The coroner and the concubine doctor pursue the murderer in the Dali Temple

Medicinal food? Chu Yunxi frowned and asked, "Can I smell it?"

"Of course." Asek asked the maid to bring the earthen jar to Chu Yunxi. As soon as Chu Yunxi opened the lid, she immediately smelled a strong smell of medicine mixed with the aroma of food.

Chu Yunxi couldn't help but admire the cleverness of the person who poisoned the food. As soon as she opened the lid, she smelled the poison. The poison was not colorless and odorless, but when mixed in the medicinal food, it made people think it was the taste of the medicinal food and was easily overlooked.

Chu Yunxi returned the earthen jar to Asek and said, "The poison is in this medicinal diet. The eldest prince drinks the medicinal diet every day, so the poison is consumed by him every day."

Asek's face changed drastically. This medicinal diet was a prescription prescribed by his mother who asked a miracle doctor to help her. The person who prepared the medicinal diet for him every day was the nanny in his mother's palace. She was the queen mother's maidservant who came with her as a dowry. She had been with his mother all her life and had watched him grow up since he was a child. She treated him like her own son. It was absolutely impossible for her to betray his mother and him. Moreover, the nanny attached great importance to the medicinal diet and prepared the medicine herself. Therefore, after he knew that he was poisoned, he had doubted all food, but never the medicinal diet.

As soon as Asek gave an order, guards immediately surrounded the entire tent. The envoys were eating happily when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of solemn-looking guards with swords. They were all in a panic, not knowing what had happened.

Asek walked out of the tent with a bad look on his face. Chu Yunxi, Xiao Mubei and Chu Zhongxi followed him out and came to the tent where the kitchen was.

As soon as they entered the tent, all the cooks in the kitchen looked at Asek in astonishment. The eldest prince had never come to the kitchen in person before, and he would ask the maid to come if there was anything. Why did he come in person today, and his expression was so solemn?

Asek ignored the cooks and walked straight to the maid at the back. He lowered his voice and asked, "Madame Li, you are the one who prepared the prince's medicinal food recently, right?"

Madam Li was surprised and asked, "It has always been done by this old servant. What happened?"

"Have you ever left when the medicinal food was being prepared?"

Madam Li shook her head. "No, how could I dare to leave when it's such a big deal to make medicinal food? What if someone sneaks in and poisons it? I'm guarding it every moment and I've never left for even a moment."

Asek was speechless. He was afraid that someone might sneak in and poison him. He had been poisoned for a long time.

He looked at Chu Yunxi, somewhat helpless. Chu Yunxi stepped forward and said kindly, "Mammy, can I see the herbs you use to make the medicinal food?"

Nanny Li had been in the delegation for the past two days and had also been examined. She naturally recognized Chu Yunxi, so she said, "The herbs are all in my tent. I brought them all the way here from Shusha and have kept them in my box."

As she said that, she led Chu Yunxi and the others out. Everyone noticed the problem at this time. Asek's face looked very ugly. If Nanny Li was very careful when making the medicinal food and no one had any chance to take advantage of it, then she was too careless when placing the medicinal materials. A Nanny's tent was unattended, so wouldn't anyone be able to enter if they wanted to?

Sure enough, in Nanny Li's tent, Chu Yunxi found poison mixed in with the medicinal materials. The medicinal materials were prepared by Nanny Li when she was setting up the sand, in packets, and now traces of poison were found in all of them.

Chu Yunxi opened the packages of herbs one by one and examined them. She carefully looked at the amount of poison in each package and the folds of the oil paper. After looking through them all, she asked Li Ma, "Did you prepare all these medicines when you were setting up the sand?"

Nanny Li was still a little confused and didn't know what was going on, so she could only mechanically answer, "Yes."

"Madame Li, think carefully. It has now been found that the eldest prince was poisoned, and the poison was put in the medicinal food. Let me ask you again, when you were preparing these herbs, who came into contact with them?"

When Nanny Li heard that the eldest prince was poisoned, she was stunned for a long time. She suddenly turned around and hugged Asek, looking him up and down, and asked anxiously: "Eldest Prince, are you poisoned? How are you? Are you okay?"

Asek didn't expect Nanny Li to react so strongly. After a pause, he said, "I'm fine. The princess saved me. So, if she asks you anything, just cooperate with her. Only then can you find the person who hurt me faster."

Nanny Li breathed a sigh of relief, and then she turned around and knelt down in front of Chu Yunxi, saying, "I thank you for saving the eldest prince's life. If you have any questions, I will cooperate."

Chu Yunxi said, "Madam, please stand up. It's just a small favor. Please answer the question first."

Nanny Li thought for a moment and said, "When I was preparing the herbs, someone did help me pack them. It was the eldest prince's adviser, Jabar. We became very familiar with each other because we worked together in the eldest prince's mansion. He asked me to weigh them and he helped me pack them. I didn't doubt him and thought he was a kind-hearted person. After I finished packing, I gave him a box of good tea as a thank you gift."

Jabbar, there is indeed something wrong with him!

Chu Yunxi asked again: "What about today? Has anyone come to your tent?"

"Today, the eldest prince said he would entertain the prince, princess, and the loyal and brave marquis, so the medicinal food had to be prepared later. I had lunch first, thinking I would take a rest before making it. But soon, my stomach started to hurt, and I kept going to the toilet. I went there three or four times in a row, and almost missed the time to prepare the medicinal food for the eldest prince. I happened to run into Jabar, so I asked him to come to the tent and get a pack of medicinal food. Then I went directly to the kitchen."

That's right. Chu Yunxi asked Asek and Xiao Mubei to come closer, pointed at the twenty or so packages of herbs on the ground and said, "Grand Prince, Prince, look, the seven or eight packages on the top have a heavier dose of poison. There are two folds on the oil paper, which proves that they were opened again after being wrapped, increasing the amount of poison. The ones at the back have less poison, which should have been put in when they were first wrapped, so there is only one fold on the oil paper."

"What he means is that he put the herbs with increased dosage on the top and let Nanny Li get them first, so that the eldest prince's dosage will be increased in the next few days, right?" Xiao Mubei asked.

Chu Yunxi nodded and said, "I guess he must have given Li Mama a laxative first, and then deliberately appeared in front of Li Mama, so that Li Mama would definitely ask him to help get the medicine, so that he would have the opportunity to poison her again. However, time was tight, and he was afraid that Li Mama would come back, so he only put seven or eight packets and put them on the top. Although there were not many, it was enough. If we hadn't discovered it, the eldest prince would have died suddenly in seven or eight days."