Chapter 341 The Storm Was Coming


    Before the grand preceptor, the emperor and the new empress needed to stay in the mansion to pray


    for three days and can not eat mean, which was the rule of the old ancestors. Praying for three days


    meant that their happy events would be smooth and auspicious. So they can not eat meat during the


    three days...


    Yun Shang narrowed her eyes and thought, ''those guys have gone too far. They initiated the attack


    first.''. Thinking of this, Yun Shang stood up in a hurry and said to Prince Jing, "I''m afraid I have to go to


    the pce now."


    Prince Jing looked at Yun Shang. He hesitated a little and then nodded. "I know you are worried about


    Go to the pce now. Do you want me to go with you?"


    Yun Shang kept silent for a while and slowly shook her head. Although the incident was rted to the


    grand ceremony, it was still an incident in the imperial household. She didn''t want Prince Jing to get


    involved in it too much. Men should be considerate and thinking about the matter of the whole country,


    and women should deal with matters in the family. Moreover, this is only rted to her mother.


    Yun Shang asked Prince Jing to drink the white fungus soup on the table, and then asked Qian Yin to


    change her clothes for her. She went out of the door with a pink cloak, and the carriage was ready. She


    rushed to the pce.


    Lady Jin should be present as one of the persons in charge of the grand preceptor''s preparation now


    that an incident happened. Besides, she kept the Empress'' token for the time being, and the incident


    was in the imperial household now.


    Yun Shang didn''t want to go to the Jinxiu pce, so she asked a maid to take her to the Changan Hall.


    It was a Buddhist hall set in the pce, where the concubines pray, and the emperor prayed in


    qinzheng hall.


    When Yun Shang arrived, she saw emperor Ning and Lady Ya sitting on the chairs. Lady Jin stood


    beside emperor Ning and looked at the maids kneeling on the ground, with a frown on her head.


    "I have been staying in the cooking room all these days. His majesty and Lady ya have kept in the


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    room for a whole day, and we have even prayed in the imperial household. Lady Jin ordered that all the


    food in the pce is forbidden to have meat, so in the following days, no meat has been sent to the


    pce. I don''t know where the dog meates from either. I''m innocent... "


    Yun Shang knew from the maid''s words that she must be the one who worked in the cooking room.


    Judging from her wail, Yun Shang could not get any information from her.


    "Were you beside the cook when he cooked?" Emperor Ning said calmly.


    The maid shook her head. "There are many people in the imperial meal room, but I didn''t expect that


    someone would dare to do something to the meal, so I didn''t pay attention to it and left several times."


    Yun Shang looked at the maid thoughtfully. Even in the face of such a situation, the maid was neither


    overbearing nor servile. She cried and screamed, but she gave a clear answer that could not be


    simple. She must not be a simple girl at all.


    "Did anyone elsee there when you were making lunch?" Lady Jin asked softly.


    The maid fell into silence. She looked up at Lady Jin, and softly said, "I didn''t pay attention."


    Emperor Ning remained silent for a while and said, "take her away, and bring the next one."


    It was then that Yun Shang realized the interrogation was made one by one in the imperial room. She


    sneered and believed that all the evidences would point tody Jin in the end.


    It was not until then that emperor Ning noticed Yun Shang. He beckoned her with a smile. "What brings


    you here, shang''er?"


    Yun Shang walked to Emperor Ning with a gentle smile. "Recently, there are a lot of affairs in the


    pce. I was worried that mother couldn''t handle them well, so I went to the pce every day. I was


    supposed toe this afternoon, but I was dyed by something in the prince''s mansion this


    afternoon. What happened?"


    Emperor Ning sank into silence for a while, and then slowly began to smile. "It''s not a big deal, but


    there are people serving the meat in Lady Ya''s meal."


    "Really?" Yun Shang raised her eyebrows and said, "everyone knows that his majesty and Lady Ya are


    forbidden to eat meat for a few days. How dare someone do something so bold?" Then she looked at


    the bowl of Lily porridge ced on the table beside emperor Ning''s hand. "Is this the porridge with


    minced meat? Father, can I have a look? "


    Emperor Ning saw her eyes darken. He hesitated before he nodded, "Okay, go ahead."


    Yun Shang smiled and picked up the bowl. She smelled it and found that it smelled like some fish was


    in there. Stir the congee with a spoon, she saw there were some white particles mixed in the bowl of


    the congee, almost the same as the pieces of the fish.


    Yun Shang put down the bowl of the congee indifferently, smiled and said, "although it''s not a big


    problem, I don''t need to worry about the rules. As the empress'' ceremony was about to start, you can''t


    let anyone do anything against the rules."


    Emperor Ning nodded, "that''s exactly what I mean."


    While they were talking, the guard dragged an old maid in from outside. The old maid looked


    frightened. When she saw emperor Ning sitting in the room, her legs became weak and she almost fell


    to the ground.


    "Your Majesty, she is the madam in charge of burning the fire in the imperial dining room." The guard


    reported loudly.


