Chapter 281 The truth of that year

The imperial physician Tang’s name is Tang Bo, and he and Gao Peng are fellow disciples.

Doctor Zhang, the greatest expert in the Da Jing Dynasty, accepted them both as his disciples. Tang Bo was the elder brother and Gao Peng was the younger brother.

Under his guidance, both of them became famous doctors in the Dajing Dynasty.

Doctor Zhang decided to marry his daughter to Tang Bo, and with his recommendation, Tang Bo entered the Imperial Medical Service.

Empress Sun was very impressed with him and appointed Tang Bo as her personal imperial physician.

Tang Bo was a man of real talent and knowledge, and he served Empress Sun wholeheartedly. Within a few years, he became the head of the Imperial Medical Service.

During this period, Gao Peng expressed his desire to join the Imperial Medical Service. With Tang Bo's recommendation, Gao Peng successfully became an imperial physician.

At that time, Tang Bo was full of energy and vigor, had a successful career, a happy family, and lived an exceptionally comfortable life.

Later, Empress Sun became pregnant. This was a great event, so the Emperor and the Empress rewarded Tang Bo with many things. Tang Bo served the Empress with great concentration and did not dare to slack off for a moment.

Originally, everything went as expected and Tang Bo did not find anything wrong. However, when Empress Sun gave birth, she had a difficult labor.

Although Empress Sun and the princess survived the ordeal, both mother and daughter were in poor health.

The emperor wanted to punish Tang Bo, but was stopped by Empress Sun.

It can be said that Empress Sun saved Tang Bo's life.

From then on, Tang Bo took even better care of Empress Sun's health, and pondered hard every day in order to restore the Empress's health.

However, all the efforts were in vain. Empress Sun's spirit and energy declined visibly, and during those years, Tang Bo's hair also gradually turned white.

Finally, he seemed to have found the reason.

Tang Bo suspected that Empress Sun had been bewitched.

After ruling out all drug interferences, this possibility remains the most suspicious.

Tang Bo's master, Doctor Zhang, doesn't know much about Gu, but Tang Bo's fellow apprentice Gao Peng, who once traveled to southern Xinjiang when he was young, may be able to help Tang Bo solve his doubts.

Gao Peng and Tang Bo are brothers in the same school, but in Tang Bo's heart, he feels that they are as close as brothers.

So, after Tang Bo had this guess, he quietly told Gao Peng about his guess, trying to get Gao Peng to help him figure out how to save Queen Sun's life.

Unexpectedly, not long after Tang Bo and Gao Peng finished their conversation, Empress Sun passed away.

Afterwards, someone entered Tang Bo's home and fed him a Gu.

"I didn't know what that was at the time."

Doctor Tang smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Su has been running around for me for these years, and we finally know what kind of poison they put on me back then."

"Truthfulness Gu" can control the person who is poisoned and make him unable to lie.

"They put a poison on me and asked me if I had ever told anyone else about Empress Sun being poisoned."

As if he was thinking of something painful, Doctor Tang's pupils shrank sharply. He managed to maintain a calm tone and continued speaking.

Tang Bo has been an imperial physician for so many years, and the pulse cases of the nobles in the palace are confidential.

He would never easily reveal the queen's physical condition.

Even to the person next to him, he never uttered a word.

At that time, Tang Bo thought that his family could escape the disaster.

However, he did not expect that the other party was so cruel. They knocked him unconscious, tied him up with ropes, and made it look like he committed suicide by hanging. They even bribed his personal servants to report that he had colluded with Concubine Chu to murder the queen.

In the end, all his relatives were killed by the emperor.

Yuan Wanru couldn't help but ask: "Then, where did the story of Lady Chu's instructions come from?"

The matter concerning Gao Peng is already very clear.

It was obvious that Gao Peng and Concubine Liang had been in collusion with each other for a long time. They wanted to kill Empress Sun silently, but they didn't expect that Tang Bo could actually detect that Empress Sun was poisoned.

This is why the murder took place to silence the witness.

But what does the beauty Chu in the emperor's harem have to do with this matter?

Tang Bo sneered, "Miss Chu is just a confused ghost. She deserved to die, but she killed all my relatives. She should go to the eighteenth level of hell."

Doctor Tang was obviously a well-mannered person. Even though he hated someone to the core, the words he cursed at were not harsh to the ears.

Miss Chu is an old acquaintance of Tang Bo and Gao Peng. The Chu family and Tang Bo's master Zhang family live in the same alley and the two families have a good relationship.

The Chu family is a family of officials. Concubine Chu's father was a fifth-rank official. When the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, she became the emperor's woman through a beauty pageant.

Before she got married, she often played with Tang Bo's wife, Zhang. After a while, the young people became quite familiar with each other.

Mrs. Tang once told Tang Bo that Miss Chu was interested in Gao Peng, but Gao Peng came from a poor family and the Chu family would definitely not be interested in him.

"I don't know why Miss Chu wanted to help them testify against me, but there is absolutely no private relationship between her and me."

It is said that Concubine Chu was already pregnant at that time. She accidentally offended the Empress Dowager Sun and was punished to kneel, which led to her miscarriage. Concubine Chu held a grudge against her and instigated the Imperial Physician Tang to poison Empress Sun to vent her resentment.

"This charge is simply nonsense."

He looked up at Lu Jiangnian, was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "I have said everything I need to say. Whether you believe it or not is entirely up to you."

Lu Jiangnian looked at him, coldly and rationally, without a trace of emotion.

"It doesn't matter whether we believe it or not. The key is that the prince and the people of the world must believe in you. Only then can you be cleared of all charges and the truly guilty people be punished."

"If you dare, go before the prince and repeat these words to him again."

Doctor Tang was stunned for a moment, but soon he calmed down and said, "I have a clear conscience, why wouldn't I dare to do that?"

Lu Jiangnian reminded him: "The prince hates you so much that he wants to dig up your grave and whip your corpse. Think about it carefully. If you get close to the prince, you will be afraid..."

"I'm not afraid. No matter what the prince wants to do to me, I can bear it. As long as he can avenge my family and the queen and clear my name, I'm not afraid of death."

After a pause, he laughed at himself and said, "After all, I am a dead person."

After asking all the questions that needed to be asked, Lu Jiangnian stood up with Yuan Wanru and said, "Then you should take good care of your body during this period. After ten days, when the poison in your body is resolved, my people will take you back to the capital."

Doctor Tang suddenly said, "I don't understand. I can go back to Beijing now."

He looked at them with sharp eyes: "The Gu in my body is also one of the evidences."

Lu Jiangnian and Yuan Wanru looked at each other, and Yuan Wanru nodded: "At present, his body is still good, the poison has been controlled, and his life is not in danger."

In that case, there is no need to hesitate.

"Okay, get ready, I'll have someone take you back to Beijing."