Chapter 134 – Trial in the Deep Palace in the Late Night

As expected, after pots of hot water were sent in, not long after, pots of crimson blood were sent out.

 

Just looking at the amount of bleeding, one can guess that this person was not in good condition anymore!

 

Old Princess Consort Chu couldn’t endure such a battle, only feeling dizzy for a moment, so she was supported by Servant Li to rest in the dormitory. Cui Fu’s heart was also tightening.

 

How much does her younger brother dotes on Miantang, whom she naturally knows as his older sister.

 

If this time Miantang died without a doctor due to difficult childbirth, it would be a heavy blow to his younger brother.

 

Moreover, the emperor was poisoned due to eating the tiger whip offered by Xingzhou, and it was unknown whether he was persecuted by some evil person. It was also unknown whether Xingzhou can fully retreat after being taken into the palace.

 

This time, the Huaiyang Prince’s Residence was truly a house leak and suffered continuous night rain. Cui Fu had no choice but to put her hands together and pray to the gods and Buddha for the safety of this young couple.

 

When the inner courtyard became a mess, someone quietly opened the back door of the outer courtyard, and whispered to the imperial guard who sealed the house at the back door, “Tell the master, the person in the inner courtyard is no longer well, and what’s delivered out was a few pots of blood, which seems to be a blood avalanche…”

 

Upon hearing this, one of the guards immediately mounted his horse and galloped all the way to report to Prince Sui’s Residence.

 

Prince Sui was waiting with several trusted aides for news from the palace. Upon hearing the news that Huaiyang Princess Consort was about to die, he immediately felt relieved.

 

He has been waiting for this day for a long time. The reason why the palace was willing to support Liu Yu to ascend the throne was because Liu Yu was a seriously ill person. When he escaped from the Eastern Palace, the toxins on his body were not completely relieved, leaving behind sequelae.

 

Supporting such short-lived ghosts would make it reasonable for Liu Pei to sit on the dragon chair for his nephew in the future.

 

Not to know that after Liu Yu ascended the throne, his body was still sickly and crooked, but his descendants continued to flourish. Moreover, Shi Yikuan was also a capable strategist. As the abbot of the country, he has gained momentum and gradually gained influence, completely out of his control.

 

Now Liu Yu has placed Prince Huaiyang to fight against him too.

 

If Liu Yu continues to take root and consolidate like this, even if the palace family encounters difficulties, it will be difficult to shake.

 

There are many beautiful women in Liu Yu’s harem, but he only respects and loves the queen, and the other women are inevitably filled with resentment and jealousy. So Prince Sui used the hands of his subordinate, Fang Shi, to give Imperial Concubine Yun and Liu Yu the secret medicine to fight each other.

 

In fact, not only Imperial Concubine Yun got this overpowering drug, but also two other concubines got it.

 

As long as Liu Yu was next to them, even if there are no ups and downs, all they needed to do was sleep together and get caught.

 

But he didn’t expect that Imperial Concubine Yun would have applied it to her body. Coincidentally, her skin was sensitive and ulcerated, exposing the toxicity early on.

 

Sun Yunniang became angry with embarrassment and naturally wanted to confront him.

 

Prince Sui was not afraid of her discovery. Anyway, her intentions were not right. If Liu Yu found out that she was searching for three kinds of drugs to plot against the Dragon, she would definitely be disliked by Liu Yu.

 

So he simply kept on doing it, threatening Imperial Concubine Yun to use the convenience of spies in the imperial hospital to add the remaining secret medicine to the tiger whip offered by Prince Huaiyang.

 

Sun Yunniang felt that she was making mistakes step by step. If she refused to comply, she would surely be sabotaged and exposed by Prince Sui. Her skin would eventually ulcerate and not heal, and she wouldn’t be able to hide it for too long.

 

Moreover, Prince Sui was clearly planning to blame Prince Huaiyang. Now Liu Yu’s intention to distance herself from her father was obvious, and after the last disciplinary dismissal, he refused to order him back to the office for a long time.

