Chapter 157 He Yuan changed his words
Jiang Xue was stunned. It turned out that Feng Song was also a student of her grandfather?
She sighed slightly in her heart.
Even though my grandfather was a man of integrity and open-minded, he never thought that among his favorite students whom he taught so earnestly, there would be such a sinister person.
Jiang Xue nodded to Jiang Yuwei and said, "I understand. I will keep this a secret from Qiong Shuang. We will make plans after the messenger from Ganzhou reports back."
She raised her head and looked at Jing Ye carefully, and said, "Let's sit down and discuss it?"
There was a faint hint of helplessness and compromise in Jing Ye's eyes, and he walked back to the table and sat down with her.
"Second brother, Grandpa He was the only doctor who diagnosed that my eldest brother was poisoned," Jiang Xue said, "I remember that you brought him to the emperor to report, but the emperor did not order a thorough investigation afterwards. Back then, you kept it a secret for me, right?"
Jiang Yu looked at Jiang Xue, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Yes and no."
"That year, He Yuanzheng and I came before the Emperor, and He Yuanzheng changed his words."
"What?" Jiang Xue looked at him in shock and blurted out, "Why didn't I know about this? My brother clearly said that if he felt there was something suspicious about this matter, he would report all the details to our father, right?"
"My father sent me out of the palace," Jiang Yu said, "I didn't know what was going on at the time."
"Later, my father summoned me in, but what they were discussing was my brother's 'acute illness', not the poisoning."
Jiang Xue asked, "Didn't Second Brother ask Grandpa He about this afterwards?"
Jiang Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I asked."
In front of his father, he did not dare to ask directly. After He Yuan came out of the palace with him, he quickly pulled He Yuan to his palace and said with a puzzled look on his face: "Grandpa He, just now in the eldest brother's palace, didn't you say..."
"Second Prince," He Yuan had burst into tears without knowing when. He raised his hand tremblingly to point somewhere, but then dropped it too weakly. "No one in the Imperial Hospital has diagnosed that the First Prince's illness is caused by poisoning. Are they all incompetent doctors?"
"Although I am honored to be the chief judge of the hospital, I am not sure that I will make mistakes in every diagnosis."
He looked at Jiang Yu, and his trembling hands had been put back into his sleeves without him knowing when.
"What if I am wrong?"
"If I made a wrong diagnosis, I will be charged with the crime of exaggerating and misleading the emperor's will. Not to mention the position of the head of the academy, I am afraid that my brothers, nephews, and the entire He clan behind me will be in danger!"
"It's hard to save your life!"
"No!" Jiang Yu pulled He Yuan's arm and shouted angrily, "Grandpa He, don't use this excuse to deceive me! I have known Grandpa He since I was a child. Everyone in the palace knows you. You won't ignore this matter just because you are afraid of death!"
"Your Highness wants to conduct a thorough investigation. What results do you want to find out?"
He Yuan glanced at Jiang Yu, shook his head helplessly, thought for a moment, and said sadly, "Before the onset of the disease, the food that the prince took was sent from the Changle Palace of the princess."
"Even if Your Highness and I are certain that this matter has nothing to do with Your Highness, if it gets out, rumors will spread and people will speak louder than words. How do you want Your Highness to deal with herself in Ji State from now on?"
"Xue'er won't!" Jiang Yu said anxiously, with beads of sweat rolling down the boy's forehead. "As long as this matter is investigated and the real culprit is identified, we can get the truth. Xue'er is a princess, who dares to say anything wrong?"
He Yuan's sad eyes slowly moved down from Jiang Yu's face, and finally lowered his head.
"Your Highness is not unaware that the Princess and the hostage Xiao Qi..." He Yuan sighed, "Once this matter is thoroughly investigated, the hostage cannot be separated from the connection. By then, the affair between the Princess and him will also be known to everyone."
"Even if it is found out that the proton was not responsible, the secrets of the imperial palace are always talked about by the common people," he spread his robe and knelt down. "Even if Her Highness has nothing to do with this matter, how can you protect her reputation?"
Seeing that Jiang Yu still wanted to refute, He Yuan looked around blankly, and finally sighed sadly.
