Reborn as a Sickly Child: The Emperor's Beloved

Gao Jinyi looked at his bloody arm, where two pieces of flesh were missing, and looked at Shen Yanyan with fear in his eyes.

She is simply not a human being.

"What? You still want to try it." Shen Yanyan looked at Gao Jinyi with cold eyes and raised the knife as if she was going to start slicing meat the next moment.

Gao Jinyi was startled. Ignoring the severe pain in his hand, he supported himself on the ground, stared at Shen Yanyan, and took two steps back.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you..." Gao Jinyi looked at the bloody dagger in her hand, his face full of horror.

Shen Yanyan would really peel off her flesh piece by piece if she did that.

"My father had someone send me a porcelain bottle. I don't know what kind of poison it is. He just asked me to find a chance to see His Majesty and open the porcelain bottle." Gao Jinyi told him the whole story.

"When was it delivered?"

"Before I saw His Majesty."

Zheng Jing outside the cell suddenly changed his expression. She had been here before seeing His Majesty. Since there were people of Prime Minister Gao in the secret cell, it was his negligence. He was the one who harmed His Majesty.

Shen Yanyan looked at her frightened eyes and knew that she was not lying.

He turned to look at Concubine Jiang and Noble Lady Sun, who were so frightened that they stepped back.

"Empress, please spare me. I really don't know anything." Concubine Jiang shouted loudly, as if the knife in Shen Yanyan's hand would fall on him in the next moment.

"Your Majesty, I don't know either. Please spare my life." Concubine Sun also quickly echoed.

Shen Yanyan frowned. It seemed that these two people really knew nothing.

But no one else in the palace had colluded with Prime Minister Gao. On the way here, she also heard Zheng Jing talk about what happened that night. Now it seems that the poison was cast by Gao Jin, but she did not even get close to Xiao Jingzhan, so how did he cast the poison?

"How did you two get into the palace? Tell me clearly, from the time you left home to the time you came to the palace until today," Shen Yanyan looked at the two of them with a cold face. There must be something they missed that she didn't know.

Xiao Jingzhan has countless imperial doctors around him. As an emperor, his food and clothing are strictly checked every day by special people. It is impossible for the Gu to get onto his body through the cell for no reason. It would be strange if there was no contact between them.

The two began to talk about what happened after they left home. Shen Yanyan listened with her brows furrowed deeper and deeper. They were all ordinary things, nothing special.

"Stop, you two said you had no training before entering the palace?"

The two nodded.

“What does the training consist of?”

"It's about how to serve His Majesty, and taking care of your body every day, such as bathing and soaking in the bath."

Take a bath?

There are ladies who take all kinds of rare milk baths to make their skin more delicate and white. These two people are willing to spend so much at home, but those things are hard to find, and they soak in them every day.

"Milk bath?" Shen Yanyan looked at the two of them in confusion.

They both shook their heads and said, "It's just ordinary perfume powder." How can you take a milk bath every day?

Shen Yanyan moved closer to the two of them, and sure enough, in addition to the smell of blood and some stink, there was a faint fragrance on both of them. She didn't know if it was Shen Yanyan's illusion, but she felt that the two fragrances were the same.

Shen Yanyan squatted in front of the two people, sniffed close to Concubine Jiang, and then sniffed close to Concubine Sun. Sure enough, the smell on the two was the same.

“Do you soak the powder every day?”

The two nodded.

"Where is the remaining incense powder?" Shen Yanyan asked

"They are all in the bedroom." The two didn't understand what was wrong with the perfume powder.

Shen Yanyan has been immersed in medicinal herbs since she was a child and is very familiar with the smell of medicine. There is a faint smell of medicinal herbs in the fragrance of the two of them. Most people can't smell it, but her nose is very sensitive and she can smell it when she gets a little closer.

Shen Yanyan stood up and walked out of the cell.

"Send someone to search their bedrooms and bring all the perfume and powder to the Yangxin Palace." After Shen Yanyan finished speaking, she walked outside.

Some things seem to have already revealed signs. Once confirmed, we will know how Xiao Jingzhan was poisoned.

"Yes," Zheng Jing looked at her back with some surprise. This queen is really a character. They have been interrogating her for so long without any clues, but she has found out the clues in just a short while.

Spies, poison, and perfume powder, these things are extremely important, but he didn't find out anything about them.

Shen Yanyan returned to the Yangxin Palace, took a bath, and changed into palace clothes.

Dongxue and Xiazhu had just stepped out when they saw Zheng Jing bringing the medicine powder over.

Shen Yanyan smelled and looked at it but couldn't see any problem.

"Go and invite the miracle doctor over."

There must be something wrong with this powder.

The women of Li Country all love to apply perfumed ointment, and no one usually uses perfumed powder. But why do the two of them have to soak in perfumed powder every day, and why are they arranged to sleep with her in the emperor's bedchamber? She always feels that something is not normal here.

As soon as Doctor Hua stepped into the hall, he frowned, looked at the perfumed powder in her hand, and quickly walked forward to pick it up for inspection.

"Where did it come from?"

"Is there something wrong with this medicine powder?" Shen Yanyan looked at him in surprise.

"More than a problem, this incense powder is the source of the poison."

"The kind of Gu that he was infected with is called the Heart-Eating Gu. This Gu has a habit of liking the light grass that is unique to the southwestern tribe. If this grass is ground into powder, the medicinal effect of the grass will be doubled. If it is infected with this grass, the Heart-Eating Gu likes it the most. No matter how far away they are, as long as they smell the scent of this grass, they will climb into the host's body regardless of everything."

"But Xiao Jingzhan has never used this thing." She was with him almost every day, and she had never smelled this kind of thing on him recently.

Doctor Hua shook his head and said, "I haven't used it, but if you get infected, the medicinal properties will penetrate from the skin into the bones and blood, and will stay there for more than half a year, and it will be extremely difficult to get rid of it."

"The human body may not be able to smell this odor, but for something like Gu insects, they will flock to it at the slightest odor, which is very scary."

Shen Yanyan suddenly understood the connection between them.

Arranging Concubine Jiang and Noble Lady Sun to sleep with the emperor was not for the purpose of offspring, assassination or anything else.

Prime Minister Gao had planned this long ago just to let Xiao Jingzhan be infected with the powder. He blatantly sent people into the palace without assigning them any tasks, just to cover up the truth. The real purpose of these two people was for this day.

Xiao Jingzhan was only concerned with finding out the purpose of these two people, but these two people didn't know what their purpose was, so Xiao Jingzhan naturally wouldn't find out anything.

The sky is blocked out and the light is dark.

That was his original plan.

Shen Yanyan felt a chill on her back.

The purpose of putting it on the surface is to cover up the maggots in the dark. As expected, he is a powerful official who deceived everyone. No wonder Xiao Jingzhan was on guard against it, but still fell into the trap.

As long as Xiao Jingzhan dies, the whole chess game will fall apart. Without a backbone, the political situation will be in turmoil and the world will be overturned in an instant.

Shen Yanyan didn't dare to think about what the situation would be like today if she hadn't written a letter early to ask the Valley Master to come to the capital. If Xiao Jingzhan died, she would not be able to live.