It’s not like Li Yu has never taken a guess at the culprit behind Jing-wang’s poisoning. However, he was only Jing-wang’s main wife. There were a lot of restrictions if he wanted to investigate something that occurred inside the Emperor’s Harem over tens of years ago. The most suitable plan was to let the Emperor go investigate it himself. Right now, other than believing in the Emperor, Li Yu and Jing-wang momentarily had no other choice.
Here, there was another rather terrifying thought. In this world, Jing-wang had completely recovered. In the original novel, however, Jing-wang was probably mute for life. Still, this explained why in this world and in the original world, Jing-wang’s offspring were all normal. It wasn’t because Jing-wang was lucky. Instead, it was because Jing-wang’s mutism was not natural. In this world, Jing-wang was very fortunate to discover it. Meanwhile in the original novel, there wasn’t a carp demon to help Jing-wang find the truth.
Li Yu felt rather fortunate and, at the same time, somewhat fearful in the aftermath. The secret regarding Jing-wang mutism was dangling right in front of his face all this time, but he had almost missed it.
Jing-wang coughed up poisoned blood under emotional distress as a direct result of Li Yu’s choice to do the “Compassion” branch mission. Meanwhile the reward for this branch mission was a drug formula that was extremely connected to his mutism.
With the addition of Snow Crow, it became the poison that harmed Jing-wang; while with a few additions of a few other ingredients, it was now helping Jing-wang recover his strength.
You never know just what kind of surprise was waiting for you from the shitty System.
Also, sometimes doing good things can reward you.
The branch mission came to its end, Li Yu managed to help Liang-shi. At the same time, it allowed himself and Jing-wang to endure through their hardest trial. What’s left seemed smooth sailing.
That day, the 6th Prince had threatened Liang-shi and also gained the criminal record of attempted regicide. After the Emperor brought everyone back to the Imperial Palace, he ordered the guards to lock the 6th Prince up in the Imperial Prison. No one dared to speak up for the 6th Prince anymore.
The 6th Prince dared to try assassinating the Emperor. The Emperor could make this son of his useless, but he really couldn’t kill his own son. Leaving the 6th Prince with his life was already extremely benevolent and merciful.
Concubine Zhang knew that this time the 6th Prince had really committed an unforgivable crime and actually started looking after her own hide, staying inside YongFu Palace as much as she could.
Because Concubine Zhang didn’t directly participate in the 6th Prince’s scheme, the Emperor let her keep her concubine position after reprimanding her severely.
Concubine Zhang often behaved like a quail in front of the Emperor. In the end, this quail personality was what saved her.
Liang-shi completely lost all love for the 6th Prince. After being held hostage, Liang-shi received too much shock and lost the child in her stomach overnight. Without saying anything further, Liang-shi packed up and moved back to live with her maternal family henceforth.
Concubine Lu, who was framed, was released after the Emperor’s clear-headed investigation and reunited with the 8th Prince.
The 7th Prince and his mother, Concubine Li, learned from the Emperor that the 6th Prince’s scheme originally involved them as well. The 7th Prince repeatedly said “knowing someone doesn’t mean knowing their heart.” After this trip to the hunting grounds, the two small princes unexpectedly matured a lot.
The Emperor sent Jing-wang’s four sons to the Imperial Study. The 7th and 8th Prince finally weren’t the smallest carrots here. In front of the four Baos, they became uncles. The two little Princes both stood tall and puffed up their chest with pride.
The Emperor was already paving the road for Jing-wang. He clearly told the two Princes that Jing-wang was the one who helped prove their innocence. Therefore, the two little Princes became especially attentive to their nephews. The Imperial Study was all harmonious and peaceful. The Emperor was very pleased with this. For the 7th and 8th Prince to be able to build good relationships with the four Baos, it meant building a good relationship with Jing-wang. He probably had no need to worry about their futures.
On the other side, head manager Luo continued his investigation. Because of this, the cause of Pu Liu’s death was uncovered. Pu Liu had died of poison. The Emperor ordered the old Imperial Physician to provide assistance. They managed to figure out that Pu Liu’s body also had poison leftover within it, which was exactly from mixing Snow Crow.
This made everything very clear. Pu Liu must have consumed the mixture of ingredients and then passed the poison to the infant Jing-wang through her breast milk. Then, after she left the Imperial Palace, her own poison activated.
One should say that it was fortunate she didn’t directly feed Jing-wang the drug or else Jing-wang would have found it hard to live past a few months. Because the poison of the Snow Crow was transferred through breast milk, it was much weaker. Therefore, Jing-wang only became mute because of the drug, instead of dying. The poison remained in Jing-wang’s body, but didn’t cause any further harm.
