Thinking of this, Mu Zhuohua half-opened the car door. Zhijian heard the noise behind him, turned his head and looked at Mu Zhuohua, his brows showing impatience.
Zhijian: "What are you doing? Don't ask me to buy buns again!"
Mu Zhuohua: "..."
Mu Zhuohua was choked for once.
"Ahem..." Mu Zhuohua touched his nose and coughed twice awkwardly, "You misunderstood, I'm just feeling stuffy in the car, so I wanted to open the door to get some fresh air and talk to you by the way."
Zhijian turned his face away with disgust: "Open the window for some fresh air, don't get close to me if you're bored."
Mu Zhuohua:...
"I'm just worried about the prince." Mu Zhuohua sighed softly artificially, "Zhijian, you said that only Zhimo was waiting there. If the prince really encountered danger, it would be of no help."
Zhijian answered without thinking too much, "That person is not in the palace. There are purple guards outside the palace to pick him up. Zhimo is cautious and there should be no problem."
"That person..." Mu Zhuohua frowned and immediately realized that Zhijian had used these two words disrespectfully to describe Emperor Zhaoming who had left the palace. Zhijian had always suspected that it was Emperor Zhaoming who was the mastermind, so he was always disrespectful to Emperor Zhaoming in his words, but there was no sufficient evidence to prove that it was Emperor Zhaoming who did it...
Did they find some evidence?
"Killing doesn't have to happen on the spot. There are so many guards in the palace." Mu Zhuohua said tentatively, "What if he lets the guards do it?"
Zhijian sneered: "If he didn't mind leaving himself a bad name for eternity and wanted to use this method to harm his brothers and sisters, how could he have used so many tricks."
Mu Zhuohua's hair stood on end when he heard this. He clenched his slightly trembling right hand, calmed his mind, and said: "That's right... Three years ago, he set up such a big plan and killed so many people just to get rid of the prince..."
Zhijian suddenly realized that he had said too much. Remembering that Liu Yan had asked him not to tell Mu Zhuohua, he immediately frowned, turned his head and glared at Mu Zhuohua: "Don't ask too much about this matter."
Mu Zhuohua looked calm and composed: "I didn't ask you, the prince told me everything."
Zhijian widened his eyes in surprise: "The prince clearly asked us to keep it from you..."
"I guessed it myself, and the prince told me." Mu Zhuohua smiled slightly, "After all, we are all in the same boat, and I am in danger because of this matter. It is not easy for the prince to hide it from me."
There is some truth in what Mu Zhuohua said. In addition, her expression is relaxed and she does not seem to be faking it, so Zhijian believed it and let down his guard against Mu Zhuohua.
"Since you know everything, there's nothing to guard against you." Zhijian waved his whip angrily, "I advise you to stay away from Princess Roujia. That person pointed Princess Roujia to Xue Xiaotang. In my opinion, Princess Roujia must have participated in the betrayal of the prince. Xue Xiaotang listens to her the most."
Mu Zhuohua's pupils shrank and she exclaimed, "Xue Xiaotang betrayed the prince!"
Zhijian glanced at her suspiciously, "What's so surprising?"
Mu Zhuohua suppressed her emotional shock and smiled, "No, I'm angry. The prince has no grudge against him. How could he do this!"
Zhijian sneered, "He is just that person's knife. What qualifications does a knife have to talk about... Hatred, he will kill whoever others want him to kill, and when he is done with it, he will just throw it away. "
Mu Zhuohua's mind was spinning rapidly, and she continued along with Zhijian's words: "The prince has found evidence and knows that it was Xue Xiaotang who betrayed the intelligence of the State of Chen. The man who used the eagle claw hook is also Xue Xiaotang's man..."
Zhijian said: "The prince has been in a coma for half a year. The man who hunted down the deserters has killed many of them. I am afraid that the six people have already died under the wandering needles, and there is no evidence."
Mu Zhuohua couldn't believe it, frowned and puzzled: "It turned out to be him..."
Zhaoming Emperor is such a gentle person, Mu Zhuohua always has a hunch in her heart, she doesn't believe that Zhaoming Emperor will harm Liu Yan, and it is because of this hunch that she stands by Liu Yan. If Zhaoming Emperor really wants to kill Liu Yan, she will be crazy to let herself stand on the opposite side of Zhaoming Emperor.
