Chapter 281 The truth back then
Chapter 281 The truth back then
The imperial physician Tang's name is Tang Bo, and he and Gao Peng are fellow disciples.
Doctor Zhang, the most skilled doctor in the Dajing Dynasty, accepted them both as his disciples. Tang Bo was the elder brother and Gao Peng was the younger brother.
Under his guidance, both of them became famous doctors in the Dajing Dynasty.
Doctor Zhang decided to marry his daughter to Tang Bo, and with his recommendation, Tang Bo entered the Imperial Hospital.
Empress Sun admired him very much and appointed Tang Bo as her personal imperial physician.
Tang Bo was a man of real talent and knowledge, and he served Empress Sun wholeheartedly. Within a few years, he became the head of the Imperial Medical Service.
During this period, Gao Peng expressed his desire to join the Imperial Medical Service. With Tang Bo's recommendation, Gao Peng successfully became an imperial physician.
At that time, Tang Bo was full of energy and vigor, had a successful career, a happy family, and lived an exceptionally comfortable life.
Later, Empress Sun became pregnant, which was a great joyous event. The Emperor and the Empress rewarded Tang Bo with many things. Tang Bo served the Empress with great attention and did not dare to slack off even for a moment.
Originally, everything went as expected and Tang Bo did not find anything wrong. However, when Empress Sun gave birth, she had a difficult delivery.
Although Empress Sun and the princess survived a thrilling ordeal, the health of both mother and daughter was not very good.
The emperor wanted to punish Tang Bo, but was stopped by Empress Sun.
It can be said that Empress Sun saved Tang Bo's life.
From then on, Tang Bo took even better care of Empress Sun's health, thinking hard every day just to restore the empress to health.
However, all the efforts were in vain. Empress Sun's spirit and energy were visibly declining. During those years, Tang Bo's hair also gradually turned white.
Finally, he seemed to have found the reason.
Tang Bo suspected that Empress Sun had been bewitched.
After ruling out all drug interference, this possibility remains the most suspicious.
Tang Bo's master, Doctor Zhang, doesn't know much about Gu, but Tang Bo's junior fellow apprentice Gao Peng once traveled to southern Xinjiang when he was young. He might be able to help Tang Bo solve his doubts.
Gao Peng and Tang Bo are brothers in the same school, but in Tang Bo's heart, he feels that they are as close as brothers.
So, after Tang Bo had this guess, he secretly told Gao Peng about his guess, trying to get Gao Peng to help him figure out how to save Queen Sun's life.
Unexpectedly, not long after Tang Bo and Gao Peng finished their conversation, Empress Sun passed away.
Afterwards, someone entered Tang Bo's home and fed him a Gu.
"At the time, I didn't know what kind of Gu it was."
Doctor Tang smiled wryly and said, "Brother Su has been running around for me all these years, and we finally know what kind of poison they put on me back then."
"Truth Gu" can control the person who is infected and make him unable to lie.
"They put a poison on me and asked me if I had ever told anyone about Empress Sun being poisoned."
As if he was thinking of something painful, Doctor Tang's pupils constricted. He managed to maintain a calm tone and continued speaking.
Tang Bo has been an imperial physician for so many years, and the pulse diagnosis of the nobles in the palace is confidential.
He would never reveal the queen's physical condition easily.
Even to his bedmate, he never uttered a single word.
At that time, Tang Bo thought that his family could escape the disaster.
However, he did not expect that the other party was so cruel. They knocked him unconscious, tied him up with ropes, and made it look like he committed suicide out of fear of punishment by hanging. They even bribed his personal servants to report that he had colluded with Concubine Chu to murder the queen.
In the end, all his relatives were killed by the emperor.
Yuan Wanru couldn't help but ask, "Then, where did the story of Lady Chu's instructions come from?"
The matter concerning Gao Peng is already very clear.
It was obvious that Gao Peng and Concubine Liang had been colluding with each other for a long time. They wanted to kill Queen Sun silently, but they didn't expect that Tang Bo could actually detect that Queen Sun was poisoned.
This is why the murder to silence the witness happened.
But what does the beauty Chu in the emperor's harem have to do with this matter?
Tang Bo sneered, "Miss Chu is nothing but a fool. She deserved death, but she killed all my relatives. She should go to the eighteenth level of hell."
Doctor Tang was obviously a well-educated person. Even though he hated someone to the core, the words he cursed at were not unpleasant to the ears.
Miss Chu is an old acquaintance of Tang Bo and Gao Peng. The Chu family and Tang Bo's master Zhang family live in the same alley and have a good relationship.
The Chu family was an official family, and Lady Chu's father was a fifth-rank official. When the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, she became the emperor's woman through a selection.
Before she got married, she often played with Tang Bo's wife Zhang. After a while, the young people became quite familiar with each other.
Mrs. Tang once told Tang Bo that Miss Chu was interested in Gao Peng, but Gao Peng came from a poor family and the Chu family would definitely not be interested in him.
"I don't know why Miss Chu helped them to testify against me, but there is absolutely no private relationship between her and me."
It is said that Concubine Chu was already pregnant at that time. She accidentally offended the Queen Mother Sun and was punished to kneel, which led to her miscarriage. Concubine Chu held a grudge against her and instigated the imperial physician Tang to poison Queen Sun to vent her resentment.
"This charge is simply nonsense."
He looked up at Lu Jiangnian, was silent for a moment, and then slowly said, "I've said everything I need to say. Whether you believe it or not is entirely up to you."
Lu Jiangnian looked at him coldly and rationally, without a trace of emotion.
"Whether we believe it or not is irrelevant. The key is that the prince and the people of the world must believe in you. Only then can you be cleared of all charges and the truly guilty be punished."
"If you dare, go before the prince and repeat these words to him again."
Doctor Tang was stunned for a moment, but soon he calmed down and said, "I have a clear conscience, why wouldn't I dare?"
Lu Jiangnian reminded him, "The Crown Prince hates you so much he wants to dig up your grave and whip your corpse. Think carefully. If you get to be with the Crown Prince, you're afraid..."
"I'm not afraid. No matter what the prince wants to do to me, I can endure it. As long as my family can be avenged, the queen can be avenged, and my name can be cleared, I won't be afraid of death."
After a pause, he laughed at himself and said, "After all, I am already dead."
After asking all the necessary questions, Lu Jiangnian stood up with Yuan Wanru and said, "Then you should take good care of your body during this period. After ten days, when the poison in your body is cured, my people will take you back to the capital."
Doctor Tang suddenly said, "I don't understand. I can go back to Beijing right now."
He looked at them with a sharp gaze: "The Gu in my body is also one of the evidences."
Lu Jiangnian and Yuan Wanru exchanged a glance, and Yuan Wanru nodded: "At present, his health is good, the poison has been controlled, and he is not in danger of death."
In that case, there is no need to hesitate.
"Okay, get ready, I'll have someone take you back to Beijing."
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