"Tian Ningguan and the real person who treated my aunt are people close to the Empress Dowager?" Xue Ruitian was stunned, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, Xiaoyun, are you sure that's what the empress said?"
"Brother, sister, how dare I talk nonsense about such an important matter?" Song Qiyun nodded, "That's what the mother-in-law said."
"It seems that our guess is correct and accurate."
"What are your guesses?" Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Cha with confusion, "Why can't I understand what you are saying?"
"We suspected before that this was a trap, but there was no conclusive evidence. Now it seems that my intuition is still very accurate." Shen Cha looked at Shen Haolin, then at Jin Miaomiao, and finally his eyes fell on Regarding Xue Ruitian, "From the time Aunt Xue's family fell ill to her death, this was the overall situation, the overall situation set by the Empress Dowager."
"Tell me, tell me what you think."
"Master, can I really say that?" Shen Cha touched his nose in embarrassment, "After all, the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother are elders and have passed away..."
"How many times have you said this in private, do you care about this now?" Uncle Yan waved his hand towards Shen Cha, "Although you are juniors, you should not be allowed to slander the elders, but the old witch..." He curled his lips in disgust. , "I don't count your elders. Apart from being your imperial grandfather's concubine, she is still in name only, and the rest has nothing to do with you. So, just say whatever you want, just say whatever you want!"
"Okay!" Shen Cha thought for a while, organized his words a little, and then said slowly, "Aunt Xue's illness became serious after she came out of the palace. She had always been lively before, including when she was in the palace. Also, as far as I know, she didn’t become ill immediately after leaving the womb, but the symptoms only appeared in the middle of the night. From this, we can infer that the cause of her illness should be in the womb.”
"Why not at home?" As soon as Xue Ruitian asked, he couldn't help but slap himself, "Don't worry about the slip of the tongue."
"Actually, we have had this suspicion, but..." Shen Cha shrugged, "The possibility of this is not high."
"Understood." Xue Ruitian nodded, "Judging from the reaction of the family after my aunt fell ill, it shouldn't have been the family members." He thought for a while, "If it was in the palace, it shouldn't have been in the palace. In the palace of Her Royal Highness the Princess, right?”
"Old archives in the palace record that Aunt Xue's family visited the following places in the palace that day, including her mother's palace, the pond in the imperial garden, and the imperial dining room. This imperial dining room is not the small dining room in the mother's palace. It’s the main dining room in the palace.”
"There is a small dining room in the mother's palace. What is she doing in the imperial dining room?" Shen Haolin frowned slightly, "Also, is there anything that she must go to in person instead of the maids around them?"
"This is one of the questions." Shen Cha smiled at Shen Haolin, "The Empress Dowager sent someone to deliver a message, asking Miss Xue family to come to the imperial dining room in person. When she heard that Miss Xue family was coming, she ordered the imperial dining room I made some snacks for Miss Xue and asked Miss Xue to pick them up."
"Go and get it in person?" Seeing Shen Cha nodding, Xue Ruitian showed an incredulous expression, "Isn't this too obvious? What if you want to do something about it? The Queen Mother shouldn't be such a stupid person, right?"
"Maybe it's a cover-up, maybe it's because we think she's not that stupid, so we avoid suspicion." Shen Cha raised an eyebrow, "Both explanations are very possible, right?"
"That's right." Xue Ruitian thought for a while, "So, you doubt the imperial kitchen?"
"The imperial dining room and the pond in the imperial garden are both more suspicious places. People from the Empress Dowager have appeared in these two places."
"No, there should be someone from the Empress Dowager present in my mother's palace." Shen Haolin thought for a moment, "Is it possible that they just stood at the door and didn't have any contact? I heard my mother say that there are very few people in other palaces. Can enter the temple."
"Yes, Brother Haolin." Song Qiyun nodded towards Shen Haolin, "The mother-in-law also said that in the palace of the eldest princess, most of the palace people stood in the corridor outside the palace and answered questions. So, just Only the royal kitchen and the pond are suspicious."
"I agree with this statement, but..." Hong Ye held her chin and looked at Shen Cha and then at Jin Miaomiao with suspicion, "What can make the Xue family's wife get sick again in the middle of the night after she returns from the palace?" Is it really a disease, or something else? Especially, the Xue family has been suffering from this disease for a long time, and all the famous doctors and imperial doctors in Xijing City are helpless. This is very strange! "
"Not only famous doctors and imperial doctors, but also monks and Taoists and Gu masters can't solve it." Xue Ruitian also looked at Jin Miaomiao in confusion, "What can stump these people? This is unreasonable!"
"If I guess correctly, it should be Gu insects. This is a common method used by Qinglian Sect." Shen Cha looked at Jin Miaomiao, "This can also explain why people from outside the country are unwilling to take action. It is not them who can solve the problem." No, it’s because they can’t solve it.”
"Why not?"
"There are rules in their profession. Unless they are extremely high-level Celestial Masters who can break the poison of the Gu Master without being counterattacked, other Gu Masters are very taboo about this." Jin Miaomiao thought for a moment, "Currently From the looks of it, it should be a poisonous insect. Whoever infects it will untie it. If it is confirmed that the person in Tianningguan is someone close to the Empress Dowager, then this guess is basically a fact. The empress of the Xue family was infested in the palace. If you want to get rid of the poisonous insect, you must invite the person who cast it. This is why the people of the Xue family..." She looked at Xue Ruitian, "will beg the Empress Dowager."
"Understood." Xue Ruitian nodded, "As soon as the Empress Dowager's people came forward, my aunt's illness was cured. But my aunt was controlled by them, and she didn't want to harm anyone, so she had a big temper, right? no?"
"Probably, I still don't think it's good yet."
"Whose idea was it when Aunt Xue entered the palace as a concubine?" Shen Haolin looked at Xue Ruitian and then at Song Qiyun, "The late emperor himself, or..."
"The Empress Dowager!" Shen Cha answered before Shen Haolin could finish, "I have read the old documents, and the late Emperor was very close to the Xue family, so I agreed."
"So that's it." Shen Haolin touched his chin, "Then the trick you mentioned can be established. Aunt Xue's family was controlled and became the late emperor's concubine, and then she could take action against the late emperor, or control the late emperor through her, and achieve the goal of Taipei. The Empress Dowager and the purpose of the Green Lotus Sect behind her."
"Yes." Shen Cha nodded, "But obviously, the ending she wanted was different. Aunt Xue's family did not help her, but sabotaged her plan. Therefore, in desperation, the Empress Dowager could only let her She got out as soon as possible before she suffered even greater losses.”
