Stranger and Chen in the Palace

In the next few months, Xue Zimo remained indifferent to Ling Yichen as usual, except for the necessary communication, the two had no interaction.

Ling Yichen kept telling himself not to fall into it again, but the more he did, the more clearly every bit about Xue Zimo was engraved in his mind, entangled with every nerve of his.He was so eager to see Xue Zimo, but when he did see him, he felt bitter besides bitterness...

Ling Yichen became more and more silent. He studied and practiced martial arts desperately, and often couldn't sleep for two hours a night.Shunde was very worried about this, and asked His Royal Highness for help.

In fact, Ling Yize had already discovered the strangeness of Brother Huang, but Brother Huang didn't tell him anything, so he could only be as anxious as Shun De, and there was nothing he could do.

In the court, an official suggested autumn hunting. Autumn hunting is a custom of the royal family. It will be held every few years, and the whole palace attaches great importance to it.The emperor suddenly remembered that since Ling Yichen left the cherry garden, he had never taken him to participate, so he readily agreed to Qiu Lie's proposal.

The emperor said to Ling Yichen: "Chen'er, you should also call Xue Zimo in this autumn hunt. Young people, you should go out and exercise more."

Hearing this, Ling Yichen said with a sad expression, "I obey the order." In fact, he certainly understood what the emperor meant, but with his relationship with Xue Zimo now, I'm afraid that person would not go.

Suddenly hearing the emperor mention Xue Zimo, a strange look flashed in Ling Yihao's eyes.

After class that day, Ling Yichen stopped Xue Zimo and said, "Mr. Xue, you can go to this autumn hunt as well."

"Your Highness' kindness, Zimo appreciates it." Xue Zimo smiled distantly and lightly.

Even though he guessed that he would refuse, but when he really heard it, Ling Yichen still felt very blocked: "This is what the father meant."

Xue Zimo's smile didn't change: "Zimo is not feeling well recently, I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you, Your Highness, please explain to His Majesty on your behalf, Zimo is very grateful."

Ling Yichen's hands tightened, and he looked at him for a while before turning around and leaving...

The location for the autumn hunting was Qishan, which was located in the outskirts of the imperial palace, and the round trip was only a day's journey away.Two days before the autumn hunt, the palace dispatched [-] imperial guards to clear the field. This year's autumn hunt is huge. All members of the royal family are dispatched, even the queen, who rarely shows up, is accompanying her.

Looking up from the bottom of the mountain, the entire Qishan Mountain is rolling and rolling, but there is a large paddock above it, with beautiful scenery and abundant prey, which is very suitable for hunting. This is why the royal family designated Qishan as the royal hunting ground.

A group of people stationed in the paddock in a mighty way. The emperor seemed to have been out hunting for a long time, and he was very interested. He proposed to let the four princes have a hunting competition to see who is better. The one who wins will have a big reward.

Both Ling Yihong and Ling Yichen had practiced martial arts. Needless to say, their hunting skills were better than Ling Yihao and Ling Yize who had never even held a sword.To put it bluntly, this hunting competition was a competition between Ling Yihong and Ling Yichen.

Sure enough, after a day of hunting, Ling Yihao gained very little, and the gentle and frail Ling Yize didn't even catch any prey.

King Yu Ling Yihong had a little more prey than Ling Yichen, but Ling Yichen had caught a deer, which obviously compared Ling Yihong in terms of quality.

After losing the game, Ling Yihong's face was so gloomy that water could almost drip.He had long been dissatisfied with the emperor's doting on Ling Yichen, and wanted to take this opportunity to suppress him.Hunting has always been my strong point. I thought I was sure of it, but I didn't expect to lose.

Seeing Ling Yichen winning, the emperor laughed happily, and ordered the deer to be carried down to cook for everyone to eat together at night.

During the dinner, the emperor smiled and asked Ling Yichen what reward he wanted, Ling Yichen declined, the emperor wanted to say something else, but saw the eunuchs serving the roasted venison.

An imperial doctor began to check the food plate by plate with a silver needle. After confirming that there was no problem, the eunuchs put the food plates in front of the royal family and nobles. Of course, the best plate was for the emperor to enjoy.

