Chapter 122: Disagreement
"Your Majesty, this man must not be forgiven!" Liu Qimei said.
"Father, you must never forgive him! He relied on the 'preliminary arrest warrant' granted by you to do whatever he wanted. He led his soldiers to besiege Miss Yin's residence and wanted to put her in prison! Then he broke into your bedroom without permission and acted arrogantly, totally disregarding you! Miss Yin is not only your savior, but also my son's lifesaver. How could this Sun Guye treat her like this!" Zhao Lin was furious.
"I declare that Sun Guye's 'preliminary arrest warrant' is invalid! Zhaolin, take it back!" said King Jingyin.
Zhao Lin snatched the token from Sun Guye's hand.
"Father, the reason why you were poisoned this time is because the tonic soup you used was replaced with Sun Guye's prescription. He clearly wanted to murder you!" Zhao Lin said.
Sun Guye never expected that someone had already found out the problem with the prescription. He knelt on the ground, trembling all over and not daring to look up. He kept kowtowed to King Jingyin and shouted, "Your Majesty, it's unjust! Although I broke into the palace without permission, I definitely didn't intend to harm Your Majesty! Many people in the court have tried the new prescription for the strengthening soup. It does have a strengthening effect and is not a poisonous prescription!" He looked at Lu Juefeng and said to him, "Lord Lu, you have also tried that prescription. Do you think it is a miraculous prescription or a poisonous prescription?"
Seeing that Sun Guye had fallen to this point, Lu Juefeng thought that if he said something in his favor, it would be like standing against the queen and the prince, which would inevitably bring trouble upon himself. Although he had tried Sun Guye's prescription for a period of time before, and could fully prove that the prescription itself was not a poisonous prescription, at this time, in order to prevent people from thinking that he had anything to do with Sun Guye, he said: "I only tried the prescription for one day, and the amount of medicine I tried was very small, so I didn't test out the actual effect of the prescription."
Lu Juefeng never expected that what he said to protect himself would bring him trouble.
"Lü Juefeng, I didn't expect you to be such a person! You have clearly tried for many days, but there was no sign of you being poisoned! Now I'm being wronged, and you're actually adding insult to injury!" Sun Guye said indignantly, "Don't forget, it was your men who informed me today that I took the token to arrest Yin Ruchen! You and I are now on the same boat, and if you frame me, it's the same as courting death!"
When Queen Liu Qimei heard their conversation, she was shocked and thought: It is just as I expected. It seems that even without my order, Lu Juefeng really wants to kill Yin Ruchen, but why is this?
Lu Juefeng immediately knelt down and defended himself: "Your Majesty, please do not be deceived by the slander of Sun Guye! I have always been loyal and never acted recklessly. How could I send my men to inform Sun Guye, a treacherous person who wants to murder Your Majesty?"
"Lü Juefeng, just wait!" Sun Guye stared at Lü Juefeng fiercely and said secretly.
Liu Qimei didn't know what kind of subtle relationship there was between Lü Juefeng and Sun Guye, but she clearly remembered that it was Lü Juefeng who brought Feng Shizhuo, the adopted son of Feng Imperial Physician, to her. She thought and said to Lü Juefeng, "The person who brought Feng Shizhuo, the adopted son of Feng Imperial Physician, to me last time was you. Am I right? Not long after Feng Imperial Physician was assassinated, his adopted son appeared in the palace. It seems that the murder of Feng Imperial Physician was probably instigated by someone in the palace. Since the poison darts used by the person who assassinated Feng Imperial Physician are the same as the poison darts used by the person who wanted to assassinate Your Majesty, then these two assassinations were probably done by the same person! The instigator behind the scenes may also be the same person!"
"Queen, are you doubting me? I swear to heaven now that I did not instigate the two assassination attempts. If I lie, I will be punished by heaven and earth!" Lu Juefeng vowed solemnly.
"Then tell me, why was Feng Shizhuo with you last time?" Liu Qimei asked seriously.
"That day I saw the child kneeling in front of a corpse wrapped in a straw mat and crying bitterly on the street. I felt sorry for him. I asked about the situation and learned that his adoptive father was killed with a dart, but he did not have enough silver to bury his adoptive father, so he had to kneel on the street and beg for help. I helped him with his adoptive father's funeral, but he never expected that his adoptive father was actually Imperial Physician Feng! At that time, there was a dart stuck in the body of Imperial Physician Feng, so I sent someone to remove the dart using a special method, and let the child know that his adoptive father, Imperial Physician Feng, was an old friend of mine, so he was told to stay with me without worry, and told him that I would never let his adoptive father go in such an unclear way." Lu Juefeng said.
(End of this chapter)
