In an inconspicuous corner, Physician Pan waited and then waited some more. He had managed to get away momentarily using the excuse of feeling unwell, but he couldn’t stay for too long. He had sent out a pigeon that had a strip of cloth tied to its leg. Just as he almost gave up hope in waiting, a man dressed in servant’s clothes walked towards him.
“Are you asking for death? Why are you requesting to meet the master at this time?” The man reprimanded impatiently.
“I have something important to report!” Physician Pan realized whose subordinate this was. Like pouring beans out of a cup, he explained the results of the blood tests.
This was indeed an enormous problem. The man also couldn’t make the final decision here. Furrowing his brows, he made the physician continue to wait while he went to report this.
Physician Pan had no other choice but to force himself to continue to wait.
Luckily, the 6th Prince was in a small tent not far away. He definitely wouldn’t go meet with Physician Pan in person. Even though they were nearby, he still circumvented and made his subordinate handle the meeting for him. After learning about the situation that the physician had encountered, the 6th Prince was also shocked.
What’s going on? Jing-wang’s heir definitely had his blood taken. So how come the physician’s result was that all the blood passed?
…… it was Jing-wang. Don’t tell him, Jing-wang had already done something ahead of time?
This was the only plausible explanation!
Jing-wang. Jing-wang again!
The 6th Prince unconsciously squeezed his hands into tight fists. He was so close. If Jing-wang managed to pass this junction safely, the Emperor would definitely place complete trust in Jing-wang. He’d no longer be able to make any more fuss out of bloodlines. Once the little heir gained the imperial physicians’ acknowledgement, Jing-wang would sit even more securely in his position.
Before, in order to make the Emperor suspicious of the little heir, the 6th Prince had involved all of the other princes in his scheme as well. He also had buried a hidden trick up his sleeve regarding Concubine Lu. If he continued to hesitate, then everything that he had done would only become a stepping stone for Jing-wang.
It was his miscalculation. He never imagined this would happen.
However, it was still not too late to receive this information.
Wealth and fortune was a result of taking risks. Hasn’t he been continuously striving for improvement all his life? Why skip out on this once?
Jing-wang can rig the system, why can’t he? Conceding just like this, how can he!
Since it was impossible to tell who was who, then he might as well…… make all of the blood fail the test. It’d work then right?!
The 8th Prince’s blood was definitely also tested. He originally had thought that this younger brother was tragic enough and didn’t have any plans to give him another blow. If the 8th Prince wanted to blame anyone, then just let him go blame Jing-wang.
With a vicious and malevolent face, the 6th Prince instructed as such: “Tell Physician Pan to do it.”
Receiving a reply, Physician Pan headed back.
After returning to where the tent where the imperial physicians were, Physician Pan already came up with a plan.
The method to verify the royal bloodline was actually related to the Emperor who founded this country. This Emperor had once used a medicine called Qilin Gold.
This medicine didn’t look too special at first glance. However, after taking it, whenever this person’s blood encountered another type of medicinal herb called Dragon’s Vine, it would shine faintly gold.
Back then, the founding Emperor used this to suggest that he was chosen by the Mandate of Heaven to rule. Because he had used Qilin Gold, this effect was passed down to all of his descendants.
Although it’s said that every generation, the shine would grow fainter, real blood of royalty would still shine gold after encountering Dragon’s Vine.
Therefore, the secret of verifying royal blood was using Dragon’s Vine.
Because the royal family needed to protect this secret, Dragon’s Vine had long been pretty much exterminated from this world. The only remaining ones were the few that grew inside the Imperial Physician’s courtyard.
Physician Pan knew about the Dragon’s Vine. He also experimented with Dragon’s Vine plenty of times before. Inside his medicine box was a small bottle of liquid. The liquid had aluminite powder, which can disrupt the effect of Dragon’s vine. Originally he brought it just in case, but because he didn’t know which bottle was the little heir’s blood, he couldn’t use it.
Now that he had the 6th Prince’s order to change everyone’s result, on the contrary, he now had a plan.
