My God of Wealth is a Short-lived Ghost

At the same time, in Taiming Palace

Zhao Jinfang frowned and then picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. "He has tuberculosis, so I want to make Jingtai the crown prince."

Wan Yanzhong nodded with a puzzled tone, "Then how did Your Majesty know?"

Zhao Jinfang raised his head slightly and said with sadness, "When Jinghua was unconscious after blocking the sword for me, the military doctor told me that Jinghua would not live more than four years. It is not noticeable at ordinary times, but once the disease occurs, there is only death. I was heartbroken at the time, so I did not plan to tell Jinghua about the disease, but I did not expect to have a gap with Jinghua, and now it has come to this point."

Wan Yanzhong frowned after hearing this but didn't say a word. After a long while, Zhao Jin sighed and said, "Today I have been thinking that if I could come back again, I would definitely tell Jinghua about the tuberculosis. With his temper, he would definitely not end up like this." After saying that, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Wan Yanzhong sighed, "Your Majesty, I still have one thing I don't understand. I wonder why your Highness' pupils turned red?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jinfang placed the teacup heavily on the table. Wan Yanzhong knelt on the ground in fear. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Zhao Jinfang sigh and said helplessly, "My dear, please get up. This has nothing to do with you." Wan Yanzhong slowly stood up and sat back down, and at the same time heaved a sigh of relief.

"Wu Yiwan had taken Linglong Gu before. If he hadn't had an attack of tuberculosis... Linglong Gu's death was extremely miserable. Blood kept coming out of his mouth. The Gu worms even hollowed out his heart and lungs and broke out of their shells. I've seen that scene before. When that person died, he screamed heartbreakingly. In the end, he couldn't stand the torture and committed suicide by taking poison. Not long after his death, the Gu worms broke through his skin and flesh." Wan Yanzhong's pupils shrank after hearing this. After a moment, he heard Zhao Jinfang speak again, his tone full of sadness. "Jinghua is immune to all poisons. If that day really comes, I'm afraid Jinghua will just endure it until he dies."

Wan Yanzhong sighed and shook his head at the same time. "I heard that the mother Linglong Gu is fed with a kind of herb that grows by the swamp. The herb is called poisonous tooth. It also nourishes the mother Gu with the toxins of various poisonous snakes. Therefore, the mother Gu will give birth to child Gu to eliminate the toxins. Once the child Gu senses the death of the mother Gu, it will release the toxins, thereby poisoning the owner to death and breaking through the flesh and blood to become a new mother Gu. However, this mother Gu will not produce child Gu. People in the world often use livestock to raise child Gu."

Zhao Jinfang nodded slightly, "This is also what I am worried about. I am afraid that after Jinghua left, someone with ill intentions would steal his body and wait for the mother insect to break out of its shell."

Wan Yanzhong frowned, "How can we conceal this? I heard that His Highness' pupils have been red for a year. How can we conceal this?"

Zhao Jinfang shook his head. "It is impossible to hide it. There is only one way..." Zhao Jinfang hesitated to speak, but after a moment he said it. "After the body is kept for three days, if the poisonous insects have not hatched, then... we can only tell the public that the body has been burned... but actually bury it quietly to preserve the body." Zhao Jinfang closed his eyes and tears flowed down his cheeks. "If I had not married Wu Yiwan, none of this would have happened. Even if my eldest son is no longer Jinghua... I don't want to see such a thing."

Wan Yanzhong sighed and said, "This is fate, and it is a coincidence that cannot be changed. I believe the queen is kind-hearted and must not know about this."

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Jinfang sneered, "Wu Yiwan was not harmed by others, but deliberately took revenge on me!"

Wan Yanzhong's pupils shrank when he heard this. "You and the Queen are very affectionate, why did the Queen take Linglong Gu? But what's the misunderstanding?"

Zhao Jinfang nodded and sighed heavily. "Wu Yiwan and the crown prince of Wujin Kingdom are childhood sweethearts. Twenty-six years ago, they secretly agreed to spend their lives together. Later, they had physical contact. Wu Yiwan became pregnant. When Wujin Kingdom defeated Zhao Kingdom, their child was already four months old." Zhao Jinfang looked out the window, hesitant to say anything. "At the beginning, Zhao Kingdom's condition was to take Wujin Kingdom's thirteen cities. Wujin Kingdom naturally would not agree. My uncle saw that I had not yet married, so he proposed that the eldest princess of Wujin Kingdom had a child. A princess, talented and beautiful, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, can be used to form an alliance between the two countries to offset the eight cities. At the beginning, I was beside my uncle, and I saw that the prince of Wujin agreed without hesitation, so I didn't think much about it, and I didn't investigate Wu Yiwan's past." When Zhao Jinfang said this, tears suddenly fell. "I didn't know that the prince of Wujin pretended to be innocent in front of Wu Yiwan, saying that it was I who insisted on marrying Wu Yiwan. He offered thirteen cities in exchange, but was rejected by my uncle."

Wan Yanzhong was stunned when he heard this. "This...isn't this confusing right and wrong?"

Zhao Jinfang sighed heavily, "I heard from Wu Yiwan that the crown prince of Wujin Kingdom hugged her and cried bitterly, but he personally fed her saffron and promised that if he ever regained his power, he would take Wu Yiwan back." After saying this, Zhao Jinfang shook his head with sadness in his eyes, "It's also my fault. I blamed myself for not checking it out clearly. I married Wu Yiwan happily at the beginning, but I didn't know that it became the beginning of a misunderstanding, which harmed Jinghua and her child with her childhood sweetheart."

Wan Yanzhong frowned slightly. "I heard that Your Majesty intends to let her go. Why would Your Majesty rather let the Queen live in the cold palace than let her return to Wujin Kingdom?"

Zhao Jinfang raised her head slightly when she heard this, but did not answer. The next moment, she let out a laugh that was uglier than crying, mixed with joy and happiness. "I do want to, but her childhood sweetheart couldn't hold his temper and entered Kyoto before Jinghua fell ill. My dear, you should have seen it with your own eyes, right?"

Wan Yanzhong nodded in sudden realization after hearing this. "I have never known about the state affairs of Wujin Kingdom. I have only heard a few words. It turns out that the prince has already ascended the throne." After saying this, Wan Yanzhong sighed and said, "I guess this is the case of evil being punished. Maybe His Royal Highness the Prince came here for this reason."

Zhao Jinfang said with some doubt, "My dear, do you mean that Jinghua came to kill the prince of Wujinguo in this life?" Zhao Jinfang nodded, "It makes some sense. Jinghua did get sick after killing the prince of Wujinguo." At this time, the teacup on the table suddenly shattered. Zhao Jinfang and Wan Yanzhong were both startled by the sound of the teacup exploding. "Your Majesty, are you okay?"

Zhao Jinfang shook his head, then closed his eyes and said calmly, "Jinghua should be dead..."

Wan Yanzhong sighed and quickly comforted him, "Your Majesty, it was just a coincidence. Maybe the prince can make it through it?"

Zhao Jinfang shook his head and seemed to have accepted the fact. "This teacup was restored by Jinghua using his spiritual power. So Jinghua must have been gone for a while."

At the same time, the mansion of the Nanling City prefect suddenly collapsed with bamboo, almost knocking down the Nanling City prefect Xu Shouren. Xu Shouren was superstitious to begin with, and now seeing the bamboo suddenly falling towards him, he quickly called the city's fortune teller.

The fortune teller frowned after looking at it and asked, "Do you know what this bamboo represents?"

Xu Shouren's heart skipped a beat and his face turned pale. "That's impossible! I have always been diligent and have never taken bribes!"