Hearing Bai Qian's words, Su Muxi sneered inwardly.

So she's only gotten herself into trouble. If she can't cure Ye Zerui, they'll blame everything on her?

"Since Your Majesty the Empress says so, then I dare not examine the Second Prince's illness. What if I really cannot cure the Second Prince, and it will implicate the entire Yong'an Prince's Mansion?"

After Su Muxi finished speaking, she bent down and prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Bai Qian disregarded everything else and quickly grabbed Su Muxi's arm.

Swallowing her resentment, she softened her voice as much as possible and said, "Do your best to treat him. Whether he can be cured or not, I won't blame you. Is that alright?"

Su Muxi didn't speak, but looked at Ye Jingchun.

Waiting for Ye Jingchun to speak.

Seeing this, Bai Qian hurriedly tugged at Ye Jingchun's sleeve, "Your Majesty, Rui'er is your son! Please have Su Muxi treat Rui'er!"

Ye Jingchun frowned deeply, and after a long while, he looked at Su Muxi and asked meaningfully, "Are you confident?"

Bai Qian was anxious and didn't understand Ye Jingchun's implied meaning, but Su Muxi understood it perfectly.

Indeed, in the royal family, kinship is a luxury.

"Your Majesty, my daughter-in-law has not yet taken my pulse."

"...Then you shall examine the Second Prince."

After hesitating for a moment, Ye Jingchun could only let Su Muxi treat Ye Zerui.

Su Muxi placed her slender fingers on Ye Zerui's wrist, inquiring about his previous symptoms. She eventually confirmed that Ye Zerui had been poisoned by aconite.

Sure enough, Qiao Xiuyuan was waiting for her here!

After acupuncture to induce vomiting and administering antidote pills, Ye Zerui, who had been convulsing, gradually began to stabilize.

"Rui'er is all better?!"

Upon seeing this, Bai Qian hurriedly stepped forward to check on Ye Zerui's condition.

Su Muxi glanced at Ye Jingchun discreetly before speaking, "The Second Prince is only temporarily out of danger. Whether he can wake up depends on his subsequent recuperation."

This result clearly did not satisfy Bai Qian.

But she had clearly seen Su Muxi's treatment methods. Su Muxi's medical skills were far superior to those useless people in the Imperial Hospital. Whether Rui'er could fully recover depended on Su Muxi.

So for now, she has to appease Su Muxi. Once her Rui'er has fully recovered, she will definitely teach Su Muxi a lesson!

Bai Qian was just about to say some indifferent words of thanks to Su Muxi when she saw Su Muxi suddenly kneel down in front of Ye Jingchun.

"Your Majesty, your daughter-in-law has discovered something, but I don't know if I should tell you."

After speaking, he glanced at Empress Bai Qian, his expression complex.

Ye Jingchun thought that Ye Zerui was seriously ill, so he said to Su Muxi, "Speak! With me here, no one can do anything to you!"

After kowtowing to Ye Jingchun, Su Muxi said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the Second Prince's poisoning is his own fault and has nothing to do with Marquis Anyang."

Upon hearing this, Bai Qian no longer cared about coaxing Su Muxi and immediately rebuked her sternly: "How dare you! How dare a mere female doctor like you say such a thing!"

Su Muxi ignored Bai Qian and continued speaking to Ye Jingchun: "A few days ago, my daughter-in-law went to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager and happened to meet Consort Zhang. Seeing that Consort Zhang looked unwell, I took her pulse and found that her pulse was strange, making it difficult for her to conceive."

The other day, my daughter-in-law heard that the Second Prince had cultivated a peculiar orchid, so she went to Huguo Temple to take a look. She found that the orchid was very strange and looked quite similar to aconite.

The daughter-in-law was obsessed with medicine, so she secretly took some flower petals back to the mansion to study them. She discovered that if the orchid was mixed with musk, it would be difficult for a woman to conceive if she smelled it for a long time.

And the men who mate with her will also become infected with the poison…”

"Su Muxi! Stop spreading these fallacies! The orchids in my son's residence are not poisonous at all! I think you're just making this up to help Marquis Anyang get away with his crime!"

Bai Qian interrupted Su Muxi before she could finish speaking.

She looked furious, but Ye Jingchun could tell that Bai Qian was panicking.

"Shut up!"

He then gave Su Muxi a cold look and said, "Go on!"

Although Su Muxi didn't finish speaking, everyone present had already guessed the gist of it.

The Empress and the Second Prince actually plotted to murder His Majesty…

Thinking of this, before Su Muxi could even speak, the imperial physicians and palace maids all knelt on the ground, bowing their heads and trying to minimize their presence.

Bai Qian looked at Ye Zerui, who was still unconscious, and then at Ye Jingchun, whose face was full of gloom. Suddenly, a chill ran through her bones, and she began to tremble uncontrollably.

She had become accustomed to the scent of aconite, so this incense was burning in her room at that moment.

Anyway, this spice is not fatal to women; it only makes them infertile.

She was getting old and already had a son, so she simply treated this incense as a normal fragrance to avoid arousing suspicion.

I never imagined that the truth would eventually come out...

wrong!

The imperial physicians take the emperor's pulse every day, but they can't find anything wrong. Even if Su Muxi's medical skills are excellent, she definitely won't be able to find anything!

Thinking of this, Bai Qian's spirits lifted.

So, before Su Muxi could speak, Bai Qian said with a wronged expression:

"Your Majesty! We have been husband and wife since childhood, and you know how much I care for you! I would rather be poisoned myself than let Your Majesty be poisoned even a little bit!"

"If you don't believe me, there are so many imperial physicians here. Let them examine you, and you'll see that I wasn't lying!"

But Ye Jingchun's expression did not soften at all upon hearing this; instead, he pointed at Su Muxi.

"Get up and take my pulse!"

Su Muxi stood up as instructed, glanced at Bai Qian, and said calmly, "The Emperor's poison cannot be detected by pulse diagnosis, and it will not take effect now. However, if he takes cinnabar, he will suffer unbearable abdominal pain and the poison will begin to take effect."

Bai Qian's pupils dilated suddenly; she hadn't expected Su Muxi to know about this as well…

"Your Majesty, I knew nothing! I knew nothing of this! This incense may indeed make it difficult for women to conceive, but I did not know it would transmit poison to Your Majesty! I was merely jealous and did not wish for other women to bear Your Majesty's child, but I... Ah!"

After much deliberation, Bai Qian gave up struggling and knelt down at Ye Jingchun's feet, wanting to blame everything on her jealousy.

Before she could finish speaking, Ye Jingchun kicked her mercilessly.

"You wicked woman! How dare you harm me like this!"

"Guards! Throw the Empress into the Cold Palace!"

After saying that, he glanced at Ye Zerui lying on the bed and said coldly, "The Second Prince and the Empress conspired to harm me. Their intentions are despicable! From this day forward, the Second Prince is demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in his residence. Without my order, he is not to step out of the residence!"