The Hall of Supreme Harmony was the first place to be searched.
Unexpectedly, in what seemed to be the safest place, two palace servants were found to be acting suspiciously.
two!
A eunuch and a palace maid.
Qi Yuan's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
They brought the two men directly before Li Xuanji and began interrogation in front of him, while the Imperial Guards were ordered to keep an eye on all the palace servants in the other halls.
Anyone who fires without permission will be arrested.
There were only two spies in the Hall of Supreme Harmony; it was impossible for them to make His Majesty fall into a coma.
And since they're hidden so well, there must be others involved.
At this moment, Qi Yuan demonstrated his professionalism as the commander of the Imperial Guards, immediately ordering his men to bring out the tools.
"Look carefully, this is the punishment of skinning. Whoever speaks first will be spared the punishment."
The punishment of skinning alive!
The two palace servants collapsed to the ground, their eyes filled with hatred as they looked at Qi Yuan.
"Qi Yuan, you'll die a horrible death!"
"May you be childless and without descendants."
After the palace maid finished cursing, Qi Yuan kicked her hard to the ground.
Qi Yuan grabbed the other man's chin, gave a sinister laugh, and roughly pulled a poison pill from his mouth.
"Hmph! These are all things I've already mastered. You want to die? Not so easy!"
"Take it off!"
The imperial guards came up and, in front of all the palace servants, stripped the two men completely naked.
Being stared at naked is more humiliating than being skinned alive.
With their weapons gone and their poison out of their mouths, in this cold weather, and completely naked, the two were caught between a rock and a hard place, unable to live or die.
They could only watch helplessly as they were tied to the rack, just like pigs and sheep at the mercy of others.
Qi Yuan drew his short sword, and with a flick of his wrist, slashed the woman's rather pretty face.
ah--
As the woman screamed, a string of blood spurted out.
"This knife was a gift from the Emperor Emeritus."
"At that time, I was just an insignificant soldier in the Imperial Guard. The Emperor Emeritus brought his young son to the Imperial Guard to select personal bodyguards."
"I try my best to make every movement perfect."
"Fighting jackals."
"After running forty miles, he vomited blood and fainted."
"When I woke up, I learned that His Majesty had chosen only me as his personal bodyguard."
Do you know why?
ah--
The scream came from the eunuch beside him.
The palace servants kneeling on the ground around them were even more frightened, shrinking their necks and trembling like leaves.
Qi Yuan slowly spoke, "Because His Majesty said that if I am not chosen, the last person will be expelled from the Imperial Guard."
"Moreover, His Majesty said that he saw the courage to face difficulties in me."
"I'm saying this to tell you that no matter what method I use, I will get you to talk and get the information I want."
"Even if everyone says I'm cruel, it doesn't matter."
He raised the knife menacingly and slowly placed it on the eunuch's back, the eunuch's nearly frozen body trembling.
The eunuch could only hear the sound of the knife tip piercing flesh and the sound of the flesh on his back being torn apart, but he could not feel the pain.
It's too cold.
He was frozen stiff.
"His Majesty is kind, magnanimous, and diligent in governing; he is a good emperor. Why would you betray him?"
ah--
The eunuch's entire back was ripped apart, and the other palace servants finally couldn't bear it any longer, screamed a few times, and fainted.
The entire outer courtyard of the Hall of Supreme Harmony reeked of blood.
This was the first time blood had been shed in this great hall.
Li Xuanji stood silently to the side, hands tucked in his pockets, neither speaking nor leaving.
He was the Imperial Advisor and the Emperor's Tutor, and like Qi Yuan, he believed that anyone who wanted to harm His Majesty must die.
...
Half an hour later, Qi Yuan wiped the blood from his hands and left the Taihe Hall with the Imperial Preceptor.
"As expected, you are from Yue. What advice does the Grand Preceptor have?"
In the end, the two of them couldn't hold back and confessed everything, revealing how they entered the palace and how they communicated with those above and below them.
However, they were unable to find out how they poisoned His Majesty, causing him to fall into a coma.
The two kept insisting that they hadn't done it.
Qi Yuan is skilled in interrogation, but when it comes to matters involving other countries, it's better to leave it to Li Xuanji.
Li Xuanji said calmly, "I will find an opportunity to tell His Majesty about this."
"We've arrested people here, and there's no point in keeping the other informants around to alert the enemy. Let's just get rid of them all and make things easier."
"I'll listen to the Imperial Advisor."
Qi Yuan now has the image of a well-behaved child, completely different from his previous bloodthirsty self.
Soon, news of a major purge spread throughout the palace, and the action was so swift that many people didn't even have time to react.
The ministers used their imaginations to create more than a dozen versions of Yang Yong's arrest, the ministers' entry into the Imperial Hospital, and the palace purge.
For a while, things became much quieter and more peaceful.
Murong Yue slept until the afternoon. When she woke up, her stomach rumbled loudly, but this physical reaction terrified her.
Because it's not hunger, but...
She looked at her little belly.
I feel a little uncomfortable.
what to do?
Murong Yue's brain capacity was not large enough to understand, nor did she have the concept of needing to go to the bathroom.
I remember the corpse pacing around in the main hall.
"Ah-hao!"
Ah Hao was tidying up His Majesty's clothes when she heard the shouts and rushed over. Seeing Murong Yue looking flustered and at a loss, Ah Hao panicked as well, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
"..." Murong Yue pointed to her stomach.
Her limited language skills prevented her from describing it.
Ah Hao was stunned for a while, then slapped his forehead, "Has His Majesty eaten something bad?"
"Don't be afraid, it's alright. You'll feel better after the Imperial Advisor brews some medicine."
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