Chapter 669: The Emperor is Unethical, Duke Dingguo Eliminates Harm for the People
Zhou Yuchang's body stiffened and she suddenly woke up. She quickly lowered her head and stopped crying.
Lady Wenxin released her daughter from her arms, took her hand, and walked to the front of the hall with Rong Yue. She looked up at the people in the hall who were either frightened or confused, and said word by word:
"The Emperor is immoral. To gain power, he conspired with the Empress Dowager to plot against the Crown Prince. He used drugs to cause chaos in the palace and then plotted against the daughter of a court official to put the Crown Prince to death. Duke Dingguo eliminated this threat to the people, and no one questioned him."
Emperor An's expression changed: "What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Rong Yue stood in front of the door and said coldly, "She's not talking nonsense."
She turned her head and said, "Shi Lan, bring the person up!"
Outside, Shi Lan came in carrying a man in eunuch's clothes and threw him to the ground. Behind her, a person who looked like a palace maid was dragging a corpse and also throwing it to the ground.
"The Crown Prince was seriously injured and unconscious. The Queen Mother ordered the Imperial Physician to come to the palace to treat him. Tang Ning noticed something was amiss today, so she asked me to stay there under the pretext of taking care of Marquis Wenxin's wife while she went to deal with the Queen Mother. I was worried someone might attack the Crown Prince, so I asked Shi Lan to keep an eye on him."
Rong Yue looked at Shi Lan after she finished speaking: "Shi Lan, you go ahead and speak."
Shi Lan's expression remained calm. "The front hall was in chaos at the time. The imperial physician was frequently in and out, as were many palace maids. I was afraid someone would take advantage of the situation, so I stayed outside. The crown prince suddenly vomited blood and died. Everyone inside was in chaos, and someone went to inform the empress dowager. These two sneaked around and tried to escape during the chaos."
"When I realized something was wrong and caught them, this man, seeing he couldn't escape, immediately killed the imperial physician and then attempted suicide. I broke his arms and legs and removed his jaw before I captured him alive."
Shi Lan took out a sign of the Imperial Guards and threw it on the ground:
"This was found on him. He is not a eunuch, but a member of the Imperial Guards. I also found a bottle of medicine on him and have given it to Madam Qin."
Gu Helian asked, "Where is Madam Qin?"
"Here it is."
Just as everyone was arriving, Madam Qin's voice could be heard from outside the hall. Behind her were several people carrying something. Madam Qin said as they walked, "Hold it steady, don't drop it. This corpse is rare to see. Don't touch the flesh, or you won't be able to see the poison clearly when you look back."
The black-armored guards outside carried someone in with steady steps. When they placed the person in the hall, everyone realized that the person lying on the shelf was actually the prince.
The prince, who was dressed in noble attire a few hours ago and toasting and chatting with everyone with Emperor An and the Queen Mother, was now lying on the ground motionless. His chest and clothes were covered in blood, and his forehead was also bloody. Not far away from him were the tragically dead Queen Mother and Nanny Ran.
Everyone in the hall was terrified when they saw this scene.
However, when Lady Qin saw the Queen Mother lying on the ground, she was immediately surprised: "Why is the Queen Mother dead?"
She walked forward curiously to feel the pulse, and took a closer look at the blood on the empress dowager's lips.
"His heart and meridians were completely cut off, his five internal organs were failing, and he died with his eyes wide open. It looked as if he had been forced to use secret medicine to forcibly stimulate his vitality and then died in agony. This Empress Dowager is truly a ruthless person."
Doctor Wu looked shocked: "You can tell?"
"Nonsense!" Madam Qin wiped her hands. "This secret medicine isn't rare. In the early days, there were similar drugs in the martial arts world that stimulated internal strength. They forcibly sacrificed vitality and decades of life in exchange for a temporary increase in strength. Once the effect wore off, the tendons and veins would dry up and the person would die instantly."
"After using that thing, it looked like the same thing the Queen Mother used. Normally, it would appear as if she had died of illness and weakness, but in reality, once the secret medicine has been used, it will leave traces in the body. The Queen Mother's blood hasn't even dissipated yet, so how can we not see it?"
Imperial Physician Wu opened his mouth wide, looking at Madam Qin who looked like she was talking nonsense, and suddenly he laughed: "The Empress Dowager wants to kill me to silence me. What difference does it make even if I die? It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!!" Even if he and everyone in the Wu family were dead, with Madam Qin around, there was no way they wouldn't find out how the Empress Dowager died.
He had been staying in the capital for many years, staying in the Imperial Medical Bureau, but he had no idea that the so-called secret medicine passed down from his ancestors was just like this.
The Queen Mother used this to plot against others, even though she lost her life, she had made a wrong decision from the very beginning...
Doctor Wu fell to the ground, crying and laughing, his face covered with tears.
Emperor An looked unhappy.
The other people in the hall also had mixed feelings.
Madam Qin had just been hurriedly brought in from outside the palace and went to the wife of Marquis Wenxin. Later, she made trouble for the prince, so she didn't know what happened in the palace.
Seeing Doctor Wu laughing awkwardly and covered in blood, she felt a little puzzled. She whispered to Tang Ning, "Xiao Haitang, what's wrong with this guy?"
Madam Qin pointed to her head, wondering if there was something wrong with his brain.
Tang Ning: “…”
She knew the pain in Doctor Wu's heart, the feeling of being helpless and coerced. She thought he was the only one who could do it, but who knew that he was doomed to fail from the beginning to the end, and that he had lost his family's lives, his own hand, and his entire future life in vain. Anyone else would end up like Doctor Wu.
Tang Ning shook her head and asked Madam Qin, "Sister Qin, Shi Lan said she gave you a bottle of something just now?"
Madam Qin came back to her senses and fished through the pouch hanging on her body, placing it in her palm. "You're talking about this, this is called Burning Water Incense. Apply it to your wrists and nose to refresh your mind. The herbs used in it are very precious. This thing is usually harmless, but for the prince who was pre-injured by the Hundred Flowers, it is a death warrant."
Tang Ning said: "Hundred Flowers Entanglement?"
Madam Qin: "It's an aphrodisiac. It uses extremely rare sea lion kidneys, mixed with epimedium and Morinda officinalis that are over twenty years old. The effect is extremely strong. Once taken, it can bewilder the mind, making the person like a wild animal, only wanting to have sex with others. The effect can only be relieved after having sex with someone."
"The Crown Prince had originally lost most of the effects of the Baihua Chan medicine after having sex, but unfortunately, he was also poisoned by Miyunzi. The spring poison accumulated in his body could not be released. When it was stimulated by the burning water incense, his blood vessels expanded and his wounds burst. Unable to relieve the pain, his heart meridians could not bear the pressure and he died suddenly."
The people in the crowd were confused by what they heard. Prince Ji's concubine hesitated and said, "You mean, the prince was poisoned by more than one kind of poison?"
Madam Qin nodded and said, "I just went to the porch. The incense burner inside still had the fragrance of a hundred flowers. I also found a golden hairpin."
She took out a golden peony hairpin that had been broken in half, and after tearing off the top of the hairpin, several very small brown pills fell out of it.
Lady Qin said, "This hairpin is filled with honey cloud flower seeds, and the hairpin head has been soaked in a concentrated honey cloud seed decoction. If you wear this gold hairpin on your head for three to five days, the honey cloud seed medicinal properties will penetrate your bloodstream, and the prince will be infected by the honey cloud seed poison if he has sex with it."
Madam Fu looked at Fu Jinrou in shock: "Isn't this peony gold hairpin given to Fu Jinrou by the Queen Mother?"
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