Time goes back to three days ago.

Mr. Chen and his companions returned to the capital, and along with them were two urgent memorials from Taizhou.

One was written by the prefect of Taizhou.

He first wrote in a memorial the heartfelt efforts made by the Chen family to treat the plague and the gratitude of the people of Taizhou to Imperial Doctor Chen.

After expressing his gratitude, Magistrate Xia changed the subject and accused someone of wanting to kill hundreds of thousands of people in Qiyuan County.

In his memorial, Prefect Xia stated that someone was planning to dump corpses into the water source of Qiyuan County, and the bodies they dumped were those of people who died of plague.

They have caught the person who dumped the body. After interrogating him, he confessed that the mastermind behind the incident was the third prince Li Jun.

The other memorial was written by the garrison commander of Taizhou.

The Taizhou garrison confessed his guilt in the memorial and said he should not have listened to the Third Prince and led his troops to besiege Qiyuan County.

But there is sin in ignorance.

The Third Prince only told him that the plague in Qiyuan County had spread to the point where there was no cure. In order to prevent the plague in Qiyuan County from spreading to other places, the people of Qiyuan County had to be trapped in the city.

It was only after the Taizhou garrison arrived in Qiyuan County that they learned that the plague in Qiyuan County had been brought under control thanks to the efforts of Doctor Chen and his family.

After knowing the truth, the Taizhou garrison had to disobey the order of the third prince and release the merchant who delivered the medicine into Qiyuan County.

If it was just the memorial from the Taizhou garrison, the third prince could still explain that his information was out of date and that he had to sacrifice the people of Qiyuan County for the sake of more people.

But with the memorial from Prefect Xia, this explanation seemed pale and powerless.

The third prince wanted to spread the plague. From the very beginning, he never wanted hundreds of thousands of people in Qiyuan County to survive!

The two memorials contained sufficient evidence and shocked the government and the public.

There seemed to be an invisible hand behind the scenes pushing the situation forward, and more and more court officials wrote to the emperor, asking him to punish the third prince Li Jun.

The emperor was reluctant at first.

Until Mr. Chen asked the Censor to submit a memorial.

The report was about the anti-epidemic herbal medicines issued by the court being replaced with inferior and fake drugs.

Of course, this memorial did not clearly state who replaced the medicine, it only asked the emperor to conduct a thorough investigation.

The herbal medicine was replaced by the emperor, so how could he allow people to investigate?

The court was in an uproar over this matter, and the scholars and common people in the capital also knew about it. Public opinion began to boil over, forcing the emperor to make up his mind to punish the culprit.

Emperor Qingfeng saw that he was about to be implicated in this matter, so he gritted his teeth and put the blame of changing the medicine on the third prince Li Jun.

After the "truth" came out, some people were puzzled. As a high-ranking prince, Li Jun was the best candidate for the crown prince. Why did he want to make things difficult for the people of Qiyuan County?

Not long after this issue arose, news leaked out from nowhere saying that the reason why the Third Prince wanted to harm the people of Qiyuan County was that he wanted to accuse the old doctor Chen of failing to treat the epidemic and make the entire Chen family take the blame for him.

The third prince's real purpose is to kill all the members of the Chen family!

As for the reason why he wanted the Chen family to die so much, it was simply because the young master of the Chen family, Chen Fubai, accidentally offended him.

When this news came out, everyone from the government to the public, all gasped and felt a chill in their hearts.

For such a trivial matter, the Third Prince actually wanted to kill the entire Chen family?

The Third Prince's mind is smaller than the tip of a needle, but his methods are more vicious than any poison.

If he were to take that position one day, wouldn't all the civil and military officials have to live in fear? Otherwise, if they accidentally said something that offended the Third Prince in the court, the lives of their entire family would be in danger!

No!

Such a vindictive person cannot become the crown prince, let alone be allowed to hold power.

If he fails to frame Doctor Chen's family today, he might frame other adults tomorrow.

Not everyone is like Doctor Chen, who has the support of Prince Li's Palace and can avoid the third prince's frame-up.

Officials who realized the seriousness of the problem began to submit petitions again and again, repeating the third prince's crimes to the emperor over and over again.

Emperor Qingfeng set several punishments but none of them could appease the court officials. Finally, he had no choice but to let the cabinet make the direct conviction.

The third prince is of royal blood and cannot be killed at will.

But he could escape the death penalty but could not escape the punishment of life imprisonment. In the end, Li Jun was punished for multiple crimes. Amid the condemnation of court officials, he was demoted to a commoner and expelled from the palace.

It took less than two days for Li Jun to go from being the high and mighty Third Prince to being an ordinary commoner.

When Li Jun received the imperial edict, his mind went blank.

The situation developed so quickly that he was not given time to fight back and was kicked out.

The eunuch who came to announce the decree was usually a flatterer and a bully. He didn't care about Li Jun's current mood. He waved his dustpan and said in a sharp and weird voice: "Li Jun, pack up and leave the palace."

Li Jun reacted, but his face was full of dissatisfaction and unwillingness: "I want to see my father!"

The eunuch smiled contemptuously: "You are just a commoner now, how can you be qualified to see the emperor? If you are sensible, leave the palace immediately. If you are not sensible, we will have people carry you out."

"Commoner Li Jun, I advise you to save some dignity for yourself."

Li Jun clenched his hands into fists.

He knew that he had been abandoned by his father. If his father could really resist the will of the court officials, there would not have been this imperial edict.

If he went to see his father now, it would only add to his father's troubles and make him angry with him.

Li Jun took a deep breath, then suddenly knelt down in the direction of the imperial study and kowtowed several times.

His leaving without making any noise or fuss always arouses his father's guilt. One day, his father will remember him, and when the storm is over, he will find a reason to bring him back to the palace.

Li Jun comforted himself in this way, and finally left the palace with gritted teeth amid the eunuchs' mocking gazes.

After leaving the palace, Li Jun did not go to his own residence, but went to Chu Yimeng's Huichun Hall.

He was feeling very upset now and subconsciously wanted to see Chu Yimeng. Only she could temporarily soothe his inner anxiety and hatred.

Chu Yimeng was busy in Huichun Hall. When she saw Li Jun coming in, she immediately stopped her work and came out to greet him with a smile.

However, when her eyes fell on Li Jun's head, the smile on her lips froze.

Li Jun is the person with the strongest luck among all the people Chu Yi has ever dreamed of, except for King Li. His luck has a very strong golden glow, and is also faintly purple.

But now, Chu Yimeng only saw a ball of gray-black mist above Li Jun's head.

Li Jun’s luck has all disappeared!

He is no longer a nobleman with great luck and extraordinary status.

Realizing this, Chu Yimeng's smile and tone faded a little, but she did not immediately show alienation. She just smiled stiffly and invited Li Jun into the clinic first.

After such a short while, she had already made up her mind -

It's time to distance yourself from Li Jun.

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