Chapter 88 So that’s it!
Hearing this, Chu Shiyuan looked at Luo Xifeng in surprise, "Xifeng, so you already knew about this?"
The old emperor was a little confused as to why the Luo family was suddenly involved.
Who is Luo Xifeng to the Luo family?
He remembered Luo Heting's name. At that time, he always suffered from headaches, and only Luo Heting, who was a skilled doctor at the time, was able to help him relieve the pain.
Later, when he heard that Luo Heting was involved in the murder of concubines in the harem, he did not ask any questions.
He directly ordered Concubine De, who was in charge of the harem at the time and is now the Empress, to handle it.
Unexpectedly, this series of hidden secrets were revealed.
The old emperor flew into a rage and shouted, "Queen, please explain this to me."
The Queen quickly stood up and knelt before the Emperor. "Your Majesty, please understand. It was Luo Heting who colluded with Concubine Dong He who murdered me. After investigating the cause, I dealt with the Luo family. There was no injustice."
Luo Xifeng retorted, "May I ask, Your Majesty, at that time, the Imperial Hospital Director was the fixed choice of imperial physician for the concubines in the harem. Luo Heting was not responsible for you, who was still Concubine De at the time. How could he have harmed you?"
The Queen argued, "I remember that it was Luo Heting who drugged my food, and I caught him red-handed. How could it be an injustice?"
Luo Xifeng replied, "Your Majesty, your words are not enough to prove your claim, but I have evidence."
He bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I beg you to call a witness to testify."
The old emperor said "hmm", and the old eunuch beside him immediately ran out.
Soon, a woman with silver hair hunched over the threshold. The queen's pupils suddenly shrank. This was Zhou, the dowry nanny she had been looking for for ten years.
"The guilty woman Zhou Chunniang pays homage to His Majesty."
The old emperor remembered this old nanny. She was indeed the maid that came with the queen's dowry. But one day, she disappeared and he didn't ask why.
The old emperor asked, "Tell me, what exactly happened between Doctor Luo and Concubine Dong He?"
The old nanny trembled as she held up the broken jade fragment. "This is the mandarin duck pendant that Empress Defei gave me back then. She ordered me to mix oleander powder into the sweet soup sent by Concubine Dong, and then falsely accused Imperial Physician Luo of colluding with Concubine Dong to murder her."
Her bony fingers pulled out the jaundice prescription again. "Afterwards, the Empress feared I would reveal the secret, so she poisoned the ginseng soup I was given as a reward and threw it out of the palace. I was lucky enough to be saved by the villagers, and I barely survived. Then, the poison attacked me year after year, and I was in excruciating pain. Fortunately, I came across Lord Luo's clinic, and Doctor Luo detoxified me, so I am still alive today."
The Queen stood up suddenly. "Nonsense! This crazy woman is so vicious. Where did her nonsense come from?"
The old nanny continued, "Empress, I have been loyal all my life, but it's a pity that you have never remembered our friendship. Back then, I used Prime Minister Chu to eliminate future troubles for you. Now, are you going to sacrifice him again?"
The old nanny watched the queen grow up, and she knew everything about her and what had happened to her.
The Queen pointed at the old maid angrily, "Shut up! Stop your nonsense! Come, come quickly, drag this slave away and beat her to death!"
The old emperor said coldly, "Let me see who dares."
The Queen instantly lost her temper, but continued to argue, "Your Majesty, please understand. I have never had any contact with Luo Heting. I have no reason to frame him. Please understand!"
"You have a reason, and it's a reason why you have to kill me."
Luo Xifeng kept his back straight while kneeling.
He pulled out a yellowed pulse chart from his sleeve, "Ten years ago, when the Crown Prince was sixteen, he fell off his horse during a spring hunt, and Luo Heting treated him."
He unfolded a page, and the cinnabar annotations were shocking. "Luo Heting recorded in the medical manual that the Crown Prince's Ren Meridian is damaged, and his sperm is not flowing properly. He may have difficulty having children in the future."
Crown Prince Li Rongjing stood up angrily, "You'an! What are you talking about? If I can't have children, where will Rui'er come from?"
Luo Xifeng looked at Li Rongjing with some apology. After all, it would be unfair to the prince if this matter was exposed.
However, for the Luo family, he had no choice.
"This is exactly where the Empress's brilliance lies." Luo Xifeng turned to the incredulous Li Rongjing, "After the Empress bestowed upon you Consort Zhang Liang, she ordered a man from outside the family to have sex with her, and that's how the little grandson of the Emperor was born."
Luo Xifeng clapped his hands three times, and the guards escorted Zhang Liangdi in.
Zhang Liangdi was shaking like a sieve. As soon as she came in, she was so scared that she knelt on the ground and dared not speak.
Luo Xifeng asked her, "Zhang Liangdi, tell me, where did Rui'er come from?"
Zhang Liangdi looked up at the queen, and the queen glared at her.
She recalled what Luo Xifeng had said to her when he found her in the East Palace. "Rui'er was poisoned by the Queen. She doesn't care about your child at all. She only wants to consolidate her own position. When she's done using you, she'll kill you and Rui'er. If you testify for me, I'll use a fake death drug to keep you and your daughter safe."
The Queen was never a good person, and she knew it in her heart.
But for Rui'er, she would fight to the death.
Zhang Liangdi made up her mind and said, "Your Highness, I am sorry for you. Rui'er is indeed not your child, and I don't know who the father is. All of this was arranged by the Empress."
The Queen grabbed the Jade Ruyi and threw it at Zhang Liangdi, "Bitch! What did you say?!"
The old emperor was furious, "Yongning! How dare you! You even dare to confuse the royal bloodline!"
The most devastated person was the Crown Prince. Li Rongjing was stunned and stepped back repeatedly, "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible. Rui'er must be an orphan."
The Queen looked at Luo Xifeng fiercely and said through gritted teeth, "Doctor Luo is a loving father and a filial son."
She pointed her nail-dyed finger at Luo Xifeng, "You've been scheming so hard, aren't you just trying to overturn your father's verdict?"
"It turns out that the Queen knows my identity." Luo Xifeng sneered. Otherwise, why would the Queen send batch after batch of assassins to assassinate them.
The Queen said angrily, "Humph, back then I wanted to harm me, and now my son is trying to frame me too. I really don't get along with your Luo family."
"Your Majesty, please don't confuse the public. From the beginning to the end, you have killed so many innocent people for your own benefit. Hundreds of people in my Luo family have been killed because of your selfishness." Luo Xifeng said hatefully.
He knelt before the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I beg you to redress the injustice done to the Luo family and avenge the lives of the hundreds of people who have died."
The old emperor was furious. He had known that the queen was unscrupulous, but because of their years of marriage, he had always turned a blind eye.
Now, she even dared to confuse the royal bloodline for her own selfish gain.
Whenever the old emperor thought that the kingdom he had built through his life's hard work might be handed over to a stranger, he could not contain his anger!
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