Dugu Jingyao is reborn as Li Chu's beloved

Chapter 454 Substituting one thing for another

In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve. Li Chu and Dugu Jingyao had to go to the palace. The other three were also given a choice, either to stay in the palace to celebrate New Year's Eve, or to return to their respective parents' homes to celebrate New Year's Eve.

Although the palace prepared a palace banquet, people like Zheng Wan's father were not qualified to enter the palace. Now Cui Caiping's father had also been demoted, so he was no longer worthy of entering the palace.

Li Wanqing was in an awkward situation. Her father could enter the palace to attend the palace banquet, so even if she went back, she could only spend New Year's Eve with Li Mi's concubines and those illegitimate sons and daughters. In this way, she would rather choose to stay alone in the palace.

The final result was that Li Chu and Dugu Jingyao went to the palace for a banquet, Li Wanqing stayed in the palace to celebrate New Year's Eve, and Zheng Wan returned to the Zheng Mansion.

Although Cui Caiping's mother is gone and the Cui family has fallen into poverty, she is not a person who would kick someone when he is down. Now she is still Cui Liangdi, the wife of Prince Guangping, and is pregnant. She is also a popular figure in Prince Guangping's mansion, so she brought some rewards back to the Cui Mansion.

The palace banquet was filled with joy. Even the retired emperor was brought back, but he had a concubine by his side that no one had ever seen before. The reason was that she looked a bit like Yang Guifei, so he kept her by his side so that he could see her often when he missed her, as if Yang Guifei had never left.

But this was just the excuse made by the retired emperor to cover up the truth. Others were moved when they heard it, but only Suzong and Li Chu knew that this person was actually Yang Guifei. The only difference was that she could still be with the retired emperor without holding any grudges and had changed her appearance.

In fact, all of this started with persuading the retired emperor to sentence Yang Guifei to death.

After listening to Dugu Jingyao's opinions, Li Chu also felt that the ideas of Li Heng, who was still the crown prince at the time, and himself were a bit too risky.

So Li Chu basically stayed up all night before he came up with a plan. Wouldn't it be better if his royal grandfather was really willing to order the death of Yang Guifei himself?

In order to verify the feasibility of his idea, after the morning court ended that day, he asked for leave from Xuanzong and the then crown prince, and went to Baicaotang to look for the miracle doctor. However, it happened that the miracle doctor was traveling again, so Li Chu could only find Murong Linzhi.

Seeing Li Chu's anxious look, Murong Linzhi thought something had happened to Dugu Jingyao, and her heart was in her throat. She bowed first, then asked cautiously: "Greetings to His Highness. What brings you here? But Jingyao..."

Before Murong Linzhi finished speaking, Li Chu interrupted her and said, "Miss Murong, don't worry. This prince came to see you for nothing to do with Jingyao. It's for another important matter. This prince must understand the feasibility in advance before implementing it."

Murong Linzhi felt relieved upon hearing this. His tone seemed much more relaxed as he asked, "Your Highness, please tell me. If I can help you, I will definitely do it."

Because this matter involved confidentiality, Li Chu said, "This matter is confidential. The fewer people who know about it, the better. So please ask Miss Murong to come closer and listen."

Although Murong Linzhi was doubtful, she knew that Li Chu was not a villain who would take advantage of others, so she moved closer. However, the more she listened, the more she wanted to escape...

After Li Chu told Murong Linzhi about his thoughts, he quickly distanced himself from her and asked, "Miss Murong, is the method I mentioned feasible?"

Murong Linzhi took a moment to digest the information, as it was a bit overwhelming. He then said, "Your Highness, it's possible. However, I'm not sure about the disguise... I might need to find someone who specializes in this matter."

Li Chu understood what was going on after hearing this and said gratefully, "Thank you, Miss Murong. It will be fine if you can confirm that the first thing can be done. As for the second thing, there is still time."

Murong Linzhi thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness, are you going to take the medicine this time, or..."

Li Chu thought for a moment and said, "No hurry, just keep it for me. I just don't know if you only have one copy of this medicine."

Murong Linzhi said: "There are two."

Li Chu's eyes lit up and he said, "In that case, could you prepare a copy for me first so that I can go and convince that person."

Murong Linzhi understood what he said, "Then please wait a moment, Your Highness. I'll go get it."

After a while, Murong Linzhi took out a small wooden box, opened it, pointed to the pill on the left, and said, "This can be dissolved in water to produce the effect you want." He then pointed to the pill on the right and said, "Take this within seven days and it will protect the life of the person who took the pill in front."

Li Chu thanked him again, took the medicine, and hurried back to the palace. He found Emperor Xuanzong and the Crown Prince and reported the situation. Emperor Xuanzong initially thought this method was too risky, so he took out the medicine and explained its use. Kneeling down, he pleaded, "If you don't believe me, please give it a try. You will agree after you try it. This is the last resort I can think of."

Sure enough, that day Xuanzong asked someone to try the medicine. The man fell to the ground in pain, with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. Later, several imperial doctors examined him, and they all said that he had died of poisoning.

In order to prevent the medicine from being useful only at that time, Xuanzong did not order the man to be given the medicine immediately, but gave him the antidote early the next morning. Unexpectedly, he miraculously survived, and he specially asked Gao Lishi to follow him out to find several medical clinics for treatment, and they all said that the man was not seriously injured.

Xuanzong finally agreed to this proposal. At the same time, in order to be able to be with Yang Guifei, he also proposed to erase some of her memories after the success. At the same time, he would issue an edict to abdicate and let someone else take over. Xuanzong had a secret guard who was good at disguising himself and could do it, so the matter was accomplished naturally.

After Yang Guifei "died of poisoning", Xuanzong issued an edict saying that she was a guilty concubine and could not be buried in the imperial coffin. In the end, she was just sent back to the Yang family.

The one sent back to the Yang family was a real criminal, chosen from the death row prisoners. He was of similar height, weight and appearance, and was disguised, so that the Yang family believed him and deceived the court officials.

The real Yang Guifei first changed her appearance, and then was arranged by Xuanzong to be sent out of the palace through a secret passage in the palace, and then quietly placed in the palace in the western suburbs. Someone was arranged to erase her memory, and only then did she decide to abdicate and let someone else take over.

By using such a trick of replacing one thing with another, we now have the situation where Emperor Xuanzong can be with the one he loves, and the new Emperor Suzong ascends the throne with high spirits, creating a prosperous situation.