The scuffle and verbal abuse between Concubine Yuan and the Eighth Prince was seen by others as a dog-eat-dog situation in which neither of them was a good person, yet they were trying to shirk responsibility for each other.
The queen thought that if the king of ancient Shu was not there, she would be happy to watch for a while longer to see what the mother and son would end up with. The eighth prince could bite off two fingers of his mother, and it was possible that he would accidentally beat Concubine Yuan to death. In the entire harem, the person she hated the most was Concubine Yuan. If she really died at the hands of the eighth prince, she would really applaud.
But after all, the King of Ancient Shu was present today. As the Queen of a country, she couldn't let her family lose face in front of outsiders. Although she had almost lost it, she couldn't let them watch the fun any longer. So the Queen said, "Noble Concubine Yuan and the Eighth Prince conspired with an outside Gu master to use Gu poison to harm the Emperor. They deserve death. The Emperor is still recovering. Pass on my decree to put the two of them in death row first, and wait for the Emperor to recover before they are dealt with."
At this point, everyone knew that the Eighth Prince and Concubine Yuan were finished! These two people were rising stars, but after a few months of glory, they still couldn't hold on to the happy ending they imagined, and were eventually defeated by the Ninth Prince. Even the servants in the palace sighed in their hearts, in the end, it was still a step behind, and the Ninth Prince, who was loved by the emperor since childhood, was more powerful.
A large number of palace servants stepped forward and restrained the two. Xuan Tianmo tried to struggle, but the Sixth Prince had ordered the Northeast Army to help, and soon they carried the two away from the Zhaohe Palace and sent them to the death row.
Xuan Tianmo was not unfamiliar with the death row. He had been there before and walked all the way to the guillotine. He thought he would never return to this place again, but he did not expect that in just a few months, history would miraculously repeat itself.
The soldiers carried both him and Concubine Yuan in and chose two cages facing each other, locking one person in each, so that the two of them could face each other and look at each other, which was quite ironic.
When the soldiers left and the prison finally quieted down, Concubine Yuan stared at her son opposite her, feeling extremely regretful. If she hadn't saved him, if she hadn't teamed up with the Gu Master to save her son, although her son would have died, she could have continued to live. As long as she stopped stirring up trouble in the harem, even if she was no longer noble, she wouldn't have ended up like this. The more she thought about it, the more upset she became, and the more she regretted it, she couldn't help but get angry and said, "I shouldn't have saved you! I shouldn't have saved you!"
Xuan Tianmo looked at his mother coldly. He no longer had the same love he had for her before. He was filled with hatred. He said, "Who asked you to save me? You saved me on your own initiative. Why, do you regret it now? Don't think I don't know what you think. If you didn't have the idea of abandoning me and giving birth to another son to inherit the throne, I would never have made things difficult for you. You brought all this upon yourself! Bitch!" Finally, he said the word "bitch" viciously, and then looked at Concubine Yuan with a strong look of contempt.
Concubine Yuan cried out loudly: "I raised an ungrateful wolf! I raised an ungrateful wolf!" After saying that, she finally fainted completely. The blood from the severed fingers began to flow again, stained by the damp and smelly water in the cell, and gradually rotted.
Xuan Tianmo could not feel the slightest bit of sympathy for her. Just as he said, he had already given up hope on this mother when he realized that Concubine Yuan was ready to abandon him. What kind of mother is she if she can even abandon her own son?
At this moment, his feet were in the gutter of the prison cell. The stinky water soaked the upper of his shoes and made his feet cold. But this was not what Xuan Tianmo was afraid of. The cold, the stench, the pain, none of these could compare to the disease he had contracted. Once the strange itch came back, he would want to stab himself to death with a knife. Previously, he had someone pay 100,000 taels of silver to buy medicine from Feng Yuheng. I wonder if the medicine can be delivered to the prison cell.
As soon as he thought of this, he shouted, "Is there anyone here? Is there anyone here? Someone come! Someone come quickly! I have something to ask you!"
After he kept shouting, he finally called two guards over. However, the two were very disdainful of his shouting. One of them even said, "What do you mean by this prince? Do you think you are still a prince? Eighth Prince, I will remind you one last time. Once you enter this death row, there is no chance of leaving alive. Although you have broken this rule once, your luck ran out that time. Stop shouting and wait for your punishment!"
After the two finished talking, they turned around and left, without even listening to what Xuan Tianmo wanted to say. In their eyes, this was no different from a dead person, including Concubine Yuan opposite, who was lying in a puddle of stinking water at this time, her clothes were in disarray, and blood was flowing all over the ground from her broken fingers. But no one would care about her. Once you enter here, even if you accidentally die, no one will ask about it. No matter who you are, it's the same.
Xuan Tianmo finally began to feel scared. He was not afraid of anything else, but he was just afraid that after a while, the itching would come back. The discomfort would be worse than death!
Not to mention the two men in the death row, at this time, outside Zhaohe Palace, after the Queen's final order punished Concubine Yuan and the Eighth Prince, the concubines' idea of seeing the Emperor was rejected, so people did not stay any longer and returned to their own palaces.