The emperor smiled and picked up a piece of venison and put it in his mouth to taste. Just as he wanted to praise the delicacy of the venison, he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and then his face turned blue, and he fainted on the table.

Everyone was shocked and stood up one after another. I don't know who was the first to call out: "Venison is poisonous——"

All of a sudden, there was chaos in the tent, Ling Yihao immediately let out a stern voice, and everyone managed to calm down.

Doctor Zhang immediately stepped forward to check the emperor's pulse, and said to the crowd with a very ugly expression: "Your Majesty has been poisoned."

"Impossible, I have checked every plate carefully, how could it be poisoned?" The imperial doctor who inspected the food just now shouted.But then he thought that if Doctor Zhang said it was poisoning, then he must have been poisoned, and he couldn't help but panicked, "What kind of poison is it?"

Doctor Zhang shook his head, he didn't know yet.If you don't know what the poison is, there is no way to get rid of it, and the faces of all the people are ugly.

Doctor Zhang first gave the emperor Xuelian Yuchan Pills, which had detoxifying effects, but this was only a temporary measure, and he had to find out what poison he had been poisoned before he knew how to cure it.

At this moment, Ling Yihao had already controlled the scene, he said: "Since the father was poisoned by eating venison, we should start with the venison first." The imperial doctors immediately began to check the venison, but after searching for a long time, they found nothing. All kinds of drug testing methods can't detect any signs of poisonous venison.

Doctor Zhang stared thoughtfully at the venison that the emperor had just used, while the mist of ambergris was still rising, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked someone to fetch a powdered medicine.

Seeing the dignified expression on Doctor Zhang's face, everyone was very nervous.

Soon, the powdered medicine was retrieved, and Imperial Physician Zhang sprinkled it on the venison, and the venison immediately changed color. At this moment, several other imperial physicians standing aside also instantly understood what was going on.

Seeing that other people were still confused, Doctor Zhang explained: "Although this venison is not poisonous, there is indeed a problem. It contains the juice of Schima superba. This herb itself is not poisonous, but your majesty uses ambergris. Fragrance, the non-toxic schimaflora and the same non-toxic ambergris are taken into the body at the same time, it is highly poisonous. Just now, the old minister has verified with another herbal medicine that the venison does contain schimaflora."

Everyone looked at the discolored plate of venison and the ambergris on the table, and couldn't help feeling scared. If they had eaten venison just now, they would have been poisoned.

"Can the emperor's poison be cured?" Ling Yihao asked in a deep voice to Doctor Zhang.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is easy to deal with knowing the cause of the poisoning, and the old minister will immediately detoxify His Majesty." Doctor Zhang knelt down and said.

Ling Yihao nodded, then stared at Ling Yichen with unfriendly eyes, and said, "Third brother, if I remember correctly, you hunted the deer back, right?" Everyone looked at Ling Yichen after hearing what he said.

"This matter has nothing to do with me." Ling Yichen said lightly.

Ling Yihao smiled: "It's hard to say whether it has anything to do with it or not." Then he ordered sternly: "Come on, search every tent immediately, and before that, no one is allowed to leave."

"And..." Ling Yihao handed the package of powdered medicine used by Doctor Zhang just now to the guard and said, "Use this to check."

Ling Yihong was not convinced: "Why do you listen to me?"

"You are so excited, could it be you who did it?" Ling Yihao asked Shi Shiran.

Ling Yihong immediately exploded when he heard the words: "Don't spout blood, I have never done it—"

"Then stay here with other people and don't do anything misleading." Ling Yihao said coldly.

"You—" Ling Yihong was angry, he wanted to say something more, but found that everyone looked at him strangely, and closed his mouth in resentment.

After a while, the guards came in with a bow and arrow, knelt down and reported to Ling Yihao: "Your Highness, we found this from the camp of the Third Highness..." The guard paused and added, "We will take the powdered medicine sprinkled on the arrowheads, and found that the arrowheads were all coated with the sapia sapia."

