"Rou'er, don't be afraid!" Ren Yue said softly as he followed Wen Rou closely.
Even this soft comfort made Sheng Yaoshan come over immediately.
"Yes, Miss Wen, don't be afraid! Even if you are the one who cooks the imperial meals for the emperor, isn't the emperor standing in front of everyone now? Don't be afraid!" Sheng Yaoshan comforted softly.
"After that...you didn't cook according to Empress Li's recipe, did you?" Ren Yue asked in a low voice.
"Well, everything is replaced with dough figurines and soy products, there is nothing wrong with it!" Gentle and softly replied.
People who practice martial arts have exceptionally sharp ears, even this low voice can't escape Sheng Yaoshan's hearing.
"What are you talking about? What recipe?" The crowd walked forward slowly, discussing all kinds of strange things today in twos and threes from time to time. Taking advantage of the confusion, Sheng Yaoshan gently pulled Ren Yue past him, deliberately letting the three of them walk at the end of the line At last.
"Oh, it's nothing." Wen Rou hesitated and prevaricated, after all, Empress Li made the recipes she made poisonous, one more person who knew would put another person in danger!
"Sheng Yaoshan, the brother is here to help, so it's okay to tell you." Ren Yue's thoughts paused for a moment, probably he had already made a decision.
"Ren Yue, don't!" Wen Rou was startled, because there were people walking in front, it was inconvenient to say more, but she tightly held Ren Yue's arm, signaling him not to say more!
"It doesn't matter! Sheng Yaoshan is one of us, Miss Nangong is no longer here, if one day I am gone, with Yaoshan here, you will not be alone in the palace." Ren Yue said this with a complexion Calm, with a flat tone, but it always makes people feel a little sad.
"Okay. What are you talking about?" Xu Shi suddenly thought of Nangong Xue who left him that year, and his tender emotions became choked up for a while.
"About the royal family, who knows what will happen? Make extra preparations. Always be prepared." Ren Yue thought that the big guy would be taken away later, and Liu Heng would question him in person. Afraid that this matter might be a side issue, so he brought Sheng Yaoshan in, and the two of them deal with it together, it's better than being alone.
Therefore, Ren Yue told Sheng Yaoshan all about Li Fei Niangniang's unbelievable recipe that he accidentally discovered with Nangong Xue a few years ago!
Hearing this, Sheng Yaoshan's face showed shock, and he was speechless for a while!
The road from the Prince's Mansion to the palace is not far. But in Wenrou's heart, it was the hearts of Ren Yue and Sheng Yaoshan, who seemed to have traveled thousands of miles.
"So, Concubine Li wants to use meals to murder the emperor? And Miss Wen has been fooling around with similar substitutes all these years?" Sheng Yaoshan asked softly after a long while.
"Exactly!" Ren Yue nodded and continued: "Miss Nangong said before she was alive that those recipes damage people's internal organs, causing people to be chronically poisoned without knowing it, and then the seven orifices bleed to death, and now they are in the Prince's Mansion. What you and I saw was exactly what Miss Nangong predicted back then! I just didn’t want Rou’er to save the life of the emperor with great efforts, but I didn’t want Zhu’er to secretly and unconsciously kill the prince!” Ren Yue sighed.
"Then what should we do now?" Sheng Yaoshan asked back, this situation is indeed a bit big, although it is still unknown why Empress Li wanted to murder the emperor! But the fact that the crown prince died because of the emperor's meal is telling the world that this is an extraordinary murder!
"Alas... things have come to this point, we can only take one step at a time." Ren Yue, the smartest man in his life, could only sigh softly at this time.
In the main hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Liu Heng sat majesticly on top, and His Highness knelt down on the ground.
There is an imperial physician in the palace. There are the royal chefs in the imperial dining room, and of course the palace people who serve the prince on weekdays.
Pearl knelt in the midst of the group. Already trembling, speechless.
The princes are well aware of the importance of the matter. Therefore, they all stood aside and watched the changes.
It's just that Liu Zhang had a strange look in his eyes, as if he couldn't see the sadness of the emperor's brother's tragic death in his eyes, but it added a bit of gloating.
Concubine Li stood beside Liu Zhang, holding Liu Zhang's sleeves tightly, her palms felt cold.
"Physician Dong, why did the prince die?" Liu Heng asked seriously.
"Returning to the emperor, the old minister and the imperial physicians have just conducted a detailed inspection. The prince died of internal organ damage. It looks like he was poisoned by arsenic on the outside, bleeding from his seven orifices!" Dong Ci knelt in front of the imperial physicians, his voice low and deep. powerless.
"Arsenic?! Who would dare to murder the prince and let him take arsenic!" Liu Heng was furious when he heard this, and slapped heavily on the armrest of the dragon chair with his vigorous and powerful hands.
"What did the prince eat before he got sick!" Liu Heng stood up abruptly.
"Returning to the emperor, the slaves and servants entered the prince's mansion from the concubine Li's palace last night as before, and reported the emperor's food and drink last night according to the facts. After hearing this, His Royal Highness just sent an order to the small kitchen to make a copy, and then proceeded as usual. The servant girl remembered that what His Royal Highness ate should be stewed duck and mutton yesterday, and then today, the emperor had lunch in the Empress Hall, and the servant immediately informed that His Royal Highness also ate the river prawns that he looked at, and also ate the same A sweet and sour orange." Zhu'er fell on the ground, trembling, and finally reported the meals for the past two days according to the facts.
"Stewed duck with mutton? River prawns? Sweet orange?" Liu Heng was stunned.
Indeed, these were exactly what he ate in Concubine Li Palace last night and today.
But if you don't investigate the prince's deliberate imitation, based on these recipes alone, why is he still healthy after eating it, but why does the prince eat it as if he had taken arsenic, and his seven orifices bleed to death? !
Liu Heng was puzzled, and continued to ask: "Physician Dong, you just said that the crown prince died due to damage to all internal organs, but he suddenly died of a sudden illness today?"
"Returning to the emperor, I have just tested it with all the imperial physicians. The reason why His Royal Highness is bleeding from the seven orifices is like taking arsenic poisoning. In fact, it is a kind of chronic poisoning. Method, this poison has accumulated over time, slowly penetrated into His Highness the Crown Prince's body, until now it has only accumulated to a certain extent and erupted, and His Highness the Crown Prince's internal organs have already been damaged without knowing it, so there is today's poisonous death!" Dong Ci continued to kowtow.
"Poisoned?!" Liu Heng was shocked.
"Come on, bring me all the cooks in the prince's mansion!" Liu Heng said angrily.
After finishing speaking, a group of disgraced cooks all knelt down in front of Liu Heng, trembling.
"Speak! Among you, who did it? Why did you poison the prince! Who ordered you to do it?!" Liu Heng was furious.
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged by the slave, I have been wronged by the slave..." All the cooks in the Prince's Mansion kowtowed and shouted for injustice, and the crying made Liu Heng upset for a while!
Old age bereavement! Even the grief that ordinary people can't bear, in Liu Heng's view, he, the sage and wise king, wanted to suppress the grief and indignation of the loss of his son. The prince's body was still cold, and in order to give him justice, he could only be judged in grief at this time.
"If you don't say it... come on! Drag it out and chop it all up! The prince was poisoned and died because of poor service to the prince! This crime is unforgivable!" Liu Heng threw his hands and said angrily.
"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!" The cry came again, and several young cooks, who had never seen such a scene before, suddenly passed out.
"Your Majesty!" A beautiful female voice came from the chaos.