[Qing Chuan] Gongdou system of black lotus

The jujube yam cake was delivered quickly.

The freshly made jujube paste yam cake is steaming hot, exuding an attractive fragrance.

Gui Zhi's heart was beating fast, she felt her ears buzzing, and her breathing also became rapid involuntarily.

But Gu Qianqian didn't seem to be in a hurry to eat jujube yam cake, but drank tea slowly. Sent to Changchun Palace.

After drinking half a cup of tea, Gu Qianqian put it down, and stretched out her chopsticks to pick up a piece of jujube yam cake. The jujube yam cake was made into the shape of a cat's claw, a small one, just the size that can be put in the mouth.

Seeing this scene, Gui Zhi's eyes almost straightened.

At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and a little maid came in, bowed her knees and said, "Mother, Ning Gui is here."

The yam cake she had just picked up was put down, and Gu Qianqian had a look of astonishment on her face, and then quickly said with a smile: "Please come in quickly."

"The maidservant came here uninvited. I don't know if it has disturbed the mother's rest?" Ning Guiren said with a smile.

After all, we have lived together in Changchun Palace for more than a year, and Ning Guiren is naturally not as cramped and cautious as when he first entered the palace. Gu Qianqian smiled and waved to her, "It's a coincidence that you came, the jujube paste yam cake in this palace just Serve it up, and you came before you even took a bite. It can be seen that you have a good taste."

"The emotional servant came at the right time today." Ning Guiren sat down opposite Gu Qianqian with a smile on his face, "I heard that the jujube paste yam cake in the small kitchen is a must. Have a good taste."

The smile in Gu Qianqian's eyes deepened, she didn't know if it was because of Ning Guiren's sense of humor, or just because she came.

How can there be such a coincidence in the world, just when Guizhi went to the small kitchen, Gu Le saw it. Behind this coincidence is nothing more than calculation and arrangement. But in this way, even if Guizhi is executed, it may not be able to move the Queen.Therefore, not only did she not expose Gui Zhi, but she also pushed the boat along the way, but she couldn't put herself in danger, what Gui Zhi added to the yam mud might be something, if it tasted good or bad in one bite, it would not be worth the loss.

Therefore, she thought of Mrs. Ning Gui.

She was very curious about how Ning Gui would react if she knew that someone was attacking her.

Should I turn a blind eye and pretend not to know, or expose it?

In short, Gu Qianqian is full of curiosity and interest in the result. She does not deny that Ning Gui is loyal and knowledgeable to a certain extent, but she cannot see her true intentions until the critical moment.

Therefore, Gu Qianqian simply asked Ning Guiren a question.

Guizhi next to her was almost sweating on her forehead, she cursed in her heart, well, Mrs. Ning Gui is here to join in the fun, she was never seen in the past, but she is here at such an important time.

If she hadn't known about this, it would be impossible for Ning Guiren to know about it, and now she would doubt whether Ning Guiren did it on purpose.

Just when Guizhi was in a panic, Gu Qianqian smiled and said to Ning Guiren: "Okay, then you have a taste, and if you eat well later, you can take some back."

"Yes." Ning Gui smiled, picked up the chopsticks, glanced at his eyes, and calmly picked up a yam cake with chopsticks. The chopsticks are silver chopsticks. If they are poisonous, they will definitely turn black, but after touching the yam cake It was clear that there was no abnormality, Mr. Ning Gui knew it in his heart, the cake was probably not poisonous, but something like abortion pills.

This kind of method is not uncommon. After all, the nobles in the palace will let other people taste the food before eating to confirm whether there is any toxin. If there is poison in the pastry, it is likely that it will be discovered before it reaches the master's mouth.

After Ning Gui knew it in her heart, she became more secure. She picked up a piece of pastry and put it in her mouth, savoring it slowly.

"How is it? How does it taste?" Gu Qianqian suppressed the surprise in her eyes and asked with a smile.

