Chapter 163: The Sandpiper and the Clam Fight
After taking the medicine for a short time, Chu Yanchen coughed up blood again as usual. The whole person leaned on a soft pillow, looking not very good, his face was extremely pale, as bloodless as a piece of paper, his eyebrows were frowning tightly, a pair of phoenix eyes were half-hidden, and there was still a trace of pain floating in the stars.
But when he heard the sound of a sword, the long sword in Mu Qinglin's hand was already on Gao Jing's neck.
"When Lord Jin left that day, he said that His Highness's injuries were fine, but since your hands were recuperated, the injuries have been repeated several times, not to mention that His Highness's body is getting worse and worse, and now he is coughing up blood every day. Say, did you do something in the prince's decoction? ”
Gao Jing is in his thirties, he is the proud protégé of Yuan Fengzhi, and since Yuan Fengzhi returned to his hometown, he has taken over the position of the head of the Tai Hospital, which can be said to be young and promising. It's just that this person's luck is really worse, since Gao Jing became the head of the Tai Hospital, Emperor Chu assigned him to enter the Fengyue Palace, and ordered him to take care of His Royal Highness the Prince's body.
This was originally nothing, although Gao Jing's medical skills were not as good as Jin Xi's, but compared to Yuan Fengzhi, it was better than the blue, and it was better than the blue, and it was naturally not difficult to give a few pairs of medicines to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to nourish his body. However, this Gao Jing's luck is not good, the situation is not clear, and since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took the healing decoction he prepared, his injuries have not only not improved, but have become more and more serious.
In the past, there was only occasional coughing up blood at dawn and dusk, and there was not much blood coughed up, but recently, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince coughed up blood more and more frequently, and now he began to cough up blood after taking the medicine, and often vomited out all the blood in the medicinal juice. couldn't help but make Mu Qinglin wonder if Gao Jing had the intention of murdering the prince.
And Gao Jing was already frightened when he witnessed the scene of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince taking medicine and vomiting blood, and now he was put by Mu Qinglin with a sword on his neck, and he was even more frightened and stood still, not knowing what to do.
"Wronged! The lower official was ordered by the emperor to recuperate his body for His Royal Highness the Prince, and the lower official ······ Even if the lower officials have a hundred guts, they don't dare to murder His Royal Highness the Prince! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you must believe in your majesty! ”
Murdering the prince is a big crime, and he will be punished by death, not to mention, but also to punish the nine clans. Gao Jing looked at the pool of blood that Chu Yanchen had just vomited on the ground in a daze, his face was as white as dirt, and he even forgot to defend himself, until the person on the soft couch moved imperceptibly, and two blade-like eyes passed through his body coldly and ruthlessly, and he hurriedly knelt down and shouted grievances.
"Trust you? Do you believe that your result is to make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince vomit blood every day? ”
Mu Qinglin's words were sharp, and his eyes were like sharp knives that made people unable to raise their heads. If Hua Liyue sees this situation, I'm afraid that my jaw will fall to the ground in shock! In just over a year, the amiable little imperial chef in the imperial dining room has now become an aggressive guard with a knife.
"Okay, Imperial Physician Gao is the imperial doctor assigned by my father to recuperate in this palace, so there will be no problem."
In addition to being a little weak, Chu Yanchen's voice was as cold as before, without a trace of temperature, reflecting an expressionless face, revealing indifference and alienation, which made people unable to see or guess.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Mingjian!"
After thanking him, Gao Jingshi realized that his back was sticky and uncomfortable, and he wiped it indiscriminately only to realize that it was the cold sweat on his back that wet the clothes.
"Go down first, don't spread the word about today!"
Chu Yanchen half-closed his eyes, looking extremely tired. Gao Jing saw that he was busy wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, and quickly saluted, carrying the medicine box and rushing out.
"Your Highness!"
When Gao Jing's footsteps could no longer be heard in the courtyard, Mu Qinglin hurriedly bypassed the screen, walked to Chu Yanchen's soft couch, knocked on a wooden dark grid at the head of the bed according to the customary fingering, and called softly inside.
But there was a slight noise, like the sound of some kind of mechanism being triggered. Mu Qinglin stood back slightly, and saw that a stone wall on the inside of the soft couch slowly moved away, and with the rotation of the mechanism, the soft couch in front of Mu Qinglin and the unconscious people on the couch also rotated, and at the same time, a similar soft couch appeared at the other end of the dark grid.
It is true that the one leaning on the soft couch at this moment is the real master of the East Palace of this Fengyue Palace, and the one who just took medicine and vomited blood in front of Gao Jing is just a stand-in who used the disguise technique.
The two couches rotated in each other's tracks, and after a while they returned to their original shapes. Mu Qinglin stepped forward and saluted, but Chu Yanchen's gaze fell on the incense burner not far away.
"The incense is out!"
After Mu Qinglin finished dealing with the blood on the ground, Chu Yanchen, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.
"Incense?"
Mu Qinglin turned his gaze to the incense burner in confusion. This benzoin was prepared by Xiao Yue for His Royal Highness the Prince, since he followed His Royal Highness the Prince, the incense burner has been burning with this incense every day, and it has never been broken, and now this benzoin is burning just right, how could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince order him to extinguish this incense?
"If she doesn't come back, I won't have any more incense to burn!"
Chu Yanchen slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes that were as black as paint were unprecedentedly dim. There are few things in the world that he can't plan, but that person's heart can't be calculated.
