Yun Shang lowered her head and answered in a low voice.
Soon after that, Bao'er yawned and closed his eyes, as if he wanted to sleep. Yun Shang looked down at Bao'er and sighed. She thought she should protect her baby better. Now Bao'er had a different identity. He was the prince, and the only son of Luo Qingyan's.
Although she was the only one in Luo Qingyan's imperial household and there was no scramble for favor, there were still many covetous people around. Among the sons of the former Emperor, although the nineteenth prince was weak and young, he would grow up. And the former Emperor's twenty-first prince was just four years old. No one knew how many people in the dark were coveting Bao'er's life with murderous eyes. Even if she had a single careless error, her baby would be exposed to danger.
Yun Shang held Bao'er's little hand and made up her mind to protect her baby. She would rather kill one thousand people by mistake than let go of anyone who wanted to hurt her baby.
Luo Qingyan put his arm around Yun Shang's shoulder and comforted, "Don't worry. I will protect you and Chengye."
Yun Shang smiled and let go of Bao'er's hand. Gradually, she calmed herself down. The former life had passed. This life was here to come. She wouldn't let the tragedy happen again, never.
"Your Majesties..." Qin Yi's voice came through the bead curtain, "The mouse is ready."
Luo Qingyan frowned and asked in confusion, "What are you going to do with the mouse?"
Yun Shang raised her voice and said to Qin Yi, "Let the imperial physician examine it. Don't need to wait for me."
After she finished her words, she raised her head and explained to Luo Qingyan, "I suspect that someone has done something to the wet nurse, so I asked her to bring some milk. But the problem with the milk is how to examine it. So I asked someone to catch a mouse and let it drink the milk. If there is something wrong with it, the mouse will tell from its reaction. "
After explaining, Yun Shang stood up and suggested, "Let's go out and have a look." She then ordered Hua'er and Qinghao to guard Bao'er in the palace, so that if there was something wrong, they could report it in time.
When Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan walked out of the inner hall, they saw a imperial physician pour the milk into a cup in the cage where two mice were drinking together with their heads down. There was still a plain cloth cushion in the cage, but no one knew what it was used for.
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan sat down on the main seats. Qin Yi served tea in a hurry. Yun Shang took a sip of the tea and stared at the two rats in the small cage.
Both mice didn't move for a long time. Yun Shang frowned and looked up at the imperial physician standing aside. "Is there nothing wrong with the milk?" But Bao'er only drank water and milk, and if there was no problem with either of the two, then what happened?
While she was thinking, she saw that one of the mice seemed to have sneezed, and there was a trace of blood on the plain cloth cushion on the cage.
Yun Shang focused on the blood, and her eyes showed a flash of red with anger too.
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e and lock her in prison first. I will interrogate her when I'm free."
Qin Yi nodded and called the eunuch in.
"Come and take the nanny away to the Neishi Bureau," ordered Qin Yi. There was no smile on her face. She bowed to Yun Shang and left the main hall with the wet nurse.
Luo Qingyan turned to look at Yun Shang. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Do you need another babysitter?"
Yun Shang nodded and said softly, "Of course. Let's find another two. This way, they will feed Bao'er separately. If one of them feels uncomfortable, we can let the other to feed Bao'er. I have to take care of Bao'er health. "
Luo Qingyan nodded slightly with confusion in his eyes, "But why did Chen Miaosi make Bao'er get pathogenic dryness this way?"
Yun Shang thought about it carefully. She remembered that before this, Chen Miaosi was the first one to find that the dishes prepared by Xia Huanyu were all too hot. She must have learned from that matter, but found that it was too easy to be found out if she was doing so in the dishes, so she moved her hands into the wet nurse' tea.
"The pathogenic dryness is not a big deal for us adults, but it's quite different for our baby who is only three months old. It's not a big problem even for a child, but if we find it out too late and handle it improperly, it will endanger Bao'er's life." Yun Shang felt scared, the more she thought about it. Still she had some suspicion, "But there is one thing I don't quite understand. If Chen Miaosi set up this trap, why did she tell the babysitter that Bao'er had got pathogenic dryness when the babysitter went to ask her for help? Wouldn't it be normal that she should not tell the truth?"
Luo Qingyan thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that she has found something wrong. Even if she didn't tell you, you would still call the imperial physicians. If the imperial physicians found out the truth, while she didn't, wouldn't she be more suspicious?"
Yun Shang nodded. After a moment of silence, she heard Pei Lan's voice from outside, "Your Majesties, Doctor Chen wants to see you."