The emperor said "it won't last long", but it lasted for more than a month.
Under the pressure of the emperor, everyone in the entire harem was trembling with fear. Even the concubine stayed behind closed doors. The other princes and princesses were also more well-behaved than ever before, including Yue Wangshu's little Adi, who had been studying a lot harder recently.
No more going up trees to dig out bird eggs!
On days like this, under the nose of his father, Meng Shu communicated with Xiuyiwei almost every day about how he selected the ranger that day and how he arranged for him to have close contact with the incompetent younger brother of the Shen family.
, where did they get the highly poisonous crane crown red, and arranged a self-castrated eunuch to enter the health pharmacy as an informant...
Everything was investigated clearly.
Meng Shu couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, her and her brother's lives could be saved, right?
That night, the call of the cuckoo came from the west window again.
Meng Shu trembled all over. She had already found out everything that should be investigated, so why...
She tried to calm down and opened the back window. Outside the window was still the seemingly inconspicuous servant. This time he handed over a small bottle and said, "This is Crane Crown Red. Please put it in the Marquis's tonic soup."
"
Meng Shu's eyes widened and her teeth couldn't help chattering.
The servant whispered: "This is the emperor's wish." Then he placed the small bottle on the inside of the window sill, "Girl, let's see what happens."
Then it disappeared without a trace!
Meng Shu tremblingly picked up the small bottle, closed the window, and then her whole body went limp and fell to the ground!
The emperor actually asked her to kill her father with her own hands!
!
Admittedly, she also understood that her father would inevitably die! But she never expected that the emperor would give her such a task!
But... the emperor had specifically planned the assassination on himself, wasn't it just to kill the Meng family?!
Meng Shu suddenly understood that the emperor did not intend to make his father's crimes public!
This means that the nine tribes will not be implicated! But the premise is that the father must die!
Meng Shu closed her eyes and her hands gradually stopped shaking. Father, father, you came to kill me first... For the sake of my brother and the entire Meng family, no wonder I am unfilial.
Under the darkness of night, the study room of the Hou Mansion was still brightly lit.
The servant politely but firmly stopped a plump and beautiful woman outside the room.
The woman was holding a cup of tonic soup and stamped her feet angrily, "Publish it again!"
"Aunt Xiao, please don't embarrass me. The Marquis is busy and won't see anyone." The young man said politely.
This Aunt Xiao is the favorite concubine of Marquis Qingning, so she is inevitably arrogant. "I don't believe it. The Marquis has no official position. He has been busy during the day and busy at night for so long! Huh! He must have found a new love again!"
The boy looked helpless, "It's okay, aunt, don't worry too much."
"Then let me go in and take a look!" As she said that, Aunt Xiao wanted to force her way in.
The boy was anxious and quickly stopped in front: "If my aunt continues to make trouble, she will only make the Marquis angry!"
At this moment, the eldest girl Meng Shu came over with graceful steps, "Aunt Xiao, please don't think too much. People in the capital have been in panic recently. My father is inevitably worried about the safety of His Majesty."
Aunt Xiao couldn't help but thought to herself, is the master so loyal?
Meng Shu glanced at the tray held in Aunt Xiao's hand. There was a cup of tonic soup on it and a small spoon. Then she stepped forward to open the tonic soup, lowered her head and smelled it: "Auntie Xiao, I'm afraid this soup has been stewed for several hours."
Right?" His wide sleeves fell on the tray, and he quietly put the small spoon into his sleeves and replaced it with an identical one.
"Isn't it?" Aunt Xiao looked aggrieved, "It took a whole afternoon to stew!"
Meng Shu then said to the boy, "Why don't you give this tonic soup to your father?"
The boy hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward to take the tonic soup and said, "Then please go back, Miss and Auntie."
Although Aunt Xiao was a little dissatisfied, she finally sent the soup and left in anger.
Meng Shu watched Aunt Xiao go away and then started to go back.
Unexpectedly
The boy turned back and said in a low voice: "Master Marquis, please invite the girl in."
Meng Shu's expression tightened slightly, then nodded calmly, and walked slowly into the study, only to see that the tonic soup was just placed on the eucalyptus table aside, not moved at all. Meng Shu frowned, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Father, since
Xiuyiwei has arrested the Shen brothers, father should feel at ease, why..."
Over the past few days, Meng Dongchuan had been restless day and night, and his favorite concubine no longer paid attention to him. Now he looked much haggard.
"If I'm not convicted for one day, I won't be able to rest at ease." Meng Dongchuan's eyebrows have already furrowed into the word "Chuan". What's more important is that the eunuch he placed in the pharmacy has also been arrested and sent to the embroidery guard. What if he confesses something?
...but that's not good.
Meng Shu calmly brought the tonic soup to the bookcase, "Father, take a sip of the soup to moisten your throat. This is Aunt Xiao's wish." - After saying this, Meng Shu also specially picked up the soup bowl and took a sip, "
If you put it down any longer, it will get cold."
Meng Shu knew that her father was suspicious and would only allow a servant to try the decoction before taking it in. This time she tasted the decoction for herself, which would surely put her father at ease.
Sure enough, Meng Dongchuan took the tonic soup, and Meng Shu hurriedly handed over the important spoon.
Meng Shu breathed a sigh of relief as she watched Meng Dongchuan drink the entire bowl of tonic soup spoon by spoon.
"Father, please rest early. My daughter has resigned."
But just when Meng Shu returned to her boudoir, Meng Dongchuan in the study room in the front yard covered his chest and fell to the ground.
Late at night, the Hou Mansion instantly turned into a mess.
Fortunately, it was only applied on the spoon, so the amount of Hedinghong was not enough, so it was not fatal immediately. However, Meng Dongchuan still fell into a coma, as if he suddenly suffered from an emergency.
The next day, the news reached the palace, and the emperor immediately sent an imperial doctor to treat him.
The second prince's companion was Meng Yuanqing, and the fourth prince's companion was Meng Yuanxi. The two brothers immediately returned home to serve their old father.
There were many children who were all at his bedside, and with the imperial doctor's best efforts in treating him, Meng Dongchuan died as expected.
As for the cause of death, the imperial doctor gave a perfect answer, saying that it was a sudden heart attack and that he could not afford to fall ill because of his old age and frailty.
Yue Wangshu himself didn't know what method the emperor used to conceal Meng Dongchuan's death. Anyway, it would be a good thing for everyone to kill this scourge.
The emperor issued an order to bury his brother-in-law with the rites of a duke. In addition, he also authorized his eldest son Meng Yuanqing not to surrender the title. As a result, everyone praised the emperor for loving his original wife and empress, treating his descendants favorably, and being a first-class benevolent king.
The assassination of the emperor was lightly attributed to a crazy knight-errant. However, the Shen brothers had a lax family tradition and were friends with all kinds of religions, so they were fined and demoted. It was really an unreasonable disaster.
Lan Guifei and her son had a false alarm, and were released with all their hair and tail.
The emperor was assassinated, and the outcome ended in an anticlimactic manner that no one expected. For a while, many people were confused. Maybe some smart people among them had vaguely guessed something, but they did not dare to say anything.
