got the powder. He also mentioned that his wet nurse, Pu Liu, ate the powder. He suspected that the poison was passed to the infant King Jing through her milk.
The old imperial physician’s eyes lit up, “This is very likely. This old official still needs to check the medical books … But thanks to the princess, I’m finally not a headless fly.”
The old imperial physician stroked his beard with relief, “This old official should be able to confirm it in less than half a month.”
Li Yu seemed to have seen the dawn of hope and threatened to wait for the good news from the imperial physician.
Although it wasn’t completely confirmed yet, he still asked the old imperial physician to keep it a secret.
King Jing had been poisoned for a long time. Li Yu temporarily locked onto Pu Liu as the person who poisoned him. However, why would an insignificant wet nurse harm the empress’s son? There was also the eunuch who competed with Pu Liu. From his memory, Pu Liu wasn’t willing to eat the poison. At least, the existence of the eunuch meant that the poisoning was definitely not Pu Liu’s idea alone.
In fact, Li Yu also looked for the eunuch, but because the eunuch looked very ordinary, Wang Xi said that eunuchs like Pu Liu were everywhere in the palace. Compared to the eunuch, it was obvious that the position of Pu Liu’s wet nurse was more likely to be a breakthrough. Therefore, Li Yu focused all his attention on Pu Liu.
Now that he thought about it, if Pu Liu was driven out of the palace, then what about the eunuch? Could the person who poisoned King Jing still exist in the palace, and even the emperor didn’t know about it?
This was almost certain. However, it had been more than twenty years, which meant that the other party might be in a high position and might be someone that even they didn’t expect.
For the sake of caution, it was better not to disclose it to the public. What if the other party wanted to make a move on King Jing again?
Li Yu came out of the imperial physician’s office and went straight to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
The emperor was still very happy that there was a clue to the poison in King Jing. Although the old imperial physician hadn’t confirmed it, the emperor felt that Pu Liu definitely had something to do with the poison just by knowing that there was a paper bag with poison hidden in the cloth tiger. Li Yu also suggested that the emperor keep it a secret, and the emperor also felt the same.
“It’s all thanks to you,” the emperor said warmly.
In the past, the emperor had conferred Li Yu as King Jing’s First Consort and treated Li Yu kindly, mostly because of King Jing and the children. During this trip to the hunting ground, he had spent more time with Li Yu. After witnessing the affection between King Jing and Li Yu, as well as the efforts that Li Yu had made to find clues, the emperor had become very trusting of Li Yu even though he didn’t say it out loud. At this moment, he felt that King Jing had a very good eye.
Li Yu said that they should keep it a secret, and the emperor also agreed. However, the emperor’s thinking was more far-reaching than Li Yu’s.
Pu Liu had poisoned the infant King Jing, so what about the other two princes she had taken care of, the First Prince and the Fourth Prince?
Some things were extremely frightening to think about. The death of the First Prince and the Fourth Prince was an untouchable pain in the emperor’s heart, and now he had to harden his heart and investigate it.
If it was really …
The emperor stared at the red brush in his hand for a long time. No matter who the culprit was, he would definitely tear them into pieces. Only in this way could he answer to the Empress Xiaohui in the netherworld.
Li Yu, after receiving the old imperial physician’s promise for half a month, went to test the system again and asked a number of questions.
Was the poison in King Jing related to the snow crow seed?
Could King Jing’s muteness be cured?
Could King Jing speak again after his muteness was cured?
…
The fish that had always been tricked by the system finally rose up and tricked the system a number of times.
The series of silence from the tricking system made the carp spirit straighten her back.
“There’s still half a month. The results will be out in half a month!” Li Yu happily reminded King Jing.
King Jing saw that Xiaoyu had been busy finding the poison powder for him, so he was no longer worried that he would leave first.
Xiaoyu had saved him again. King Jing thought with a gentle gaze that he should continue to occupy the carp spirit and repay her with his body.
“Tianchi, if one day you can speak again, what would you say?”
Li Yu could not hastily inform King Jing that his muteness was related to poison. However, it should not be a problem for him to look forward to it.
If such a day really came, King Jing had actually thought about it before. He smiled and wrote that he would want to call his father and his children.
Most of all …
He paused and looked at Li Yu.
Most of all, I would want to call your name. King Jing wrote.
Li Yu was so touched that he sniffled. He imagined that if he could really hear King Jing call his name, he would not be afraid even if he was turned into bones and ashes.
Finally, under Li Yu’s enthusiastic expectations, half a month passed.
During this period, Chief Steward Luo, who had been sent by the Emperor to look for Pu Liu, returned with news that Pu Liu had died an unnatural death on her way back to her hometown after leaving the palace.
Pu Liu’s death made the poisoning of King Jing even more confusing.
Although the search for Pu Liu’s whereabouts was not successful, the old imperial physician gave a happy answer.
For the past half a month, the old imperial physician had been reading medical books and using himself to test the medicine. He confirmed that King Jing was poisoned by a mixture of snow crow seed and angelica. This was within Li Yu’s expectations. However, Li Yu found it difficult to accept the old imperial physician’s method to detoxify the poison.
Snow crow seed’s poison was very difficult to eradicate. The old imperial physician believed that the only way was to fight poison with poison. However, this method was very dangerous. The two types of poison would fight each other and weaken King Jing’s body. If he was not careful, he could put King Jing in danger of being poisoned by another type of poison.
The old imperial physician dared to suggest this because the Imperial Academy of Medicine had an antidote for the other type of poison. Compared to snow crow seed, this type of poison was much easier to deal with.
Li Yu was still a little hesitant, but King Jing had already nodded his head in agreement.
Xiao Yu tried her best to clear the way for him. How could he not take this path seriously?
After King Jing took the poison, he vomited more and more black blood. The old imperial physician believed that this was the effect of fighting poison with poison. King Jing tossed and turned in pain. His inner clothes were completely soaked. The old imperial physician only allowed King Jing to take the antidote after he had vomited all the black blood.
After taking the antidote, King Jing fell into a deep sleep.
Li Yu stayed by his bedside the entire time. His heart ached. The Emperor also came to visit several times to comfort King Jing’s children. However, perhaps because the other type of poison was too strong, King Jing did not wake up even after taking the antidote.
The Emperor was almost worried to death. The old imperial physician also could not diagnose the cause of King Jing’s illness. Although his pulse was weak, it was not completely lifeless.
Li Yu was very afraid that King Jing would become a vegetable. Every day, he would talk to King Jing non-stop and tell him some interesting stories about his sons.
On this day, Li Yu was talking about how the Emperor had decided to send Da Bao and the others to the imperial study for the Grand Secretary to teach them. The Grand Secretary could not do anything about these lively and adorable children.
Da Bao listened to the lesson very seriously. As a one-year-old child, he could sit up straight. After he started learning, he took the initiative to discover the mistake regarding ‘rice’.
Er Bao and San Bao had a very good relationship. They were so close that they took turns to listen to the Grand Secretary’s lecture and play with him. The Grand Secretary did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Si Bao slept through the entire lesson. He did not know who this child resembled.
Li Yu’s voice was full of emotion. She was thirsty and when she turned around to pour herself some water, she suddenly heard someone call out in a hoarse voice, “Xiao … Yu …”
For a moment, he thought that he had heard wrongly.
This voice was very hoarse and unpleasant to the ears. The pronunciation was not even right. However, it was full of affection and seemed to be deja vu.