    Emperor Ning frowned. "She must be in the imperial bedroom all the time since she was the one in


    charge of the fire."


    The maid in waiting replied, "yes, your majesty... Yes I have always been in the room. "


    "Do you remember that who was close to it when they make the lily porridge today? Tell me their name,


    one by one. " Emperor Ning picked up his teacup and stared at the old maid coldly.


    The old maid trembled with fear. She hurriedly said, "I... I forget... I have a bad memory. " There was


    obvious panic in her voice.


    "Really? Forget it? " Emperor Ning curled his lips and said coldly. After all, he had been in high position


    for so many years, so he knew how to persuade a person to give up resistance with only a few words.


    The old maid seemed to be frightened. She suddenly froze. After a long time, she said, "I remembered


    it. I remembered it. Madam Zheng. Madam Zheng who had been arounddy Jin came. She saiddy


    Jin was too busy to have dinner. Seeing Lily porridge in the casserole, shedled the porridge in a


    bowl."


    Emperor Ning gave a grim smile and looked at madam Zheng, who had kept unmoved. "Madam


    Zheng, is it true?"


    Madam Zheng nodded slightly, her countenance deadpan. "Yes. Her highness was busy. When we


    were having dinner, the steward of the imperial treasure house asked us to confirm the Empress''


    phoenix cor at the Imperial Pce, and Lady Jin ordered to put the dinner away. As her highness


    barely ate, I went to the imperial dinner room when they finished cooking, and saw Lily porridge in it, so


    I served some to her highness. But her highness didn''t notice that there is meat in it. "


    After a pause, madam Zheng said, "does this old maid think I put the meat paste in the porridge? As


    the maid before said, meat has not been sent into the pce these days for the sake of abstinence. By


    the way, where did I get the meat? "


    The old maid fell silent for a moment, and then she shook her head, "I don''t know. I just don''t know


    what kind of meat it is."


    Yun Shang raised her eyebrows at the old maid''s words. She smiled at Emperor Ning, and said, "when


    we talked about meat, we all think that the cooks are the best people. But I think the physician is the


    best. Why not call for an imperial physician?"


    Emperor Ning didn''t know what Yun Shang was thinking, but he noticed that there was no sign of rm


    on Yun Shang''s and Lady Jin''s faces. Even madam Zheng, a servant, looked very calm. He knew that


    she must have a well thought out n. He nodded and said, "shang''er, your idea is very strange. Call


    the imperial physicians."


    Yun Shang noticed that when she mentioned the imperial physician, the old maid seemed to be moved.


    Her eyes shed with excitement. Yun Shang knew her guess was right. The smile on her face turned


    cold.


    Before long, an imperial physician arrived. But emperor Ning wasn''t in the mood to ask him to bow. He


    called the imperial physician in and handed the bowl to him, "check the meat in the bowl."


    The doctor seemed to be shocked at such a request. He was surprised and regained hisposure.


    He quickly took over the bowl, smelled it, and then took out the spoon, and looked at it carefully.


    Emperor Ning realized that the imperial physician had the same actions as Yun Shang''s just now. He


    turned around and looked at Yun Shang. ''Does she know medical skills as well?'' It was just his guess,


    but he couldn''t draw a conclusion. This daughter had given him too much surprise or fright. He had


    never known that she was able to shoot an arrow as she did at the royal banquet the other day.


    The imperial physician paused and replied, "Your Majesty, I guess the meat in the bowl is made of fish."


    "Fish?" Emperor Ning said with a frown, "We don''t ask anyone to send fish in the pce. And we don''t


    breed fish here. Where is it from?"


    The imperial physician replied momentarily, "there is perch ground with dried meat in the imperial


    hospital."


    "Really? Is it can also be used as medicine? " Emperor Ning raised his eyebrows and asked.


    The imperial physician nodded and said, "the fish meat can nourish the five organs, nourish your


    bones, stomach and intestines, nourish the fetus, water and affect people''s health as well. The general


    drugstore is serving dry fish meat all around the city. "


    "For prevention of miscarriage?" Emperor Ning frowned and his eyes also grew cold.


    Lady Jin was the only one who had used the perch meat these days. Now it was clear that the trap was


    buried in her ce.


    Emperor Ning looked up at Lady Jin, and saw her still calm and unmoved as if nothing had happened.


    he turned to Yun Shang again. There was a smile on Yun Shang''s face, but it seemed a little cold.


    Emperor Ning did not show any odd expression and said tly, "who had taken the perch fish meat


    from the imperial hospital recently?"


    The imperial physician seemed to recall for a moment, and replied softly, "no one has taken the perch


    fish meat in the pce recently. Lady Jin''s old maid Madam Zheng had used the effect of the poison.


    At that time,dy Jin was pregnant with the little prince, and Madam Zheng learnt about medicine, so


    she went to the Imperial hospital to get some fish meat to preventdy Jin''s miscarriage."