Physician Pan used a silver needle to insert the liquid. Casually stirring it, he changed a “yes” result into a “no”.
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Physician Pan said solemnly: “We’re working for the Emperor. If we can’t come to a unanimous answer, how are we supposed to report this to the Emperor? Why not test one more time?”
Although the other imperial physicians were displeased, Physician Pan’s words held a few degrees of logic. In the end, they still agreed and started testing all over again.
Seeing the imperial physicians using the blood that he had altered to test again, Physician Pan wiped away the sweat on his forehead. Finally his task was completed.
What he didn’t know was that behind a screen, the person in charge of observing him saw everything that had occurred and recorded it in a booklet.
This time, the Imperial Physicians all obtained a completely opposite result than before. The people that the Emperor wanted them to test were actually all not royal blood.
This result was rather shocking. The imperial physicians tested a few times again. They also examined all of the Dragon’s vine, but there was nothing wrong with them.
Physician Pan exclaimed dramatically: “Good thing we retested, or else someone would have ended up deceiving the Emperor.”
The imperial physicians couldn’t figure out any irregularities. They could only present this strange result.
When those princes, officials, royal elders, and Prince Li who were all waiting inside the dragon’s tent this entire time received the result, their expressions turned unsightly. The 8th Prince’s face color was deathly white as he looked ready to collapse.
“Your majesty, this……”
Prince Li was the first one who mentioned wanting to do the test. But even Prince Li never imagined that Jing-wang’s little heir and the 8th Prince were actually both not royal blood? What a crime!
The Emperor’s eyes held barely restrained thunder and lightning. He said profoundly with a careful restraint: “Good thing the imperial physicians performed this test, or else I would have really been kept completely in the dark.”
Hearing these words, the 6th Prince became excited. Still, he didn’t forget to peek at Jing-wangfei’s response.
At this time, Li Yu had already knelt down, hugging the kids tightly and burying his face into them. The 6th Prince couldn’t see his expression at all, however, he clearly discovered that Jing-wangfei’s hand was shaking.
This should mean that everything was exposed. That he was scared.
The 6th Prince was very smug but still earnestly pleaded the Emperor to calm his anger with the rest of the crowd.
The Emperor said with a heavy voice: “Someone must be held accountable for this.”
He just finished speaking when two squads of Imperial guards charged into the tent. However, they didn’t do what the 6th Prince had fantasized, which was taking away Jing-wangfei and Jing-wang’s fake sons. Instead, they pulled Physician Pan out of the crowd.
The officials and Prince Li were stunned. Attempting to pass off as a royal member was a heavy crime. They thought that the Emperor was about to deal with all related people and start a blood bath. However, they never imagined that the first one to face the Emperor’s blade was a seemingly completely unrelated Imperial Physician!
Physician Pan was scared terribly by the ferocious looking guards. His first thought was, did the Emperor already discover what he had done?
However, at that time back in the tent, no one noticed him. How would the Emperor know?
Physician Pan said mulishly: “Your majesty, what did this official do wrong……”
He didn’t even finish saying his last syllable when the Emperor replied already with a cold smile. A guard threw a secret report directly in Physician Pan’s face. Another guard opened the medicine box that he was carrying and extremely accurately found that bottle of liquid.
The bottle still had some left over. Physician Pan didn’t have the time to get rid of this bottle yet. Plus, the old saying was, the most dangerous place was the safest. Therefore, he had carried it with him this entire time.
The Emperor ordered the other physicians to first look at the liquid and then go look at the blood that they were testing.
After a careful whiff and close observation, all of the imperial physicians became exceptionally furious, saying that there was aluminite within; aluminite’s effect counteracted with the effect of Dragon’s Vine and would greatly disrupt the accuracy of the secret method.
No wonder during the first time, they all arrived at the conclusion that all of the blood were royal blood, except Physician Pan. After Physician Pan suggested retesting, all of the results afterwards changed into not royal blood.
Physician Pan was clearly deliberately planting false evidence!