So Liu Yan protects her and is careful about her like this, also thinking that it is Zhaoming Emperor who wants to get rid of her?
"No, the people who attacked me must not be His Majesty's men." Mu Zhuohua recalled the situation at that time, grabbed Zhijian's shoulders fiercely, and whispered, "Zhijian, I think you must have misunderstood. Those three people have ordinary martial arts and foreign accents. They don't look like people His Majesty would use."
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Zhijian frowned at the hand on his shoulder and replied, "The less they look like, the more likely it is a disguise."
"Others can be disguised, but I am very clear about one thing." Mu Zhuohua's eyes were firm, "That night I was chased by them for more than an hour. They were not as familiar with the access road to Dingjing as I was, and I repeatedly got rid of them. If they were His Majesty's men, how could they be unfamiliar with the streets of Dingjing."
Zhijian was stunned for a moment. He wanted to refute, but he couldn't find a reason for a while.
"Even if... even if it wasn't the one who sent someone to kill you, it can't prove that the person who betrayed the prince three years ago was not him." Zhijian insisted that the mastermind behind the scenes three years ago was Emperor Zhaoming.
"Why are you so sure?" Mu Zhuohua asked.
Zhijian's thoughts had been led astray by Mu Zhuohua, and he answered subconsciously: "Xue Xiaotang is a military man. Who else can order him to do things except that person. If he didn't do it, why would he kill him to silence him afterwards and make it impossible for the prince to investigate. And as for the Huanyang Powder, you said it yourself. This medicine must have come from the Imperial Hospital. Who else except the emperor can order the people in the Imperial Hospital to spend a lot of money to develop a new medicine, and then hide the prescription from the world. He asked people to develop this medicine just to kill the prince without anyone knowing and preserve his own reputation."
Mu Zhuohua's mind seemed to have a string suddenly snapped, making a buzzing sound. "No, no!" Mu Zhuohua shook his head in astonishment, "Wrong..."
Zhijian said unhappily, "What's wrong?"
Mu Zhuohua said in a hoarse voice, "I heard about Huanyang Powder from my mother. So, this medicine has existed at least twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, the prince was probably not even born yet, and His Majesty was only ten years old and had not yet been appointed as the crown prince. How could he have hidden it from everyone and asked the Imperial Hospital to develop a medicine to deal with a non-existent person?"
Zhijian suddenly realized the time issue after hearing what Mu Zhuohua said. He pinched his fingertips and murmured, "That's right... We also heard about this medicine from you... But this alone cannot overturn the other two points. It was indeed Xue Xiaotang who betrayed the prince and the murderer who silenced him."
Mu Zhuohua still felt that there was something wrong with this idea. Her mind was a mess, as if something flashed through her mind, but it was hard to figure out in the mess.
The carriage stopped in front of Prince Ding's mansion. Mu Zhuohua got off the carriage absent-mindedly and returned home following her own shadow.
Guo Juli was preparing lunch. When he saw Mu Zhuohua coming in, he said, "Miss, I have boiled the water for you to take a bath. Go and wash yourself before coming down to eat."
Mu Zhuohua responded without turning her head, went up to the attic and sat in front of the dressing table. She took off her official hat and was in a daze for a while. She shook her head and sighed deeply.
It turned out that Xue Xiaotang betrayed the prince. She couldn't believe that the Xue Xiaotang she heard from Princess Roujia was a passionate man who would risk his life for her...
Mu Zhuohua put her official hat on the table, and her hand touched the box beside her, making a muffled sound, which brought her back to her thoughts. Mu Zhuohua suddenly remembered something at this moment - the token she got from Xue Xiaotang's study was the token of the Queen Mother's Palace!
Mu Zhuohua hurriedly opened the wooden box and took out the cold and heavy token, staring at the word Yi on it.
The sound of holding a sword sounded in his mind - besides that person, who else can order him to do things... If he didn't do it, why kill people to silence them.
Mu Zhuohua tightly grasped the token and laughed bitterly: "So that's it... So that's it..."
