Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"Father, I will tell you clearly today... Ever since Rong'er gave birth to a little prince for me a few years ago, my health has been getting worse year by year. Until about seven or eight years ago, when she When Rong'er was forced to die, I already looked like this."

"It's just that at that time... I thought I was suffering from overwork due to grief, and the people in the Tai Hospital didn't say anything. They just asked me to have a good rest, so I didn't pay much attention to it."

"But until last year... until the day of my birthday last year, I had diarrhea and vomited violently at night. Father, do you remember that it was your adopted son Zhang Yan who presided over the construction of the sundial outside the city, and Around the days when the sacrificial ceremony will be held!"

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"This... Majesty, do you mean..."

He asked Liu Hong suspiciously, and Zhang Rang would not foolishly think that what the other party said just now meant that his physical problems were attributed to the sundial he donated last year.

If Liu Hong felt that there was something wrong with Zhang Yan, he might have already sent troops to arrest him, so why would he call him here and talk about these things earnestly?

As expected, Zhang Rang did not wait too long.

Only a moment later, Liu Hong coughed softly twice, and looked at Zhang Rang in front of him with his bloodshot eyes.

"What do I mean? I mean, someone in this palace wants to poison me to death, and this person lives in the palace, beside me!"

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"Let me know, father, just after that diarrhea, I kept a close eye on it, and felt that there seemed to be some problems with the daily food. Except for the three meals provided by the imperial dining room every day, it seemed that some food from unknown sources I won't touch anything."

"At that time, I also doubted some things and some people, but in order to avoid alarming others, I kept quiet all the time, just pretending to do it as usual every day. Those are also the very few days that I have had a relatively easy life over the years. "

"It's just that I didn't expect that just a few days ago... About half a month ago, I felt cold and exhausted again, just like the previous times."

"I checked all the daily meals, the cooks in the imperial dining room changed batch after batch, and the waiters in the palace cut one after another, but the illness on my body didn't seem to improve for a day..."

"Until a few days ago... Guess what I found?"

Suddenly, with a weird smile, Liu Hong touched his bosom, and after a while, he took out a small bottle.

"This is?"

Taking the porcelain bottle from Liu Hong, Zhang Rang opened the bottle casually, looked into the bottle, and immediately saw half a bottle of orange powder.

"Is this Danzhu?"

He glanced in Liu Hong's direction in some confusion, Zhang Rang didn't know what it meant when the other party suddenly took out a bottle of cinnabar for alchemy and dyeing to show him.

But Liu Hong smiled, stretched out his hand and turned the small bottle containing "cinnabar" upside down, poured a little on the table, brought another oil lamp, and poured a few drops on the glazed wooden table. Lamp oil, and then in front of Zhang Rang, lit the lamp oil on the table with a torch...

"Crackling-"

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"Crackling-"

The slight crackling sound of oil rang softly on the table, and after a while, the fine wood was blackened by the flames, and the orange powder that was originally poured on the table also became black under the burning of the flames. It became more and more dazzling.

"call--"

Seeing that the fire on the table was almost burning, Liu Hong took a pottery cup for drinking tea and put it on the flames, and raised it again, and a black mark burned by the flames suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Rang.

"Father, can you take a closer look?"

Under Zhang Rang's gaze, the orange-yellow powder on the table was burnt red by the flames, and then gradually returned to the original orange-yellow color as the temperature cooled...

"Hiss - this is not Danzhu, this... this is..."

Breathing suddenly stopped, after Zhang Rang recognized the true face of the thing in front of him, his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

It's a good thing he didn't put his nose up to sniff, otherwise, at his age, he might already be ahead of Liu Hong!

"This is not Dan Zhu, this is Huang Jiang Mercury...Three Immortal Pills?!!"

A trace of cold sweat dripped from Zhang Rang's forehead. No matter how suspicious he was, he never thought that this "fairy medicine", which was only popular among the low-level hooligans, would appear in the hands of Liu Hong, the current emperor.

