Hsieh Hyun-chen used all of his self-control to turn around. He originally thought that he had mentally prepared himself, but when he saw the scene behind him, he still felt blood rush to his head and almost lost control. Mu Mingtang took off her inner garment, leaving only her tube top on, and lay on the bed. However, her tube top didn't cover her back, which meant that her back was completely exposed in front of Hsieh Hyun-chen. She was weakly lying on the bed.
Hsieh Hyun-chen cursed in his heart. Ever since Mu Mingtang came to his side, Hsieh Hyun-chen had tried his best to restrain his vulgar side. Of course, he couldn't say the vulgar words he learned in the military camp in front of Mu Mingtang. But at this moment, Hsieh Hyun-chen really couldn't control himself and wanted to curse. He was a married man, and the person in front of him was his wangfei. Why did he have to suffer this?
Mu Mingtang waited for a while. Seeing that Hsieh Hyun-chen didn't move, she looked back at him in confusion. "What's wrong?"
Hsieh Hyun-chen's expression was very tense, and his eyes didn't look right. Seeing her look back, Hsieh Hyun-chen seemed to have made a very difficult decision. He said stiffly, "It's nothing."
Mu Mingtang also nodded and looked away. She pressed the side of her face against the brocade quilt. She thought that Hsieh Hyun-chen really didn't want to have intimate contact with other people. He was already in such a difficult position.
Mu Mingtang sighed in her heart.
Hsieh Hyun-chen stiffly applied the ointment and melted it in his palm. He tried his best to avert his gaze and not look at Mu Mingtang's back, which was as smooth as mutton fat jade. But the moment his palm touched Mu Mingtang's back, Hsieh Hyun-chen regretted it.
He really overestimated himself. Just looking at it was already very restrained. Now he wanted to touch it. Touching it but not seeing it made it easier for his imagination to run wild.
However, he didn't dare to direct his gaze. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would really do something. Although Hsieh Hyun-chen found it corny that Mu Mingtang kept calling him his savior and hero, as time went by, he actually started to feel burdened by it.
Hsieh Hyun-chen didn't dare to think further if the little girl found out that her savior wasn't the person she thought he was, and that he had even done something outrageous.
Mu Mingtang had never had such intimate contact with an outsider. Ever since she was six years old, she had been sleeping alone. She had never even had such contact with her mother, let alone a man. Mu Mingtang could feel that the hand on his shoulder was slender and strong. It was different from direct contact through a layer of cloth. For example, Mu Mingtang could feel that although the hand looked fair, it was actually rough with calluses. It was obvious that it was a pair of hands used to shoot arrows.
Mu Mingtang buried her head in the quilt. Her face was also red. She felt that it was too awkward not to speak, but she was also too embarrassed to raise her head. Thus, she was still buried in the quilt. She asked in a muffled voice, "So how did you find out?"
Hsieh Hyun-chen was trying hard not to let his imagination run wild. When he suddenly heard Mu Mingtang's question, he jumped in fright, "What?"
"The maid from this afternoon." Mu Mingtang added, "The coroner said that she drowned, but I don't really believe it. Did you find out something? "
Hsieh Hyun-chen's emotions fluctuated greatly. In the end, he was somewhat gnashing his teeth. He was scared. He thought that Mu Mingtang had found out about him … but wasn't she too careless? At this time, she still had the heart to think about the maid?
Hsieh Hyun-chen didn't know whether he should be angry at himself or at Mu Mingtang. In the end, he blamed it all on the Emperor. If he found out that everything was the Emperor's doing, he would deal with that hypocrite!
"Why aren't you saying anything?"
Hsieh Hyun-chen sighed and accepted his fate. He had to control the strength of his fingers and control his eyes to not look anywhere else. At the same time, he had to explain to his wangfei, "What do you want to hear first?"
"About the maid. Did she really drown in the water? "
"Definitely not." Hsieh Hyun-chen said, "She was killed and thrown into the lake."
"Why?"
"If she slipped and fell into the water, she would have struggled. There would be sand in her hair, hair, and the gaps between her hands and feet. The corpse shouldn't be like that." Hsieh Hyun-chen paused after he finished speaking. He hesitated, "Do you really want to continue listening?"
