Therefore, Shangguan Boyan's concerns were not without reason.

At present, only Prince Su can keep the Situ family in check.

After a moment's hesitation, Emperor Zhaojing finally made his decision: "I will issue the decree now."

When Haifu went to the Marquis of Weiyuan's residence to summon Xie Jingrun to the palace, he learned that Xie was not there, which made Haifu very anxious.

"Where did your lord go?"

"The Marquis left the Marquis's residence early this morning, and we have no idea where he went," Steward Tian replied.

Haifu frowned. "Does your old lady know about this?"

"The old lady is injured and has been staying in the courtyard. She probably doesn't know that," Butler Tian continued.

Hai Fu thought for a moment and then instructed, "In that case, once your Marquis returns, have him enter the palace to meet the Emperor as soon as possible. The Emperor is waiting to see him."

"Yes," Butler Tian hurriedly replied.

Not long after Haifu left, Changlin returned from outside.

When Steward Tian saw this, he immediately asked, "Changlin, where has the Marquis gone? The Emperor urgently summons him."

"The Emperor summons you?" Changlin was taken aback.

"Yes, Eunuch Haifu came to summon him personally, and he just left." Steward Tian asked in confusion, "Didn't you go out with the Marquis this morning? Why is it that you're back, but the Marquis hasn't returned yet?"

“Lord Marquis…” Changlin paused for a moment, then finally changed his words, “Lord Marquis has some private matters to attend to and may not return until evening.”

"Is that so? Won't the Emperor be angry if we keep him waiting for so long?" Steward Tian said with some concern.

"It's alright, Lord Marquis has his own plan." After saying that, Changlin walked inside.

What he didn't say was that his master had gone to find the medicinal ingredient for the Seven Star Begonia.

Changfeng discovered that Dr. Xu had diagnosed a patient and prescribed medicine several days ago, and perhaps the jade jasmine was used to make medicine for that patient.

The patient lived in a village about 20 miles from the capital. He came to the city for treatment, but because he didn't have enough money, no clinic was willing to treat him. So he went through many twists and turns to find Doctor Xu to treat him.

After learning about this, the Marquis went to see the patient himself.

Hopefully, that patient hasn't run out of medicine yet.

otherwise……

He sighed.

...

Rong Qingqing felt increasingly unwell.

Although the wound didn't hurt much anymore, her body was getting colder and colder. Xiao Tao added several blankets to cover her, but it didn't help. Later, she burned charcoal in the room and added two hot water bottles to her blankets.

When Shangguan Yanran came to see her, she was very surprised to see that her face was purple and she was shivering despite being covered with so many blankets.

"Qingqing, how are you now?" She grasped her hand and asked anxiously, but upon touching it, she was startled by the icy coldness of her hand. "Why are you so cold?"

"It's nothing," Rong Qingqing said with a trembling smile. She hadn't expected that the poison of the Seven Star Begonia would become so unbearably cold later on.

Seeing that she could still laugh even at this moment, Shangguan Yanran felt very sad and couldn't help but curse, "Which bastard actually developed such a poison? He's inhuman!"

This was the first time Rong Qingqing had heard her swear, and she couldn't help but laugh. "Yanran, I didn't expect you to swear like that."

Shangguan Yanran blushed and said, "What's this? I would have said even harsher things, but I just didn't say them."

Rong Qingqing looked at her, then suddenly smiled, remembering something, and asked, "By the way, didn't you already write out the notebook? Let me see it."

"Okay." Shangguan Yanran tried her best not to show her sadness and quickly handed her the storybook she had written.