The Favoured Medical Princess: 826 poison source
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Nangong Yue's voice was not loud, but it was like thunder in this small inner room.
Poisoned? !
When the others heard this, their expressions changed drastically, and they looked at each other in shock and confusion.
How could Guan Yubai be poisoned? !
Guan Yubai has never been alone in Xiye. After coming to the capital, his daily meals came from Xiye Palace, together with Xiaosi, Si Lin and the others.
Who is it and how can he poison Guan Yubai? !
Everyone’s eyes fell on the drop of black blood on Guan Yubai’s fingertips. Guan Yubai’s hands were very beautiful, white and slender, with joints like bamboo. Just look closely and you will find that his fingers are covered with stripes. A thin scar that is not very obvious is the mark left on his body by the prison that year...
Xiao Yi’s eyebrows were deeply furrowed, and his eyes changed several times, and they were deep and difficult to understand.
Compared with the shock of others, Guan Yubai himself looked calm and calm, as if he had already seen through life and death.
In the oppressive silence, Nangong Yue said again: "Young Master, please allow me to check your pulse again."
She calmed down, stretched out her fingers to take Guanyu's pulse again, pursed her lips tightly, and her heart sank little by little.
Guan Yubai's pulse condition was still the same as the previous two times. It was strange, but it was not a sign of poisoning.
However...
The drop of black blood and the blackened silver needle clearly meant that his blood contained poison.
Nangong Yue quickly retracted her hand, looked at Xiao Si thoughtfully, and asked: "Xiao Si, what has your young master eaten, drank, and used in these days?"
From Nangong Yue's question, others immediately understood that she was still unable to confirm the poison Guan Yubai had been exposed to, so they could only try to find clues from Guan Yubai's daily life.
Next, with the help of Xiao Si, Nangong Yue and Bai Hui inspected various objects in the entire Qingfeng Palace and even the Royal Study, including the flowers, plants and trees planted in the courtyard, and Guan Yubai’s daily diet. After checking it again, before they knew it, the sun was already rising outside, but they still found nothing...
Guan Yubai's life is very simple. He goes back and forth between the Imperial Study Room and the Qingfeng Palace every day. At most, he only follows Xiao Yi to the Chaoyang Palace to meet the envoys.
What else is unavoidable in Mandarin? !
After thinking for a moment, Nangong Yue said uncertainly: "Ayi, could it be that King Xiye poisoned the well before he died..." The water in the well is living water, and the toxin is quickly absorbed. After being washed away, the people of the Southern Xinjiang Army are basically in strong health, so there is no serious problem. However, Guan Yubai is weak, and some toxins have accumulated in his body, accumulating deeper and deeper...
There was no smile on Xiao Yixinli's face, and she shouted in a loud voice: "Come here! Send troops to my prince to investigate all water sources in the palace!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The few soldiers of the Southern Xinjiang Army who were guarding outside the palace quickly took the order and left. In a moment, the entire palace was in a commotion because of Xiao Yi's order. Under the leadership of Fu Yunhe and Yuan Lingbai, Teams of soldiers from the Southern Xinjiang Army shuttled through every corner of the palace, with cold faces and rumbling footsteps. They had the momentum to turn the entire palace upside down.
The entire capital was also under martial law, and the people in the city were in panic. They didn’t know what was going on, so they could only stay behind closed doors...
The sun is high in the sky, and the capital city is empty in the afternoon.
Nangong Yue and Baihui are not idle either. They are in the Dongnuan Pavilion of Qingfeng Palace, asking Xiao Si to carefully recall Guan Yubai’s diet in the past month. Baihui is writing down it quickly... she doesn’t know. After a while, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside. Feng Xing walked in anxiously and said: "Prince Concubine, the master's fever is getting worse!"
Nangong Yue stood up suddenly and rushed to the inner room with Baihui and Xiaosi.
Guan Yubai fell asleep on the bed again, or in other words, he should be in a coma. His whole face was flushed than before, there were dense beads of sweat on his temples and neck, and his breathing became extremely loud. heavy.
