As soon as the court lady saw Emperor Hongming, she rushed towards him crying and howling: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please spare the servants. Those things were done by Concubine Shu. The servants' family members are controlled by her and have to listen to her." Order!"
Concubine Shu? What's the matter with Concubine Guan Shu? Emperor Hongming was suspicious, but he subconsciously squeezed the purse around his waist. He ignored the maid's cry and looked at Chen Bing seriously: "What do you mean by bringing these two?"
Chen Bing didn't answer, because it was related to Concubine Shu and the eldest prince's mother, he turned around and went to the outer room inconveniently.
The maid's mental state was extremely abnormal, and she knelt on the ground and kowtowed like crazy: "The empress is virtuous, the servants who don't want to kill her are all ordered by Concubine Shu!"
Queen? As soon as he heard the ambiguous words of the court lady, Emperor Hongming's cloudy eyes immediately burst into light, and he walked up to the court lady like a bloodthirsty wolf, breathing so fast that he could hardly speak, "You... what did you say? ? How did the queen die?"
His chest rose and fell sharply, and he obviously had difficulty breathing, so Eunuch Su immediately ran up to give Emperor Hongming a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry!"
While comforting Emperor Hongming, Eunuch Su carefully looked at the court lady on the ground, saw her appearance under the messy hair, and couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise: "You are the big court lady next to Concubine Shu? Back then Concubine Shu passed away. Didn't you also die of illness after that?"
The court lady was obviously in a frenzy, and she couldn't hear Eunuch Su's words at all. Sometimes she kowtowed like crazy, and sometimes she shouted with fear: "The empress, please spare the servant, it was Concubine Shu who ordered the servant to push the eldest prince into the water! The eldest prince!" The hands and feet on the horse were made by the Third Highness, not slaves!"
The emperor just took a slightly steady breath, because the lady's words stopped again, he held his chest, pointed at the lady and said: "Ask me! Ask me clearly, how did Yuanyuan die!"
He saw the old doctor who was getting old and showing his twilight appearance again, and turned to Mr. Su: "Ask him, let me ask him!"
That old doctor, Xu Shiren, was kind when he was about to die, and he recounted all the mistakes he had done in the past: "Your Majesty, when the queen died of illness, it was the concubine Shu who sent her to drink the medicinal soup for the queen's health." Poison."
"The progress of this drug is slow. First, the skin becomes red and itchy, and then festers. If it is not cured, it will heal itself. If it is combined with a drug that treats the skin, it will turn to invade the internal organs of the human body, and finally die of systemic organ failure. The eldest prince was also prescribed medicine, but the blind medicine that the eldest prince took on a daily basis conflicted with the medicine for treating the skin, so the eldest prince did not take the medicine, so he survived... "
Following the old doctor's words, all the symptoms of the empress before her death flashed before Hong Mingdi's eyes. He remembered that the empress suddenly had a rash on her skin, so she didn't go to bed for several days. At that time, his Yuanyuan was afraid that he would get sick and shut him out.
At that time, the first prince also had such a disease on his face. He only thought that the first prince contracted the disease because he was close to the empress.
The eldest prince recovered in the future, but the empress's body deteriorated day by day after the skin healed, so all the imperial physicians at that time did not link the rash with the empress's physical weakness in the future.
Eunuch Su was taken aback by the old doctor's words. He said that the queen hadn't shown any symptoms before, so why did her internal organs fail like an old man at a young age
Listening to the old doctor's words, Eunuch Su felt chills in his heart. If this person's words are true, then this Concubine Shu is going to put the Empress and the First Prince to death at the same time, if the First Prince has not been weak since childhood...
Thinking of this, Eunuch Su subconsciously had some doubts, the eldest prince is weak, could it be that Concubine Shu did it too
It's no wonder that Eunuch Su is now thinking of the Eldest Prince a little bit. Although the Eldest Prince has never visited Emperor Hongming in Jingyang Palace, the cost of food and clothing is the same, and the medicinal soup that Emperor Hongming drank has also been improved many times.
Not to mention the eldest prince's diligence and comprehension in political affairs, but just looking at the magic medicine he painstakingly found for Emperor Hongming, Eunuch Su couldn't believe that the eldest prince was really as cold-blooded, ruthless and rebellious as he appeared.
