Chapter 679 Make A Painstaking Investigation
Ning Qian replied and left in a hurry.
Yun Shang turned to look at Lin Youran and asked softly, "Has anyonee to Xiang Zhu Pce to
see you these days?"
After thinking for a while, she gestured to Yun Shang. Yun Shang pondered and frowned. "Her majesty,
Lady Xian, Lady Min, the seventh princess?"
Lin Youran nodded while keeping screaming.
Yun Shang could understand why the first ones came to see Lady Hui. But how could Yutonge?
Why did Yutong pay a special visit to Lin Youran at the Xiang Zhu Pce? It was really strange
After a while, Ning Qian came back and whispered, "I''ve given my order."
Yun Shang answered softly. Then she turned to look at Ning Qian. "Lin Youran said that the seventh
princess hase to the imperial pce and visited her in the Xiang Zhu Pce, right?"
"Yes." Ning Qian nodded slightly and replied, "She entered the imperial pce yesterday afternoon.
After greeting the empress, she went straight to the Xiang Zhu Pce. I thought that the seventh
princess is from the Hua n, and she is a good friend of you, so I brought her here to visit Youran. It''s
just that she is a little bit quiet and doesn''t like to talk much. She chatted with us for a while and then
left."
Yun Shang frowned and thought, ''it seems unusual. The seventh prince had not returned for two days.
Not daring to enter the pce by herself, Hua Yutong specially went to Prince Rui''s mansion to look for
her. But this time, she came to the imperial pce by herself and even visited the Xiang Zhu Pce.
Yun Shang thought about it for a while and figured out the possible reason. The seventh prince had
heard that something happened to Lin Youran''s unborn baby, so he sent Hua Yutong here to check.
But, in this case. I think the seventh prince has nothing to do with the furniture thing. His sending Hua
Yutong to inquiry shows that. If it has anything to do with the seventh prince, he wouldn''t have done
that.
Yun Shang frowned again. Of course, there was another possibility. The seventh prince wanted to
frame Hua Yutong. If it was the seventh prince who hadmitted the crime, Yutong will be suspected
as she specially visited Lady Hui yesterday.
Yun Shang kept thinking about it. After a while, a maid came in with a bag of medicine. She looked
around and said lightly, "Her highness, there is nothing wrong with Lian Rui. This is the anesthetic she
brought here just now. I have been following Lian Rui all the way, and she has never gone to other
ces. She directly went to the imperial hospital, and came back quickly with the anesthetic."
Ning Qian took the anesthetic over and handed it to Yun Shang. She said to the maid, "Next one."
The maid curtsied and left. Yun Shang took the bowl and kept silent for a while. Then she turned to Lin
Youran. "You don''t have to scream now. I''ll go out and tell her majesty about this. Or I''m afraid she can''t
help breaking in. "
Yun Shang stood up and poured a handful of blood water from the basin on her dress. Then she
adjusted her expression and walked out of the door with a certain anxiety.
The empress kept an impatient look, frowning while sitting.
As soon as Lady Xian saw Yun Shang walk out, she hurriedly asked, "Lady Rui, how is Lady Hui?"
Yun Shang curtsied to them in a hurry and said, "I''m afraid it''s hard to keep the baby. She is suffering
from abdominal pain now. I have to ask her to have some anesthetic to relieve the pain. But it''s not a
permanent solution. Lady Hui insists to keep the baby. But if we force to keep the baby, I''m afraid even
Lady Hui won''t survive."
The empress frowned and said coldly, "If she can''t survive, how could the baby? Save the mother!"
Yun Shang hurriedly curtsied to her, and went back to her chamber.
Ning Qian unwrapped the medicine bag, handed the anesthetic to Lin Youran, and said with a smile,
"You''d better take it to make a show."
Yun Shang frowned at the fragrance of the herb. She immediately stepped forward, snatched the herb
and threw it away.
"Your highness?" The other people in the room were all stunned by Yun Shang''s action. Yun Shang
went to the basin to wash her hands, and then said softly, "Anesthetic should be made of six herbs,
datura, raw wild aconite, fragrant angelica root, angelica, rhizoma Chuanxiong and rhizoma
arisaematis. Or it could be made of rhododendron, jasmine root, angelica and cmus. However, I
smelt musk in the anesthetic."
Ning Qian was surprised and frowned. "Lian Rui did it?"
"No, not Lian Rui." Yun Shang hurriedly said, "the culprit might have found that we are testing the
maids and trying to confuse us."