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"Three Immortal Pills? Hehe, do you mean the name of this thing? It sounds pretty nice."

"Let father know what this thing is, so you will naturally know how this so-called 'Three Immortal Pill' works?"

Hehe sealed the bottle with a strange smile, and then took the previous teacup to completely cover a little orange powder on the table, and then looked in the direction of Zhang Rang.

"Know...know."

Liu Hong, this is simply nonsense.As the supreme leader of the eunuch group who is proficient in assassination, ambushes, and backstabbing, Zhang Rang obviously knows better than most of the Han people how poisonous this thing is...

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As we all know, cinnabar, that is, the Danzhu that Zhang Rang said before, is a very common traditional Chinese medicine, which belongs to a kind of ore traditional Chinese medicine. The main component is mercury sulfide, which is slightly toxic.

Compared with mercury sulfide, the "three elixir", which is also a mercury compound, that is, yellow mercuric oxide, is not only much more toxic than the former, but also has a powdery structure that allows it to be inhaled through direct contact and respiratory tract. Enter the human body in other ways, and quickly kill a healthy living person.

When Zhang Rang hadn't reached the point where he is now, he also did the kind of thing that took people's money and helped them eliminate disasters.

For example, collecting property from some nobles' homes in the palace, poisoning some women in the palace who disagreed with them, and even a lot of queens and concubines died under his hands.

As long as a handful as big as a fingernail is added to the other person's meal... within three days, it is guaranteed that the person will die so quickly that even the gods will not be able to save him.

Now that Liu Hong, the son of the Han family, actually took out such a bottle of stuff from his arms, no matter how Zhang Rang thought about it, he felt a terrible chill down his spine.

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"Father, do you know... I saw this thing in He's dressing table at first. I asked her what it was, and she only said it was something needed for makeup, and I didn't pay much attention to it."

"Now that I think about it, I'm just confused... Even for makeup, most people would use finished rouge, right? How can anyone go back and make makeup by themselves... Even with He's background, she can learn this too?"

"Until a few days ago, some Taoist priests from the Taoist temple made trouble in Luoyang, and Luoyang ordered Zhou Yi to arrest them and send them to the court prison. Only then did I know through the report of the censors that that guy He Jin had just killed him. They killed a Taoist priest from their Taoist temple, and the execution time was extremely urgent, as if he wanted to silence him deliberately."

"After some inquiries from me, and ordering people to fish those Taoist priests out of the prison, I realized the true purpose of the so-called 'Three Immortal Pills', and also realized that it has been a long time since I was able to linger on for so many years. It's not easy..."

Some melancholy glanced at the direction of the northern palace through the gate, Liu Hong's expression was a little bit sad.

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"Let father, you come to judge."

"She's my queen...I'll give you whatever she wants these years, even Rong'er was forced to death by her, I didn't make up my mind to take away her queen's position..."

"So eager to poison me, what is she trying to do..."

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Chapter 62 Liu Hong's Thoughts

"Father, do you know that since I saw this thing from He's dressing table, I have been unable to sleep day and night, and I feel that there are assassins everywhere in this palace, and they are all people who want me to die. .”

"Then He is the queen...she is my legal wife, and even she wants to harm me, so who else can I trust?"

"Since then, I haven't returned to the North Palace for three days and three nights. I just stayed here in the Jiade Palace, not even daring to sleep, for fear that once I close my eyes, I won't be able to open them again."

"But fortunately, I still have you, and Jian Shuo..."

"My father said that I gave you all the power, so you are the only people in the world who are always loyal to me. It doesn't matter if you are greedy or bad-tempered. As long as there are you, I will be in this palace." Here, it will not fall into the fate of betraying relatives."

Taking a deep breath, Liu Hong's hands trembled a little at the moment.

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He had been thinking about it for three days, until today, he ordered someone to call Jian Shuo, and ordered the waiter to bring Zhang Rang.

