coobybook Chapter 155 The Prince is Poisoned
Chapter 155 The Prince is Poisoned
"Doctor Xu, I am giving you one last chance. If you don't confess, I will kill all nine generations of your clan and you will be executed by slow slicing. If you confess honestly, I will leave your body intact and I can consider giving your clansmen a break..."
Doctor Xu's forehead was covered with beads of sweat. He didn't know what the Emperor knew. If he knew everything and he didn't confess, then the outcome would be unimaginable. If he was just suspicious, then he would expose the Queen, and then the Queen and Grand Tutor Sun would not let him go.
His current situation is that there are wolves in front of him and tigers behind him, and either option will lead to a dead end.
"Doctor Xu, if you have any grievances, just tell the emperor. The emperor has always been fair. If someone really wants to harm you, just tell him. The emperor will investigate it. There must be some misunderstanding..."
The Queen always believed that the poisonous insect in Concubine Chen's body could not be detected. At that time, her brother's mistress said that the Red Moon Gu was good at hiding, and no one could find its trace unless it was the owner of the Gu.
If Doctor Xu could understand what she meant, he would not have panicked.
When Doctor Xu met the Queen's soothing look, he felt even more unsure. Just when he didn't know what to do, a word from the Emperor made him give up resisting.
"Doctor Xu, you gave the Fourth Prince and Imperial Concubine Chen medicine these days. They drank it, but they're fine. You're so good, you shouldn't have been able to tell if Imperial Concubine Chen had any signs of poison in her body..."
Doctor Xu knew that he was doomed, and thought that if he gave up the queen, at least he could save the lives of his clansmen. After making up his mind, Doctor Xu said, "Your Majesty, I confess... This was all the idea of the queen, the prince, and Grand Tutor Sun..."
When the Queen and the Crown Prince heard that the idiot Doctor Xu was going to betray them, they were shocked. The Emperor didn't ask any questions, but he actually wanted to betray them.
The Queen immediately knelt down to stop Doctor Xu from speaking. She said, "Your Majesty, please understand. Doctor Xu is trying to slander me and the Crown Prince out of thin air! Doctor Xu, how many heads do you have to chop off? How dare you try to frame me and the Crown Prince..."
"I am asking Doctor Xu. If the Queen wants to interrupt me again, I don't mind giving you a bowl of mute medicine..."
The queen fell to the ground in disbelief that the emperor would say such a thing.
The prince exclaimed: "Father, how could you say such cruel words to Mother? Mother and you have been together for so many years. Even if you are angry, you should not hurt Mother's heart like this!"
The emperor looked at Doctor Xu, without giving the prince a look, but still said coldly: "If you say another word of nonsense, I will make you mute now..."
The prince's legs went weak and he fell to the ground. He couldn't believe that his father would say such words to him.
When Doctor Xu saw the emperor's attitude, he understood everything. The emperor must have investigated the matter between Concubine Chen and the Fourth Prince thoroughly.
Doctor Xu no longer concealed the truth and directly explained how the Queen had approached him and used threats and inducements to threaten the lives of his family members to inject a Gu into the newly born Fourth Prince. Whenever the Gu in the Fourth Prince's body woke up, he would add drugs to suppress the Gu into the Fourth Prince's medicine.
"These drugs that put Zi Gu to sleep were given to him by the Queen. The lives of my family are in the Queen's hands, so I have no choice but to obey!"
Doctor Xu's tearful accusation actually meant that the Queen Mother and Grand Tutor Sun's family did threaten Doctor Xu's family's lives at first, but later on, Doctor Xu received more and more benefits, and he became even more glad that Imperial Concubine Chen and the Fourth Prince were poisoned.
Because every time the Fourth Prince became seriously ill from the poison, other imperial doctors were helpless and only he could save the Fourth Prince. Over the years, he was promoted all the way because of his merits in treating the Fourth Prince and regulating Concubine Chen's health, from an inconspicuous little imperial doctor to the top position.
Doctor Xu made a lot of money and fame. Later, Doctor Xu no longer had the fear and powerlessness he had at the beginning. Instead, he looked forward to the day when the Fourth Prince fell ill. After all, he could save the Fourth Prince once again, which was another reward of countless...
"Your Majesty, Doctor Xu lied. I really don't know anything about poisonous insects. How could I, who has lived in the palace for a long time, learn this skill? Not to mention the absurd fact that there are poisonous insects that harm people..."
"Father, please don't believe the lies of Doctor Xu. What is Doctor Xu's intention to slander Mother like this? Someone must have instructed Doctor Xu to deliberately frame her..."
The Queen and the Crown Prince made their excuses to each other. Doctor Xu was afraid that the Emperor would not believe him, so he immediately confessed that the poisonous insect was given to him by the concubine of the Queen's brother. Doctor Xu told him everything he knew about this concubine.
The prince didn't expect that Doctor Xu would tell him everything. He quickly pleaded with the emperor: "Father, there must be some misunderstanding here. I believe that my mother is innocent. Father, you... uh..."
The prince suddenly felt a sharp pain in his stomach, and subconsciously covered his stomach, with large mouthfuls of blood coming out of his mouth...
The queen suddenly hugged the prince and shouted: "Jingye, what's wrong with you? Don't scare your mother. Your Majesty, someone is trying to murder the prince. Quick...quickly let the imperial physician see the prince..."
What the queen didn't expect was that the emperor was indifferent. He just waved his hand and had Doctor Xu taken away.
The emperor felt it was really boring. He knew all the truth, but he was still wasting his time watching their poor performance.
Originally, I just wanted to see if they would admit their mistakes honestly, but their first reaction seemed to be that they were trying to get away with it.
Xu Zhaoyi, Concubine De, the Queen and the Crown Prince always thought that the emperor was easy to fool.
"Empress, I think I treated you well, but you conspired with your father to kill my eldest son. And for the sake of this fake in your arms, even your own son died, and you were able to endure it for so many years without saying a word. Aren't you afraid that he will cry to you in his dreams at midnight?"
Boom... The Queen didn't expect that the Emperor knew this secret. How could the Emperor know this? This is impossible...
The prince was in great pain in the queen's arms, but the emperor refused to let the doctor save him. What did the emperor just say? ? Fake? ? Who was he talking about? ? Him? ?
The prince gritted his teeth and asked with difficulty: "Father, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand a single word you say?"
"So the Queen and Grand Tutor Sun didn't tell the Crown Prince? Oh! That's not right! How can a bastard like you be called the Crown Prince? You are just the bastard born to Sun Yaonian and that concubine. Your good aunt treated you very well. The son she gave birth to was suffocated to death by your grandmother, and you were used to replace the dead child. She also carefully raised you, a bastard, for so many years, but her own child has been unable to rest in peace for so many years..."
The queen was shocked and looked incredulous. What did the emperor mean? He said that her child was smothered to death by her mother? Not stillborn?
The mother killed her child? But didn't the mother and father say that the child died at birth? How could it be? How could it be possible?