Chapter 210 Rebellion

Wei Qingyan looked at the emperor and said, "Don't worry, I will help Prince Rong find out everything."

The emperor didn't say those things to Shi Yu because Shi Yu's current identity was different. He was the prince of another country, even though his identity had not been made public, and even though he was her future husband.

But the emperor could no longer entrust all the affairs of the Wei Dynasty to him as he had done before, so he asked Wei Qingyan to investigate these things.

But Wei Qingyan is still just a girl from Anyuan Marquis's Mansion. She has no legitimate status and needs to use the name of Prince Rong as a cover to hide herself from the outside world.

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Wei Qingyan understood his thoughts. He then looked at Mo Yi, who had been cured of the poison, and said, "Assist Prince Rong."

"Yes." Mo Yi bowed.

He also understood in his heart that the emperor's real intention was for him to obey the princess's orders.

I was just a little shocked in my heart that His Majesty actually handed all this over to the princess whom I had not yet recognized. But then I thought, if not the princess, who else could he hand it over to?

Prince Rong is an outsider, the crown prince has been deposed, the second prince is a suspect, and the third prince is outside the palace. It is already the limit for His Majesty to hold on until now.

Sure enough, the emperor fell into a coma after giving the order.

Shi Yu also understood what the emperor meant. He didn't mind being a cover for Wei Qingyan, and ordered the commander of the imperial guards to control the second prince and Concubine Ning first.

The Eastern Palace also sent people to guard the place, so he accompanied Wei Qingyan to interrogate the survivors.

When the emperor woke up, the two men had already found out everything they needed to find out.

The second prince was unwilling to leave the capital for his cold and miserable fiefdom. His aide Wu Jian gave him an idea and suggested that he take advantage of New Year's Eve to do something drastic.

Wu Jian was once a man of the martial arts world. He assured the second prince that he could invite masters from the martial arts world to help them accomplish their goal.

The second prince grew up in the palace and knew how strict the palace’s defenses were. Even the secret guards around the emperor should not be underestimated.

But Wu Jian assured him that his expert friends could do as they pleased in the palace.

In order to prove their ability, they sneaked into Concubine Ning's palace quietly one night before the New Year.

After the Second Prince asked someone to verify with Concubine Ning, he confirmed that those people had indeed easily entered the palace. He was excited and no longer suspected anything. He pretended to be drunk on New Year's Eve and took the opportunity to stay in the palace.

If he succeeds, he won't have to fight for the crown prince position and can directly take that position. If he fails, he can also blame it on the deposed crown prince.

Therefore, he bribed the people around the deposed prince to kill the Persian cat and encouraged the deposed prince to look for the cat.

When the commander of the imperial guards was looking for the cat, he asked a palace servant to reveal the news that the cat was running towards the cold palace, leading the imperial guards to the cold palace.

Little did he know that the so-called martial arts masters that Wu Jian had found were all old secret guards from the previous emperor's reign, and they were very familiar with the palace.

What's more, they also knew of a secret passage dug by the previous emperor, which could lead them directly into the palace.

The late emperor had not even told the emperor about this secret passage hidden in the dry well in the cold palace.

After listening to Wei Qingyan's story, the emperor was so angry that he smashed the medicine bowl on the bedside table, "What a cruel heart, what a cruel heart."

I don't know whether he was scolding the second prince or the late emperor.

"Okay, don't get excited, be careful the wound might bleed again."

Lan Shu was in a rare good temper. When she saw that the medicine she had just prepared was smashed by the emperor, she only said a few words to comfort him and then signaled the imperial physician to prepare another one.

Both his son and his father want to kill him. It would be difficult for anyone to remain calm.

If Wei Qingyan and Shi Yu had not arrived in time, their conspiracy would have succeeded. This would have been the first time in Lan Shu's life that she had fallen into such an embarrassing situation.

Without the emperor, she would have been a corpse by now.

The emperor's anger did not subside even after Lan Shu's words of advice. He gasped for breath, and the white gauze around his waist quickly turned red, but he paid no attention to it and looked at Wei Qingyan, "How did they poison me?"

The secret guards have always been cautious. Even the old secret guards of the previous emperor who are familiar with their daily lives cannot easily succeed.

