The peace and quiet inside and outside the palace were broken by the sudden death of the prince, and the palace panicked, and the princes outside the palace went to the prince's east palace for the first time....

At that time, the emperor was reviewing the folds in the palace of nourishing the heart, and when he suddenly heard the news, he barely held the imperial pen in his hand, and the blood in his mind was surging, and he almost didn't turn his back on it, so he had to hold on to the foot of the dragon chair to barely stand up.

"Your Majesty, you have to be careful of your body."

Eunuch Kui was out of breath at the moment, and when he heard the news at the first time, he subconsciously felt that something was wrong, something had happened, and Kyoto was going to change.

The emperor slowed down for a while before dragging Eunuch Kui and asked in disbelief, "What did you say?" What did you just say? ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to mourn, Prince, Prince, he was poisoned, and at this moment, it has been.... Already. ”

The eunuch didn't dare to say that the prince was dead, and the emperor was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "What the hell did you say?" Have you invited a doctor? Is it serious? ”

"Your Majesty, the crown prince fell ill suddenly, and he has already died."

When the emperor heard the word death, he only felt that he couldn't breathe in his chest, and he spit out a mouthful of blood violently.

"Imperial Doctor, quickly pass on Imperial Doctor,"

When the emperor heard this, he casually touched the blood on the corner of his mouth, and hurriedly shouted: "Swing, go out of the palace, I want to go to the East Palace to see the prince." ”

"Swing the drive, drive the East Palace,"

The emperor here hurriedly left the palace, and the queen also received the news, and the queen was even more anxious for her son, and when she heard the news of the prince's sudden death, she rolled her eyes and fainted immediately.

If it is said that the most chaotic place now is the East Palace, but above Gong Xuanqing's palace, Gong Xuanqing's heart is even more flustered, his face is full of cold sweat because of nervousness and fear, he closes the doors and windows, and eavesdrops on the movement outside, afraid that the Royal Forest Army will come over and surround his palace.

When Tianjiu came in, he pulled Tianjiu over and said urgently, "Didn't you say that it should be seriously ill?" How did you die? The crown prince is dead, and now the matter is so big, I heard that my father and the emperor already know about it, if this is found out to be related to me, the next person to die will be this king."

"Lord Wang, this, I don't know about this. I was seriously ill yesterday, I heard that the princess is still looking for famous doctors everywhere? How did it take only one night to be dead? ”

"You don't know? Didn't you order this Gu worm? Did you keep assuring me that the prince would only be seriously ill, and now that he is dead, you tell me that you don't know? ”

Gong Xuanqing hated that he couldn't give this person two feet, but now he was very scared, and hurriedly said: "You hurry up, the poison was placed by you, and if you leave, you won't be able to find my head." ”

"Yes, the subordinates will disappear immediately, but the prince, now that the news of the death of the prince has spread throughout Kyoto, if you hide in the palace and don't dare to go out, it will be easier to arouse suspicion at that time," Tianjiu is indeed thinking about him, Tianjiu's heart is actually tormented, but there is no way, the lives of his brother's family are held in the hands of others,

When Gong Xuanqing heard this, he looked over suddenly, nodded a little nervously, and said: "This king should go to the prince's mansion, and the prince died of illness, which is a big deal, and this king should pretend to be unaware of the past." ”

Then this palace Xuanqing was about to leave, but he still instructed uneasily: "You disappear quickly, if you disappear, others won't be able to find my head."

Gong Xuanqing actually doesn't have enough brains, if an ordinary ruthless person encounters this situation, he should kill the poisoned person as soon as possible, preferably the kind that people can't even find in the corpse, but now Gong Xuanqing is just thinking about letting people escape, or is it simple.

Tianjiu's heart seemed to be fried repeatedly in a hot oil pot, he looked at the back of Gong Xuanqing hurriedly going out, and put the medicine in his arms in the bottom lattice of Gong Xuanqing's desk.

This medicine is a kind of medicine with the medicine that killed Jiuze, a secret medicine in the Western Regions of Japan, often used in the imperial family, not spread among the people, because no one in Kyoto has been able to make an antidote.

When Gong Xuanqing arrived at the East Palace, he squeezed into the crowd, and the emperor was looking at the motionless prince lying on the bed with a sad and angry face, and the princess who was kneeling crookedly on the edge of the bed was crying pear blossoms with rain, and then looked at the past, Gong Xuanzheng was also sad, and Gong Xuanzheng was standing next to the four emperors who didn't go out much all year round, and the news of the prince's death was too shocking, and even the four princes who stayed at home all the year round came.

"Say, what the hell is going on?"

Although the emperor did not shed tears, but his eyes were red, the crown princess was frightened because she heard the emperor's words asked by gritting her teeth, and then she recalled tremblingly: "Erchen sat at a table with His Royal Highness the prince yesterday for dinner, but because the little guy who tried the dishes disappeared...... Erchen really didn't know that someone had drugged it, and if he knew that he had been drugged, Erchen would have prevented His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from eating it no matter what, Your Majesty. ”

"What about the Imperial Doctor? Didn't you keep pointing to an imperial doctor in the East Palace? ”

The imperial doctor has been kneeling behind the crown princess, coldly listening to the emperor mention himself, scared a spirit, and then climbed to the emperor's feet, trembling and replied: "Yesterday, the prince only drank two mouthfuls of soup, and he was already poisoned on the spot, Weichen's medical skills are shallow, although he knows what poison he is, but he can't make an antidote in a short time, and the disease is menacing, but one night, Weichen guarded the prince for a night, but the prince still didn't get through." ”

"What kind of heart do you have, yesterday's incident, you didn't report to the palace until the prince died?"