"Xiaoyue, she is worried about Her Highness, she will definitely come back!"
For Chu Yanchen, Hua Liyue is both poison and medicine, and the two of them are destined to be entangled for a lifetime, because no one will let anyone go.
"Really?"
Chu Yanchen muttered slightly, with a little disbelief in his voice.
"How's it going?"
The slender and smooth finger bones caressed the wound wrapped in the white cloth on his chest, and Chu Yanchen raised his eyes to look at Mu Qinglin.
"Your Highness's expectation is not bad, everything is going according to plan, and the action is scheduled for tomorrow night."
There has never been a shortage of scheming people in the deep palace, but no one can be as calculating as Chu Yanchen. Although he served on the side for only one year, Chu Yanchen gave Mu Qinglin too much amazement and shock in this year, and Mu Qinglin was deeply impressed by this fourteen-year-old boy, so he made a heavy promise of allegiance.
"What's going on with my father? But believed? ”
Chu Yanchen nodded, took the teacup handed to him by Mu Qinglin, and took a sip.
"Qilin Pavilion was originally a place for Concubine Lan to envelop people in the rivers and lakes for the emperor, and the emperor naturally did not allow it to marry others. Although nothing has been found out about the assassination of the birthday banquet so far, the emperor is only afraid that he has a few doubts about Concubine Lan. According to His Royal Highness's wishes, his subordinates activated the eyeliner that had infiltrated the Qilin Pavilion before, and ordered them to incite people to support Concubine Lan, so as to deepen the distrust between the emperor and Concubine Lan. On the side of the Third Highness, his subordinates also arranged for the people of the Qilin Pavilion to perform a play, so that they could switch from supporting Concubine Lan to being loyal to the Third Highness, so as to make the emperor's suspicion even worse. It's a pity that those people were killed by His Royal Highness, and now I don't know if the emperor believes it or not. ”
Qilin Pavilion was originally loyal to the Chu Emperor, but now it was secretly planted by Concubine Lan, and the people in the rivers and lakes who supported Concubine Lan were more than those who supported the Emperor of Chu, which made the Emperor of Chu feel threatened, so on the one hand, he took advantage of the assassination of the birthday banquet to confine Concubine Lan in the Jinghong Palace, and on the other hand, he couldn't wait to start rectifying the Qilin Pavilion, determined to eradicate dissidents and return to the forces, but who knew that at this time, those Jianghu forces who supported Concubine Lan knew that they could not resist and actually ran to support Chu Yunchen, although they were all killed by Chu Xiaochen, But this Chu Emperor's heart is only afraid that it is not very comfortable.
"My father is suspicious by nature, and he loves to raise secret agents in the palace, and he won't believe the news that is too easy to get. If this is the case, then we will accompany him to perform another play, and make sure that he sees it with his own eyes and hears it with his own ears. ”
Chu Yanchen slowly hooked the corners of his lips, his face was dazzling, and the ink pupils were also transformed into a star pool at this time. Different from the brightness of the spring afternoon sun outside the window, it is a kind of beauty that is easier to make people sink than it.
"Since Concubine Lan was imprisoned by her father, the Qilin Pavilion has been divided into two, half supporting her father and half supporting Concubine Lan, these two forces can still compete with each other before, but now the half that supports Concubine Lan has lost ground because of Chu Yunchen's relationship. Perhaps, we might as well take advantage of the current situation to set up a game and let our father convince himself! ”
The starry eyes were half-narrowed, and there was already a deep depth in the ink pupils, Mu Qinglin knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince already had an idea, but after saying this, he still couldn't guess the deep meaning of His Royal Highness the Prince's words.
"Your Highness means ······"
"Aren't there a few elders in the Qilin Pavilion who have deep seniority and high prestige who choose to support Concubine Lan? Qinglin, this palace wants you to go and divide them, try to provoke them to fight, be sure to force one or two of the elders to rebel, this palace wants to let my father and emperor hear what the plan is when tomorrow night is! ”
The voice is just light, but the words have been killed.
"Yes, my subordinates will do it!"
Mu Qinglin bowed and took the order to go out.
At this time, the forces that support Concubine Lan have already suffered a lot, and they are forced to be hunted down and killed by the other half of the forces of the Qilin Pavilion, so it must be that people are panicking and complaining to each other, and the infighting is also a natural thing, but it will not arouse suspicion.
And what Mu Qinglin has to do is to find one or two villains as an introduction, let them provoke everyone's dissatisfaction with the status quo, and then regret his decision to betray Emperor Chu and support Concubine Lan, and then find a few more to intensify the contradictions, let them slander, suspicion and suspicion of each other, forcing some of the elders to rebel.
After that, find one or two people who understand the righteousness to come out and administer justice, resolve the resentment of both sides, reunite the scattered forces, and encourage everyone to unite and share the same hatred.
Things have developed to this point, even if a group of people can get back together, it is still a mustard, an estrangement has been born, and the face and heart are not compatible. At that time, let those villains privately find a few small-minded elders who love to hold grudges, and blow the wind in their ears, so as to attract them to quietly go to Emperor Chu.
Thinking that the information sent out like this will make people feel more real, even if Emperor Chu is suspicious and will not believe it, but he will definitely make all preparations in advance, so with the play tomorrow night, I am afraid that before Chu Yunchen finds out the real culprit behind the scenes, Emperor Chu will already have a judgment in his heart!