Chapter 221 Blood Test
Shen Changhe shook his head gently, his attitude was very firm, Shen Anan had no choice but to give up his position to the imperial physician.
"Then I will take action. Master Shen, please bear with it."
"An An, give me your handkerchief." Shen Changhe asked her for a handkerchief and stuffed it into her mouth. The imperial physician picked up a knife and began to cut his flesh.
Although he was old, his hands were steady. His moves were quick, accurate and ruthless. In just a few breaths, he had scraped off all the rotten flesh on his wrist.
“Master Shen, can you still hold on?”
Shen Changhe's face was covered with sweat, and his body was twitching slightly in pain. "Okay, go ahead."
He knew that An An must have something else to do, so he urged the imperial physician.
By the time the wounds on his wrists and ankles were treated, his clothes had already been soaked through and were tightly stuck to his criss-crossed skin.
Shen Anan supported him, with a fierce look in her eyes, "Don't worry, I won't let it go like this. I will definitely get back all the suffering you have endured."
After hearing this, the chief eunuch and Lord Chen stepped back silently, lowering their heads and keeping silent.
"An An, don't tell Miss Lin, don't let her know about my situation." Shen Changhe squeezed out a hoarse voice.
"Okay, I'll remember that."
Next was the wound on his body. Shen Anan was a woman and a prince's consort, so she could only retreat and leave the imperial physician to apply medicine and bandage him, which took a full quarter of an hour.
Lord Chen asked someone to bring new clothes for Shen Changhe to change into, "Don't worry, Princess. As long as the emperor doesn't make it difficult, I will take good care of Master Shen and not lose a single hair."
He lowered his voice to assure, Shen Anan knew that he was afraid that he would force it and take the person away without the emperor's permission.
She had no plans to take the person away immediately. "Find a doctor to live with you. I'll pay for it."
"..." Lord Chen's face twitched, but he finally nodded in agreement.
His hair was tied up again and he was dressed in clean clothes. Shen Changhe sat back on a tattered mat, his face pale and grim.
The doctor came out with a medical kit, "Princess, Master Shen refused to allow treatment for the wound on his face. I'm afraid it will leave serious scars in the future."
Even though it was too late to treat it now, he could only make sure the scar wasn't so hideous and eye-catching, but Shen Changhe refused to let him touch it.
"Brother."
Shen Changhe smiled at her and said, "That's what big brother meant. Don't worry, I'm fine."
Shen Anan immediately understood his idea.
"Miss Lin will be very distressed if she sees this."
"Yeah." He responded calmly, "She's worried, don't tell her."
That incident was a knot in her heart, and it would make her live in inferiority and guilt for the rest of her life. But now her face is disfigured, and they are the perfect match, a match made in heaven.
She won't despise herself, nor will she hide anymore.
"Even if it can't be cured, at least let the doctor apply some medicine. If it gets inflamed and rots on the face, aren't you worried about scaring her?"
Shen Changhe pursed his lips and frowned, and said, "The doctor left some medicine, I will use it myself."
"Princess, we have wasted long enough. It is time for us to go to the Fourth Prince's residence." The chief eunuch reminded in a low voice.
Shen Anan's eyes slowly moved towards him, cold and scrutinizing.
The chief eunuch immediately said, "I have been serving in the imperial study these days and have never left the palace."
This means that the injuries on Shen Changhe were not caused by him and his men.
She said nothing, looked deeply at Shen Changhe, then turned and left the Dali Temple.
Shen Anan had already sent someone to bring Chen Tian out of the dungeon and arranged him in a remote courtyard at the back of Wutong Garden. There was no sunlight there and there was a well in the courtyard, which gave people a very desolate feeling.
As the chief eunuch walked in, he shuddered. "Princess...Princess, how can you let the Fifth Prince live in a place like this?"
“I didn’t live here before.” Shen An’an said in a very calm tone, “It’s not that my father-in-law wanted to come, so he specially ordered people to pull people out of the water.”
"You...you..." The chief eunuch's lips began to tremble, "You actually locked the fifth prince in the water dungeon?"
"No, to be precise, I hang upside down on a tree and jump into a well every half an hour to warm up. Na—"
She pointed to the tree in the yard and said, "It's hanging right here, facing the wellhead from below."
The eunuch's face turned frighteningly pale and he rushed towards the door in two steps.
A sneer appeared on her face and she followed slowly.
"Fifth Prince, this old servant pays respect to the Fifth Prince."
The eunuch bowed deeply to the people in the room.
Shen Anan opened the door to let the sunlight in so that she could see the situation in the room clearly. "Eunuch, you didn't even bother to identify whether this person is the Fifth Prince, and you just bowed down so carelessly."