So actually, the result just now was false–
The imperial physicians changed their tune in unison, terrified that the Emperor would start investigating them as well.
The officials and Prince Li didn’t even recover from the first shock. Now they received another one.
The 8th Prince looked towards the Emperor with an expression full of childish admiration and gratitude. If it weren’t for the Emperor, he might have suffered injustice.
As soon as the Emperor ordered people to seize Physician Pan, the 6th Prince’s face color immediately changed. However, the situation turned too quickly, he still didn’t get a chance to understand what had happened when the Imperial Guards seized someone else out of the crowd– a rather plain looking subordinate.
–this was the subordinate that he had sent to contact Physician Pan!
The 6th Prince’s cold sweat rolled right into his eyes. His vision immediately blurred.
“Who’s servant is this?” The Emperor asked coolly.
The 6th Prince didn’t dare to move. He also didn’t dare to say anything. He felt like the Emperor’s gaze had landed right on him.
He felt like if he said even one sentence, the Emperor would definitely also seize him as well!
Since he couldn’t figure it out at the moment, then he just won’t think about it anymore. Right now, the only thing he could do is protect himself.
That loyal subordinate was originally a distant relative of his birth mother, Concubine Zhang. He had long held the lives of that person’s family in his hands. That person definitely wouldn’t betray him. If anything happened, he would admit to all of the crimes in the 6th Prince’s place.
He was only afraid that Physician Pan might rat him out. However, as long as he refused to admit it, with only Physician Pan’s word, the Emperor still couldn’t do anything to him.
Because he often used letters as a tool to scheme against others, he never used writing to exchange information between himself and Physician Pan. The message was only transmitted verbally. This was the same between himself and his loyal subordinate. As long as he refused to budge, just like the previous bribery case, even if the Emperor got angry, he couldn’t just use one-sided words as evidence to deal with this prince.
The most that could be revealed from an investigation was that he and the subordinate had a master/servant relationship. However, so what? He can still be someone deceived by a servant. A person who didn’t know anything at all!
The Emperor had suddenly seized Physician Pan and a servant. Many people at the scene, one of which was Prince Li himself, were all befuddled as to why.
Prince Li gathered the courage to ask: “Your majesty, did this person do something?”
The Emperor gave the 6th Prince a look. He didn’t even reply yet when Bao#1, who was pressed into Li Yu’s embrace, raised his little chubby hand enthusiastically.
“Yeye!” Bao#1 knew the answer to this question!!
The Emperor gave Bao#1 quite the honor and ordered Li Yu to carry Bao#1 up.
Li Yu had done his utter best to persuade Jing-wang in allowing him to bring Bao#1 out here to put on an act. However, Bao#1 was unexpectedly adding scenes midway, and…and the Emperor even allowed it!
What can Li Yu do? He could only cooperate.
The Emperor held Bao#1 in his arms. Bao#1 curiously looked at the crowd of people below, not the slightest afraid.
The Emperor was very pleased by Bao#1’s behavior and said teasingly to him: “What does Bao#1 wish to say?”
Bao#1 pointed at the man being held down by the imperial guards and said clearly: “YeYe, he’s bad!”
Prince Li staggered. He has seen many complaints before, but he’s never seen it like this! He knew already that Jing-wang’s little heir was extremely favored by the Emperor, but he never imagined the kid was this favored. He was even bold enough to speak out directly in front of the Emperor!
Meanwhile the Emperor…… Prince Li secretly took a glance at the Emperor’s response, the Emperor actually…… looked delighted.
“Bao#1, do you know him?” The Emperor asked.
Of course Bao#1 knew him. This was the bad guy that secretly entered his room that one time and was remembered by him.
Bao#1 held up his heavily wrapped hand and said with a voice full of grievances: “He… needle, prick.”
Li Yu: “…….”
Thanks to Bao#1, Li Yu also recognized this person now. He cursed powerlessly inside. Son, wake up quickly. Although it was this person who threatened your wet nurse and secretly entered the Jing estate, your hand really wasn’t pricked by him!
