After the palace banquet dispersed, the emperor specially asked Jiang Yankun and his wife to stay. They went into the inner hall of the Hall of Supreme Harmony to see the prince. After confirming that the prince was fine, he sent someone to escort them out of the palace.
After countless acupuncture and medicinal applications, the redness and swelling on the little guy's face subsided somewhat, but it still has not fully recovered. The skin on his face is covered with small rashes, which are densely packed and look very scary.
He was still humming and rubbing in his sleep, unconsciously wanting to scratch.
Jiang Xinyue knows that there are many bacteria hidden in human nails. If the skin is scratched, it is likely to cause some inflammation and cause the wound to suppurate.
It will be bad to leave scars in the future.
She grabbed the little guy's hand, hummed softly in his ear, and coaxed him to sleep.
All night long, the emperor and Jiang Xinyue took turns watching, fearing that the prince would have some relapse.
After the sky dawned, the emperor was going to the morning court. He didn't even close his eyes and hurried to the Jinluan Hall.
When I left, my eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes.
Jiang Xinyue told Magpie and Shuangjiang to take good care of them, and she also leaned on the bed pillar and closed her eyes for a while to relax.
After she took a rest and regained her consciousness, the rash on the prince's body had almost receded.
The little person was tortured all night, and his spirit was very depressed. He stared at Jiang Xinyue with a pair of black eyes without blinking, and then showed a weak smile: "Mother... Concubine..."
He knew how to call his mother concubine, but he still felt like he couldn't hold his tongue straight. His milky milky sounds made people's hearts melt.
But apart from this sentence, I won’t say anything else.
Jiang Xinyue kissed the prince's little face, smiled at him, and asked the magpie to bring the warm cod porridge: "Are you hungry, little dumpling? Can I feed you some porridge, please?"
When he heard the word "porridge", the prince's eyes lit up and he immediately sat up from the bed.
Magpie brought the cod fish porridge to Jiang Xinyue, and sat down on the bed with the little prince in her arms. Jiang Xinyue scooped up a spoonful of the porridge and blew on it. A smell of food oil mixed with the meaty aroma of cod fish went straight into her nose.
She took the porridge farther away and looked at it, then put it under her nose and smelled it: "Xiao Xiangzi, go to Hexi Palace and bring the Prince's supplementary cooking oil from the kitchen to Doctor Yan to see. I smell it... What's going on? Does it smell like peanut oil?”
Peanuts and walnuts are both nuts. The oils extracted from them have very similar smells. It is difficult to distinguish them without smelling them carefully.
However, the food eaten by the little dumplings in Hexi Palace is all managed and arranged by special personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and strictly follows Jiang Xinyue's standards, so there is no possibility of confusion.
There was silence in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The prince was ill, and no one dared to make any noise and cause trouble for the queen.
Xiao Xiangzi went there for about a quarter of an hour, and then returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony with a small jar in his arms. Doctor Yan quickly took it, took a spoonful of it with a small spoon, and then dipped some of it with his little finger to taste the taste.
All eyes were fixed on Doctor Yan. He covered his mouth with a handkerchief and spit out the oil: "Queen, this is peanut oil! Your Highness the Prince's walnut oil has been mixed."
Jiang Xinyue had already guessed, and slammed the bowl of cod porridge on the table: "Let the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs come to see me and bring over all the stored walnut oil."
"Wow wow wow..."
The prince, who had not been able to eat delicious fish porridge for a long time, burst into tears. Jiang Xinyue asked Magpie and Shuangjiang to carry him to wet nurse Lu: "Since the wet nurse is fine, let her feed the prince milk first, and don't make any complementary food for the prince in the past few days." eat."
She wanted to find out whether there was a problem with just this tank of oil or with all the oil.
If there is only a problem with the tank of oil in Hexi Palace, then we have to start from our own palace to find out if there is a mole.
If there is something wrong with all the oil, then someone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been bribed to harm the prince.
Jiang Xinyue is actually more inclined to think that there is a problem with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The entire Hexi Palace had been cleaned up a long time ago. From Xique, Shuangjiang, Xiao Xiangzi, Jiang Chuan to Aunt Xiang and Nanny Lu, they were all her confidants and could not betray her.
They also carefully selected and trained the people below them to be loyal palace servants to Hexi Palace.
It can be said that her place is like an iron wall that no one can pry through.
Ministry of Internal Affairs...
"Wow!"
"oops!"
"Xiao Shunzi, what's wrong with you?"
"coax!"
"Ah! It's on fire...it's on fire, put out the fire quickly!"
As soon as Xiao Xiangzi walked to the door of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he saw thick black smoke coming out, and a large number of eunuchs rushed out from inside, shouting to put out the fire.
He immediately realized that someone was "destroying the corpses and exterminating traces." If nothing unexpected happened, the batch of walnut oil must have been burned by His Highness the Crown Prince.
He pushed aside the few young eunuchs who were blocking the way and rushed in quickly. No matter what, he wanted to grab a few more cans of oil.
In the chaotic crowd, a pair of sinister eyes stared at his back as he rushed in: "Seeking death!"
The emperor has not yet gone to court, the sky is still a bit gloomy, and it is not completely dawn. Many people are still sleeping, and are gradually awakened by the noise from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
When Xiao Xiangzi rushed into the fire scene, there was no one inside, and everyone rushed out to get water to silence themselves.
It turned out to be a warehouse!
The person who set the fire was really brave. In order to cover up the truth, he actually burned down the most important warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
But fortunately, this side is just a place to store grain, oil and food. If it is next to everyone's residence, if the wind blows, I don't know how many people will die.
He covered his mouth and nose and quickly rummaged around in places where the fire hadn't had time to spread.
In the light of the sky, Xiao Xiangzi saw a little eunuch wearing a light blue eunuch uniform, who had been burned beyond recognition and fell into a pile of gray-black charcoal.
He suppressed his nausea and fear, leaned over and pushed the wood away with his sleeves. What was pressed under the wood was the prince's walnut oil.
As expected...as expected...
The person who set the fire wanted to burn all the walnut oil.
With his little Xiangzi here, don’t even think about it!
He reached out and tried to take out the walnut oil from the cracks in the wood, but the wood got stuck on his shoulders, always just a little bit short, so he squeezed forward harder.
He didn't notice at all that there was a black shadow approaching him from behind.
The black figure held a thick wooden stick in his hand and raised it high.
"Bang!"
Little Xiangzi's body fell limply into the sea of fire, and the crackling sparks were about to fall on him.
When the sky got a little brighter, the emperor went down to the morning court. It was still early today, mainly because the ministers saw his fire-breathing eyes and swallowed back what they wanted to say.
Forget it, if anything happens, let’s talk about it tomorrow!
No rush on this day.
Haste makes waste!
"There was a fire in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"
The emperor stopped and said, "How could something so good catch fire?"
"I heard that a young eunuch's clothes caught fire for some reason, and he knocked over an oil drum in the warehouse. The fire broke out and the young eunuch was also burned to death."
How could it be such a coincidence?
He just wanted someone to investigate the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but someone died and a fire broke out in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