Besides Your Majesty, there is also the Queen Mother who can order Xue Xiaotang to do things!
Mu Zhuohua remembered what Princess Roujia and Man'er said, that it was the Queen Mother who made the marriage between Princess Roujia and Xue Xiaotang possible. Princess Roujia said that the Queen Mother valued family the most, but she pointed an illiterate grass-roots general to the princess, saying that it was rare to have a lover, and that royal marriages only value interests, when did they value feelings!
Your Majesty killed people to silence them, what did he mean by silence? Was he afraid of ruining his own wisdom? No! He was afraid of ruining the Queen Mother's reputation! He is protecting the Queen Mother!
And there is Huanyang Powder... Huanyang Powder...
Mu Zhuohua suddenly remembered the secret buried under the apricot tree. She didn't know what was buried there, but today, she thought that the biggest secret of the Imperial Hospital was the existence of Huanyang Powder! The prescription that made her mother obsessed after losing most of her memories must have been what her grandfather recited every day when he was alive, so it was deeply implanted in her mind!
Guo Juli was picking vegetables in the yard, and suddenly saw Mu Zhuohua running down like a gust of wind, running past her without a pause, and climbing up the ladder.
"Miss, the prince is not here at this time, what are you going to do?" Guo Juli asked blankly.
Mu Zhuohua did not answer, but climbed over the wall with light and nimble movements and ran towards the medicine pool.
When she ran to the edge of the pool, she remembered that she didn't bring a shovel, so she went into the study, found a sword, and used the scabbard as a shovel to dig the soil under the apricot tree desperately.
Zhijian was startled when he heard the guards guarding the other courtyard say that Mu Zhuohua was digging something by the medicine pool. He thought she was crazy. After a moment, he remembered that the prince had said that Mu Zhuohua's intention was in the other courtyard, so he used his Qinggong to climb over the wall and fly into the other courtyard.
The midday sun was very hot, and Mu Zhuohua's sweat dripped into the soil. His hands holding the scabbard were already red and trembling. He dug a big hole but found nothing. Zhijian flew into the yard, grabbed Mu Zhuohua by the back of the collar and lifted her up, saying angrily: "Okay, Your Majesty guessed right, this is indeed your purpose." Zhijian glanced at the pit dug on the ground, "Now that I've caught you, you still don't tell the truth!"
Mu Zhuohua panted, "I'll tell the truth, Zhijian, help me, there is something very important buried under this tree!"
Zhijian looked at her suspiciously: "What is that? You are not thinking of any bad idea to harm the prince again."
Mu Zhuohua laughed angrily: "When have I ever harmed the prince! Zhijian! I suspect that the mastermind behind the scenes is not His Majesty, you are wrong!"
Zhijian said coldly: "You are that person's minister, of course you speak for him. I have told the prince that you are unreliable. What if you betray the prince one day..."
"Zhijian!" Mu Zhuohua interrupted him, "Help me dig up all the dirt under the tree. This concerns the life of the prince!"
Zhijian saw that her eyes were frighteningly bright, and he was a little scared, especially when she said it concerned the life of the prince...
Zhijian let go of her hand and pushed her away, saying, "I want to see what is buried under this!"
Zhijian was a martial arts expert, and with his help, the two of them soon dug up what they wanted under the apricot tree - an iron box with slight rust.
Zhijian broke it open with force, and Mu Zhuohua took the opportunity to grab the things inside the box.
There were two pieces of paper, the top one was parchment, and Mu Zhuohua glanced at it and knew that it was the prescription for Huanyang Powder. The bottom one was written with dense words. Mu Zhuohua only saw the first sentence, and he felt his heart stop, and his face turned pale instantly.
"Yun Fei...died from... Huanyang Powder..." Mu Zhuohua's lips trembled slightly, and he muttered it.
Zhijian was shocked and stepped forward to grab the letter.
Mu Zhuohua glanced over the contents of the letter and let the sword-wielding man snatch the letter away.