"Huh..."
"Huh..."
In the inner room, only the sound of his heavy breathing echoed.
Even without checking for a pulse, Nangong Yue knew that Guan Yubai's condition was getting worse.
"Baihui, prepare needles!"
Nangong Yue ordered succinctly, and Baihui quickly opened the medicine box...
Golden sunlight shone in from the window, covering the unextinguished light in the palace lantern beside the bed. Although the sunlight was shining, it was even more peaceful and dead than at night.
Nangong Yue, with the assistance of Bai Hui, skillfully performed Guan Yu Bai again. The master and servant had an excellent tacit understanding, and the movements of his men were smooth and fast, while the men in the room stood aside silently.
Movement and stillness form a sharp contrast.
After burning the incense, Nangong Yue, who was sweating profusely, withdrew the needles, leaving only five silver needles on Guan Yubai's chest to protect his heart. Gradually, Guan Yubai's breathing calmed down. Although his face was still red, his expression became peaceful, as if he was sleeping deeply.
Phew! Nangong Yue's originally tense body relaxed a little, took the handkerchief from Xiao Yi, wiped the sweat from her forehead, then met everyone's nervous eyes and said, "I temporarily protected the young master's heart with acupuncture. Pulse...Baihui, go grab some medicine, Zhuru, Chenpi, Jishu..."
After Nangong Yue recited the prescription vigorously, Baihui hurriedly went down to grab and boil the medicine...
As soon as Baihui left, Fu Yunhe and Yuan Lingbai came, shaking their heads heavily at Nangong Yue.
They have checked all the water sources in the palace, but still found nothing.
If we cannot find the source of the poison, we cannot prescribe the right medicine.
Nangong Yue walked to the window and sat down to meditate. The inner room fell into silence again, and the air was so oppressive that everyone could hardly breathe...
Nangong Yue raised her hand to push the window open, trying to take a breath, but her raised right arm froze in the air.
Huh? ! Her nose moved, as if she smelled something, then she sniffed again, and said uncertainly: "Did you feel something smelling in the house..."
Xiao Yi's nose also moved, and he smelled attentively. There seemed to be a faint rotten smell in the room, but when he smelled it again, it seemed that there was nothing.
Nangong Yue and Xiao Yi looked at each other, and asked their superiors Lin, Xiaosi, and Fengxing to search inside and outside the house again, checking all kinds of objects again, even the grass outside, almost I searched through every inch of grass and blades, but still couldn't find the source of the rancid smell...
More than an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and just when Nangong Yue was almost thinking that the smell was her imagination, Xiao Yi's voice came from the front right: "A Yue, it's Xiao Bai!"
Nangong Yue looked at Xiao Yi in confusion. Before she could react, she saw Xiao Yi standing beside Guan Yubai's couch, lifting a corner of the thin quilt, and reaching out to grab one of Guan Yubai's wrists.
Nangong Yue walked over quickly, sniffed Guan Yubai's fingertips with her nose, and her eyes widened slightly.
This is it!
She examined Guan Yubai's fingertips carefully. The black and blue color on his nails seemed to be thicker than last night... Also, in addition to many years of old scars, there seemed to be several thin lines on his fingers. Thin new scars, the faint pink color on the scars shows that these new scars should not be long ago...
Nangong Yue asked hurriedly: "Xiaosi, your young master has a new injury on his hand. Where did this injury come from?"
Xiaosi's eyes also fell on Guan Yubai's fingers. He seemed to have thought of something, his eyes darkened, and he blurted out: "Mass graves!" Could it be that the young master was poisoned in the mass graves? !
"Mass grave?!" Nangong Yue thought thoughtfully, remembering the coffin in Jingxin Palace, and a vague guess emerged in her mind.
She took a deep breath and said: "Tell me carefully about what happened that day and the state of the mass graves..."
Si Lin, Xiaosi and Feng Xing exchanged quick glances. They all knew that the matter was of great importance, so Si Lin began to talk about the day they arrived at the mass grave, and the environment around the mass grave. How they found the bones of Mrs. Guan, and how Guan Yubai used his own hands to dig out the bones of Mrs. Guan bit by bit...
