Chapter 163 The fog is fading, and the danger is imminent
The back house of the royal palace is a courtyard full of yellow wood fragrance. In the whole royal mansion, it is located in the slightly remote west corner. The courtyard is not large, with low green walls for simple partitions. In the two green wooden doors, a secluded path is interspersed in the green trees. Unfortunately, it is not in the flower season at this time, and there is no fragrance.
In the green trees, there are several simple houses, which are very simple compared with the carved beams and painted beams elsewhere.
There are only two maids in the yard, and they often get together for discussion: "Isn't Miss Jiang's father the lifesaver of the world? Why is it too simple and slow to be arranged to live in this yard?
"I heard that it means the son of the world."
"This is more and more confusing, but I'm still satisfied with Miss Jiang."
"I heard that their family used to be a rural villager. What can they see? In the past, even this yard was not what they could think about."
"Although Miss Jiang is not from an aristocratic background, she doesn't have a good temperament."
"However, relying on the credit of healing the son, I looked coldly. She seemed to have other thoughts about the son."
"I'm afraid it's just for nothing. Not to mention the character and talent of the prince, let alone this identity, the prince's concubine in the future must come from a famous family."
"I heard that my wife is interested in the fourth wife of the country."
"It's not the wife's turn to make the decision on the son's marriage. The old princess doesn't seem to like the wives of the Xie family."
Today, the two maids were driven out of the house by Jiang Wei, who got up early and was busy cleaning up those herbal plants. She was bored and moved a spring stool to sit in the shade of the tree and gossiped again.
"Miss Jiang didn't wear the spring clothes she sent on a special trip. She wore a set of cloth skirts every day. She didn't like the hairpin sent by the old princess. There was a wooden hairpin inserted in her hair, which looked more shabby than us slaves."
"Pretensive to be high. Since you don't love wealth, why do you run to Guan Suiyuan from time to time to time? What do you think you can hide it from people?"
"But in terms, the son of the world treats her very well. Among other things, Guan Suiyuan can enter casually?"
"After all, the son's illness was cured by her father. Besides, the son is gentle, how can he not keep this face?"
"I heard that Xie Siniang came to the door that day and wanted to close Suiyuan, but she was ridiculed by the clear sky again."
"Madam complained about this, saying that the son is not kind to his relatives."
"This is a little ridiculous. Today, on the birthday of the eldest wife, I didn't invite the ladies of the Xie family. In terms, they are serious cousins."
"I just don't know what kind of family our future concubine comes from and what we have to look like to be worthy of the next son."
"Do you have any idea of paying so much attention?"
"Little hoof dares to chew my teeth and see if I don't tear your mouth."
The two maids started to fight, but they didn't pay attention to the son who pushed the door and entered for a while, and almost collided.
In a hurry, his face turned red.
Yu Wei did not embarrass the two. He asked Jiang Wei that she was busy in the pharmacy again and did not let the maid lead the way. He went to the west side and pushed open the bamboo door. He heard Jiang Wei scolding with great dissatisfaction: "Aren't you stay away? Carefully with those powder fragrances that have smoked my herbs."
Jiang Wei is bending down, holding a long-handled flat spoon in her hand, and concentrate on stirring it in a pottery urn. The strong bitter fragrance of medicine permeates the not-somple space, which is a little choking.
This bamboo house only has a small skylight, revealing a line of light, and Jiang Wei's gray cloth dress, which seems to be more and more integrated with the darkness around. If it hadn't been for the first sound, Yu Yu was afraid that he would not have seen her at a glance.
Yu Yu didn't go inside and coughed lightly with his fist on his lips.
Jiang Wei immediately turned around and quickly greeted him. His eyes were shining: "Why did the son come here?"
"Did I disturb you?"
"I'm just idle and bored, so I'm upside down." Jiang Wei was stunned and seemed to realize that this was not a place to treat guests. She pulled up the bamboo door and invited Yu Yu to the flower hall. She was busy cooking water and tea. Yu Yu quickly stopped her.
I came to look for Jiang Wei today, not to catch up with the past.
Since he heard about Zhen Mo's strange actions - the flower bag sachet regularly sent to the East Palace, and it is extremely mysterious and strange. After so many years of efforts, Nan Gu has not found out the subtlety of those sachets; and the intimate relationship between the prince's very trusted Mother Bai and Zhen Mo, Yu Yu only felt all the doubts, as if They all have clear directions.
So she entrusted Aunt Ru two things. One was to try her best to "steal" a sachet made by Zhen Mo, and the other was to pay attention to what was wrong with Mother Bai.
Bothing are more difficult than expected.
The sachet used by the princess was not easy to get. It was not easy to get it until she "re replaced the old with the new", such as her aunt's eyes and ears. Since mid-March, the princess began to take a new "child recipe". It is said that it is what Mother Bai asked for outside - the palace is not as good as the private residence, and the pulse can only be opened by Tai As for decoction, most of the hospital is also responsible for the internal servants and medical women, but many medical officers are helpless about the "infertility" of the crown princess, so both the emperor and the empress dowager are "open" to her seeking medical treatment outside.
Of course, the prescription still needs to be examined by the imperial doctor before it can be used.
Yu Yu thought about the recipe that Mother Bai was looking for outside. It happened that after Zhen Mo was humiliated again, it was a real coincidence in time, and her aunt also had feedback - although the princess's medicine was fried by a medical woman, it was presented to the princess by Mother Bai herself to drink. "ears and eyes" noticed that before Mother Bai often presented the medicine, He will avoid the crowd and linger alone for a while.
