Chapter 23 The truth was told by an old man in his fifties...
The speaker was an old man in his fifties, sitting high on the throne. His face was sagging and sallow, his cheekbones prominent, his eye sockets sunken, and he looked sharp and mean.
Song Heng saw the man on the throne. Even though he was already old and rotten, he was breathing heavily with great effort after saying just four words. However, the dangerous aura around him did not diminish in the slightest.
"come over."
The hoarse voice from a broken throat rang out again. The Prime Minister, the old eunuch before him, was surrounded and alone. Even with death imminent, his eyes remained proud, without a trace of fear. He sat firmly on the throne. As the hoarse voice rang out, his deeply sunken eyes, like a vulture, locked onto Song Heng. He slowly extended his hand, beckoning him forward.
It was the last struggle before death. When everyone felt that it was nothing to be afraid of, Song Heng followed the old eunuch's hand and took action.
Seeing the person coming over obediently, the old eunuch laughed loudly, and the wrinkles on his face piled up. He turned around, faced the side, and waved to the other side as well.
Wang Dequan, who was waiting nearby, also took action.
By the time everyone reacted, Song Heng had already followed the man's instructions and moved several steps away from the main force.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" Lu Zhifeng stepped forward quickly and took Song Heng's hand.
Song Heng directly shook off Lu Zhifeng's hand and kept moving forward like a clockwork puppet.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry." Lu Zhifeng couldn't let anyone go forward, so he leaned over again and picked up Song Heng.
The procedure was restricted, Song Heng was confused and struggled violently.
"Quick, take down that old eunuch." The person causing trouble was obvious, and he had to be subdued quickly.
Song Heng struggled violently until he was completely exhausted, and his movements gradually weakened. Finally, he could check on the situation. Song Heng stopped struggling, and Lu Zhifeng put him on his feet, holding him tightly with both hands to prevent him from collapsing due to the weakness of his legs and feet.
There was a height difference of several centimeters. Lu Zhifeng raised his eyes slightly, and Song Heng's slightly lowered head came into his sight.
The first thing that caught my eye was a pair of lifeless eyes. The black pupils were abnormally enlarged, and although they were staring straight ahead, they couldn't focus.
"Host, you are in a daze now." The system saw Song Heng who had shed his shell again, and teased him guiltily but started a random conversation.
Song Heng grabbed the little black ball and squeezed it into a round shape and flattened it several times. "You're also stupid now."
With his head still dizzy, the little black ball begged for mercy.
"What use would you have? If there's even the slightest disturbance outside, I'll be the one to faint." The original owner's body was truly ruined, ruining Song Heng's chance to show off his skills. He'd been planning this for so long, just waiting to catch them all here.
He was saying, "Why didn't this old guy run away even though he was already at the door?" It turned out he had a backup plan.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Wake up?" Lu Zhifeng was unwilling to accept that his Majesty had become like this. He leaned close to Song Heng's ear and kept calling out.
In vain. Completely in vain.
"Tell me, what happened, old man?" Lu Zhifeng grabbed the culprit who bumped into him with one hand.
"I won't tell you. If you don't want him to be like this forever, just treat me well." The old eunuch spoke in a hoarse voice. If you ignored the content, you might think he was a teacher or scholar.
Gentle and kind, teaching earnestly.
With an indifferent tone, but threatening words, Lu Zhifeng used all his strength to grab the old thing and slammed it to the ground.
"puff."
The moment the old eunuch landed, blood gushed from his mouth. Then, like a dead fish, he crumpled to the ground, his rotting body folded in a strange position. He stared, motionless.
Lu Zhifeng: "Miss Su, please go and see if he's still breathing."
"Is he still alive?" Lu Zhifeng took the time to ask without taking his eyes off Song Heng.
“Alive.”
"Can you wake him up immediately?" Every time he encountered something related to Song Heng, Lu Zhifeng clenched his fists in frustration, deeply lamenting that he was too impulsive.
Now I want to slap myself hard a few times.
It's simply impossible to tell priorities apart.
"It's simple. Give him a bucket of ice water and he'll wake up."
"Listen to Miss Su and do it quickly." Lu Zhifeng gave the order, "Miss Su, come and see His Majesty's condition."
Song Heng was still in a dazed state. Su Keke checked him carefully one by one and shook her head.
Chen Yeran watched the whole thing from the side and pointed at the ignored person. "Maybe he knows something?"
Without any intervention, Wang Dequan has now walked up to the platform and stood next to the throne.
Just like Song Heng, he stood there in a daze.
"Master Lu, the person is awake."
The old eunuch was lying in a puddle of water, probably injured inside. He was leaning against a pillar in the hall in a completely ungraceful manner, gasping for breath.
"Where is the antidote?" Lu Zhifeng leaned over and shot an angry look at the old eunuch.
"Hahaha." Hearing Lu Zhifeng actually asking about the antidote, the old eunuch found it hilarious. "You don't know, you still don't know!"
"Hahaha."
"There is no antidote at all, no antidote." The matter was already a foregone conclusion. The old eunuch had given up and would consider it a profit if he could anger a few more people to death.
"Why not?" Lu Zhifeng was completely furious and grabbed the old eunuch's collar again, but his movements were not as heavy as at the beginning.
