Those were the index and middle fingers of Concubine Yuan's right hand, which were severed at the root. With Concubine Yuan's screams and the blood all over the ground, everyone took a few steps back. Some even shouted, "The Eighth Prince is crazy! He's crazy!"
At this time, Concubine Li, who had come slowly, also walked to the front of the hall. She saw the shocking scene and couldn't help but shudder. Her nerves, which were not normal to begin with, seemed to be stretched to the limit again. She looked a little flustered and kept searching among the princes. Finally, she found her son Xuan Tianfeng and quickly approached him. Then she asked in a mysterious tone, "What's going on? What happened that made you call me here in the middle of the night? Why did those palace servants say that I cursed the emperor? When did I harm the emperor? The person I harmed was clearly..."
"Mother, please be careful with your words." Xuan Tianfeng frowned and interrupted Concubine Li. "Mother, you should know what to say and what not to say. If you want your son to be able to stand here, you should think about it more in your heart. Look at the Eighth Prince and Concubine Yuan. You don't want your son to follow in their footsteps, do you?"
Concubine Li was startled, and immediately understood what Xuan Tianfeng meant. She glanced at Xuan Tianming guiltily, and was relieved to see that he didn't look at her. However, she didn't dare to say anything more. She wanted to ask the Queen, but how could the Queen care about her at the moment? Everyone's attention was focused on the Eighth Prince and Concubine Yuan!
Biting off two of Concubine Yuan's fingers did not alleviate the Eighth Prince's pain at all. Not only was he in pain, he even hated Concubine Yuan. In the past, the Eighth Prince would not hate Concubine Yuan. Even if things failed, that was fate. He still had a lot of feelings for his mother. But since his health problems and the last time Concubine Yuan went to Prince Sheng's Mansion, he suddenly realized that his mother had given up on him. She wanted to have another son. As long as she had a son in her hands, even if he was injured or died, it would not have much to do with her interests. She could just help another son to take the throne.
It was Concubine Yuan's thoughts that made the Eighth Prince resentful. For the first time, a rift arose between mother and son, so that he bit off Concubine Yuan's two severed fingers in a fit of rage and itchiness.
Now, both mother and son were lying on the square in front of Zhaohe Palace, howling, one more miserable than the other. The Eighth Prince spit out the finger in his mouth, and finally remembered something. He couldn't help but shout loudly: "Where is Zhang Yuan? Why hasn't he come out yet? Feng Yuheng! You used fake medicine to harm me! You deserve to die!"
Bang!
As soon as he uttered this, a whip suddenly came from somewhere and hit him hard on the back, almost making him vomit blood.
Xuan Tianmo was shocked and turned to look, but he saw Xuan Tianming was pulling the whip back bit by bit. As he pulled it back, he asked, "Who do you think should die? Believe it or not, if you say one more word, I will whip you to death!"
The gloomy feeling came over him again. This was the Ninth Prince that people were familiar with! This was the Ninth Hades! For so long, Xuan Tianming had kept a low profile due to the emperor's change in temperament. He never said much in politics, and he did not have a direct conflict with the Eighth Prince who was in the limelight. As a result, many people thought that the Ninth Prince was scared and had lost his bearing and was no longer the Hades. But unexpectedly, he was just dormant. At the critical moment, his domineering dignity still existed.
Xuan Tianmo dared to scold Feng Yuheng again, because he knew this ninth brother too well. He knew that when Xuan Tianming spoke like this, when Xuan Tianming showed such a look, it meant that the other party wanted to kill someone. He had no doubt that if he scolded Xuan Tianmo again, he would definitely beat him to death. If it were in the past, he could still fight against him, but in his current physical condition, he couldn't even stand up and was completely powerless to resist.
What's more, apart from Xuan Tianming, the Seventh Prince Xuan Tianhua and the Sixth Prince Xuan Tianfeng also looked at him with a serious warning, which clearly meant that if you scold Feng Yuheng again, we will all make things difficult for you.
He wanted to laugh and say that Feng Yuheng had provoked so many men, Lao Jiu, aren't you afraid of being cuckolded? But the words came to his lips but he couldn't say them. One reason was that he couldn't bear the itch, and the other was that he didn't dare. At this point, he still wanted to live!
Outside Zhaohe Hall, the Queen watched this scene with cold eyes, but said nothing. Concubine Yuan broke her finger and rolled on the ground in pain, but even the imperial physician ignored her. Without the Queen's order, no one dared to come forward to treat her.
Concubine Yuan looked at Xuan Tianmo with a pair of angry eyes that were spitting fire, and she cursed loudly in her collapse: "You are a beast! Beast! I am your mother, and you actually bit off my finger. I have raised you for nothing for so many years! Why don't you just die? Why don't you just die?"
Concubine Yuan's hysteria was met with people's ridicule. The once ambitious mother and son fell out, this was really a good show! However, while people were worried about this good show, they were also speculating about Emperor Tianwu who was still sleeping in the side hall. Someone whispered, "I heard that the emperor just woke up, but do you think he will be confused again after sleeping? This has happened before. What if he wakes up and is the same as before, then are we adding insult to injury? With the temper of Concubine Yuan and the Eighth Prince, they will not retaliate against us, right?"
