"It's quite interesting..."
A nonchalant smile appeared on Huo Cenji's lips, but the smile did not reach his eyes.
A hint of coldness shot out from the slightly raised corners of his eyes, which finally turned into confusion and doubt.
In the end, he didn't see through Tang Yu. He didn't even know that Tang Yu was not only good at coaxing people with words, but also quite adept at putting on a show.
It seems that Tang Yu must have known that I had sent people to guard him, otherwise how could I have heard those words?
Tang Yu's obsession with that position cannot be eliminated overnight, so Huo Cenji certainly has reason to believe his speculation.
So he waved his hand to signal the assassin to leave. His indifferent attitude made the assassin hesitate and ask another question:
"Your Highness, do you still want to keep an eye on that person?"
"What do you think?" Huo Cenji leaned back, a hint of oppression in his eyes.
“…Yes!” The assassin couldn’t help but regret why he asked one more question, so he responded hurriedly and retreated.
Fortunately, Huo Cenji did not hold on to the assassin, but closed his eyes and allowed the assassin to leave.
As the room returned to silence, Huo Cenji finally put down his airs and revealed a trace of fatigue.
He rubbed his temples, but suddenly remembered that someone came to report about Tang Yu in the morning.
"Your Highness, although all the food was delivered, it was almost uneaten and sent out again."
"Your Highness, why don't you let that person write the abdication edict first..."
The chaotic voices once again intertwined and echoed in his mind. Huo Cenji closed his eyes irritably, trying to drive those voices out of his mind.
But no matter what, the lingering sound still pestered him tirelessly.
Oh, was Tang Yu sulking him by not touching the food? Or was he defending his so-called royal dignity and preparing to die with dignity?
Huo Cenji only hated himself for being too kind, and also hated Tang Yu for being ungrateful.
Before I had time to think deeply, there was a knock on the door.
"Your Highness... I have something to report." Liu Ziqing's voice came through the door, and the vague voice did not sound real.
Huo Cenji was well aware of Liu Ziqing's importance, so even though he had no intention of discussing political affairs, he relaxed and gestured for Liu Ziqing to come in.
Recently, when dealing with state affairs, Liu Ziqing's unique ideas can always find some breakthroughs from a pile of difficult and complicated issues. And because Liu Ziqing followed him all the way from the border to the capital, many people in the court are paying close attention to Liu Ziqing.
Even though Liu Ziqing has no official position now, many people still secretly regard Liu Ziqing as his capable subordinate, and they are just waiting for him to ascend the throne to personally appoint Liu Ziqing as the emperor's close minister.
As the door opened, the figure that appeared in Huo Cenji's eyes gradually became clearer.
Between contraction and expansion, Huo Cenji raised his eyes calmly and became the same as before.
Although Liu Ziqing did have a lot of things to discuss with Huo Cenji, there was one very important thing he had to say, otherwise he would not have come in such a hurry.
So Liu Ziqing cupped his hands, and then spoke with difficulty under Huo Cenji's silent gaze:
"Your Highness, there is something I'm not sure whether I should tell you..."
"If you really didn't know, you wouldn't have come before me." Huo Cenji's calm eyes were like a deep blue lake, with waves visible in the calmness.
Liu Ziqing: "..."
Well, in that case, Liu Ziqing has nothing to hesitate about.
So he told his guesses one by one -
"Your Majesty's weakness may be due to the poison."
"The previous imperial physician failed to recognize it, perhaps because the poison is lurking in the internal organs, making it easy for people to mistake it for a sign of physical weakness."
Huo Cenji's face was stunned for a moment, and his right hand on his leg slowly tightened. Then he raised his head and asked seriously:
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course it's true. When I first diagnosed Your Majesty, I also mistakenly thought it was a case of weakness. However, later, as you instructed, I took Your Majesty's pulse twice while he was asleep, and only then did I realize something was wrong."
"Then I remembered that Master had mentioned a similar poison before, and I began to have some idea of what it was. That's why I came here today to report this to you."
When he first entered the palace, Liu Ziqing naively thought that the Regent and His Majesty were enemies who could not tolerate each other, but who would bother to keep another one if they were enemies that could not tolerate each other?
So later on, Liu Ziqing inevitably became more cautious, and even restrained his dissatisfaction with that person in his tone, trying to stick to the facts.
Otherwise, he would not have come to report the matter. After all, this was a good thing for them without bloodshed.
But thinking of the Regent's attitude towards that person, Liu Ziqing considered it and decided not to hide it.
"Poisoned? How could he..." Huo Cenji's tone was indeed a little unbelievable, but now that the facts were in front of him, he had to believe it even if he didn't want to.
But Tang Yu was born noble, deeply favored by the late emperor, and blessed with the grace to grow up beside his mother. Who would harm Tang Yu? Who would have the opportunity to do something to Tang Yu?
Even later, when the previous emperor suddenly passed away and Tang Yu's mother died of grief, he followed the emperor's order to assist Tang Yu and placed a group of his own people around Tang Yu.
With his people watching him, where did the poison in Tang Yu come from?
Huo Cenji had never thought deeply about this matter before, and he had never thought that Tang Yu's poor health was due to the "poison".
He pinched his eyebrows with his hands, pondered for a moment and asked:
"This poison... do you know how long it's been there?"
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