The prince's personal bodyguard

Bai Xinyin used silver needles to seal the man's acupuncture points to prevent him from moving around, and then gave him a needle each at the Jing point, Ren Zhong point, and Shi Xuan point. Chinese medicine practitioners know that these are the most painful acupuncture points in the human body.

The man immediately shouted, "I confess, I confess, stop stabbing, Concubine Xuan asked me to take a look at the situation and then take action when the time is right..."

Before he could finish his words, blood suddenly gushed out of all his orifices and he died.

He hadn't finished telling the whole story yet, and he died so quickly. Isn't that how the truth is made up on TV: either a few clues are revealed, or the whole story is revealed. He said 60%, and he's dead?

He must have taken the poison an hour in advance, and the other party didn't intend to leave him alive.

The eldest princess turned pale with fear and pointed at Bai Xiyin and asked, "Did you... kill him?"

Bai Xinyin thought to himself: Idiot, even royal genes can fail sometimes, you are just a naive person.

He ignored her and took out a few poisoned silver needles from the man's sleeve. He now understood the flash of silver light just now and guessed that he was going to use the silver needles to harm the Queen Mother.

Bai Xinyin told the emperor what he had seen. The emperor was furious and handed over the eunuch he had just captured, the corpse, and the poisoned silver needle to the Dali Temple for interrogation and verification.

Princess Shouyang was stunned and didn't come back to her senses for a long time. When she looked at Bai Xinyin again, her eyes were full of admiration: You will be my idol from now on.

The little eunuch was also brought by the Grand Princess. The Grand Princess finally understood what was going on and knelt down to beg for mercy: "Please spare my life, Your Majesty. Yao'er didn't know anything about this. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

The emperor sighed. His elder sister had been naive since she was young. She had never grown up in the palace and had been taken advantage of time and again. It was also possible that she was too naive to pose any threat to the other party and could be used, so she could survive safely in the palace.

At this time, Princess Shouyang came over and told His Majesty about the pot of flowers that Bai Xinyin asked him to move out yesterday.

At this time, the maid Dong Yang came over to report: "That pot of flowers was also sent by the Grand Princess. She said she bought it from the Western Regions at a high price..."

The emperor's face was gloomy: "Ayao, what's going on?"

Zhao Yao was so frightened at this moment that she cried, "That was also sent to me by Concubine Xuan. She said that she had a grudge against my mother in her early years. Now that she is old and will soon be buried in the earth, she wants to make peace with my mother, so she said that I sent it first, and when the time is right, she can say it was her, and then we can reconcile..."

The emperor was so angry that he stomped on Zhao Yao's foot and said, "How stupid!" Then he issued an edict: Grand Princess Zhao Yao voluntarily prays for her mother at the Fulu Temple in Anyang and never returns to Beijing!

"Royal brother, I don't know either. Please forgive me and let me see mother?" The eldest princess knew that although she was innocent, she almost caused her mother's death and was to blame.

The emperor looked into the hall. At this moment, the door opened and Chunyan stood at the door: "The Queen Mother is awake. Your Majesty and everyone else, please come in."

The empress dowager looked weak, with a pillow behind her, but her expression was calm.

"Come here, everyone?" the Queen Mother asked weakly.

Bai Xinyin signaled her to speak less, and the Queen Mother waved her hand: "I will say a few words to Yao'er."

Zhao Yao knelt in front of the Queen Mother's bed, her face full of regret.

"Before I entered the palace, Concubine Xuan and I were close friends, as close as sisters. Fifty years ago, we entered the palace together. I was pregnant several times and I was weak. At a palace banquet, she drank the blood bird's nest porridge that the late emperor had given me by mistake. I gave birth to Yao'er and was promoted to the position of concubine, but she had a miscarriage. Later we found out that an official who had a grudge against my father bribed the palace chef to prepare a miscarriage drug. She has hated me ever since." The Queen Mother smiled bitterly.

