Chapter 99 The Truth
Chapter 99 The Truth

"This... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been weak and sickly since he was a child. His physique is not as good as that of a normal person, so his illness is so severe. What's so strange about this!"

Doctor Xu hastily explained: "Everyone's constitution is different, so it is normal for the disease to develop differently!"

"Okay, you're right!" Ye Xuan sneered, took out a stack of prescriptions from his arms, and said coldly: "Last night, I brought the imperial edict from the Jinyiwei to the Imperial Hospital and took out all the prescriptions you have written for the prince over the years!"

"On the surface, all of your prescriptions are for the right symptoms. Occasionally, some of the medicines are very strong, which can be explained as taking an unconventional approach and using poison to fight poison."

Upon hearing this, Doctor Xu sneered, "Oh, since you have read the prescription, you should know that I have been doing my best to treat His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Ye Xuan sneered and said, "I don't think it's possible to save His Highness with all my heart and soul!"

Doctor Xu's face changed, and he was about to open his mouth to argue, but was interrupted by Ye Xuan!
Ye Xuan took out something from his arms, and the room was suddenly filled with a strong smell of medicine.

"This is the residue of the medicine that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took yesterday. Guess what I found in it?" Ye Xuan looked at Doctor Xu with a meaningful smile on his face.

Doctor Xu glared at him and said calmly, "How would I know that?"

"Are you going to keep talking tough?" Ye Xuan sneered as he opened the medicine bag and showed it to everyone.

Queen Ma and others hurried over to take a look, but all the black medicinal herbs looked the same, which made Queen Ma and others confused.

Crown Princess Chang asked directly, "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't keep us in suspense any longer."

Ye Xuan nodded and picked up two pieces of medicine residue from a pile of black medicine residue. Doctor Xu's face suddenly changed.

This scene naturally fell into the eyes of Empress Ma. Empress Ma immediately winked at the two guards, and the two immediately left Ye Xuan and approached Doctor Xu.

Ye Xuan picked up the two pieces of medicine residue and said sarcastically: "This thing has been verified by the doctor I found. It is confirmed to be ephedra, a medicine that induces sweat and relieves exterior symptoms!"

"Oh, what's the problem?" Although Queen Ma was smart, she didn't know much about medicine.

Ye Xuan said respectfully: "This medicine will cause the patient to sweat profusely, causing the poisonous sore on the Crown Prince's back to remain damp for a long time, making it impossible to heal!"

"What!" Empress Ma was shocked and angry when she heard this. She immediately looked at Doctor Xu and asked, "Doctor Xu, is what Ye Xuan said false?"

Doctor Xu's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he trembled as he explained, "I don't know. This medicine is not included in the prescription I wrote for Your Highness!"

Ye Xuan said sarcastically, "Doctor Xu, you are indeed careful. There is no such medicine in the prescription. Because all prescriptions written by the imperial doctors of the Imperial Hospital, especially those involving His Majesty and the Crown Prince, must be checked by the hospital envoy and confirmed to be correct before the medicine can be dispensed."

"If you had openly added ephedra to the prescription, your intention would have been exposed long ago! So you just secretly added a small amount of ephedra to the good herbs. Although the dosage seems not much, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince drinks three doses a day. The accumulation of this little by little will naturally make the poisonous sores on his back unable to heal!" "This... someone must have framed me! Please let the Queen and the Crown Prince understand!" Doctor Xu defended with cold sweat on his forehead.

Ye Xuan shook his head and said, "You really won't cry until you see the coffin. If there were only one or two prescriptions containing ephedra, it could be said that it was accidentally dropped or someone framed him. But I have seen the medicines used by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for the past year, and almost every prescription contains ephedra. Who else can do this except you, Doctor Xu!"

After saying the last word, Ye Xuan suddenly shouted, stepped forward, grabbed Doctor Xu's collar and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. When we get to the Jinyiwei prison, we will torture you with all kinds of tortures. I'm not afraid that you won't say anything!"

Looking at the cold and terrifying expression on Ye Xuan's face, and thinking of the various terrible things about the Jinyiwei Prison that were rumored to be happening, Doctor Xu suddenly began to tremble.

Seeing such a scene, not to mention the wise Empress Ma, even the naive Crown Princess Chang came to her senses and was convinced that it was Imperial Doctor Xu who wanted to murder the Crown Prince.

Although we still don't know why Doctor Xu did this, the most important thing right now is to capture Doctor Xu and force him to reveal the person behind this.

No one believed that, without anyone's instructions, a mere seventh-rank imperial physician would risk implicating his entire clan and attempt to murder the current Crown Prince!
However, before Empress Ma could give the order to have the guards take Doctor Xu away, Ye Xuan suddenly cried out, "Oh no! He's taking poison!"

When everyone looked over, they saw that Doctor Xu's eyes were wide open and a stream of black blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth. After a while, his head tilted and he was completely dead.

Ye Xuan said bitterly: "It is a poison sac embedded in the teeth. As long as you bite it hard, the venom will flow out and kill people in a short time. It is usually prepared by assassins with great ambitions to prevent being caught alive. I didn't expect it to appear on an imperial physician. It's really strange!"

In fact, Ye Xuan didn't need to explain. When Empress Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang were fighting for the world, they had also encountered many attacks from assassins. Once they failed, they would commit suicide by taking poison in the same way.

So almost the moment Empress Ma saw the death of Imperial Physician Xu, her heart skipped a beat.

Being able to get such a poison and bribe the imperial physician to attack the current national leader, it can be seen how bold and ambitious the person behind the scenes is!
Moreover, the person behind the scenes even dared to murder the crown prince, so could it be that he had already planted pawns around himself or even the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and was waiting for an opportunity to take action?

When Queen Ma thought of this possibility, her heart rose to her throat.

But after a moment, Queen Ma issued a gag order with a serious expression, strictly prohibiting the spread of today's events.

In fact, there were not many people in the room. Apart from Queen Ma and her family of three, there were only Ye Xuan and a few guards and palace maids.

Naturally, everyone nodded tremblingly and accepted the order.

After explaining everything and having Doctor Xu's body carried away, Empress Ma put on a cute face and unexpectedly patted Ye Xuan on the shoulder and said, "Ye Xuan, you are great!"

Zhu Biao stopped thinking and looked at Ye Xuan and said, "Captain Ye, are you interested in coming to my palace and serving as the commander of the East Palace Guard? Although it is only a fifth-rank official, I can guarantee that you will have a bright future!"

As soon as these words were spoken, several palace servants glanced at Ye Xuan with envy, especially a few palace maids who thought they were good-looking, and they secretly made up their minds to get close to Ye Xuan.

(End of this chapter)