Everyone saw that the color of the arrow had indeed become the same as that plate of venison just now.

Ling Yihao looked at Ling Yichen with a smile, and said, "Third Brother, what else do you have to say?"

Ling Yichen frowned, he had understood just now that this was a trap specially designed for him.Ling Yihao's people first lured everyone out of the palace in the name of autumn hunting, and then distributed bows and arrows coated with schimaflora to themselves. Even the deer he shot was probably carefully arranged by them, which eventually caused the emperor to be poisoned. Personal stolen goods and get.

There is Xue Jingting in the court, and it is definitely not easy for the other party to label himself a regicide, but it is different outside the palace. It takes at least one day to go back and forth to the palace. Get rid of yourself before coming.

This trick is linked together, the purpose is to cut off all his ways of life, and get rid of himself in a legitimate way.He raised his eyes and glanced at Ling Yihao, only to see that the other party's eyes were full of must-win.

Ling Yihong obviously recalled it, and echoed: "Third brother, you are so brave to dare to kill the emperor!"

Ling Muxue also said angrily: "Hmph, it's a waste of father to still love you so much."

Facing the accusations of the crowd, Ling Yichen did not speak, but Ling Yize hurriedly stood up and defended: "Brother Sanhuang said that he had nothing to do with it, so it must not be him who did it, and if he poisons like this, he will also be poisoned."

"That's because he knows the rules in the palace. When having dinner with the emperor, he must wait for the emperor to take a bite before others can move their chopsticks. And this bite is enough." Ling Yihao was unmoved.

Ling Yize's eyes were red with anxiety: "Father loves Brother Sanhuang so much, why did he poison Father?"

"Why?" Ling Yihao Shi Shiran repeated, and then stared at Ling Yichen with a smile, "Third brother, you must hate the emperor in your heart. He abandoned you and your mother and concubine in the cold palace for more than ten years. How dare you say that you Don't you hate it at all?"

Ling Muxue immediately chimed in when she heard the words: "Brother Erhuang is right, father shouldn't have brought him out of the cold palace." She had long disliked Ling Yichen, but he was just a child born to an abandoned concubine, why should his father take him out of the cold palace? The emperor loves him so much!

A sneer flashed in Ling Yichen's eyes, but he still didn't speak.

Ling Yize turned around in a hurry, took Ling Yihao's hand and said, "Second Brother, this matter was definitely not done by Third Brother, it must be..." He subconsciously glanced at Ling Yihong and said, "Other people did it. "

Seeing Ling Yize looking at him, Ling Yihong said sullenly: "You suspect what this king did?"

Ling Yize looked at him timidly: "I didn't say that, anyway, Brother Sanhuang didn't do it."

Ling Yihong snorted coldly, Ling Yihao didn't bother anymore, and directly ordered: "Come here, take His Highness down."

Seeing that several guards were about to come forward to arrest Ling Yichen, Ling Yize rushed in front of Ling Yichen anxiously, and stretched out his arms to protect him tightly.

"Yize, get out of the way and stop messing around." Ling Yihao said impatiently.

"Yeah, Yize, what's the matter with you, helping someone who poisoned the emperor!" Ling Muxue scolded angrily.

Ling Yize's tears fell suddenly, but he still refused to let them go. He looked at the two and begged, "Second Brother, Royal Sister, it really wasn't the Third Brother's doing, please, please check carefully, you will definitely be able to Found the real murderer..."

"Yize, get out of the way..." Ling Yichen finally spoke, with a very calm tone.

"But Brother Huang—" Ling Yize turned his head, looking at him with tears in his eyes again.

Ling Yichen sighed slightly, smiled at him, and said, "Yize, from now on... take good care of yourself." So many people here want him dead, but this younger brother treats him sincerely, it's a pity I can no longer take care of him in the future.

As soon as Ling Yichen finished speaking, two guards rushed up and pulled Ling Yize away, and Ling Yichen was also taken down by the guards.

"Brother Huang, Brother Huang—" Ling Yize cried and shouted, struggling desperately to rush up.Ling Yihao had no choice but to call a few more guards to force Ling Yize back to the tent.