Si Lin's increasingly harsh voice was the only thing left in the inner room. He tried hard to control his emotions, almost choking, and kept talking until they carried the officer's wife's coffin down the mountain.
Hearing this, Nangong Yue was almost 80 to 90% sure, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Si, Feng Xing, go and see if there is anything strange on your young master's arms and back?" She said, One side stepped aside.
Xiaosi and Fengxing didn't dare to delay and walked quickly to the couch.
Xiao Si quickly helped Guan Yubai sit up, while Feng Xing unbuttoned his middle coat. When most of the white middle coat slid off Guan Yubai's body, the two of them let out a shocked gasp. , Xiao Yi and Si Lin from behind also saw it, and their faces were as dark as water.
On Guan Yu’s fair and thin back, apart from long scars intertwined like spider webs, there were also black spots scattered messily along the back...
Xiao Si took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Prince Concubine, there are many striped black spots on the young master's back."
No guesswork! Nangong Yue's eyes were dark, and she was finally confirmed at this moment.
She remembered reading in a medical book: corpse poison, or even Yin poison. Those who have been poisoned by corpse poison will have black spots on the body, like twisted snakes, blood as black as ink, disordered pulse and high fever...
"It's corpse poison..." Nangong Yue said slowly.
Listening to what Si Lin said just now, Nangong Yue speculated that Guan Yubai's fingertips were injured during the mass grave, causing the corpse poison to invade inside. The corpse poison should not be serious, so it has been lurking in his body for the past month, eating away bit by bit. For others, it might be just a minor illness, but for Guan Yubai with a weak constitution, it can be fatal.
It’s just that corpse poison must first be caused by the decay of human or animal corpses. Secondly, it can be subdivided into several types. It may be the corpse gas that permeates the mist, or it may be dissolved in the soil after the corpse rots. The toxin may be the disease gas released from the corpses that died of the disease, or it is more likely that the plants near the burial place absorbed the corpse gas in the soil...
There are subtle differences between each type of corpse poison.
Where does the corpse poison in Guan Yubai's body come from...
In the way of treating poison, a slight difference can lead to a loss of thousands of miles. You must be careful!
After Nangong Yue pondered for a moment, his expression became more solemn and hesitantly said: "Ayi, I have to go to the mass grave in person. I'm just an official..."
Guan Yubai's condition is now so critical, Nangong Yue is worried that it will take four or five days for her to come and go. If Guan Yubai's condition suddenly worsens, Baihui's medical skills may not be enough to deal with it...
Xiao Yi frowned and immediately ordered: "Zhuzi, prepare the carriage!"
Everyone immediately understood who this carriage was prepared for. Xiao Yi meant to take Guan Yubai to the mass graves with him!
Si Lin quickly weighed the pros and cons in his mind and felt that Xiao Yi's idea was the most suitable. Of course he knew that Guan Yubai's current weak state was not suitable for traveling, but only by following the Crown Princess could he cope with emergencies and be safe.
Based on Bai's condition in Guan Yu, no one dared to delay. After leaving Xiao Yu in Haitang's care, they immediately set off from the capital with a carriage and dozens of soldiers from the Southern Xinjiang Army. Mass graves on the eastern outskirts of Emerald City.
The next three days were spent on the road, day and night, non-stop.
As Nangong Yue expected, Guan Yubai's condition recurred several times along the way, sometimes awake, sometimes comatose, with frequent high fevers. For this reason, they stopped several times along the way, but fortunately Guan Yubai's condition Still under control.
Finally, they arrived at the mass grave three days later in the early morning.
A group of carriages and horses stopped at the foot of the mountain. Nangong Yue ordered Xiaosi and Baihui to stay in the carriage to take care of Guan Yubai, while she herself went up the hill with Xiao Yi, Si Lin and Feng Xing, and even separated them specially. Masks were put on by several of them.