By this time, the sky had already turned white. Only a group of princes were still outside the Zhaohe Palace, waiting to see Emperor Tianwu after he woke up. However, the king of Gu Shu followed Xuan Tiange out of the palace. Now was not the best time to see Emperor Tianwu. The formal meeting between the two kings should be when his royal team arrived in Beijing.
Emperor Tianwu would need some time to wake up due to the effects of the anesthetic. Yao Xian was watching from inside and knew that there was no major problem. Feng Yuheng walked out of the side hall and told the empress and the princes about the situation inside. People were relieved when they heard that Emperor Tianwu was not in danger of life. Especially the empress, who had been feeling extremely depressed for the past few months. Now that she finally felt that the sky was clearing up, her mood also relaxed. She kept saying to Feng Yuheng, "You have to have a way. I am really worried that the emperor will continue to be so confused until one day he hands over the Dashun Kingdom to Lao Ba and that woman. That would be the misfortune of Dashun." After she finished speaking, she sighed again, and then, with Fang Yi's help, she walked to Zhaohe Hall to rest.
At this time, the people sent by Zhang Yuan also came back from Prince Sheng's Mansion, holding a silver note of 100,000 taels and handing it to Zhang Yuan. The silver note was now free, and there was no need to send medicine anymore. Zhang Yuan happily gave the silver note to Feng Yuheng, and then said: "If I had known this earlier, I might as well have asked for more!" He was in a very good mood now. This little eunuch had no one else in his heart all his life, and he served Emperor Tianwu wholeheartedly. Now that Emperor Tianwu was well and recovered, he treated him like before. He was like alive and full of energy. However, he was not so happy that he forgot everything. He still mentioned to Xuan Tianming: "Your Highness, the people who served the emperor in the past have been bought and replaced by Concubine Yuan and the Eighth Prince in the past few months. Now there are almost no reliable ones. Please ask Your Highness to make some arrangements and replace them with some capable people!"
Xuan Tianming nodded, "I will take care of these things myself, including the secret guards around the old man. It's time to replace them. As for the Royal Guards in this palace, it seems that I will have to go to the dungeon in person and get the Royal Guards' commander badge back."
"I'll go with you." Feng Yuheng said, "People who have been glorious for a few months, I want to see if they still think they have a chance to turn things around." As she said that, she casually stuffed the 100,000 taels of silver note to Zhang Yuan: "Take it, buy yourself some delicious food to replenish your body, you have suffered a lot these days. In addition, don't the people around the emperor need to be replaced? You can find those who did not kick you when you were down, did not deliberately alienate you because of your trouble, and are even willing to help you. Human nature can only be stimulated at this time, and such people are worth using." After she finished speaking, she followed Xuan Tianming and walked to the death row.
When the two finally stood in front of Xuan Tianmo, the hour Xuan Tianmo had spent applying the ointment had just passed. At this time, the itching disease recurred, and he was lying on the ground scratching inside his pants. When he saw Feng Yuheng coming, he rushed directly to the prison door, not caring about his appearance, and said, "Are you here to give me medicine? You took 100,000 taels from me, so you should give me the medicine, right? Hurry up! Feng Yuheng, give me the medicine quickly!"
Feng Yuheng seemed to have heard the funniest joke. She asked Xuan Tianmo, "We are enemies! We are hostile to each other! How can you be so naive to think that I will give you medicine if I take your money?"
Xuan Tianmo was stunned. "Not giving medicine? Then why did you take my money? Why did you say that the ointment cost one thousand and two taels of silver per box?"
Someone shrugged, "It's obvious that I just want to cheat you out of your money." After she finished speaking, she chuckled again, "Xuan Tianmo, come to think of it, your Sheng Palace really has a constant source of income! I moved so much from the warehouse in the back mountain, but I didn't expect that I still couldn't hurt your vitality."
Feng Yuheng's sudden words made Xuan Tianmo almost forget about his itch in an instant, and he just opened his mouth wide and looked at Feng Yuheng like a monster. "Did you empty the place?" He almost couldn't believe it. Although he had thought of this possibility, no matter how he thought about it, he felt it was a rebuttal because it was simply impossible. But now that Feng Yuheng took the initiative to mention it, he had to believe that the thing that looked and sounded very strange was closely related to the girl in front of him.
"The guards of Prince Sheng's Mansion are nothing more than that." Feng Yuheng's words were full of contempt. After he finished speaking, he looked at Xuan Tianmo's hand that unconsciously reached into his pants to scratch an itch, and his face was full of disdain again: "You are an elder brother after all, how dare you put your hand into your pants in front of your younger brother and sister-in-law?" After speaking, he turned around and asked Xuan Tianming, "Husband, how do you think we should punish him?"
Xuan Tianming's lips were filled with that sinister smile, which made Xuan Tianmo feel cold all over, and he subconsciously took two steps back. But before he could take the third step, he felt his arm tighten, and then his whole body was suddenly pulled forward by a strong force, and he hit the door of the cell with a "bang".
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