Because besides these two people, Liu Hong didn't know who he could and should say these words to.

Even if he announced all these things to the courtiers, even if these courtiers immediately swore allegiance to him after they found out about it... But how many people can believe that?

Looking at the old man with gray temples with some regret, although Liu Hong couldn't bear it, there was still a hint of pleading in his eyes.

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"Father, you regular attendants are my shadows and my brothers. Even if everyone in the world betrays me, you will not betray me, because we are one."

"I asked you to come here today, and I just ask you to help me one more time."

"When the father first came to the throne, Liang thieves were rampant. It was you who helped him bring down the Liang thieves. Only then did the imperial power return to the father. After I ascended the throne, the treasury was empty and disasters continued year after year. You were the one who helped the big man survive the chaotic days by manipulating the buying and selling of officials and titles and uniting the aristocratic family..."

"It doesn't matter what you were greedy, harsh, and tyrannical before, and I never took care of you. Only this time, I hope you can help me...just like when you helped my father before."

Pleading to Zhang Yan sincerely, Liu Hong's voice became a little weak at the moment.

It can be said that Liu Hong has always regarded Zhang Rang as his father, so why didn't Zhang Rang watch Liu Hong grow up little by little, and come to his current position little by little?

Looking at the decadent appearance of the half-grown boy in his early teens, Zhang Rang felt a little sad and a little embarrassed.

Although Zhang Rang is a bit old now, he still remembers clearly what Liu Hong mentioned earlier.

When Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi had just ascended the throne, the political environment was almost worse than that of Liu Hong now. The civil and military officials respected and respected the emperor, and everything was dominated by the general Liang Ji at that time. Just like a marionette being controlled by the opponent.

At that time, it was he, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Wang Fu, Cao Jie and others who spared no effort to save Liu Zhi, who was still very young at the time, in that palace coup, and at the same time punished him. Kill the "Liang Thief" that Liu Hong mentioned just now.

At that time, this Liang thief could not be called a thief.Even if it was Zhang Rang, he still had to respectfully call the other party "General Liang".

Decades have passed since these past events, and Zhang Rang has already somewhat forgotten them.

But now that Liu Hong mentioned it again, Zhang Rang felt as if he had returned to the blood-boiling era in the depths of his heart. He watched a group of eunuchs and eunuchs around the emperor rely on their arrogance and recklessness, just like that. Minister of power.

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"Your Majesty, counting you... I have served the emperors of three dynasties, and now that I am getting older, it is time to retire and return to my hometown."

"My old bones... are worthless. It is our duty to be a regular attendant to go through fire and water for you and carry some things. If you have any orders, just tell me directly, and there is no need to go around like this."

After being silent for a while, Zhang Rang still took the initiative to speak to Liu Hong.

He was almost sure that Liu Hong called him here today not just to cry or reminisce about the old days.

He has been fighting with He Jin for so many years, Liu Hong has never ended in person, at most he only suppresses He Jin when he is too powerful, and he hardly dares to have any direct conflict with He Jin.

This kid's character... Zhang Rang is very familiar with it.

He is quite smart, has some talents, and his prestige in the Han Dynasty is not bad...but his temperament is too weak, which prevents him from becoming a good person.

Now that Liu Hong said these words to him, Zhang Rang could almost imagine with his eyes closed that the other party was frightened by He Jin's methods and became a little delirious, so he finally found himself. In the battle, it is clear to stand in line.

But even so...Liu Hong still would not make public the matter of He Jin or Empress He drugging.

The reason is very simple, that is, he dare not gamble, he is afraid that He Jin, who holds a heavy army in his hands, will really rebel one day and kill his youngest son Liu Xie directly, and even overthrow him from the current throne.

In other words, Liu Hong's move must be asking for something from him, and what he is asking for is probably to let him confront He Jin head-on, or even directly kill He Jin.

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"Let father...don't have to go through fire and water...don't have to go through fire and water!"