Mu Mingtang had been listening carefully. Suddenly, he heard Hsieh Hyun-chen stop again. He was so angry that he wanted to get up and settle the score with him, "Are you done?!"
Mu Mingtang was so angry that he raised his upper body slightly. Hsieh Hyun-chen quickly averted his gaze. He didn't dare to look again, "Lie down properly. Don't move."
Mu Mingtang could only silently lie back down. He said in a low voice, "I'm not afraid. Keep talking."
Mu Mingtang had just moved. When he lay back down, his posture was slightly different from before. From the side, one could faintly see the rise and fall of his body.
Hsieh Hyun-chen's face, which had finally calmed down, turned red again. However, he had no way of reminding Mu Mingtang. He could only deliberately avert his gaze and try to speak in a flat and rigid tone, "When a living person enters the water, they will instinctively call for help. The water will flow out from the mouth and nose, so the abdomen will accumulate water and swell slightly. But look at the woman's corpse from this afternoon. Her mouth and eyes were closed. Her hands were hanging down naturally. Her fingernails were clean, but her abdomen was swollen. It was obvious that she was already dead when she entered the water. That's why she didn't struggle or spit out water. "
Mu Mingtang recalled Hsieh Hyun-chen's words. Sure enough, she couldn't help but nod. That's right. The corpse she saw in the afternoon was exactly as Hsieh Hyun-chen had described. At that time, she couldn't see any clues. But now, after listening to Hsieh Hyun-chen's explanation, she felt that it was indeed very suspicious.
If a person really fell into the water by accident, it was impossible for them not to struggle. No matter what, their hands shouldn't be hanging down naturally, and their mouth shouldn't be tightly shut. From the looks of it, the maid had indeed been killed before she threw herself into the water and pretended to drown.
Mu Mingtang was full of admiration. If it weren't for the inconvenient position she was in, she would have crawled up and applauded Hsieh Hyun-chen. "Amazing! You only looked at her from a distance for a while. You didn't even touch her, yet you were able to discover so many things that were wrong. You're much better than that coroner. If one day the world is at peace and there's no need for war, you can even go to the Supreme Court and become a constable! "
Mu Mingtang's praise was straightforward and shallow. However, it was this kind of straightforward praise that made Hsieh Hyun-chen feel a little overwhelmed. He coughed softly and said, "Constable? Even if I really go to the Supreme Court, I should be a Minister. Why am I only a small official? "
Mu Mingtang laughed when she heard this. "Good, good, good. You were born to be a leader. Since you discovered that something was wrong, why didn't you say anything when the coroner came? Why did you avoid him instead? "
"If I didn't avoid him, why would Xie Xuanji hint that the coroner was giving false testimony?" Hsieh Hyun-chen said casually. "Moreover, their tricks weren't very clever. If I didn't discover anything after looking at them for a long time and allowed the coroner to babble nonsense, I'm afraid that they would be suspicious. It would be better to avoid them by saying that they were sick. Their health wasn't good, so they wanted to do it, but they didn't have the strength. That would make sense. "
Mu Mingtang suddenly realized that Hsieh Hyun-chen had known from the beginning what Xie Xuanji and the others wanted to do. Hsieh Hyun-chen understood everything but didn't say anything. He even cooperated with their plan. He purposely had the mastermind behind the scenes swap out the aromatherapy balls, purposely had the coroner label the maid's death as an accident, and purposely had the imperial physician deny the use of the incense.
If he did too much, it would expose the mastermind's plan. However, if Hsieh Hyun-chen didn't have any suspicions, it would make Xie Xuanji and the others suspect that he was hiding something. Therefore, Hsieh Hyun-chen revealed his suspicions but didn't dig any deeper. He imperceptibly led Xie Xuanji and the others in a circle, making them think that their plan was a success.
By now, the news had probably reached the head of the investigation. The head of the investigation must have thought that their plan was a success. Although there were some accidents because of Mu Mingtang, the incense had been swapped out and the maid who handled the incense was dead. Although Hsieh Hyun-chen had his suspicions, the coroner had already proven that the maid had fallen into the water and died. The imperial physician had also said that there was no problem with the incense and that it was just common agarwood. The mastermind behind the scenes probably thought that Hsieh Hyun-chen had been deceived.