Here Li Yu was just thinking that he had performed his character as a desperate and worried wangfei very well. However, in comparison to Bao#1’s extremely pitiful, yet indignant little expression , Li Yu was practically trash.
The Emperor loved this performance from Bao#1 the most. His ability to understand Bao#1’s every word and movement was also extremely astonishing. Very quickly, he connected this person to when Jing-wang mentioned before that someone had infiltrated into the Jing Estate to acquire the little heir’s blood. Bao#1 probably saw him and remembered his face.
The Emperor said: “Bao#1 is a witness. Furthermore, I also have a very special witness as well.”
The Emperor said slowly: “Around noon, Physician Pan went out and let out a white pigeon to meet with this person. After he reported the results of the tests, which was that all of the blood were royal blood, this person transmitted this information to his master.”
“Not long afterwards, this person’s master replied, wanting Physician Pan to do something and change all of the results.” The Emperor repeated the conversation between the loyal subordinate and Physician Pan practically verbatim. The 6th Prince never would have imagined that the Emperor knew this as well. In a flash, his thoughts became hectic.
How did the Emperor find out? And also to this extent? Did this mean that the Emperor already knew the culprit behind the scenes was him?
But what can he do? Unravel everything he had set up and confess to being the culprit voluntarily, even though the Emperor hasn’t even said anything yet?
No matter what, he couldn’t do this.
On Prince Li’s side, first he heard that both the 8th Prince and Jing-wang’s heir weren’t royal blood and felt like he was struck by lightning. Now he was learning directly from the Emperor’s mouth that actually someone had incited Physician Pan to falsify the result. Finally, Prince Li jolted and grabbed the crucial point here: “Your majesty, who was the one that instigated the imperial physician?”
The Emperor knew about the conversation between two villains, he must also know who was the person behind the scenes.
However, the Emperor didn’t actually answer. Instead, he fell silent for about the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
During this period, the 6th Prince felt like he was dancing on the tip of a blade. His heart felt like it was about to jump out of his chest any moment.
Many times, his gaze crossed with the Emperor.
It wasn’t the end yet. He forced himself to look like he didn’t know anything. Yet he didn’t realize that the flow of cold sweat can’t be withdrawn.
The Emperor sighed deeply. He has actually been looking at the 6th Prince this entire time, waiting for the 6th Prince to admit to his own crime.
This period of silence was his last attempt to give the 6th Prince a chance. If the 6th Prince admitted it, the Emperor might not have punished him too harshly.
However, the 6th Prince didn’t do anything at all. The Emperor finally lost his patience with this son of his.
“TianXiao.” The Emperor sternly singled out the 6th Prince’s name sternly.
It seemed like everyone’s gaze looked towards the 6th Prince in this instance.
Mu TianXiao(6) closed his eyes and did his best to stop his voice from trembling like he was already: “Father……”
The Emperor said: “After Physician Pan left the tent, my guard was following him the entire way.”
“He released a pigeon. The person behind the scenes was very smart and didn’t leave any letter, paper slips or anything on the pigeon. Because he had already instructed Physician Pan previously, the pigeon itself was the signal to meet. However, when the messenger servant came to see Physician Pan, my guard also followed him back and found the real culprit behind the scenes.”
“TianXiao.” The Emperor said: “When you were racking your brains and considering your counter scheme to frame Jing-wang and to frame the 8th Prince, I was right next to you, separated by only a wall. I heard you say with your own mouth, to make everyone’s test fail.”
“This devious scheme was all yours. Meanwhile I… am that most special witness. The reason I didn’t expose you right away was because I wanted to see just how far you would go.”
Mu TianXiao(6) felt like the entire world was turning dark, leaving only the view of the Emperor in his gold dragon robes in front of him.
How…… How could this be?
He desperately moved his mouth. However, even he couldn’t hear the words that he was saying.
Now now does your face hurt?
Can not lie your way out of that Prince #6
Thank You for the chapter（*’∀’人）♥
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