Gongsun came to the imperial dining room alone.
After judging that Jieli's worsening complexion was most likely caused by chronic poisoning, the first thing he thought of was the imperial dining room.
After all, food is the most important thing for people, and poisoning food is definitely the easiest way to poison people.
As the lord of the barbarian kingdom, Jieli's food must be tested for poison before consumption.
However, there are many ways to conceal poisoning from the drug test, and Gongsun can figure this out with just a little thought.
One of the reasons why he came to the imperial dining room was because he wanted to see what kind of poison Jie Li was poisoned with. If he could know the name of the poison he was poisoned with, he might be able to detoxify it accordingly.
In addition, he came to the imperial kitchen to investigate the matter of poisoning the tea of the two princes.
According to the clues provided by Yuan Lin, the spearhead of this matter was also pointed directly at the Imperial Kitchen Room.
What's even more coincidental is that the two things have the same thing, they are poisoning.
Gongsun had a gut feeling that there might be some connection between the two, so he came to the imperial dining room to investigate.
However, he did not directly enter the imperial kitchen in the name of investigating the case, but entered as a doctor.
As for the reason for entering the imperial dining room, of course it was the third princess's condition.
He told the head chef that the third princess needed to carefully consider her diet due to her illness and was not allowed to touch fried and spicy food, so he specially came to inspect it on the secret order of Jieli Khan.
Naturally, the head chef didn't say anything and just let him look around in the kitchen.
As a result, a rather strange scene appeared in the imperial dining room.
All the imperial chefs were busy preparing the imperial meal for noon. A young scholar who was facing some frailty was walking around the corners of the imperial dining room, looking around at their busy work.
He walked slowly past each imperial chef.
His eyes secretly swept between the hands of every imperial chef.
Whether it was cutting vegetables, cooking spoons, cooking pots, or lighting fires, he didn't let go of them and observed them carefully one by one.
Later, the head chef realized that this person did not come to inspect the food.
However, the head chef didn't pay much attention to it. After all, this was the royal kitchen, and it wasn't a secret place. There were no secrets at all.
Gongsun walked around the imperial kitchen twice, and finally his eyes rested on a hand chopping vegetables.
This is a very ordinary hand, broad, thick, and rough-skinned. It is not much different from the hands of other royal chefs.
But when Gongsun saw this hand, he still raised his eyebrows with interest.
Because he noticed that there was a thick callus at the mouth of this hand.
After looking at it carefully for a while, his eyes followed the hand and looked at its owner.
That's a very ordinary man.
He is about forty years old, with a unshaven appearance and looks a bit slovenly.
There is absolutely nothing noticeable about this person.
Gongsun believed that if he took off his royal chef clothes, put him in the uniform of a palace guard, and asked him to stand on duty at the door of the palace, he would never arouse other people's suspicions.
After taking a closer look at this man's appearance, Gongsun came to the head chef of the royal kitchen with a smile and said goodbye to him.
Then, he left the imperial dining room.
And that person is still chopping vegetables in an orderly manner...
Not long after, the meal was almost here, and the head chef took the freshly prepared royal meal and put it on the eating plate.
"Yuan Ping, the royal meal that your majesty requested is ready. You can send it over quickly, otherwise it will be bad if you make your majesty wait in a hurry, and you will lose your head." The head chef of the royal kitchen urged an imperial chef beside him.
"Here we go..." The royal chef quickly came to the steward and picked up the food plate.
"Hurry up and go..." the manager urged again.
Yuan Ping had no choice but to leave the imperial kitchen with the food tray and headed towards the study room where the Khan was.
As he was walking, he suddenly raised his head and looked around. After finding that no one was around, he quickly came to a corner with the food plate. After putting the food plate away, he took out a paper bag from his arms.
Open the paper bag and there are four wrapped small paper bags inside.
He looked around again, and after double-checking that there was no one around, he opened the four small paper packets one by one, and sprinkled the medicinal powder inside into the four different royal meals.
After doing all this, he crumpled the four pieces of paper wrapped with medicinal powder into a ball and threw them aside.
After the medicinal powder was completely dissolved into the imperial meal, he picked up the food plate again and continued to walk to the study room.
After a while, no one was seen.
However, just after the others left the place completely, a figure walked out from nowhere and stood where he had just stood.
This person is none other than Gongsun.
And that Yuan Ping was the person he noticed just now in the imperial dining room.
Gongsun looked at the royal chef's leaving figure, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then looked around, as if he was looking for something.