 

If this matter were to continue like this, she will die of old age in the palace. Yunniang doesn’t want to live such a life. At first, she admired Liu Yu more because she could fulfill her dream of becoming a queen in the future.

 

Nowadays, dreams are shattered, as if there are only endless nightmares. And Prince Sui promised that once it was done, he would definitely value her father and allow her to leave the palace with dignity.

 

Although Yunniang, who was struggling to ride a tiger, did not believe the words of Prince Sui, she was willing to frame Prince Huaiyang. After all, she framed Miantang and broke her tendons before.

 

Although Miantang has amnesia and does not remember the general situation, if she keeps this couple, there will always be consequences for her.

 

So after weighing the pros and cons, Sun Yunniang threw the medicine into the grinding tiger whip. However, she didn’t want Liu Yu to really die, so she secretly instructed the imperial physician to reduce the weight of Liu Yu’s salvia miltiorrhiza on the pretext that the emperor had become a bit heaty recently.

 

Even if the toxicity attacks, it won’t take his life. At that time, Yunniang happened to use the arrangement of Prince Sui to eliminate Prince Huaiyang and his wife…

 

For a moment, the righteous father and daughter had their own plot and arrangements. However, the father and daughter are united, and the idea of setting up Cui Xingzhou and Liu Miantang are the same.

 

Although Liu Miantang personally cleaned the inner courtyard of the Huaiyang Prince’s Residence, any suspicious individuals were expelled from the courtyard. But there are many errands outside the courtyard, and it was not something she can clean up.

 

When Liu Miantang’s water broke today, the news spread through the outer courtyard. Liu Yu’s soup and drinks were arranged by the Imperial Hospital. Today, the Tiger Whip Soup happened to be presented. When Liu Yu’s toxicity broke out, the Empress Dowager immediately set off to the emperor’s Palace and personally issued a decree to bring Prince Huaiyang to trial.

 

So there was the previous scene.

 

This time, Prince Sui intended to discredit Cui Xingzhou. Otherwise, he resisted the enemy in the northwest and achieved remarkable military achievements, winning the hearts of the people. If he didn’t do it well, it would make Prince Sui bear the blame for plotting against loyalty.

 

Once the evidence of Prince Huaiyang’s great rebellion and poisoning of the emperor was proven, and he also conspires to harm his wife through childbirth, causing her to die in blood, then Prince Huaiyang’s character of being a disloyal and unjust person will be settled, and he will lose the hearts of everyone!

 

Prince Sui had planned for a long time, and he could have succeeded overnight, his mood naturally improved.

 

However, his subordinate harbored a question in his heart, “Your Highness, how did you know that Liu Miantang must have difficulty giving birth and bleeding?”

 

Prince Sui smiled proudly, “That Liu Miantang came from the market and always likes street snacks. Although the royal residence is well guarded everywhere, it is sparsely distributed outside. The fried cake shop she always likes and the food in several small food shops are all specially made with meat and oil arranged by me. Some drugs can promote the growth of babies inside, which cannot be tested for toxicity. As long as the baby is born big and Liu Miantang does not have the assistance of a doctor, how can she give birth smoothly? Once her difficulty in childbirth was verified, the previous rumors in the capital can be proven. Letting the people know that Prince Huaiyang is a ruthless generation who can even deal with his wife and children.”

 

Upon hearing this, the staff braved a cold sweat and admired the meticulous thinking of Prince Sui, who had set up such a trap for Prince Huaiyang.

 

Prince Sui smiled slightly and said, “If it weren’t for the advice given to me by my adopted daughter, how could a grown man like me know about the evil things in this private fight? My beloved adopted daughter has been hoping for Liu Miantang’s death for more than a day or two, and this time she has fulfilled her wish.”

 

Now that Prince Huaiyang has been detained in the palace, if he finds out that his beloved wife cannot endure childbirth, he will be heartbroken and lose control of his words. At that time, the senior officials and officials convened by the Empress Dowager can provide evidence to prove that Prince Huaiyang has ulterior motives and was dissatisfied with the royal family, plotting to harm the emperor and intending to rebel!

