Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Prince Rui sat down again and whispered to the imperial concubine, "That elixir is really rare and effective. I sometimes take one or two, but you know that His Majesty trusts the gods more and is unwilling to take the elixir of the sorcerer. However, as long as you secretly put it in the food that His Majesty usually eats, it will definitely work without anyone noticing."

Concubine Li's expression changed slightly, and she was a little entangled: "Is this possible? What if His Majesty finds out?"

"It's not poison. His Majesty will not punish you even if he finds out. What are you hesitating about?" Prince Rui said dissatisfiedly.

Concubine Li pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay, when will you bring the elixir?"

"Wait a few days. I have something to do recently and cannot come to the Li family." King Rui said, "I will leave the elixir at the Li family, and then the Li family will give it to you."

They always met at Li's house, and for this purpose Prince Rui even wore a Mi Li and entered through the small door in the backyard.

Concubine Li nodded: "That's fine, I'll wait for your news in the palace."

King Rui smiled, stood up and said goodbye.

A few days later, Concubine Li finally got the five pills. After much hesitation, she crushed one and fed it to the puppy.

After waiting for a long time, she was relieved when she saw that the puppy was fine.

A few days later, the emperor selected the daughter of a prominent family and asked the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to calculate the date for her marriage, preparing to marry her as his queen.

Concubine Li was anxious, and when the emperor came to comfort her, she crushed the two pills and mixed them into the goat milk porridge, added some maltose, and personally served it to the emperor to drink.

The emperor drank it all out of courtesy and rested in the palace at night.

But as soon as he lay down, he cried out in stomachache and vomited large mouthfuls of blood.

Concubine Li was stunned and immediately turned pale with fear: "Someone! Someone come quickly! Go get the imperial physician!"

The palace maids and eunuchs were so frightened that they ran around in all directions. Some reported to the Queen Mother, some went to the Imperial Medical Bureau, and some quietly left the palace to report the news to Prince Rui.

When Prince Rui learned that the plan was successful, he immediately organized hundreds of guards to rush to the palace. With the arrangement of an insider, he broke into the palace and went straight to Concubine Li's palace.

At this moment, Empress Dowager Fu had already reached Concubine Li's bedroom and slapped her in the face: "Poisonous woman! You actually poisoned the emperor!"

"Someone come! Tie up Li!" She shouted angrily and ordered the palace servants to guard the palace. She also sent people to the outside of the imperial city to ask the prime minister and the grand marshal to bring people to protect the emperor.

At this moment, King Rui arrived with hundreds of people and killed the eunuch who reported the news with a single sword.

Then he wanted to rush to the bedroom, but found that the palace door was closed and he could not get in at all.

"We are here to serve the king! Why don't you open the door quickly!" King Rui shouted outside the door and ordered people to break down the door.

Queen Mother Fu fed her son a tube of antidote with shaking hands and cried, "I have long reminded you that Prince Rui and Li cannot be trusted, but you refused to believe them. Now, the evil woman has poisoned you. What else do you have to say?"

The emperor coughed a few times, spat out some black blood, and was speechless for a while.

Concubine Li was tied up nearby and shook her head desperately to defend herself: "I did not poison you. I am innocent."

Empress Dowager Fu was so angry that she pointed at Concubine Li and shouted, "You still say that there was no poison? Did the emperor take the poison himself and deliberately accuse you? Come here! Bring the witness here!"

Then a palace maid was brought over, fell to her knees and said in fear, "I saw the Li family send a few pills, and the imperial concubine crushed two of them and put them in the goat milk porridge. I don't know what they are, and the imperial concubine hid a few more in the secret compartment of the dressing table."

"Go and get it!" the Queen Mother shouted sternly.

So the two palace maids went over and took out a small box from the secret compartment of the dressing table. When they opened the box, they found two round golden pills inside.

"What is this? You poisonous woman, aren't you afraid that your whole family will be executed for poisoning the emperor?" The Queen Mother was furious and slapped the Imperial Concubine in the face. The Imperial Concubine cried, "That's not poison. I tried it before and it's not poisonous."

"Bitch! You still dare to quibble? Tell me! Where did you get the poison?" The Queen Mother grabbed Concubine Li's hair and threw her to the ground.

The imperial concubine cried and said, "It was Prince Rui! It must be Prince Rui who harmed me! He said this was just an obedient pill and it's not poisonous. I have tried it too."

"You still say it's non-toxic?" The Queen Mother was furious. She had someone pinch the Imperial Concubine's mouth open and stuffed the pill directly into her mouth, forcing her to eat it.

After a while, the imperial concubine fell to the ground and curled up, spitting blood from her mouth.

At this moment, the sound of King Rui knocking on the door was heard outside.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and waved her hand, saying, "Pick up your swords and spears! Open the door!"

Many eunuchs and palace servants raised their swords and spears, opened the palace gates, and lined up to block the palace entrance.

The Queen Mother walked out slowly and looked down at Prince Rui: "What are you doing, Prince Rui? Are you planning a rebellion by breaking into the palace at night?"

Prince Rui smiled and said, "Why do you say that, Queen Mother? I just heard that my brother was murdered by a villain, so I hurried over to protect you."

The Queen Mother sneered: "The Emperor is fine, you can go back."

"How can he be okay? It's just that I'm still worried because I haven't seen my royal brother. How about asking the Queen Mother to lead the way so that I can see in person that my royal brother is safe and I'll feel at ease." Prince Rui said with concern.

The Queen Mother remained unmoved: "No need to come, the Emperor is resting and cannot meet with his subjects, you should leave the palace immediately."

"I am even more worried when you say that. Someone, come! Ask the Queen Mother to return to the palace!" Prince Rui did not want to talk to the Queen Mother any more, so he directly ordered his men to kidnap the Queen Mother.

“How dare you!” When the Queen Mother saw Prince Rui’s entourage rushing over, she immediately asked the palace maids to stop them.

For a moment, swords and spears clashed, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the palace maids fought with King Rui's guards.

After King Rui swung his sword and killed several palace maids, he finally arrived at the palace gate.

At this moment, a roar suddenly sounded from behind: "How dare you, you thief!"

Then the Grand Marshal and the Prime Minister came with a group of guards. Each of them had blood on his body, as if they had fought all the way.

Prince Rui sneered and continued to walk towards the bedroom with his sword in hand. When he arrived at the door, he saw the emperor slowly walking out, supported by two or three eunuchs.

Prince Rui was stunned and looked at the emperor in disbelief: "Brother, you, you are not dead?"

The emperor said coldly: "Why? Do you want me to die?"

King Rui was terrified, and when he was about to go forward to see it more clearly, his arm had already been twisted.

"Traitor! Why don't you kneel down!" The Grand Marshal knocked King Rui down with a punch and pulled out a belt to tie him up.

"How could that be?" Prince Rui looked at the emperor with a pale face, "You clearly took two pills."

He planted a secret line in the palace and replaced the previous elixir with a highly toxic poison. As long as the emperor took it, even the gods would be of no use.

But now the emperor is not dead, how is this possible?

In the shadows, the emperor's cheeks were covered in cold sweat, but he still looked at Prince Rui with all his strength: "How have I wronged you? Why did you have such a rebellious thought? You even instigated the imperial concubine to poison me?" (End of this chapter)