Guizhi looked at Mrs. Ning Gui who was eating the pastries, and swallowed nervously. Abortion pills are naturally not harmful to concubines who are not pregnant, but Guizhi did not expect that Ning Guiren would be killed halfway. When something happened, she was worried that the situation would not develop as she thought.

Ning Guiren frowned suddenly, she turned her face away, covered her mouth with a veil, and spit it out in front of Gu Qianqian.

The people around were all stunned, staring at Ning Gui in a daze.

Gu Qianqian was also taken aback, but after she was taken aback, a smile flashed across her face calmly, the smile disappeared quickly, and she quickly said loudly: "Hurry up and get the slag bucket."

The slag bucket is a bell mouth, wide edge, deep belly, shaped like a statue. It was originally used to hold food waste on the dining table. This month, Gu Qianqian started to have morning sickness, so she arranged a slag bucket in the room.

Zha Dou quickly took it over, Ning Guiren vomited on Zha Dou, and after she finished vomiting and rinsed her mouth, she showed a flustered and trembling expression, stood up and knelt down: "My lady, forgive me, this servant didn't mean to do this, it's just I don't know why just now, the slave girl felt a little uncomfortable after eating the cake, and the taste seemed to be not right."

Guizhi's breathing stopped suddenly.

Gu Qianqian's pupils shrank, "The taste is wrong?! What did you taste?"

"The maidservant can't taste anything, but the taste is a bit bitter, like medicine added." Ning Guiren said in a deep voice.

The room fell silent for an instant.

Gu Qianqian's complexion changed, she immediately looked at Cai Momo, and said to Cai Momo, "Look, Momo."

Cai Momo heard a cold sweat when she was listening next to her. Now Gu Qianqian shouted, without saying anything, she stepped forward and picked up a cake with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. She is the person in charge of taking care of Concubine Xian. If anything happened to Concubine Xian, her family would be doomed.

After Mammy Cai chewed the pastry carefully, the expression on her face became more and more ugly.

"Your Majesty, this pastry has indeed been drugged. There are peach kernels, safflower, curcuma, and motherwort in it. These are medicinal materials for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis!"

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, if other people use it, it's fine, but if pregnant women use it, it's a terrible thing.

The faces of the maids and eunuchs in the room changed.

Ning Guiren even showed a look of panic, covered his lips, and tremblingly said: "Why, how come?"

Gu Qianqian's face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, she put down the chopsticks in her hand, and said calmly to Xiao Zhuzi: "Little Zhuzi, you go to the Qianqing Palace, please come over, Zhao Sanqi, go and invite grandson Imperial Physician, Du Juan, you go and tell the Empress. As for the others, all wait outside, don’t act rashly, let alone leave without authorization, if anyone finds out, they will treat her as the person who prescribed the medicine!”

"Yes!" Xiao Zhuzi and the others hurriedly agreed, although they were flustered, but because Gu Qianqian had arranged everything in an orderly manner, everyone would not be in a mess.

After everyone went out, Gu Qianqian, Ning Guiren and Nanny Cai were left in the room.

Ning Guiren was still kneeling on the ground, Gu Qianqian stepped forward to help her up, with a gentle voice, "Thank you sister Ning today, if sister Ning hadn't tasted something wrong, I'm afraid I would be killed."

"Your Majesty, you are welcome. You are a person with great fortune and destiny. Even if you don't have slaves, you will be blessed by the gods." Ning Guiren said humbly, and she stood up with Gu Qianqian's hand. Although she was still a little flustered, but He didn't show a look of pride.

Gu Qianqian is very satisfied with her, but this is not the time to talk, she nodded to Mrs. Ning Gui, sat on the bench without saying a word, and when familiar footsteps came from outside, she immediately stood up When she got up, when she saw Qianlong walking in, her eyes were flushed, tears fell as soon as she said it, she bit her lower lip with her white teeth, and said with a pitiful look, "Lord Long Live."

