Scum Gong Walks the Career Line in the Crematorium

Lin Hanchuan subconsciously stepped back, “What are you trying to do?”

He had completely lost trust in Zhao Yuan, and seeing him spit blood, his first reaction was that this person was trying to frame him.

The person on the bed remained unresponsive for a long time.
Lin Hanchuan stood for a few seconds, then took a few steps forward and found that the young emperor had actually passed out and was lying on the bed, barely breathing.

“Summon the imperial physician!”

As Lin Hanchuan gave the order, the maids and eunuchs who had been chased out of the emperor’s bedroom were in a panic, running around in all directions.
Some went to find the imperial physician, some checked the situation, and others directly blocked Lin Hanchuan’s path.

Lin Hanchuan had no intention of leaving anyway, so he stood in front of the bed, continuously replaying everything that had just happened in his mind.

The imperial physicians rushed in, quickly taking the young emperor’s pulse and administering some acupuncture.
Zhao Yuan gradually woke up, and as his consciousness returned, the memories of what happened just now flooded into his mind.
He took a deep breath, feeling the surging of qi and blood, with a faint taste of rust between his lips and teeth.

“Your Majesty?” a white-haired old physician asked cautiously.

“I feel…” The young emperor furrowed his brows, his consciousness gradually clearing up.
“I suddenly felt a surge of qi and blood while I was sleeping with the Regent, discussing state affairs.
Then I spat out blood.”

“Sleeping with the Regent and discussing state affairs…” Except for the old physician with white hair, the other younger physicians exchanged meaningful glances.

“If my diagnosis is correct, Your Majesty, you have been poisoned,” the old physician stroked his white beard and said with certainty, “This poison won’t immediately take your life, but continuous use over time has seriously affected your body.”

“Poisoned?” Zhao Yuan subconsciously looked at Lin Hanchuan.
“Impossible, I haven’t felt any abnormalities.”

“You may seem fine in your daily life, but when your emotions are agitated or during intense activity, the poison will spread with your blood, and you will immediately die.
No matter how much investigation is done, it will only be concluded as a sudden death due to excitement, and no one will suspect you were poisoned.
If it hadn’t been discovered early…”

The old physician continued speaking, but Zhao Yuan couldn’t hear him anymore.
He stared fiercely at Lin Hanchuan, “It’s you! Did you poison me?”

The people around them looked at each other strangely, and Zhao Yuan became more agitated.
He suddenly stood up from the bed, revealing his naked body.
There was a faint red spread all over his body, making it look like an ordinary person with a fierce temperament.

Lin Hanchuan looked thoughtfully at the young emperor.

In the original story, the young emperor Zhao Yuan had also been poisoned with a poison called “Drunk Sleep Flower,” a beautiful name that was extremely deadly.

This poison was not the type that immediately causes death, but it silently takes a person’s life without leaving any trace.
It was perfect for assassination.

After finding out that the young emperor had been poisoned, the original host Qi Changfeng in the original story wasted no time and took several months to remove the poison from Zhao Yuan’s body.

But because of this, Qi Changfeng’s body became even weaker.

However, Lin Hanchuan was a bit puzzled.
In the original story, it was the young emperor’s uncle who poisoned him.
As his maternal family’s power grew, they harbored improper intentions and wanted to control the entire country.
So they poisoned the young emperor.

If the young emperor died, the country would fall into chaos since he didn’t have any children yet.
If he died, they could put an infant on the throne, while they controlled everything behind the scenes and became the dominant power.

But now, the young emperor didn’t have any children yet.
If he died, the whole country would be plunged into chaos… Lin Hanchuan was pondering this when he suddenly felt a pair of hands grabbing his clothes.

“It’s you!” The young emperor’s eyes were red, and his expression was fierce.
He roared, “You wish for me to die, you hate me, that’s why you poisoned me!”

With a light push, Lin Hanchuan easily pushed the young emperor away.
He straightened his clothes and said indifferently, “If I wanted you dead, you wouldn’t have survived until today.”

In the face of absolute strength, all schemes and plots were useless.

If the Regent wanted to kill the Emperor, he had countless ways to do so, none of which would be as despicable and lowly as poisoning.

“It’s impossible! You’re lying to me!” The young emperor didn’t believe it.
He clenched his fist, and if he could beat Lin Hanchuan, he would have already struck him, “If it’s not you, then who else could it be?”

Who else could it be? His beloved grandfather, his gentle mother, or his trusted uncle.
Lin Hanchuan suddenly felt a hint of pity for the young emperor.

Although he was the emperor, people around him always harbored ulterior motives.
Even the genuinely loyal ones dared not expose the Wu family’s affairs openly.
He was kept in the dark by his closest confidants, and his own family members all wished for his death.

Lin Hanchuan raised his hand slightly, and the servants all knelt down, “Control all the royal chefs in the imperial kitchen and check the ingredients.”