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This was probably also due to the craftiness of the culprit. If Jing-wang had died directly, the Emperor would have definitely investigated thoroughly. However, if he was turned mute by the poison and then disguised as a naturally born mute, at most the Emperor would summon the imperial physicians to assess him and pray to Buddha. The only thing he wouldn’t do was punish others for it.
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Since they didn’t have grudges, Pu Liu must have been acting under the orders of someone else. Luo RuiSheng continued to follow the trail and investigated Pu Liu’s family.
He discovered that her family members were infected by the plague and also died not long after she had passed away.
Meanwhile, the two midwives that helped Empress Xiao Hui deliver, one lost her footing and fell off a cliff without even a body remaining, the other accidentally got run over by a carriage after drinking and died. Meanwhile, the imperial physician that “diagnosed” Jing-wang was already getting on in age at that time. Not long after he retired back to his hometown, he also passed.
…… All dead. Every single one of them.
The Emperor, who was familiar with the methods used in court struggles, immediately understood that they most likely were all silenced.
Recalling those years back then, there really were too many questionable aspects.
The investigation was cut off because of this. The Emperor felt a bit of a headache. However, because this was related to Jing-wang, the Emperor summoned the Jing couple into the Imperial Palace.
In these days, the Emperor also finally realized that Jing-wangfei was smart and intelligent. Li Yu would always have a unique perspective. It was also Li Yu who found the poisoned powder that Pu Liu used in the sealed room inside the palace and saved Jing-wang. The Emperor thought he might as well ask Li Yu and see if he had any other suggestions.
The Emperor gave his orders. Jing-wang came over quickly with Li Yu.
Jing-wang’s speech was getting better by the day now. Other than his voice still being very hoarse, and his replies being somewhat slow, there’s another no other issue. Even if it remained like this in the future, the Emperor held no disdain in his heart.
“TianChi, how do you feel?” The Emperor asked.
Jing-wang slowly said: “Very good.”
Before, Jing-wang wasn’t able to speak. Now, even after he got better, he didn’t have the desire to bother the Emperor by speaking nonstop. Usually, his answers were very concise.
On the contrary, the Emperor himself had prepared a stomach full of questions, wanting to show more care towards Jing-wang. Unexpectedly, however, he found himself unable to get them out of his mouth.
The Emperor had heard Wang Xi say that Jing-wang needed to get up early everyday to recite books loudly, from the Three Classics to all sorts of novels.
Jing-wang had a rather cold and detached appearance. Fighting and killing was fine, but the Emperor really couldn’t imagine him reading novels out loud.
Jing-wang had a little booklet stuffed in his sleeve. After obtaining permission from the Emperor, he’d occasionally take it out to glance at it.
The Emperor knew that before Jing-wang would prepare some note slips. Now that he didn’t need note slips anymore, what’s the little booklet for?
When Jing-wang wasn’t paying attention, the Emperor secretly stole a glance at it. It was filled with a hideous mess of strange markings.
“Wangfei wrote it.” Jing-wang explained with a smile.
Because Li Yu was afraid that Jing-wang would suddenly forget the pronunciation of a certain word, he arranged a book of pinyin for commonly used words to use in times of emergency. Jing-wang always brought it everywhere with him. Regardless of if he forgot or not, he’d still take it out to have a look.
Even with Li Yu by his side, it wasn’t enough to stop Jing-wang’s love for flaunting.
The Emperor: “…….”
The Emperor felt that after Jing-wang’s mutism got better, his sickening sweetness with Jing-wangfei advanced another level again. The Emperor has seen enough, his pleasant smile turning wooden. So this was the feeling of being smacked by dog food too many times.
Back to the main topic, after having some small talk with the couple, the Emperor explained his current predicament.
“Father is wise. You found so many clues so quickly.” Li Yu first offered plenty of praise. The Emperor had investigated this with all his might, of course the information arrived quickly. Li Yu just didn’t expect that the few people they thought would know the hidden story here were actually all dead.
Receiving the unexpected praise, the Emperor gave a light cough and said: “However, the trail of clues ends here. I am stumped at the moment.”
Li Yu was just waiting for these words: “Although these people aren’t here anymore, “the item” is still present. Some “items” are unchangeable…… Father, why not investigate Snow Crow?”
Li Yu’s words hit the nail on the head.
That day, he had heard the old imperial physician say that Snow Crow grew on the peak of snowy mountains. The borders of this nation didn’t have any snowy mountains, that’s why Snow Crow was rare to see. Even the Imperial Physician’s courtyard didn’t have it.
