This palace comes back in this life, only to be Nian Shilan

Chapter 133: The Imperial Physician is Useless~

Concubine Hua paused holding the teacup and put it down.

"what happened?"

"I don't know the details. I only heard it from the eunuch sent by Concubine Jing. They said that Princess Wen Yi had a high fever all night and it alarmed the Emperor and the Empress early this morning." Songzhi could only report what she knew to Concubine Hua.

Hua Fei thought about the time point, and her eyes suddenly fell on the smiling face of the Maitreya Buddha on the incense table.

"Songzhi, the incense on the table has burned out. Go and light it up. Ask the palace people to keep an eye on it and make sure the incense doesn't go out."

"Yes."

"Lanzhi, Guizhi, the two of you take Linglong and the Fourth Prince back to Yixia Pavilion and the Prince's residence. Songzhi, you and Zhou Ninghai will accompany me to Xianyue Pavilion."

"Yes." After giving the order, Concubine Hua took Songzhi and Zhou Ninghai out and went all the way to Xianyue Pavilion.

As soon as she reached the door of Xianyue Pavilion, Concubine Hua heard Wen Yi crying coming from inside the palace.

The sound is quite loud, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

After entering the palace, Concubine Hua saw a room full of imperial doctors kneeling on the floor. The Emperor himself was holding Wen Yi and trying to comfort her. Wen Yi's face was flushed red, and she was howling with her mouth open. She had cried so much that she couldn't even cry anymore.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

Hua Fei half-knelt down and bowed to greet him. Looking at the situation in front of her, she sneered in her heart.

It's just the leftover operations from the previous life. Let's see who suffers in this life.

Concubine Hua glanced around, from Lipin's face to Zhen Huan's bewildered face, and then turned to look at Shen Meizhuang who was sitting because she was pregnant.

Shen Meizhuang looked impatient. It was clearly a play, but she had to sit here and participate in the performance.

Concubine Jing looked at Wen Yi in the emperor's arms, and the heartache and reluctance in her eyes were even greater than those of Concubine Cao in her previous life.

"Your Majesty, what happened to Wen Yi?"

"Xiao Xiazi, you tell the story." The emperor was also a little impatient. He was really fed up with seeing this detective pretending to be ignorant when he knew the truth.

"Yes, Madam Hua, I just checked Princess Wen Yi's dietary records. Princess Wen Yi must have consumed too much cassava flour, which caused gastrointestinal discomfort. The princess's stomach was overloaded with food, which caused her high fever."

"In that case, let the imperial physician quickly prescribe a prescription for dissipating heat and digesting food. Why let Wen Yi suffer like this, poor child." Concubine Hua took off the armor and handed it to Song Zhi, then walked to the emperor and touched Wen Yi's forehead, which was so hot that you could fry eggs on it.

"Empress Hua, are you still pretending to be ignorant even though you know the truth?" Lipin couldn't help but speak.

"What does Lipin mean? I don't understand."

"The rice dumplings Princess Wen Yi used were mixed with tapioca flour. The servants of Xianyue Pavilion can prove that these rice dumplings were made in the small kitchen in your palace and sent to Xianyue Pavilion."

"Lipin, are you saying that I am plotting against Wen Yi?"

Hua Fei's gaze fell coldly on Lipin's face. Lipin was too anxious.

First it was aphrodisiac powder, then tapioca powder. Her methods are so despicable. I really don’t know what’s wrong with her brain.

"I am just saying that Your Majesty may have done something wrong with good intentions, and Princess Wen Yi has suffered for nothing." Lipin's eyes were a little evasive, she was still more afraid of Hua Fei. "And the Concubine Jing, she didn't even check the food that the baby took. Maybe the Concubine Jing is not suitable to raise a princess."

"In this case, I really have to defend myself." Concubine Hua turned to the emperor and knelt down, "Your Majesty, I request to retrieve the files from the imperial kitchen to see if only my small kitchen received the cassava flour."

"Permission."

The emperor is now very upset. He is about to return to the palace. Seeing that Nian Gengyao is about to return to the court, the women in the palace are still restless and are always causing trouble for him.

After a while, Xiao Xiazi came to report,

"Your Majesty, I checked the records of the Imperial Kitchen and found that Concubine Hua's palace has indeed received some cassava flour in recent days. However, I also saw that Concubine Qi's palace, Concubine Wan's palace, Concubine Fucha's palace, Concubine An's palace, Concubine Xin's palace, and even the Empress's Taohuawu received cassava flour."

"Only...only Concubine Li did not receive cassava flour in the palace." Xiao Xiazi said hesitantly.

Nonsense, in order to lose weight, Concubine Li hasn't eaten staple food for a long time. There is not even flour in her palace, so how could she receive cassava flour?

"It seems that you, Lipin, are the only one in the palace who understands the characteristics of food the best, and you are the most suitable person to raise Princess Wen Yi." Concubine Hua smiled at Lipin, her eyes full of sarcasm.

"I...I didn't mean that, but the imperial physician also said that the princess shouldn't eat too much cassava flour."

"It is still unclear whether the princess's high fever was caused by consuming cassava flour." Concubine Hua simply said, "Songzhi, go to Qingliang Terrace and have someone bring all the rice dumplings to me so that the imperial physician can check them one by one."

"I asked the palace maids to send some of this rice wine and glutinous rice balls soup to the emperor yesterday." Concubine Hua had a cold expression on her face, staring straight at Concubine Li.

It's hot in the summer and food should not be left out for too long. In a short while, Lingzhi had to pour out the remaining glutinous rice wine and dumpling soup.

When she heard that her master was framed, Lingzhi came with rice wine and glutinous rice dumpling soup.

"Your Majesty, this is the rice dumpling soup made by the Empress yesterday. Although I am not good at cooking, I can still distinguish the basic food. There is absolutely no cassava flour mixed in these dumplings. The imperial physician can verify it."

Hua Fei looked at Lingzhi kneeling on the ground and spoke decisively and decided to go back and increase Lingzhi's monthly allowance.

"Su Peisheng." The emperor gave Su Peisheng beside him a look, indicating that he should take the food to the imperial physician for examination in person.

Not long after, Su Peisheng came back and said, "Your Majesty, the imperial physicians have verified that the rice wine dumpling soup in Concubine Hua's palace does not contain tapioca starch. Just in case, I sent someone to take the half bowl of rice wine dumpling soup you had left over from yesterday from the Qinzheng Palace to check if there was any tapioca starch."

Su Peisheng was a little worried about his apprentice Xiao Xiazi. How did this bastard taste that there was cassava flour in the bowl of glutinous rice wine dumpling soup that Princess Wen Yi had? Was there something wrong with his tongue?

"Your Majesty, I indeed tasted cassava flour in the bowl of glutinous rice wine and dumpling soup that the princess ate. If you don't believe me, you can ask the imperial doctors to taste it again." Xiao Xiazi got the hint from his master's eyes and knelt down to prove himself.

Yongzheng was already very impatient and just waved his hand coldly, signaling the imperial physician to check again.

The imperial doctors had no choice but to pass the bowl of fermented rice dumplings around to each person for a taste. Then they all looked at each other, saluted to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, there is indeed cassava flour in this bowl."

Yongzheng clenched the jade beads in his hand. He couldn't just confine all the concubines in the harem just because of a bowl of rice dumplings made with fermented glutinous rice.

Things have come to this point, who can give the emperor a way out?