Chapter 275: Injustice
As soon as Ling Chu finished speaking, everyone looked at her.
Doctor Chen paused, looked in the direction of Ling Chu's finger, and frowned.
He remembered that he had just identified it, and it was a small piece of fish skin.
He looked up at Ling Chu and saw that she looked serious and didn't seem to be joking.
Doctor Chen was confused all of a sudden.
Could he have seen it wrong?
He picked up the chopsticks on the side again, picked up the piece of fish skin, and looked at it over and over again.
After carefully confirming it again and again, Doctor Chen said, "Miss Ling, this is just a piece of fish skin."
As soon as Doctor Chen finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but feel disappointed.
Princess Pingyang thought Ling Chu had found something poisonous, but she didn't expect it to be just a piece of fish skin.
He couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Miss Ling, you don't know medicine, but you want to show off your skills in front of the imperial physician. It's simply a joke.
Since you don't know, don't pretend to know. Just go and wait quietly for the imperial physician to find the poison."
Ling Chu glanced at Princess Pingyang coldly, turned his head and said, "Doctor Chen, this is indeed fish skin. But this piece is not mandarin fish skin, but puffer fish skin."
Doctor Chen's face changed.
Puffer fish is delicious, but its liver, blood, eyes, gills and skin are poisonous.
Although Doctor Chen knew that many parts of puffer fish were poisonous, he never liked to eat fish and didn't have the habit of cooking on a daily basis. Therefore, he didn't know much about ordinary fish, let alone puffer fish.
He could see that the small piece was fish skin, but he was not sure whether it was puffer fish skin.
Sun Yuanzheng stepped forward quickly, took the piece of fish skin and carefully identified it for a long time before saying, "This is indeed the skin of a pufferfish."
It's no wonder that Doctor Chen couldn't recognize it. Although pufferfish tastes delicious, many parts of its body are poisonous and ordinary people can't handle it at all.
Few people usually eat pufferfish.
Even if an extremely experienced person slaughters a pufferfish, if he doesn't handle it properly, he will be poisoned if he eats it.
Sun Yuanzheng was able to barely recognize that the small piece was the skin of a pufferfish because he loved eating fish and he was a royal doctor who had studied pufferfish.
In order to avoid making a mistake, Doctor Chen specially found two imperial chefs to come over and let them identify it.
The two imperial chefs who were named came over with pale faces, repeatedly identified the piece of fish skin, and confirmed that it was the skin of a pufferfish.
In addition to the bowl of Song Sao fish soup that Ling Chu had not used yet, Doctor Chen also found pufferfish skin in the fish soup left over by Princess Dingyuan and the other two.
Originally, there was no fish skin in Song Sao's fish soup, but the person who poisoned it chose the belly of the pufferfish, which happened to be white, and it would be mistaken for mandarin fish meat if you were not careful.
The Queen frowned, "I remember that there was no pufferfish on today's menu. Where did this pufferfish come from?"
This fish is not easy to handle, and the Queen would never use it to entertain court officials and those noble ladies.
In fact, not only is there no pufferfish on today's menu, but no one in the entire palace eats this fish.
After all, no one wants to ruin their lives because of their appetite.
Ning Chuyi looked at the group of imperial chefs coldly, "Who made this fish soup today?"
The eunuch in charge of the imperial kitchen said with a gloomy face, "It was Liao Yuchu."
Liao Yuchu staggered over, staring at the piece of fish skin, his face full of disbelief.
How could there be pufferfish in Song Sao's fish soup? !
Seeing the emperor looking at him with a dignified look, Liao Yuchu's legs immediately softened and he knocked his head heavily, "Your Majesty, I am innocent. I used mandarin fish for this Song Sao fish soup, not puffer fish at all."
The emperor looked gloomy and ignored the imperial chef.
Now that they knew what caused the poisoning, the most urgent thing was to help Princess Dingyuan and the others detoxify.
The face of Doctor Chen did not improve, "Your Majesty, I am ashamed. I can't detoxify this poison."
Although he had spent a lot of time researching in order to eat this puffer fish with confidence, it was a pity that he had not found a way to detoxify it after years of research.
As soon as Doctor Chen finished speaking, many people changed their faces.
The emperor frowned and said to the imperial doctors, "My dear ministers, is there no way at all?"
The three princesses were poisoned. If they were poisoned to death at the palace banquet, the consequences would be...
The emperor looked gloomy. No matter from which aspect, he didn't want to see them get into trouble.
The doctors present all looked unhappy. They gathered together to discuss for a long time, but still had no good solution.
However, one doctor frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I remember that there is a saying among the people that reed root soup can detoxify puffer fish."
Sun Yuanzheng shook his head, "I have studied it, and reed root soup is not very effective. It cannot completely remove the poison of puffer fish."
Sun Yuanzheng glanced at Princess Jing and the other two, and thought to himself that even if reed root soup can detoxify, it is too late.
Since Ling Chu pointed out that the piece was puffer fish skin, he has been standing quietly by the side without saying a word.
But secretly opened the system and searched for the antidote in it.
After searching for a long time, the antidote was found, but it required two medium-grade energy stones to exchange.
Ling Chu was not sure whether Princess Dingyuan was her biological mother, but no matter whether she was or not, she could not stand by and watch them die.
Although she had a grudge against Han Yao, she had a good impression of Princess Dingyuan, and Princess Jing was not a bad person. Since she had a way to help them detoxify, she could not watch them die of poison.
Ling Chu happened to have two pieces of jade left in her hands. They were the gifts Ning Chuyi gave her when her shop opened.
Seeing that Princess Dingyuan and the others were in a worse and worse condition, Ling Chu didn't care about the two jades and quickly exchanged for the antidote.
Sun Yuanzheng and the other imperial doctors had several beards pulled out, but they couldn't think of a way to detoxify.
Princess Guangping collapsed all of a sudden, her face full of despair. She was still so young, she didn't want to die.
Although Princess Jing and Princess Dingyuan didn't want to die, they couldn't do anything because the imperial doctors couldn't detoxify them.
The two of them were already fading from consciousness, and there were still many regrets in their hearts.
The only consolation was that the three of them died together, and they would finally have company on the road to the underworld, so they wouldn't be too lonely.
The father and son of Prince Dingyuan held Princess Dingyuan's hand tightly, their faces full of sadness.
Prince Jing and Prince Guangping also looked angry and sad.
At this moment, a shout suddenly came from a distance, "Mother, Mother..."
Before the words fell, a young man in a brocade robe rushed towards Princess Dingyuan like a whirlwind.
A panting girl followed behind.
Hearing the shout, Princess Dingyuan, who was originally conscious, opened her eyes with difficulty and said weakly, "Song'er..."
Han Song, the second son of the Dingyuan Palace, rushed over and grabbed her arm, his face full of anxiety, "Mother, I heard that you were poisoned. How are you now? Has the imperial physician given you a detoxification..."
Han Yao, who was following closely behind, was about to run towards Princess Dingyuan, but when he saw Ling Chu next to him, he paused and subconsciously looked towards Prince Dingyuan and the others.