Wei Qingyan saw that his wound had started bleeding again, so he didn't rush to reply. Instead, he said, "I will avenge you and mother."

She wanted to say that being angry was not good for recovery and wanted the emperor to take care of his health, but in the end she said this.

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then the anger on his face gradually faded.

So what if his parents are ruthless, so what if his son is cold-blooded, he is not surrounded by all these people, there are also Lan Shu and her daughter, who appear indifferent but have soft hearts.

Wei Qingyan was not good at sensationalism. Seeing that the emperor had calmed down a bit, he answered the emperor's previous question, "They put drugs in the water source of Anwei and my mother. The drugs are colorless and odorless. This kind of drugs alone will not affect the body, so it is not easy to be detected.

However, if another medicine is inhaled, it can produce toxins in the human body. This toxin is no different to ordinary people, but once they use force, their internal strength will dissipate and they will eventually fall into a coma.

They infiltrated another kind of medicine into the fireworks. When the fireworks were lit, the medicine mixed in the air. When you looked at the fireworks, none of the secret guards hiding around you were spared.

Mother didn't go to the banquet and stayed in the house the entire time. So, while Concubine Ning was pleading for the Second Prince, she smeared the medicine on your clothes."

Concubine Ning expected that the emperor would come to find Lan Shu, and Lan Shu would be poisoned as long as she came into contact with the emperor.

No wonder Concubine Ning and her son had pestered him so much during the New Year's Eve banquet. The Emperor gritted his teeth and said, "It was Concubine Ning who was sent to kill Shu'er, wasn't it?"

In fact, when fighting with the assassins, the emperor noticed that those people's skills were somewhat familiar. After Wei Qingyan came, he watched from the side and saw that the skills of those assassins were the same as Mo Yi and others.

They were the secret guards of the palace, and the two men who assassinated Lan Shu were obviously of average skill, otherwise Lan Shu might not have been able to wait for them to arrive.

"Yes." Wei Qingyan nodded.

Concubine Ning felt that the emperor asked her and the second prince to leave the capital because of her mother. She felt that her mother had stolen their favor. Concubine Ning was not the only one in the harem who felt the same way.

Back then, my mother was framed in many ways in the Eastern Palace because of her favor. Wei Qingyan really didn't want her to be involved in the harem struggles again.

But at this moment, she couldn't bring herself to ask her mother to leave the palace.

Even if she told him, her mother would not leave. When the emperor was unconscious, she could clearly see the worry in her mother's eyes.

The emperor was silent for a moment, then ordered Mo Yi, "Clear the retirement home of the secret guards. Their martial arts skills have been destroyed. Then move them to another place. If there are any dissidents, kill them."

"yes."

The emperor looked at Shi Yu again and said, "Level the dry well."

Shi Yu nodded.

He also asked Feng Ruobao to call in Prime Minister Xie, Yu Zhengde, Du Xueyi and other ministers as well as the third prince who were waiting outside the door.

He said to the others, "The Second Prince murdered his father and conspired with Concubine Ning to rebel. Both mother and son will be demoted to ransomed people and exiled three thousand miles away. Anyone in the Second Prince's mansion who was involved in this will be killed without mercy!"

"Third brother." He looked at the Third Prince again, "In three days, take your mother and go to your fiefdom. You are not allowed to enter the palace without being summoned."

A few days ago, when the emperor bestowed a fiefdom on the second prince at the morning court, he also bestowed a fiefdom on the third prince. However, the third prince's fiefdom was much richer than the second prince's.

The third prince felt that he had the most hope. After learning that the second prince had committed a crime, the third prince laughed at the second prince's recklessness and ignorance, and became more convinced that he was one step closer to the position of crown prince.

But he never expected that the emperor would let him leave Beijing as well.

"Father, you are still injured. How can I leave you without worry? Father, please let me take care of you. When you recover, I will go to the fiefdom."

The emperor was already disappointed with his sons and didn't want to listen to the hypocritical words of the third prince. He waved his hand and said, "Everyone, get out."

Seeing the emperor's gloomy face, everyone dared not stay and had to leave.

When Shi Yu and Wei Qingyan were about to leave with the others, the emperor stopped them and asked, "How did you know there was an assassin in the palace?"