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Chapter 299
"There is something wrong with this meal. Don't blame me for testing you just now. This is the palace, and you and I brought these here. Of course I will be the first to doubt you."

Eji immediately stood up, knelt on the ground, looked at Chen Yi and said.

"It was the servant's mistake. The food was actually poisonous. What I taught you is that the servant will truthfully report to the Second Highness and receive the punishment, but please rest assured, the servant will not betray the Second Highness, and there is no harm in the slightest." heart of."

Seeing Er Ji like this, Chen Yi stepped forward and pulled him up.

"You don't have to be so nervous. Sit down and say, didn't I just say that? I was testing you. I already know that you don't know anything about this matter. How can I blame you? It's just that I'm worried that it's not accidental, is it? To target me is to target the king."

After listening to Chen Yi's analysis, Er Ji broke out in cold sweat instantly.

Seeing Eji's pale face, Chen Yi asked Eji seriously.

"Eji, let me ask you, who gave you this food box? Or who ordered you to prepare it?"

Eji didn't dare to tell lies, so he calmed down and knew that this matter was very important, so he recalled it carefully before speaking.

"Before the Second Highness left, he told the servant that he must take good care of the sir, so I thought it was time for dinner, but the king is injured, so naturally there is no need to pass the meal. Our slave can wait, but sir cannot."

Chen Yi nodded, and asked Eji to continue talking.

"I originally wanted to ask the master, but when the master went to see the king, I thought of going to the imperial dining room to have a look. As a result, the people in the imperial dining room were very enthusiastic about me when they saw me going, saying that the master had asked them to prepare it before. The food box is ready, let me take it back."

Chen Yi was a little surprised when he heard this. Eunuch Huang prepared it?

It is also possible that the imperial dining room falsely passed on Eunuch Huang's message, but we will not know until Eunuch Huang returns.

He put the piece away and continued to question Eji.

"Did you meet anyone on the way back? Or did something happen, did the food box in your hand leave your hand?"

Chen Yi asked in detail, Eji didn't dare to neglect, and thought about everything on the way he walked from the imperial dining room.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened, not even a few people encountered.

So Eji said with certainty: "No, the slave didn't meet anyone, and the food boxes along the way didn't leave the slave's hands. The slave can be very sure, and I'm worried that people will know that Mr. is still here. Avoid people."

Chen Yi felt a little strange. Could it be that the imperial dining room had already been poisoned?
But it's very strange, could it be that he has prepared poison for himself before?

It was a temporary decision for him to enter the palace. It was a bit strange that Eunuch Huang ordered the imperial dining room before. He came in to heal the Lord of Liao Kingdom, but Eunuch Huang should be thinking about the injury of the Lord of Liao Kingdom with all his heart.

How could it be possible to go to the imperial dining room halfway and order to prepare a food box for myself?
This is too unreasonable, and how did they know that Eji would take the initiative to find food for himself in the imperial dining room?

No matter how you think about it, there are many doubts.

Now Chen Yi doesn't dare to doubt the third prince. It is estimated that at that time, the third prince was still in the hands of the queen and General Chen. How could there be such idle work to do these things?

Chen Yi was a little depressed, the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and he had no clue at all.

Seeing that Chen Yi was so distressed, Er Ji couldn't help but want to make up for his mistakes, so he took the initiative to speak.

"Mr. Zishang, why don't you let the slaves check it out?"

"No, what time is it now, this matter can't make a big deal, and I should be a dead person now, I can't let other people know, or I will usher in a murderous disaster."

Chen Yi immediately stopped Eji, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh.

Before, he thought that he could be the hands-off shopkeeper and wait for the development of things.

I didn't expect the retribution to be so fast, and within a meal, a new person hiding in the dark appeared.

This person must be found out, the sooner the better, or what if it is the lord of the country?
Chen Yi always had an intuition that this matter should have something to do with the third prince.

Although the third prince didn't have time to do it, the poison would not lie.

In fact, when Chen Yi studied pharmacology with Fang Xuan before, Fang Xuan told him that poison is more likely to reveal a person's identity than antidote.

Before Chen Yi didn't understand, Fang Xuan just raised his mouth.

The meaning seems to be that everyone's habits are the same, and there is also a preference for the study of poisons.

For example, when Fang Xuan was young, when he met a person, he liked a certain poisonous weed, and all the poisons of that person were related to this poisonous weed.

There are also people who like powdered medicine, so all the poisons made by that person are in powder form.

So Fang Xuan told him that as long as you study a person's poison, you will be able to recognize his poison again later.

This is the situation of Chen Yi now, although the poison this time is not the same as the poison given to the king of Liao.

At that time, the pharmacology of poisons was the same, and they all needed to be mixed to be effective.

This person seems to like to split all the poison into several non-toxic parts, and give people the unused things separately, so that people can mix the poison by themselves unconsciously.

At least on the surface, it doesn't look poisonous, and it has a wicked taste of deception.

Eji saw that Chen Yi was thinking, and he didn't dare to speak for fear of disturbing Chen Yi.

When Chen Yi came back to his senses, he looked at Er Ji and said, "We won't come forward about this matter, don't get caught by someone's pigtails of His Highness Second Highness, after all, now is an extraordinary moment, and this matter is left to the Lord , you go to see Eunuch Huang later and call him over."

Eji nodded and stood up worriedly.

"Slave, let's go out and have a look, sir, you have to be careful, I will come as soon as I go."

Chen Yi waved Eji to go out, looking at the dishes on the table in front of him.

Suddenly feeling a little melancholy, when he was hungry, he could only watch but not eat, it was really tormenting, Chen Yi stood up and left the table, simply out of sight and out of mind.

Chen Yi quietly put it inside and waited for the news of Eji. It doesn't matter whether this matter is aimed at him or not.

Anyway, just be careful yourself, and it won't be the second prince of Liao who did it.

Could he take advantage of this incident to drive a wedge between the leader of the Liao Kingdom and other princes?
It's just that there are not many people who need him to provoke now, and he can go to see the fourth prince in a while, and he still doesn't feel relieved if he doesn't go there to confirm the injury of the fourth prince in person.

(End of this chapter)