"The Concubine Yun died of the Huanyang Powder. This prescription was developed by me. I should be the only one in the world who knows it. The cause of the Concubine Yun's death, apart from the murderer, is also known to me. I'm afraid I won't live long... If I reveal the truth about the murder of the Concubine Yun, His Majesty will not let me go, and the person who killed the Concubine Yun will certainly not let me go either. I have been practicing medicine for many years, but I will die as a doctor! But I am unwilling to die like this. I wrote down everything I know, waiting for the day when my injustice will be cleared.
Bringing the dead back to life is the lifelong wish of every doctor. A person is considered to be in suspended animation within half an hour after death, which is the most likely time to be revived. I have been developing secret medicine for many years, and I want to find a way to make a person in suspended animation. I have been trying to find a secret recipe to bring a dead person back to life. After many failures, I finally made the Huanyang Powder. This medicine is extremely powerful. I experimented on rabbits and it can indeed bring back the life of rabbits that have just died, but I soon discovered my mistake. Huanyang Powder cannot bring the dead back to life. It only allows the person in suspended animation to burn all his vitality and get a quarter of an hour of last breath. For a living person with a normal body, if he accidentally eats or even inhales an excessive amount of the powder, his qi and blood will surge, and he may even die suddenly. My prescription failed again, but I was reluctant to destroy this almost poisonous medicine. I just hid the prescription and the prepared medicine, waiting to continue research in the future.
Concubine Yun was nine months pregnant when she suddenly had violent fetal movements and bleeding. I'm afraid there will be two deaths. Your Majesty was determined to abandon the prince to save Concubine Yun, but Concubine Yun grabbed the knife, performed a caesarean section to take the baby, and died of blood loss. Your Majesty was grief-stricken and angry, and thoroughly investigated the cause of Concubine Yun's death. When I was sewing the knife wound on Concubine Yun's abdomen, I found the powder of Huanyang Powder, which was the real culprit for Concubine Yun's sudden violent fetal movement and even blood loss. Huanyang Powder was stolen and used by someone, and I can't shirk my responsibility. I dare not report it, for fear that it will bring disaster to the nine clans. Now I am only dismissed for poor care, which is a great blessing, but I am worried that one day I will be silenced by the person behind the scenes. That person used medicine as poison, was meticulous, and had a wieldy hand. I can only die to protect my family and hope that my wife and daughter will be safe for the rest of their lives... Fu Shengru's last words. "
He staggered two steps with the sword in hand, his face and lips turned pale: "Empress Yun did not die of dystocia, she was murdered by someone. Who..."
"It was the Queen Zhou at that time, and now the Queen Mother Zhou." Mu Zhuohua said slowly in a cold voice, "The Queen Mother has always been the mastermind behind all things!"
"The one who used Huanyang Powder to murder the prince on Lantern Festival and the one who murdered Concubine Yun twenty-six years ago must be the same person."
"Twenty-six years ago, Concubine Yun was still in great favor, but the eldest prince was not loved by the late emperor. If Concubine Yun gave birth to a son, it would threaten the eldest prince's position as crown prince. The one who killed Concubine Yun with Huanyang Powder could not be the twelve or thirteen-year-old Emperor Zhaoming, but the Queen Mother."
"It was also the Queen Mother who used Princess Roujia as bait to force Xue Xiaotang to obey him, and she persuaded His Majesty to grant the marriage."
"Afterwards, His Majesty killed people to silence them, all for the sake of protecting the Queen Mother! "
Zhijian was stunned. With the evidence in front of him, he had to admit that everything Mu Zhuohua said was the truth!
"It was the Queen Mother, not His Majesty..."
Mu Zhuohua took out a token from his arms. There was a word Yi on the dark token: "This is the evidence. There is a secret compartment in Xue Xiaotang's study, where this token is hidden. This is the token from the Queen Mother's palace."
Zhijian said anxiously: "Why didn't you take it out earlier!"
Mu Zhuohua smiled bitterly: "You also didn't tell me earlier that Xue Xiaotang was a traitor!"
Zhijian's face changed: "The Queen Mother invited the prince to have a meal today. Could it be..."
Mu Zhuohua's face also changed: "For so many years, the Queen Mother has been deliberately trying to get rid of the prince. Why? What she is worried about is that the throne will fall into someone else's hands. Now that His Majesty's health is hopeless, if the prince is determined to challenge for the throne, who among the princes can compete with him? The Queen Mother is uneasy and will definitely find ways to get rid of the prince while His Majesty is still alive!"