“…… this is an area of suspicion. Why would Pu Liu have a drug that even the imperial physicians didn’t have access to? And plus, Snow Crow is normally a health supplement. It would only become poisonous after encountering Ginseng. I feel like the person behind the scenes must know medicine or at the very least, know about Snow Crow’s poison.”
The old physician said that the drug formula was originally that body strengthening prescription. However, there was an addition of Snow Crow. People who didn’t know the hidden effects here would only believe that by adding Snow Crow, it would be like adding one supplement on top of another. This was probably done on purpose to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
Li Yu’s words stop here. He felt faintly worried inside. Snow Crow was rare in this nation. Could– this poison actually be related to other nations?
But in all of these years, there haven’t been any foreign concubines inside the Emperor’s harem.
For example JinJue. Even though the Emperor formed an alliance with JinJue and the two countries were friendly, the Emperor can accept the JinJue Princess marrying a Prince, but he himself wouldn’t take anyone from JinJue his wife.
This has been the Emperor’s style all this time.
Li Yu strongly suspected that Pu Liu’s Snow Crow came from some foreign source. Where did the Snow Crow come from? Was Pu Liu herself a foreigner?
The more that Li Yu thought about this, the more fishy it seemed. He unconsciously asked this outloud.
The Emperor was stunned briefly and fell into deep thought. After a while, he finally said: “I will order people to start investigating from Snow Crow and continue the search.”
Li Yu saw that the Emperor didn’t want to say any more and stopped asking.
After leaving GanQing Palace, Li Yu lightly bumped his elbow against Jing-wang: “TianChi, do you know any snow mountains?”
Outside, it was inconvenient for Jing-wang to speak. Therefore he used Li Yu’s palm to write two words: Lou Lan.
“What’s…… Lou Lan?” Li Yu was dumbfounded. He was a transmigrated fish. His geography knowledge of this nation was pitiful. Thanks to the original novel, he only knew one neighboring nation and that was JinJue. This was the first time he’s heard of Lou Lan.
Jing-wang wrote: Lou Lan has snow mountains. 30 years ago, it was wiped out by Father.
Li Yu: “…………………….”
So this was a nation that had already been eradicated. No wonder he’s never heard of it.
Then would the Snow Crow have come from Lou Lan?!
He was just thinking that for the culprit behind the scenes to harm Jing-wang as such, they must have some kind of grudge against the Emperor. Don’t tell him, a survivor of the tragically extinct nation of Lou Lan had infiltrated into the Imperial Palace in order to wait for an opportunity to get revenge on the Emperor?
Or perhaps, Li Yu recalled the Emperor’s evasive gaze just now, perhaps the Emperor had some past with a certain woman from Lou Lan and married her into his harem. However, since the Emperor still loved Empress Xiao Hui the most, the Lou Lan woman started hating out of love and…… hurt Jing-wang?
The more Li Yu thought about it, the more dramatic his thoughts became. Jing-wang smiled and tugged on Li Yu’s sleeve.
Follow me. Jing-wang indicated with his eyes.
Li Yu followed Jing-wang and walked for a while. He discovered that Jing-wang had brought him to a rather familiar looking courtyard.
Li Yu glanced at the inscription board. It was JingTai Palace!
Recall back then when he had just turned into a fish, he even lived in JingTai Palace for a few days. After the span of a year, Li Yu now lived in the Jing estate more. JingTai Palace, on the contrary, became a more unfamiliar place. That’s why he couldn’t recognize it immediately.
JingTai Palace had servants. When they saw their master Jing-wang, they all greeted them politely.
Jing-wang was undistracted. Pulling Li Yu along, he made a beeline for the bedroom.
Li Yu: ???
Li Yu flushed red slightly. Lately, he’s been nagging about wanting a daughter. However, after absorbing essence several times, and he had practically sucked out the dark circles under Jing-wang’s eyes, there was still no daughter.
Without “one shot into the soul” was too hard. Li Yu prayed for a daughter impatiently, and started to become a bit superstitious. He strongly suspected that the words “Imperial City, Jing Estate” and “daughter” clashed with each other. He was just thinking about changing the location for another try. Jing-wang really lived up to his name of being Li Yu’s extremely considerate, good hubby, bringing him a pillow as soon as he starts nodding off.
JingTai Palace was nice. It could also be half-counted as the place where they met each other. This was a place of commemoration.
Jing-wang knew something that might be related to Lou Lan and turned to fetch it. When he turned back, he discovered that within this short span of time, the carp demon had already dove into the blankets and was using a pair of watery bright eyes to beckon at him, seducing him relentlessly.
Jing-wang: “……”
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