An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

"It's not your fault."

The emperor had just woken up and was very dizzy. He didn't want to listen to the queen's words of begging for mercy, so he just responded casually.

The Queen only took the opportunity to explain the demotion of Concubine Tian. As long as the Emperor heard it, it would not be considered as acting on his own initiative.

After a while, the emperor was dressed neatly and leaned back on the couch. The empress brought him some porridge and served him meals with all her heart.

After finishing a bowl of porridge, the emperor finally felt clear-headed. He then remembered to ask about what the queen had just said, "You demoted Concubine Tian's position?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." The Queen wiped the corners of the Emperor's lips and continued to explain, "Tianpin arrested Feiyun from my palace at the gate of Your Majesty's Yangxin Palace. Eunuch Su knows about this. Your Majesty can ask about it.

Afterwards, Concubine Tian used the excuse that Feiyun pretended to be a ghost on the palace road and scared her, and ordered the people in the Yanxi Palace to whip and torture Feiyun, and beat Feiyun to death.

In order to cover up her vicious behavior, she even ordered someone to hit Feiyun's head, making it look like Feiyun committed suicide by hitting a pillar."

The Queen sighed deeply. She easily caught the frown on the Emperor's face and was more careful with her words. "This behavior frightened the concubines and all the palace people, and they were in a panic for a long time.

I was really angry, so I invited Concubine Tian to Jingren Palace to talk to her. However, Concubine Tian refused to admit her mistakes and repeatedly tried to cover up and quibble with me.

Therefore, after talking with the sisters in the harem, she ordered to demote Concubine Tian's rank, confined her to her house for three months, and paid for Feiyun's funeral expenses."

The Queen stopped talking here. She raised her eyes hesitantly, causing the Emperor to look over.

"Your Majesty, is this punishment too severe?"

The emperor hesitated for a while, and finally shook his head, "If what she did is true, the Queen's punishment is not severe.

The maids in the harem also came from the Eight Banners and were raised by their biological parents. They should not be treated so arbitrarily. "

The queen seemed to be relieved. She held her forehead and looked very tired, and her voice became faint and weak.

"I don't understand the affairs of the previous dynasty, but Concubine Tian is too bold. How could she arrest someone at the gate of the Yangxin Palace?

Where does this put the emperor's face and the face of this concubine? Even now, there is no remorse, and even Feiyun's family is unwilling to be resettled.

In order to silence everyone, I have sent Zhuxi with silver to appease them. "

"The Queen has done a great job on this matter. I am at ease." The Emperor did not care about Concubine Tian's face. He paused and asked about the Fourth Prince, "How is the investigation of Hongli's death going?"

"The coroner confirmed that the Fourth Prince had died of poisoning by pricking his throat and stomach with a needle. However, because the Fourth Prince died a long time after he had finished his meal, the remaining dishes had already been cleared away.

I can only look at the records in the imperial kitchen to see what dishes the Fourth Prince had during his meals.

It's just that the three princes were dining at the same time, and only the Fourth Prince met with an accident. I also think the problem may not be with the food."

"The three of them dined together?"

The Queen nodded and said, "Ever since the Emperor stopped allowing others to visit the princes and stopped allowing the princes to walk around freely, the relationship between the three of them has become much more harmonious.

So they would normally have meals together. This time something happened to the Fourth Prince, and the two princes were very scared, so I gave silver to each of them.

In this way, even if it is poisonous, it can be detected immediately. "

"I understand," the emperor nodded, "you have done a good job on this matter. So... the current situation is that the imperial physician and the coroner have not reached a conclusion, and you, Queen, have not been able to find out when, where, and how the Fourth Prince was poisoned, right?"

The queen responded with a helpless look on her face, telling the emperor that she was powerless.

The emperor was quite impatient. He waved his hand to interrupt the queen without thinking, "Have you checked everyone around the fourth prince?"

"Concubine Tian sent someone to investigate, and they said that no poison was found around anyone or in anyone's residence, and even the Fourth Prince's residence was not found to be abnormal.

In addition, the Fourth Prince passed away in his sleep without any pain. It was only when I went to call him to class that I found out that he had passed away. "

Before the emperor fell into a coma, he did not have time to listen to the details of the Fourth Prince's condition. When he woke up, it was several days later, and the women in the palace did not find anything useful.

