I became the tyrant's only belief.

Chapter 78 You kid, just play around and buy stocks!
When Xiao Xiazi was surprised that what was burning in the house was silver charcoal, Chu Liuzheng also discovered the real mastermind behind the scenes.

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She cursed a bunch of dirty words in her heart!

[It is said that a servant should not serve two masters. How dare you play with stocks here! ]

[Princess Gao, Xu Wanyi, and Lady Wen, all of them are against my hands! ]

[I am just a weak and pitiful little palace maid! These three think too highly of me, and they are trying to kill me one after another!]

Chu Liuzheng continued to dig deeper.

[Well, there is someone behind the old woman. Shen Chongyi, right? Where is the carnivorous plant that you promised to be considerate and talkative? Is it a variant of the Piranha Plant?]

[Huh? Concubine Rong is not here. I thought she was the one who wanted me dead the most... Wait a minute! Concubine Gao is actually Concubine Rong's person! ]

[Isn't Concubine Gao the Queen's person? ]

Chu Liuzheng found that he knew too little about the women in the harem.

[Well, these two have been in the same group since they entered the palace, but on the surface they have always pretended to be at odds with each other. In order to make the Queen believe, Concubine Rong even punished Concubine Gao several times.]

[Tsk tsk, it turns out this guy is a double agent... er... should I say he's good at both ends? ]

There was too much information and Chu Liuzheng’s mind was a little confused.

[Let me sort it out. The old woman is Shen Chongyi's person. She is responsible for dispensing medicine for the nobles. After receiving Shen Chongyi's instructions, she mixed a small amount of ginger powder and salvia powder into my medicine powder when dispensing the medicine.]

[Then there was Xiao Xuanzi. He wanted to be transferred out of the cold palace, so he successively flattered the people in the palaces of Concubine Gao, Xu Wanyi, and Concubine Wen. The three of them thought that Xiao Xuanzi was smart and capable, and when it was inconvenient to arrange for someone around him to do such a life-threatening task, Xiao Xuanzi came in handy. ]

[The medicine in Xiao Xuanzi's hand was obtained by Concubine Gao from a young eunuch in the imperial garden.]

[The young eunuch was responsible for catching insects and making specimens, which required a large amount of this kind of preservative. Concubine Gao sent someone to send the young eunuch away, and hid some of the insects under the pretext that they had accidentally spilled some.]

[The maid of Gaopin gave the medicine to Xiaoxuanzi and asked him to sneak into the pharmacy to put the medicine in. Xu Wanyi asked Xiaoxuanzi to find a way to add something that would hinder the healing of the wound. Concubine Wen asked Xiaoxuanzi to memorize some commonly used herbs for removing dead flesh and regenerating flesh, and asked him to find a way to make these medicines unusable.]

[Getting three benefits for one job, Xiao Xuanzi is making a lot of money! ]

If he hadn't been the one harmed by Xiao Xuanzi, Chu Liuzheng would have wanted to applaud him.

[After completing the task, Xiao Xuanzi reported to his three masters one by one. Among them, Lady Wen was the most impatient and ordered her chief eunuch to kill Xiao Xuanzi and throw his body into the well in the imperial garden.]

[It was originally a windy day, and no one would go to the Imperial Garden at that time, so it was a good time to dump the body. But man proposes, God disposes. Who could have expected that Lady Zhu would suddenly feel interested in going to the Imperial Garden to see the red plum blossoms? ]

Chu Liuzheng had to thank God for this providence.

If Xiao Xuanzi had not been silenced, and Xiao Yunzi had not happened to come and join in the fun tonight and mentioned the ghost encounter in the pharmacy, she would probably have taken several days to realize that there was something wrong with the medicine, and by then it would have been too late.

Even now she didn't know if it could be saved.

Chu Liuzheng sighed lightly and lowered his eyes to look at his troubled hands.

Why are you so hated?

Seeing that she finally made some movement, Xia Qiaoru hurriedly asked, "You just asked about the medicinal materials, but what's wrong?"

As she spoke, she looked at Chu Liuzheng's hand, her brows furrowed in worry, forming a shallow wrinkle.

Xiao Xiazi and Xiao Yunzi also looked over.

Chu Liuzheng glanced at the three people and stretched his arm forward, "I might have been tricked."