Zhijian turned and was about to leave: "I'm going to save the prince! "
Mu Zhuohua held him back, "It's no use for you to go alone!"
"I'll take the Purple Guards to break into the palace!" Zhijian gritted his teeth and said,
"You are putting the prince on the spot and giving people an excuse!" The more anxious Mu Zhuohua became, the calmer he became. "Since the Queen Mother has invited the prince to dinner, she will definitely wait until dinner before taking action. There's no need to rush now. Listen to me, go find Zhimo immediately, tell him the situation, and let the Purple Guards guard outside the palace gate. You can't enter the palace, but you can have someone pass a message inside to tell the prince to be careful."
Zhijian asked, "What about you?"
Mu Zhuohua clenched the token in his hand, lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said, "I want to cut off the fuel from under the cauldron."
As the night was about to end, lights were lit in the Queen Mother's palace, and the palace maids came forward one after another, setting out plates of exquisite dishes. The Queen
Mother sat at the top, looking at Liu Yan, who looked a little tired, and asked with concern, "Is Prince Ding feeling unwell?"
Liu Yan forced a smile and said, "Thank you for your concern, Queen Mother. Maybe I've been a little tired these days. "
The queen dowager nodded gently: "Prince Ding is not young anymore, you should have someone who understands you and takes care of you, then I will feel at ease."
"Queen dowager, your son..."
Liu Yan was about to refuse, but was interrupted by the queen dowager: "Men should get married when they are old enough. Your biological mother is gone, and the late emperor also passed away long ago. I am your mother, and I should be responsible for you. I mentioned the girl from the Sun family to you before, do you still remember it."
Liu Yan nodded helplessly: "I remember."
"The girl from the Sun family has been filial to her grandmother in Jiangzuo, which is not far from your fiefdom. I have sent a letter to Old Lady Sun, asking you to go back for a blind date with her. "
Liu Yan was startled when he heard this. The Queen Mother's implication was that he should ask to return to his fiefdom...
Princes have always had to stay in their fiefdoms and were not allowed to enter the capital without being summoned. The late emperor loved Liu Yan very much and gave him the most prosperous Jiangnan. Later, Liu Yan fought for years and rarely returned to his fiefdom. Three years ago, Liu Yan was seriously injured, and Emperor Zhaoming was reluctant to let him leave, so he let him stay in Dingjing and have the imperial physician take care of him regularly.
Liu Yan was silent for a moment and said, "The Queen Mother wants me to leave Dingjing."
The Queen Mother said, "What does Prince Ding think?"
Liu Yan retracted his gaze, looked at the small space in front of him, and said slowly, "I have wanted to leave for a long time, and I have mentioned it to my brother, but he never agreed. I didn't expect that it would be the Queen Mother who said it in the end." The Queen
Mother: "He can't bear to give up your brotherly love, but you should understand that I am thinking about the overall situation."
"I understand everything." Liu Yan smiled faintly, "I will leave when my brother comes back. "
The Queen Mother frowned and said, "No need. You should pack up and leave in the next few days. If he is here, he will not let you go."
Liu Yan smiled slightly and looked at the Queen Mother steadily: "Queen Mother
, do you intend to force me to leave Beijing while my brother is away?" The Queen Mother looked back at Liu Yan without hesitation. Even the careful maintenance could not hide the traces of time in the corners of her eyes. Those wrinkles made her look more severe than Liu Yan remembered, reminding him of his awe of the Queen Mother when he was young.
"Yan'er, how do I treat you?" The Queen Mother suddenly called his name. He hadn't heard her call him that for many years. The last time seemed to be when Emperor Yuan Zheng was still there.
Liu Yan lowered his eyes and said respectfully: "The Queen Mother treats me as her own son." The
Queen Mother said: "How does His Majesty treat you?"
Liu Yan said: "Brotherly love, flesh and blood relationship."
"You have always been a sensible child, knowing how to repay kindness. I hope you can remember what I said today. "The Queen Mother raised the cup on the table and raised it to Liu Yan from a distance," You will leave tomorrow, so I will give you a farewell banquet."
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