"I will find a way to investigate this matter. Queen, you don't have to follow up. There are a lot of things to do in the harem, especially the princes. Queen, please take good care of them for me."

"Your Majesty, rest assured. I will never let this happen again. I haven't attended the morning court in the past few days, and the things from the previous court must be piling up. I am a woman and cannot help Your Majesty, so please take care of yourself and don't worry me and the sisters in the harem."

"I am tired of lying down these days. The affairs of the previous dynasty and the Fourth Prince cannot be delayed. It would be better to put some effort to resolve them as soon as possible."

The emperor and the empress had nothing to talk about, so they leaned back on the couch to rest for a while, then asked Su Peisheng and the imperial physician to come in again to treat them.

After the examination, Doctor Zhou prescribed medicine for the emperor and told Eunuch Su to take it three times a day and never forget to do so.

After prescribing the medicine, the empress left with everyone else. The emperor rested for only half an hour before summoning several ministers to the Yangxin Palace to discuss matters of the previous dynasty.

Fortunately, no major incidents occurred among the people during this period, and reports from various places showed that the country was peaceful and the people were prosperous, which made the emperor feel much more at ease.

However, things in the court became much more complicated, especially regarding the death of the Fourth Prince and the Emperor's fainting. After several days of fermentation, many ministers began to form cliques in private and began to express their support for the Third Prince or the Fifth Prince.

Fortunately, these two princes are in the palace, and the emperor did not give them positions to gain experience, otherwise, who knows what kind of chaos would have happened.

Zhang Tingyu described the previous dynasty's assignments in detail, even finding out who supported the Fourth Prince and who supported the Third Prince.

The emperor's fingers gradually tightened as he listened to those familiar names. If it weren't for his good upbringing, he would have punched the table long ago.

"Where's Fucha Fulton?"

"Lord Fucha, like before, has not made it clear which prince he supports, but he has frequent private contacts with ministers who support the Fifth Prince, which shows his choice."

The emperor nodded, and he had some understanding of these things. "Fucha Fuldun did a lot of small things in the previous dynasty."

"Your Majesty is wise. There have indeed been some rumors in the past few days. I have not yet found out who spread them. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

"Investigate quickly. I want to know not only who spread the news, but also whether the news is what he had in mind."

Zhang Tingyu bowed in response. The emperor looked at the thick stack of memorials at hand, held his forehead and let Zhang Tingyu leave first.

Following Zhang Tingyu in was Lord Fucha, who had been "in the limelight" in the court recently. Not only did he not show any fear when he saw the emperor, he even had the courage to ask why Concubine Tian was demoted.

The emperor showed no emotion on his face, and listened coldly as Fucha Fuldun pleaded for his daughter, saying that it was the slave girl who pretended to be a ghost first, and that Concubine Tian had been frightened so much that she couldn't sleep well for several days and nights. Now that she learned that all these things were done by Feiyun, how could she not be angry?

"But I didn't expect that the slave girl was instigated by someone to hit herself against the pillar in order to frame Concubine Tian and make her bear the crime of torturing the palace maid to death.

Your Majesty, Concubine Tian has Princess Huai Ke as her child. Wouldn't it damage the princess's reputation if such a crime was put on her?

When the princess reaches the age of marriage in the future, how can she choose an outstanding man as her consort with such a reputation? "

"Huai Ke is a princess. Who dares to say anything bad about her? Even if she doesn't have Fu Cha, she still has me as her backer. Why should she worry about the future?"

The emperor's words "there is no Fucha family" made Fucha Fuldun's heart tremble. He was not sure what the emperor meant. But when he thought that the fourth prince was already dead and the third prince was still being raised by Prince Lian Yunsi, he was not so scared anymore.

After all, strictly speaking, the Third Prince is no longer able to compete with the Fifth Prince. If the Emperor chooses a crown prince, the Fifth Prince is the only option.

His daughter was on good terms with the Fifth Prince, and had also reached an agreement with him in private that even if Concubine Tian failed to become the Fifth Prince's adoptive mother, after he ascended the throne, he would still worship Concubine Tian as the Empress Dowager and would continue to use Fucha in the future.

Fucha Fuldun felt relieved and calm, "Your Majesty, I am just expressing my concern. It is indeed impossible to predict the future in advance.