Saying that, Lin Hanchuan turned and walked away, and no one dared to stop him, even though the young emperor had been questioning him just moments ago.

Looking at Lin Hanchuan’s departing figure, Zhao Yuan suddenly felt a chill running through his body.
He knew that the Regent had always been forthright and rarely used such deceitful and lowly methods, so it really couldn’t be him… then who?

His mind, clouded by anger and fear, finally calmed down.
Zhao Yuan staggered back to the bed.
His eyes were lifeless, and now he couldn’t trust anyone but the Regent.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Zhao Yuan knew that if there was only one person in the whole world who wished for him to live, it would be the Regent.

He felt incredibly pitiful.
In the end, the person he trusted the most turned out to be the one he hated the most.

In the imperial palace, such an incident was considered a heinous crime in any dynasty.
Even if it involved a puppet emperor, it would lead to the extermination of the entire family.

The whole palace began to purge, and everyone was on edge, fearing that they would be implicated.
Everyone was guessing who had the audacity to poison the emperor of the Sui Kingdom.

It took only three days for this matter to come to an end.

Without exception, all of Zhao Yuan’s maternal family members were arrested and thrown into the prison of the Ministry of Justice.
Upon hearing the news, the young emperor, Zhao Yuan, became so angry that he vomited blood several times, and after a few times, his body visibly weakened.

On the day of the interrogation, Lin Hanchuan was in charge of the main questioning, while Zhao Yuan sat on the side as an observer, surrounded by a group of courtiers who were watching.

Based on the information he had gathered from the original text, Lin Hanchuan easily traced their actions and found their evidence, and they had no choice but to confess.

Sitting in the hall, Lin Hanchuan’s expression was icy, while the young emperor, Zhao Yuan, was pale, with no trace of color on his lips.

During the sentencing, Zhao Yuan couldn’t help but ask his grandfather, “Why?”

“Why?” The man laughed heartily.
Perhaps because he was at the end of his life, he was very candid, “For what else but power.”

The late Emperor Zhao Jun had no harem, only one empress, and one child, only Zhao Yuan.
People believed that the late emperor and the empress had a deep affection, but in reality, their relationship wasn’t that profound.

Emperor Zhao Jun was a man who conquered lands on horseback.
Even after becoming the emperor and having a wife and children, he never stopped his campaigns on horseback, leaving the empress alone in the palace.

After Emperor Zhao Jun’s death, his only heir naturally became the emperor.

However, Zhao Yuan, the current emperor, had never been educated by his own father.
He was raised by his mother and grandfather… so he had deep feelings for his maternal family.

But his grandfather didn’t care.
Zhao Yuan was ultimately surnamed Zhao and was part of the Zhao family.
If it weren’t for Zhao Yuan, the throne would have gone to his maternal uncle, and the Great Sui would have taken the surname Wu.

With just this one reason, it was enough to make the ambitious people disregard family ties and resort to any means.

After hearing his grandfather’s words, no matter how Zhao Yuan tried to comfort himself and remain calm, he couldn’t hold back and spit out blood, fainting on the spot.

Lin Hanchuan watched their farce with a lowered gaze.
He didn’t have any special feelings.
His only thought was to take this opportunity to remove the intricate and entrenched aristocratic families in the court.

The late Emperor Zhao Jun didn’t achieve it, and neither did the original host, Qi Changfeng.
Lin Hanchuan felt that he might be able to do it.

This storm changed the entire layout of the capital city.
Even the number of people on the streets reduced significantly.
Gu Shi, who didn’t understand the court’s turmoil, only knew that he hadn’t seen Lin Hanchuan for a long time.

“Gu Shi, what are you doing?” Su Congyu had knocked Gu Shi out of his reverie countless times, annoyed by his daydreaming.
“It’s already this late, and you’re not studying properly, just daydreaming here!”

Gu Shi raised his head in confusion.
After this period of grooming, he looked much healthier.
If the previous Gu Shi resembled a skinny and pitiful stray cat, fierce and wild; now, he had softened slightly, with less hostility in his eyes, but still possessed an angular and dignified demeanor that wealthy young masters didn’t have.

He resembled the late Emperor when he was young, Su Congyu thought to himself.

“I was thinking…” Gu Shi sighed, “When will the regent be done with his work?”

Su Congyu also sighed, “Little ancestor, when he’s done, he’s done.
The most important thing for you now is to study hard!”

Although Lin Hanchuan didn’t tell Su Congyu, he was extremely intelligent, and he could sense something from the recent upheavals in the capital city.
He had been serious about teaching and educating Gu Shi before, but now he wished he could pour all the knowledge into Gu Shi’s mind.

Gu Shi didn’t speak but sulked, leaning on the table, gazing out of the window.

After a while, his eyes suddenly brightened, forgetting that he was in class, he jumped up and rushed to the window, “Your Highness!”