Qianlong came here full of anger, and when he saw Gu Qianqian's appearance, he felt pity in his heart, which turned into anger again. He put his arms around Gu Qianqian's shoulders and let her lean in his arms.

"Long live, my concubine is really frightened. Why, how could this good pastry be drugged?" When others cried, their noses were dripping down, and their appearance was ruined, but Gu Qianqian was different when she cried. When he woke up, tears were falling down one by one, his eyes were watery like mercury, and the tip of his nose was red. He looked pitiful, but any man couldn't help feeling a bit of pity.

"Don't be afraid, I'm already here." Qianlong patted her on the shoulder, with a cold look in his eyes, and said to Li Yu, "Go and bring all the eunuchs from the small kitchen here."

"Zha." Li Yu also knew the seriousness of the matter. This time the situation was different from the past. The Concubine Xian's birth, how much Long Live God valued it, and those who served close to him felt the deepest. They were dispatched by the Lord Long Live to serve Concubine Xian. If they don't investigate thoroughly this time, they will all suffer as well.

When Empress Fucha heard the news and rushed over, she saw Gu Qianqian nestled in Qianlong's arms comforted.

Her footsteps stopped, and there was a bit of anger in her eyes, but she is the queen after all, even if things went wrong today, she still acted like she didn't know what was going on, and said to Gu Qianqian with concern: "I just now I've heard it all, sister Xian, are you okay? How's your body?"

"Thank you, Empress, for your concern." Gu Qianqian choked with tears and said, "The concubine is fine, but I am very scared in my heart. If there is no sister Ning reminding me, I don't know what the situation will be. "

It turned out to be Ning Guiren!The queen gritted her teeth secretly, and couldn't help looking at Ning Guiren in her eyes, with anger in her heart, but a gratified gesture on her face, "Ning Guiren really made a great contribution this time."

"Slaves don't dare to say that, it's just that Concubine Xian is very lucky." Ning Guiren said, feeling a little puzzled in her heart, why did the empress's tone sound a little strange, not happy, after she saved Concubine Xian.Thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing, she was probably too suspicious, the relationship between the Empress and Concubine Xian was not very harmonious, Concubine Xian was fine, she really shouldn't be happy.

Mr. Ning Gui didn't know what the purpose was, and he didn't want to think about it. There are many things, the more you know, the less beneficial it is.

But Ning Guiren didn't know that her casual words made Qianlong more and more sure that Concubine Xian's fetus would be the heir apparent in the future. It matters.

Therefore, when the eunuchs were escorted up, Qianlong's face was extremely solemn, and he said in a deep voice, "Who is in charge of making today's jujube paste yam cake?"

Several eunuchs walked forward tremblingly, "Long live, this yam cake was made by three slaves. One of us made jujube paste, the other made yam paste, and the third served as a plate, but none of the three of us dared to eat it." Attack Concubine Xian!"

"You don't dare, then how could this yam cake be drugged?" Qianlong shouted, slapped his palm on the table, and there was a bang, which made everyone's heart jump out of shock.

Although the maids and eunuchs standing outside the palace were not in the room, they couldn't help trembling when they heard the sound, as if someone had whipped a whip on them.

Sun Jingli came here with Zhao Sanqi at this time. As soon as he came over, he heard the three words behind Qianlong, his eyelids twitched suddenly, and his pace involuntarily quickened, and he walked into the hall.

Zhao Sanqi next to him was almost unable to catch up, and he thought to himself, Doctor Sun really did his duty, and he couldn't blame Long Live Lord for using him so much, he was not to be outdone, and ran a few steps to catch up.

"I don't know." The eunuchs were so anxious that they were about to cry. They didn't expect that someone outside the small kitchen would tamper with it. Also implicated in the water.

How many eunuchs and maids died in the miscarriage of Concubine Gao back then, no one in the palace dared to count them in detail, and even now when this matter was brought up in the harem, people's faces suddenly changed.

