After Concubine Lian was thrown into jail, she refused to tell the truth about where the poison came from.

He even attempted suicide by banging his head against a wall to escape punishment.

The rescue work lasted until midnight before the man was brought back to life.

Seeing that the master and servant were determined to die, Xue Ji simply stopped questioning them.

They resorted to extraordinary measures, giving each person a truth pill, and finally got some results.

It turned out that after Concubine Zi Nali successfully helped her son ascend to the throne, the tense relationship between Beimo and Dayan eased a lot.

But Concubine Li and her son had reached the pinnacle of power, so how could they allow the Beimo royal family to reap the fruits of victory that they had worked so hard to achieve after planning for half their lives?

The first step for them to take power was to completely break away from Beimo's control.

No longer obey them.

The Emperor of Beimo was furious and unwilling to give up.

So they followed the same method and sent the princess to marry into Dayan again.

In order to prevent them from getting out of control, a female doctor was specially arranged to be with them.

To this end, they also set up a special female doctor office, where the female doctors began to learn about Dayan’s diet and herbal medicine from an early age.

Not only is he an expert in medicine, he is also an expert in the use of poison.

The purpose of placing them beside the Beimo Princesses was not only to protect their health and quietly help them get rid of their opponents, but more importantly, they were actually a pair of eyes placed by the Beimo Emperor in Dayan.

However, not every princess had the means like Concubine Li, and they all later became victims of palace fighting.

For example, Concubine Lian doesn’t even have the chance to conceive a prince, let alone use any means to harm other royal heirs.

From the female doctor, Xue Ji found out that the drug that Xue Jibai was poisoned with was called "Baotai Pills".

That’s right, such a vicious medicine was given such a nice name as “pregnancy-preserving pills”.

It was actually created to protect the fetus. It was originally created because a concubine of Beimo was pregnant, but in order to keep her figure from getting out of shape, she ate very little at each meal.

This resulted in her belly remaining flat until seven months into her pregnancy.

After the imperial physician examined her pulse, he discovered that the fetus in her belly was extremely weak and there was a risk of stillbirth at any time.

After hearing this, the concubine became extremely panicked and begged the imperial physician to find a way to help her save the fetus.

So the imperial physician used all his life's knowledge to create this pill to protect the pregnancy.

This pregnancy-preserving pill is indeed made up of countless natural treasures. On the day of taking it, the fetus' heartbeat became stronger.

What is even more surprising is that in order to protect the fetus, the concubine behind him ate as much as she could and drank a lot of nourishing soup every day.

Except for the bulging abdomen, there was no change in other parts of the body.

In other words, this pregnancy-preserving pill actually has the effect of helping the fetus grow without increasing weight.

The concubine was overjoyed, and her change naturally did not escape the eyes of others.

After several concubines who were pregnant at the same time as her found out, they secretly asked the imperial physician for pills to preserve their pregnancy.

When the news reached the ears of the ladies in the court, whether they were pregnant or not, they all scrambled to buy the pregnancy-preserving pills at high prices.

The same pregnancy-preserving pills as those used by the empress in the palace, which pregnant woman wouldn’t want it?

The price of pregnancy-preserving pills was driven up to sky-high prices in a short period of time.

For a time, all the female members of the Northern Desert nobles were proud to take the same pregnancy-preserving pills as the Empress.

It even became one of the most valuable dowries of noble ladies.

However, they soon discovered something was wrong.

First, the empress in the palace had a difficult delivery, resulting in two deaths.

Soon, within just a few days, news of pregnant women dying in childbirth came one after another inside and outside the palace.

It was not until seven or eight pregnant women died in succession that they discovered with horror that these people had one thing in common: they had taken pregnancy-preserving pills.

Later, after more than a dozen pregnant women died, the entire upper class circle was shocked.

Those ladies who had taken pregnancy-preserving pills but whose due dates had not yet arrived were all in panic.

After ten months of pregnancy, the baby that I had finally waited for turned out to be a death warrant.

Many people are unable to sleep or eat because of this.

The angry ministers submitted memorials requesting severe punishment for the imperial physician.

When the Emperor of Beimo learned about this, he was furious and immediately ordered the execution of the entire nine clans of the imperial physician.

Anyway, it was a case of one death and two lives. Later, many families, in order to save the child, were willing to sacrifice the mother and keep the child. Before the birth, they would open the mother's belly and take the child out.

Then they were surprised to find that all these children were abnormally fat.

At first they were very happy. After all, who wouldn’t be happy when a fat boy came into reality?

But as these children grew up like balloons, they finally discovered the problem.

They have surprisingly big appetites. They stop growing after the age of eight. After a huge amount of food enters their stomachs, their already fat bodies swell up like a ball.

It wasn't until they were ten years old that their organs could no longer bear such a heavy body.

They died suddenly at the dinner table one after another.

According to relevant records, this group of people basically died at the age of ten and a half.

There was only one survivor, the ninth son of the Emperor of Beimo. He took the antidote the day before he was ten and a half years old and managed to save his life.

But the antidote made Xue Ji troubled.

The Snow Lotus grows in the snow-capped mountains of the northern desert and on the top of the Tianshan Mountains. It blooms once every three years and the lotus pods take ten years to mature.

The petals are as white as snow, the lotus pods are crystal clear, and the lotus seeds are emerald green.

Its lotus seeds can purify the blood, and eating them can detoxify all poisons in the world.

But the difficulty lies in the fact that the Snow Lotus is not only extremely rare, but even if you are lucky enough to find it, it may not be ripe.

Most importantly, once the lotus seeds are ripe, they will melt on their own after a day.

The Snow Lotus will wither immediately after leaving Tianshan Mountain.

In order to detoxify the Ninth Prince of Beimo, countless people died when they were sent to Tianshan to search for the Snow Lotus.

Later, they finally found a snow lotus that was about to mature. In order for him to swallow the lotus seeds in time, they even carried him up the snow mountain.

The reason why Tianshan Mountain is called Tianshan Mountain is because the peak of the mountain is almost connected to the sky. It is extremely steep and dangerous. The higher you go, the thinner the air becomes, making it difficult to even breathe.

The Ninth Prince almost died from lack of oxygen.

Even so, he only got halfway up the hill. The soldiers behind him risked their lives and tried every possible means to carry the lotus seeds down the mountain. Finally, at the last moment when the lotus seeds were about to melt, they fed them into the mouth of the Ninth Prince.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of people who died from this lotus seed reached thousands.

Even now, the bodies of those people are still on the Tianshan Mountains.

Not to mention whether the Snow Lotus can be found, even if it can be found, the round trip to the Northern Desert alone will take no less than a month.

To find a snow lotus that is ripe within two months is nothing short of a fantasy.

What's more, a large number of people will be required, and the Northern Desert Country will definitely not agree to allow so many of them to enter.

Even if his conditions were met and they were allowed to enter Tianshan.

How could he bear to exchange the lives of so many people for his own son's life?

They are not only someone's sons, but also husbands or fathers.

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