As if to pave the way for the beginning of "The Sequel to The Romantic Prince's Beauties", the excitement of having a new prince in the palace did not last long.
Yan Cheng, who had originally thought that he would face a stormy situation after moving into the palace, found that his life was incredibly peaceful.
In the first few days after he entered the palace, someone poisoned him, and after that he never ate, drank, or smelled anything sweet.
Not only was there no talk of poisoning, there was no other targeting either.
Everyone in the palace treated him the same way as other princes, as if he had been a prince all along.
Even when he went to Fengyi Palace and Xian'ya Palace to pay his respects, he was quiet and no one, from the concubines to the princes, had any intention of causing trouble for him.
After a few days of confusion, Yan Cheng did not feel at ease at all. Instead, he regarded this period of peace as the calm before the storm.
He took advantage of this rare break to do a lot of things.
First, he wrote a letter asking Chu Yuan to bring Liu Ma with him the next time he went to the palace to see Yan Zhaoyi.
Nanny Liu had also taken Yan Zhaoyi's pulse before, but her answer was the same as the imperial physician's, and she couldn't diagnose what illness Yan Zhaoyi had.
The Yan family was very disappointed at that time.
Yan Cheng hoped that Madam Liu could check Yan Zhaoyi's pulse again. He suspected that Yan Zhaoyi was not sick but poisoned.
This was not a random guess on his part, but something he inferred from the sequel.
After Concubine Yan Zhaoyi died of illness, Yang Guifei said alone in her room: "I know he likes unrestrained women who are free and beautiful like wild flowers. In the past, Concubine Yan Zhaoyi and I were both such women.
I actually like her very much, but this palace is too small, and one Yang Guifei is enough."
The genius doctor Jiang Li is a loyal bootlicker of the time-traveling girl. Even if he cannot marry his sweetheart, he hopes that she can live comfortably in the palace.
He had given the time-traveling girl a lot of medicine, including a poison that even the imperial physician could not detect.
On the day Chu Yuan brought Nanny Liu into the palace, Yan Cheng specially asked for leave from the upper study and went to Zhuixia Palace.
When mother and son met, Chu Yuan took Yan Cheng and looked him around several times to make sure that he had not lost weight. She finally felt relieved after having been worried for several days.
She was not sure whether Yan Cheng was only glamorous on the surface and was sad behind the scenes. After all, Yan Cheng had no manpower in the palace.
When she said this to Yan Cheng, Yan Cheng smiled and looked at Yan Zhaoyi beside him: "Mother, with my aunt in the palace, how can I be considered to have no connections?"
When Yan Cheng said this, Chu Yuan immediately held Yan Zhaoyi's hand, eyes full of gratitude: "Thanks to the queen for taking care of Cheng'er these days."
"What are you talking about, sister-in-law? Cheng'er is my nephew, how can I not take care of him? And even without me, Cheng'er won't be bullied. Cheng'er's brother really cares about him."
"Really?" Chu Yuan was a little skeptical. "Cheng'er coming back wouldn't be a good thing for the Seventh Prince, right?"
Originally, the Seventh Prince had the possibility of inheriting the throne, but once Yan Cheng came back, the Seventh Prince didn't have to worry about anything.
Yan Cheng understood the implication of his mother's words, pinched his fingers and shook his head: "Brother didn't mean that."
"Cheng'er means that the Seventh Prince doesn't want to be..." Emperor?
Chu Yuan asked cryptically, and Yan Cheng nodded: "It's not like everyone cares about that position."
After spending a few days together, Yan Cheng could see that the Seventh Prince really cared about him and went to his North Second Residence every day, as if he was afraid that he would get lost.
I heard that people in the palace said that the Seventh Prince seemed like a different person, simply because he had been with Yan Cheng for a while and not staying in Beiyi every day, so he appeared in public more often.
"That's good. As long as you don't get involved in... you'll all be fine."
The two ambiguous words were "seize the throne". Chu Yuan knew very well the importance of being low-key and obscure, and fearing that there might be ears on the other side of the wall, he lowered his voice as low as possible to say the key words.
Speaking of the fight for the throne, Yan Cheng frowned.
Now that he is in the palace, Yang Guifei and the Ninth Prince should no longer regard my brother as a thorn in their side, right?
Then my brother wouldn't be forced to rebel by all sides like in the book, and end up with thousands of arrows piercing his heart, right?
In history, those who failed in the fight for the throne usually suffered a tragic end, either death or imprisonment.
If they do not participate in the fight for the throne, the new emperor may not treat them well after he ascends the throne, but he cannot treat them badly either, otherwise the pens of scholars all over the world will be moved.
The three of them had a brief exchange, and Nanny Liu stepped forward to check Yan Zhaoyi's pulse. After a long time, she shook her head under the expectant gaze of Yan Zhaoyi and the nervous gaze of Yan Cheng and Chu Yuan.
Yan Cheng didn't give up: "Could it be possible that my aunt was poisoned?"
"I can't say for sure."
Madam Liu said, "After checking the Madam's pulse last time, I also suspected that she was poisoned, otherwise a normal person's body would not decline so quickly.
But I went back and looked through the medical books, and I still feel that the Empress's symptoms don't match the symptoms of poisoning recorded in the medical books."
Is this really my aunt’s fate?
Yan Cheng thought for a moment and asked, "I heard that there was a chronic poison in the previous dynasty called 'Xu Jin Huan'. The body of the poisoned person will gradually decline, and the cause of the disease cannot be found until death.
Only after death can we tell from the body that the deceased was poisoned."
This kind of poison appeared in the book, and the person who was poisoned was the general of the Southwest Army after the death of King Chu.
The general's name was Duan Chen. He was once a fish of a time-traveling woman, but he was defeated in the competition and fled to the southwest in embarrassment.
Before leaving, he made a loving promise to the time-traveling girl, saying that the time-traveling girl could use this promise to make him do anything.
However, people's hearts are fickle, and it's easy for a girl to pursue a boy. After Duan Chen arrived in the southwest, he was noticed by a girl from a military general's family.
At first, Duan Chen told the girl about his past love history and also made a promise to her not to bother him again.
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