One is in the palace, and the other is in the Prince Ping's residence. Although they are in different places, Jiang Xuelin and Fu Hanlai are facing the same problem.
—They were talking about serious business, but the elders didn't believe them and thought they were joking.
The young couple, who were in different places, couldn't keep their expressions up anymore. It took a lot of effort to finally convince their elders that what they were saying was true.
After believing it, both Prince Ping and his wife, as well as Emperor Xuande, became serious. Emperor Xuande took Fu Hanlai and Hongluo directly to the Crown Prince's Zhenyuan Palace.
The Crown Prince did not expect Emperor Xuande to come at this time. He struggled to get out of bed, but before he could sit up, Emperor Xuande pressed him back down. "No need to get up. Come here and let the Crown Prince take a look."
Honglu bowed slightly, then stepped forward, placed her fingers on the prince's wrist, and then frowned.
After a while, she withdrew her hand and stood up.
"how?"
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, like you, has the Ten Kings Gu in your body, but Your Highness's condition is more serious than yours, and in addition to the Gu, Your Highness also has poison in your body."
Upon hearing that it was also poisonous, Emperor Xuande's face darkened even more, "Poison? But my imperial physicians couldn't detect anything."
Hongluo nodded, not surprised. "Because the Ten Kings Gu is special, it conceals the existence of the poison, so almost no doctor can detect the poison hidden under the Gu. This pulse diagnosis just looks like a sudden weakness, like an old man whose life force has been exhausted."
Upon hearing the words "gu" and "poison," the Crown Prince abruptly looked at Emperor Xuande.
He had been ill for more than two months, but the imperial physicians could not find the problem. Then, according to this woman, it was a curse.
How could it be a Gu poison?
There is no Gu in the Central Plains. I've only heard of Gu in the Miao region. Why would he be infected with Gu?
No, no, wait a minute...
The crown prince quickly realized what he had overlooked.
"Father! Your illness is also caused by this Gu worm?!"
Emperor Xuande did not answer the question. Instead, he summoned the imperial physician and asked him to examine the crown prince's pulse again, informing the physician, Hongluo, of her diagnosis.
Imperial physicians and imperial doctors are different; imperial physicians are physicians exclusively assigned to the emperor.
Upon hearing Emperor Xuande's words, the imperial physician's face tightened, and he quickly took the crown prince's pulse again. He then discovered something was wrong, something he had not noticed before.
Judging from the imperial physician's expression, Emperor Xuande and the Crown Prince already knew the outcome.
Emperor Xuande nodded with a stern face, "Crown Prince, you should rest first. I will handle this matter."
When he said this, Emperor Xuande's expression was alright, but his eyes flashed with a cold light that made people afraid to look directly at him.
Now that the court is stable, there are only two forces that can make a move against him, the emperor, and the crown prince: one is the prince who wants to seize the throne, and the other is those related to the previous dynasty.
Even though this dynasty has been established for over a hundred years, there will still be rabble who rebel and cause trouble under the banner of the previous dynasty.
It couldn't be any other force trying to seize the throne; it could only be one of these two.
Emperor Xuande understood perfectly well that he did not attribute all the speculations to the rabble of the previous dynasty, but rather suspected his sons more.
Even if he, as the father, didn't want to doubt them, he knew they were the most likely to jump, and he might even know who jumped the highest.
Moreover, there is another very important matter at present, which is to keep an eye on the eldest son of the Crown Prince, who is also the eldest grandson of Emperor Xuande.
Now that the Crown Prince's eldest son is fifteen years old, Emperor Xuande couldn't be sure whether the other party would include him in the calculation.
To remove the curse, one must obtain the order in which the curse was made. Moreover, the person behind it clearly wants Emperor Xuande and the Crown Prince to die slowly, so that, in the eyes of others, they will die suddenly from a serious illness, rather than being murdered.
Therefore, the investigation must be conducted in secret, without alerting the enemy. Otherwise, if the person behind the scenes is alerted, they might simply go all out and activate the Gu worms, and then everything would be over.
It's not that simple.
After carefully questioning Hongluo, Emperor Xuande kept her in the palace and sent someone to the Prince Ping's residence to summon Hongluo's mother, the mute nanny.
They were just two inconspicuous people who had come to the palace with Fu Han, and they wouldn't attract anyone's attention. But just in case, Emperor Xuande still disguised the identities of the mother and daughter.
The Xuande Emperor's men were investigating the mastermind behind the scenes in order to obtain the order in which the Ten Kings Gu was made and the antidote. Fu Hanlai was not standing idly by either; he and Jiang Xuelin were also taking action.
Moreover, their actions were particularly inconspicuous.
After all, the tabloid "Tian Ri Zhao Zhao" that the two of them and Yu Bo co-founded was most interested in gossip about wealthy and powerful families, so it was perfectly normal for them to check it out from time to time.
Fu Hanlai also released information to the outside world that the recent episodes of "The Sun Shines Brightly" had not revealed anything noteworthy, so the next episode would be a big one for the people of Beijing, and he would try to dig out the things that everyone cares about.
As the young tyrants of the capital, with a notorious playboy as their backer, it's no surprise that this young couple would do anything. So, they started causing trouble again, and for this reason no one was surprised at all.
...It's just that when families whose homes aren't very clean find out that these two have come out again, they immediately discipline their spoiled brats to prevent them from causing trouble.
Hongluo and the mute nanny in the palace were helping to stall for time. Emperor Xuande was also keeping a close eye on his sons and the movements of the entire capital, but the other side was too cautious. For half a month, they could not find any trace of them.
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