Children of Loulan

Her maid also knelt down immediately.

The city lord spoke again: "Come here! Take this woman away, and take down all the people involved in this incident! Imprison them all!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several guards rushed forward, ruthlessly picked up Dora, who was lying on the ground, and dragged her out like a dead dog.

At this moment, Dora, who was still in a daze, finally woke up completely. She looked at everything that happened in front of her with horror and shouted at the top of her voice:

"No! Lord City Lord, please forgive me this time! I am a concubine personally selected by the Emperor. How can you...how can you treat me like this? Let me go quickly! You bunch of hateful dogs, let me go quickly!"

However, no matter how Dora struggled and begged, the guards remained indifferent and continued to firmly carry out the orders given by the city lord.

Not only Dora, but several other concubines at the scene also suffered the same treatment. They were dragged away by the guards, followed by a group of crying maids, shouting as they ran:

"Miss! Miss! Please let my lady go!"

Seeing their companions being taken away one after another, the remaining ladies were obviously frightened by this sudden change. Their faces turned pale as paper, and their bodies could not help but tremble. Even Amina, who was so aggressive just now, lowered her head and dared not make a sound.

The city lord slowly glanced at everyone present. His majestic gaze seemed to be able to penetrate deep into everyone's soul, making people shudder.

“This city lord has found out that they are indeed the murderers of Madam Taji. Because of Dora’s disfigurement, she was resentful, so she teamed up with the girls who were just dragged away to trip Madam Taji and cause her to fall.

And last time when I caught the poisoner, I said, if anyone dares to plot against others again, I have the right to expel you and forever disqualify you from participating in the draft! Did you all fall on deaf ears? You better remember this!"

All the ladies kept their heads down and said in unison: "Thank you Lord City for your teachings. We will keep them in mind."

The city lord nodded slightly, showing satisfaction, and then said: "Well, you have been making noise here for a long time, which is really wrong. Now leave quickly and don't disturb Madam's rest. This city lord hopes that no more trouble will happen in this last month."

All the ladies responded, then turned around and walked back to their rooms. Hanguli did not wait for the court doctor to come and check on her injuries, and returned to her boudoir with the other ladies. Just as the ladies were returning, Baier came over with the newly prepared medicine, handed it to the maid, and then left with his mistress.

After all the beauties had left, the city lord specially arranged two guards to guard the door to ensure that nothing could go wrong. After making these arrangements, he turned around and walked into the room with confidence. The maid who brought the medicine followed closely behind him and entered the room step by step.

The city lord walked into the inner room and asked with concern, "Is Mammy okay?"

Nanny: "Thank you for your concern, it's okay, just take some time to recover." She said with all her strength, but her face was still as pale as paper.

As the two of them continued to talk, the maid came in carefully with the newly boiled medicine and placed it beside the nanny's bed. Without waiting for the nanny to drink the medicine, the maid quickly turned around and led the court doctor out of the room silently.

The city lord: "Madam, you are too polite. After all, you are the queen's close friend. If something unexpected happens, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to explain to the queen."

Mammy: "Your Excellency's words are really embarrassing. The Queen has always been concerned about His Excellency. If she knew that His Excellency was safe and sound, she would definitely feel relieved."

The city lord silently stared at the injured nanny lying on the bed, with a complex emotion in his heart. After a moment of silence, he slowly took out a sealed letter from his arms and gently handed it to the nanny. During the whole process, he did not say a word, but only conveyed some deep meaning with his eyes.

When the nanny reached out to take the letter, the city lord resolutely turned around and left with firm and steady steps, as if there was an invisible pressure behind him forcing him to be so decisive.

Aunt Taji tightly held the letter in her hand, tears gradually blurring her eyes. She stared at the city lord's back as he walked away, her voice trembling slightly:

"I would like to thank the Lord City Lord for his kindness. I sincerely wish you great fortune and longevity." After saying these words, the nanny seemed to have used up all her strength. She collapsed on the sickbed and fell into deep thought...

Her voice was not loud and she spoke a little slowly, but the city lord heard every word. Although he heard it, he did not turn around, and he did not even stop.

After the city lord left, the maid who was burned earlier rushed in in panic. She hurriedly closed the door, then tremblingly crouched in the crack of the door and looked out. After confirming that there was no one around, she walked to the nanny's bed trembling all over.

