boyutpedia Chapter 223 Hypocrisy
Chapter 223 Hypocrisy
Looking at the group of people going away, Chu Qi sat on the ground weakly, muttering...
"It's over... It's over... This time... It's really over..."
"Take him!"
A group of people rushed over, tied up the collapsed Chu Qi and threw him into jail.
Before leaving, Chu Qi stared at the man who came in with resentment:
"Wei Yangqing! I will take you with me even if I go to hell! Mother! Save me! Mother! Mother! Mother..."
As the voice grew smaller and smaller, the Queen Mother's face was already in tears.
This son is useless...
Xu Qingzhao watched this wonderful show with Emperor Jinyang, and he didn't show any special expression.
It seems that Chu Qi is the only one who is jumping up and down like a clown, but how many people are secretly giving him advice, and how many people are drawing circles and waiting for Chu Qi to jump...
The hall was full of holes tonight, but Chu Qi was completely unaware of it.
Normally, palace banquets are heavily guarded, but today, there are only a dozen or so guards in the palace, euphemistically calling it "there are too many people in the palace..."
Another thing is the strangeness of Emperor Jinyang’s illness. Anyone with a discerning eye could notice that something was wrong, but he didn’t notice anything wrong at all.
Moreover, the timing of the arrival of the Tartars from the north was perfect. He wanted to be released from prison, and the Tartars who had been beaten before came to the border, and the border guards "just happened" to do nothing.
Everything was just the calculation of Emperor Jinyang.
Chu Qi is barely qualified to be the emperor, let alone the chief defender of a city.
If he wanted to outsmart Emperor Jinyang with his intelligence, he would have to be reborn. And Emperor Jinyang was willing to give him this opportunity.
Summer Palace
"Doctor Zhang? How is His Majesty?"
Concubine Zhen anxiously asked the imperial physician who had taken the emperor's pulse. The emperor, lying on the dragon bed, looked pale and was falling into a deep sleep.
Doctor Zhang was the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau and the exclusive physician who checked the emperor's pulse every day.
"Your Majesty, His Majesty is extremely angry, and coupled with the fact that he's still recovering from a serious illness, the situation isn't optimistic..."
"How could this happen? Doctor Zhang, please treat me quickly..."
"Your Highness, the medicine is already boiling. Please follow me. Your Majesty needs to rest and recuperate now."
A group of people retreated, and people knelt on the ground outside the hall. The princes, grandchildren, and concubines in the palace all looked extremely worried.
There was only one exception, and that was Ming Zhaoyi.
She lowered her head, trying not to let others see the sarcasm on her face. How many people in this group really wanted the best for the emperor?
Besides, Emperor Jinyang is not sick at all!
The one who is sick is Xu Qinglan.
At this time, as everyone left, only Xu Qinglan was left in the hall. She was dressed as a maid and was serving tea.
As soon as the person left, her body could no longer bear it. She spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground in pain, unable to breathe.
Emperor Jinyang opened his eyes and sat up, his face expressionless when he saw Xu Qinglan.
"Xu Qinglan, you saved my life. What reward do you want?"
Xu Qingzhao clenched her hands into fists. The piercing pain had faded. She knelt on the ground, her pale face devoid of blood. She spoke miserably:
"It is Qing Lan's duty to ensure His Majesty's good health... Qing Lan dare not ask for a reward..."
When she went to Yuehua Palace that day, she knew why Emperor Jinyang had been looking for her for so many years.
Her mother is the eldest sister of the Xu family, Xu Xingwan.
When Xu Xingwan was young, he was weak and sickly, so his father and mother sent him to the Yaoshen Valley far away in Shang'an to recuperate.
He worshipped Shen Yaowang in Yaoshen Valley as his master and also practiced medicine skills in Yaoshen Valley.
It was not until he was thirteen years old that he followed his master to Yunnan County and met a young man from the Dianyi tribe in Yunnan County.
The two fell in love with each other and agreed to get married after Xu Xingwan came of age.
Unfortunately, not long after returning to Shang'an, Chu Ye, who was then Prince Yong, was ordered by the late emperor to go to Shang'an Prefecture to deal with the flood. By chance, he met the beautiful Xu Xingwan and fell in love with her uncontrollably.
But at that time, Xu Xingwan had already secretly pledged her life to the young man from Yunnan County. Moreover, Chu Ye was already 22 years old, while Xu Xingwan was only 14.
Chu Ye pestered her relentlessly, but Xu Xingwan refused to give in. He even stayed in Yaoshen Valley and refused to leave.
Finally, the day of Xu Xingwan's coming of age arrived. The young man from Yunnan County also came to congratulate her, and Yaoshen Valley was extremely lively.
That very night, Chu Ye, who was drunk, learned that Xu Xingwan was going to marry that young man. In a rage, he took her body on the night of her coming-of-age ceremony.
After encountering this incident, Xu Xingwan tried to commit suicide several times, but was saved by the young man every time. After being persuaded by the young man, Xu Xingwan gave up the idea of committing suicide.
Just when everything was going in the right direction, Xu Xingwan was found to be pregnant.
Moreover, her health was severely damaged when she was a child. If she aborted this child, then Xu Xingwan... would never be able to get pregnant again...
Upon hearing this news, Xu Xingwan was devastated. Her good life, her future, everything she had, was ruined by that man...
But she maintained her composure on the surface, and didn't look like anything had happened. In the end, she stole a forbidden Gu from the young man's tribe and fled back to Kyoto.
Seeing that his lover was pregnant, Chu Ye was overjoyed and wanted to immediately bring her into the house as his wife.
But at that time, she already had a wife, and she had given birth to a prince. The late emperor would never allow such a thing as demoting a wife to a concubine to happen in the royal family. So he severely reprimanded him.
When he returned home, he found that Xu Xingwan had disappeared. He searched for a long time but there was no news, as if he had disappeared out of thin air.
Until one day a year later, the old man Xu had a daughter. He didn't know that the child was his at that time. He just thought that Jiang Mingyue was an old clam giving birth to a pearl without giving it much thought.
Ten years later, the poison in his body broke out again and the doctor found that he had been poisoned by Yunnan's "Thousand Silk Life-Channeling Gu".
This poison can remain dormant for as long as ten years. Once it breaks out, the victim will feel as if he is entangled by thousands of tiny silk threads, tightly binding his body and internal organs.
To cure this poison, we must first find the person who put the poison in our body. Only by taking out the person's heart and using it as medicine can we cure the poison.
Unfortunately, Xu Xingwan had already passed away in Yunnan by then, and lived happily ever after with that young man.
Her body was too weak, and after the poison was applied, she died a few years after giving birth to Xu Qingzhao. When the young man heard the bad news, he committed suicide in front of her grave.
Now that Xu Xingwan is dead, he has investigated the Xu family and assumed that his daughter had done something to bring disrepute to the family and buried her secretly.
Now that there is no antidote, he can only rely on drugs to maintain his life. Fortunately, this poison only attacks during the full moon, and is no different from ordinary people at other times.
He went to Yaoshen Valley to seek medical treatment, but Yaoshen Valley refused to see him. In despair, he even ordered the arrest of all the people in Yaoshen Valley and forced them to hand over the method of treatment.
Yaoshen Valley was helpless and could only give a prescription to relieve the symptoms but could not cure it.
Chu Ye had some hatred towards Yaoshen Valley, but at that time it was a critical period in the fight for the throne, so he could not start a war.
Fortunately, I used that recipe for several years.
Until a few years later...