Only then did he look up and carefully examine the thin young man sitting cross-legged on the straw mat.
This was the most important task the emperor assigned to him, but apart from frowning at first, the boy closed his eyes and remained silent and motionless.
"The fifth prince?"
He does look like that, but he looks a little dull. Could it be that the Fourth Prince's wife did something to the Fifth Prince?
"Fifth Prince, this old servant was sent by the Emperor to visit you."
Chen Tian finally opened his eyes, "Can you take me out?"
The chief eunuch wanted to say "of course", but when he caught a glimpse of a slender figure in the room, he suddenly realized that this was the Fourth Prince's residence, and the powerful Fourth Prince's wife was right behind him.
He didn't speak for a while, and Chen Tian's eyes gradually dimmed, with a hint of disappointment.
"Don't worry, the emperor is thinking of a solution. You will be able to go out soon."
Chen Tian raised his eyes and glanced at Shen Anan. He did not respond to the eunuch's words. He was a little confused. Why did she bring the emperor's eunuch here? Did she really want to hand herself over to the emperor?
But I am her life-saving talisman?
"What do you want to do?"
"Your father designed a plan to put my elder brother in the Dali Temple's prison. In order to blackmail me, he tortured my elder brother."
Shen Anan walked forward slowly, not shying away from the eunuch's words.
The eunuch raised his neck and seemed to finally become a little tougher, but Chen Tian frowned. He remembered that she had cut off one of his fingers because of Hua Sheng.
She said that if anything happened to anyone around her again because of him, she would chop off his hands and feet!
"I don't know what you want to do."
"No matter what, they all say you are the fifth prince, but I don't think that's right. You are clearly an orphan of a farmer's family in East City. How could you be a prince? Something must have gone wrong, or you are pretending to be the heir to the throne with bad intentions."
Both Chen Tian and the eunuch had a bad feeling.
"Since there is a problem, as a member of the royal family, I have made sacrifices for the country, so it is only natural for me to find out the truth. Even if I go to Fengtian Palace, you can't say I'm wrong. After all, the royal bloodline is noble and cannot be confused."
Chen Tian’s face began to turn pale, staring at Shen Anan.
"The Fourth Prince's Concubine, the Emperor has already confirmed the Fifth Prince's identity." The eunuch quickly stepped in front of Chen Tian.
"There were censors in the court who died because they advised Jun Jian to hit his head against a pillar. Do you think that if the emperor cannot provide solid evidence to prove that Chen Tian is the fifth prince, will those censors admit it?"
The eunuch choked and was speechless.
Getting all civil and military officials to recognize Chen Tian’s identity is now indeed the top priority and the most difficult task.
"After all, I brought the person back. I have to be responsible. Otherwise, I will be sorry for the emperor and his subjects, and even more sorry for the people of Daliang. The last charge of confusing the royal bloodline is placed on me. Isn't it a capital crime?"
The Chief Eunuch: Have you ever been afraid of the death penalty? Everything you have done is punishable by death!
He knew that Shen Anan would not let it go after Shen Changhe had suffered such inhuman torture, and would definitely have an outburst in front of him before reporting to the emperor.
"Fourth Prince's Consort...what do you want to do?"
"Of course it's blood test. This is the only way to prove Chen Tian's identity, isn't it?"
The head eunuch immediately breathed a sigh of relief. "What the Fourth Prince's wife said is true, but the Emperor is not here. Even if we want to do a blood test to certify our relationship, we have to do it another day."
"It's okay. I'll send someone to the palace. Just wait for the news, eunuch."
She called Qingfeng in and asked him to bleed Chen Tian.
Qingfeng had a cold face and his hands and feet were very nimble. He walked quickly forward and cut a cut on Chen Tian's wrist, which made the eunuch's scalp numb.
"You don't need that much. A little is enough."
Qingfeng ignored him, took out the bowl that had been prepared long ago, took half of the bowl, and handed it to the servant beside him.
"Prepare a carriage and take it to the palace and give it to the emperor. It must be done quickly. The royal bloodline is a big deal and there can be no mistakes."
The boy, who was also Xiao Yuan's servant, calmly took the bowl and went out.
"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and stop the bleeding of the Fifth Prince." The chief eunuch urged the imperial physician urgently.
The imperial physician was still confused as to when a fifth prince appeared. Upon hearing the eunuch's urging, he immediately stepped forward, squatted down and treated the wound.
Shen Anan dragged a chair and sat down, Qingfeng stood behind her, and the master and servant looked at the three people.
The chief eunuch keenly sensed that something was wrong, "Princess, since there is nothing else, then I will take my leave now."
