The years I was in the human world

"Prince! Go and get the imperial physician." Concubine Shu was shocked to see Chu Zhaoli suddenly vomiting blood. Her face changed drastically. She vaguely guessed that someone had poisoned him. She frowned and asked someone to get the imperial physician back.

At the same time, she asked her personal maid to collect all the utensils that the prince had just used, including the medicine jar, to prevent someone from destroying the body in the chaos.

"Your Highness, are you okay?" After handling everything promptly and decisively, Concubine Xie Shu asked worriedly about Chu Zhaoli's condition.

The latter had curled up like a shrimp on the bed. The severe pain in his abdomen as if it was being cut by a knife made it impossible for him to maintain the dignity of a prince. He held the edge of the bed and spat out another mouthful of blood, most of which fell on the mattress. At first glance, the scene was shocking.

Because Concubine Xie suspected that the prince was poisoned, in order to prevent the young imperial physician from failing to diagnose the problem and wasting time, she directly invited the director of the hospital.

The director was an old man with a white beard. He had traveled a lot in his early years and was knowledgeable. After feeling Chu Zhaoli's pulse and looking at his symptoms, he made a decisive judgment.

"How is Your Highness?" asked Concubine Xie.

"Reporting to Her Majesty, Your Highness has been poisoned by a Yunnan snake." The director said as he stuffed a pill into the mouth of the unconscious Chu Zhaoli to keep him alive.

"Yunnan snake?!" Concubine Xie Shu cried out in shock. She even staggered two steps and put her hands on the table behind her to barely stand. She had followed her father to fight in the southwest. The venom of the Yunnan snake could spread to the internal organs at the mildest, causing lifelong disability, or even death from the poison at the worst.

The pain is unbearable for ordinary people. What kind of person can be so vicious as to kill people with Yunnan snakes?

"Investigate, investigate for me, who dares to use Yunnan snakes to harm people in the palace!" Concubine Xie Shu said angrily.

The prince was poisoned. When the news spread, all the concubines and princes in the palace were surprised and had their own thoughts. The poison of the Yunnan snake was so strong that few people could survive it. Once the prince died, the position of prince would be vacant.

The King was surprisingly calm when he received the news, and even asked the subordinate who reported the news in an ambiguous tone: "Has that thing been dealt with?"

"It has been placed in Madam Du's palace." The subordinate replied.

"That's great." His eldest brother was poisoned and in danger of death, but Chu Zhaoyun smiled in a very relaxed manner. "It would be better to point it directly to my fifth brother so as not to be too conspicuous. Father is suspicious and he will definitely not believe it. But if it is Madam Du, she has always wanted to kill my eldest brother anyway."

When the emperor heard that the prince was poisoned, he went to Changle Palace again, but he only saw Concubine Xie with red eyes from crying. The prince's bed was surrounded by imperial doctors, but they all had worried brows and looked helpless.

Seeing this situation, the emperor's heart sank, but he still suppressed his anxiety and asked, "Is the prince okay?"

"Your Majesty, Li'er has been poisoned by a Yunnan snake. The imperial physician said that the poison has penetrated into his bone marrow and there is no way to save him..." Concubine Xie Shu spoke in a rare fragile voice with tears in her eyes. The emperor couldn't help but feel a little sad when he heard it. How could Chu Zhaoli, who was so lively and energetic standing in front of him yesterday, be so dead today?

The emperor still had a sense of unreality and absurdity. He lifted the curtain hanging from the bed frame, and the first thing that hit him was a strong smell of blood. He saw that Chu Zhaoli's face, body, and mattress were all covered with bloodstains. His face was as pale as a living ghost, and his lips were black and purple.

The palace maid tried to feed him medicine, but he was in such unbearable pain in his stomach that he moved around uncontrollably and almost bit his entire lip. The medicine could not be fed to him at all and spilled on his clothes, leaving a patch of bloodstains.

The emperor was obviously frightened by Chu Zhaoli's tragic appearance. How could he imagine that a person could suffer so much? He ordered the imperial physician to do his best to save the prince's life, but he asked Concubine Xie Shu with lingering fear: "Have you found out why the prince was poisoned?"

No matter how bad Chu Zhaoli was to the outside world, no matter how the emperor did not regard him as the real heir, he was still the crown prince at this moment. The crown prince was harmed by the poison of the Yunnan snake today, and there was no guarantee that it would not be the emperor himself who would suffer in the future. How could he not be afraid?

"The poison was smeared on the spoon." Concubine Xie stared blankly at the spoons neatly placed on the table as evidence, and recalled the situation with some pain. "The medicine was originally tested for poison, and the spoon was changed in the middle. I never expected that it would become an opportunity for the traitor to poison the prince."

"I took the maid who changed the spoon, and she insisted that she took the spoon randomly and refused to admit that she poisoned the prince." Concubine Xie Shu closed her eyes and exhaled lightly, as if she felt very tired. "I don't know that maid, and my senior maid also looks unfamiliar to her. I asked the stewards of each palace and found out that she was originally from the second princess's palace."

"Awu poisoned the prince?! How is this possible?" The emperor was shocked.

"I also found it strange. I wanted to call the Second Princess to question her, but she happened to be with Madam Du, so I went straight to her." Concubine Xie said as she looked at Chu Zhaoli lying on the bed, with a hint of sadness between her eyebrows.

She knew that the Crown Prince's poisoning was destined to be minimized, "But Your Majesty, guess what?"

The emperor's heart skipped a beat and he had a bad premonition. Sure enough, he heard Concubine Xie first dismiss the palace maids, and then wait until there was no one around before she slowly continued with her own questions and answers.