This was said by the queen who broke in and pointed to the nose of the crown princess, according to what the imperial doctor said, she had been ill yesterday, and she didn't breathe until this morning, if the princess said to the palace yesterday, if the princess didn't work together to save the prince's life.

When the queen thought so, she had completely put all the responsibility for the death of the crown prince on the crown princess's head, and threw an ear scraper on the princess's face: "In the past, I pretended to say that everything was considered by the prince, but now I don't care about my son's life so much, I think you are like the one who poisoned you." ”

The crown princess was originally delicate and gentle, and she also thought about accepting the queen's harsh reprimand, but she didn't expect the queen to think that she had poisoned herself, and her heart instantly pulled together: "No, father, mother, Erchen really doesn't know that the meal was poisoned, and Erchen has always respected His Royal Highness the Prince, how could he poison him." ”

The emperor also felt that the poisoning of the crown princess was nonsense, and he wrinkled his brows and persuaded the queen: "You are also in a hurry, how can this crown princess be the one who poisoned her?" ”

"My son's East Palace is so heavily guarded, how can an unfamiliar face be drugged in my son's food? And this princess concealed it and did not report it, did not say it when she was seriously ill yesterday, delayed the best treatment time, and now I waited until my son has passed away to tell the palace, this is very ill-intentioned, and it is also the palace that was blind at the beginning, and chose you to be the princess for my son. ”

Seeing that the queen was about to start again, the emperor was already upset, and the grief was no less than that of the queen, and at this moment, listening to the queen's piercing shout, he was very irritated and ordered: "Come on, take the queen down to rest." ”

"I'm not resting, I'm going to watch you interrogate this person, and I'll see how she can quibble,"

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not easy to manage, the queen now only thinks that the prince's death is all responsible for the princess, and the princess did not reveal the prince's whereabouts much in the past, which has already provoked the queen's unhappiness and dissatisfaction, even if she understands in her heart that it is not the princess's poison, but the princess has delayed reporting to the palace for so long, and she is already an accomplice.

"Crown Princess, what did you mean when you said that the little guy who tasted the vegetables was gone?"

It was Gong Xuanzheng who interjected, and when he opened his mouth, the room was quiet for a while, and they all looked at Gong Xuanzheng, and even the emperor looked over, the emperor always felt that his brain was buzzing, and he didn't know where to start to feel appropriate, and when he heard this, he nodded and asked the crown princess: "How could that little guy disappear so well?" ”

"Back to my father's words, the little guy who tastes the food every day has to try it first after the meal is served to confirm that it is non-toxic before the prince eats it. The man was still there yesterday morning at breakfast, but by noon he was gone. Because the man used to come out of the palace only when he was eating, and no one knew that he might leave the palace at noon, and the prince was kind-hearted, and felt that it didn't matter if no one tasted the food, so the prince used the poisonous dish."

"Looking at it this way, didn't the crown princess look for that person in the East Palace later?"

Gong Xuanzheng spoke before the emperor spoke, Gong Xuanming coughed twice, probably to signal that Gong Xuanzheng, the father and the queen mother are here, how can you speak and interrogate.

Gong Xuanzheng may also have realized it, and hurriedly bowed his hand to the emperor and the queen and said: "Erchen just thinks that something is wrong, and he has doubts in his heart, and it is about the prince's brother, Erchen is anxious, and please don't blame the father and queen mother."

The queen was looking at the prince's corpse and shedding tears, crying uncontrollably, and didn't pay attention to what Gong Xuanzheng said, but the emperor nodded with some relief while grieving: "It's okay, you just ask, I listen." ”

This is terrible, there is a great intention to hand over this case to Gong Xuanzheng to investigate, although he didn't say so, but everyone present heard it, Gong Xuanqing was originally up and down in his heart, because he was afraid in his heart, he didn't dare to look directly at the body of the prince on the bed, and he also wanted to try his best to shrink his sense of existence, at this moment, like that Gong Xuanming, he kept his mouth shut and didn't say a word.

But when he heard the emperor's words, he had some luck in his heart, it was impossible for the fifth brother to find out his head, even if he found his head, he believed that with the fifth brother's friendship with him, he would definitely not say it.

The crown princess knelt on the ground, shook her head and said, "I found it, but I didn't find that person at all." Father, Erchen suspects that this matter has been premeditated by someone, otherwise the little guy who tasted the vegetables is also a living person, why did he suddenly disappear, and after the prince was poisoned in front of him yesterday, the back foot of the son sealed the palace, and no one can enter or exit, Rao is like this, the sons did not find the little guy who tasted the vegetables, that can only mean that someone deliberately murdered the prince's life. ”

This sentence of deliberate murder was spoken, and everyone present quieted down, and even the queen who was crying on the prince stopped crying, and Gong Xuanqing was even more flustered in his heart, the so-called not to do bad things is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, but he has never had the courage to kill, and he doesn't know why the prince should have been seriously ill and why he died.

He looked at it with fear, afraid that someone would look at him with suspicion.