It is said that the Department of Punishment will hear the weeping and wailing of those court ladies and eunuchs every few days.

"Lin Ying, did you do it? You should admit it!" The fat eunuch suddenly turned his head and asked Lin Ying with a high-pitched voice, like a duck whose throat had been choked.

Where did Lin Ying think that the fat eunuch would make such a sudden move, his face turned blue with fright, and he pointed at the fat eunuch with trembling fingers, "Sun Yue, what nonsense are you talking about, how could I do such a thing! I think you are The thief shouts, "Stop the thief! Long live, Sun Yue often has trouble with his slaves, you can't believe his words. He is in charge of arranging the dishes, and he is the most likely to prescribe medicine."

"What nonsense are you talking about! You are!"

"Our family is loyal to Lord Long Live and Concubine Xian, how could we do such a rebellious thing!"

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The eunuchs were arguing so loudly that Qianlong's head hurt from the quarrel, he picked up the cup on the table and threw it on the ground, the teacup hit the ground with a crisp sound, everyone in the room fell silent, the eunuchs He even held his breath for an instant, not daring to take a breath.

"Physician Sun," Qianlong looked at them with impatience in his eyes, and the eunuchs were so frightened that they shivered like quails before turning back their eyes and said to Sun Jingli, "Look at the yam cake, what is in it? ?”

Sun Jingli said yes, and took a quick look at Gu Qianqian. Seeing that although her face was pale, but her eyes were still piercing, his heart was finally able to fall to the ground. He lowered his eyes, not daring to look more, and forced I put all my thoughts on the pastry.

For the sake of Concubine Xian, he must check out the problems in the pastry.

Sun Jingli broke off a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth. After he chewed it slowly, his expression changed, and he bowed to Qianlong, "Long Live Lord, this yam cake is filled with abortion medicine. It will take an hour to cause bleeding and miscarriage, mother and child will not be safe, even if Bian Que is reborn, he will not be able to save him."

As he talked, Gu Qianqian's face became more and more ugly. She clenched her veil tightly, her eyes were flushed, tears could not be shed, and she looked like she was holding back her fear and grief.

Sun Jingli looked at her, feeling like a knife was twisting his heart. He thought of what Concubine Xian said to him in the Royal Garden a few days ago, and he felt more and more ashamed.

He didn't know until now that what Concubine Xian said in the imperial garden that day was true. Concubine Xian seemed to be glorious, but she was full of fire and enemies everywhere. If she can put abortion pills on cakes today, tomorrow she can be in other things. Play tricks on him.

In the current situation, how can a woman like Concubine Xian protect herself?

"Search them, the entire Changchun Palace will be thoroughly investigated, I will definitely find that person!" Qianlong clenched his fists, the veins on his forehead twitched, and his eyes were even more bloodshot.

Lin Ying and others were first arrested and searched, but they had nothing on them, so they couldn't find it.

However, in a place not far from the small kitchen, a medicine bottle was found.

When the medicine bottle was delivered to everyone, other concubines also rushed over after hearing the news. After arriving, everyone didn't dare to be a monster, and just stayed aside obediently as if they were a vase.

Sun Jingli took the medicine bottle, sniffed it carefully, and nodded: "This is the medicine bottle for abortion medicine. I think that person must have boiled the abortion medicine into a decoction, then used honey and starch paste to make weighing pills, and finally ground it into a pill." The powder is bottled, and the potency is more insidious than ordinary medicine."

Although Gu Qianqian didn't quite understand these things, she vaguely understood that these words meant that those traditional Chinese medicines had been purified, and she couldn't help but twitch her brows. She wanted to kill the queen completely in her heart. The queen was really vicious, not only did she want to kill her The child wants her life!

"Which of you has seen this medicine bottle?" Qianlong asked Lin Ying and others with a sullen face.

