The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1860: Who Else Knows?

Chapter 1860: Chapter 1860: Who Else Knows?

"Your Majesty, the one in the cold palace has been poisoned with the rare ’fragrant orchid’ poison," Eunuch Gui secretly glanced at the emperor as he replied.

"What?!"

At that moment, the emperor was truly dumbfounded.

How could it be the poison ’fragrant orchid’? He hadn’t leaked the poison to anyone except to Sui Zilin alone.

But how... how could Princess Consort Lian also be afflicted by this poison?

Once, he had thought that questioning Sui Zilin alone would suffice; if he died, then he died. He still had Sui Zijin.

Although Sui Zijin had been poisoned before and his body had not fully recovered yet, he would eventually get better, and besides, he felt it was better if the recovery took a while.

After all, he was still young, he could sit on the throne for a long time to come, and he didn’t wish to have a sound son to compete with him for the position.

But now, someone was telling him that Sui Zijin’s mother and Sui Zilin had been afflicted by the same poison!

At that moment, he was genuinely a bit panicked.

The other sons, he didn’t care for at all; they were all useless, only Sui Zijin and Sui Zilin were barely adequate for important use.

But as Sui Zilin opposed him, his father, he had to go.

But what about Sui Zijin?

If Princess Consort Lian really died like Sui Zilin, how could Sui Zijin possibly not know?

He suddenly felt that he could no longer keep Sui Zijin around either, keeping him was like keeping a venomous snake by his side.

"Who else knows of this matter?"

He looked up at Eunuch Gui and asked.

"Your Majesty, because Princess Consort Lian’s poisoning was first discovered by Prince Jin’s people, and since she is in the cold palace, anyone wishing to summon an imperial doctor must go through several layers of reporting. Thus, many in the palace are aware of this matter, even the Empress Dowager and the Empress have already been informed," Eunuch Gui explained to the emperor.

"By the time I learned of it, it was already too late to stop it," he said.

Hearing this, the emperor felt as though an invisible giant hand was gripping his throat, nearly suffocating him!

The Empress Dowager and the Empress both knew; didn’t that mean half the royal palace knew? It was now impossible to contain the news, and who knows how many outside the palace have also learned of it.

"Gui, instantly summon Imperial Doctor Hong to the palace!" he ordered Eunuch Gui.

There were no other options now; they had to stabilize the poison in Princess Consort Lian and Sui Zilin, administering an antidote was essential.

Otherwise, even if Sui Zilin really died as he wished, he would face retaliation from the Empress, her family, and Sui Zijin.

Although he was the emperor, he could not withstand so many plots against him!

Moreover, there was still the Empress Dowager in the palace, watching him, always potentially ready to pull him down from his throne.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will go at once," Eunuch Gui responded and turned to leave.

...

In another place, in the Empress’s palace.

Upon initially hearing that the woman in the cold palace had also been poisoned, she was clearly stunned.

She was all too aware that the poison on her own son was the emperor’s doing, but who then could have poisoned that contemptible Lian?

The emperor?

Of course, that was impossible. Since the emperor had poisoned Lin’er, he wouldn’t let his guard down by using the same poison on Princess Consort Lian.

That would just be waiting for Sui Zijin’s retaliation.

Even if Sui Zijin did not believe his mother’s poisoning was the emperor’s doing, it was still undeniably linked to him.