Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

In Changchun Palace, just as Gu Xingyuan greeted Concubine Chen, a young eunuch came in to report: "Concubine, the Imperial Hospital has sent someone to the Eastern Palace to get the Colorful Snow Spider. I heard that the Emperor had used it half a year ago, and they are very anxious. They said that if His Highness the Ninth Prince does not take the medicine within five days, his life will be in danger. At this moment, the Eastern Palace is in chaos, and I am afraid that His Highness the Ninth Prince is not doing well."

Concubine Chen's face darkened: "Didn't you say it would take an hour?"

The young eunuch replied sharply, "To answer the Imperial Concubine, the doctor Qiao Shun that Ou Jianglin brought into the palace is a miracle doctor who can use the Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Needle, which has the effect of bringing the dead back to life. He just used the needle twice and said that the poison has been temporarily suppressed, saving the Ninth Prince's life for five days. The Queen has issued an imperial decree to search for this medicine throughout the city. Anyone who is willing to provide it will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold in addition to the price of the medicine."

With five days, I can only search in the old city.

Concubine Chen sneered. A reward of ten thousand taels of gold means that Shu is really rich.

But what does it matter if she is rich? She was able to think of getting this medicine from the Imperial Hospital. Could she be so stupid as to let the pharmacies in the old city keep this medicine?

"Mother, what should we do next?" Gu Xingyuan waved his hand to let the eunuch go out and asked Concubine Chen.

Concubine Chen's face flashed with a sinister look, and she slowly fiddled with the jade ring on her finger: "Since you failed to kill Gu Xingyan outside, don't blame me for killing the three of them in one fell swoop."

As she spoke, she pulled off the wintersweet that the palace maid had picked early in the morning and put in a vase, and crushed it fiercely. The red juice flowed out from between her fingers like blood.

"Now that the mother and her two children are here, it's time for me to kill them. It's been almost twenty days, and they are really an eyesore in front of me!"

Gu Xingyuan glanced indifferently at the broken petals that fell to the ground and were crushed by his mother, and chuckled.

"Mother, since that genius doctor named Qiao Shun gave Gu Xingyan five days, why don't we let them search all the major drugstores in the city and have a good time with them. When we have enough fun, we will let Jinyiwei Commander Song Yafeng go to the small kitchen in Kunning Palace, take out the evidence, and beat them up forever, how do you think?"

Concubine Chen smiled as she squinted at Gu Xingyuan. "My son knows how to have fun. That's right, it's fun to watch them frantically looking for medicine while we watch the fun from the side. It's really boring to fight with the Shu mother and son for decades and now it's suddenly over. Since my son is kind-hearted, I'll let them live for a few more days."

At this point, Concubine Chen's face showed bloodthirsty venom again: "It was all because of that beast Peng Yang who disobeyed my orders! Back then, I ordered him to poison Shu Nanyu, but he dared to secretly replace the poison I gave him with a cold poison behind my back, and the cold poison was completely absorbed by the fetus in his belly."

Her eyes were filled with murderous intent: "I was standing outside Kunning Palace at the time. Shu Nanyu screamed miserably. I wanted her to die. I wanted the emperor to watch his first child and his woman die in front of him. But, it didn't happen! Not only was she fine, but she also gave birth to the child safely!"

Gu Xingyuan's face also showed anger: "I remember what mother told me, that Peng Yang was the head of the Imperial Hospital, and you threatened him with the lives of his entire family, asking him to do it perfectly and kill two people when Shu gave birth. I didn't expect that Peng Yang, this bastard, would dare to disobey you. Otherwise, why would I still be trampled on by the mother and son of the Shu family until now."

"If it weren't for him, I would have been the queen, and my son would have been the crown prince of Daliang! Whenever I think of this, I wish I could dig up Peng Yang's corpse and whip it eight hundred times!"

Gu Xingyuan smiled calmly: "Fortunately, you, mother, have kept a trick up your sleeve and cleared all the responsibilities related to this matter. You pushed all the blame on Peng Yang and gave him the heinous crime of murdering the queen mother and the heir to the throne, punishing all nine generations of his clan."

Concubine Chen had tears of resignation on her face. "When I saw the midwife carrying out a baby boy who was still breathing, I wanted to rush in and tear Shu Nanyu and that little beast apart! The imperial physician said that the child has been poisoned by a cold. If he is carefully taken care of, he may be able to grow up."

"Father should have ordered an investigation right away, right?"

Concubine Chen wiped away her tears with her fingertips: "Investigate? Oh, what is there to investigate? Ever since Shu Nanyu became pregnant, His Majesty has been taking care of her. He even ordered the head of the Imperial Hospital, Peng Yang, to take full care of this baby. At that time, I felt sorry for them and their child, so I knelt down and begged the Emperor to conduct a thorough investigation."

Concubine Chen put away the murderous look on her face and smiled, "Yuan'er, you were not born at that time, so you didn't see it. From his 80-year-old mother to his one-month-old grandson, more than 120 people from the nine clans in the Peng Mansion were killed. The whole Peng Mansion was stained red with blood. It was so beautiful."

Gu Xingyuan turned the teacup in his hand and recalled something he saw when he first entered the palace: "Mother, when I first entered the palace, I saw that Ye Zhishao seemed to be secretly mobilizing people. Was this arranged by you? What do you want?"

Concubine Chen snorted lightly, saying a lot, then picked up the cup on the table and drank slowly: "I told him to kill Qiao Shun's grandparents, or kill the queen and her son."

Gu Xingyuan shook his head: "Impossible, he can't do it. In addition to the East Palace guards, Gu Xingcheng also has many secret guards. It is still unknown how many masters there are. Mother, you are sending Ye Zhishao to die."

Concubine Chen glanced at him and said, "Ye Zhishao is a fool. He can't even subdue all the several thousand guards. What's the point of keeping him around?"

"Then what mother did was..."

"Killing with a borrowed knife. Since Song Yafeng is 90 percent sure, why keep this thing that can only cause trouble but not help?"

"Mother, aren't we being too hasty? Why not wait until the Shu family mother and son are killed?"

Concubine Chen chuckled and shook her head, "No, I must get rid of Ye Zhishao before killing the Shu family. He is indecisive and incompetent. He doesn't even dare to kill Liang Tianyou. What's the point of keeping him alive? He knows too much about us, so he can't stay for long."

Gu Xingyuan was a little worried: "But, what if he turns against us and reveals our secrets?"

"Oh." Concubine Chen sneered, "Do you think Ye Zhishao doesn't know why I gave such an order? He did something wrong, and this is the punishment he deserves. As for confessing our affairs, he dare not, because his family is still in my hands."

Gu Xingyuan vaguely felt that there was something wrong with his mother's behavior, but he never dared to disobey.