Moreover, Eunuch Su is used to seeing dirty things in the palace, knowing the harm caused to the eldest prince by the emperor's sole favor on Concubine Shu after the death of the empress, and he can even think of the complex feelings of the eldest prince for Emperor Hongming, so he gradually has his own feelings in his heart. thinking.
But it was the first time that Emperor Hongming heard such words. Eunuch Su was afraid that Emperor Hongming would not be able to bear it, so he paid close attention to Emperor Hongming's expression.
He saw that the old emperor's face was expressionless and blank. After listening to the old doctor's words, Emperor Hongming turned his head to look at the raving maid again.
"It was the third prince who pushed the eldest prince..."
"It was the third prince who burned the first prince's homework..."
"It was the third prince who caused the eldest prince to fall..."
"It's the third prince..."
Emperor Hongming's face changed several times, first he was shocked, then he was bewildered, and finally he showed a kind of extreme pain.
In the end, he glanced heavily at the two kneeling on the ground, and after a while, his lips trembled, and he uttered a sentence: "I, I don't believe it!"
"It must be that evil son who sent someone to deceive the widow. Do you think that the widow will believe this story if it is made up?"
Emperor Hongming was furious, he swept off all kinds of ornaments on the table with his sleeves angrily, pointed at the old doctor and the court lady and said, "Pull it down for you, and you will be punished! How dare you fabricate lies to deceive the widow? For the crime of deceiving the emperor, I will punish their nine clans!"
The aging imperial doctor was not frightened by Emperor Hongming's anger. He knelt down deeply and said in his mouth: "Every sentence of the grass people is true. The grass people have done all kinds of bad things and lost their conscience. The ruined relatives all passed away for no reason, and it was all retribution. I only hope that this confession can accumulate virtue for the next life."
At this time, Chen Bing led another group of people in.
These people were all death row prisoners in the sky prison, and they were fed the poison that the empress had taken at that time. The conditions of each stage were presented in front of Hongming Emperor's eyes in a very real way.
Emperor Hongming's eyes were as red as weeping blood. He scanned several death row prisoners carefully and without blinking, and suddenly staggered, closed his eyes and passed out.
Qing Yun left Beijing and hurried towards Xiangzhou.
It started to rain lightly at night, and several of his attendants were afraid that he would catch a cold and get sick, so they talked about it and stayed in an inn along the road.
After bathing, Qing Yun looked at the secret report in his hand, and twitched the corners of his lips ironically.
The third prince has someone in the capital, so he naturally has an eyeliner on the third prince's side. Seeing the conflict between General Zhenbei and the Third Prince and Yang Hui's performance mentioned in the secret report, Qing Yun focused on the sentence "General Qi was extremely angry, he flung his sleeves and left" and snorted softly.
He passed by here with his men and horses, and when he saw some men dressed as farmers but with strong hands and feet, he naturally knew that this place should be the residence of Qi Yue and the third prince.
Although Qing Yun didn't bring too many people with him to Xiangzhou this time, with that man's agility, he shouldn't be unaware of his arrival.
Oh, don't care if he comes or not.
Qing Yun withdrew her thoughts, looked at the news from Chen Bing from the capital again, picked up a pen and wrote down a prescription on the paper.
Emperor Hongming's lifespan had long been exhausted, and it was Qing Yun who forcibly hanged his life with medicine. But after all, there is no way to change one's fate against the sky in this world. Emperor Hongming took medicine frequently today, and the effect is not as good as before.
Therefore, if Emperor Hongming wanted to survive, Qing Yun had to bother to improve the prescription.
Thinking of Emperor Hongming's performance, the ironic smile on the corner of his mouth grew stronger. I don't know that now Emperor Hongming suddenly knows that Concubine Shu, whom he thought to be virtuous and virtuous, is actually a poisonous woman, and the third prince, who he thought was upright and open-minded, is actually a hungry wolf who has always been gloomy and can frame his own brothers. What will be the reaction
Although Chen Bing said in his heart that Emperor Hongming was furious, Qing Yun was not afraid that he would not believe him. Because Emperor Hongming didn't believe it, he just didn't dare to let himself believe it.