When did Lin Ying and the others see such things, they shook their heads with tears in their eyes, "Long live, I have never seen such things before, so how can I get such things."

Guizhi standing outside heard the crying from the room, and his heart sank continuously.

She knew that if she was sensible, she should take the poison immediately. She had already got the poison, but as long as people have a chance to live, they are not willing to die easily.

Guizhi wanted to survive, even though she knew the chances were slim.

Gu Qianqian was thinking about whether she should remind Lin Zheng and others to suspect Gui Zhi, when suddenly there was a commotion outside.

Gu Le stood up from the crowd, and bowed to the guards, "Slave Gu Le has something to report to Long Live Lord!"

Gui Zhi's eyelids twitched, and he looked at Gu Le in surprise.

But Gu Le didn't raise her head, her eyes were fixed on the ground, as if there were some flowers blooming on the bluestone brick, and she didn't step forward until she heard "Let her in", and stepped into the room.

"You said you have something to report, do you know something?" Empress Fucha asked first.

Qianlong glanced at Empress Fucha, frowned, and didn't say much.

"I'm not sure, I'm just guessing, but my servant is afraid of delaying the important affairs of Lord Long Live and Concubine Xian, so I have the courage to come here to report." I was scared to death, and now I have the courage to fight for my future.

Of course, Gu Le's behavior is also what Ning Guiren expressed.

Earlier, Gu Le went to the small kitchen to ask for honey. Although he said he didn't see anyone on the road, it's hard to guarantee that someone saw it, but he didn't say anything.If Gu Le doesn't take the initiative to explain it now, and later someone else turns against him, then it will really be muddy—it's not shit or shit.

"What do you know, tell me quickly." Qianlong said impatiently.

"Yes." Gu Le hurriedly said: "The servant girl originally went to the small kitchen to get honey, but when she went there, she found that there was no one in the small kitchen, and the servant girl couldn't take the honey on her own, so she left. It's nothing, but the servant girl thinks about it now, there is something wrong with the father-in-law working in the small kitchen every day, so it just so happens that there is no one there at that time, and it just so happens that the pastry of the empress was drugged!"

Gu Le's voice was not loud, and people outside the room could only vaguely hear her crisp voice. As for what she was saying, it was difficult to hear clearly.

Guizhi's heart is beating like a drum now, and both legs are limp.

She wondered in her heart what and how much Gu Le knew.

In the room, Gu Le's words suddenly reminded Lin Ying and the others.

Lin Zheng was the first to react, and said loudly, "It's Gui Zhi! We were all called out to eat watermelon by Gui Zhi at that time."

The sound from inside the room spread outside, and the crowd suddenly became lively, and everyone looked at Gui Zhi.

Guizhi's face turned pale, she didn't know that she couldn't escape, she simply closed her eyes and turned hard, took out the medicine bottle from her sleeve and wanted to pour it into her mouth, but someone next to her suddenly hit her hard elbow, knocking her medicine to the ground.

At this time, the guards also reacted immediately, rushed forward and held Gui Zhi down.

Gui Zhi didn't even have a chance to react, so he was pushed to the ground, tied up and entered the hall.

"It's really you." Gu Qianqian covered her mouth with a look of disbelief, "Guizhi, I have always treated you well, why did you do this to me?"

Guizhi knew that she was going to die, so she did not give up and resist at this moment. She lowered her head and refused to say a word.

This appearance immediately turned Qianlong's three-point anger into very angry.

"Go check her room and see what else is there!" Qianlong shouted angrily.

Li Yu and the others left in response.

Not long after, a lot of things were displayed in front of Qianlong and the others. Among them were the jewelry used by Guizhi in the past, most of which were rewarded by Gu Qianqian. In addition, the silver hairpin in the pillow was also found.

"Long Live Lord, all the other jewelry are on the dressing table, but this silver hairpin is hidden in the pillow." Li Yu said respectfully.

"Bring that silver hairpin here." Qianlong frowned.