When the color of the day was about to fade, they came to the Queen Mother's palace.
As expected of a royal palace, the armed guards here are almost three levels inside and three outside. They don't need anyone to lead the way. They can probably reach the place just by walking along the places where there are many guards. After a simple search behind Liu Shenghan, she was put in. Although His Majesty said that they could go to the bedroom in another courtyard to rest first, the two of them still stood at the door of the palace, looking at each other with a group of guards. Of course, these guards don't have any weapons. This is the same as the royal palace of the motherland. Anyone with a knife or a sword is not allowed to approach these places. What's more, the person sleeping in the room was a helpless middle-aged woman.
Two maids followed her in.
As soon as the door opened, a light and sweet smell greeted me. Liu Shenghan walked in and saw that all the tents in the room were down. Even when it was still dark, they had not been rolled up. Screens are everywhere, in front of the door, in front of the window, and beside the bed. They are almost all a dull pink color, which is probably the kind that the Queen Mother likes. The dim interior has a hazy warm rose color, which is very warm even in winter.
"Is the stove here always burning?" Shenghan asked one of the maids, "These doors and windows are always closed."
"Of course we will open the windows for ventilation." She replied, "The time for everything we have to do is very strict. If there is a slight mistake, even if it hurts the Queen Mother's mood, we don't dare to do it."
Another palace maid seemed to remember something: "By the way, Madam Liu, you don't dare step on the formation on the ground."
"Array?"
Liu Shenghan lowered his head and looked in the direction of the palace maid's finger.
Sure enough, a formation was left in the house - surrounding the Queen Mother's bed. The palace maid said that the formation would maintain the minimum supply of spiritual power for human survival. No one can step through this formation of blue sand, otherwise the formation will be ineffective and the Queen Mother will starve to death. This is what the Imperial Master said, and the formation was also set up by the Imperial Master.
If other imperial doctors wanted to check the Queen Mother's safety during this period, they could only check her pulse. The golden thread as thin as silk extended outside the magic circle and was fixed on the table by needles. Liu Shenghan took the silk thread and tested the Queen Mother's pulse, but everything was normal.
She just fell into a deep sleep.
Liu Shenghan took a look around the huge dormitory. Nothing else was out of the ordinary, except that she found two candles at the foot of the wall near the bed, both half-burned. She picked them up, sniffed them in front of her, and realized that they were the source of the aroma that filled the room. They should also be burned and extinguished at fixed points by the palace maids, just like the king of Xiangji Kingdom.
The smell of this candle is exactly the same as the incense candle given to Aoyan by Gandharva. Liu Shenghan couldn't identify the exact ingredients quickly, but she was certain that it should be full of herbs, most of which were used to soothe the mind and help sleep. They exude the smell of over-ripened fruits that have been stacked together and have been over-fermented, making them a bit intoxicating after smelling them for a long time.
“How often do you light candles?”
"let me see……"
So, what kind of medicine is Bai Ya's candle? Liu Shenghan recalled for a while. She remembered some recognizable parts, which were no different from these herbs, but there were also some parts that she could not recognize.
There were medicines in the world that she, Liu Shenghan, could not identify - this was something she had begun to care about a long time ago.
That's not what matters right now.
There were also many medicines piled on the tables where the needles and threads were placed. There are balls, powders, and some are directly dried plant roots. Liu Shenghan picked it up and looked at it, then turned around and asked:
"Are these all the medicines Her Majesty took?"
"Well, it should be." A palace maid glanced at it, "Ah, there are still two flavors missing, but those were put into the stove to burn incense. The Imperial Master sent someone before leaving
Go and collect it. "
"Girl, do you remember what it is?"
"Well...I'm not in charge of this, I don't know."
"Can you please go to the pharmacy and get a copy of the list? This is very important. I must understand the Queen Mother's diet and medication in detail before I can make a judgment."
"Ah good."
"And this girl." Liu Shenghan turned to the other person and said, "Please go to the imperial kitchen and copy a copy of the Queen Mother's recipe. It will be for seven days - seven days before the Queen Mother falls asleep."
"Okay, let's go."
It was completely dark, and lights were lit everywhere in the palace.
The two of them stood bored at the door. Bai Ya squatted on the ground, with nothing to do, picked up a small stick and started drawing tortoises.
"Why do you, you bastard, draw so ugly?"
"I drew Qi Huan."
"He doesn't have pigtails either." Jun Aoyan frowned, "He still has braids that go up to the sky."
"Actually, he's a bastard."
"..." Aoyan's veins twitched, "I took it seriously."
"Then it looks like my painting looks quite similar."
"Like a bastard or like Qi Huan?"
"According to you, it looks similar."
"?"
"That's what he looks like."
It's quite a bit of a joyful experience.
Bai Ya poked a few more times on the turtle's back, which looked like turtle patterns and a human face. But either one is too ugly.
"Aren't you tired after standing for so long?" Bai Ya lowered his head and continued to draw, and asked Aoyan casually.
"I'm not tired. It's common to stand in the army for a whole day."
"You actually don't have to stand with them."
The door to the Queen Mother's bedroom suddenly opened. Aoyan lowered her head to look at the painting. Before she could reply, Bai Ya stood up suddenly and almost hit the bridge of her nose. Both of them thought it was Shenghan who came out, but it turned out that it was not, it was two little palace maids. Bai Ya stopped them and asked how long they would have to look inside. His legs were really numb.
"I don't know, it will take a while." After saying that, the maids left in a hurry.
