Chapter 191: The Crown Prince Was Almost Deposed

Shi Qingxue was extremely astonished and almost stared at Mo Junwen blankly for a long time before she came to her senses.

But she had complicated feelings and was restless.

Logically, they barely had connections in the past, and Mo Junwen had no reason to consider so much for her. Would he do it because he felt pity for her?

Of course Shi Qingxue wouldn’t believe such a ridiculous reason. But Mo Junwen was calm from the beginning, so she couldn’t doubt that he did that just to please her.

It was unnecessary and impossible.

Then…

Before Shi Qingxue figured it out, Shen Luo was brought by somebody in a hurry. Behind him were the emperor Mo Xiangbin and the royal family members as well as noblemen, who were supposed to be at the party.

Mo Junyu’s face darkened, and he glared at Mo Junjiu.

Mo Junjiu didn’t deny it but shrugged and told the crown prince directly that he had informed the emperor. “Something so big happened to the colorful phenix. We can’t hide it from Father.”

“You win because you are so cruel!” Mo Junyu forgot the gentleman style and brotherhood and whispered in Mo Junjiu’s ear coldly. Then he walked quickly to Shen Luo.

He pulled Shen Luo into the room in haste and stated in a low voice, “The colorful phenix is still alive. Please do save it. Thanks.”

Shen Luo was unable to reply. He was a miracle-working doctor, but when did he say that he could even cure a bird?

But he worked for Mo Junyang, who was a “loyal” follower of the crown prince. No matter how much he wanted to say, he had to bite the bullet and step forward to examine it as Mo Junyu invited him in front of so many people.

The colorful phenix was out of breath and could hardly breathe in. Shen Luo had been a doctor for many years and thought that it would die in two to four hours.

Shen Luo sighed and dipped the black blood the colorful phenix had spat with his index finger. When he was about to put the finger in his mouth, Shi Qingxue stopped him. “Be careful. It must be poisonous.”

Shen Luo raised his head and found that Shi Qingxue stood behind him, with evident concern in her eyes.

Gee, it appeared that he didn’t waste time on looking after Shi Qingxue in the past few days.

Shen Luo felt warm and relaxed a lot. He shook his head at Shi Qingxue, responding softly, “It’s fine.”

After pausing for a while, he glanced at the crowd who paid close attention to the room in the distance but didn’t dare to step forward while advising her gently, “Go out. Be careful. You might get yourself into trouble.”

It was the second time that Shi Qingxue was advised, and she was not foolish. Then she shrank back, trying to hide herself.

But it was too late.

“Qingxue, come to me.”

The Empress Dowager, Ling Ruiyin’s voice came, so Shi Qingxue had to walk to her obediently and bow to admit her fault. “Your Majesty, I let you down as I failed in welcoming the colorful phenix. Please punish me.”

“It’s not your fault.” Ling Ruiyin kindly grabbed Shi Qingxue’s hand and patted it. Then she looked at the room again before asking worriedly, “But you need to tell us what has happened. Yesterday the colorful phenix looked in high spirits, but why did it become like this today?”

Shi Qingxue glimpsed at the pool of blood on the floor and thought, “Isn’t it obvious? The colorful phenix was poisoned.”

But Ling Ruiyin asked her and apparently wanted her, a neutral to justify Mo Junyu.

“Your Majesty, I followed the crown prince and the others as you told me to…” Shi Qingxue told everything after she came to the East Palace and before she saw that the colorful phenix fell on the floor as it was poisoned, and then she mentioned what happened before all of them gathered in the East Palace.

She told everything frankly without showing any personal feelings.

Ling Ruiyin grabbed Shi Qingxue’s hand more tightly all of a sudden, but soon she relaxed, and nobody noticed except Shi Qingxue. She maintained her composure and asked, “Could it be that the colorful phenix has never been to the central land and falls ill as it is unaccustomed to the food and weather in the capital city?”

She just talked nonsense.

If nobody saw the colorful phenix full of vigor the previous day or there were no suspicious dark blood on the floor, somebody might believe her words, but now everybody stayed silent.

They couldn’t refute her, and nobody would echo her.

Ling Ruiyin felt awkward, so she turned her encouraging eyes to Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue couldn’t speak a word.

She was merely an innocent outsider.

“It’s not true,” Shen Luo stated abruptly, which attracted everybody’s attention.

He gave a conclusion calmly, “The colorful phenix became like this because it was poisoned. If I guess right, somebody intentionally poisoned its drinking water, and it drank it by accident, so it was poisoned and fell on the floor.

“Remaining poisonous water is found in the colorful phenix’s mouth and the bamboo tube containing water, which is the best evidence.”

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At this time, nobody would doubt Shen Luo’s words.

Mo Xiangbin got furious and was about to rebuke Mo Junyu who looked after the colorful phenix, but Ling Ruiyin sighed and spoke first. “It’s difficult to deal with. I don’t know who is so vicious and wanted to poison the holy bird.

“Your Majesty, you can’t tolerate such an evil-doer.”

She said a few words and tried to make Mo Xiangbin get mad at the poisoner.