The development of the situation was indeed dramatic. A wild cat scratched the princess' face. When Concubine Xie went there, Madam Du was furious and organizing the palace servants to catch cats. In full view of everyone, the wild cat dug out the body of a snake that had been cut into two pieces.

Concubine Xie Shu recognized the snake as the Yunnan snake. She looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I did not make this public at the time. I just asked someone to collect the snake's body. I just want to ask Your Majesty to make a decision."

"Although the Yunnan snake was found at Madam Du's place, her reaction at the time seemed as if she was unaware of the situation. Although the snake was accidentally dug out by a cat, it was buried shallowly. It didn't seem like she was trying to destroy the evidence, but rather as if she was intentionally framing someone." Although Concubine Xie disliked Madam Du, she was objective and fair and had no intention of murdering her.

"Another point, Your Majesty may not like to hear it, so I just mentioned it casually. A few months ago, Yang'er went to play with Yun'er and saw a Miao girl in his palace." Concubine Xie Shu did not suspect Chu Zhaoyun for no reason, but there were indeed traces to all this.

"The Crown Prince was poisoned. Madam Du may be innocent, but the Second Princess must have known about it. I later interrogated the maid who changed the spoon, and she admitted that it was indeed the Second Princess who asked her to deliberately drop the spoon and replace it with one coated with laxatives. The reason was to play a prank on him."

The spoon coated with laxative was finally found. There were many palace maids going to and from the pharmacy that day, and no one knew when the poisoned spoon was replaced, and why it happened to poison the prince.

These people are perfect at poisoning their brothers and sisters, but they cannot come up with any decent suggestions on governing the country.

The more Concubine Xie thought about it, the more disheartened she felt. In the end, even if the person who put the poison in the spoon was found, the poisoning of the prince could never be traced to him. He was the one who put the poison, the spoon was replaced by the princess, she, Xie Qing, fed the prince the medicine herself, and the snake's corpse was hidden in Madam Du's palace.

Having said that, the emperor and Concubine Xie both had a decision about the true nature of the matter.

The Second Princess, Mrs. Xie, Mrs. Du and even the Fifth Prince were all involved, except Prince Yu, who seemed to have nothing to do with it from beginning to end. But in fact, he could not get clean either.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is not as stable as the country, but he is your child after all. He is the most innocent. If you have some pity for him, at least give him some justice." After saying this, Concubine Xie Shu looked at the emperor in silence, waiting for the decision of this accomplished emperor.

The poisoning of the crown prince can actually be a big deal or a small deal. To put it in a big way, it is poisoning the crown prince;

But to put it simply, is it really worth it for the emperor to risk unrest in the court to punish Madam Du and the Second Princess for a prince who is only a crown prince in name only, and also implicate the Third Prince whom he has trained for so many years?

The answer is self-evident.

Therefore, even if he knew that Chu Zhaoyun was a suspect, the emperor would not order the death of another promising crown prince for the sake of a fake crown prince who was destined to die.

Chu Zhaoli was destined to have to swallow this bitter fruit alone.

The emperor understood, and Concubine Xie also understood, so she persuaded the emperor in that way.

But the result was still not satisfactory. The emperor would not make a big deal out of it and offend Mrs. Du. The previous request for the second princess to marry had already hurt the father-daughter relationship between him and her, and he would not destroy the relationship with Chu Zhaowu that had finally eased a little.

Anyway, the second princess had no intention of poisoning the prince. It was all just a coincidence. Chu Zhaoli was unlucky. The emperor sighed and made a decision without much difficulty.

"Chen Ping, pass on my decree. Chu Zhaowu will be confined for life; Du Chunhua will hand over her power in the harem and move to Prajna Temple; Concubine Xie Qing will be demoted to Shuyi and fined for half a year."

The emperor closed his eyes and for the first time felt that sometimes his decisions were not so wise. He had never seen his third son clearly, that he was so deep-minded and calculating, but he still chose to protect him because he was his designated heir.

The emperor is no longer young, and the country is no longer peaceful and prosperous. It can no longer withstand the struggle for the throne. Even if Chu Zhaoyun may not be a good candidate for the crown prince now, the emperor must make him the prince as soon as possible to calm his unstable heart.

As for the other child who was abandoned again and again by him as a scapegoat, a whetstone, and a chess piece, he used to hate him so much, but now he shows him some pity. He feels that he owes him something, but he has always owed him something and has never compensated him.

Even though Chu Zhaoli was lying on the bed in a state of despair, fighting for his life with the snake venom that was penetrating his intestines.

"Li'er, I'm sorry for you." The emperor looked at Chu Zhaoli, who had his eyes closed as if he had fainted, and finally said this sentence. However, as if he was afraid that Chu Zhaoli would hear it and know that he had abandoned him, he turned around and fled away quickly, without even the courage to face his guilt.

"Li'er, don't be born into the royal family in your next life." Concubine Xie touched Chu Zhaoli's head reluctantly, wiped her tears and stood up to leave, "Since there is no way to save him, don't bother him anymore, let him have a good rest."

With the departure of Concubine Xie, the imperial physician of Changle Palace was withdrawn. The palace servants were afraid to see Chu Zhaoli's ghostly appearance, so they all waited outside in silence. In the entire inner hall, Chu Zhaoli was the only one lying there alone, waiting to die.

Before the palace door closed, the light from outside the palace flowed through the gradually closing door gap into a thin ray and fell onto Chu Zhaoli's face. A tear rolled down the corner of his eye - he was sober and heard the entire process of how his king and father abandoned him. He was unloved and was never the last one to be abandoned.

So fate didn't even allow him to live? Chu Zhaoli thought sadly, was he really an unforgivable person in his previous life?

By now, the sin should have been paid off...