Chapter 328: Poison in the Palace

Having just finished dealing with the city’s water source, Yue Mingxuan was also quite tired.

He leaned against Shang Qinghua’s chest and rested quietly for a while. He said, “After I wake up, I will go find the third elder and the fourth elder.”

“Mm, go to sleep,” Shang Qinghua said.

For once, he did not pressure Yue Mingxuan and simply let him fall asleep.

However, although the matter of the third and fourth elders could be handled, the issue with Shang Zefeng still could not be resolved so easily.

After all, Shang Zefeng was a prince.

Dealing with him required more refined methods.

Although Shang Qinghua could be ruthless, he would never risk the lives of innocent people in such a cruel way.

He could not understand Shang Zefeng’s actions, nor did he possess that kind of malice.

So, he could only find other ways to deal with him.

After receiving Yue Mingxuan’s order, the third elder and the fourth elder hesitated greatly.

Yue Mingxuan had specifically instructed that this matter must not be exposed or he would punish them severely.

Although the two elders were working for Shang Zefeng, they did not dare to spread such information carelessly.

After examining Shang Qinghua’s pulse, they also vaguely felt that this was a trap.

That was because the poison was almost impossible to cure.

Aside from the method Gongsun Xing had mentioned before, there was no other way.

The two elders complained endlessly and quickly went to find Yue Mingxuan.

If they failed in treatment, they would have to leave the Silver Needle Sect and would never be allowed to practice medicine again.

But aside from their medical skills, they had nothing else to rely on.

So, they refused Yue Mingxuan’s order.

Yue Mingxuan, however, remained very calm. “Then you might as well confess everything about your collusion with Shang Zefeng, without leaving out a single detail.”

When the third elder and the fourth elder saw that the matter had been exposed, they knew that if they refused to speak, they would not end well either.

So, the two of them confessed everything truthfully.

It turned out that back then, Shang Zefeng had sent people with a large sum of money to bribe them and asking them to secretly transport Gongsun Long’s body out of the sect.

They did not know what Shang Zefeng intended to do.

They only thought that there might still be some secrets in the former sect master’s body.

But since the corpse had already decayed to that state, they did not think much of it.

At the time, they did not know what the body would be used for.

Since Shang Zefeng wanted it, they simply delivered it.

Later, when they learned that corpse poison had broken out in Huohua City and the plague was spreading, they felt extremely guilty.

If they had known earlier that this was Shang Zefeng’s purpose, they would never have agreed.

But the deed had already been done and there was no turning back.

Seeing that they had confessed their crimes and recalling that the third and fourth elders had indeed contributed a lot when treating the plague, Yue Mingxuan already had a decision in mind.

The next day, the third elder and the fourth elder were punished with one year of confinement for leaving the sect without permission.

In truth, considering the crimes they had committed, this punishment was already very light.

The two elders were also deeply grateful to Yue Mingxuan.

They even took the initiative to hand over the items Shang Zefeng had used to bribe them.

No wonder they had been so tempted what he gave them was actually a coffin made of Never-Melt Ice.

There was not much use for such a coffin here, but giving it to the two elders was not a bad outcome either.

This kind of item could be used for cultivation or preservation and it indeed had unexpected uses.

“There is no refrigerator in this era. This thing is actually quite good for preservation. But it is so big, I cannot just keep it for myself. I should place it in the Silver Needle Sect…” Yue Mingxuan originally planned to do so, but then he remembered that the coffin in the sect had already been lost.

Gongsun Long’s body had been found, but it had not been properly preserved and had suffered a great deal of damage.

When Gongsun Long was buried, Yue Mingxuan did not dare to let Gongsun Xing see the body.

The condition of the corpse was simply too tragic.

He only allowed Gongsun Xing to kneel and pay his respects several more times at the grave.

After that, Yue Mingxuan also revised the rules of the Silver Needle Sect, making them less strict.

After all, a doctor’s duty was to treat patients.

The original rules of the sect had been far too harsh.

“Mingxuan, you must be tired these days, right?” While Yue Mingxuan was busy and overwhelmed, Shang Qinghua suddenly appeared. He said, “Although I do not really want to tell you, there is indeed some bad news, my father is ill.”

What?

Yue Mingxuan was shocked.

Shang Qinghua’s father… That meant the emperor of Xieshang Kingdom.

If even the emperor had fallen ill, then the foundation of the entire nation would surely become unstable.

“So, I want to invite several skilled doctors from the Silver Needle Sect to take a look. I have a feeling that this illness of my father’s is not normal.”

…

Yue Mingxuan examined the old emperor’s pulse.

It did not take long before he spoke, “Your father is not sick this time. He has been poisoned.”

“Then… do you have a way to cure the poison?” Shang Qinghua was even more shocked when he heard it was poison.

His father was the emperor.

If someone dared to poison him and it was discovered, that would be the crime of regicide and punishable by death.

“I will try to detoxify him,” Yue Mingxuan said, then prescribed medicine based on the symptoms.

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