"After that, she targeted me in everything, and I avoided her everywhere. Later, I had Yu'er, and Concubine Xuan got pregnant. Perhaps it was her destiny to be childless, and she had a miscarriage. The imperial physician diagnosed that she would never be able to have children again."

"She became even worse. Whenever she saw me, she would sneer at me and try to trip me up, so I avoided her. She stopped attending various events. When I was three months pregnant with my third child, she tricked five-year-old Yao'er into putting the Five Elements Herb Juice into my medicine. That night, I had a miscarriage and a male baby in human form was born. The late emperor was very angry and investigated the matter thoroughly. He found out that she had tricked Yao'er into saying that drinking the Five Elements Herb Juice would give birth to a sister. Yao'er loved her sister the most, so she secretly poured it into my medicine to preserve the pregnancy."

"The late emperor felt sorry for her loss of two sons, so he allowed her to cultivate in Baohua Temple with her hair uncut. I didn't expect that after so many years, she is still obsessed with her mistakes."

The Queen Mother sighed after saying this.

"Yao'er has a simple and honest personality. She was taken advantage of many times in her early years. When she was seven years old, she was instigated by someone to catch a poisonous snake as a pet and put it in Yu'er's bedroom. When she was ten years old, she angered someone and pushed the eight-year-old fifth prince into the flower-viewing pond. When she was fifteen, she competed with the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Li for the top scholar of the dynasty and injured Miss Li. They are still enemies until now. When she was sixteen, she sneaked out of the palace to gamble and lost one million taels of silver... All these things were instigated by someone behind the scenes. But she didn't discuss everything with me, and I was very worried, so I married her to Anyang, and there was nothing wrong with her over the years. Now the emperor's grandchildren are all grown up..., sometimes it is inevitable that they will be taken advantage of by others. You should respect your brother's order and go to Anyang and take care of yourself, right?" The empress dowager turned her head after she said that.

Bai Xinyin thought, the Queen Mother should just say that this child is so naive and pitiful, that he was taken advantage of by others and died without knowing how. Maybe he can live to old age in Anyang. Although a brother may miss him deeply, a nephew may not miss him in the future. The Queen Mother sees the long-term.

This naive girl cried so sadly. She was not a bad person, but she was brainless. She knelt down to bid farewell to the Queen Mother, went to Anyang, and never returned to Beijing.

Everyone left and the Queen Mother closed her eyes and rested.

The next morning, after Bai Xinyin finished her morning exercises, she came to the Queen Mother's room and asked her if she had any gas and could eat some easily digestible food. She could also get out of bed and walk around slowly, which would be good for the wound healing.

The emperor came once in the morning and once in the evening. Seeing that the empress dowager was in good condition, he was relieved.

On the third morning, after her morning exercise, Bai Xinyin ran to the kitchen to help the Queen Mother make a medicinal chrysanthemum and lotus root porridge. It uses wild chrysanthemum, lotus root nodes, mung beans, and polished rice. The filtrate of wild chrysanthemum and lotus root nodes is boiled with mung beans and cooked into porridge with stalk rice, which has a good auxiliary effect on the treatment of intestinal abscesses.

I told the chef the method and told him to boil it twice a day for five days. I told the Queen Mother to drink it on time and not to take medicine anymore. The Queen Mother didn't like to drink bitter medicine, so she was very happy.

The Dali Temple handled the case very quickly and found out the truth in one day. It turned out to be the Concubine Xuan of Baohua Temple who had committed suicide by taking poison. It was said that the hatred for killing a son was irreconcilable and would haunt him in the underworld. Of course, no one dared to teach these two sentences to the Queen Mother.

No one came to disturb her during these three days, and the empress dowager felt very quiet. She recovered quickly and was able to walk a few steps in the yard. She was a little weak due to her old age, so Bai Xinyin encouraged her to exercise more, but she should know when to stop. After all, she was not an old rural lady and had a strong body.

On the evening of the third day, when the emperor came again, Bai Xinyin returned the imperial sword to the emperor: "I was really helpless at that time. So many people did not trust me. My lord is wise and will not look at me in the same light as a humble person..." The flattery was loud and clear.