Chapter 211 I Want to Destroy His Entire Family
Yunxiang heard the instructions and went out to pass on the message.
As expected, he had just walked out of the main gate of Tishun Hall and before leaving the yard, he saw the emperor striding towards him.
She was startled and quickly stepped aside, bowing and saying, "Your servant greets the emperor."
Lu Haozhi didn't even glance at her, but only asked, "Where's your queen?"
Even as he spoke, his steps continued to move very quickly.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty is in the room..."
Yunxiang answered, feeling somewhat uneasy in her heart. It seemed as if the Emperor had become angry...
I hope something has happened.
"Your Majesty, the Emperor is here!"
Ruizhu had seen this scene from the window and hurriedly reminded them.
Meng Yan was fiddling with the willow branches in the bottle. When she heard the sound, she couldn't help but look up.
Just as he was about to say something, he saw the door curtain flicker and Lu Haozhi strode in.
Lu Haozhi walked straight to the table, lifted his coat and sat down, but said nothing.
Seeing his lips tightly pursed and his face sullen, Meng Yan knew that he was angry. She didn't mention the matter for the time being and only whispered to Ruizhu, "Make a cup of white tea for Shoumei."
Ruizhu glanced at the emperor, nodded, and quietly slipped out.
Whenever Lu Haozhi got upset, she would order someone to prepare Shoumei tea. This tea was fresh, mellow, and refreshing, and it was the best way to soothe a person. It was in the aroma of the tea that Lu Haozhi would slowly unpack his inner frustrations to her.
After instructing Ruizhu, Meng Yan got up from the bed in her embroidered cotton slippers, walked to the table and sat opposite him.
Lu Haozhi had a stern look on his face and dark eyes, but he didn't say a word.
She held her chin with one hand, looked at him with a faint smile on her lips, and said nothing.
After a while, Ruizhu brought over a gilded teacup with a double dragon playing with a pearl and gently placed it next to Lu Haozhi's hand. "Your Majesty, please have some tea."
Lu Haozhi remained unmoved, as if he hadn't heard anything.
Seeing this, Meng Yan waved to Ruizhu, signaling her to leave. She personally opened the lid of the teacup, held the tea bowl in front of Lu Haozhi with both hands, and smiled at him, "Your Majesty, please have some tea."
Steam was curling above the tea bowl, and Lu Haozhi's frowning brows gradually relaxed in the overflowing fragrance of tea.
He sighed and took the tea bowl, "Yan'er, why don't you ask me what's wrong?"
Meng Yan smiled slightly, "When the emperor is willing to talk, he will naturally tell me. If the emperor is unwilling to talk, it is useless for me to ask. If the emperor insists on sulking, I will sit with him. I will sit with him as long as he sulks."
Lu Haozhi smiled helplessly, "You really have me under your thumb. I don't have any temper at all."
Meng Yan looked into his eyes, her red lips curled up slightly, revealing a playful smile, "Your Majesty is happy, isn't he?"
After hearing this, Lu Haozhi couldn't help but laugh a few times, and the depression in his chest gradually dissipated.
After he finished laughing, his expression became serious again. "Didn't I order everyone to secretly investigate the Liang family a while ago?"
Meng Yan was slightly startled, then immediately replied, "The Emperor mentioned this a couple of days ago, saying that he had solid evidence of the crime."
Lu Haozhi nodded and said, "Yes, we have indeed obtained a lot of evidence. But, I really did not expect that I would find out, I would find out..." At this point, he couldn't help gritting his teeth, and his handsome face was stained with a hint of violence, as if he was suppressing something extremely hateful.
After a moment, he continued, "Before, weren't we wondering why the plague spread so quickly? In the blink of an eye, it spread from the mountain village to the capital, and even to Shanghe Garden. It turns out, it turned out that someone deliberately spread the plague!"
As Meng Yan listened, her expression gradually became solemn.
As a doctor, she naturally understood how the disease could spread from person to person, but human-to-human transmission always took time. However, the outbreak was extremely rapid at that time. In just a few days, the disease spread all over the capital.
At that time, she had wondered in her heart whether someone had done something wrong, but firstly, there was no real evidence, and even if she had just heard something, there would be nothing to show for it. Secondly, she was busy looking for a cure and had no time to take care of this matter.
Now it seems that this is really the case?
But then Lu Haozhi continued, "Liang Benwu secretly sent people to place the filth of sick people into wells across the capital. How could anyone not get sick after drinking such water? In Shanghe Garden, due to the strict security, they had nowhere to start, so they sent the sick palace maids and food into the garden. But because of you, they didn't succeed in the end."
Meng Yan's heart was shocked, and she suddenly understood something.
It turns out that this is how the Liang family achieved such great success in their previous life.
If the epidemic had not caused such a stir, how could the preciousness of the Liang family's prescription have been highlighted?
The imperial court was at a loss and the people in the capital were in panic. At this opportunity, the Liang family suddenly came up with a cure and saved countless lives. Only then did the court and the public regard the Liang family as the savior, and the Liang family was able to make great contributions to saving the country.
In her previous life, Liang Chengbi had enjoyed a period of glory in the harem because of this incident. The Liang family was even more prominent, a time of prosperity that could be described as raging fire, boiling oil, and flourishing flowers.
