Ning Yao took the silver note and stole a glance at Mo Yao. He always felt that not only had Mo Qinghuan become uncontrollable, but this Mo Yao also seemed to have grown smarter.
When Lan woke up, it was already the next day.
She sat on the bed in a daze, muttering incoherently, "It's all gone! Everything is gone!"
Mo Yao walked in, followed by a maid carrying medicine.
"Mother, you're awake," she rushed to the bedside but couldn't tuck the loose hair behind Lan's ears.
Lan seemed not to hear Mo Yao's call. "It's gone. Everything is gone."
Mo Yao couldn't hear clearly and leaned in closer. Suddenly, Lan reached out and grabbed her neck tightly.
"It's you! You stole my silver! I'll strangle you! I'll strangle you!"
Mo Yao was choked and couldn't breathe. Her hands were weak, and she couldn't resist.
The maid put down the medicine and rushed over to pry Lan's hands off. But the crazy Lan seemed to be using all her strength.
It took the maid a great deal of effort to break her hands free. When she checked on Mo Yao, she found that Mo Yao's face had turned blue and purple.
Mo Yao, who finally got to breathe, gasped greedily.
She didn't dare to get close to Lan again. Instead, she just told the maids to force-feed Lan the medicine.
But before the maids could get close to Lan, she knocked the medicine over.
When Hongguo heard the news, she quietly left the mansion and headed for the Regent's Mansion.
When she arrived at the Regent's Mansion, Mo Qinghuan was sitting in the courtyard reading a book.
Hongguo was led by the gatekeeper to Mo Qinghuan. She knelt on the ground with her head down.
Mo Qinghuan put down the book and looked over. "What's going on?"
"Your Highness, something has happened in the General's Mansion," Hongguo replied.
Mo Qinghuan turned to look at Dan'er, and Dan'er dismissed the others.
Hongguo told Mo Qinghuan what had happened in the General's Mansion.
Mo Qinghuan took a sip of tea. "Go back. Don't let anyone notice. Dan'er, give her ten taels of silver."
Hearing this, Hongguo was overjoyed. Ten taels of silver was five months' worth of her monthly salary.
"Hongguo, remember. It's important to gather information in the General's Mansion, but it's even more important to keep yourself safe," Mo Qinghuan said.
Hongguo nodded heavily and rushed back to the General's Mansion.
Mo Qinghuan packed up simply. Since Lan was ill, she thought Mo Yao might take some action.
Just as she was thinking, the gatekeeper came to report again.
"Your Highness, Miss Zhao from the Duke's Mansion is here."
"What does she want?" Mo Qinghuan was suspicious. "Take her to the main hall. I'll be there soon."
"Yes," the gatekeeper bowed and retreated.
...
When Mo Qinghuan arrived at the main hall, Zhao Yiyi was pacing back and forth anxiously. When she saw Mo Qinghuan, she quickly bowed.
"I, Zhao Yiyi, pay my respects to the Regent's Consort," she said.
Mo Qinghuan walked to the main seat and sat down. "What's the matter?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Yiyi knelt on the ground with a thud.
"Please, Your Highness, save my mother," she pleaded.
Hearing that it was the Duchess of the Duke's Mansion who was in trouble, Mo Qinghuan's eyes flashed. Come to think of it, she had a very good impression of the Duchess.
"Don't be in a hurry. Speak slowly," Mo Qinghuan said.
Zhao Yiyi looked up at Mo Qinghuan. "Can I talk on the way? My mother's condition is really serious. If the imperial physicians were not at their wits' end, I wouldn't dare to bother Your Highness."
"Dan'er, go and get my medicine box," Mo Qinghuan stood up and helped Zhao Yiyi up. "Let's go."
...
The carriage took them all the way to the Duke's Mansion.
When Mo Qinghuan saw the Duchess, she was lying pale on the bed.
She walked over, took out the pulse pillow, and felt the Duchess's pulse.
In fact, the Little Medical Space was scanning the Duchess's whole body. "Scanning completed. The patient has blood coagulation caused by taking the Root-entwining Flower, resulting in poor blood circulation. Please inject br2 Ding for detoxification as soon as possible."
She put away the pulse pillow and looked at Zhao Yiyi. "Your mother has been poisoned by a kind of poison called Root-entwining Flower. As long as she takes the antidote, she'll be fine."
Zhao Yiyi grabbed her arm. "Yes, the imperial physicians also said so. But they also said that the Root-entwining Flower is extremely rare, and they don't know what kind of medicine can detoxify it."
Mo Qinghuan thought for a while. She could inject br2 Ding into the Duchess immediately, but she didn't know who had poisoned the Duchess. If she detoxified the Duchess so rashly, she was afraid that the blame would be shifted to her...
"Oh, it's like this. I seem to remember reading about it in an ancient book, but I can't remember clearly. Well, you take good care of your mother first. I'll go back and check the information. After I find it, I'll prepare the antidote and come back," Mo Qinghuan said.
Zhao Yiyi nodded. "Okay. Can I pay the consultation fee together after my mother is cured?"
Mo Qinghuan smiled. "Of course. But I have to remind you to find out the reason why your mother was poisoned and find the person who poisoned her as soon as possible."
Zhao Yiyi was stunned. "You mean my mother was poisoned by someone?"
"The Root-entwining Flower is extremely rare, so it's unlikely that she ate it by mistake. Therefore, it's very likely that someone deliberately poisoned her. Anyway, you should investigate carefully," Mo Qinghuan said.
Zhao Yiyi turned to look at the Duchess lying on the bed. She personally sent Mo Qinghuan out and told the coachman to drive the carriage to take her back.
The people sent by Ning Yao had been secretly watching Mo Qinghuan. When they saw Mo Qinghuan and her maid come out, they followed them.
But they didn't know that when Mo Qinghuan was on her way to the Duke's Mansion, she had already been targeted by the people secretly protecting her.
In the carriage, Dan'er looked at Mo Qinghuan. "Your Highness, who do you think poisoned the Duchess?"
Mo Qinghuan analyzed seriously. "Two kinds of people. One is the political enemy, and the other is..."
With a loud noise, it seemed that something heavy had fallen to the ground, followed by the panicked footsteps of people running away.
Mo Qinghuan lifted the curtain and looked out. There was a person lying on the ground.
Then more than a dozen people were fighting.
"Take a detour," Mo Qinghuan didn't know the situation, but when she encountered such a situation, her first reaction was to avoid it.
Just as the coachman was about to turn the horse around, suddenly a man rushed out from somewhere and stabbed the horse's neck with a knife.
The horse was startled and reared up its front hooves. In a hurry, the coachman took out a dagger from his boot and cut the reins connecting the horse.
The sedan chair broke away from the carriage. Mo Qinghuan and Dan'er were thrown forward due to inertia.
Mo Qinghuan grabbed the window edge of the sedan chair tightly. After Dan'er steadied herself, she also went to help her.
"Miss, are you okay?" Dan'er was very anxious. While protecting Mo Qinghuan, she didn't forget to protect Mo Qinghuan's medicine box.
Several people rushed to the carriage. Mo Qinghuan heard someone shout, "Capture them alive."
Mo Qinghuan more or less guessed who had poisoned the Duchess and who wanted to kill her.
She exchanged a look with Dan'er, covered her mouth and nose, and secretly took out the most powerful sleeping drug from the space.
She quietly waited for the right moment.