Soon, he found it.
It was the four pieces of paper wrapped with medicinal powder that the imperial chef crumpled into a ball and threw away.
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Chen Yutian looked at the four pieces of paper that were unfolded again on the table and looked at Gongsun.
"Did you really see the whole process of poisoning?"
"That's right." Gongsun nodded, "I saw with my own eyes that the imperial chef poured four different kinds of medicinal powders into different meals. There is absolutely no mistake. Moreover, these are the same pieces of paper that packaged those medicinal powders."
Chen Yutian looked at the pieces of paper on the table and asked, "Can you tell what kind of medicine powder these four are?"
Gongsun shook his head, "None of these four medicines are medicinal materials produced in the Central Plains. I have only seen them in books at most. I really can't judge based on the only powder and smell left on the paper."
Chen Yutian was surprised, "There are actually medicinal materials in this world that you don't know about?"
Gongsun smiled bitterly, "I am also a human being, not a god. There are so many medicinal materials in the world. Naturally, I cannot know them all. Just like you, sir, there are things that you cannot see through."
Hearing this, Chen Yutian also smiled.
"That's right. In this case, we have no choice but to ask others for help."
"Don't worry, I will figure out the ingredients and types of these four drugs as soon as possible."
Gongsun also nodded, and then looked at the empty rooms around him, feeling curious.
"By the way, where have the others gone? It's a bit strange that I can't see anyone during meal time."
Chen Yutian smiled and said, "I asked them to help me do an experiment. I think they should be back soon."
As soon as the words came out, Xuan Xi's voice was heard from outside.
"Yutian, we are back..."
Gongsun turned around and saw Xuan Xi and Tang Fengling running in happily from outside, followed by Xue Tianhan and Ling Miaoyin who looked a little speechless.
Chen Yutian looked at the four of them and said with a smile, "You're back. How's the situation?"
Xuan Xi replied happily, "It's exactly what you thought!"
Chen Yutian nodded slightly, "So, things are gradually starting to become clearer..."
Gongsun watched the two of them asking and answering, and couldn't help but become curious, and asked Chen Yutian, "Sir, what experiments did you ask them to do?"
Chen Yutian smiled meaningfully, "This... we'll keep it a secret for now. When the time comes, you will naturally know."
Gongsun was slightly startled, but after seeing Chen Yutian's obviously enlightened eyes, he nodded slightly and asked no more questions.
But, at this moment, the summons in Chen Yutian's arms suddenly lit up...
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Woniu Mountain.
After the enemies in the other two caves were completely defeated, the entire stronghold fell into the hands of the Jiulong Mansion and Taiyi Tianfu group.
With the enthusiastic help of the Ice King, everyone rebuilt an ice prison in the cave in the middle and imprisoned all the enemies in it.
At this point, the Woniu Mountain stronghold was completely occupied.
After half a day's rest, Huo Yuanji and others sat together, all eyes focused on the face of the eighth princess, Lang Hua, who had just been released from the cage.
At this moment, the dirt on this face has been cleansed.
However, many bruises still remain.
Concubine Ling looked at the eighth princess quite distressedly.
She was obviously a princess of a barbarian country, but she was locked up in a place like this and treated like this. Fortunately, those people had a bottom line and didn't do that kind of thing to her.
Jian Xinghan and Ye Xiaohan walked over from the stone cave between them.
They are responsible for interrogating those enemies.
"We have already interrogated them. These people are the remnants of the Fox Clan's rebellion twenty years ago. They have continued to grow and develop over the years. This is one of their two largest strongholds."
Ye Xiaohan reported to everyone.
Others may have thought nothing of it after hearing this, but the Eighth Princess and Concubine Ling could not help but change their expressions.
"What do you think they are...the remnants of the Fox Clan's rebellion?" Ling Fei asked.
Ye Xiaohan nodded, "Not bad."
Concubine Ling nodded lightly, "I see. I didn't expect that there would be remnants of the rebels involved in this... It seems that they are still evil and want to continue the rebellion of the Fox clan."
Huo Yuanji thought for a while, and his expression became slightly serious, "According to this, the black-robed Imperial Master should also be one of theirs..."
Concubine Ling nodded, "Yes, but I don't understand one thing. I used the secret technique of the spirit fox to make predictions before, and finally learned that the person who harmed me should come from Daliang Mountain in the Central Plains. Judging from the subsequent development of things, it seems that the person who harmed me should be from the Daliang Mountains in the Central Plains. That person is obviously the black-robed Imperial Master, but since he comes from the Central Plains, how can he have contact with the remnants of the Fox Clan's rebellion?"