At this moment, the maid's mind seemed to still be on the letter, and she didn't notice the maid's entry and the strangeness at all. It was not until she came to her senses that she saw that her maid's face was as pale as paper, without any blood. The maid's heart tightened, and she asked hurriedly: "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

However, the maid said nothing, but lifted her sleeves with trembling hands, revealing a silver bracelet on her wrist. Surprisingly, one part of the silver bracelet turned extremely black.

Mammy stared at the small part of the silver bracelet that had turned black, and a sense of uneasiness and confusion surged in her heart. She murmured to herself: "What on earth is going on?"

The maid finally spoke, her voice filled with obvious fear: "This is the potion that just spilled and splashed onto my hands." After saying this, tears welled up in her eyes.

The nanny's eyes widened and she instantly understood what the maid meant. She asked in disbelief, "Are you saying that the bowl of medicine that was spilled just now is poisonous?" Her voice trembled slightly with shock.

The maid nodded slightly to show her agreement, and then continued, "Just now, when I followed the court doctor to treat the wound, I rolled up my sleeves and was surprised to find that the bracelet had turned black. I was afraid of attracting other people's attention, so I made an excuse that it was stained with ink. After sending the court doctor away, I pretended to clean up the broken pieces of bowls on the floor. When I looked carefully, I saw that there were many stiff and dead ants lying in the places where the medicine was spilled."

Hearing these words, Aunt Taji suddenly sat up as if she had been electrocuted, and seemed to have completely forgotten the pain in her body.

"Who wants to harm me?"

After saying this, she suddenly had doubts in her heart, and instinctively reached out to take the bowl she had just used to drink the medicine. However, the medicine was almost finished, with only a little residue left. She felt it a little, and there was nothing abnormal or uncomfortable, but in the end she didn't dare to take the risk.

He then made a prompt decision and ordered the maid to quickly summon the palace doctor, saying that the pain had suddenly worsened.

The good doctor had just left and hadn't even sat down when he heard Xiao Si report that the maid of the nanny had come again.

He had just stretched out his hand to serve the tea, his hand still in the air, about to touch the teacup, but he immediately withdrew his hand after hearing the servant's report.

I ran out to ask

: "What else do you want, young lady?"

Maid: "Mammy said her wound hurts a lot, please ask the palace doctor to take a look."

The court doctor did not dare to refuse. He said "wait a moment" and hurried into the house to pick up the medicine box. He also quickly drank the cup of tea. He was indeed very thirsty.

He followed the maid all the way, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve from time to time, thinking that this was really a tough job, but his status was too low, so he could only obey orders.

After arriving at Mammy's residence, he first went forward to feel Mammy's pulse, then checked her wounds, and then said:

"Mammy, it's nothing serious. It's normal for the wound to hurt a little. If it hurts too much, you can fan it with a fan, or apply ice and it won't hurt too much!"

After the nanny smiled and thanked him, she asked the maid to respectfully escort the doctor out.

Since the court doctor didn't say anything else, it means that the medicine that Hanguli asked Baier to make is not poisonous.

When the maid came back and asked about the whole process of spilling the medicine, her eyes became fierce as she listened.

She understood that someone didn't want her to return to the palace alive, and since she was the queen's person, it could be inferred that this person was targeting the queen, so naturally this was the queen's enemy, and the entire harem was nothing more than those two in the palace.

She frowned and thought carefully.

"Try every possible way to find out what's going on with Hanguli. She took so much pains to arrange for Bayer to personally boil the medicine, and also expressly forbade anyone else to do it. This is enough to prove that she most likely knew in advance that the bowl of medicine contained a highly poisonous substance!" She pondered in her heart, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that there must be something strange about it.

The maid replied softly, "Sister has already gone to get the news, and she will probably be back soon."

The nanny's eyes suddenly became resolute. She held the maid's arm tightly and warned: "This matter must not be made public. There must not be any leak of news."

The maid nodded and said, "Madam, please rest assured. We know how to handle things properly and have never revealed a single word to anyone."

That's right, this matter must be handled in a low profile. First, we must not alert the person who poisoned the woman, lest she realize that she has seen the truth; second, if this matter is publicized, it may cause extreme panic among many concubines; the last point is also very important, we must not let people outside the palace know that the struggle between the masters in the palace is extremely fierce. Although most wise people know that the struggle within the palace is inevitable, there are still many ordinary people who know nothing about it.