At the mass graves in the early morning, hazy mist filled the space between tombstones and graves, creating a gloomy atmosphere. Although they felt a little stuffy while wearing masks, the smell of corpses and decay was also blocked outside the masks.
Feng Xing and Si Lin walked ahead, relying on their memories to lead Nangong Yue and Xiao Yi along the road they took last time. By the time they reached an old pine on the top of a hill, the sky was already completely bright. .
The rising sun is high, and most of the nearby fog has dissipated, making the surrounding vision much clearer.
On the hill, as far as the eye can see, there are new graves with slightly raised soil and still wet soil. These are the graves that Fengxing and his team dug before and then filled them back.
Among the "new" graves, a seven-foot-long rectangular hole is particularly eye-catching at first glance.
"Prince Princess," Feng Xing pointed at the pothole and said, "That's where..."
It is also because of the war in Xiye during this period that no one has visited this mass grave recently, so this hole can be preserved, otherwise other corpses would have been buried long ago...
This can be considered a mistake.
Nangong Yue smiled bitterly in her heart, squatted down, opened the medicine box she carried with her, and took out a small porcelain jar.
Xiao Yi guessed what she was going to do, so he volunteered to jump into the pit for her, and used the small porcelain jar to bring up some moist grave soil from the bottom of the pit.
Nangong Yue took out a silver needle and inserted it into the small jar of grave soil. The silver needle did not change color.
Not grave soil!
Nangong Yue put on a pair of deerskin gloves and looked around the pothole carefully, checking the weeds and shrubs on the roadside, collecting dew on the branches and leaves, checking the bones scattered around... But there was no problem!
Nangong Yue frowned slightly, feeling a little anxious. Could it be that her guess was wrong? !
She calmed down, returned to the edge of the pothole again, and walked slowly around it...
This is? !
Nangong Yue's pupils shrank and she squatted down again. On the black grave soil, there were several small grasses that were almost the same as earth. The edges of the grass blades were jagged. If you look closely, you will find that the grass and The place where the soil meets is greenish black.
Nangong Yue carefully broke off a blade of grass, and then squeezed out the green-black grass juice from the broken end of the leaf...
At this time, Xiao Yi and the others almost held their breath, watching the silver needle in Nangong Yue's hand being stained with the strange-colored grass juice.
The blackened needle tip gave everyone the answer, which is this——
The corpse water and corpse gas produced when the corpse rotted underground invaded the grave grass and formed corpse poison.
Guanyu Bai probably injured his finger accidentally while digging, and the corpse poison from the roots of the grave grass invaded his body through the wound on his finger, creating a hidden danger!
Nangong Yue was half relieved. Once the cause of the disease was determined, she would have a direction in her mind!
The group of people immediately went down the mountain. Nangong Yue wrote a prescription with charcoal. Xiao Yi had someone copy it and distributed it to the accompanying soldiers of the Southern Xinjiang Army so that they could go to the Emerald City to grab medicine.
Xiao Yi and the others then arrived at the Emerald City. The soldiers of the Southern Xinjiang Army who were guarding the city immediately welcomed Xiao Yi and his party into the garrison to take a rest.
On this day, the Emerald City was filled with strange ripples as their group arrived. Soldiers from the Southern Xinjiang Army were seen hurriedly appearing in various medicine shops in the city. When the sun set in the west, there was a The young soldier entered the garrison with a perplexed look on his face.
"Prince Princess, I have found all the other herbal medicines," the soldier clasped his fists and reported, "There is only one missing ingredient, Yuanzi Fu. I searched all the medicine shops but could not find it. I have already sent people to the surrounding areas. I'm afraid it will take some time to search in the town..." The young soldier lowered his head as he spoke, not daring to look directly into the prince's sharp gaze.
Fortunately, the Crown Princess’s gentle voice immediately sounded in my ears:
"Fortunately, this Yuanzi Poria is not irreplaceable. Lu Xiaowei, you can just find a Yuzhuling."
The young soldier breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly took the order and left.
Who would have thought that more than an hour later, he came back in despair, asking to see Nangong Yue again, his head lowered.