His mission was to ensure that the Fifth Prince was alive and in the hands of the Fourth Prince's wife.
"Eunuch, why are you in such a hurry? It won't be too late to leave after the blood delivery person comes back. If the blood is wrong and doesn't match Father's, you can testify for me so that others won't accuse me of tampering with it."
"..."That feeling of uneasiness was magnified to the extreme in the eunuch's heart.
The imperial physician finally stopped Chen Tian's bleeding, bandaged the wound, and closed the medicine box.
"Princess." The servant who had just entered the palace to deliver blood came in. "The blood was spilled on the way. I need another half bowl."
"How dare you! That's the blood of the Fifth Prince. How could you do that? Come, take him away and beat him to death." The eunuch's voice was sharp. From what he heard, he thought it was pig's blood or dog's blood. He asked for another half bowl so he could get another half bowl?
The servant looked at the eunuch calmly, without any fluctuation, and of course no one moved.
"Eunuch, this is the Fourth Prince's residence. Even if my husband is not here, I, the Fourth Prince's consort, am here. It is not the turn of outsiders to make the decision."
The eunuch shuddered, "Yes, I have overstepped my authority, but this young man is really..."
"Qingfeng, add another half bowl. The emperor's bloodline is noble and there can be no mistakes."
"..." Watching Qingfeng cut Chen Tian's other wrist again with great ease, the eunuch still didn't understand something.
The Fourth Prince's wife was using the blood test to vent her anger on the young master of the Shen family.
But he is the emperor, how dare she do that! !
The head eunuch watched helplessly as another bowl of blood was brought out by the servant, and the imperial physician immediately stopped the bleeding and bandaged Chen Tian.
Just as the wound was bandaged, the servant came back and said, "Princess, it's a bit cold today. The blood coagulated before I walked far."
"Fourth Prince's Consort, how about..."
"Qingfeng, keep going." Shen Anan's cold command cut off the eunuch's words.
In such a weather, even if all the blood in Chen Tian's body was drained, it would still be impossible to send it into the palace in a flowing state. The eunuch became anxious.
If anything happened to the Fifth Prince under his nose, he would not be able to pay for it even if he had ten heads.
"Fourth Prince's Consort, that's enough, that's enough. Wait until I go back and report to the Emperor, and then we can make a decision on this matter."
Shen Anan ignored him completely, so Qingfeng would naturally not show any mercy. After a few rounds of this, Chen Tian's face had turned as white as paper, and he couldn't even sit still.
"We can't go on like this, Fourth Prince's Consort. Someone will die."
Chen Tian gritted his teeth and remained silent. He had been in contact with Shen Anan for a long time and knew her character. He had guessed the result from the beginning.
Both of his arms were wrapped in gauze, leaving no place for surgery. He was a little shaky and felt dizzy.
"You only have this much ability. You can torment me. If you have the ability, go and deal with that person."
Shen Anan smiled, "I also want to say this to that man. Why don't you say it and let his dog take it back to him."
The dog was naturally referring to the chief eunuch, but at this moment he no longer had time to care whether it was a human or a dog. He just wanted to leave quickly and return to the palace to report to the emperor.
I don't know how many times it went back and forth, just when Chen Tian was about to collapse, Shen Anan finally raised his hand to stop the next cycle.
"Although I am devoted to the country, human life is at stake. Let's forget about it today. Don't let anything happen. I am a soft-hearted person."
"Qingfeng, tell the kitchen to make some top-quality ginseng soup for Master Chen to nourish him. We can continue after he's replenished."
The eunuch's breath, which had just been relieved, was lifted up again, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Fourth Prince's Consort, this is someone the Emperor wants to protect after all."
"Then I will wait for my father to announce Chen Tian's identity to the world. After all officials have recognized it, they will come to me to find me. By the way, I have traveled thousands of miles from Tianshui City to bring him back so that the father and son can be reunited. Father-in-law, don't forget to ask the emperor for a reward for me."
“…”
His face was extremely gloomy. He really couldn't understand how she got the courage to go against the emperor when the Fourth Prince was not in the capital.
Shen Anan stood up from the chair very leisurely, "Let's stop here today. When you go back, remember to tell my father a message for me. Now that things have come to this, I am not afraid of those who wear shoes, nor am I afraid of being destroyed together."
Her forces are not as strong as the emperor's, but she dares to fight to the death. If you make her angry, the worst that can happen is that you will all die. If you don't want to exchange hostages peacefully, then we will be destroyed together! !
"Don't worry, Fourth Prince's wife. I will definitely convey this message." He looked deeply at Chen Tian who had fainted, then turned and walked out.
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