After losing the vest at the beginning, the female general was forced to marry the scheming prince

Chapter 292 Flooding in Pengzhou?

After finding out the matter, Ning Youbei once told Qu Chu the whole matter.

The Inner Court Secretary tortured and interrogated the servants in the Queen's Palace when investigating the Queen's Gu worm case. One servant couldn't stand the torture: He had unintentionally peeped into something. A guard in the palace gave poison to Concubine Shu. Qingguo's poison.

Not many people in the palace knew that the baby wood flower poison in the emperor's house came from Changqing state, and the people in the inner court department immediately reported the news to the emperor.

The emperor remembered that the second prince gave him a cup of soup before he was poisoned, and said that Concubine Shu stewed it herself, and he ate it after Eunuch Rong tested the poison.

But Su Yingxue said that the baby tree flower poison is colorless and tasteless, and the silver needle test cannot detect the poison, so whether the soup is poisonous remains to be verified.

The emperor ordered the inner court secretary to thoroughly investigate Concubine Shu, the second prince and the Cui family.

After the investigation results came out, the second prince and the Cui family were unaware that this matter was all done by Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu poisoned the emperor under the bewitchment of others. She was worried that the emperor would not eat the food she gave, so she borrowed the second prince's hand.

The second prince almost collapsed after learning the truth, and he only mumbled a sentence: "My mother used my hands to poison my father, how can I have the face to live on?"

Ning Youbei said:

"Brother Huang asked me to watch the whole incident. At that time, I couldn't bear to see the second prince like that."

Qu Chu was also a little emotional.

"Speaking of Cui Shangshu and his son, they are really honest people, and they usually do their duty, but unexpectedly they were implicated by Concubine Shu."

Ning Youbei has a different opinion.

"Although Cui Shangshu didn't know about it, he was able to hold the position of household secretary because he was Concubine Shu's father. In terms of ability, Yu'an is much stronger than him.

Since she has benefited from Concubine Shu, it is reasonable to be implicated by Concubine Shu.

It's a pity that the second prince, if the poisonous soup had not been given to the emperor by his hands, the emperor would not have angered him. "

Qu Chu thought it was true.

"What's going on with the queen?"

"Things on the queen's side are much more complicated."

No matter how the Inner Court Secretary asked, the queen said that she didn't know it was a Gu worm, but just used it for fun.And the Inner Court Secretary can't really punish the Queen.

Although this was well known to everyone, the queen did not do anything after all. In the end, Duke Wei pleaded with the emperor: spare the queen's life and not implicate the eldest prince. He and his son resigned.

The emperor thought that although the queen had always been domineering and vicious, she never thought of killing him at critical moments, but only wanted to control him.Unlike Concubine Shu, who usually looked like an honest and timid person, but killed him without hesitation.

With such a comparison, the emperor agreed to Duke Wei's request.

After listening to Qu Chu, he sighed: "I don't have a good impression of Duke Wei. I didn't expect him to talk about feelings at critical times."

Ning Youbei disagreed.

"Duke Wei's move is to retreat. Only by keeping the eldest prince and queen can the Duke of Wei's mansion have a chance to turn around."

The incident of the emperor's poisoning ended here, but after this incident, the king of Chu dominated the court.

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In March, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, the imperial court received an urgent report from Pengzhou: Pengzhou suffered a serious flood, and tens of thousands of people were left homeless. The imperial court was requested to send people to relieve the disaster.

Pengzhou is located in the northeast corner of Dayu Kingdom, bordering Changqing Kingdom. It is a place where water and land meet, and there are nearly a thousand islands, large and small.

Ning You has been to Pengzhou in the north, and he is very familiar with the terrain of Pengzhou. He said to the emperor with some doubts: "Pengzhou faces the sea in the east, and the water in Pengzhou flows to the East China Sea. It stands to reason that there will be no serious floods."

"Then you think this urgent report is false?"

Ningyou North Road:

"It should be true that there was a flood in Pengzhou, but whether it was man-made or a natural disaster is open to question, and it is not known whether it is as serious as the emergency report said."

"If it's human, who do you think is behind the scenes?"

Ning Youbei thought for a while and said:
"A few months ago we learned that there was a change in the Wolf Country. It happened that there was a flood in Pengzhou, which should not have floods at this time. It is inevitable that people will not connect these two things together.

But who is behind the scenes has to be investigated to find out. "

The emperor spun around quickly again.

Ningyou North Road:

"Brother Huang, regardless of whether it is true or not, since Pengzhou has been reported as a severe flood, the imperial court should send someone to investigate. I want to go there myself."

The emperor stopped circling, "You don't need to go, just ask Yu'an to take someone there."

Ningyou North Road:

"If this matter is really about someone colluding with the wolf country, then their purpose of doing this should be aimed at me. I want to use myself as a bait to catch them."

Although Ning Youbei didn't say this clearly, the emperor understood what he meant.

If this matter is really aimed at Youbei, the person behind the scenes is probably Jiangcheng King.

The emperor knew well that King Jiangcheng had a different intention, but King Jiangcheng was too cunning to grasp anything.

Not long ago, the person who instigated Concubine Shu to poison herself and provided the poison was probably King Jiangcheng, but no matter how hard I checked, I couldn't find King Jiangcheng.

Although the emperor wanted to catch King Jiangcheng earlier, he was more worried about Ning Youbei's safety.

"No, you can't risk yourself."

"Brother Huang, the biggest advantage I have in using myself as a bait is that King Jiangcheng doesn't know that I have high martial arts skills, so I can escape at critical moments. If King Jiangcheng can be eradicated this time, it will also eliminate future troubles for the court.

What's more, there may be a serious flood in Pengzhou, so I can also gain fame for the court by going to rescue the disaster in person. "

Finally, at Ning Youbei's insistence, the emperor agreed to go to Pengzhou.

"Okay, you go to Pengzhou yourself to find out the truth of the matter, but you must put your own safety first."

The two discussed who to bring, and finally Ning Youbei decided: Minister of Industry Mao Yi, Ye Yu'an, Su Ziyi, Dai Anguo, Gu Liangfei and others.

Except for the people from the Ministry of Industry, everyone else has a good relationship with Ning Youbei and will not betray him, and Mao Yishan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, is good at water control.

Due to the urgency of the matter, Ning Youbei planned to leave the next day.

The emperor asked: "Do you want your daughter-in-law to follow you and protect you?"

"No, there are two younger ones at home now, I don't feel at ease without Ah Chu looking at me, not to mention my martial arts are not inferior to Ah Chu."

The emperor thought about it too.

Now Youbei is also the one who takes care of his family.

After Ning Youbei returned to Chu Palace, he told Qu Chu about this matter. If it was the past, Qu Chu would have followed Ning Youbei, but now he can't.

"Wait a minute, I'll go to Yingxue and get you some medicine for self-defense."

Qu Chu went to Su Yingxue to get a lot of pills and powders, including ecstasy, poison, and detoxification pills.

Qu Chu stuffed all these medicines to Ning Youbei, "After all, outsiders are weak, and they can help you escape if you encounter danger."

Ning Youbei knew what Qu Chu was worried about, and these were exactly his worries, but Ning Youbei still comforted Qu Chu:

"Ah Chu, don't worry. Anyway, I have been walking in the rivers and lakes for a few years. This time I went to control the floods. I shouldn't be assassinated like before."

(End of this chapter)