Although the imperial doctors think that the prescription is not harmful, Mother Bai has a great chance to add ingredients to the medicine.
Unfortunately, the princess had great expectations for the prescription and drank half a drop every time, which was really impossible to confirm Yu's conjecture.
After today's discussion, Yu Yu took the sachet and went to Qinggu. According to Mr. Qinggu, there is no problem with the categories of dried flowers and will never cause misdecia or infertility.
Is it just that you are suspicious? Yu Wei was very unwilling, so he decided to let Jiang Wei investigate again.
Although Jiang Wei is not as good as Qinggu, she is born with an outstanding sense of smell, especially for poison plants.
The smell of this sachet has faded, and it was replaced by the crown princess. Mr. Qinggu is not sure.
Jiang Wei listened to Yu's request, took the sachet without hesitation, loosened the silk rope, poured the dried flowers inside into her palm, observed carefully, and smelled it in turn at the end of her nose.
"There is no problem with the category." The judgment is no different from that of Mr. Qinggu.
Yu is a little depressed.
However, Jiang Wei pinched a dark purple petal and repeatedly identified it, and her eyebrows frowned.
"This is Mo Zi." After a while, Jiang Wei definitely nods: "The fragrance is a little strange, with the smell of musk, the remnants of safflower, and the smell of a variety of spices. After a long time, it's no wonder my father didn't notice it."
"So..." Yu Yu was looking forward to it.
"With this thing for a long time will indeed cause infertility and even misanization, but it will not fundamentally hurt the body." Jiang Wei is very sure.
Yu Yu was very excited, thanked him, returned to Guan Suiyuan, and only meditated in the study - it seems that he was close to the truth. Zhen Mo was either unwilling to marry the eldest sister into the royal family, and there was also a gap between the sisters. Although the crown princess did not care, Zhen Mo was extremely hateful, but because of the honor and humiliation of the crown princess When it came to the interests of the Zhen family, she still did not kill all. While seducing the prince with lust to vent her personal anger and seek balance, she presented this infertile sachet to the crown princess. She should consider turning around the earth and prevent things from changing things. If the status of the crown princess is not guaranteed, which will affect her own interests, she only changed the fragrance. The crown princess still has a chance to conceive.
But after the Lingshan and Fanglin banquet, Zhen Mo's resentment against the crown princess has added another layer.
Or she has had the idea of entering the East Palace at this time - if the crown princess is still infertile and can't accept Zhuo's birth to a concubine, then she may not consider letting Zhen Mo enter the palace.
Therefore, Zhen Mo is no longer satisfied with the role of the sachet. In order to be more safe, it is very likely that Mother Bai will poison the crown princess and completely infertile the crown princess.
So how to arrange it to prove this conspiracy and kill Zhen Mo?
And the orphan and widowed mother - Huidu has found out that they were originally a family of four. Their mother has always been in poor health and has been ill for many years, and their father also suffered from an emergency five years ago. Seeing that he died soon, the poor family situation is even worse.
The couple originally had a son and a daughter. Their daughter was thirteen and their son was only ten years old.
Seeing that the parents were weak, the younger brother was young, and the eldest sister had no other choice. In desperation, she volunteered to find someone to sign the sale.
In those years, all four neighbors praised the woman's filial piety.
Calculations, the woman should be 18 this year.
Three years ago, the father died, and there were only orphans and widows left in the family.
Neighbors claim that they occasionally visit their relatives on the Women's Festival, and an old woman brings property to the orphan and widow every season.
But the neighbors only know that the daughter is a maid in a large family, but they don't know which family she is from.
The orphan and widowed mother were so secret about their daughter's where to go that Huidu could not find out by various means.
People were killed two years ago because they fought with others.
Since Yu Yu knew about this, neither the daughter nor the woman had any contact with the orphan and widowed mother.
The clue is interrupted.
Yu Yumou decided that Zhen Mo was going to use the maid to make trouble - but even Huidu couldn't find out the details. Zhen Mo could actually grasp it. It seemed that it was not a temporary intention, but a plan.
Isn't her move aimed at the scenery?
Yu Yu did not dare to be careless after all, so he carefully explored many servants of the Duke of Wei's Mansion - there were no maids who had reached the age of 18, and all the servants in the Duke's Mansion who came into contact with food were also children from their families with a clear foundation.
Even several other close maids in the government have been checked, and there is no such person of age, and they are also bought outside five years ago.
This maid is very likely not to be in the government, but if she is in another family...
For example, in Jianning Houfu, Yu can't investigate it.
It's just that the scenery has been closed for these days, and Zhen Mo should not be able to find a chance to do it.
It's better to attack than to prepare. It's better to eradicate Zhen Mo as soon as possible.
Yu Yu was thinking about the plan, but Hui Du rushed in in panic and didn't have time to salute. He stood firm and said, "Son, I finally found out who the old mother who occasionally visited the widow is." After wiping the hot sweat on his head, Huidu was about to talk about it in detail.
"Just say the result." Yu Yu interrupted in a low voice.
"It turned out to be the porter in our house. She recognized a daughter and worked beside Mrs. Hui. She has been in the house for five years, and she is eighteen now."
As soon as Huidu's words fell, he saw Yu Yu's expression change greatly and stood straight with a pale face: "Today is Anhui's birthday, and the fifth sister should be invited..."
Before Huidu had time to nod, he saw that Yu Yu had already walked out.
Huidu quickly followed.