His Majesty once married me

The night of the incident was the eve of the holiday.

This afternoon, when the housekeeper Zhuang delivered the new peach, red, willow and green to the Summer Palace, he also brought in Su Su's modified outfits—to be exact, two cat and dog outfits remade from rabbit skin. Hand it over to Ouyang.

So, that night, a "cat and dog battle" was staged in the summer palace.

Although Ouyang and Qi Yunheng agreed to use lottery to determine the ownership of the suit, cheating was too easy for Ouyang, so he asked Qi Yunheng to "draw" away the dog suit and leave the cat suit to Ouyang without any effort. own.

But after taking out the cat costume and dog costume, Ouyang regretted it.

Although the dog suit makes people feel unhappy because of the word dog, the tail of the dog suit is fixed on the belt. When the belt is tied around the hips and thighs, the dog's tail just hangs down at the lower part of the back waist. .However, the tail of the cat costume is glued to a finger-shaped jade stone, which is obviously intended to be "inserted" into it.

——Bastard Su Su, let's wait and see!

Ouyang was very depressed, but Qi Yunheng smiled happily.

It's just that Qi Yunheng's good mood didn't last long. Just as he pressed Ouyang on the bear skin in the center of the dormitory and was playing with the cat's tail, Eunuch Wei hurried in.

"Your Majesty, something happened."

Eunuch Wei watched his nose with his eyes and his mouth with his nose, and tried his best to see no evil, but Qi Yunheng hadn't evolved enough to continue having fun in the presence of a third party, so he immediately pulled off the clothes thrown aside to cover Ouyang , then turned to Eunuch Wei and asked, "What's the matter?"

Qi Yunheng thought that there was an accident on the frontier and sent an urgent military report, but Eunuch Wei reported: "The two eunuchs who tried food in Taihua Palace died suddenly, most likely because they ate poison."

"Poison?!" Qi Yunheng's face immediately changed, "Have you ever found out what kind of poison it is, and how it was eaten by them?"

"The maidservant has sealed off the room where the two people are staying, and found out all the meals they ate today." Eunuch Wei said with lowered eyes, "But what is going on, we have to wait for the results of the examination by the imperial physician—— Your Majesty , can you also control the imperial dining room, just in case?"

Although Qi Yunheng always had dinner at the Summer Palace, in order to conceal his whereabouts, the meals at the Taihua Palace were never stopped for a day, but it was impossible for Qi Yunheng to eat by himself, so he stayed in the Taihua Palace. The eunuch who tried the meal took the food instead.

If the two food-testing eunuchs were really poisoned after eating tonight's imperial meal, then the matter would be serious.

"Yes!" Qi Yunheng nodded in agreement.

Surprised by this news, Qi Yunheng no longer had any intention of having fun. He tore off his belt and dog ears, put on normal clothes, got up and wrote a letter to Eunuch Wei, ordering him to go to the imperial guards to transfer people to the imperial dining room. Take control with the cooks and helpers in the imperial dining room.

Qi Yunheng finished writing the handbook, and Ouyang also got dressed.

Seeing that Eunuch Wei took the handbook and bowed out, Ouyang came to Qi Yunheng's side, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you here?"

"Nine out of ten." Qi Yunheng replied coldly with a gloomy face, "Maybe it's the person who looks like Xinghe, maybe it's someone else, but no matter what, their targets can't just be the two eunuchs."

"How did they get their hands into the palace?" Ouyang actually pointed the finger of suspicion at Zhao He, but he couldn't tell Qi Yunheng clearly.

"That's what I want to know too." Mentioning this, Qi Yunheng became even more angry.

Qi Yunheng thought that he had already controlled the palace tightly, but he never thought that someone would still infiltrate him, and he was almost poisoned.

"Tonight, I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you in the summer palace." Qi Yunheng said.

"You want to go back to Taihua Palace?" Ouyang asked, before Qi Yunheng nodded, he continued, "I suggest you don't go back. If the person who poisoned him finds that he missed the target, he might jump over the wall in a hurry and kill him. Turned into an assassination. Stay with me, and at least I'll keep you safe—of course, believe it or not."

Qi Yunheng knew that his imperial husband had some tricks. It is enough to explain a lot that the eunuch who had the accident tonight was the food-testing eunuch of the Taihua Palace and not someone from the Xia Palace. But after weighing the pros and cons of staying and leaving, Qi Yunheng still shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't believe in double eaves, it's just that today's matter must be resolved by me personally, and I can't just face it because of the danger."

Seeing Qi Yunheng's resolute attitude and good reasons, Ouyang did not force him to stay, but instead said: "Forget it, then I will send you back, you can't refuse this anymore."

"Okay." Qi Yunheng smiled and readily agreed.

After changing their clothes and combing their hair, Qi Yunheng and Ouyang opened the secret door in the bedroom and walked towards Taihua Palace along the secret passage behind.

Today's secret path has been transformed by Ouyang himself, and it is no longer as simple as it was three years ago.

Although the diameter of the secret passage has not expanded much, the entire secret passage has been reinforced with cement and masonry, turning it into a huge cement pipe. Even if someone finds the location of the secret passage, it is impossible to use conventional means to destroy it. dig through.

The secret doors at both ends of the secret passage were also replaced with copper doors cast in molds, which were connected with the entire secret passage through cement.These two copper doors are casted according to the old-fashioned safe in Su Su's hometown, and the door locks are also in the pattern of a combination disk.If the combination disk is not locked, the copper door can be opened from both sides; once the combination disk is enabled, it can only be opened from the end where the combination disk is located - not only to know the correct number of the combination disk, but also to There is enough force to turn the combination dial.

