"Father?" Bei Mingxuan seemed flattered. "Son, nice to meet you..."
"No thanks." The emperor immediately supported Bei Mingxuan, who was about to salute, but as he stretched out his hand, a chill instantly spread from his fingertips to his whole body.
Subconsciously, he immediately let go of Bei Mingxuan, "Why is this happening?"
"Father, are you referring to your son's body temperature?" Bei Mingxuan asked, "I was wrong to offend you."
"Why is that?"
The emperor couldn't stand this bone-chilling temperature.
Bei Mingxuan let out a wry smile. "It's always been like this, Father. It was just that before, I used wine to nourish my body. Now, after being injured by Dongfang Ge's knife, the cold poison has worsened, and the wine I used to use can no longer nourish my son's body."
"I remember that your body wasn't this cold when you were a child." The emperor frowned. "Your mother said that the poison was present in your body from birth. So, why is it so different now than when you were a child?"
"Father." Chang'an came over with water and fed it to Bei Mingxuan himself. "Father, if Chang'an says that this matter was premeditated..."
"Chang'an!" Bei Mingxuan immediately interrupted Chang'an and scolded him, "Don't make random statements without evidence."
Chang'an immediately shut up, looking innocently at Bei Mingxuan, then at the emperor, "You're saying it as if I'm wrongly accusing someone. You're so patient with injustice, so you don't mind others harming you."
Chang An said this with an angry look on his face, not caring at all about the change in the emperor's expression, "In the final analysis, my father doesn't love me, and my mother doesn't care about me. This was how Chang An was before, which is why he was bullied in the general's mansion.
But Chang'an's father was disabled and his mother was dead.
But you, Bei Mingxuan, are different. Your father is the emperor, and your mother is still alive, yet you endure this kind of humiliation. You deserve to be plotted against. If you lose your life, you can only blame yourself for being stupid."
"Gu Chang'an!" Bei Mingxuan shouted angrily, "If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb."
Chang'an pursed his lips, tears in his eyes, but he didn't say another word.
The emperor, standing aside, looked at Chang'an's aggrieved look and felt that this girl had been wronged.
It seems like it’s all his son’s fault, so he won’t let others speak…
But the emperor didn't know that this was intentional by Gu Changan and Bei Mingxuan.
"Haha." The emperor looked at Gu Chang'an, "You are really sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued. I heard you all complaining about your son. It seems that the rumor that Prince Xuan is henpecked is not without reason."
Chang'an secretly glanced at Bei Mingye, only to see that she was looking at him, so he immediately lowered his head and said quickly and quietly, "If the emperor had paid more attention, this wouldn't have happened in Prince Xuan's mansion."
Bei Mingxuan wanted to say something, but was stopped by the emperor's eyes, and in the end he didn't say a word.
The emperor looked at Chang'an, took a deep breath, and then slowly spoke, "Just now, what did you want to say? Why did you say that this matter was premeditated, or what do you know?"
Chang'an didn't speak immediately, but just looked at Bei Mingxuan.
"Speak!" The emperor looked at Chang'an's expression and knew that she was asking about Bei Mingxuan.
But he felt very uncomfortable at this moment. His son was being plotted against. Was it because he didn't care about him?
This statement made him very sad.
He really didn't want to admit it, but he knew it was the truth. "But, Gu Changan, you have to be responsible for what you said."
Changan nodded vigorously, looking like a good girl. "Changan will definitely take responsibility for what she said. However, I'm not saying anything bad about anyone. I'm just stating what I saw with my own eyes."
"Did you see it with your own eyes?" The emperor's expression was solemn.
"Yes." Chang'an said, "When my mother was poisoned, Chang'an didn't know what happened, but there is one thing I believe is that it was because of a fight for favor, there is no doubt about that.
Just talking about the recent situation, the prince has been using wine to nourish his body, and it is precisely because of this that the cold poison has not occurred for so many years.
But the night before we set out, someone sneaked into the mansion and broke the prince's wine jug. That's why the cold poison broke out."
"Are you sure someone broke the wine jug on purpose?" The emperor asked Bei Mingxuan while looking at him.
"Yes, my son is sure that someone broke into the mansion." Bei Mingxuan said, "But Fu Cheng followed that person, but lost him on Mingji Street."
The emperor looked thoughtful, but did not speak again.
Chang'an continued, "Father, there's one more thing. After the prince's cold poison struck, Chang'an decided to go to Zuo Shiguo with the prince the next day to seek medical treatment. We asked the ghost doctor in Zuo Shiguo to treat the prince, hoping that the prince could get rid of the cold poison."
"Yes." The emperor nodded, "I heard from that girl Lan'er that she saw you off when you left that day.
I heard about your conversation and learned about the cold poison you were suffering from, and you told me about it."
"That day, Princess Lan was there," Chang Ah said. "That day, Mother scolded Chang An because he said in front of Princess Lan that he wanted to go to Zuo Shiguo to find a ghost doctor to treat the prince's cold poison."
"Chang'an, perhaps you're overthinking this. What does this really mean?" the Emperor said. "If Concubine Tong was poisoned because of a harem struggle for favor, then why did Xuan'er's cold poison worsen today? Is it still a struggle for favor?"
"It's not about vying for favor." Chang'an said quickly and confidently, "It's because of the Qilin military talisman."
The emperor had not thought of this answer, but he did not want to admit it, even though the Qilin military token had been snatched away by Dongfang Ge of Shijin Kingdom.
"That's right." The emperor's eyes lit up. "Then it can be proved that the person who sneaked into the mansion and smashed the wine jug must be Dongfang Ge's man."
"There's nothing wrong with that," Chang'an said, "After all, everyone in the world knows that the Qilin Military Token was given to me by my grandfather.
It's quite possible that someone came to our Shuzhou Kingdom with the intention of taking advantage of the Qilin Military Talisman. But Father, why did that person attack the prince?
The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly, "Gu Chang'an, what exactly do you want to say? Tell me clearly, make it clear."
“If the person who sneaked into the mansion is from our Shuzhou Kingdom, then he must be a member of the royal family.
If not, it can only mean that the Shuzhou royal family has connections with the Shijin Kingdom, just like the Battle of Junhai, where someone colluded with the Shijin Kingdom and betrayed our military intelligence, leading to that disastrous defeat."
The emperor's anger was suppressed, "Do you have evidence?"
"Breaking the prince's wine jug is evidence. Breaking the jug will trigger the cold poison. Breaking the jug will allow them to ambush us on the road and steal the Qilin military talisman.
For so many years, the only person who knew that the prince was suffering from a cold poison and that he needed to use wine to suppress it was the poisoner.
The emperor's heart was trembling again, but he was still unwilling to admit that this matter was related to the royal family. "Gu Changan, everything you said is speculation, not evidence."
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