20demayo Chapter 462 Bad people are scary, but stupid people are even scarier.
Chapter 462 Bad people are scary, but stupid people are even scarier.
"W-what?"
"Drink your medicine! Don't you understand? How stupid!"
The maid was somewhat stunned. This was the prince's medicine for typhoid fever. If she took it, would the prince recover?
Before she could think further, the prince's eyes seemed capable of killing.
He put down the tray, picked up the medicine bowl, and gulped down the steaming bowl of medicine for a cold in a few big mouthfuls.
So bitter!
No wonder the prince himself doesn't like to drink it; it turns out the medicine is so bitter.
The maid's face scrunched up, and for some reason, the Prince of Xuannan felt like laughing.
What an idiot, what a complete idiot.
Bad people are certainly scary, but sometimes stupid people are even scarier than bad people.
These fools may not have bad intentions, but they can be easily manipulated by bad people.
Like this maid, even though someone had already tampered with the medicine, she still painstakingly brewed it and brought it to her master to drink.
"Get up."
The maid knelt on the ground, unable to get up for a long time, whether from fright or something else. She felt weak in her limbs, as if she had suddenly developed a high fever.
"What? You don't want to get up? Then kneel down!"
"Your Highness! There's something wrong with that medicine!"
The Prince of Xuannan lowered his face and chuckled. "By the time you told me there was a problem, I would have been long gone!"
"Hmm, it was mixed with some poison. Didn't you brew it for me many times?"
Upon hearing this, the maid was no longer just weak in the limbs; she was drenched in sweat and felt that her death was imminent!
Damn it! Who harmed the prince and made this lowly maid take the blame?!
Pretty boy! It must be him! It was the pretty boy who did it!
But that person had already been killed by the prince with a single blow, so there was no way to confront him!
It's over, it's all over!
The princess isn't here, so no one will plead for her worthless life!
"Go down!"
W-what?
"You don't even have the strength to get off the carriage? You only drank one bowl of medicine, but I drank seven or eight bowls!"
"Your Highness, it's my fault! I didn't know there was something wrong with the medicine!"
Prince Xuannan shook his head and immediately ordered people to come up and drag the maid away.
Of course, they didn't drag him away and behead him; they dragged him away and threw him back into the servants' carriage.
After all, they are people close to the princess, so it is up to the princess to decide how to deal with them.
He simply didn't need any stupid people to serve him, so he just placed him under house arrest.
That bowl of medicine was just an appetizer; the maid will have to drink eight bowls of bitter medicine over the next few days to recover.
Who would have thought that the ruthless Prince Xuannan would use such a childish method of revenge? None of his subordinates dared to say anything.
They thought it would be much easier to finish him off with a single blow, but perhaps the prince had his own considerations, which were beyond the comprehension of these roughnecks.
Even after being thrown back into the servants' carriage, the maid was still shaken, her legs weak and trembling with fear.
She knew she had made a huge mistake, but she was truly innocent.
She really didn't know about the poison. Is the prince not going to deal with it now, but to wait until they get to the capital?
For the first time, the maid felt that having the knife hanging over her head was less satisfying than having it cut down!
The capital city, a hundred miles away—
Inside the palace, Emperor Zhao Yong received a letter from his uncle.
The emperor did not look well, and the chief eunuch, being very perceptive, dismissed the palace servants and stayed behind to serve him.
"Your Majesty, please have a cup of ginseng tea!"
The emperor waved his hand, saying that he couldn't drink ginseng tea, let alone jade dew, now.
His own royal uncle had gone through such a perilous journey, yet he himself had been kept in the dark.
The perpetrator of the previous assassination attempt has not yet been found, and now another traitor has emerged from the Emperor's side.
Furthermore, we still don't know the other party's true intentions.
Could it be true, as the Imperial Uncle said, that some force is trying to sow discord between the uncle and nephew, destabilizing the internal affairs of the Great Zhou?
The emperor somewhat agreed with his uncle's deduction, but there was one thing he didn't quite understand.
Since the Imperial Uncle already knew who the traitor was, why didn't he interrogate him further, but instead simply ended his life with a single blow?
The emperor realized that he had truly begun to distrust his own uncle, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.
"His Majesty!"
The chief eunuch handed over a silk handkerchief at the opportune moment. The emperor took it, wiped his face haphazardly, threw the handkerchief down, and then took the ginseng tea and drank a few sips.
"call……"
No, I must remain calm and wait for my uncle to arrive in the capital. We can ask him about everything face to face. Why waste my energy guessing here?
It must be said that they are indeed uncle and nephew; they both put aside their wild thoughts and waited for the meeting to "check the accounts".
At that very moment, Jiang Xiaoqi also received an urgent message from Li Mo sent back via carrier pigeon.
He was not far away when the Prince of Xuannan was attacked. His superiors instructed him to just keep watch and not to make any unnecessary moves.
Li Mo carried out the order very well; even though he knew that the Prince of Xuan Nan was being controlled, he simply followed him quietly.
He personally witnessed the fact that Xuan Nan Wang's cold medicine had been laced with a slow-acting poison, but aside from keeping watch, he couldn't do anything else and left it alone.
Anyway, it's a slow-acting poison, so drinking it a few times won't kill you immediately. The Prince of Xuannan wasn't that stupid; after drinking it a few times, he realized it himself and stopped drinking it after that.
He only helped a little when the Xuan Nan King's reinforcements arrived; of course, no one knew it was him who made the move.
After reading the newly arrived message by carrier pigeon, Jiang Xiaoqi immediately burned it over the candle flame.
Prince Xuan Nan rarely dismounted from his luxurious carriage, and Li Mo had to go to great lengths to finally see him.
It was through the pale-faced man's help that Li Mo had the chance to see the Prince of Xuan Nan himself, had the man not lifted the carriage curtain several times.
"He bears a seven-tenths resemblance to the portrait." These are Li Mo's exact words.
The portrait is from more than ten years ago. Apart from some added wrinkles and the fact that the black hair has turned white, a 70% resemblance is already considered a good match.
It seems that we can preliminarily conclude that the Prince of Xuannan was not switched, and my previous speculation may have been a bit off.
Given the various things that happened to Prince Xuannan, he seems more like a victim.
What exactly did Lord Chen mean by pointing him towards the Prince of Xuan Nan? Had I been placing too much trust in the clues provided by Lord Chen?
The portrait was painted by Lord Chen. Although the hunting scenes in the archives were painted by court painters, is it possible that they have been switched over the years?
Jiang Xiaoqi felt he had fallen into a huge conspiracy theory, but he hoped he was just overthinking it.
It's only a little over ten days. If His Majesty the Emperor can wait, then this insignificant person can certainly wait as well.
His Majesty the Emperor would not fail to recognize his own uncle, and many of the officials in the court are also old acquaintances from twenty years ago. Surely not every official is old and blind and cannot recognize an old friend.
The fluffy ball system strolled back from the courtyard of the Jiang family's young ladies, its little belly round.
"You actually know how to come back? Don't tell me there's still the smell of hot pot in my yard and my space!"