It’s not too late to kill him slowly later.
The old eunuch pretended not to hear and continued to mutter, "No, no, nothing."
"Your life is in my hands now. If you don't want to go through all kinds of torture and die, you'd better tell me why." Seeing that the man was unmoved, Lu Zhifeng continued to threaten, "I have been with His Majesty for so long, and I have learned a lot of his torture methods."
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you." The old eunuch was frightened. He didn't want to try the devil's tricks. "He's been poisoned."
"What kind of Gu?"
"I don't know. I only know that this poison will corrode people's hearts and lead to their death if they don't take the medicine on time."
"Medicine? What medicine?" Lu Zhifeng asked anxiously.
"A blood-colored pill that I give every month."
"Anything else? Hand it over quickly." Lu Zhifeng suddenly calmed down. "You can't be so kind. What effect does the medicine have?"
The old eunuch glanced at Song Heng and couldn't help laughing. "It's useless. It's completely useless. He hasn't eaten it three times. It's useless to eat it now."
"Hahaha, he's hopeless," the old eunuch continued to mutter to himself, "Not taking the medicine three times is equivalent to death. I should be grateful that he didn't take it. This allowed me to control the emperor before I died."
"The effect...it's useless if you eat it. It just makes people live or die."
"Hahaha, I have no regrets in dying."
"Your Majesty must have discovered the problem with the medicine. You must take one pill every month, but as the dosage increases, it's easy to suffer a mental breakdown and lose control." Wang Dequan, who suddenly regained consciousness, explained, "The old eunuch used the pills to lure you into control."
Lu Zhifeng questioned, "Then why are you still like this even though you are awake?"
"Your Majesty and I are not of the same kind."
"Hahaha, you don't know yet. His poison was given by the old emperor." The slightly crazy old eunuch suddenly interrupted.
"His father didn't want him to live a long time ago. He's lucky to still be alive." The old eunuch pointed at himself and said, "You should all thank me. I gave him medicine, which allowed him to live this long. Otherwise, he would have been a pile of dust long ago."
"Hahaha!" Another burst of laughter, this time, the old eunuch fainted completely.
*
There were many different opinions about the court affairs, but none of them was accurate. All the people involved gathered in the palace.
The only accurate thing is that the cabinet rebelled.
It was taken away again.
After a night of turmoil, the capital returned to normal in the morning.
Those who know something dare not comment, and the people who don’t know only care about whether the world will be unfavorable to them.
Will there be a few percent more tax revenue?
The palace was not so lively. With the old eunuch fainting and no source of information, after giving the order,
Then they all dispersed.
Song Heng remained in a daze for a while before fainting again.
The frequency has been too high recently.
"You should know something." After settling Song Heng, Lu Zhifeng started questioning Wang Dequan who was following closely.
"Since things have come to this, I will tell you everything I know." Wang Dequan seemed unaffected by Lu Zhifeng's pressure, and even had a look of relief on his face.
"The main person involved in these matters is your Majesty. Speaking of which," Wang Dequan took a look and became more certain, "it is also related to you."
"What does this have to do with me?" I didn't expect that I would be involved.
"Back then, the old emperor was obsessed with cultivating immortality."
Su Keke said she knew: "This is a well-known fact."
"But there are quite a few things going on here. The old emperor summoned all kinds of extraordinary talents from all over the world in an attempt to create the elixir of life. However, he valued his life and did not trust the things these people made. So..."
Chen Yeran also responded naturally, "Your Majesty is the guinea pig."
After all, he was familiar with this matter, and after he finished speaking, he glanced at Su Keke.
Su Keke gave him an angry glare.
"More than that." Wang Dequan shook his head and pointed at the three people in turn, "Your Majesty, me and even you."
Lu Zhifeng seemed to be lost in thought, and Song Heng's figure, trembling when he heard the word imperial physician, appeared in his mind.
Is this the reason?
Su Keke was more interested in why the symptoms were different, "Then..."
Wang Dequan also knew what she wanted to ask. "The refining process and the prescriptions are different. I am one of them, and I am also from the early batch. The medicine at that time did not have so many symptoms. It was just addictive, and under the influence of the medicinal gas, people could not control themselves. Unlike Your Majesty, who seems to be suffering from hysteria and behaves strangely from time to time."
Lu Zhifeng: "So, everything Your Majesty did before was caused by the illness."
"Not really. Killing one's enemies is natural." Wang Dequan had seen the suffering Song Heng endured when he was young. "But matters at court are not necessarily the same. That old eunuch seems to be able to obstruct His Majesty's decisions."
"The court..." The last time Song Heng was in the court, the image was very different from that of the Yangxin Palace.
What about before? I didn't dare look up, I had no memory of it. Perhaps, selfishly, it was just once.
Or maybe every time we get along is enough to prove it.
Your Majesty, he is not violent.
The author has something to say:
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Song Heng: "You are so arbitrary in judging me as not violent. If the company hadn't grown bigger and stronger, I wouldn't dare to imagine how cruel I would be."
Lu Zhifeng smiled, his tone tolerant: "Your Majesty, I like you no matter what you do!"
Song Heng: "I'm going to hire three secretaries: one to warm water, one to grind coffee, and one to season. [Sunglasses]"
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