Yun Shang walked quickly to the table, wrote down two prescriptions, and handed them to Ning Qian.
"Take this note to the third suspected maid and ask her to give the notes to the imperial physician in the
imperial hospital. Tell the physician that I want him to make a prescription and then find a pharmacist to
get the medicine. After a while, give the notes to the fourth maid and give her the same order. Then ask
Lian Rui who filled the prescription for her. "
Ning Qian nodded and went out. Lin Youran looked at Yun Shang timidly and said gently, "Your
highness, will the person concerning the furniture take action today?
"No, she won''t. She has gone all out to send these furniture here, she must want you to get miscarried.
She must be paying attention to your situation today, and want to know if what she did before has any
effect." Yun Shang sneered.
"Your majesty." There was a burst of greetings outside. Yun Shang raised her head and looked at Lin
Youran, "His majesty ising."
Hardly had her voice faded away, the empress'' voice was heard from outside, "Your majesty, the blood
is ominous. Please don''t go in, Lady Rui hase to check Lady Hui. Your majesty, please wait
outside."
Yun Shang smiled. Then she heard Xia Huanyu asking coldly, "How''s it going inside?"
His voice faded away. It seemed that Xia Huanyu had listened to the empress and sat down in the
outer hall.
After a long while, Ning Qian came back, walked to Yun Shang, and whispered, "Lian Rui said the
pharmacist who filled the prescription for her was called Mingcai. I have sent a secret guard to
investigate him. It won''t be long before I get the information. "
Yun Shang nodded and sat on the chair in a daze. Her mind was in a mess.
About half an hourter, the other three maids came back. The anesthetic handed by the second maid
was still mixed with musk. So were the anesthetic brought back by another two maids. However, musk
wasn''t written in the prescription prescribed by the imperial physician.
Yun Shang thought for a while. The culprit must have buy off the pharmacist, not the imperial physician.
Staffs from Imperial Household Department and the Imperial Hospital had contact with people from
almost every pce. But now it seemed that those who have been bought over by the culprit were just
some junior workers.
Yun Shang was thinking. She associated all the events that had happened before.
Then she walked quickly to the desk,id out the paper, took down the brush and ink, and painted on
the paper.
After a long time, the paper was thickly dotted in the space. When the signal from the secret guard was
heard, Ning Qian put down the bed curtain, pushed the window open, and took over a note from him.
Ning Qian took the paper and gave it to Yun Shang without checking it. Yun Shang''s mouth curved into
a smile as she looked at the paper carefully, "It''s her."
"Who?" Both Ning Qian and Lin Youran asked.
Yun Shang smiled, "You''ll know soon."
Yun Shang turned to Ning Qian andmanded, "Send someone to catch the pharmacist. Thene
out with me in fifteen minutes."
Ning Qian didn''t know what Yun Shang was going to do, but she just said yes. After a quarter, Yun
Shang stood up and ordered, "Ask the servants to carry the screens, tables, and chairs out."
Then Ning Qian ordered her maids to carry them out of the room. Yun Shang then took Ning Qian out
of the inner hall. Xia Huanyu, the empress and Lady Xian all looked at Yun Shang. With some
contemtion in his eyes, Xia Huanyu asked, "How is Lady Hui and her unborn baby?"
Before Yun Shang could answer, the empress asked with a frown, "Has they gone? Or why do you take
these things out? "
Yun Shang smiled at the emperor and the empress, "Your majesties, both Lady Hui and her unborn
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babies have been saved. They are out of danger, but Lady Hui is still very weak and has fallen asleep."
Hearing Yun Shang''s words, they all looked a little shocked except Xia Huanyu.
"Out of danger? Didn''t you just say that it''s ahard to keep the baby?" The empress said slowly, her
eyes filled with cruelty.
Hearing this, Yun Shang nodded with a smile. "It was really very dangerous just now, but after I fed her
some pills, Lady Hui gradually recovered."
"Then why do you take the screens, tables and chairs out?" The empress spoke indifferently again, her
eyes falling on the tables and chairs.
Yun Shang grinned, "Your majesty, These is something wrong with these tables, chairs, and screens,
even the bed made of mahogany, which Lady Hui is sleeping on. I ordered servants to take them out
just because it was these things that made Lady Hui in danger."
Hearing Yun Shang''s words, the empress frowned and her sight deepened. "Is it rted to these
things?"
"Yes, exactly." Yun Shang smiled and walked to themps beside. She took out an oilmp and lit it up.
Then she walked to a table, dropped a few drops of hot liquid on it, and a faint fragrance spread in the
pce.