Someone shook his head and said, "No. He changed his mind after sleeping before because Yao Xian and Princess Yu were not around. Now that those two have entered the palace, how could they give him the chance to be confused again? Don't worry! Just look at the confident look of the Ninth Prince. Concubine Yuan can't turn the tables on this matter."
People were just guessing, and finally, Zhang Yuan came back from Feng Yuheng with another bottle of medicine in his hand. He walked up to the Eighth Prince and said with a smile: "Sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time, Princess Yu said that she was too busy to diagnose the emperor, so she took the wrong box of ointment just now. That one is not for relieving itching, but for causing itching. This one is the real medicine."
"Fuck!" Xuan Tianmo was so angry that he wanted to rush into the side hall and bite Feng Yuheng to death. Did he take the wrong medicine? It was over with just one sentence? How much suffering had he endured? He stared at Zhang Yuan, gritting his teeth in hatred.
Zhang Yuan looked at him puzzledly and asked, "Why don't you take the medicine and use it quickly, Your Highness? Why are you looking at me? Don't you want it? If not, I will give it back to Princess Yu. The princess said that this medicine is expensive!"
"I want it!" Xuan Tianmo crawled forward and snatched the medicine from Zhang Yuan's hand. Without saying anything, he began to reach into his pants in front of everyone, which of course caused everyone to laugh.
Fortunately, the medicine was very effective this time. After applying it for a while, his itching was relieved. After a while, it disappeared completely. Xuan Tianmo tried to move, and the itching was gone, but he could feel severe pain. That was because he was only concerned with relieving the itch before, and scratched his lower body until it was bruised.
But after being itchy for so long, the pain was still bearable for him. He would rather die in pain than die of itching. So he quickly stood up from the ground. The long-lost pain made him feel very sour and comfortable. He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the ointment that cost one thousand taels of silver was not bought in vain. After all, it really worked. He didn't have to suffer anymore, nor did he have to be laughed at by others. He began to plan that after returning, even if he had to spend all the money in Prince Sheng's mansion, he would buy all of Feng Yuheng's ointment in case of emergency.
Xuan Tianmo asked Zhang Yuan: "You sent someone to get the silver, when will the ointment be delivered to me?"
Zhang Yuan said, "Your Highness, don't worry. Princess Yu said that when the emperor recovers and can leave the palace, she will naturally ask someone to send the ointment to Prince Sheng's mansion." After he finished speaking, he said no more, stepped back silently, and entered the side hall again. The old emperor was still lying there. Although Feng Yuheng and Yao Xian were there, he still wanted to watch over him himself, hoping that the old emperor would see him and talk to him after he woke up. △≧.*(.*)△≧,
When Xuan Tianmo heard that he had to leave the palace to get the medicine, he became anxious again. After all, this could only last for an hour. If the affairs in the palace were not dealt with after an hour, wouldn't he feel itchy again? So he quickly said to the queen, "Your Highness, please do whatever you want to interrogate as soon as possible. Didn't you say that Concubine Li poisoned the emperor? Now she's here, why haven't you interrogated her yet?"
The Queen glanced at him with a cold expression, and said with a warning: "Is this how the Eighth Prince talks to me? Although I am not your biological mother, as the Queen, I am your legal mother. It would be fine if you didn't call me mother, but now you are questioning me and giving me orders?"
Xuan Tianmo was furious, pointing at the queen and saying loudly: "She is just a decoration. I let you sit there because Dashun needs a queen to support the appearance. Don't think you really have much real power."
"Really?" The Queen glanced at him, then nodded suddenly, and said, "Yes, to be honest, my power is not as great as the Eighth Prince's. At least the command of the Imperial Guards is still in your hands. If you have any ideas, the palace will fall!" After she finished speaking, she looked deeply at the Eighth Prince, then turned her gaze to the Sixth Prince Xuan Tianfeng, and said, "I remember that 30,000 Northeastern troops were handed over to the Eighth Prince, but he was only in charge temporarily and did not officially take over the military power. The military token is still in the hands of the Sixth Prince, right?"
Xuan Tianfeng stepped forward, saluted respectfully, and said, "Your Majesty is right. The military token that commands the 30,000 Northeastern troops is indeed in your hand." As he spoke, he took out the military token from his arms on the spot, and then said, "Your Majesty, I will dispatch all the Northeastern troops in the palace to protect Zhaohe Hall. Please rest assured, Your Majesty."
Xuan Tianfeng showed the military token, which made Xuan Tianmo so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. He was only one step away from getting the military token. If he hadn't suddenly fallen ill that night at the palace banquet, Emperor Tianwu would have thought of giving it to him. Unfortunately, he was busy looking for famous doctors and rare medicines during his illness, and forgot about this matter. As a result, he was tricked by the old lady Queen and the sixth son today. He really regretted it.
There were many Northeastern troops in the palace, and they were originally sent in by Xuan Tianmo to maintain his own power in the palace. He had never thought that these people would be taken back one day, but today they suffered a loss. When he saw Xuan Tianfeng and a group of Northeastern troops surrounding the Zhaohe Palace, he felt that his fate had come to an end.
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