After getting along with each other for the past few days, she also discovered the characteristics of the Eight Saint Clan in Lin Feifei and Bai Fan, so she also announced her identity as a descendant of the Linghu Saint Clan.
However, upon hearing these words, Bing Wang and Yan Zun, who had closed their eyes to rest, suddenly opened their eyes.
"Girl, what did you say? Have you ever used the spirit fox's prediction technique?"
"So, your spirit fox tribe's talent is wisdom?"
Concubine Ling nodded obediently, "The two seniors are right, my talent is indeed wisdom."
"That's right. The Linghu Saint Clan's prediction technique has never gone wrong."
Yan Zun glanced at Huo Yuanji subconsciously.
Hearing this, Huo Yuanji and Bai Fan's bodies suddenly shook!
They suddenly thought of Long Yue's exploration of Daliang Mountain in the future.
After listening to Concubine Ling's words, they finally fully understood Long Yue's behavior at that time.
At the same time, it also gave them an extremely shocking guess in their minds.
Lin Feifei glanced at each of them suspiciously, curious, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look like this?"
Huo Yuanji and Bai Fan looked at each other, and the latter collected his thoughts and spoke slowly, "I suspect... that black-robed Imperial Master is probably... a remnant of the Jianghuai Alliance who tried to assassinate the emperor during the Battle of Heaven. "
Huo Yuanji nodded, "I also think it's possible."
Taiyi Tianfu and his party looked at them with some confusion.
Although they knew about the Jianghuai Alliance's assassination of the emperor, they had only heard rumors and did not know the specific details.
"The remnants of the Jianghuai Alliance?"
Wu Dongtian, who happened to be walking from the middle cave, suddenly shouted, "This is impossible. Except for Ye Hong, almost everyone in the Jianghuai Alliance is dead..."
"No..." Huo Yuanji shook his head, "In addition to Ye Hong who defected to the Futian Sect, there are two other people whose whereabouts have been unknown..."
Wu Dongtian was stunned for a moment, then his eyes flickered twice and he said, "You mean..."
Huo Yuanji nodded, "Yes, they are our old rival Xie Ying and Huajian Sect leader Huajian...these two people have been missing since the battle of Jitian, and there has been no news about them in the world. …”
Wu Dongtian was slightly surprised and looked at Huo Yuanji tentatively, "So you suspect... that they have fled to this barbarian country in the Western Regions?"
Huo Yuanji nodded, "It's not impossible. Maybe they really lived in the barbarian country and joined the remnants of the Fox clan's rebellion. This can explain Concubine Ling's prediction."
Concubine Ling nodded, "Indeed, this can indeed explain why my prediction is the Daliang Mountain in the Central Plains."
Wu Dongtian thought for a while, "If... the black-robed national master is Xie Ying, then who is Huajian?"
Bai Fan smiled and pointed at the Eighth Princess, "I'll have to ask the Eighth Princess about this."
The Eighth Princess pointed to her nose and wondered, "Ask me?"
Huo Yuanji nodded slightly, "I really need you to answer it, Princess Eight. Do you still remember why you were caught here?"
When the eighth princess heard this, she was suddenly startled!
After a moment, she looked at Huo Yuanji with some uncertainty and asked, "Is that Huajian you are talking about a woman?"
"That's right." Lin Feifei nodded, "The leader of the Huajian Sect is indeed a woman."
The eighth princess let out a long sigh, "Then I know who she is."
"who is it?"
"She is my eldest sister's personal maid." The Eighth Princess sighed slowly, "I was caught here just because I happened to see them plotting to set fire to the cold palace in the palace."
"What?" Concubine Ling was shocked!
"Is it the princess's idea to set fire to the cold palace and take the opportunity to move me here?"
She was completely shocked!
After the fire in the Cold Palace, in the cave cage, she thought many times about who had set up such a conspiracy.
She had thought about the answer to this question from many people, including the black-robed national master and the concubine Khan in the harem who had a grudge against her, but she never thought it would be the eldest princess.
"Not only that." The Eighth Princess sighed again, seemingly helpless, "Even the death of the two royal brothers was planned by her and the personal maid named Huajian."
"What?"
This time, not only Concubine Ling, but also everyone else present was shocked!
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