bookrebus Chapter 494 All Unhappy
Chapter 494 All Unhappy
If you need a rain shelter in the palace, you naturally have to ask the Imperial Household Department for help.
So Ye Jintang called over the officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs again and asked them to build awnings wherever she and Xiao Mo appeared.
"Your Majesty, the Queen's coronation ceremony is only ten days away. I'm afraid this awning will be difficult to make."
The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs looked at the blueprint of the retractable awning drawn by Ye Jintang and silently wiped their sweat. What the hell is this awning? If it rains heavily during the ceremony of coronation of the empress, can't they just use umbrellas? There are several giant umbrellas in the palace, which will ensure that the emperor and empress will not get wet by a single drop of rain.
As for the others, sorry, just get wet in the rain.
Unfortunately, they did not dare to say this to Ye Jintang, and could only tell her tactfully that if there were only one or two people, it would be fine, but the emperor and empress would have to go to many places on the day of the Queen's Coronation Ceremony, so how could there be so many awnings to shelter them from the rain?
"Ten days is more than enough. Count all the skilled craftsmen in the palace and see how many there are. If you don't have enough, just ask Qiao Yuan for help."
"Yes."
Looking at the clumsy appearance of several officials in the Imperial Household Department, Ye Jintang frowned. She still had a long time to deal with the Imperial Household Department in the future. If they were all stupid, she would be exhausted to death.
Or let Qiao Yuan go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so that he can help her handle matters both inside and outside the palace.
And there is Zhou Cong. This guy is quite smart. He can't always hang out with a group of eunuchs. It would be more convenient for him to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and run errands for her.
It has to be said that there are quite a few capable people in the palace. Some knowledgeable masters only need to take a look at the drawings given by Ye Jintang and immediately know how to make the retractable awning. It’s just that the production cost is a bit high.
A retractable awning costs 200 taels of silver, and if it is decorated with better silk, it will cost dozens more taels.
Ye Jintang was not short of money, so she simply used the 300 taels system. If the masters in the palace could not produce too many retractable awnings within ten days, she would transfer them from outside the palace. Anyway, she had money in her hands, so it was no problem for her to hire as many people as she wanted.
Preparations for the Queen's coronation ceremony were being carried out in an orderly manner.
One day, Ye Jintang had just tried on the phoenix robe she was going to wear for the queen coronation ceremony and was changing clothes when she saw Jin Yuan coming in hurriedly.
"Your Majesty, please go to the Imperial Study Room immediately."
"what happened?"
Ye Jintang looked at Jin Yuan suspiciously. He was usually very steady, but today he was stuttering when he spoke.
"It seems that the emperor has eaten something unclean, which is why he keeps vomiting."
"Have you asked the imperial physician to take a look?"
"I have seen it, and there is nothing unusual in what the emperor eats."
Ye Jintang frowned slightly and immediately walked towards the imperial study.
She thought quickly in her mind. Logically speaking, Xiao Mo paid great attention to safety issues in his diet. The people who could touch his diet were all old people who had been with him for many years. There shouldn't be any problems with these people.
Ye Jintang was afraid that Xiao Mo was really poisoned, so he quickened his pace.
As soon as she arrived at the door of the imperial study, she heard Xiao Mo coughing violently from inside.
"emperor."
"Jintang, why are you here? I'm fine. I just have a stomachache and feel a little uncomfortable."
While speaking, Xiao Mo began to dry heave, but nothing came out.
Ye Jintang didn't say much and hurried forward to take his pulse.
Judging from Xiao Mo's pulse, there was nothing wrong with him, and there was no sign of poisoning. She breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he was not poisoned.
"Doctor Liu, can you see that the emperor has been vomiting outside?"
"Your Highness, I have checked the mung bean soup that the Emperor drank a while ago, and there is nothing suspicious in it. For now, it seems that the Emperor is just suffering from gastrointestinal discomfort. I will prescribe two doses of medicine and he will be fine."
"Ah."
"Does Jiang Heng still have the mung bean soup that the emperor drank just now?"
"Have."
Jiang Heng carefully brought over a bowl of half-drunk mung bean soup.
The weather started to get hot, and Ye Jintang was afraid that Xiao Mo would get irritated by having to deal with so many state affairs every day, so he specially arranged for someone to deliver mung bean soup to Xiao Mo once in the morning and once in the afternoon every day.
The mung bean soup given to Xiao Mo was naturally made with the mung beans from Ye Jintang's space. The products from the space must be top quality. Each mung bean was as round as a jade bead. The mung bean skin would be cooked off after boiling in the pot for half an hour.
But the mung bean soup in the bowl was obviously not made from the mung beans in the space. The mung beans in it were relatively small, and the color was not like emerald, and some of the mung beans had not even had their skins cooked off.
"The mung bean soup is wrong. Someone replaced the mung bean soup cooked in the imperial kitchen."
Ye Jintang's words shocked everyone present. Everyone knew what the replacement of mung bean soup meant.
That means Xiao Mo's vomiting just now was not due to stomach problems, but because he was really poisoned.
Without saying a word, Ye Jintang fed Xiao Mo two pills, one was a detoxification pill, and the other was a powerful longevity pill. As long as he had these two pills, Xiao Mo's life would not be threatened.
Sure enough, after taking two pills, Xiao Mo's feeling of nausea and vomiting was much less severe.
He picked up the tea handed to him by Ye Jintang and rinsed his mouth, then said, "Jintang, am I really poisoned?"
"Nine times out of ten."
"Jiang Heng, bring here all the people who have come into contact with the mung bean soup. I want to interrogate them personally."
Ye Jintang felt Xiao Mo's pulse but found no signs of poisoning. This poison was not simple, and she had to figure it out.
"And call my master here as well, and let him show the emperor another look."
Doctor Liu standing by never expected that Ye Jintang would know that the mung bean soup had been replaced with just one look at it.
He secretly wiped a sweat for himself in his heart. He had also looked at the bowl of mung bean soup, but didn't see anything different.
If Xiao Mo was really poisoned by drinking mung bean soup, then he could just resign and go home to farm, and it wouldn't matter if he was in the Imperial Hospital.
There were not many people who handled Xiao Mo's mung bean soup, only three in total.
One was Madam Ding, the cook in the back kitchen, one was Lian Ye, the senior palace maid serving in the imperial study, and the other was Feng Chun, the eunuch who ran errands.
"Madame Ding, come and take a look. This bowl of mung bean soup is the one you made."
The first person Ye Jintang thought of was Nanny Ding. So many eyes were staring at her as she cooked mung bean soup in the imperial kitchen. If this bowl of soup was really made by her, it must have been cooked somewhere else using special techniques and then sent to the imperial kitchen.
Madam Ding walked forward and took a look at the mung bean soup on the tray. She said bluntly, "Your Majesty, this bowl of mung bean soup was not made by me. The mung bean soup I made was very thick, not so thin. Moreover, the mung bean soup I made for Your Majesty did not even have the mung bean skins. How could there be mung beans that have not blossomed?"
After Aunt Ding said this, Ye Jintang suddenly realized that every nanny made mung bean soup differently. The nanny in her small kitchen liked to use the mung bean skin, saying that the mung bean skin was the best for relieving heat.