Even if he wasn't deceived, there would be no evidence. Hsieh Hyun-chen had coughed so many times that afternoon. Even if he had his suspicions, with his weak body, how could he have the energy to investigate?
However, this was Hsieh Hyun-chen's true goal. He knew what the head of the investigation wanted to do and what the head of the investigation wanted to see. Everything was handled very precisely.
Mu Mingtang also finally understood her role. She was the lackey who charged and broke through the enemy lines by the sickly young master's side. She jumped up and down, but it seemed like she wasn't very smart. She could confuse the enemy's line of sight and perfectly cover her own scheming.
Mu Mingtang thought it through. The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. The mastermind wanted to deceive Hsieh Hyun-chen, but Hsieh Hyun-chen beat him at his own game and fooled the other party. The only problem now was how to deal with the incense.
What exactly was the incense? How to use it, and what effect did it have? If Hsieh Hyun-chen's illness was really manipulated by someone, then didn't that mean that there was a chance that this illness could be cured?
This was the final problem, and also the biggest one.
Mu Mingtang and Hsieh Hyun-chen didn't speak anymore. One quietly lay on the ground, while the other slowly moved around to relieve the congestion. In fact, both of them were thinking about the incense, but they didn't dare to mention it in front of each other. They tacitly avoided talking about it.
Mu Mingtang thought for a while, then suddenly asked: "Who was the person who made the Cleansing Adversity Pill for you?"
Mu Mingtang originally thought it was the Imperial Medical Bureau, but after hearing Imperial Doctor Zhang mention it a few times, she knew that although the Imperial Medical Bureau participated in making the medicine, in fact, the one who made the prescription was a foreign doctor.
However, this was already two years ago. When Xie Yi was still alive, she spent a lot of money to develop an antidote for Hsieh Hyun-chen. Now that the emperor was replaced by Xie Rui, no one mentioned the antidote anymore. Even the information and prescription from that year were unknowingly lost.
Hsieh Hyun-chen had already thought about this matter. He sighed slightly and said: "That was a Jianghu doctor. He didn't have a fixed residence, so the world was his home. My father originally wanted the Imperial Medical Bureau to make the medicine, but the Imperial Medical Bureau was helpless. He had no choice but to put up a notice to recruit people. That doctor passed by the capital and was curious when he saw the imperial notice, so he entered the palace to study my illness. He immersed himself in research for two to three months and took out the Cleansing Adversity Pill. It was effective for the first time, so the imperial court rewarded him with a lot of wealth. So he took his things and went on his travels again. When he found that there were side effects, he couldn't find this doctor anymore. "
"Ah?" Mu Mingtang was shocked when she heard this, "You really let him go? Shouldn't we keep him around until he cures you? "
"At that time, the emperor had already changed."
Mu Mingtang was suddenly speechless. So it was like this. She sighed and said: "It's fine. It's only been two years. If we send people to look again, we'll definitely find that doctor. Didn't he see the imperial notice in the past? If it really doesn't work, we'll put up another notice. "
When Mu Mingtang said this, she also knew that it would be hard to achieve. If the current emperor was Xie Yi, it would be easy to put up an imperial notice. However, the person on the throne was Xie Rui.
Hsieh Hyun-chen sighed almost inaudibly: "It's not a problem of looking for him. I'm afraid that he's already dead. "
When Mu Mingtang heard this, her heart skipped a beat.
Mu Mingtang lay there quietly for a long time. She felt that her other arm hurt a bit and couldn't help but ask: "Do I need to massage for so long for the extravasated blood?"
Hsieh Hyun-chen's fingers paused, then he calmly withdrew his hand: "It's about done."
Then he consciously turned around and said: "I can't see. You can change your clothes."
Mu Mingtang made a low sound of acknowledgment, then picked up the inner garment at the side and put it on. She realized that Hsieh Hyun-chen was really strong. She had only been scratched, but after massaging the extravasated blood for so long, she was still in so much pain that she couldn't lift her arm.
Mu Mingtang clumsily tied the belt of the garment, covering herself completely. Then she said to Hsieh Hyun-chen: "I'm done."
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