Even more deeply, thinking about it, Liang Benwu knew that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor were both in Shanghe Garden, but he still attacked there. Maybe he was... greedy for the credit of saving the lord?
Meng Yan couldn't help but be astonished. Prime Minister Liang's courage, ambition and planning were truly admirable.
Regardless of how incompetent Liang Chengbi was, as a founding father and prime minister of two dynasties, Liang Benwu did have the ability.
It's a shame that this ability has been used for crooked means. The greater the ability, the greater the harm. It's best to eliminate such people as soon as possible.
Lu Haozhi held up the teacup and drank half a cup in one gulp before continuing, "Not only that, but regarding the secret report you sent me last time from the Liang family girl, I sent people to investigate the place in detail. Although the house was deserted, with the clues you provided, the spies visited everywhere and finally got to the bottom of it. That old thief, Liang Benwu, actually imprisoned innocent people and deliberately infected them with diseases to test medicine! The people I sent out unearthed many corpses in the area. After counting, they found twenty men and women of middle age, ten elderly people, and twelve children under fourteen years old. According to the coroner's report, these people died of poison or sharp blades. I think that at that time, because of the prescription and prevention method you provided, the epidemic was gradually eliminated. Liang Benwu thought the prescription was useless and secretly ordered the killing to silence the witnesses."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Haozhi almost gnashed his teeth and said, "This damn old thief, the elderly, the weak, women and children, even babies in swaddling clothes and pregnant women, he never let anyone go! I sent people to arrest that evil monk, and guess what he said? He confessed that in order to make the prescription work, he advised Liang Benwu that the more people of all kinds, the better. Liang Benwu did what he said and deliberately deceived all kinds of people under the name of taking in orphans and widows! Most of these people were widows, widowers and orphans. Even if he were lost, no one would report him to the authorities. This vicious old man, forming a clique for personal gain, accepting bribes, and selling illegal salt—that's fine, but he's actually harming the people to this extent! The late emperor rebelled because he was dissatisfied with the previous dynasty's tyranny. When they pledged their loyalty to him, they swore to save the people from disaster, not for their own selfish ends. And now he can... This vicious pig-dog has served as the prime minister of two dynasties of our Great Zhou Dynasty!"
The more he spoke, the angrier he became. He was so furious that he grabbed the teacup in his hand and wanted to throw it to the ground, but suddenly he remembered that Meng Yan was pregnant. He didn't dare to frighten her, so he forced himself to hold back and slowly lowered his raised arm.
These words hit Meng Yan's heart hard. She felt a chill running up her spine and her body shivered involuntarily.
According to the secret report sent by Liang Chunrong and the confessions of several secret agents of Liang Chengbi who were captured in Shangheyuan, she did guess that Liang Benwu might be using people to test drugs, but at that time she only thought that he had accepted a group of patients. She never expected that he would deliberately infect people with diseases and kill people to silence them afterwards.
She is a doctor who studies medical theories and researches prescriptions, all for the purpose of curing diseases and saving lives.
If there were no disease in the world, there would be no need for medicine. This is the principle of cause and effect, and it must not be reversed. Delaying treatment for fame and gain, or even treating a disease where none exists, and thus harming a person's life, is a serious taboo for doctors and an unforgivable crime.
This was what her grandfather taught her when she first started learning medicine, and he forced the young girl to memorize it word for word.
Now, someone had actually killed so many people just to test the medicine. And in order to increase the price of the prescription, they deliberately spread the epidemic, and who knows how many people died in vain from this disease.
Meng Yan just felt nauseous and her throat was a little itchy. She turned her head away and immediately vomited a few mouthfuls of sour water.
Lu Haozhi panicked and hurriedly asked the palace servants to bring in some tea for her to rinse her mouth. He then asked, "Didn't your acid reflux problem resolve? Why are you vomiting again? This is not good. We should ask the imperial physician to come and take a look."
Ruizhu came in, poured some fragrant tea, and brought over a spittoon.
Meng Yan rinsed her mouth, waved her hand, and looked up at Lu Haozhi, panting slightly. "I want to ask the emperor a question. How do you plan to deal with the Liang family?"
"kill."
Lu Haozhi's eyes turned cold, and he spat out a word from between his teeth. Then he slammed his hand on the table, "I will confiscate the property of this old man and torture him to death!"
Meng Yan looked gloomy and glanced at Ruizhu.
Ruizhu nodded, turned around and went out. After a while, she returned with the bowl of medicine soup sent by the Imperial Hospital and a winnowing basket containing two dead rats.
Meng Yan said, "Your Majesty, this is the abortion-preserving medicine sent by the Imperial Hospital today. Liang has finally taken action." She sneered, "I thought a dose of abortion medicine would be enough, but I didn't expect she wanted to kill me."
Lu Haozhi looked at the dead rat in the winnowing basket with bloodshot eyes.
Although this was a plan he and Yan'er had agreed upon, he still couldn't help but get furious when he saw Liang Chengbi take action.
He remembered Yan'er, the child who passed away suddenly in his previous life.
"I will kill her right now!"
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I just got home today and spent the whole day cleaning up, so I'm posting late. I'm sorry everyone~
Yan'er will be out soon~
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