Qi Yue led a few brothers into the inn, and while he asked Xiao Er for a drink, he secretly observed several guards with knives on the table next to him.
"Boss, he's from the capital." The military division winked at him.
Scanning the logo on the guard's knife handle, Qi Yue didn't know that these people not only came from the capital, but also came from the imperial palace. I heard that the eldest prince has already left Beijing and headed south, counting the days, if the speed is fast, he should have come here.
He glanced vaguely at the guest room upstairs, the eldest prince is also in the inn now
But apart from these guards, there were only a few royal horses and two carriages outside the inn, and there was no army escort. If the prince was traveling, the team would be too cold and mixed.
Bowing his head and taking a sip of the spicy wine, Qi Yue suddenly felt that his doubts at this time seemed familiar.
When he first went to Qingyang Tower to assassinate the Eldest Prince, he felt that there were not enough people around the Eldest Prince. In the end, the Eldest Prince was not there, and the young man was the only one in the private room.
Thinking of this, a strange look flashed in Qi Yue's eyes, so today... maybe it's him too
This thought made Qi Yue jump for joy, and also suppressed the vague doubts in his heart.
Recently, Qi Yue's irritability because of the actions of the third prince to provoke the war has gradually improved. He thought that if the young man was faced with the situation he is currently facing, what would he do
The third prince devoted himself to attacking the capital with troops, Yang Hui's persuasion to him was useless, but the young man was able to persuade the originally tyrannical and gloomy first prince without a single mistake.
Qi Yue sighed, and he turned his head slightly, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure walking down the stairs, and immediately forgot the wine in his hand.
Is it really him
The military division also saw that person, and immediately felt a chill in his heart. He remembered that this young man named Xiangfeng had fought with their general at the beginning, so he might recognize him.
But the military master thought about it again, and let go of his heart. Although the young man recognized his identity because the general stretched out his hand, but both he and the general covered their faces at that time, if they didn't move their hands now, they might not be able to recognize him.
Seeing Qing Yun coming downstairs, several guards at the neighboring table immediately stood up and respectfully said, "My lord!"
"Don't be too polite." The young man waved his hand, and Shi Shiran walked towards him.
As the young man walked in, the military adviser felt tense. He thought that this young man could fight their general evenly. Warriors are very sensitive to other people's aura. What if they recognized them by intuition
The general was ordered to guard Guanbei. Logically speaking, without the emperor's will, he could not rush back to the capital from Guanbei, let alone bring three troops with him.
If the young man recognizes their identities at this time, he can immediately label them as traitors, maybe even the third prince and the others will be exposed, and then it will be over.
The military master clenched his fists under the table, but when he looked up, he saw that his general seemed to be fascinated, his eyes were almost glued to the young man, and he immediately covered his face and let out a sigh.
General, you have to remember that you were going to murder people, not on a blind date. Why is it that you didn’t realize that you were caught at the moment, but you were so happy like seeing an old lover
As if sensing someone's more fiery gaze, the military division saw the young man turned his face away and glanced at the table here.
Qing Yun glanced playfully at the majestic man staring at him. This man is nine feet tall, his body is muscular, and the gray shorts on his body are very stylish. The facial features are also extremely deep, and the tempering of the border wind and sand has brought a little indescribable charm to this man.
But now, there was a sense of stupidity on this mature and majestic face, inexplicably reminiscent of some kind of big dog that was cruel to the outside world but stupid to its master.
The focused and fiery eyes that had been watching him for several worlds showed the identity of this man to Qing Yun almost undisguisedly.
Joyed by the man's silly expression, Qing Yun sneered inwardly, pretending to be a farmer just by being so stupid
Feeling the pair of slightly raised Danfeng eyes playfully sweeping over him, Qi Yue felt that the man's eyes were full of heat, and his ears turned red involuntarily.
Did he recognize me
There was no panic in Qi Yue's heart. Instead, joy gushed out of Qi Yue's heart for the first time. The planning and calmness in his mind all flew out of the nine sky clouds, but he stood up with a "teng", staring at the young man with burning eyes and said: "Long time no see , but the young master is safe and sound?"
Hearing Qi Yue's words, the military division was so frightened that he fell under the table.
Well, he was worried about not being recognized here, but the real master reported himself.