Chapter 108 Final Stage
The emperor slowly woke up and saw the Tenth Prince and Tutor Zheng standing by his side. The emperor did not look at Wei Rong, but looked straight at Zheng Yun.
"My dear Zheng, is my prince really gone? Did they see it wrong?" The emperor asked with forced calmness.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has indeed passed away. Please accept my condolences." Zheng Yun said in feigned grief.
"Investigate, investigate, you must find out who killed my son." The emperor shouted angrily.
"Your Majesty, the Jingzhao Yin is already investigating, and there will probably be news soon," Zheng Yun explained.
"Tenth Brother, did you do it?" In the past few years, the power of the Tenth Brother has been growing. Without the Third Brother, the Tenth Brother is highly suspected. Now that his crown prince is gone, he is unhappy with Wei Rong no matter how he looks at him.
"Your Majesty, I didn't do that." At this moment, the remaining father-son affection that Wei Rong had for the emperor disappeared completely, not to mention that he was not the one who did it.
"Go away, I don't want to see you now." The emperor waved his hand impatiently.
Wei Rong clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves, not even noticing that he was bleeding. He was also the emperor's child, so why was he so disliked by his father?
After Wei Rong walked out of the bedroom, he looked up at the splendor in the hall. The sadness in his eyes had long disappeared, and only hatred remained.
"Your Majesty, when you fainted, it was His Royal Highness the Tenth Prince who was serving by your side. You might have upset His Royal Highness by doing this." Zheng Yun, who was always calm and composed, could not help but speak up for Wei Rong.
"Isn't this what he should do? Okay, my dear Zheng, don't bother with him." The emperor had just lost the crown prince and was already in a bad mood. How could he care what others thought? After all, he was the emperor and he was the sky.
Zheng Yun felt very sorry for his brother-in-law at this time. He had to ask Susu to comfort his brother-in-law when he returned. He had to ask Susu to comfort his brother-in-law when he returned.
Wei Rong originally wanted to tell the emperor the truth after he woke up, but he changed his mind. He wanted to watch his father being killed by the Junhou clan whom he trusted. As for that position, now that the crown prince was gone, who else would be his opponent?
When the news of the prince's death spread, the originally wavering ministers came to Wei Rong one after another, wanting to join Wei Rong's sect in advance, and Wei Rong naturally would not refuse.
After a few days, the prince's followers surrendered one after another, providing Wei Rong with a lot of evidence against the prince's party, but Wei Rong did not accept any of it. He directly used his power to put these traitors in jail. After all, if they betrayed the prince today, they might betray him tomorrow.
Now, one family has become the dominant force in the court, and all the government affairs are handed over to the prime minister and the grand tutor.
After the Queen fainted, she fell ill and it took her several days to recover. Her only son was gone, but she could not fall down. If she fell down, the Zhao family behind her could not fall down either.
The Queen planned to adopt a prince under her own name and establish a puppet emperor, who could rule the country from behind the scenes and hold all the power. Thinking of this, the Queen wished that the Emperor would die sooner.
So in the days that followed, the Queen kept asking Taoist Liu to refine elixirs, increasing the dosage. On the other hand, the Queen also coaxed the Emperor to make his adopted son the crown prince. However, the Emperor was reluctant to let go of the crown prince, so he did not rush to agree.
The last time the Queen and the Emperor both fainted, Wei Rong had placed his own people in both of their palaces. When he learned that the Queen was still poisoning the Emperor, he knew that day was coming soon.
A month later, the emperor vomited blood in the palace again, but this time he could no longer get up and could only lie weakly and confused on the bed.
Wei Rong knew that this day had finally come. He sent someone to deliver the news to Taifu and Shengxia respectively, and entered the palace alone.
Wei Rong brought a doctor to the emperor's bedroom. The queen's men stopped Wei Rong outside the door. Wei Rong kicked the man over and pushed the door open.
"You are so bold! Don't you know that His Majesty is resting?" The Queen came over angrily and scolded.
"I saw that my father's condition hadn't improved, so I invited a folk doctor to take his pulse. Why did the Queen stop her? Does the Queen have some unspeakable secret?"
"What a joke! A quack doctor is qualified to diagnose His Majesty's pulse. Come, drag him away and send the Tenth Prince away." The Queen said sternly.
The emperor was originally in a coma, and the eunuch serving him secretly gave the emperor an injection while everyone was attracted by the sound at the door. The emperor slowly woke up and heard the words of the tenth prince. Combined with his own physical condition, the emperor began to have some doubts about the queen.
"Xiao Dezi, let Lao Shi come in." The emperor said weakly.
"Your Highness the Tenth Prince, His Majesty invites you in." Xiao Dezi said with lowered eyebrows.
The Queen's expression changed drastically. She didn't expect that the Emperor would wake up at this time. If she let this person take his pulse, wouldn't the things he had done be discovered?
The Queen walked quickly to the Emperor's bedside and said in a feigned caring manner, "Your Majesty, this quack doctor might be a fraud. Your Majesty cannot take risks with the Emperor's body."
"It's okay." Seeing that the queen tried to stop him in every possible way, the emperor's doubts grew even stronger.
The doctor received the order and stepped forward to carefully examine the emperor's pulse. After a cup of tea, the doctor stepped back three steps, knelt on the ground and said fearfully, "Your Majesty, you have been poisoned."
The emperor was furious when he heard this, but since the man was brought by the Tenth Prince, he could not trust him completely. "Xiao Dezi, call all the doctors on duty at the Imperial Hospital, except for the head doctor."
"Yes." Xiao Dezi passed the order down, and soon all the imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital rushed over.
The imperial physicians came forward one by one to feel the emperor's pulse, but none of them dared to speak. They only said that their medical skills were shallow. They all knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
The emperor had nothing to not understand after seeing this scene. He must have been really poisoned, and there was no one else except the queen who could make him poisoned without anyone knowing and make the head of the Imperial Hospital obey her orders.
"How can you be so cruel?" The emperor looked at the queen viciously.
Now that things have come to this, the Queen will no longer pretend. As early as the day the Emperor fainted, everyone here was replaced by their own people. He will let this news remain in this bedroom.
"Someone come here." The queen shouted loudly, and then a group of imperial guards pushed the door open and entered, surrounding the bedroom.
"Do you want to rebel?" The emperor was so angry that he spat out blood and asked sternly.
"Your Majesty, how can this be considered a rebellion? It is clearly these traitors who want to murder Your Majesty. I am protecting Your Majesty." The Queen said calmly.
"Protect the emperor, protect the emperor." The emperor shouted with all his remaining strength, but no one responded.
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