Xiao Yunzi shuddered and her eyes widened, "Miss, are you saying that someone tampered with your medicine?"

Chu Liuzheng nodded.

Xiao Xiazi asked in confusion: "How did the girl know that there was something wrong with the medicine?"

"Don't you think the burglary in the pharmacy was too coincidental? I was injured during the day, and something happened in the pharmacy that night." There was no basis for the old woman's story, so Chu Liuzheng could only make a fuss about Xiao Xuanzi.

"I think it's coming for me. You may not know this yet, but I heard from His Majesty that the thief who broke into the pharmacy that night was Xiao Xuanzi, whose body was thrown into the well. Her Majesty is still investigating the murderer."

In fact, the tyrant never told her this, but that didn't stop Chu Liuzheng from using this as a banner to make his argument more persuasive.

What's more, what happened to Xiao Xuanzi was too much like a murder to silence the witness and destroy the body, and the three of them were not new to the palace. After being reminded by Chu Liuzheng, how could they not think of something fishy?
"I'll go get the imperial physician." Xia Qiaoru was so worried that she couldn't sit still for a moment and stood up to leave.

"Young lady, wait a minute." Xiao Xiazi and Xiao Yunzi stood up, and Xiao Xiazi said, "Young lady, stay and look after it. We will go."

"Wait!" Chu Liuzheng, the person involved, was not so panicked. He called out to the three people, "Have you forgotten what day it is today?"

The three of them were stunned.

Today is the Queen Mother's birthday.

On such a happy day, even if the ladies in the harem were sick, they had to bear with it and not disturb the imperial physician unless their lives were in danger.

If they went to the Imperial Medical Service now, even if they could invite the imperial physician on duty to Nong Yunyuan, such a serious matter had occurred, and His Majesty had given the order before, the imperial physician would definitely not dare to act on his own and would have to report it to his superiors.

If this gets to the ears of the superiors, wouldn't it be considered as an attempt to bring bad luck on such a festive day?

In the worst case, you may even lose your life.

"Sit down if you've figured it out." Chu Liuzheng gave the three of them an excuse. "It's been three days already. The doctor didn't notice anything wrong. The dosage shouldn't be too high. You'll be fine if you can just endure it for another night."

"No." Xia Qiaoru disagreed. "Since you've discovered something's wrong, there's no point in just leaving it alone. I'll go boil some water to help you clean it, and then apply some ordinary wound medicine. We'll talk about it after this night."

"Don't." Chu Liuzheng spoke out to stop him.

Large-area burns are different from ordinary wounds and not all medicines can be used to treat them.

Chu Liuzheng doesn't want to suffer the consequences of a bacterial infection or inflammation.

Xiao Xiazi also had doubts: "Miss Qiaoru, the imperial physician specifically told you not to touch the wound."

Xiao Yunzi did not comment.

"Qiao Ru, I feel fine now. I think it should be fine. Please sit down and we can continue talking."

Chu Liuzheng looked at Xia Qiaoru, his almond-shaped eyes were as gentle as water, making Xia Qiaoru unable to get angry at all.

She sat down depressed. Sometimes she felt useless, and sometimes she felt that Chu Liuzheng was in danger. Her mind was in a mess. How could she be in the mood to tell jokes?
Seeing this, Xiao Yunzi rolled his eyes, deliberately made a weird face and said some witty words to make Xia Qiaoru happy.

Xia Qiaoru tried to hold it back but couldn't hold it back anymore and burst out laughing.

Her smile finally made the atmosphere somewhat relaxed again.

Under Chu Liuzheng's deliberate guidance, everyone chose to ignore the episode about the wound medicine and talked about interesting topics.

Before I knew it, an hour had passed.

The food on the table has been almost finished.

Chu Liuzheng opened his mouth and yawned, "Guess when the banquet ahead will end?"

Xiao Yunzi said, "According to convention, the fireworks will be over when they are set off on the gate tower. It will probably take more than an hour."

Xia Qiaoru suggested: "The fireworks will start soon, let's go to the yard to watch."

Chu Liu was about to agree when he suddenly heard the sound of running footsteps outside, followed by a knock on the closed door.

"Your Majesty has been assassinated. The Imperial Guards have been ordered to search for the assassin. Open the door!!"

(End of this chapter)