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Chapter 207: Killing every step of the way

The officials didn't know what was going on in the Lizheng Hall. They only knew that what they saw was that Emperor Liang had died in the arms of King Yu. Some old ministers immediately fainted, while more ministers asked about what happened to King Yu.

"Your Highness, aren't you leading troops in the southeast? How did you appear here?"

"Your Highness, the emperor...what happened to him?"

"Come here quickly! Doctor Xuan!"

There were all kinds of things for a moment, but at the critical moment, Cai Xiang stood up and said, "Come here, go and invite His Highness Xiang to come immediately! Order everyone in the Imperial Hospital to come to establish the Zheng Hall immediately! Block the imperial city and no one is allowed to enter and exit!"

After three orders in a row, Cai Xiang said to King Yu: "Your Highness, Old Master Rong, look at the emperor!"

King Yu didn't want Emperor Liang to lie on the cold stone slab, and he kept embracing Emperor Liang. Cai Xiang saw Emperor Liang's face and immediately exclaimed: "The emperor is poisoned!"

In the eyes of King Yu, Cai Quan's performance was half true and half performed. Without Cai Quan's reminder, King Yu had already figured out the cause of Emperor Liang's death. That incense was the last death talisman of Emperor Liang. It's a pity that he didn't realize this at the beginning.

"The father was killed by a traitor!"

"Father!"

Princess Yunxuan rushed through the crowd and ran to King Yu. If she felt incredible when she saw Xuan Shaoning outside, then when she saw King Yu, she finally confirmed that Xuan Shaoning had returned to Beijing with King Yu, and had returned to Beijing secretly.

No matter how many details are there, Princess Yunxuan can think carefully. What she saw was the last face of Emperor Liang. She had only seen Emperor Liang yesterday. Although Emperor Liang was in poor condition at that time, his face was rosy and his speech was clear. In just one day, when Emperor Liang was about to be seen, he was already a cold corpse.

In front of great grief, Princess Yunxuan had forgotten to cry. She knelt in front of Emperor Liang, held Emperor Liang's body, and looked into King Yu's eyes. King Yu knew very well what Yunxuan wanted to ask, and also what everyone wanted to know, but even if he said it now, how many people would believe it?

"Fourth brother, do you have nothing to say?"

"I was ordered to return to Beijing to pay homage to my father, but my father had been deeply poisoned until... until the end of the day, resting in my arms."

King Yu did not want to say everything that King Xiang did, but he understood that once Yun Xuan heard it, it would mean pushing her into danger. King Xiang actually dared to poison his father to death, and he could even take action against his half-sister. King Xiang was vicious enough, but King Yu couldn't do it, especially when facing this youngest sister, he really couldn't do it.

"Father! Father!"

King Xiang, who was late, was full of horror and staggered into the hall. When he saw Emperor Liang's body, he felt even more uncontrollable sorrow. He knelt in front of Emperor Liang and shouted in tears, and his voice was hoarse but unstoppable. He fully expressed the image of his poor son who had lost his father.

Yun Xuan wanted to comfort King Xiang, but King Xiang was too immersed in the play and hit the ground. If Cai Xiang and Yun Xuan were not pulled by him, King Xiang would have hit him and killed himself in front of Emperor Liang.

King Xiang's performance was very good, and all the ministers present were moved by his filial piety. However, no matter how perfect the performance was, some people still did not buy it, including King Yu and Liao Zhen.

"Who is it? Who killed the father!"

King Xiang asked at the top of his lungs. Chen Yuanzhen ran into the palace at the right time. After seeing King Yu, he was surprised. Then he knelt down in front of King Xiang and apologized in a crying voice: "It's useless for me! I didn't guard the imperial city well, so I actually let the assassin enter Chengyuan Palace to commit crimes!"

As soon as Chen Yuanzhen said this, King Yu immediately realized the danger of Xuan Shaoning. He was about to argue, but heard Chen Yuanzhen shouting, and several imperial guards dragged Xuan Shaoning into the palace.

"Your Highness, this is this person! This person has killed several imperial guards outside the palace. He is the biggest suspect to kill the emperor! This person also said shamelessly that he was the captain of the Xuanjia Army! Since Your Highness is present, let Your Highness expose this person's mask!"

"No! He won't be an assassin!" Yun Xuan wanted to save Xuan Shaoning's life. From the bottom of her heart, she didn't believe that Xuan Shaoning would assassinate Emperor Liang, which made it impossible. "Eunuch Chen, how did you conclude that he was the murderer who killed his father?"

