ebookland Chapter 177 Laughter
Chapter 177 Laughter
Everyone in the room was surprised by the nanny's audacity. The hall, which was still noisy just now, suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The emperor's face darkened and anger emanated from his entire body.
"Su Peisheng, bring her in!"
Hearing the emperor's majestic order, the queen sitting next to him couldn't help but feel her heart skip a beat.
Could it be that Aunt Shulu has a backup plan that she doesn't know about?
As the light at the door dimmed, Aunt Shulu with disheveled hair appeared in sight.
Two strong guards followed behind her to prevent her from going crazy and colliding with the masters.
"Your servant pays respect to His Majesty!"
Seeing her standing and saluting, the guard behind her kicked her to her knees.
"You bold and treacherous slave! You still refuse to tell the truth in front of the Emperor!"
Su Peisheng shouted loudly.
"Who ordered this?"
"Who ordered this? Let me think about it carefully..."
Nanny Shulu gently tucked the hair that fell on her cheek behind her ear, and then started from the top and swept through the concubines in the hall.
He kept muttering to himself.
"It's not this one, and it's not this one either. Which one is it?"
Concubine Hua looked at the weird people in the hall and muttered to herself.
"Isn't this person crazy?"
Others thought so too, and the nervous queen breathed a sigh of relief.
The emperor stared at Su Peisheng with a bad expression, signaling him to deal with it quickly.
Su Peisheng only regretted that he had been too gentle and failed to knock out the naughty slave who was talking nonsense in front of him.
He had no choice but to shout.
"How dare you, Shulu clan, confess the truth!"
The person kneeling on the ground was frightened and shouted.
"Don't do it! I'll tell you now. The one who ordered me to do this is the Queen..."
Hua Fei suddenly looked up at the Queen, whose expression changed slightly. She was about to make a sarcastic remark, but the kneeling person started counting on his fingers to add something.
"There are also Concubine Duan, Concubine Hua, Concubine Wan, Concubine Jing, Concubine Hui, Concubine Cao, Concubine Chun... and Concubine Rou."
Nanny Shulu counted all the concubines in the harem.
She was still shouting as she was dragged away again.
"Marrying an unvirtuous wife ruins three generations, and choosing a bad husband ruins a lifetime!"
"By the way, this old servant was instructed by the Queen Mother. She..."
Seeing that Madam Shulu was talking more and more outrageously, Su Peisheng quickly covered her mouth.
The atmosphere in the hall was extremely awkward. The queen suppressed the slightly raised corners of her mouth and made a suggestion in a low voice.
"Your Majesty, I think Madam Shulu seems a little abnormal. Would you like to send a royal physician to take a look?"
No matter what the reason was for Aunt Shulu's nonsense, it didn't cause her any trouble.
As long as the person is taken away, there will be no shortage of opportunities to silence him.
The emperor took a sip of warm tea irritably.
"Then let Zhang Wuwei go and take a look."
Although Diao Nu seemed to be crazy, the emperor felt that she was right about one thing.
There must be someone in the harem who can't stand Concubine Shu's good fortune.
He summoned Zhang Wuwei to deal with emergencies.
The babbling Mama Shulu was imprisoned in a small room. Wei Lin stared at the layer of beeswax wrapped around the pill in a trance.
After a long time, he gently scraped off a thin layer of beeswax while wearing gloves, and found that there was an unknown powder mixed in the thin layer of beeswax.
Wei Lin scraped off a little and fed it to the rabbit in the cage.
As soon as Zhang Wuwei came in, he saw the rabbit in the cage running around abnormally.
"Wei Lin, what did you feed the rabbit?"
"Master Zhang, I fed it some powder I scraped off the beeswax layer. It looks to me like the Datura powder mentioned in the Compendium of Materia Medica of the previous dynasty."
The two looked at each other and went to search the room where Aunt Shulu lived.
Datura powder was also found in the lip balm she used.
The box containing the lip balm was so mottled that it was impossible to tell which perfume shop it came from.
Zhang Wuwei hurriedly informed Su Peisheng of the results of his investigation. He did not dare to delay and immediately reported it to the emperor.
"Su Peisheng, have Zhang Wuwei and Wei Lin wait outside. Anything sent in for Concubine Shu to eat must be strictly inspected."
The content of Datura powder in Shulu Mama lip balm is not much, but the effect is significant when accumulated.
If someone mixed a large amount of medicinal powder into Concubine Shu's food, the consequences would be unimaginable.
What happened outside the delivery room soon reached An Lingrong's ears.
She glanced at the ginseng soup on the table and winked at Baoque.
Baoque brought over the ginseng soup without changing his expression.
"My Lady, this ginseng soup is a little cold. I will take it down and heat it up."
"Go quickly, and don't let the Queen down."
There was nothing wrong with the soup in the bowl. An Lingrong didn't know if her nose was malfunctioning, but she seemed to smell something from the bowl.
When Baoque lifted the curtain, he saw some sediment at the bottom of the delicate white porcelain bowl.
She calmly approached the two people who were warming themselves by the fire under the porch and asked with a smile.
"Doctor Wei, I have some ginseng soup in the small room. Could you please see if there are any other herbs that could be added to nourish the Empress?"
"Master Zhang, thank you for keeping watch. I will be back soon."
Wei Lin knew that the ginseng soup was cooked by the Queen's order, so even if he wanted to investigate, he couldn't do it in the yard.
Zhang Wuwei waved his hand and let him go. It can indeed bring out the greatest medicinal effect on the human body when combined with other medicinal herbs.
The round ginseng slices and ginseng roots were clearly visible in the white porcelain bowl. Wei Lin put the bowl to his nose and smelled a slight bitter taste mixed with an indescribable flavor.
He put a piece of ginseng slice into his mouth and chewed it for a few times, and his face changed drastically.
I took out another piece from the casserole and put it in my mouth. It still had the familiar taste of dried vegetables.
Wei Lin asked Baoque for a bowl, filled half a bowl with light yellow "ginseng soup" and brought it to Zhang Wuwei.
"Master Zhang, could you please try this bowl of soup?"
Zhang Wuwei had long heard that Concubine Shu of Yonghe Palace was considerate of her subordinates and often made soup for them.
He thought this was also the soup that the Empress had ordered, so he took a big gulp without hesitation.
"Wow! Ginseng-flavored carrot soup, Madam Shufei is really..."
Zhang Wuwei finally reacted and swallowed the word "generous".
He looked at Wei Lin with a serious face and spoke with certainty.
"Is this the same pot of ginseng soup that was brought into the delivery room?"
"Master Zhang has sharp eyes. Nothing can escape your scrutiny."
The ginseng was brought by the queen, and the one used to cook the soup was the Jianqiu that she favored.
If I don't want the people from Yonghe Palace to be involved, I can only let the person in front of me report it.
He is the emperor's personal physician. If others want to do something to him, they must also consider the master behind him.
Zhang Wuwei looked at Wei Lin deeply, took the chopsticks handed to him, picked up a piece of round ginseng and a ginseng root, and put them into his mouth to chew.
"Your Majesty, I have discovered something unusual about the ginseng soup delivered to the delivery room. It wasn't ginseng at all, but radish smoked with sulfur, with only a few ginseng roots remaining."
"Queen! You brought this ginseng here. How do you explain it?"
As soon as the emperor came in, he learned from Concubine Hua that the queen had given Concubine Shu a fifty-year-old ginseng to replenish her blood.
At that time, I felt very pleased and praised the queen in front of everyone. Now it seems like a big joke.
"Your Majesty, I don't know why ginseng turns into a radish. This ginseng is..."
The queen looked at the emperor in embarrassment, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.