Chapter Seventy-Four: Get Out
"Those soldiers guarding the suburban medical hall are really the people sent by the third prince. The third prince wanted to catch the outsider who first spread the pox as a witness to bring down the second prince. This is fake news deliberately leaked by the second prince, and the third prince took the bait. Canghai sighed lightly, shook his head slightly regretfully, the jade-colored veil fluttered gently, and his movements were as elegant as Narcissus Lingbo, Gu Ying was pitiful, "The third prince was fooled at the instigation of the sixth prince. Now the six princes themselves admit that they intend to force the palace, and they also tell where they hide their weapons. The emperor was there, and he found countless swords and bows, as well as flags, dragon robes, imperial crowns, etc., and the three princes were speechless, and the charge of forcing the palace was already a definite fact. ”
"Well, it turns out that the Sixth Prince is the Second Prince's person!Undercover!" I nodded slightly, thoughtfully, "No! With the Six Princes' city and government calculations, it is impossible to kill himself, he must be fine now, right? What means did he use to choose himself clean?"
Canghai nodded approvingly, and the jade-colored veil rippled like the first melting of spring water: "The sixth prince contracted pox when he was treating the people, and when he was unconscious, he shouted to see the emperor for the last time. Through the curtain of the twelve fumigation drugs, the emperor wrapped tightly, and listened carefully to the deathbed words of the six princes, the six princes told the emperor everything, and said that the third prince was forced by military exploits to coerce him into the mansion of the five princes as a guest of the curtain. ”
"Well! He is the prince and has been coerced, which shows how powerful he and the third prince are at obeying orders! He didn't say a word about the five princes, but he forced the five princes to a dead end! Tut-tut! His methods are even more powerful! He can even make a dying will, and people can't help but believe it!" I widened my eyes and admired again and again, "This sixth prince is indeed not to be underestimated!"
"Yes, among all the princes, he is the most scheming," the voice of the sea is as quiet and beautiful as the hollow valley, "It's a pity that his biological mother's background is too low and she is just an embroidery girl, and she is so tired that he can't get the throne." Otherwise, he would be the strongest opponent in the fight for the crown prince. ”
In the imperial capital of Lingxiao City, in the emperor's bedroom, there is a mess of cups and plates on the floor tiles of white marble. The beautiful woman in palace clothes kneeling on the ground was scattered, crying mournfully, and her delicate eyebrows were full of tears: "Your Majesty, Tao'er has been wronged! Your Majesty, please don't listen to your greedy words!"
"Concubine Xu Shu, why do you cry out for injustice?! The evidence is conclusive!" The emperor trembled with anger, and swept away the twists and turns on the dragon case with a wave of his hand, "I am sorry to promote him! The fifth prince! He is really an unfilial son! I can't wait for my funeral, so I want to snatch my dragon chair!"
"Ask the emperor, Concubine Xu Chen finished speaking," Concubine Xu Shufei raised her rounded face, her beautiful eyebrows and eyes with teardrops were like spring flowers and dew, and I felt pity, "Tao'er really doesn't know where the rebellion came from, and the concubine has nothing to say." But the concubine has evidence to prove that Tao'er was framed!"
"Say!" the Emperor snorted coldly and sat down heavily on the dragon chair.
"The concubine can prove the appearance of pox, three days before the three princes' people blocked the suburban medical hall! The appearance of the three princes is not to cover up the pox and wait for the outbreak, but to find out the outsiders who carry the pox and take them away for isolation. Concubine Xu Shu's expression was sad, soft and white, and she gently pulled the corner of the seawater pattern azure yellow robe on the emperor's dragon boots, "This scourge of pox is a huge trap!
"Hmph, then, none of my sons are good people!" the emperor roared hatefully, his eyes showing fierceness, "If you don't have ironclad evidence, you are framing the prince!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! The concubine begs you to see a witness!" Concubine Xu Shu's face turned white and kowtowed repeatedly, "If it is not true, the concubine is willing to ask herself to be demoted to the position of concubine!
"Witness!" the emperor slapped the dragon case, and his voice was fierce, "I want to see who is the initiator!"
The old man, whose beard and hair were all white and had a stiff posture, knelt down with difficulty, and kowtowed again and again tremblingly: "Long live the emperor!"
"Yinruntu, tell me everything you know!" Xu Shufei drank lightly, her voice cold, "If there is a sentence that is not true, you should punish the nine clans!"
"The old man's nine clans, except for those who died of pox, are all dead!" Yinruntu's old voice was full of sadness, "When the officers and soldiers blocked the medical hall to arrest people, the old man was just about to grab medicine for my mother-in-law." On that day, the village had already buried six people with pox and black pus in wooden planks. ”
"When the officers and soldiers went to block the infirmary to arrest people, the village where you lived, the pox disease had already broken out?" The emperor's eyes narrowed, and he coldly peeked at the white-haired old man, like a poisonous snake raising his head to stare at the weak prey, ready to strike a fatal blow Sen Ran coldly choked, "Do you know that a sick foreigner entered the village?"
"Back to the emperor, when the foreigner passed through the village, he had to pay money to stay and recuperate, and the grass people were driving sheep into the pen at the entrance of the village, and they saw it under the curtain of the car blown by the wind. The people of the outer frontiers are sturdy, curly and red, sick and dying. The village chief refused to take them in, so they rushed to the next village overnight. It is said that he fell ill and died the next day. On the third day, people in the next village began to have a fever, and the pox began to ......"
"What do they look like with outsiders, do you remember?" the emperor motioned to the eunuch Qin to bring a chair at will, let the old man sit down, and his tone began to become gentle, "Also, is it a carriage or a sedan chair?"
Back to the emperor, the grass people remembered that the four people were riding horses, wearing black robes and gray cloaks, covering their faces. The patient was pulled by a donkey in a dilapidated carriage, and he was dragged by a dusty man. The old man held his forehead, and his voice began to tremble, "On the third day, the officers and soldiers came to the infirmary to arrest people, and after they couldn't find them and left, those four masked men suddenly appeared and killed people when they saw them! They didn't even let go of the little dolls, and even the patients who were on the verge of dying with pox had to be stabbed! The grass people were old and frail, and they were so frightened by the light of the sword and sword that they couldn't get up in one breath and passed out, and they rolled down into the cow dung heap, and they were thought to have lost their breath before they escaped. My old wife, my son, my daughter-in-law, and even my little grandson, who was only five years old, were killed, all died......"
Seeing that the old man was choked up and couldn't continue, Concubine Xu Shu gently picked up: "On the fourth day, the people of the second prince went into the village to rescue. At present, the village surnamed Yin and the village surnamed Zhang next door, the two villages with the most serious pox, have all died in the village, and the number of people infected with pox will naturally not rise again. ”
The Emperor's face turned pale, and the fingers of his hands on the back of his chair began to tremble uncontrollably.