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Chapter 170: Death of Chengbi

A scream broke the silence in Changchun Palace.

Yan Shuer sat down on the ground and shouted, "Someone, someone, call the doctor."

The palace servants and eunuchs guarding outside the door heard Concubine Li's panicked cry and quickly pushed the door open and ran into the hall.

Chengbi was seen lying on the ground, twitching and retching, with almonds and goat milk scattered all over the floor.

Concubine Li was leaning on the edge of the bed with her big belly, pointing at the almond goat milk and the broken pieces of porcelain bowl all over the floor, with a look of horror on her face.

"What are you waiting for? Go call the doctor."

After Yan Shuer finished yelling, she lowered her head in fear and muttered: "Someone must be trying to harm me and Huang'er, someone must be trying to harm me and Huang'er..."

Two palace maids lifted her up from the ground and placed her on the bed. Chengbi, who was retching, twitching and unable to speak on the ground, was carried to the bed in the outer room where the palace maids rested while on night duty.

"Lady Li, are you okay? Are you feeling unwell? The imperial physician will be here soon. Don't worry, it's okay. Just lie down and relax!"

"Have you asked His Majesty to come over?"

"Lady Li, I have already gone to invite her."

As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, he saw the imperial physician being lifted off the ground and into the inner hall.

"Lady Li, I will take your pulse first." The imperial physician rolled and crawled to his feet.

"I was just a little frightened. Go check on Chengbi first. She's been poisoned. Save her."

"Lady Li, my disciple is behind us. He is heading towards Miss Chengbi. You don't have to worry about her. Let me take a look at her first."

Yan Shuer stroked her forehead with one hand to hide the emotions in her eyes, and stretched out another hand.

"Lady Li, your pulse is a little fast. You must have been frightened. You are pregnant with the royal heir, so I cannot prescribe you any medicine. Just lie down and take a rest. You will be fine. Don't worry. The royal heir in your belly is fine."

The imperial physician felt Yan Shuer's pulse, withdrew his hand, and spoke after pondering for a moment.

"Then look at the goat milk and almonds on the ground. What's the problem? I wanted to go back to bed and rest after drinking the almond goat milk. Just as I was about to put it in my mouth, I saw Chengbi, who helped me try the bowl of almond goat milk, twitching and falling down."

The doctor nodded and replied:

"Lady Li, please ask the palace maid to bring me two porcelain bowls and a pair of chopsticks. If you don't have bowls and chopsticks, a cup will do."

Yan Shu'er signaled with her eyes to the palace maid standing by to go to the outer room to get the spare bowls and chopsticks on the table and hand them to the imperial physician. The palace maid moved very quickly and even scalded the bowls and chopsticks with the boiling water on the table.

But the imperial physician didn't care.

Everyone saw the imperial physician take out a white handkerchief from his bosom, suck up all the goat milk on the ground and put it into the bowl. He then picked up the almonds on the ground one by one with chopsticks and placed them in another bowl.

As he picked up the almonds on the ground one by one, the imperial physician already understood what was going on, even though he hadn't even taken a look at Chengbi, who was twitching and retching as the eunuch who brought him here had said.

He could basically determine what the poison was in the Chengbi tea - unprocessed bitter almonds mixed in with the sweet almonds.

Miss Chengbi was poisoned by the poison that entered her mouth, and his apprentice should have induced vomiting urgently.

The person testing the poison probably wouldn't drink too much, and the bitter almonds have been boiled in goat's milk, so the toxicity has been reduced. If they are rescued, there shouldn't be any major problems.

"Lady Li, Lady Li, the sweet almonds you used to reduce the mutton smell in goat milk were mixed with some bitter almonds.

Almonds are divided into sweet almonds and bitter almonds. Sweet almonds are the snacks that people eat every day.

Bitter almonds are processed to remove their toxicity and are used as a medicine to treat cold and cough caused by the lungs.

Unprocessed bitter almonds are highly toxic, and Chengbi must have been poisoned by the unprocessed bitter almonds."

Before he could finish, he heard a noisy sound coming from outside. Someone in the palace was exclaiming that Chengbi was no longer breathing.

The imperial physician frowned, finding it unbelievable and unable to help but doubt his own expertise.

Bitter almonds are toxic. Even if they are not boiled, if they are eaten raw, he has never seen an example of death so quickly. Is it not just bitter almonds? Is Chengbi's body allergic to bitter almonds?

"Lady Li, I would like to go see Chengbi." The imperial physician requested.

"Go ahead. I feel a little dizzy now. Call me when His Majesty comes." Yan Shuer ordered.

When the imperial physician heard Concubine Li say that she felt dizzy, his anxious steps suddenly slowed down.

Chengbi died, but if the imperial physician was present and something happened to Concubine Li while she was pregnant with the heir, he...

The imperial physician turned around and said:

"My Lord, I will give you an injection before I go back. You will sleep better."

"No need, I'm fine."

The imperial physician carefully looked at Yan Shu'er's face and said, "I will take my leave."