"However, Your Highness and I, this old minister, all know that all relevant evidence now points to the hostage. This crime actually just needs to be thoroughly investigated." He Yuan suddenly concluded.
Jiang Yu looked at He Yuan in confusion. Yes... Li Congde, the letter, and the perfect timing to meet Jiang Xue, weren't they all related to Xiao Qi?
He Yuan took a deep breath and said:
“If the truth is finally revealed and the hostage is convicted, not only will Her Royal Highness be impeached by the officials for letting a wolf into the house without paying attention, but the crown prince will also be implicated. If word gets out, it will be seen as a fight between royal children. No unofficial history or anecdotes will let her off!
By then, there would probably be turmoil between the Gan and Ji countries.
It is already a worrying situation for a country to have no crown prince. With your personality, can you immediately inherit the crown prince's mantle?
In addition, you are not unaware of the political laws implemented by your majesty over the years, defending the interior and weakening the exterior, and never engaging in excessive military aggression. The nobles flourished but the military preparations declined. Moreover, the military and political affairs were weakened during the reign of Emperor Li, and the military defense of Ji State was no longer as prosperous as it was during the reign of Emperor Gaozu!
Now, Beixi has been gathering strength for many years, and is ambitious and eager to try to set foot in the Central Plains to fight for a place. If we immediately make enemies with Gan State, do you think that Ji State has enough strength now and can withstand such a disaster of being attacked from both sides?"
Jiang Yu shook his head in disbelief. "Is this how I'm going to let my eldest brother die?"
Jiang Yu took two steps back, and suddenly thought of something, and asked anxiously: "Father, is this what you meant?"
He Yuan knelt down with his forehead touching the ground. Upon hearing this, his withered body suddenly trembled, and then he said loudly: "His Majesty the Emperor does not know about this!"
He raised his head and looked at Jiang Yu with tearful eyes, but his tone became more and more decisive:
"I have already explained to Your Highness the consequences of this matter. Therefore, not only can His Majesty not know about this matter, but also His Majesty, and even more so, no one in the court, inside or outside the palace, can know about it!"
After saying that, he hit his head hard on the floor in the hall. Jiang Yu's face turned pale instantly. He instinctively stepped forward to support him, but saw that He Yuan's head was already stained with blood.
Jiang Yu looked at him, and for a moment he seemed to understand something, but then he felt his mind becoming more and more confused. He fell to the ground and murmured, "But if this is the case, this matter is hard to explain, and my brother will never know the truth until he dies. Now all the evidence points to Aqi, I'm afraid Xue'er will regret it for the rest of her life, and she will never let me go."
"Because all the evidence points to him, what else does Second Prince not understand?" He Yuan burst into tears, tightly grasped Jiang Yu's hand, and said: "Second Prince, from now on, please remember that the eldest prince suddenly suffered from an acute illness and his heart blood was difficult to continue. What happened before was really a misdiagnosis by this old minister."
In the elegant room of Haiyuntian, Jiang Xue clenched her hands tightly and asked softly, "Why didn't you tell me these things at the time?"
"You were still young at the time, and you were determined to identify the culprit." Jiang Yu said. He was only a teenager at the time.
"I know that telling you this will make it even harder to calm your anger. I also don't know what to do about this matter. I hesitated whether to report it to my father, and then -"
He glanced at Jiang Xue with a complicated expression.
Afterwards, he dared not mention the matter again and went to the northern border to gain experience alone, not staying in the capital, thinking that he could just pretend that nothing had happened.
He had doubts about the matter when the incident happened that day, but after He Yuan's dissuasion that day, he was left with confusion and helplessness in his heart and mind.
So many years have passed, and whenever he thinks of this matter, He Yuan's tearful warnings ring in his ears countless times, as if this poison could only come from Xiao Qi, and as if if the matter were to be found out, the diplomatic relations between Ji and Gan would change.
It seemed that He Yuan's words back then meant that he should only think this way.
Therefore, he never thought about anything else - if a thorough investigation was conducted back then and the things found out had nothing to do with Xiao Qi, then who could be involved?
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