Chapter 664 Someone Finally Died
Jiang Qingzhi didn't expect Zhu Shitai and his wife to come.
"What's this?"
Li Tian was also quite puzzled. When Zhu Shitai asked the two of them to sit up and had someone bring tea, Jiang Qingzhi and his wife finally understood why he came.
Old Zhu... Jiang Qingzhi felt his eyes getting a little hot.
After the newlyweds served tea, Li Tian hastily gave them a pair of jade bracelets, and Jiang Qingzhi gave them a good knife.
"Who would give me a knife?" Li Tian whispered.
"What do you know?" Jiang Qingzhi said, "A man should hold a knife..."
"Murder!" Li Tian glared at her husband.
Jiang Qingzhi laughed it off and let the matter go.
"What do you think of your wife?" Jiang Qingzhi took Zhu Shitai to the study.
"She's a talented person." Zhu Shitai was not a fool, but he couldn't figure out his wife's personality overnight. "Second uncle, what do you mean by giving her a knife as a wedding gift?"
Jiang Qingzhi looked at him until Zhu Shitai felt terrified, then he said, "Practice more! Otherwise you will be slapped in the face later."
"Who dares to slap me in the face?" the young duke shouted.
Jiang Qingzhi thought of Du Juan's boxing stance and the efficiency of her force, and thought to himself, boy, you're on your own!
After seeing off Zhu Shitai and his wife, Li Tian touched her belly and said, "In a dozen years, we will be able to see our son grow up to be so brave."
"It's good that he doesn't become a playboy."
"How can that be possible!" Li Tian said with admiration: "My husband is a great scholar of the Mohist school, and his knowledge is unmatched. He is also the most famous general in the Ming Dynasty. My son only needs to learn 70% to 80% of my husband's knowledge to be proud of himself."
"Whether I'm proud or not, I just hope my child can be less rebellious."
The couple chatted about the future, and before they knew it, Li Tian fell asleep again.
Jiang Qingzhi went out and asked Huang Yaner, "What did you say when you invited the imperial physician last time?"
Huang Yan'er said, "The imperial physician said that Madam was sleepy... He talked a lot, but it was very vague."
Jiang Qingzhi was a little entangled, "Forget it, the imperial physician is unreliable."
Li Tian started to feel a little sleepy half a month ago, but there was no obvious illness.
"Cousin!"
The little girl is here.
"Changle!" Jiang Qingzhi looked at his increasingly lively niece with a smile, "How come you have time to come here today?"
"Uncle, something happened to fourth brother." Changle said anxiously.
"What's the matter?" Prince Jing seldom came to the Earl's Mansion recently, and Jiang Qingzhi did not ask.
You're already that old, it's time for you to learn to take care of yourself.
"Someone died over there, Fourth Brother."
"Someone's dead... What? Someone's dead?"
"Ok!"
"How did you die?"
Li Tian's voice came from the room. It seemed that even her sleepiness could not stop her gossipy heart.
"He died from taking medicine."
……
Jiang Qingzhi entered the palace immediately.
Prince Yu was waiting outside the palace, looking anxious.
After seeing Jiang Qing, Prince Yu hurried over and said, "Uncle, something bad has happened."
"What the hell are you two doing?" Jiang Qingzhi asked dissatisfiedly.
"The fourth brother has been thinking of a prescription recently, and he asked someone to try the medicine yesterday. The man didn't get up in the morning, so someone went to call him and found that he was dead."
"Why try the prescription when there is nothing to do? That's nonsense!" Jiang Qingzhi felt that King Jing was just bored.
"That's right, but it's useless for us to say it." Prince Yu smiled bitterly, "This matter is still suppressed, and even Concubine Lu Jing doesn't know about it."
The two brothers are becoming more and more organized in their work.
Jiang Qingzhi sighed, "This matter cannot be concealed, let's go and tell her!"
"Yes." Prince Yu hesitated for a moment, and Jiang Qingzhi said, "Of course I'm not asking you to go."