But I am the princess's grandfather after all, and I am considering her out of love. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

"I won't worry too much about this matter, but Lord Fucha knows everything about my affairs in the harem, how can I feel at ease?"

Fucha Fuldun finally felt scared. He knelt down and explained, "Your Majesty, my wife once asked to see the Empress, so she knows a thing or two about Concubine Tian.

I have no intention of exploring the affairs of the harem, Your Majesty, please be clear-headed."

The emperor slowly lowered his eyes and counted the beads in his hand faster and faster. In his ear, Fucha Fuldun was still constantly defending himself. Finally, under the emperor's impatient eyes, he slowly stopped talking.

"The affairs of the previous dynasty have not been stopped for a long time. You have done a good job, Fulton."

“Your Majesty, please forgive me. I don’t know where these rumors came from. Concubine Tian arrested people near the Yangxin Palace and did not cause any disturbance that would affect Your Majesty’s treatment.

Even if there were some mistakes, it was because Concubine Tian did not know the rules, and she was also punished by the Empress.

When these things happened, I was still at home and knew nothing about it, so how can you say that I was disrespectful to the emperor? "

Even though Fucha Fuldun had some inappropriate thoughts in his mind, he did not intend to dethrone the emperor directly. Instead, he wanted to use the successor to push the power of the Fucha family to a higher peak.

Therefore, the rumors from the previous dynasty were indeed false, but Fucha Fuldun did not know who was behind them, and sending people to suppress these rumors was of no use at all.

After all, these things were circulated among the ministers. Even if Fucha Fuldun had great power, he couldn't shut everyone up.

"Moreover, my loyalty to Your Majesty is evident to all. Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, I have never failed to do my best for a single day. Your Majesty understands this best."

Fucha Fuldun's father, Fucha Maqi, had been an official in the court since the time of his grandfather. Fuldun himself had also served in two dynasties, so his loyalty was indeed beyond doubt.

But the actions of his Fucha clan were indeed becoming more and more excessive. They chose to support the crown prince so early, which seemed to show that they did not take him, the emperor, seriously.

"Your Majesty, if you don't trust me, you should at least trust my father. Fu Cha would never do such a disloyal and disrespectful thing."

It was impossible for the emperor to say that he did not trust Fucha Maqi, but he felt resentful and could not swallow it.

He rubbed his brows, and a feeling of fatigue surged up like a tide, and even a feeling of pain and itchiness slowly rose in his muscles and bones, making the emperor drop the beads in annoyance.

The side effects of Wu Shi San became more and more obvious, and the emperor's temper became even less calm than before. In addition, he had fainted in the past few days and had not consumed these things. At this time, his anger rose and his body began to feel unwell.

Fucha Fuldun didn't understand the situation. The emperor threw a pearl in his hand and stopped him in his tracks. He could only bow his hands and lower his head, wondering what he had said wrong.

Because of the Wu Shi San, the emperor felt increasingly unwell. He clenched his fists and drove Fu Cha Fuldun out of the door.

Su Peisheng rushed in immediately and found that the emperor's face was very pale with beads of sweat the size of beans running down his cheeks. Frightened, Su Peisheng hurriedly called Xiao Xiazi to call the imperial physician over.

"No need to call the imperial physician. Please go to Yongshou Palace. I want to go see Concubine Wan."

"Your Majesty, you look very bad. I am worried about your health. Please ask Doctor Zhou to come and take a look at you!"

"I see that you don't want your head anymore, so I order you to go to Yongshou Palace!" Su Peisheng was very worried, but the emperor was angry and sternly ordered Su Peisheng to go to Yongshou Palace immediately.

Seeing the emperor looking so uncomfortable, Su Peisheng could only grit his teeth and stomp his feet and take the emperor over. After all, the emperor was his master, and he had no reason to refuse.

However, halfway through the journey, he was stopped by Ling Rong and her men. She used the excuse that she had a way to relieve the emperor's pain and brought the emperor back to the Yangxin Palace.

"Empress Sheng, do you really have a solution? In the emperor's condition, he must not be allowed to continue taking Wu Shi San.

Imperial Physician Zhou and Imperial Physician He had repeatedly stressed that if the emperor continued to take the medicine, his health would only get worse until he became insane and eventually died.

But today, I really can't persuade the emperor. If your majesty can persuade the emperor, I am willing to die for you."