That night, Prince Yan and his concubine ordered someone to hand over a sign to the palace to invite an imperial doctor. Early the next morning, news spread that Chu Ruofei had been poisoned and passed out.
Others commented that this must have been done by Chu Yan's people for revenge. Of course, the comments of these "others" naturally reached the emperor's ears.
The emperor was furious about this, and ordered the Minister of Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the case. The seventh prince, who had just been lifted from the confinement, took the initiative to ask Ying to investigate the case in order to make up for his mistakes, and the emperor agreed.
The Seventh Prince went back to the palace and went directly to the Heavenly Prison without even changing his court clothes to interrogate Chu Yan.
One of the most lax guards in the sky prison is the water prison. Those who can be locked in the water prison are all vicious.
The entire water prison is made of iron, with only dozens of tofu-sized holes for ventilation. The water is waist-deep. They all died of festering infection in their legs.
"Bring him out, and the palace will interrogate him in person." The Seventh Prince pretended to order, he had already made arrangements before he came, and the jailers standing here are all his men.
Chu Yan was brought out, he was drenched all over, and was locked up in the dark for more than 20 days. Now his skin is a little transparent and pale, and his face is even faintly blue because of the cold water. But even though he was so depressed, his back was still straight, looking at the seventh prince's pair of phoenix eyes shining brightly.
"You have suffered." The Seventh Prince patted Chu Yan on the shoulder, and handed the dry clothes that he secretly brought to Chu Yan.
Chu Yan took the dry clothes, because he had been soaked in the water for a long time, his feet felt prickly when standing on the ground. pants.
His legs were in good condition, they looked only slightly swollen, much better than the Seventh Prince had imagined.
The Seventh Prince asked: "It doesn't look like it's hot? How did you do it?"
Chu Yan's lips turned white from the cold, but at this moment he was still in the mood to joke with the Seventh Prince. He glanced at the Seventh Prince: "Golden Rooster is independent, will it?"
Seeing that Chu Yan was in good condition, the Seventh Prince was relieved a lot: "Can the golden rooster hide its waist even if it is independent?"
"That's someone else. I have long legs, and the water only reaches the bottom of my legs." Chu Yan said to the Seventh Prince while soothing the movement of his legs.
Thinking that Chu Yan has been changing legs every day for the past half month to be independent of the golden rooster, the Seventh Prince couldn't help laughing because he wasn't brotherly enough.
"What are you laughing at? Why don't you come and soak for me for two days?" Chu Yan wiped his soaked and swollen legs with a face towel, while teasing: "I'm afraid I'll be lonely, some people put a lot of pets in the water, Do you want to come and get in touch with them?"
The Seventh Prince waved his hands again and again: "My Highness is weak, so I'll let you go. I'm here to inform you that Ruofei has been found out and has been drugged by the King of Qin. Now he is unconscious. We have to change our plan. "
After hearing what the Seventh Prince said, Chu Yan frowned slightly. Chu Ruofei had an accident, which was not good news for them, but Chu Yan was more concerned about Chu Ruofei's situation.
The Seventh Prince could tell what Chu Yan was thinking from his expression, and immediately said: "The imperial doctor in the palace can't identify what kind of poison it is, so I'm thinking of asking my younger siblings to take a look."
Chu Yan nodded. After a little panic, he had recovered his composure: "This line is broken, so there is a backup plan?"
"The timing of that plan is not ripe yet, so I came up with a new idea." Looking at Chu Yan's white and swollen legs, the Seventh Prince frowned slightly and said, "Time waits for no one. If you continue to soak like this for two more days, your zodiac It has to be a fish."
Chu Yan directly ignored the Seventh Prince's joke, but paid more attention to his previous sentence: "What idea?"
"You will know when things are done." The Seventh Prince deliberately avoided the question, and patted Chu Yan on the shoulder: "I have worked hard on you during this time."
"Don't talk about these nonsense, I have suffered this little crime, you go back and get the file and tie it, and someday I will provoke you to fly into a rage, you take out the file and have a look, and you will calm down."
Chu Yan's words seemed to be a joke, but they were actually sincere.
He really wanted to write down all the things he had done for the Seventh Prince over the years, and post them in his study so that he would always remember them. In case one day in the future, the Seventh Prince thinks that he has surpassed the Lord, he will do something to him again.
As a courtier, you are always walking on the edge of the knife. If you make a wrong step, you will be doomed.
Of course, the Seventh Prince also heard what Chu Yan meant. He glanced at Chu Yan with a smile in his eyes, and said, "Take care, I will do it as soon as possible."
Chu Yan also changed his clothes at this time, "Don't tell Yan'er about my current situation, or she will be worried."
"I know." The Seventh Prince patted Chu Yan on the shoulder, then called the jailer in again, pretended to interrogate him, then hurried out of the prison, diverted to Chu Ruofei's mansion, and sent another Someone passed a message to Su Yan.
The only thing that got better was that the jailer tied him up a little higher this time, and the water only reached his knees. Although it was still uncomfortable, it was much better than before.
Looking at the faint light coming in from around the iron cage, Chu Yan closed his eyes, and continued to use the method of thinking of Su Yan to get through this difficult day.
In the Princess Jinyang's Mansion, Su Yan heard the news that Chu Ruofei had been poisoned in the morning, and secretly thought it was bad. After quietly communicating with the Seventh Prince, Su Yan changed into a willow-scented fine cloth jacket, quietly left the mansion through the side door, and walked around the path to Chu Ruofei's mansion.
Before Su Yan entered the room, she heard Prince Yan's crying. The reason why Su Yan could distinguish it so clearly was because she was really tired of the sound. When she went to Prince Yan's mansion to treat Chu Ruofei's son, Prince Yan's concubine was making all kinds of noise.
Entering the room, Su Yan really saw her kneeling on the couch crying, Princess Yan and Princess Rongyang were also there, and the Seventh Prince was standing not far away, frowning.
Su Yan gave the Seventh Prince a salute, the Seventh Prince nodded in response, then pointed to a sweat towel on the table and said: "When he met Prince Yan yesterday, he realized that something was wrong, after drinking tea, he quietly poured out the tea He vomited on the sweat towel, but no matter how careful he was, he still got the trick. When he first came back yesterday, he didn't respond, so he didn't take it seriously, but he never thought that he would be poisoned as soon as night fell .”
Princess Rongyang and Princess Yan looked at Su Yan expectantly.
Su Yan picked up the sweat towel and smelled it, and it smelled like tea leaves. Although the smell of the medicine was not obvious, Su Yan's nose caught the unique smell.
Su Yan's heart trembled, and she carefully identified it.