Chapter Seventy-Six: The Poisoning Incident

"Your Highness, this medicine has been decocted, you better drink it while it's hot." General Li walked in with a medicine bowl diligently, and Xiao Lizi hurriedly took it when he saw this.

"Well, so fast? The prince thought it would take at least an hour! As he spoke, Murong Xuan pulled off the towel on his head and couldn't help but sit up.

"Your Highness, take it easy, have you forgotten that you are sick now?" Seeing this, Xiao Lizi couldn't help but worry.

"Do you really think that Prince Ben is that delicate girl, who is light on everything, do you want to kill Prince Ben awkwardly?" Murong Xuan glanced at Xiao Lizi unconsciously, and then prepared to take the medicine bowl.

"Hot!" Seeing this, Xiao Lizi hurriedly put the bowl on the table, then took another soup spoon and shook it, and when he felt that it was not too hot, he handed it to Murong Xuan.

At this time, General Li's eyes were staring at the medicine bowl in the prince's hand, and his heart was uneasy. On the one hand, he hoped that the prince could drink the bowl of medicine, so that he could successfully complete the task of the lord, and on the other hand, he did not want the prince to drink the bowl of medicine, because he knew that once he drank it, the prince's life would be in danger.

"General Li, why are you looking at His Highness like this?" It seemed that he could see that there was something unusual about General Li, and Murong Xuan couldn't help asking.

"No, it's nothing, the last general just suddenly remembered that the monk's behavior just now was a little strange!" General Li subconsciously covered up for himself.

"Oh!" Originally, Murong Xuan was going to drink it, but when he heard General Li say this, he couldn't help but put the medicine bowl aside.

"It may be that the last general is too worried, but the prince should not take it to heart." Seeing that the bowl of medicine was set aside, General Li said unconsciously.

"Yes!" The prince nodded, and then ordered: "Xiao Lizi, Your Highness is afraid of hardship, you can help me prepare some candied fruit!" ”

"Yes!"

At this time, no one noticed that there was a cockroach on the ground that quietly climbed up along the table leg, and coincidentally climbed on top of the medicine bowl, and one fell into the medicine bowl carelessly, and a good bowl of medicine was harmed by a cockroach.

"Ah, cockroaches!" When the prince saw Xiao Lizi go to get the candied fruit, he planned to take the medicine bowl and drink it, but he didn't want to see a good black cockroach floating in it, so he threw the bowl away in fright, only to hear a clang, the bowl fell to the ground, and the medicine juice spilled on the ground.

"Your Highness!" Seeing this, General Li couldn't help but step forward, not knowing whether he was afraid that the prince would be frightened or that the bowl of medicine would be overturned, but after all, he didn't care about either, so he had to look at the medicine in that place with trepidation.

"Your Highness!" At this moment, Xiao Lizi also heard the sound, and he was stunned when he saw this scene, and the candied fruit he had just brought couldn't help but fall to the ground, and it was mixed with the medicinal juice.

Seeing this, Xiao Lizi hurriedly went to pick up the candied fruits, not wanting a wild dog to run out of nowhere, smelling the smell of candied fruits, and licking all the medicinal juices on the ground.

Seeing this, General Li couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, he secretly barked badly, and then saw the inexplicable wild dog howl a few times, and then shook his body and fell to the ground.

He's dead? Not only was Xiao Li Zi taken aback, but Murong Xuan was even more shocked when he saw it, he pointed to the dead wild dog and said, "It's ...... It actually died? ”

The dog had just eaten the candied fruit and drank the medicinal juice, but in the blink of an eye it was dead, and even the most stupid person could guess that there was either a problem with the candied fruit or a problem with the medicinal juice.

"Xiao Lizi, you check for Prince Ben, what's going on? By the way, call that medicine monk here, and His Royal Highness will personally interrogate him. Prince Murong suddenly thought of something.

"Yes!" Xiao Lizi also felt that this was a big problem, this was obviously someone secretly poisoning and wanted to poison the prince, it was really terrifying.

If the prince hadn't asked him to get the candied fruit just now, and if the prince hadn't knocked over the bowl of medicine just now, Xiao Lizi wouldn't dare to imagine what the consequences would have been.

"Your Highness, could it be that there is something wrong with the candied fruit?" General Li wanted to use this to divert the attention of Murong Xuan and Xiao Li Zi, so that they would not suspect him.

"No, this is what I brought from the palace, and the prince is almost eating." Saying that, Xiao Lizi took one and put it in his mouth and ate it, looking like it would never be poisonous.

"Indeed, His Royal Highness has eaten the candied fruit, and there will be no problem, obviously the problem is in that bowl of medicine." Looking at the cockroaches that were already lying on their stomachs on the ground, Murong Xuan had more reason to believe in his judgment.

"In that case, then the general will send someone to arrest that monk!" So General Li walked out and shouted at the guards outside: "Someone, hurry up and go to the backyard and arrest that medicine monk for General Ben." ”

"Yes!" Seeing this, the guards did not dare to delay, and soon ran in the direction of the backyard.