"This man ran out of the hall. The imperial guards wanted to stop him but were killed. Isn't he the biggest suspect?"

"But I just heard that my father was poisoned to death, so why did it become assassinated when he arrived at Eunuch Chen?"

"this......."

Chen Yuanzhen was speechless for a moment, and King Yu said loudly: "This person is my Xuanjia Military Captain! He obeyed my orders and followed me into the palace!"

The thing Xuan Shaoning was most worried about happened. Once King Yu admitted his identity, it was what the planner wanted to see the most. King Yu's move was like a burning fire. Xuan Shaoning was full of grievances but could not speak of it. He could only look at Yun Xuan, who was also looking at him.

This scene did not escape King Xiang's eyes, and he immediately asked, "Fourth Brother, why did you suddenly return to Beijing? The father was in a state of peace because of his seventh brother's previous rebellion. He had left me to take care of the court for so many days. I did not issue an edict to ask Fourth Brother, you, to come back!"

When King Yu saw King Xiang's innocent look, he had an impulse to kill him directly. However, the reality was that he could not do it, and then he could not get rid of suspicion.

At this time, more than a dozen imperial physicians finally arrived. They immediately treated Emperor Liang. King Yu knew that what they did was futile. Emperor Liang had passed away. Even if Hua Tuo was reborn, these imperial physicians were powerless.

Finally, after some trouble, the imperial physicians all knelt down and replied with great grief: "The emperor has been poisoned deeply and has died!"

"How? What kind of poison is it? My father is in the palace, who dares to poison his father!"

Faced with King Xiang's glaring questioning, the imperial physicians all trembled as if they were sifted. "I...I can't find out the reason for the time being, but...I am sure that the emperor was poisoned. As for the poisonous substance, I have to investigate it carefully!"

"A bunch of useless things!" King Xiang suddenly stood up and shouted at the imperial physicians: "Come on, pull them all out and behead them!"

The imperial physicians didn't even have time to shout out "Relax" Cai Xiang immediately stopped him, "His Highness Xiang calmed down! This is not because the imperial physician's treatment is not good, but because the emperor was deeply poisoned. Since it was deeply poisoned, it means that someone deliberately poisoned the emperor. It still needs the assistance of the imperial physicians to find out the poison. Please think twice!"

While Cai Xiang was pleading, he did not forget to wink the imperial physician. The imperial physicians immediately kowtowed and said, "Your Highness calms down, I am willing to cooperate with the search for poisonous substances!"

Chen Yuanzhen said: "Your Highness, my husband just captured a chef yesterday and found some unknown spices in his room. I wondered if it would be related to the emperor's poisoning?"

Yan Keran was awakened. He had never understood the relationship between Pang Kui, Du Shaoyin, and Long Ku and Emperor Liang. Now he completely understood that this was killing someone with a knife!

"Oh? There is something like this?" Cai Xiang asked.

"When Cai Xiang comes back, someone in the imperial kitchen reported that the chef invited from outside the palace would add a spice to the snacks prepared for the emperor every day. The chef said that it could increase the taste of the snacks, so everyone let the chef go. After this period of time, the imperial kitchen heard that the emperor's dragon body had not improved, so he doubted whether the chef had any problems, so he asked the old slave to come and review it."

“Where did the chef come from?”

"Your Highness still remembers that on the day of the celebration, the emperor praised the chef very much!"

After reminding this, King Xiang suddenly realized, "Are you talking about the chef invited by Qingshan Academy?"

“That’s right!”

When they heard the "Qingshan Academy", King Yu and Xuan Shaoning both shook their bodies. They knew very well that this cook must be Fat Kui! King Yu did not expect that King Xiang would do so thoroughly this time and wanted to burn the fire to Qingshan Academy!

"Where is the cook?"

"The old slave has not yet interrogated it!"

"Take this person to Dali Temple immediately!" King Xiang turned to King Yu and said, "Fourth brother, why did you secretly return to Beijing? How could your father die tragically in the Lizheng Hall? You probably have to give the ministers an explanation for this matter, right?"

"I returned to Beijing on my father's order. It was the news that my father was seriously ill by the imperial edict sent to me! The edict clearly stated that I was asked to go directly to Chengyuan Palace to meet me!"

"The edict should be accompanied by it. I wonder where the edict is?"
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