If An Lingrong was reborn before the draft

Since it is poisoning, the usual practice is to first check the diet within the past six months. What's more, it is the same poison as the emperor, so we have to see if there is any overlap with the emperor's diet.

But as the only person who understood, the queen did not want to say anything. Although she was in charge of the situation, she did not want the emperor to wake up. Because she had done enough as a queen. How could she be different from a decoration if she was not favored but only respected? At most, she was an important decoration.

Compared with this, she wanted to be the queen mother and empress dowager. No matter who the next emperor was, she would be that queen mother and empress dowager.

Of course, the doctors in the Imperial Hospital were not fools, and they soon discovered something. They compared the diet of Concubine Wan with that of the emperor and found that the weather had turned cooler in recent days, and the emperor had been eating more stewed meat and roasted lamb, while Concubine Wan, who was pregnant, would use more bird's nests, abortion-protecting medicines and other foods. On the surface, these foods and medicines seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but the special thing about these foods was that they all contained licorice, either as a seasoning or as a medicine. However, although licorice, a Chinese medicinal material, can be slightly toxic if consumed improperly, it is not fatal. Moreover, how could it form signs of chronic poisoning after being used by the Imperial Kitchen and the Imperial Hospital? Why? What exactly would change the medicinal properties of licorice?

Just when everyone was puzzled, Prince Guo arrived. He heard that the emperor had fainted and came to see the emperor to find out the truth.

As soon as he entered the Yangxin Palace, he saw the potted plants on the table and asked the Empress in confusion, "Sister-in-law, why are these flowers placed here? They are poisonous."

The queen pretended to be puzzled and surprised and immediately stood up and asked, "It's poisonous, how could it be? This flower has been here for several months?"

Prince Guo was also shocked, "What? It has been here for several months. Is my brother's illness related to this?"

Only a few people in the harem knew that the emperor was poisoned. Most people in the former court and the harem only knew that the emperor was ill and had fainted while reviewing memorials. Except for the palace maids who were detained, everyone thought that he fell ill because of the overwork.

Since Prince Guo said that Wuhua was poisonous, the Queen could only summon the imperial physician to investigate Wuhua and the palace maids in the flower room who were related to Wuhua. It was not easy to investigate Wuhua, and it was even more difficult to investigate the palace maids in Wuhua, because several eunuchs related to Wuhua were already dead. Some drowned, some fell, and the old eunuch Kang Gonggong in the flower room hanged himself.

This is as obvious as lice on a bald man's head, but the clue has been lost and it is difficult to investigate further.

However, the most urgent task was to save the emperor. Now that they knew the root of the disease, it would be easier to prescribe medicine. The imperial doctors urgently studied the toxicity of the emperor and Concubine Wan and prepared medicine for them. After drinking two or three doses of medicine, the emperor finally woke up.

Today, the one serving by the bed was Concubine Hua. Seeing that the emperor had woken up, she pretended to be excited and asked, "Your Majesty, you finally woke up, but I was so worried about you."

The emperor was still confused when he woke up. He only remembered that he was reading a memorial in front of the desk. The censors impeached Nian Gengyao for being more powerful than the emperor, and even asked all officials to kneel down to welcome him. He was so angry that he forgot everything. He asked, "What happened? Why did I faint?"

Concubine Hua said worriedly, "Your Majesty, do you remember? You fainted because of poisoning. Are you still feeling unwell now?"

"Poisoned, I'm poisoned?" Upon hearing the poisoning, the emperor's first reaction was which treacherous minister was secretly harming him, or were his brothers having some improper thoughts?

"Yes, you were poisoned. I heard from Prince Guo that you were poisoned by the plant of the Chinese calendula. Eating Chinese calendula together with licorice will produce a chronic poison that caused you to be poisoned without knowing it." While answering, Concubine Hua also remembered that Prince Guo had walked along the Silk Road to the Western Regions, so it was understandable that he knew the medicinal properties of the Chinese calendula.

"How is the investigation going on? What do the former dynasty and the harem think about this?" The emperor couldn't help but still worry about the turmoil in the former dynasty, and wanted to know whether it was the same as he thought?

"The former court and the harem all praised the emperor for his benevolence and for being a blessing to all the people."