"Prince, I can't imagine that there is anyone in this Xishan Temple who dares to be so bold, it seems that the minion's previous worries are not superfluous. It's just that the slave can't figure out that the prince and the monk have no grievances, why did he poison His Highness, it's really annoying. Xiao Lizi couldn't help but be annoyed.

"People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and they have to watch their deeds even more when they listen to their words! His Highness originally thought that these ancient words were just said by the ancients, but when something happened to him, His Highness understood a little. I don't want the medicine monk to look at the kind eyes, but in fact, he is ruthless and vicious, and the prince is too simple. At this time, Murong Xuan thought of the medicine monk, and he couldn't help but regret his carelessness.

"Back to General Li, the medicine monk has long since disappeared!" The people who came couldn't help but tell me.

"What?" General Li couldn't help but be surprised, originally thought that these guards would catch the medicine monk and come over, and he would definitely not be able to get out, but he didn't think that these guards didn't even see the shadow of the medicine monk, how could this be possible?

"Yes, his subordinates have searched the entire Xishan Temple, and they haven't seen the medicine monk, and even the monks he comes into contact with on weekdays haven't seen him."

"General Ben doesn't believe that he will disappear into thin air, and go to the backyard with General Ben to have a look!" So General Li hurriedly walked towards the backyard, seeing that there were only some leftovers in the backyard, but there was no trace of the medicine monk.

"Could it be that he absconded in fear of sin?" General Li didn't feel strange, he didn't know that the disappearance of the medicine monk was simply the work of his lord's cloak, but he mistakenly thought that he was so lucky and escaped this catastrophe for no reason.

Since the medicine monk is nowhere to be seen, he can naturally push everything on the medicine monk, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not doubt it, thinking of this, General Li turned around and returned to the West Chamber, and said to Murong Xuan Zhengse on the sickbed: "Tell Your Highness, that medicine monk has absconded in fear of crime and is nowhere to be found!" ”

"What?" Obviously, the crown prince was also taken aback, and then it seemed to dawn on him, "It seems that His Highness has seen the wrong person, if it is really the medicine monk who wants to harm His Highness, otherwise he would not have absconded in fear of crime and disappeared." ”

"Your Highness, I think this matter is strange, the slave thinks that the medicine monk is just a monk, there is no need for him to harm His Royal Highness the Prince, unless someone is behind the scenes!" Xiao Lizi couldn't help but say the guess in his heart.

He thought more and farther than the prince, and he faintly felt that the matter of the prince's punishment of Xishan Temple had touched the hearts of too many people, and it was difficult to ensure that someone was eyeing the position of the prince and secretly doing something for it.

"Xiao Lizi, what you said makes sense, and His Highness thinks so too." Murong Xuan looked at Xiao Li Zi approvingly, then turned his head and asked, "General Li, what do you think of this matter?" ”

General Li didn't expect that today's incident would be full of twists and turns, which made him a little inexplicable now. originally thought that he would solve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with a bowl of medicine, and then the medicine monk would inevitably be implicated, but who would have thought that it would be the ending like this, fortunately, the medicine monk is now nowhere to be found, but he can erase the possibility of becoming a suspect.

At this time, seeing the prince asking himself, General Li couldn't help but say: "When the medicine monk was decocting the medicine, the last general did not find anything suspicious, only said that this medicine was a life-saving medicine, who knew that he actually kept his evil intentions, so that the last general almost became a sinner through the ages, and the last general asked for guilt!" With that, General Li fell to his knees with a resolute expression of asking for his life.

"General Li, please get up, His Highness doesn't mean to blame you, His Highness just wants to ask your opinion on this matter, so that I can help Your Highness analyze and analyze." Murong Xuan saw General Li suddenly fall to his knees, and couldn't help but get up.

"General Li, get up quickly, otherwise Your Highness will get out of bed and come to help you personally." Seeing this, Xiao Lizi couldn't help but hurriedly said.

Seeing this, General Li got up at this time, and then said to Murong Xuan: "General Ben also thinks that this matter is very strange, and the last general thinks that His Royal Highness is also strange, but at this time, there is another medicine monk, will there be any connection between the two?" ”

These words seemed to make a lot of sense, but only General Li knew that it was clear that he was pulling two things that were not related to each other together, in order to confuse Murong Xuan's thinking and make them farther and farther away from the truth, and the more beneficial it would be to himself.

"General Li, when you say that, His Highness thinks it's a bit too coincidental." Murong Xuan didn't think about it, but he couldn't think of a reason.

"Prince, the servant thinks that no matter whether your illness is a coincidence, or an occasional cold, these are all antecedents, and the key problem is still in the bowl of medicine that wants to poison His Highness!" Xiao Li Zi said this, and as soon as this sentence came out, General Li on the side couldn't help but gasp.

This little plum is obviously very good at analyzing problems, and he has analyzed them all to the point, if this is the case, even he, the person who has served the medicine bowl in the middle, will definitely become one of the suspects.

Suddenly, General Lee thought of a very important question, which was about the dregs. If His Highness sends someone to check on those dregs, and finds that those slags are just some to deal with fever and cold, then wouldn't he, the middleman, be the biggest suspect?