It is recorded in the book that green vine is not poisonous, but if placed together with Duan stone, it will affect a person's temperament. Duan stone will emit a kind of mineral when it touches the green vine.

This mineral can disrupt a person's mind and cause a drastic change in temperament. It won't endanger one's life, but the temperament will become increasingly uncontrollable and go to extremes.

Jin Yuanyuan thought of the Duan stone inkstone with cloud patterns that she saw in the prince's study during the day.

It must have been the soaked clothes, coupled with the prince's violent personality caused by Duanshi.

She copied the page overnight and showed it to him after entering the palace.

"Your Highness, this should be the reason. I saw it in a book. The inkstone on your desk is made of Duan stone. The person who gave you the inkstone may be the one who murdered you."

The prince looked at the records on the paper and was silent for a long time, and he never said who gave him the inkstone.

The look in his eyes first changed from disappointment and disbelief to suspicion and consideration.

"Yuanyuan, only when these two things are put together will they cause poisoning, right? One alone cannot affect me?"

Yuanyuan nodded and said, "That's right. It won't change your personality. It's not a poison and won't kill you. That's why the imperial physician couldn't find the cause."

"And...and it won't take one or two years to be effective. You have to wear clothes soaked in green vines and use the Duan stone inkstone for at least fifteen or twenty years. It can't be cured with medicine because it's not a disease and there's no way to cure it with medicine."

This method of poisoning is really vicious and can kill people invisibly.

If the situation is allowed to continue, the crown prince will definitely be deposed, and by then everyone will think it was all Zhao Junlin's fault, and others will have no idea of ​​the grievances he has suffered.

The prince was shocked.

Ten years ago, that inkstone was indeed what he got twenty years ago. It was his birthday gift, a gift from his father.

Jin Yuanyuan said that at the beginning, he also suspected his father, but it should not be him. There was no reason for his father to poison him, make him the crown prince, and lock Zhao Lingzhou up in the clan house. This was putting the cart before the horse and was totally unnecessary.

There must be someone who is trying to harm him through his father.

The only one who was at odds with him, hated him, and had been planning for twenty years was Zhao Lingzhou, but could the emperor really not know about it?

Seeing that he had stopped talking, the Crown Princess became anxious, "Your Highness, Your Highness! Now that we have found the cause, what should we do next?"

Zhao Junlin looked at the paper, then at Jin Yuanyuan. He tightened his grip and decided to take a chance to see if this matter had anything to do with his father.

"I will go find my father now and tell him about this."

He just hoped that it had nothing to do with his father. He was not afraid that it was related to Zhao Lingzhou. He was just afraid that his father would know about it and just ignore it.

The emperor really didn't know about this and didn't know that there was something wrong with the inkstone. He had spent a long time searching for such a good inkstone.

He felt very upset when he thought that he had given it to the prince personally.

"Don't worry, Junlin. Father will definitely find out who poisoned you! He will avenge you. How dare you harm the future crown prince? You are so bold!"

He threw the inkstone on the table and ordered people to investigate the matter.

It took too long for my subordinates to find it after searching for a long time.

During this time, the emperor recalled what happened twenty years ago.

When this inkstone was presented to him, he remembered that besides him, Zhao Lingzhou had also touched it. At that time, Zhao Lingzhou held the inkstone in his hand and looked at it for a long time.

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt creepy.

Twenty years ago, Zhao Lingzhou was only in his teens, but he already had such ambitions.

After finding out the whole story, Jin Yuanyuan also listened to it and sighed.

I thought that Zhao Lingzhou was worthy of being the male protagonist, as he was thinking about murdering the prince at such a young age.

There is nothing wrong with the inkstone; the most important thing is the clothes.

The person who did this was Zhao Lingzhou. He became jealous when he saw that the emperor gave Zhao Junlin such a good inkstone. After searching for a long time, he finally found an evil recipe.

The combination of green vine and Duan stone will disturb people's mind.

But the effect is not obvious. After all, it is not something eaten into the stomach, so the impact is not great.

But Zhao Lingzhou did not give up and insisted on having people soak the prince's clothes in green vines.

Green vines are not poisonous, so the people below thought that this was done to make the clothes softer and to please the prince, and they did not take it seriously.

When the emperor heard the report, he closed his eyes, feeling cold and disheartened.

"If he had used this effort elsewhere, he wouldn't have ended up like this."

His words were extremely ruthless, and the prince was stunned for a moment.

The prince had become accustomed to his partiality, and his current expression showed that he was truly angry. It was not the kind of anger he showed towards his own children, but the indifference he showed towards his ministers and even strangers.

The emperor was silent for a long time, trying to make his eyes softer for fear of scaring Jin Yuanyuan.

"Yuanyuan, do you have any way to cure the prince's illness?"

Jin Yuanyuan thought about it, and his brain turned around in the space.

Although the radiation has already penetrated the prince's body and reached his bone marrow, there is still a way to deal with it.

She nodded, her expression serious, "There is a way, but it will take a long time to cure. It won't be cured in one or two years. It will take at least three years to completely expel the bad things in your highness' body."

Hearing that it could be cured, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the prince also relaxed a lot.

The next thing was to deal with Zhao Lingzhou. This time the emperor did not hesitate at all and immediately issued an order.

"Zhao Lingzhou plotted to murder the crown prince and destabilize the country. His crime is extremely heinous and he must be beheaded immediately. There is no time to lose!"

Upon hearing the emperor's words, the eunuch who was writing the imperial edict was so frightened that a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

The emperor was really angry this time, and he beheaded him immediately without waiting even a minute. After today, the last bit of pitiful father-son relationship between the emperor and Zhao Lingzhou was gone.

The emperor pressed the imperial seal expressionlessly and ordered the eunuch to go to the clan house. Zhao Lingzhou was stunned for a long time after hearing the imperial edict.

He couldn't believe what he heard and grabbed the eunuch in panic.

"It's fake! You're spreading a false imperial decree! Father won't kill me. Father won't!"

The eunuch looked at him as if he were a dead man and spread out the imperial edict for him to see.

"Zhao Lingzhou, you better watch out for me! Falsifying the imperial edict is a capital crime, and I don't want to be beheaded like you. Come on, in your last moments, say goodbye to your family properly."

The Emperor's decree was too urgent to order immediate beheading, and the executioner hadn't arrived yet, so just assume that he was being kind and give them time to speak.

The eunuch retreated outside, too lazy to listen to their crying and wailing.

After Zuo Nai and Gu Xingruo heard the imperial edict, Gu Xingruo grabbed Zhao Lingzhou in dismay.

"Ling Zhou, how could this happen! How could this happen!! How could you die? You are the future emperor!"

She was supposed to be the queen, how could she be the queen if Zhao Lingzhou died?

Gu Xingruo kept shaking her head, avoiding the imperial edict and the eunuchs, as if Zhao Lingzhou would not die in this way.

Zuo Nai on the side lowered her eyes, and she was actually a little happy in her heart because her chance had come.

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