Strange things have happened in the palace these days.

When Gu Nuoer went to visit Ling Qingge, she heard what Liu Liu said.

"For three days in a row, the corpses of dead rats can be found everywhere in the palace, and some are still floating in the pond, making people sick."

Gu Nuoer stared at the words: "Dead rat? Could it be that rat poison was cast in the palace?"

In order to ensure that the grain stored in the palace would not be damaged, the Secretary of Palace Affairs would regularly release rat poison.

Liu Liu shook her head: "It's not time to inject the medicine yet, not to mention that this kind of situation has never happened before. There are hundreds of rats in groups, and they come out of nowhere."

Gu Nuoer's watery eyes were filled with deep thought.

After she returned to Qianli Palace, she told Ye Siming about it.

When something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

So Ye Siming and Ling Ping went to investigate the matter.

It just so happened that when they passed the imperial garden, they saw the little eunuchs salvaging a few dead mice by the lake.

Ling Ping took a look and couldn't help retching.

"What the hell, it's bloody."

Ye Siming's face was cold. He stared at the dead mice, with slight doubt floating in his thin eyes.

I saw Ye Siming picked a dry branch, and checked the dead mice that he picked up.

Ling Ping covered his mouth and nose, frowning tightly.

Ye Siming looked at it for a while, then calmly said, "It's tooth marks."

Ling Ping was confused: "The cat bit?"

Ye Siming threw a branch and said, "People's tooth marks."

Ling Ping turned pale with shock, and immediately retched again and again.

"You, you mean that someone eats mice in the palace? Brother, this is not a joke. Hundreds of dead mice have been found these days. Could it be that people eat them?"

Ye Siming pointed to the dead mouse's body.

He calmly said: "Look carefully, these dead mice have different wounds, and basically every wound has tooth marks."

Ling Ping covered his mouth and nose: "I dare not, look!"

He commands the Praetorian Guard.

The Imperial Guard held his breath, and took a closer look.

He was shocked: "What the prince said is true, there are traces of teeth!"

These dead mice were torn off a few pieces of flesh by people alive.

Even though the imperial guards were well-informed, they couldn't help feeling sick to their stomachs right now.

Who in the end eats rat meat and bites it directly.

Ye Siming made a decisive decision: "To prevent the plague, all the rat carcasses that were salvaged had to be burned with fire."

"Also, let the palace put rat poison immediately, and buy cats from the people, as many as you want, and the rats must be cleaned up."

Ling Ping followed and nodded again and again: "Yes! Otherwise, let that person eat it like this, and throw it into the water so frantically, it will cause epidemic disease sooner or later."

His father, Emperor Ling Tianyin, hadn't woken up yet, and the court was fighting fiercely.

If there is another plague, it will really make things worse.

After Ling Ping gave the order, the imperial guards immediately obeyed.

Ye Siming's cold eyes were deep, as if he had thought of something.

Two days passed, in the Prince's East Palace.

Tao Ning's room was quiet and small, and she was the only one.

Facing the mirror, she was constantly scratching her arms, and the silver flakes of skin fell like light snow.

In the mirror, the snake scale pattern on her arm was reflected, and it became more and more obvious.

"Damn it, it couldn't be that snake monster that made me suffer from some kind of disease!" She scratched more and more itchy.

His eyes were reddened, like a mechanical movement, wishing to peel off this unbearably itchy skin.

Tao Ning cursed in a low voice: "It's all the fault of King Xian, hunting and killing rats everywhere."

She couldn't eat mice, so she felt very uncomfortable, and these lines became more and more itchy.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

"Tao Nushi, His Royal Highness ordered me to hand over these documents to you for sorting."