Chapter 1417: Rescue (December Monthly Ticket Plus 4)
Manbao's eyes widened: "Isn't it the Third Prince?"
Lord Tang shook his head. "I don't know. It's hard to find out right now. The Third Prince is in Luozhou now, so it's difficult to find out."
Manbao asked Master Tang curiously, "Do you think it was the Third Prince who did it?"
Lord Tang gave her a strange look and said, "I already said that we can't find out now."
Manbao: "I don't care about evidence, I just rely on your inference."
Lord Tang fell silent for a long moment. After another group of guards passed by, he finally spoke, "Switching the wine does seem like something the Third Prince did. I didn't doubt it at first, but Your Majesty said it wasn't him, and he seemed quite certain. Given Your Majesty's intelligence and character, he must have mastered something to be so confident."
He said, "Your Majesty's previous handling of the matter was very similar to what the Third Prince did. He drove the Third Prince back to his fiefdom, confined him to his home, suppressed the memorial impeaching the Crown Prince, privately reprimanded the Crown Prince for his willfulness, and with a furious expression ordered an investigation, but privately had Gu Zhong suppress the matter, allowing it to be left unresolved..."
"But now he's reopened the case and asked Lord Yin to investigate. Clearly, he still has some doubts about the Third Prince, but he's more convinced that he didn't do it." Lord Tang said, "So it's really possible that the Third Prince didn't do it."
But someone did it and it happened to the Third Prince, killing two birds with one stone.
Manbao was the first to think: "Another prince?"
Lord Tang sighed, "I have this suspicion, but I have no evidence and cannot investigate."
The fight for the throne has already dragged down two legitimate princes. If other princes are dragged into it, it will probably be another bloody storm.
So without solid evidence, he was unwilling to speak out.
He glanced at Manbao and said, "I've told you everything. Just keep your mouth shut. Now it's your turn to tell me your secret."
Manbao was conflicted. She looked around before whispering, "I promised the Crown Princess that I wouldn't tell anyone else about this."
Lord Tang said with a serious expression, "I also promised Lord Yin that I would never reveal the case to anyone, but do you know why I told you in the end?"
Manbao shook his head.
Lord Tang said seriously, "Because Bai Shan and I are brothers, both graduated from the Imperial Academy, we are as close as brothers. And you are not only Bai Shan's senior sister, but also his fiancée. That means we are family. Since we are family, you are not an outsider."
There's no way Man Bao would believe him.
He would rather die than tell Madam Tang about the case of King Yizhou.
She hummed inwardly, but after a moment's deliberation, she lowered her voice and said, "When I first entered the palace, the prince was poisoned."
Lord Tang's expression darkened instantly, and he asked, "What kind of poison?"
Manbao shook his head and said, "I don't know what to say. Anyway, I have never seen it before. If another doctor had seen it, they would definitely not have discovered such a poison."
Lord Tang asked seriously, "Is Xiao Yuanzheng also not okay?"
Manbao shook his head. "Maybe there will be suspicion, but it will definitely not be confirmed."
Master Tang frowned and looked at her, "Then how did you diagnose it?"
Man Bao said, "Even with my skills, I couldn't diagnose it, because the pulse didn't indicate poison. It just happened that day that the prince lost his temper in front of me, which gave me a clue. I had read about similar symptoms in a medical book, and that's when I realized something was wrong."
"That medical book..."
Manbao said seriously, "I am the only one who has..."
"Is there an antidote?" Lord Tang asked. "How is the Crown Prince's health now? Why didn't you report it to His Majesty?"
Man Bao said: "The poison has been resolved. The poison cannot be detected by pulse diagnosis, so I didn't say anything."
If someone else said this, Tang He would definitely be skeptical, but these words were said by Zhou Man, so Tang He believed it.
He frowned, thought for a while, then stopped and looked into Manbao's eyes and asked seriously, "Is the poison serious?"
Manbao answered with equal seriousness: "If you don't notice, over time, the prince's temper will become more and more violent, and then his body will become weak, his hair will fall out in clumps, he will suffer from insomnia, nosebleeds, and then he will slowly die of weakness."
Lord Tang was surprised, "Is it a chronic poison?"
Manbao nodded, "It's not something that enters the mouth, but something that comes into contact with it."
She looked at Lord Tang and sighed, "Brother Tang, although I trust you more than the East Palace, I can't tell you what that thing is, otherwise they will guess that I told you first."
She told Tang He that Tang He would definitely not be able to help but investigate. The target was so clear and the prince was not stupid, so he would definitely guess that she had betrayed him.
Tang He didn't force her anymore, but just smiled again and asked, "Then why did you tell me?"
"Don't I owe you a favor?" Manbao said, "And I also want Brother Tang to know that if I accidentally get involved in this in the future, you must at least rescue me."
Lord Tang was speechless for a while, "You really trust me."
I didn't reject her after all.
Tang He didn't say any nonsense like "Then why don't you stay away from trouble?" From the moment she cured Shi Dalang, she started to get involved in the situation. It was not a situation where she could do whatever she wanted.
Even he, who was from the Ministry of Justice, was temporarily transferred to Jingzhao Yin to assist Yin Li and had to join the game, let alone Manbao who was such a young and vulnerable teenager?
Tang He walked slowly with her to the palace gate and said goodbye first.
Manbao did not hide the fact that she had a good relationship with him. She returned the greeting very frankly and then went to find the palace servants and carriage that were supposed to take her back to Changqing Lane.
But the fact that she and Tang He walked in the corridor for more than two quarters of an hour was still known to all parties.
When they went to the East Palace again, the Crown Prince couldn't help but turn his head slightly to stare at her and ask, "What did you say to Tang Zhihe yesterday?"
"Brother Tang?" Man Bao continued to give him acupuncture without even looking up. "He talked a lot, but he also mentioned His Highness's drunkenness. Lord Tang also asked me about His Highness's health."
Yesterday, as they were about to reach the palace gate, Tang He and Man Bao said, "If you want people to believe what you say, it has to be seven parts true and two parts false, and then you can just leave out the most important part."
After hearing what she said, the prince lay down on the pillow, slightly closed his eyes and continued to ask, "Did you tell him?"
Manbao said with a bit of distress: "I just told him that His Highness's health has improved, and I didn't say anything else."
The prince hummed softly and asked, "Do you think my health has improved over the past two days?"
Manbao nodded, "It's getting better."
"I heard that you and your junior fellow apprentice are engaged?"
Manbao: ...How come everyone knows about this?
Seeing her speechless face, the Crown Princess came out from the inner room holding a box and said with a smile, "We only found out about this yesterday. The Crown Prince asked me to prepare a gift for you."
Seeing that Manbao had finished removing the needles, she opened the box and showed it to Manbao, saying with a smile, "This is a pair of jade hairpins. You are too young to use them now. When you grow up a little, you can each have one."
(End of this chapter)
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