If Prince Yu's people go to report it, they will be suspected of informing on others and forcing the emperor to abdicate... Your son killed someone while experimenting with drugs, and you can't just try to suppress this matter!
Looking back, Concubine Lu Jing could kill Prince Yu.
"My uncle still understands me."
When he arrived at King Jing's place, Jiang Qingzhi saw this guy sitting on the steps in a daze, so he went over and kicked him.
King Jing held on to the steps with his hands and did not fall. He was about to get angry, but when he saw it was Jiang Qingzhi, he quickly stood up and saluted.
"Uncle." King Jing looked calm as if nothing had happened.
"Why are you trying medicine if there's nothing wrong?" Jiang Qingzhi gritted his teeth and said, "Who died?"
"Yes...it's the medicine boy."
"You have a medicine boy?"
"It belongs to me!"
Following this voice, a middle-aged man who looked quite like an immortal came out of the hall.
"Uncle, he is the Jiangnan miraculous doctor... Chen Ting." King Jing said, "The one who died is his medicine boy."
The miracle doctor from Jiangnan?
Jiang Qingzhi remembered what Xu Wei said last time: King Jing had recruited a miracle doctor, and came to him to inquire about the origins of this miracle doctor.
The princes had many hobbies. For example, the old prince loved Taoism. Some princes loved poetry, dance, and medicine. Many princes loved playing with women and had a lot of children.
No one can be indifferent to that position and have no desires or requests. We are both the emperor's sons, so why should he be the emperor while I can only live in disgrace and be imprisoned in my fiefdom?
But he could only complain like this in his dreams. In order to avoid suspicion from his brother in the capital, the prince had to pretend to be at peace with the world on weekdays.
And hobbies are a good attitude.
Xu Wei and Hu Zongxian both thought that Prince Jing had finally realized the truth, but Xia Yan sneered and said that if Prince Jing really didn't want to compete for that position, the easiest way would be to defile himself.
By ruining his own reputation, he could not only defame himself and show that he had no intention of competing for the throne, but also win the favor of Prince Yu. This is a trick that anyone who is not a fool can do. How could a smart person like Prince Jing not do it?
There were many different opinions, but no conclusion was reached. Finally, Xia Yan got angry and said that whoever succeeded to the throne was Qingzhi's disciple and nephew. Everyone burst into laughter.
But right now, this nephew is in deep crisis. Not to mention self-defilement, this is clearly suicide.
Jiang Qingzhi glanced at Chen Ting and said, "Send someone outside the palace to inform Sun Bu Tong. Go to the Ministry of Justice to get a coroner and send him to the Tiger Guards. Immediately!"
"Yes." A eunuch went there in a hurry.
"Uncle, aren't you going to report to our father?" King Jing asked with a smile.
"No hurry." Jiang Qingzhi suddenly realized that he was quite hypocritical. If it were someone else, he would definitely be filled with righteous indignation and rebuke this person with great righteousness, and then handle the matter impartially.
But the one who committed the crime was King Jing, yet he was neither anxious nor panicked.
Chen Yan is here.
"Meet Long Wilbur."
"Let the fourth brother talk about this matter!" Jiang Qingzhi took out the medicinal cigarette.
"I recently thought of a prescription. After careful consideration, I thought it was good. I wanted to find someone around to test the medicine..."
When Jiang Qingzhi saw Huang Jian, the chief companion of King Jing, trembling all over and turning pale, he couldn't help but want to kick King Jing.
"Later, the medicine boy volunteered. He drank a bowl of medicine before dinner yesterday, and nothing unusual happened until he went to bed. In the morning, someone saw that he hadn't gotten up yet, and when no one answered when they knocked on the door, they broke in and found...he was already dead."
King Jing smiled bitterly, "Uncle, that recipe really won't kill anyone."
"You don't have the final say on whether you will die or not." The point of Chinese medicine is that even if the symptoms are the same, in the eyes of Chinese medicine, there are hundreds of diseases in hundreds of people. Everyone's condition is different, and the diagnosis and treatment must be considered after observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation.