 

Thinking of this, Prince Sui stood up and said, “Since the happy event in the Huaiyang Prince’s Residence has become a funeral event, then I will also go into the palace to see off the Huaiyang Prince.”

 

Perhaps God helped him. In recent days, the city has changed defenses, and the soldiers of Prince Huaiyang have been pulled out of the city for training. The guards in the palace are all soldiers of the palace family.

 

As long as Prince Huaiyang was locked in the palace gate, he will be trapped in a cage and left to be slaughtered.

 

How could Yunniang’s careful thought escape his attention? Does she think that reducing the weight of the medication can save Liu Yu’s life?

 

Liu Yu’s shield was no longer useful, what was the use of keeping a breath? At that time, even a pillow can cover a sick person to death.

 

As long as the evidence of Prince Huaiyang’s crime was confirmed, the emperor will surely die tomorrow morning.

 

He, Liu Pei, captured the courtiers for the new emperor, stabilized the country for the Great Yan Dynasty, and was able to ascend to the throne without any flaws, as expected, becoming a famous emperor in the Great Yan Dynasty’s history!

 

For this day, Liu Pei waited for so long that when he entered the palace gate, his heart trembled slightly with excitement.

 

At this moment, the night was already deep, and the palace lamps were hanging high, casting a dim and hazy halo between the high eaves and corners.

 

Because the emperor fell into a coma, the palace people were also silent, huddled in their positions one by one.

 

In the Hall, the Empress Dowager, who had not inquired about common affairs for a long time, had a gloomy expression and stared straight at Prince Huaiyang kneeling in the hall. In front of a group of old officials, she asked politely, “Prince Huaiyang, the emperor has always treated you well, and even rose you from the State of Zhen to a position in the military department. But you have a lack of heart, and you have poisoned and plotted against the emperor. Do you admit it?”

 

Prince Huaiyang looked up at the Empress Dowager in front of him, The thin corners of his mouth mocked and reminded her, “The tigers that were hunted that day were not privately brought by me. The tigers have always been raised in the hunting grounds in the western suburbs. I used the bows and arrows provided by the eunuch, and after shooting the tigers, they were also stripped of their skin and flesh by the accompanying forbidden army hunting camp. Afterward, the tiger whip was handed over to the Imperial Hospital to be made into medicine. It is not certain that the tiger whip is toxic now. Even if it is indeed toxic, what does it have to do with me? Although the Empress Dowager sympathizes with Her Majesty, this conviction may have been too fast, isn’t it?”

 

Cui Xingzhou’s eyebrows and eyes were handsome and moving, but when his eyes showed a mocking expression, his thick eyebrows slightly raised, and his disdain could not be concealed. Anyone could see that he was very disrespectful towards the words of the Empress Dowager.

 

After hearing that the emperor had been poisoned and unconscious, those old ministers, regardless of whether they had any personal connections with the new emperor Liu Yu or not, were all filled with tears of old age, with a devout appearance of wanting to die for the emperor.

 

But on the contrary, Prince Huaiyang had a completely indifferent morality towards eternal life and death and even spoke up against the Empress Dowager. The treacherous and cunning faces of his courtiers were truly exposed!

 

For a moment, the old ministers couldn’t care to wipe off their noses as they were about to cross the river. They angrily scolded Prince Huaiyang for his malicious intentions and disrespectful words.

 

Prince Huaiyang looked leisurely at this group of elderly and immortal creatures, waiting for them to stop cursing, and asked, “May I ask if Your Majesty has passed away? Are you all wailing for the deceased of Your Majesty already?”

 

Those old ministers were asked for a moment, and as the imperial physician said, “The emperor is just unconscious and hasn’t passed away yet.”. But just now they were crying too mournfully, it was indeed a little too much.

 

“The emperor’s body has always been weak. How can he afford to be poisoned again? Prince Huaiyang, your intentions are so malicious, how dare you accuse all the adults of their loyalty to the emperor?”

 

At this moment, Prince Sui suddenly walked into the main hall and spoke out in reprimand.