The Queen has arrived: An Lingrong does not want to fight in the palace after her rebirth

Concubine Duan is sick again.

This time I really got sick.

After the Lantern Festival, Concubine Duan began to feel weak. At first she thought it was due to attending two consecutive palace banquets.

But gradually, she felt dizzy and occasionally heard someone whispering in her ear.

He began to lose appetite and became thinner and thinner. Within a few days, he was so emaciated that he was unrecognizable. Later, he developed a cough, and his condition became more and more serious day by day. He used to be able to walk and stand, but now he is completely bedridden and is showing signs of being seriously ill.

An Lingrong and Zhou Bing tried several prescriptions, but there was no improvement.

She thought that she had clearly turned the situation around on Lantern Festival night, but there was still a faint smile on Li Ying's lips, which made her feel uneasy.

Suddenly she thought of a possibility, and asked Concubine Duan with a serious expression:

"Sister Duan, please think carefully, have you come into contact with any strange people or things recently?"

At this time, Concubine Duan's words were so soft that her voice was as soft as a mosquito's:

"I know you want to ask if I was poisoned. I have had this thought before, but I have been in the palace for many years and I think I have seen a lot. After investigating, I have not found any clues."

After managing to say a few words, Concubine Duan became so weak that she lay on the bed, unable to speak anymore.

An Lingrong was heartbroken. She had spent countless efforts to restore Concubine Duan's health, but this time she was ambushed. If she couldn't find the cause, Concubine Duan would run out of energy and die within three months.

And this is the cleverness of the plan. After all, Concubine Duan had been bedridden for many years, and the symptoms of her illness then were no different from those now. Moreover, she has been working hard for palace affairs for more than half a year, and it is possible that she has wasted her energy again and her old illness has recurred.

These words were the excuses used by other people in the Imperial Hospital when reporting to the Emperor.

Zhou Bing looked at An Lingrong, who had a cold face, and proposed a possibility: "Madam, when I was young, I traveled to Yunnan and Guizhou, and I have seen many rare and difficult diseases in the local area. They are not sick, but poisoned by Gu."

An Lingrong had also looked up the matter of poisoning in the medical book she had obtained, but did not find anything that matched Concubine Duan's symptoms. Seeing that Zhou Bing had the same idea, she signaled him to continue with her eyes.

"The matter of Gu sounds mysterious, but everything has a traceable path. The Qianjin Prescription and Qingli Shanzhi Prescription both have corresponding methods. The illness of Concubine Duan is very similar to what I saw in my early years. What is missing now is just what kind of Gu it is."

The problem goes back to the original root. Whether it is poison or witchcraft, the root cause must be found.

An Lingrong frowned, constantly thinking about the details of the two palace banquets on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival, trying to find the points that they had overlooked.

Wait! Must it be at these two times? She seemed to have made a mistake. Their precautions had always been focused on the two palace banquets, but how could someone who wanted to harm someone choose only these two times?

Just like the noble lady Fucha before, the queen's methods were extremely confusing, and this time they were even more interconnected.

There are poisons that can take a person's life immediately, while others remain dormant and wait to be triggered by something else.

If you choose a dormant poison, you have to start from Concubine Duan's daily habits.

But Concubine Duan in Yanqing Palace has already been checked and found no problems.

Then we have to look for the reason outside, Jingren Palace? No, the queen now has a killing weapon in her hand, she will never do it in her own territory.

Imperial kitchen? Ministry of Internal Affairs?

Because of the palace banquet before the New Year, Concubine Duan had more contact with these two places, and both places were populated by the Queen's people.

It's impossible in the imperial kitchen. The Queen still has unrealistic feelings for the Emperor and will never do anything that might accidentally hurt the Emperor.

That is the Imperial Household Department. An Lingrong's mind raced.

Charcoal! The Queen had used charcoal with ground beetles added to it to harm Noble Lady Fucha, causing her to die of dystocia and blood loss. What if the Queen used the same trick again?

Who says this trick can only be used once? As long as the queen thinks she will not be noticed, she can still use such a secretive and insidious trick.

Lanterns! An Lingrong thought of the key point of the problem. At that time, the Queen had said that Concubine Duan would supervise the making of lanterns. At that time, they were only worried that the Queen would destroy them or use the lanterns to frame someone. But what if the lanterns were used to cast a curse?

As soon as this thought came to her mind, An Lingrong thought of more possibilities.

Lanterns are made of various materials, including silk, satin, colored glaze, and paper. If you put a curse on them, things may go wrong.

But what about pigments used for coloring? Many pigments come from minerals, plants, medicinal herbs and even various insects. This is a good time.

The more An Lingrong thought about it, the more horrified she felt. In this life, the Queen had Li Ying's poisoned hidden weapon in her hand, and her actions became more extreme and vicious.

How dare you use this kind of evil thing to harm people? Aren’t you afraid of backlash?

She told Concubine Duan about her discovery.

Concubine Duan lay on the bed with her eyes slowly moving, as if she was recalling everything that happened during the lantern making process. After a long while, she forced herself to gather her resolve:

"Lingrong, I remember now. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Queen and I went to the Imperial Household Department together. It happened that the Golden Dragon Lantern was being painted. To show respect, the Queen asked someone to mix two bowls of paint and asked me to add color to the Golden Dragon with her."

Speaking of taking a short break:

"It's just that Jianqiu gently touched my elbow while I was adding color, and my finger got stuck in the paint bowl. It took me a lot of effort to wash my hand clean. At that time, there was a wound like a pinhole on my hand. I thought it was the minerals that were not sieved clean in the paint that rubbed my hand. Now I think about it, it's really a vicious heart that you can't guard against."

After Concubine Duan finished speaking with a pause, her frail face was filled with hatred. She actually deserved the Queen's tortuous treatment. She was also careless. Who would have thought that a small bowl of paint could hide such murderous intent.

She said bitterly, "But this time, it's hard to find any traces of the paint. I really don't want to be harmed by her like this."

An Lingrong was also blaming herself in her heart, but now was not the time to pursue it. She comforted her, "Sister Duan, the most urgent thing is to draw out the poisonous insect in your body. Doctor Zhou and I will definitely protect your life, but Sister Duan will suffer in the process. As for this revenge, we will avenge it together after Sister Duan recovers."

When she said the last sentence, there was murderous intent in her eyes.

Every time she faced the queen, she was passive and defensive, and each time she caused injuries or even deaths to the people around her.

The plot of the Queen and her gang during the Lantern Festival was extremely vicious. If she hadn't made a big deal out of it, she would have been caught in bed with the Queen that night. By then, in public, how could she, a person who had damaged the reputation of the royal family, have survived?

She had just felt lucky to have escaped a disaster, but she never expected that Concubine Duan was attacked again with a plot that threatened her life.

The Queen didn't give her any chance to survive, so she would no longer be polite. After curing Concubine Duan, she would repay her debt.

But before An Lingrong could find an effective way to cure the poison, Concubine Qi got into trouble.