Chapter 164: Trick
Forcing the imperial physician Feng Jinlei to leave and changing the recipe for the strengthening soup was one of the moves made by Sun Guye and Xing Neng. At that time, Feng Jinlei had already felt that someone was going to harm King Jingyin, and in order to save his life, he felt helpless and retired to his hometown and lived in Zigui Village. Xing Neng destroyed the recipe for the strengthening soup left by Feng Jinlei, and pretended that the recipe was lost just to find an excuse to use Sun Guye's recipe to poison King Jingyin. In fact, he and Sun Guye had already planned this conspiracy.
Sun Guye and Xing Neng originally had a cooperative relationship of mutual benefit. Xing Neng had no idea that Sun Guye had secret dealings with the Hongluo Kingdom. But one day, Xing Neng accidentally learned that Sun Guye had dealings with the people in power in the Hongluo Kingdom and betrayed the Jingyin Kingdom. He then had a conflict with Sun Guye and decided never to join forces with Sun Guye again.
The reason why Xing Neng did this was that although he wanted to usurp power, he hated the invaders from Hongluo. Many years ago, the year when the Ding couple shot arrows into each other's hearts, the invaders from Hongluo killed all of Xing Neng's family members, leaving him alone alive. Since then, Xing Neng hated Hongluo to the core. When Xing Neng learned that Sun Guye had secretly communicated with Hongluo, he also gnashed his teeth in hatred, but after all, he had worked with Sun Guye to do something unspeakable, and Sun Guye had a handle on him, so he did not make any big moves against Sun Guye for the time being. He thought that even if he wanted to expose him, he had to wait for the right time, so he endured it for the time being.
But Sun Guye felt that Xing Neng knew too much about him and wanted to keep him alive. As long as Xing Neng lived, Sun Guye would not be able to rest in peace.
Cui Cong, Sun Guye's subordinate, knew the whole process. Sun Guye wanted to kill Xing Neng and asked Cui Cong to take action.
Xing Neng was unwell at that time, so Hong Mian was asked to go and treat him. After Hong Mian went to treat him once, he was controlled by Sun Guye and Cui Cong. Sun Guye asked Cui Cong to instruct Hong Mian to harm Xing Neng. Hong Mian was very afraid of Sun Guye and dared not disobey him, but he was terribly scared and could not sleep or eat well.
Previously, Zhu Lianzhi had revealed to Zhaolin that he had changed the recipe for the strengthening soup, and Sun Guye had been holding a grudge against him and wanted to get rid of him. Sun Guye told Cui Cong to kill Zhu Lianzhi as soon as he had the chance.
That day, Hong Mian, under Cui Cong's instructions, boiled medicine for Xing Neng and poisoned him in the pharmacy. The guards bribed by Cui Cong stood guard outside the pharmacy. When Cui Cong learned that Zhu Lianzhi had appeared, he initially thought that things were not going well, but when he heard Zhu Lianzhi say, "I am going to boil medicine for your majesty," he thought that the opportunity to get rid of him had finally come. He initially did not allow Zhu Lianzhi to enter the pharmacy, lying that he was boiling medicine for Lord Sun and that he was afraid that the smell of the medicine would make others uncomfortable, so he did not allow others to enter. Then he entered the pharmacy and told Hong Mian how to harm Zhu Lianzhi.
Cui Cong knew very well that Sun Guye wanted to put King Jingyin to death. He had done a lot for Sun Guye, and even the killer Ding Datian was contacted by Cui Cong himself. When Cui Cong knew that Zhu Lianzhi was going to make medicine for King Jingyin, he came up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone - let Hong Mian poison King Jingyin's medicine and put the blame on Zhu Lianzhi. Once King Jingyin died of poisoning, Zhu Lianzhi would surely die. Cui Cong thought at the time that if his plan achieved its goal and even King Jingyin was eliminated, Sun Guye would be overjoyed and extremely surprised, and would reward him heavily. When Sun Guye came to power in the future, he would naturally become rich.
(End of this chapter)