When he saw these two copper doors for the first time, Qi Yunheng once joked with Ouyang, "Is the double eaves intended to stop contacting me when I get old and weak?"

Ouyang only returned Qi Yunheng's white eyes at that time, and didn't say much, and Qi Yunheng didn't take this matter to heart.

There are only two doors, which can be locked or unlocked, and they can be removed directly when needed or not needed.

But it is precisely because there is such a copper door in the secret passage, which is so solid poured with cement, Qi Yunheng does not feel that he will encounter danger in the secret passage, and he does not stop Ouyang from sending him back to Taihua Palace—— This secret passage can be called the safest place in the palace. When he arrived at Taihua Palace and Ouyang returned alone, he also didn't need to worry about Ouyang's safety.

Ouyang didn't think how safe this secret passage was.He is very clear that poison does not necessarily have to be put into the diet, it can also be turned into gas and directly inhaled by people.The reason why he wanted to send Qi Yunheng back to Taihua Palace was also because of this concern.

Fortunately, it turned out that his worries were unnecessary.

At noon the next day, Qi Yunheng rarely walked through the main entrance, and came to the Summer Palace with a large group of palace guards. He called it to have lunch with Ouyang.

When Qi Yunheng and Ouyang entered the apse together, only Eunuch Wei and other confidantes were left by his side, Qi Yunheng told Ouyang the truth. He cooked the meal, and he didn't want to deal with it casually, so he came to the summer palace in a grand manner, and talked to Ouyang about the progress of the investigation of what happened last night.

After one night's investigation, and using the poison-testing dogs kept in the palace to test the food residues collected one by one, it is now confirmed that the two food-testing eunuchs died of poisoning after eating the dinner prepared by the imperial dining room for His Majesty the Emperor. The poisoned meal was also determined to be a soup and a stir-fried dish.

However, the imperial physician who was summoned failed to find out what kind of poison the two eunuchs were poisoned with. They only found that the symptoms of poisoning would only appear if they had to eat both dishes, and it did not happen immediately; if only one of them was eaten , but no harm to the body.

The interrogation of the imperial dining room was also fruitless, and the cook and his helpers who were responsible for cooking the two dishes all complained of grievances.Although there were some people who couldn't stand the punishment and pleaded guilty, but after another interrogation, it was found that the person didn't know anything at all, and he wanted to die happily in order not to suffer anymore.

On the other hand, Eunuch Wei found out why the two food-testing eunuchs were recruited.

Because Qi Yunheng didn't enjoy dinner in Taihua Palace all the year round, including the step of ordering food, the eunuch who tasted food did everything for him.Over time, the two food-testing eunuchs became emboldened and took advantage of their positions to seek benefits for themselves, often ordering the imperial dining room to cook their favorite dishes in the name of His Majesty the Emperor.

The two dishes that were tampered with last night were the dishes that the two eunuchs ate the most.

Apparently, the poisoner didn't know that the eunuchs ate these dishes, but thought that His Majesty the Emperor liked them.

"I really think I'm stupid, I don't even know the common sense that I can't reveal my preferences?!" After finishing the topic, Qi Yunheng complained angrily.

Every time the emperor ate dozens of dishes, among them, the ones that the emperor really liked and could fit into his belly might not even have two or three dishes.Showing identity is only one aspect of cooking so many dishes, and confusing the public is a more important reason.According to historical records, in order to prevent others from persecuting themselves according to their own preferences, some emperors would only taste a dish they liked and never eat more.

Qi Yunheng is not that extreme, nor is he willing to waste so much. After each meal, he will leave the leftovers to the eunuchs who try the meal, let them continue to eat, and then hand over the leftovers to the palace servants who are doing handymen. tidy.In this way, the dishes he likes are mixed with the dishes the eunuchs like to try, which also increases the difficulty for people with ulterior motives to identify them.

But what Qi Yunheng didn't expect was that there really was such a person with ulterior motives in the palace!

"Think about the good, at least you don't have to clean the palace people in Taihua Palace together." Ouyang patted Qi Yunheng on the shoulder and comforted him.

It was the eunuch who was poisoned, not Qi Yunheng himself. This is enough to show that the person who poisoned him did not know that Qi Yunheng was not eating in the Taihua Palace, and naturally he did not know that he spent the night in the Summer Palace every night.

"Chongyan is right, but it doesn't make me happy." Qi Yunheng replied depressedly.

Ouyang shrugged, "Maybe you can ask Queen Wang for help."

"What do you mean?" Qi Yunheng narrowed his eyes.

"According to your description, the perpetrators should have used the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint of food to poison the eunuch who tried food." Ouyang explained, "This is a typical harem method, but most people in the imperial palace have never played this kind of trick before." You don’t understand the methods of an innocent person, and neither do your servants and imperial physicians. But Wang and Empress come from the royal family, and their family has a long history. In the previous dynasty, there was also a daughter who entered the palace to serve the emperor. It is impossible not to dabble in this aspect. Even if Queen Wang doesn't know it herself, there will definitely be a nanny who is good at it."

"Hearing what you said, I'm starting to doubt the queen." Qi Yunheng said with a frown.

"Don't label me as a solicitor!" Ouyang rolled his eyes, "The Wang family has no ability to seek power and usurp the throne, and Queen Wang has no biological son, and neither of the two existing princes can be embraced by her." To brainwash you—what good can she do if she hurts you? Could it be that she loves you so badly that she wants to be buried for you early? "

——I just said it casually, but you are on the line and on the line, endlessly.

Qi Yunheng was speechless for a while.

Ouyang curled his lips, and continued: "Why don't you just call the housekeeper in my house into the palace? He is also proficient in this way, but he hasn't practiced it for more than ten years, so he may be a little novice."

Qi Yunheng was speechless again, but after thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Call him in!"