Double Life: The Sickly Prince Eavesdrops on My Heart

Many people couldn't sleep that night, including the worried Crown Prince and Imperial Master. Even Xiao Jingxuan suffered from insomnia for the first time ever last night.

Today is destined to be the final showdown! The prince's life and death depend on this day.

Yesterday, he and the imperial teacher visited almost all the ministers' residences, and many of them even refused to see them behind closed doors.

There were also people who verbally agreed to speak well of him, but after they all ran away, he still felt unsure.

After all, the matter this time is quite serious, and although these ministers are usually submissive to him, flattering the powerful and bullying the weak is their forte!

In the palace hall.

Emperor Wen sat firmly on the dragon throne in the main hall with a solemn expression on his face, while civil and military officials stood in two rows below him.

"Lord Lu! How is the investigation into the assassination of the Third Prince going?"

Everyone looked at Lu Haifeng with serious expressions.

"Your Majesty! The assassins in the third prince's assassination case have all confessed! Here are the confessions!" The chief eunuch stepped forward and took the confessions.

Emperor Wen took it and placed it on the dragon table and took a quick look at it. It was almost exactly the same as the previous one!

"Are there any witnesses?" Emperor Wen asked in a dignified voice.

The prince was feeling uneasy at this moment, and he stared at Lu Haifeng closely.

"Your Majesty, there were three assassins at that time. Someone pretended to be a jailer and poisoned the day before yesterday. Two of the assassins were killed on the spot!" Lu Haifeng said slowly.

The prince's nerves tensed up immediately. What did that mean? Two names? Where's the other one?

Emperor Wen frowned, "How dare you go to the Dali Temple and harm the witnesses!"

"Your Majesty, rest assured. The other person has regained consciousness after being treated by the miracle doctor! Please allow me to summon him to the main hall!" After Lu Haifeng said this, he looked at the prince and grinned.

The prince looked flustered and stood unsteadily.

"Prelude!"

In less than a moment, the assassin was carried up.

He struggled to get up and climbed down from the stretcher, "Long live the emperor!"

"Tell me! Who ordered you to assassinate the third prince? Tell the truth!" Emperor Wen said cruelly.

"Your Majesty, we were ordered by the Crown Prince to assassinate the Third Prince! Who would have thought that the Crown Prince would actually send people to silence us!" the assassin said angrily.

"You are talking nonsense! I have never ordered you to do anything!" The prince defended himself anxiously.

Emperor Wen glanced at the crown prince and asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that it was the crown prince who ordered you to do this?"

The assassin pulled out a letter from his pocket and handed it over.

When Emperor Wen unfolded it, he saw the prince's handwriting clearly inside. Not only was the handwriting the same, but even the writing habits were exactly the same.

This is the Prince font for sure!

Emperor Wen frowned slightly, slammed the table with his hands, and then threw the letter at the prince's face, "How dare you! You still say it's not you! This is your handwritten letter! Take a look for yourself!"

The prince's face turned pale, "Father! You must believe in me! You must believe in me!"

At this time, the Imperial Censor Liu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince has secretly raised a large number of private soldiers! Your Majesty, please investigate!"

Emperor Wen was shocked. "What? You even have a large number of private soldiers? Tell me more!"

"Your Majesty, I have received a report that the prince has raised a large number of private soldiers on a farm in the suburbs. I sent people to verify it. After a period of observation, the facts are clear. It is indeed true!" Lord Liu said in a deep voice.

"Prince! What do you have to say?" Emperor Wen said angrily.

The prince's face was pale and he knelt on the ground, trembling all over. "Father! I only have a few dozen soldiers in the palace, and I go there to train when I feel like it. There are not as many people as Censor Liu said!" The prince was so anxious that he cried.

Censor Liu looked at the prince calmly, "May I ask, Prince, what is the difference between a thousand people and a few dozen people? How much food and vegetables do they eat every day?"

"Your Majesty, I have a witness! Please summon the witness to the palace!"

"Call the witness!" Eunuch Wang shouted.

Four people walked in from outside the palace and knelt on the ground one after another, "Your Majesty, long live the emperor!"

"Tell the truth if you have something to say!"

One of them stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I am the grocer for the Crown Prince's farm. I buy 300 kilograms of rice, 400 kilograms of vegetables, and 50 kilograms of liquor every day! In addition, I also buy other oils and seasonings."

A tall man stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I am the chef of the prince's farm. We have five chefs and twenty cooks. We cook three hundred kilograms of rice and four to five hundred kilograms of vegetables every day! I dare not lie!"

A woman stepped forward and said, "I am a cook. What Chef Zhang said is true. We ordinary people dare not talk nonsense. We have to think about our families instead of ourselves!"

The last person stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I am the steward of the manor. I usually manage all the affairs of the manor for the prince. What they said is true and there is no falsehood! We guarantee it with our own lives!"

Emperor Wen was so angry that he slammed the table and said, "Prince! Look at what you have done! How can I favor you? You bastard!"

At this time, the Minister of War stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty! The Crown Prince has secretly seized weapons in the military camp and transported them to Qingyue Mountain. He has also secretly colluded with the bandits in Qingyue Mountain! They have burned, killed, looted, and used the stolen property to raise private soldiers!"

Emperor Wen's eyes were red, he was still distracted by the last thing about raising private soldiers, and now he was struck by another bolt from the blue!

"Prince!" Emperor Wen roared.

The prince was now trembling all over and sitting on the ground, completely losing his former majesty!

Xiao Jingxuan watched all this coldly without saying a word. Seeing the frightened look on the prince's face, he felt an extremely happy feeling in his heart!

In your previous life, you dared to cut Ruhua's tendons and throw her off the building! You also dared to destroy her face! The retribution you got now is too easy for you!

Emperor Wen was so angry that he kept coughing. His health had been getting worse recently, and this, coupled with the fact that someone had made him very angry recently, made his condition even worse.

"Hand over any evidence or witnesses you have!"

Then the officers and soldiers in the military camp, the bandits in Qingyue Mountain, and the merchants who were robbed by the bandits were all brought up to testify!

The prince looked at himself being beaten to death, with no chance of recovery, and his heart finally gave out!

He stood up unsteadily and yelled at Emperor Wen: "Do you know why I am like this? It's all your fault! You are the culprit of everything!"

"My mother has given so much, but what happened? My position as the crown prince looks secure, but it is actually precarious! I can't sleep well every day! I'm afraid that one day I will lose my position as the crown prince!"

"Now that I have lost the support of my mother's clan, and the ministers have all turned to the Third Brother, is it wrong for me to make some preparations? Do you have the idea of ​​passing the throne to me?"

"Have you ever cared about me since I was a child? You only like the third and sixth children. Have you ever paid attention to whether I am doing well in my studies or whether I have made progress in martial arts?"

The prince has now started to give up and started to complain like crazy!

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