Quick Wear Beauty

Chapter 328 The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (Seventy-Seven)

The old man shook his head and said sympathetically, "I heard that the Empress has been taking a lot of folk remedies in the hope of giving birth to a legitimate prince. If this gets out, the situation in the harem will change! Also, there seems to be a strange substance in the Empress' body that's eroding her blood and vitality, which will affect her lifespan!"

Li Yuanzheng sighed and said, "I'll have to trouble Judge Qiao to inform the Emperor about the Empress's affairs. I cherish my life, and my medical skills are truly mediocre. After the first month of next year, I will retire and return home. From now on, the Imperial Hospital will be handed over to you."

Qiao Zhi glanced at the figure swaying outside the door and signaled Li Yuanzheng to shut up.

Li Yuanzheng saw Qiao Zhi pointing outside the door and guessed that someone was eavesdropping. Before he could panic, Qiao Zhi looked at him sympathetically.

"You, why are you looking at me like that?"

The old doctor touched his sleeve, feeling a little uneasy.

Qiao Zhi: "The person outside has left. This person's steps were slightly hurried, and her strides were longer than those of the average palace maid. Not far behind this person, about a meter away, there were four or five people following her out."

"Who is it? Eavesdropping!"

Qiao Zhi: "Your Majesty! Li Yuanzheng, don't underestimate yourself. I think you can still serve the royal family for decades."

"What! Why am I so unlucky?"

Li Yuanzheng knew that the Queen had heard what he said, and he took a few heavy breaths. Was it too late for him to resign?

"The person behind this dared to even harm the Queen. If I get involved, how can I still save my life? Now that the Queen knows her physical condition, what should I do if she becomes depressed? Qiao Zhi, tell me, do you have a grudge against me?"

Qiao Zhi let the old man jump up and down, and calmed him down with just one word.

Qiao Zhi: "Okay, why did I involve you? Don't you know? Didn't you leak the secret of this heart-wrenching poison recipe? Isn't it only natural for you to detoxify the queen?"

"You, you, you, you are talking nonsense."

Li Yuanzheng defended himself in a weak tone.

Qiao Zhi: "As early as a hundred years ago, the records of the heart-piercing poison recipe were destroyed. What appeared later were only a few well-preserved finished products. I can't even make it, so how could the person behind it know? They just found the heart-piercing poison recipe. Li Yuanzheng, are you going to go back and see if the medical book passed down by your ancestors is still there? Or is the page about the heart-piercing poison still there?"

The little old man seemed to be strangled by fate and could not speak.

How could Qiao Zhi know this? His ancestor was the imperial physician of the Liang Palace. There was a medical book that recorded the medical experience of dozens of generations, and there were many strange and bizarre prescriptions recorded in it.

The heartbreaking experience was naturally recorded by the ancestor who was fanatical about medicine and not afraid of death. However, when he went to the ancestral temple to pay homage last year, he found that a few pages of the medical book hidden in the secret compartment below the spirit tablet in the center were missing, and they were all poisonous prescriptions that could harm people!

He kept it a secret but was always worried. When he saw the Queen in Xiefang Palace a few months ago, he was also a little confused. He always felt that the Queen was not in a good condition, but he did not dare to investigate further, not even to remind her.

The Queen valued Imperial Physician Ji highly and was happy to be away from him even though she didn't summon him on weekdays.

Just now in the inner room, when he was taking the Queen's pulse, his hands were shaking. He was afraid that the Emperor and the Queen would investigate and the entire Li family would suffer!

"Who are you? You're so familiar with the Li family. Your last name is Qiao. How is Li Guangyu, the imperial physician, related to you?"

Li Yuanzheng calmed down and looked at Qiao Zhi who was drinking tea across from him, guessing his identity.

Qiao Zhi: "He is my ancestor, and I am his fourth-generation grandson. He was once the head of the Li family."

Li Yuanzheng nodded, he knew Qiao Zhi's identity.