Chapter 182 An Lingrong 123
As the late emperor's birthday approached, something was visibly wrong with the Third Prince.
In just two weeks, he had lost weight and his mood had become unstable. Although he could still pretend to be like this in front of the emperor, he still showed it in front of others.
He was always sometimes excited and energetic, and sometimes decadent and listless. Today in particular, perhaps because he woke up late, the Third Prince sat there yawning repeatedly, and his answers to the teacher's questions were incoherent.
After class, Hongli chased the third prince out, and no one noticed that Hongyao's face had turned ashen.
Such symptoms gave Hongyao some bad thoughts.
"Third brother, third brother!" Hongli patted the third prince on the shoulder. Seeing that he looked unhappy, he thought it was a sign of excessive indulgence. A flash of joy appeared in his eyes.
The Third Prince took a look and then slowly said, "Oh... Fourth Prince, is there something wrong?"
"I just noticed that Third Brother doesn't look very well, so I want to remind him not to let anything go wrong on the late Emperor's birthday tomorrow."
"The late emperor's birthday..." The Third Prince spoke in a tone that was sometimes soft and sometimes heavy, as if he was still in a dream. It took him a long time to react: "Oh, thank you for reminding me, Fourth Brother."
With that, he lifted his foot and left.
A gust of wind happened to pass by, and Hongli subconsciously twitched his nostrils, as if he smelled a faint strange smell.
On the second day, the third prince knelt in the main hall and felt a sharp pain in his knees and an itchy feeling on his body.
But his slow brain thought of the queen and... the throne, so he spoke up and followed Hongli's words to persuade Khan Ama to release his eighth uncle and fourteenth uncle.
This time, he was even slower than in his previous life and didn't even notice Khan Ama's increasingly serious aura. He kept saying words in his dream that irritated the emperor.
It was not until he could no longer utter a word that he realized the hall seemed... too quiet.
"You are really a good nephew to your uncles." The emperor turned his head and found for the first time that this person was even more stupid than he thought. Is this really his son?
"Khan, Khan, Father?" The Third Prince slowly began to feel fear, and his back became wet.
"Don't call me Khan Ama. I don't have a son like you who is unfilial to your father and king!" The emperor said calmly, "Since you are determined to plead for your eighth and fourteenth uncles, then become their son."
"Khan Ama, don't you want your son anymore?"
"You were the one who abandoned me first." The emperor waved his hand. "Come here, pass on my decree. Immediately strip the Third Prince of his yellow belt. From now on, he will be considered Yunsi's son. Drive him out of the palace and hand him over to Prince Heng for upbringing. Hurry!"
"Your Majesty, the Sixth Prince has requested an audience outside the palace. He has something important to report."
The emperor frowned and looked with disgust at the third prince who had collapsed into a puddle of mud on the futon. After thinking for a moment, he stood up and went to the side hall.
"What happened that brought you here to see me?"
The emperor was upset and lost his temper towards his most beloved son.
Hongyao stood at the bottom and looked around. The emperor was getting more and more puzzled, but he still waved his hand and asked Su Peisheng to wait outside with his men.
"Tell me, what happened?"
"Khan Father, my third brother has been in much poorer health recently." Hongyao's words made the emperor very confused, but as he revealed a series of symptoms, the emperor's originally confused expression gradually became solemn.
"From what my son saw, he seemed listless and tearful. Yesterday in class, he even had trouble holding a pen."
"You mean, he became like this because he inhaled something?" In fact, other diseases may also cause these symptoms, but with Hongyao's personality, if it was just an ordinary illness, he would not have made a big fuss to come to me.
"My son didn't think much of it at first, but when he met his third brother that day, he vaguely smelled a strange odor on him."
"My son recently opened the Compendium of Materia Medica and saw this substance mentioned there. Remembering that Khan Ama had issued a ban a few years ago, he sought out the imperial physician to examine this substance. The physician said that long-term consumption could easily lead to the contamination of this smell."
The emperor was already half convinced by what he said, but when he thought about the Third Prince's unnatural appearance just now, he became even more certain. He was immediately furious: "How dare someone disobey my order in the capital!"
"Go find the Third Prince and send the imperial physician to treat him."
At the emperor's command, Wen Shichu and other imperial doctors arrived here soon.
Ever since Doctor Wen castrated himself, the Emperor had no more scruples and trusted him more. However, because he was involved in such a shameful matter, he had been avoiding suspicion for the past two years and rarely visited the harem.
Wen Shichu, worthy of being the show's top doctor, examined the patient and hurriedly reported to the emperor, "Third Prince has indeed accidentally overdosed on Fu Shou Gao and is addicted. According to my humble judgment, he has been taking it for over a month."
"You ignorant fool, why don't you tell me where you found these things?" The emperor saw that the third prince was still in a dazed state, but the anger in his heart did not subside.
It's obvious that this idiot was framed by someone, but he still doesn't understand why. Even if those nonsense were instigated by others, his stupidity is really without a doubt.
The Third Prince also realized that the thing he was using was harmful, and he quickly crawled to the emperor's feet: "Khan Ama, Khan Ama, I don't know either. I just heard about the Yunyan Teahouse from the subordinates..."
"Yunyan Tea House?" The emperor naturally didn't know what this place was, but it didn't matter, he could just send someone to check it out.
He waved his hand and asked someone to help the Third Prince up. He watched him lying on the ground like a pile of mud, unable to get up for a long time. Even though he knew that it might be the effect of the medicine, he had already completely given up on this son in his heart.
"Your Majesty, I was busy fetching the imperial physician. This decree..."
The emperor then remembered that he had originally planned to return the third prince to the lineage of Yunsi, but now...
"Forget it, let him be adopted into the lineage of Prince Heng." The emperor still didn't want this son, but this time it was out of his fatherly love.
Regardless of who did it, they were only after the Third Prince's status as the eldest son. In other words, his position.
That child is not cut out for this. It is better to kick him out as soon as possible to put an end to some people's thoughts and to some people's evil hands.
After thinking about this, he noticed Hong Yao who was still standing aside, and then he waved him over and asked, "Who do you think is responsible for this?"
"I can't say for sure, I just have some thoughts in my mind. We have to wait until we find out the evidence." He raised his head, his eyes were extremely beautiful, exactly like his mother's.
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