Long Mo has clearly sensed in the past few days that those people's attitudes towards him have changed a lot.
Even the eunuch personally appointed by the emperor was no longer as attentive as usual.
Some of the people in the Seventh Prince's residence were even gossiping about it behind his back.
Just as Long Mo was passing by the Imperial Garden, he overheard several palace maids whispering among themselves.
"Let me tell you, this seventh prince may not look very old, but he's got a lot of cunning."
Rumors circulated that the eighth prince was poisoned by the seventh prince, which is why he died.
Another palace maid, seeing the other maid pruning the flowers with her speaking louder and louder, quickly put her finger to her lips.
"Hey, could you please keep your voice down? If the Seventh Prince hears this, you'll lose your head."
Then I saw another palace maid with a disdainful look on her face.
"I'm just saying this to you. Are you going to go and complain to the Seventh Prince about me?"
Besides, I'm not wrong.
The Eighth Prince was perfectly fine before the Seventh Prince returned to the palace, so how could he suddenly have been poisoned by arsenic?
The Imperial Noble Consort cherished the Eighth Prince like the apple of her eye, so how could she possibly kill the child with her own hands?
So, there are many twists and turns in this whole affair. Just from the fact that the Seventh Prince was feigning illness, you can tell he's cunning.
"Don't talk nonsense. Maybe the imperial physicians are not skilled enough and that's why they didn't detect it."
However, even the little palace maid herself didn't quite believe what she had said.
All the imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Academy are people who have practiced medicine for most of their lives.
Moreover, those who could enter the Imperial Hospital were no ordinary people.
First and foremost, one must possess superb medical skills; this is merely the minimum requirement.
Furthermore, there are those difficult and complicated cases that need to be assessed, and the age requirement is that the candidate cannot be too old.
After that, the imperial physicians could retire in the palace.
Long Mo couldn't help but sneer as he listened to the two palace maids talking about him.
That's exactly the effect we wanted. Nowadays, most of the rumors in the palace are coming from the Imperial Noble Consort's palace.
So all we need to do is wait for the right opportunity to come.
Just then, the eunuch who served Long Mo closely came up to him and whispered, "Seventh Prince, I heard that His Highness is planning to buy antidote pills from the little princess."
"You should feel better after you eat it."
Upon hearing this, Long Mo suddenly turned around and looked at the little eunuch beside him.
"What did you say?"
The young eunuch looked at the seventh prince's serious face and his suddenly raised voice.
Thinking he had said something wrong, he immediately knelt down.
"Seventh Prince, I heard that the Emperor wants to buy an antidote pill from the young princess to see if it works?"
After listening to the eunuch's words, Long Mo finally sighed and gestured for the eunuch to leave.
"It seems we need to implement the plan quickly, otherwise it will be difficult to explain later."
Long Mo had naturally heard about the rumors about the young princess in the capital since he returned.
They had even heard of those elixirs that were like divine pills.
So it seems the plan needs to be moved up.
With a banquet scheduled for tonight, it seems the only place to carry out the plan is at this banquet.
Long Mo quickly found the newly recruited junior physician at the Imperial Medical Academy.
The imperial physician looked at Long Mo and nodded.
The imperial physician's surname was Hu, and he was the one that Long Mo had found a few days ago.
It just so happened that he had bribed some people inside during the assessment, and most importantly, this guy surnamed Hu was already quite capable.
With the help of the Seventh Prince, he quickly and smoothly entered the Imperial Hospital.
If the imperial physicians cannot diagnose it, then someone of your own choosing should expose the matter.
It wasn't until the evening banquet that Long Mo brought over a small gift box.
The emperor looked at what Long Mo was carrying and asked, "What is this?"
Long Mo quickly handed over what he was holding.
"Father, my health has been like this lately. I can't sleep at night unless I burn this incense."
These past two days, I've heard from the servants that Father Emperor has been losing sleep night after night because of me, so I've come to present this treasure.
Lighting this at night can calm the mind, and more importantly, it helps me sleep a little better.
The emperor felt a pang of heartache seeing Long Mo's pale face.
"Alright, then have someone set it on at the banquet tonight."
That's exactly what Long Mo wanted to hear.
The two chatted for a while longer before Long Mo left.
This little guy must have heard the gossip about him from the palace; he has to endure so much at such a young age.
Moreover, he was already sickly, yet he still had to think about himself.
The emperor couldn't help but feel a little moved.
Most importantly, those imperial physicians were all useless, and the Seventh Prince's health was deteriorating day by day.
None of those quack doctors could find out what the problem was.
It's not that they're incompetent, but that they can't detect anything unusual.
Their pale faces are obviously suspicious to anyone with eyes to see, but they're just a bunch of useless idiots.
Fortunately, they've already sent someone to invite Yao Yao over.
I believe that with Yao Yao's elixirs, my child will not die so soon.
These past few days, the Imperial Noble Consort has been somewhat more well-behaved, and has started to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures by herself.
It was only after Eunuch De personally invited the Imperial Noble Consort to the banquet tonight that she finally came.
When the Imperial Noble Consort arrived at the banquet, everyone gasped in surprise.
It's only been a few days, and the Imperial Noble Consort has become so thin she looks unrecognizable.
The Imperial Noble Consort of today has long lost her former glory and looks somewhat aged.
The emperor sighed; he was also deeply saddened by the loss of the eighth prince.
The dinner party started soon after.
Just as everyone started eating, the Seventh Prince fell backward.
The emperor immediately sent someone to summon the imperial physician.
At this moment, several imperial physicians who had been treating the Seventh Prince hurriedly came from the Imperial Hospital.
It was only after the imperial physicians arrived that they noticed something was wrong, especially the incense in the air.
They're all experts, how could they not smell it?
The incense burning in this main hall today contains a slow-acting poison.
One of the imperial physicians rushed to the place where the incense was placed.
He took a glass of wine from the banquet and used it to extinguish the incense.
He then knelt on the ground and explained to the Emperor, "Your Majesty, no one in the Imperial Hospital can find the cause. The problem lies in the incense."
The emperor had already realized what was happening when the imperial physician got up to extinguish the incense.
Just then, the imperial physicians finished giving the seventh prince acupuncture, and the seventh prince slowly woke up.
After waking up, the seventh prince looked at the imperial physicians around him, and then glanced at the emperor.
"Father, I have been impolite."
The emperor looked exhausted and asked Eunuch De to help the seventh prince to a soft couch.
The Imperial Noble Consort, sitting below the Empress, looked extremely nervous.
Logically speaking, the incense from the Seventh Prince's palace shouldn't be here.
But the imperial physician just now directly pointed out that there was a problem with the incense.
It seems that the Seventh Prince not only knew there was something wrong with the incense, but also wanted to set me up.
Naturally, I was also afraid when I thought about it.
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