Pathological Trapping - Chap 114
　Mu Jian got off the car in the outer city. A eunuch held an umbrella for him, and Mu Jian took it directly, waved his hand to signal the eunuch to leave, and walked slowly forward, stepping on the small puddles on the road.
　　The emperor’s bedroom was brightly lit.
　　As soon as Mu Jian approached, he heard the crying of the concubines in the room, like the howling of ghosts in the long night.
　　The eunuch guarding outside saw him and came forward, “Is the Crown Prince here?”
　　”How is Father?”
　　”Not very good, right now Concubine Li is accompanying us inside.”
　　Concubine Li is Du Yanqiu.
　　Mu Jian said, “I’ll go in and take a look.”
　　Mu Jian had one foot in the bedroom door, and as if he remembered something, he told the eunuch: “I’ll bring someone over in a while, just let him in.”
　　The eunuch said “yes”.
　　When Mu Jian entered, the concubines outside the palace looked at him.
　　Mu Jian didn’t even look at them.
　　The door leading to the inner hall opened and Mu Jian stepped in.
　　There was no one else in the room, only an imperial physician, the chief eunuch, and Concubine Li were guarding the dragon bed. The emperor on the bed had his eyes blank, staring at the golden dragon hanging high on the ceiling.
　　”Your Highness.”
　　The imperial physician and the chief eunuch saluted.
　　Mu Jian ignored him and walked to the bedside, looking down at the emperor on the dragon bed, then glanced at the medicine placed at the bedside. He slowly sat down on the bedside and picked up the medicine.
　　The spoon stirred the medicine in the soup bowl.
　　He sighed and said, “The medicine is still too slow.”
　　Du Yanqiu was startled and lowered his voice, “Prince!”
　　Mu Jian put down the bowl of soup in his hand.
　　”Poison is really not as fast as a knife.”
　　The emperor, who was still alive and lying on the dragon bed, opened his eyes wide.
　　He looked at Mu Jian in disbelief, then turned back to look at the bowl of medicine. He suddenly understood something and struggled to sit up, but it was in vain.
　　The eunuch and the imperial physician in the palace were so frightened that they broke out in a sweat.
　　Mu Jian smiled and said, “If you two want to call for help, go out and call for help. Let’s see whether the reinforcements you call for are faster or the swords of the imperial guards are faster.”
　　The eunuch and the imperial physician were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, with their heads lowered, not daring to raise them.
　　Mu Jian pulled off the jade pendant from his waist and swung it in front of the emperor.
　　”Father, can you recognize it? This is what I gave to Guard Li. I gave him so many things, but he likes this the most. He carries it with him every day, saying that it is in good condition and can be exchanged for a lot of silver if he runs out of money one day.”
　　Mu Jian looked at the jade pendant with a gentle expression.
　　The old emperor stared at him with wide eyes, pointing at Mu Jian with trembling fingers, “You, you… I gave you the whole country, but you actually…”
　　Mu Jian hung the jade pendant back around his waist and touched it lovingly.
　　”Father, please save your energy. Don’t you think your illness is strange? Aren’t you afraid to tell Father? The aphrodisiac I gave Father has always been poisonous. This is the first time I’ve seen someone like poison so much.”
　　Aphrodisiacs are taken secretly, without anyone noticing. In addition, poison is a slow-acting poison that is not easily detected.
　　Over the years, this will eventually take the old emperor’s life.
　　Mu Jian laughed until tears were about to fall out of his eyes.
　　”How many pills does Father take a day?”
　　The old emperor’s eyes bulged with shock, and he was so angry that he could hardly breathe, and he kept coughing. He coughed violently, as if his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys would all be coughed out at the same time.
　　Mu Jian looked at the ground, and a smile appeared on the corners of his mouth as he saw two people trembling after hearing such a heinous conspiracy.
　　”I could have let you live two more years. But you took Guard Li’s life, so I don’t want to spare your life either.”
　　The old emperor coughed for a while, and finally calmed down. He stretched out his thin, dry hand towards Du Yanqiu, as if she was the only floating wood that could save him at this moment.
　　But the piece of driftwood remained indifferent.
　　Mu Jian smiled.
　　The smile was extremely sarcastic, as if he had just seen a huge joke.
　　”Do you expect her to save you? She’s the one who poisoned you.”
　　Du Yanqiu and Mu Jian have always been in a cooperative relationship.
　　Mu Jian is away, preserving the honor of the Shangshu Mansion.
　　Du Yanqiu was inside, restraining the emperor and secretly controlling the poison, and blowing pillow wind for Mu Jian.
　　Outside the imperial study that day, what Mu Jian said to Du Yanqiu was – increase the dosage.
　　The door to the outer hall opened.
　　Li Yu came in carrying a military officer with a bruised face and nose, and threw him to the ground with a force. He put a knife on the man’s neck and stopped him from speaking.
　　Mu Jian stood up.
　　Spider-web-like bloodshot veins covered the whites of his eyes.
　　His eyeballs were extremely black, revealing an eerie and cold light.
　　”That day, one of you issued an order, one passed it on, and one executed the sentence. You took the life of Guard Li. He didn’t even have the chance to cry out in pain to me…”
　　He stood beside the bed, watching the emperor struggling on the bed. He saw him struggling like a maggot in a cesspool, crawling to the bed, then rolling down, and struggling forward again.
　　The old emperor felt like he was in hell.
　　The person standing behind me is Yama, the devil!
　　There are people outside the palace!
　　Just crawl out!
　　There will be salvation!
　　Mu Jian watched him crawl with cold eyes, then walked to Li Yu, drew the sword from his waist, and with a swing, he wiped the eunuch’s neck.
　　The eunuch fell to the ground without even having time to scream. Sticky blood flowed out from the wound on his neck, soaking the imperial physician’s official uniform.
　　The imperial physician was so frightened that he was shaking like a sieve and felt a little incontinent.
　　Mu Jian walked step by step to the emperor’s side and put one foot on the emperor’s back to stop his movements.
　　The old emperor turned around with difficulty and looked at the cold knife raised by Mu Jian, his eyes trembling with fear.
　　Mu Jian smiled.
　　”Father, I’m always impatient. I couldn’t wait for the medicine to poison you to death. You won’t blame me, right?”