It was said that the person who did it was to blame. There was nothing wrong with her logic.

Mo Junjiu cursed in his heart that Ling Ruiyin was too partial, but he had to pretend that he agreed with her. He just whispered as if by accident, “Grandma, you are reasonable. But Junyu has made the Qianzheng Palace heavily guarded, and something like this shouldn’t have happened, unless…”

Mo Junjiu stopped when he was about to mention the key point and even showed a terrified expression on his face, as if he found something significant, which was more suspicious.

“Junjiu, what are you thinking about?” Mo Xiangbin asked in a deep voice.

Mo Junjiu shook his head repeatedly and answered modestly, “Nothing. I just guess. Don’t take it seriously.”

It was easier to attract others’ attention as he said something like this.

Mo Xiangbin expressed soon, “No matter what you guess, just say it. Who do you think is the poisoner? If I find that it’s true, I won’t spare him.”

“Ugh…” Mo Junjiu purposely showed that he was in a difficult position and said after stuttering for a long time, “I just think that outsiders are unable to poison it, and the one who can do it is probably from the Qianzheng Palace…”

Mo Junyu couldn’t help but interrupt him before he finished his words and then reproached him coldly, “Junjiu, with no evidence, you can’t speak at random.”

Mo Junjiu shrank his neck, as if he were frightened, and stopped talking.

Mo Xiangbin immediately glared at Mo Junyu. “I haven’t rebuked you as you didn’t take good care of the colorful phenix, but you are so bold as to interrupt when I want to find the truth. Is it that somebody from your palace poisoned the colorful phenix as Junjiu guessed and you want to cover up for the criminal?”

Mo Junyu turned pale with fear and hurriedly knelt down, denying, “Father, I was wronged. I looked after the colorful phenix carefully these days as the feeder told me and didn’t dare to neglect it. It’s just that Junjiu slandered the people in my palace and I was furious, so I interrupted him. I would never want to cover up for the criminal.”

Mo Xiangbin raised his brows and sneered. “How can you be sure that the one who poisoned the colorful phenix is not from the Qianzheng Palace?”

“Uh…” Mo Junyu was pushed so hard that he had cold sweat on his forehead, but he couldn’t find any words to answer.

It was because he didn’t know who the hell had poisoned the colorful phenix.

Mo Junyu was anxious out of wits, while Mo Junjiu played a kind person again.

“Father, don’t be mad. Junyu cares about the people in his palace and it’s forgivable that he can’t tell right from wrong.” Mo Junjiu appeared to justify Mo Junyu, but in fact, he blamed his brother as the latter defended his servants before investigating.

To make it pleasant to hear, Mo Junyu trusted his subordinates, but on second thought, he was the crown prince and should keep calm at any time. He could convince everybody only when he was reasonable. And it was a taboo to trust somebody blindly and be partial.

Hearing Mo Junjiu’s words, Mo Xiangbin turned ghastly pale.

Without giving Mo Junyu a chance to explain, Mo Xiangbin announced, “The crown prince is immoral and didn’t take good care of the holy bird. I will deprive him of his title for now, and he will be grounded in the Qianzheng Palace. He will be punished after the colorful phenix recovers from its illness.”

After he made the imperial decree, there was an uproar in the crowd.

All people present were clear that Mo Junyu probably could hardly escape this time, but none of them, including the initiator of evil expected that Mo Xiangbin was so cruel as to directly deprive Mo Junyu of his title as the crown prince and put him under house arrest in the East Palace. Was he going to depose the crown prince?

Mo Junyu paled and looked up at Mo Xiangbin in disbelief. His lips trembled, but he couldn’t say a word to complain about his father’s cruelness.

After declaring the punishment, Mo Xiangbin didn’t look at Mo Junyu but walked quickly into the room. He stared at the colorful phenix and was gentle to Shen Luo but concerned about the phenix. “Doctor Shen, how is the colorful phenix now? Since you know that it was poisoned, you must know how to detoxify it.

“The colorful phenix’s safety is related to the safety and rise and fall of the Mo Country and also represents the prosperity of the Qin Continent. It can’t have anything wrong. If you can cure it, I will satisfy you, no matter if you ask for wealth or honor or a title of nobility, but if you dare to slack off, don’t blame me when I am heartless!”

Shen Luo was speechless.

He was flattered and allured with interests but was threatened at last.

Shen Luo heard that and couldn’t help but roll his eyes secretly, but his emotion was not affected.

There were too many to complain, and he was powerless.

“I will try my best!” Shen Luo bent over and answered politely.

In fact, he was not afraid of Mo Xiangbin’s threat at all, but the colorful phenix was really rare, and it was a pity that it died innocently in the fight for the throne as soon as it was sent here.

He glanced at Mo Junyang in secret, and the latter’s eyes were cold and emotionless, so he thought the other party agreed with him.

“But the colorful phenix was poisoned too seriously, and I just keep it alive with some pills. I’m afraid that it is not so easy to cure it.”

Mo Xiangbin thought Shen Luo needed some rare medicinal materials, so he stated at once, “As long as you can cure the colorful phenix, you can use anybody and anything.”

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