Zhou Ruyuan immediately went to the palace to find Shen Lanxi.

"I am going to the palace to serve my father!"

Shen Lanxi flatly refused: "His Majesty said that he will not see anyone who comes."

Zhou Ruyuan looked at her angrily: "Why are you not letting me see my father?"

Shen Lanxi: "Your Majesty has woken up. It was His Majesty who said he didn't see anyone."

Zhou Ruyuan looked at Shen Lanxi coldly: "Aren't you afraid that the court officials will report you for treason?"

Shen Lanxi smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. If they want to report me, just come. Your Majesty will take care of those clowns."

Zhou Ruyuan looked at Shen Lanxi's confident tone and began to wonder whether what she said was true or not.

Is the emperor okay?

What if other princes knew about this?

Zhou Ruyuan didn't even enter the palace gate and went back home angrily.

……

"Mr. Jiang, how can we persuade the prince?" Bai Qingling asked with a worried look on her face.

Jiang Wuya said helplessly: "Even if I tell you, the prince may not listen!"

He had advised the prince to get rid of Shen Lanxi several times before, but the prince was unmoved. He really tried his best.

Bai Qingling knew this, so when she saw Jiang Wuya in such distress, she felt a little guilty.

She invited Mr. Jiang to deal with Shen Lanxi. She didn't expect that the prince was so obsessed with Shen Lanxi that he didn't listen to Mr. Jiang.

"Mr. Jiang, you have worked so hard."

Jiang Wuya sighed helplessly: "If the prince continues to insist on this, I'm afraid he will be exiled from the capital sooner or later!"

Bai Qingling's eyes turned cold. The prince was destined to be the supreme ruler, how could he be expelled?

Isn’t it just Shen Lanxi who is in the way?

Just get rid of it.

After Shen Lanxi received the news that Madam Shen was ill, she immediately rode back home.

As soon as he walked to Xinting Street, he was assassinated.

Hundreds of men in black attacked together.

Shen Lanxi fought against a hundred people alone, killing people in Xinting Street until blood flowed like a river. The blood flowed all the way from Xinting Street to the Baihua Lane next door.

The sounds of fighting and screaming woke up half of the people in the capital from their dreams.

Wei Dongzhu and others rushed to the rescue after receiving the news, only to see dead and wounded people all over the ground.

"They are all assassins, their teeth are filled with poison. Pull out the fangs first, don't let them commit suicide, and interrogate them severely."

"Yes!"

The Imperial Guards dragged those who were not dead into the Heavenly Prison, and the dead were transported to outside the city by the Beijing Guards for burial.

After daybreak, the bloody smell on the street still lingered. Although the ground had been washed, some of the blood that had seeped into the ground had not yet dried.

No one on the two streets dared to go out.

……

"Grandma, did you send anyone to the palace to call me last night?" When Shen Lanxi rushed back home, the family had already gotten up for breakfast.

"No, did you go to call Lan Xi?" Old Madam Shen looked at the people eating around the table.

"No, isn't there a curfew these days? Anyone who dares to go out will die!"

"That's right. We rarely go out during the day these days."

The main reason was that the Shen family's sons failed in the imperial examination this time, and they felt embarrassed, so they did not go out.

Shen Lanxi: "Something happened in the palace. I won't go out if I can."

Liu was quick to speak and asked, "What happened in the palace?"

Madam Shen immediately began to knock: "The more you know, the faster you will die!"

Liu quickly shut her mouth.

Shen Lanxi told him about Emperor Renxiao's poisoning: "This matter is very likely related to the death of the former crown prince. Just pretend you don't know and stay out of the house these few days!"

The death of the former crown prince was a taboo that no one in the capital dared to mention. Even Liu, who was always outspoken, kept her lips tightly pursed.

……

Shen Lanxi was stabbed in the street, and the thief dispatched hundreds of assassins, which was simply outrageous.

"From today on, strictly question everyone entering Beijing. If you find anything suspicious, report it immediately!"

"Search every house, and kill anyone who looks suspicious!"

"Anyone who dares to cause trouble these days will be executed on the spot!"

"Whether they are royal relatives or common people, offenders will be treated equally!"

Shen Lanxi's men first attacked all the officials, starting with the regent.

"We are ordered to search for the rebels and their followers. Anyone who dares to stop us will be punished!"

The situation was the same in the homes of the old Grand Tutor Wu Yanzhi and Liu Mingxin. The Imperial Guards rushed in and turned their homes upside down.

Although the three regent ministers had the final say in the court, they had no military power and could only watch as the royal guards rushed into their homes to search.

"Shen Lanxi, you've gone too far!" Liu Mingxin angrily approached Shen Lanxi.

"You have no imperial edict, yet you ordered people to search the home of a first-rank official. Are you planning a rebellion?" Liu Mingxin accused Shen Lanxi harshly.

"The imperial edict is here, Lord Liu, please take a look if you want!" The imperial edict was placed next to Shen Lanxi. Liu Mingxin rushed in just now, and there was no table nearby.

The imperial edict was indeed as Shen Lanxi had said, tracking down the traitor and searching all the houses in the capital, both owned and unowned.

It was stamped with the imperial seal and was in the small cabinet, so Liu Mingxin couldn't say that Shen Lanxi was falsely conveying the imperial edict.

"Sir Liu, the imperial edict is here, please take a good look. His Majesty has asked me to come over."

Liu Mingxin looked at Shen Lanxi's back and stared at the imperial edict without saying a word.

~

"Uncle, we found several suspicious people. They all came from the harem!" Shen Lanxi reported to Emperor Renxiao.

In less than a day, the skin of Emperor Renxiao looked as if a lot of moisture had been sucked out of it. It was full of wrinkles, and in some places, dead skin even peeled off.

"Some are from the Queen's palace, and some are from the palaces of Consort Shu, Consort Ming, and Consort Hui."

The first person that Emperor Renxiao thought of was Concubine Shu.

"Go check on Concubine Shu and the Queen."

Shen Lanxi: "Yes!"

When she left, Song Daoxi was holding the box and walking towards the Yangxin Palace. When the two passed each other, Song Daoxi nodded slightly at Shen Lanxi.

The poison of Emperor Renxiao was temporarily cured by Song Daoxi's superb medical skills, but it only delayed the onset of the poison and did not eliminate it.

The next day, Emperor Renxiao was speechless.

"Uncle, the civil service examination cannot be put on hold forever, otherwise it will arouse the suspicion of many people."

Emperor Renxiao could only nod and shake his head now;

"Uncle, how about you go to court today, and then I'll pretend to pass the message for you and let you pass the palace examination."

Emperor Renxiao was hesitating. He was in this state now, full of suspicion. If the court officials challenged him, he would not be able to move at all.

Wang Bao: "Your Majesty, I will also pass on a message to you. The emperor is so majestic that the courtiers cannot look directly at him. You just sit on the dragon throne and give orders!"

Emperor Renxiao thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

The news of the palace examination was soon spread.

On the day of the palace examination, Shen Lanxi stood on the left side of Emperor Renxiao's dragon throne, and Wang Bao stood on the right side. The high dragon throne, plus the cover Shen Lanxi had deliberately made for Emperor Renxiao's face, and the group of old ministers with deteriorating eyesight below, no one could see Emperor Renxiao's complexion clearly.

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