Aoyan rolled her eyes: "Stand still for a while if your legs are numb."
"I don't."
It was already late at night when the three of them finally got together to talk.
Liu Shenghan looked at the medicine list and recipes as a matter of course, but it was true that he dismissed them. While she and the sleeping Queen Mother were alone in the room, she said that she had been rummaging through the boxes for a while. When she said this, her face was gloomy and she couldn't see any smile at all. Rather, she had a straight face from the moment she left the Queen Mother's palace. Those low-key, slight smiles in the past were also restrained under a heavy shadow.
It was as if she had brought out some secrets.
There was indeed a secret, but she didn't know yet whether it belonged to the Imperial Master or the Queen Mother. The golden thread connecting the veins is not an ordinary thing, it is a long thread stretched out from real gold. This kind of line can accurately transmit the patient's pulse, minimizing errors. However, this kind of gold wire has been soaked in medicine and injected with some magic. As for what it was, Liu Shenghan couldn't identify it.
"There are also candles." She said, "The incense candles are the same as Aoyan's. They soothe the mind and help sleep. They only need to be burned for two moments and can be used for three hours. They have to burn them for half an hour in the morning and evening, which lasts for the whole day..."
"Is it used to drive away dreams?" Bai Ya raised his eyebrows slightly, "To prevent her from having nightmares?"
"...No, it's to keep her asleep."
"What?"
The two of them simply suspected that they had heard wrongly. But looking at Shenghan's serious face, they knew this was no joke. She never joked.
"It has nothing to do with any disease or medicine.
Tie. It's fragrant. The aroma of burning candles kept her from waking up. "
"How could this happen?" Jun Aoyan frowned, "What the Gandharva gave me was such a dangerous thing?"
"The incense candle itself is not dangerous." Sheng Han said, "The time I put out the incense candle for you is never more than two seconds. But the Imperial Master deliberately let her fall asleep..."
"What's the purpose of Kinnara?" Bai Ya felt a headache. "His Majesty said that the Goddess of Song was out for a longer time this time. I think she kept the Queen Mother from waking up because she wanted to hide something - she couldn't let the Queen Mother tell her. matter."
"Things that cannot be told to us outsiders, to the people in the palace, or to our own daughter..." Jun Aoyan thought together.
"It's not just that." Liu Shenghan still had a straight face, "There is also Talisman Water. I found it in the cabinet in front of her bed, and there was still half a bowl. I couldn't take it out. The powder had melted, and I don't know what was on the Talisman. What is written? The bowl is a red pottery bowl, and it is also very particular. But to be honest, I don’t know much about Yin Yang Jutsu and the like. If Mr. Qi were present, I could probably tell a little bit about it."
"...Any more?"
"There are many doubts."
Almost the whole night, the three people gathered around the small table in the guest room to discuss, analyze, and discuss. Even so, the part they knew was too limited, making it difficult to understand the whole story. What is certain is that although those medicines seemed to be nourishing and nourishing, they could hide it from the eyes of the imperial doctors, but they could not hide it from Liu Shenghan.
A piece of grass, when it blooms, is medicine, when it withers, it is poison. It can save people, but it can also kill people. A leaf can dispel cold and nourish the stomach in spring, but it will damage the liver and activate qi; in autumn, it can rejuvenate muscles and bones, but it will damage the spleen and cause bleeding. Some poisons become medicines if they are too much, and they become poisons if they are too much; some medicines become poisons when they are mixed with another medicine; some poisons are mixed with medicine, so one kind of toxicity is lost and another kind of toxicity is strengthened. . The dosage of medicine or poison should be controlled. Different parts of the same plant, different time periods, and different growth environments are also closely related to the toxicity of the medicine. There is almost nothing in the world that Liu Shenghan doesn't know, and it's not easy to deceive her.
She knew that the singer Kinnara was not that skilled and had limited knowledge of such things. Otherwise, she wouldn't have to run to the God of Fragrance again and again. If you have anything to do, wouldn't it be more convenient to grab a messenger to send a message?
They knew that the imperial master was destroying Queen Mother Qiu Ruoyun's organs bit by bit and stripping away the spiritual power from her body bit by bit. She slowly plundered her life force at just the right time and way. And your little Majesty is so obedient to the teachings and arrangements of the Imperial Master. If she wanted to seize the power of the country from this little girl in the blink of an eye, it would certainly not be difficult. Or, to be more dignified, use her as a shield or a dummy, listening to politics behind the scenes, directing the country, and holding great power.
No one would doubt her. The impression she will leave on the world is that she is a wise god who tried her best to save the Queen Mother's precarious life and valued love and justice.
Although the gods have never saved the world.
"Stop the incense." Liu Shenghan said before the rooster crowed. "As long as you don't let the palace maid light the incense, the Queen Mother will naturally wake up."
"The palace maid will definitely not let it go, and neither will your Majesty." Ao Yan said weakly. Her mouth was a little dry.
"Then change it. Ahem -" Bai Ya pinched the bridge of his nose, cleared his throat, and continued, "She must know this."
They heard from His Majesty Qiu Weiyu that there were only three days left until the day when the Imperial Master said he would come back. As expected, she should be in a neighboring country now, drinking and talking with him in the Gandharva's garden.
Or maybe he is planning some unknown and vicious conspiracy.
"It's not easy to steal incense and candles. There are heavy guards outside the palace, and besides - they are afraid that there are countless incense and candles and they can't steal them all."
