The servants had already prepared the dishes. Luo Qingyan and Yun Shang sat down together. Yun Shang picked up a piece of mandarin fish with chopsticks and put it into Luo Qingyan's bowl with a smile.
Luo Qingyan took a bite and said with a smile, "I don't know why. The fish is the same kind. The cooks to make mandarin fish in the imperial kitchen were also found from the State of Ning, and they have used the same cooking formula too. However, the taste of the fish made in our kitchen is still not as good as the one I have eaten in the State of Ning before."
Yun Shang also ate a piece of mandarin fish, with a smile on her face, "Maybe it's because you can't eat it, so you always feel that the taste in your memory is the best. If at the moment a plate of mandarin fish from the State of Ning is really presented for your majesty to have a taste, your majesty may not be able to tell the difference between them two. "
"You are right," Luo Qingyan nodded and said nothing more.
However, halfway through the meal, Luo Qingyan suddenly frowned and looked a little painful.
Yun Shang noticed it and asked with concern, "Your Majesty? What's wrong? "
Luo Qingyan opened his mouth. Before he could say anything, his face suddenly turned pale, and sweat beaded up on his forehead. His body shook and fell on the table.
Yun Shang stood up in a hurry, "Your Majesty? Your majesty? "
Her voice was trembling unconsciously.
The servants around were also in a mess, and shouts and screams came one after another.
Yun Shang quickly walked to Luo Qingyan's side, helped him up from the table, and leaned his head against her. Then she turned around and looked at the stunned Liu Wenan, "Send for the imperial physician now."
Liu Wenan responded and left in a hurry.
"Shut up!" Yun Shang snapped, and the voices in the hall were much lower at once.
Yun Shang took a deep breath and put her hand on Luo Qingyan's. she took his pulse, looked at Luo Qingyan's eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and then said, "His Majesty must have been poisoned."
Qian Zhuo stood aside and said hurriedly, "Your Majesty, let me help you bring his majesty into the inner hall."
Yun Shang nodded and helped Luo Qingyan lie down in the inner hall with the help of Qian Zhuo.
"It can't be publicized that his majesty is poisoned. Send someone to guard the Weiyang Palace. No one is allowed to enter or leave without my permission.
All the servants who served his majesty just now are sent to the west side hall under guard. The other servants in the Weiyang Palace are also escorted to the west side hall to be guarded in another room.
Keep watch the dishes on the table. Don't let anyone touch them.
Send someone to the Taiji Palace and inform them that his majesty drank a few glasses of wine at lunch with me and got drunk. If anyone comes to the Palace this afternoon, ask the guards on duty to find a way to get rid of him.
If someone asks why there are guards surrounding the Weiyang Palace, tell them that I've lost some very important jewelry and suspected that there is a thief in the palace, so I've order to guard the Weiyang Palace and search for the thief,"
Yun Shang gave her instructions in an orderly way. Her voice was loud, but a little trembling.
Qian Zhuo and Hua'er responded and left the inner hall in a hurry.
Yun Shang watched the guards pouring in from the outside and escorting all the servants in the Weiyang Palace to the west side hall. The courtyard where there were always servants coming and going was suddenly empty.
Yun Shang walked to the window and squinted at the outside. She took off some osmanthus blossoms from the vase beside, put them on the tip of her nose and smelled them again.
"Your Majesty, there are three kinds of herbs needed to detoxify the poison of the southern pith. They are the heart of the auspicious autumn bear, the ice lotus on the top of the haze, and the water from the lake shrouded in clouds. Although there are only three kinds of herbs, they are very precious. There is no one in the palace... "
Yun Shang didn't say anything for a long time, but her eyes were red with anxiety.
Another imperial physician looked at Yun Shang's face and couldn't help saying, "These three herbs come from three completely different directions. It will take seven or eight days to ride the horse at full speed day and night to get to the nearest lake shrouded in clouds. His majesty... "
Yun Shang knew what he wanted to say. Before he could finish his words, she interrupted him quickly, "There must be a way, and another way..."
"Ghost Doctor!" Yun Shang looked anxious, not as calm as usual, "Ghost Doctor is still in Jin City, isn't he? He must have a way... "
The four imperial physicians looked at each other. Someone opened his mouth and wanted to persuade Yun Shang. Many people knew the antidote to the marrow South poison, but what they lacked now was not the antidote, but the antidote.
Before he could finish his words, another imperial physician pulled the man's sleeve and shook his head at him.
Yun Shang didn't seem to have seen the interaction between the imperial physicians. She only called in a trembling voice, "guards! Go! Go and ask doctor ghost to come to the palace! Hurry up... "
After giving the order, Yun Shang turned to the four imperial physicians and said, "As for his Majesty's situation, I hope you can keep your mouth shut. If any news is leaked out, I will definitely kill you!"
"Yes, your majesty."
Yun Shang looked around the four imperial physicians before her and waved her hand, "You can go now. I want to be alone."
As soon as the imperial physicians were sent away, a voice came from outside, "Your Majesty, His Former Majesty is here."
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