This is different from Western medicine, which draws blood or scans something before making a diagnosis. No matter who you are, unless there are contraindications to taking medication, it is a method of diagnosis and treatment.
"Long Wilbur, can you please spare me a moment?"
Chen Yan winked at Jiang Qingzhi.
The two of them went to the side, and Chen Yan whispered: "The queen said that if this matter can be kept secret, then it should be suppressed. But now it seems that many people know about this matter..."
Jiang Qingzhi saw the fierce look that flashed across Chen Yan's eyes and knew that the seemingly cheerful woman Lu Jingfei was planning to silence him.
But if he were to ask himself, if it were Jiang Qingzhi's own child, he wondered if he would have the same idea.
So don’t judge by heart, just by action. No one is perfect in heart.
"It seems that it is impossible now." Chen Yan felt a little regretful, "Otherwise, I will find someone..."
"Scapegoat?" Jiang Qingzhi took a puff of medicinal smoke.
"Yes." Chen Yan said, "If this matter gets out, your highness's future will be over."
"Not only that, if someone is killed, even the prince will have to take responsibility. It's the easiest punishment..." Jiang Qingzhi glanced at Chen Yan. He believed that Concubine Lu Jing must have something to say.
"The best outcome is that Your Highness is driven to some remote place, and his life... ends here."
That would be close to exile.
"The Queen Mother said that if it fails, people should be sacrificed to the heavens."
"Who?"
"This Jiangnan miraculous doctor."
frame!
Put the blame on Chen Ting.
She is indeed the ruthless and murderous master of the harem.
Extremely cold-blooded.
Many times, human life is just a number in the eyes of noble people, or even not a number.
Jiang Qingzhi shook his head. Chen Yan was stunned. "What is this, Lord Wei?"
Jiang Qingzhi hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly, "I am not a saint, nor a gentleman, but I can't watch an innocent person die!"
After all, he is still that ordinary citizen, and he is still not so cold-blooded as to take human life lightly.
……
"Long Wilbur said he couldn't sit idly by. But he would do his best."
Chen Yan lowered her head, waiting for Concubine Lu Jing's anger.
"Him!" Concubine Lu gritted her teeth and suddenly sighed, "Tell me, did the Fourth Brother become so pedantic because of him? Otherwise, with the Fourth Brother's intelligence, he would have thrown someone close to him to take the blame, or... let that miracle doctor accidentally fall to his death..."
"My queen, it's not too late now!" Chen Yan said softly.
"Since the fourth son doesn't want to do it, I, as a mother, can only do it reluctantly. Chen Yan, take some people with you..." There was more coldness in Concubine Lu's eyes.
At this moment, a eunuch came in, his face pale, "Madam, there are rumors outside that your Highness has poisoned someone."
Concubine Lu shook her body. "How did the news get out?"
Chen Yan was shocked and suddenly said, "Fortunately, Madam, this is a blessing in disguise!"
Concubine Lu was worried and confused, but after calming down, she said, "Fortunately, Chang Wei Bo opposed it, otherwise that person would have died at this moment, and the matter would have become even more serious."
The prince poisoned the medicine boy and then killed Chen Ting to destroy the evidence...
This wasn't just a matter of being banished to some remote place.
This is……
"At least it's confinement!" Concubine Lu patted her chest, her gratitude to Jiang Qingzhi was beyond words.
But once the news gets out, the censor will hear about it and report it.
Prince Yu killed the medicine boy while testing the medicine.
The evidence is solid!
"Let Chen Ting change his words!" Concubine Lu Jingfei said coldly.
"It's too late." A man's voice came from outside the door.
"Long Wilbur!"
Jiang Qingzhi walked in uninvited.
"Just now Chen Ting said that the prescription was figured out by the fourth brother alone. He tried to persuade him, but the fourth brother insisted on his own way..."
The last road was blocked. Concubine Lu's face turned pale. She looked at Jiang Qingzhi and said, "That old four... is finished!"
"It's not over yet!" Jiang Qingzhi took out the medicinal cigarette, lit it himself, exhaled the smoke, and said lightly.
(End of this chapter)
