Xia Chu remembered that when he asked what happened that night in Xianyu Palace, Lan Yuying once said that when she questioned the emperor, the emperor's expression was extremely complicated, but he still admitted it himself.
Who else could make the emperor protect him and not hesitate to take full responsibility for it, except the empress dowager who was kind to him
"In addition to the head of the Miao family, there was also a man named Miao Heng who was saved by Concubine Li. This man is now imprisoned in Dali Temple. I have already reviewed it. Concubine Li rescued him. To allow him to make incense." Xia Chu did not express Concubine Li's love for Gu Shiqing.
As an emperor, he can be indifferent to the women in the harem, but as the emperor's woman, she must not be tempted by other men.
Concubine Li was dead, and Xia Chu didn't want to cause any embarrassment to the emperor.
Besides, he didn't want to know such private and unspeakable royal secrets at all.
The stern look in the emperor's eyes gradually faded, and a look of surprise appeared on his face. After a moment of astonishment, he suddenly laughed at himself: "No wonder later, I could always smell something vague on Concubine Li's body, but it was the same as Ah. A fragrance similar to that on your body."
Xia Chu moved closer to him, her eyes filled with hope: "Your Majesty, you didn't order the Miao family to be killed, right?"
The emperor lowered his eyes in silence, and finally nodded.
Xia Chu breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What exactly happened that year?"
The emperor picked up the tea cup and took another sip: "I fell in love at first sight back then. Even though I learned that she was a wife, I couldn't help but go out of the palace to see her from time to time. This unusual behavior was finally discovered by the Queen Mother, and she almost The imperial army went to arrest her. In order to save the lives of the Miao family, A Li revealed her true identity. It was only then that I found out that she was actually the empress who fled the Western Region."
Xia Chu's brows suddenly tightened: "The Queen Mother and the Emperor will never let her talk empty talk and just believe it, right?"
The emperor put down the tea cup, shaking the tea leaves as he put it down: "She has the credentials of being an empress, the Yuanyang Stone."
Xiao Mubai frowned slightly: "It is said that the mandarin duck stone can cure the poison of all things in the world and make people reborn?"
The emperor nodded slightly: "Yes, it is the mandarin duck stone. She threatened the Queen Mother with her identity. If the Miao people are killed, she will die with Miao Lin. At that time, the Western Regions and the Xiao Kingdom, which are not in conflict with each other, will definitely meet at war."
Xia Chu sighed slightly. Although Yue Xinli's words were well-intentioned, they were nothing more than a reminder to the Queen Mother to eradicate the root cause.
"When I got the news and arrived, Miao Lin was the only one left to be killed. I rescued Miao Lin, killed all the Imperial Guards who arrested the Miao Family Incense Shop, and reported it to the Queen Mother. Everyone has been executed, but I still hope that she will save Yue Xinli’s life. The death of the Miao family incense shop is a small matter, but if the empress of the Western Regions really dies in Xiao country, this matter is not a small matter. "
The emperor looked very sad: "Although the Queen Mother is not my biological mother, she has always loved me very much. If it weren't for her support back then, I would not have been able to ascend the throne. In these years, that was the only time I disobeyed her. This was also the first time I begged her. Later, she promised me not to kill Yue Xinli, but she must also be placed under house arrest for life. The fact that the empress was in the Xiao Palace must not be leaked. All those involved in the matter were silenced. I used Miao Lin to Life was exchanged for a mandarin duck stone."
When Xia Chu saw him looking at Xiao Mubai, he suddenly realized: "Did this mandarin duck stone be used on Mubai?"
The emperor pursed his lips, but his answer was specious: "Yes, and no."
Xia Chu's eyes lit up: "Used half?"
The emperor looked sideways at Xia Chu and nodded approvingly: "The mandarin duck stone was hidden outside the city by A Li. She insisted that only Miao Lin should get it. I let them meet. In order to ensure that Miao Lin could get it, A Li He only gave me half of his life, and Miao Lin also gave the other half to me a year later in order to ensure that A Li could survive."
Suddenly, Xia Chu's mind flashed back to what Bai Ruofei had once said to him. Although the scorching flames were extremely poisonous, their toxicity was completely incompatible with the ice poison. Fighting poison with poison was actually the antidote.
"Could it be that what the emperor fed Mu Bai bite by bite was ice poison, and a year later the poison in the emperor's body was actually burning flames?" Xia Chu suddenly heard that Concubine Li once said that the emperor's poison was passed through Mu Bai. Zhong Guo drank the ginseng soup given to him.
The emperor nodded silently. He also learned many things from Concubine Li who was pretending to be sick while pretending to be unconscious.
It turns out that the so-called Yuanyang Stone is nothing more than two highly poisonous substances placed in a box made of one stone.
It’s just that no one in the world knows that the scorching flames and the ice poison are the legendary mandarin duck stone that can detoxify all things in the world and make people reborn.
On the way to pretending to befriend Yue Xinli, Concubine Li accidentally learned about the Yuanyang Stone and knew that the emperor had already fed half of it to Xiao Mubai. She wanted to recuperate his frail body, but it was impossible for him to do so.
He asked Zhong Guo to steal the remaining half of the burning flame and personally presented it to the emperor through Xiao Mubai's hand.
The ice poison has a hidden nature and can lie dormant in the human body for decades, while the burning poison is so strong that symptoms of poisoning appear after taking it, which also affects Zhao Lansheng's death in order to save the emperor.
But at that time, the emperor didn't know that he was poisoned by eating the other half of Xiao Mubai's mandarin duck stone. He only found out that the source of the poison came from the bowl of ginseng soup Xiao Mubai gave him. At this time, he rushed to the hospital again. Xinli hanged himself in the moonlight.
Inadvertently, people thought that Yue Xinli had done this, so the emperor covered up the matter and did not continue to investigate further.
Zhi Yan, who had been exchanged for a long time, was also fed to Xiao Mubai by the emperor. While the ice poison in Xiao Mubai's body ate away at his essence and blood, it also absorbed the crux of his previous weakness. His gradually recovered body, The emperor always thought that the complete mandarin duck stone was fed to him.
It wasn't until Xiao Mubai was thirteen years old that ice poison broke out in his body and the symptoms of cold poison became apparent. The emperor was completely confused and began to doubt the strange poison from the Western Regions that he suddenly had in his body that year. He also began to suspect that He Yue Xinli was in his body. Very similar scent to Li Fei.
However, many years have passed since this incident, and even Yue Xinli was buried in Xishan by the emperor.
There was no way to investigate what happened back then. The emperor did not find out the truth behind the poisoning, but he accidentally found out that Concubine Li had secretly extended her hands into the internal affairs of the court over the years, and her control was even more extensive than he thought. .
When Old General Zhao took Guo Weidong back to Beijing secretly and told him that Concubine Li was collaborating with the enemy, the emperor became murderous and became more and more uncontrollable.
But he still forced himself to endure it. It was easy to kill a Concubine Li, but he had to clean up the court that had been corrupted by Concubine Li.
Therefore, a large net was woven tightly to uproot Li Fei's gang members.
(End of chapter)