Chapter 179 It turns out that King Xuan is a foodie

Liu Ye felt alright. Ever since she fainted in the space last time, she seemed to be less afraid of the cold. However, seeing that Prince Xuan was shivering all over and his nose was running, she felt a little sorry for him. She whispered, "I have some potatoes and chestnuts roasting in my room. Would you like to go and have some, Brother Wang?"

King Xuan was also freezing: "Alright, I'm hungry too, so I'll bother Miss Liu then..."

Liu Ye led King Xuan back to the room. There were two small stools next to the bronze stove. "Brother Wang, please sit down. Let me take out the potatoes first."

King Xuan sat down on the small stool without complaining and stretched his hands toward the stove: "It's so warm. The weather is getting colder and colder. It doesn't feel like spring is coming at all."

“That’s right.” Liu Ye replied casually. She pulled out six potatoes from under the stove and a bunch of chestnuts. Undeterred by the heat, she broke open a potato and handed it to King Xuan. King Xuan took it and took a bite. It was so hot that he stuck out his tongue, but he couldn’t bear to spit it out. “Mmm, delicious. I’ve never eaten a potato sweeter than a sweet potato before.”

Liu Ye also broke open a potato and ate it in small bites: "This is a southern potato, it's both starchy and sweet. It can also be grown in the north, but the yield might be low."

Suddenly, she noticed that King Xuan's lips were a little purple, as if he were sick. Without thinking, she asked him directly, "Brother King, are you sick?"

King Xuan was taken aback by the question: "Did you smell it?"

Liu Ye was taken aback: "No, I could tell. Brother Wang, your lips are purple. You're either sick or poisoned."

Upon hearing this, King Xuan nodded, taking small bites of his potato. After a while, he said, "Yes, I was poisoned. Oh, by the way, I haven't thanked Miss Liu yet. My mother recovered after taking the ginseng you gave her. Yesterday, I went to the palace and told my mother—well, Bai Zilin told you, right? Actually, I am King Xuan, and my mother is the current Empress. I told her that you've arrived, and my mother wants to see you. Miss Liu, is that alright?"

Liu Ye thought to herself, "How dare I refuse?" She nodded fearfully, "It would be an honor to meet Her Majesty the Empress, but I'm unfamiliar with palace rules and etiquette, and I'm afraid I might say something wrong and offend Her Majesty..."

King Xuan threw the potato peels into the stove, picked up a potato from the ground, broke it open and ate it. As he ate, he said with a smile, "Don't worry, my mother is different from others. You'll know when you meet her. You are my mother's benefactor and also my benefactor. You don't need to follow the palace etiquette. Tomorrow I will personally take you to the palace."

"Cough cough." Liu Ye thought that King Xuan had choked, but then she saw blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. The blood was black, and she was so frightened that she quickly said, "Oh my god, Brother Wang, what's wrong? Why are you spitting blood? My potatoes are not poisonous!"

King Xuan waved his hand dismissively, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and said with a wry smile, "It's alright, I won't die for now."

Liu Ye asked curiously, "Brother Wang, are you really poisoned?"

King Xuan nodded, continuing to eat potatoes without stopping, which made Liu Ye's lips twitch. What time was it, and he was still so greedy.

King Xuan sighed and said, "I have been poisoned by a rare poison from the Southern Frontier. There is no antidote. I took the antidote prescribed by Physician Lu, but it can only temporarily suppress the symptoms. You know Physician Lu, right?"

Liu Ye thought to herself, "What do I know? I'm a transmigrated woman, not some nobody: 'I don't know, is he a very skilled doctor?'"

King Xuan nodded with a forced smile, then stuffed another big mouthful of potato into his mouth. This potato was really delicious. After eating it, his chest pain was gone, his whole body felt warm, and he was no longer shivering from the cold. He had been shivering outside, partly from the cold and partly from the poison. When the rare poison from the Southern Frontier that he had cultivated took effect, his whole body felt as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his clothes and skin were covered in frost.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and found that the sweat smelled bad. He looked at the potato in his hand in confusion. Could potatoes be a cure for the strange poison in southern Xinjiang? He should eat more of them. Who wants to die if they can live?

Liu Ye stuffed five more potatoes under the stove. It seemed that King Xuan was really hungry; he ate five of the six large potatoes. She then pushed the chestnuts in front of King Xuan: "Brother King, try these chestnuts. They are delicious too."

King Xuan stuffed the last bite of potato into his mouth, grabbed a handful of chestnuts from the ground and started eating them. His eyes lit up as he ate, exclaiming, "Wow, these chestnuts are so delicious, so fragrant and sweet!" As he ate them, he felt warm all over, and he was sweating profusely, his back was soaked with sweat.

After eating two handfuls of chestnuts, Prince Xuan vomited a large mouthful of black blood, which startled Liu Ye so much that she almost jumped up. "Oh my god, why doesn't Prince Xuan have a child to scare people?" she cried. "Brother Wang, why are you vomiting blood again? Shouldn't you go back to the palace to see a doctor? Please don't die here with me..." Liu Ye quickly covered her mouth. Oh dear, she had blurted out the truth...

King Xuan choked and spat out a large mouthful of black blood: "Cough cough cough, I'm fine, you don't need to be afraid."

After vomiting two large mouthfuls of black blood, King Xuan felt much better. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, grabbed the potatoes that Liu Ye had just picked out, and started eating them. Liu Ye didn't know what to say: "Brother Wang, slow down. If you like potatoes, I'll get you some when you leave. I also bought a lot of chestnuts, so I'll pack some for you later..."

Good heavens, it turns out King Xuan was a glutton; he ate so much he vomited blood! That's terrifying!

King Xuan swallowed the potato in his mouth and nodded eagerly, "Okay, okay, give me more if you're willing. I love potatoes, and I also love chestnuts..."

Liu Ye was both amused and exasperated by Xuan Wang's antics. He had eaten the potatoes she had just baked. Just then, Bai Zilin came in from outside and reported to Xuan Wang: "Your Majesty, all the boxes have been dug out. There are 66 boxes in total, each containing 50 taels of gold ingots. We have already transported them all back to the palace."

Suddenly he saw the black blood on the ground and was so frightened that he hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, are you alright? I'll go and fetch Physician Lu right away."

King Xuan dusted off his hands and stood up from the ground: "I'm fine, what I spat out was just poisonous blood."

He looked at Liu Ye and said with a smile, "I'm sorry to bother you, Miss Liu. Um, please pack me some more potatoes and chestnuts. I'll head back to my residence now, and I'll have Bai Zilin come to pick you up tomorrow."

Bai Zilin looked at Liu Ye in confusion. What potatoes and chestnuts?

Liu Ye nodded, suppressing a laugh: "Brother Wang, wait a moment, I'll go to the kitchen to get it for you."

King Xuan nodded with an embarrassed look on his face: "No rush..."

Liu Ye went to the kitchen, closed the kitchen door, and then slipped into her spatial dimension. When she came out again, she was carrying two bags, one of potatoes and one of chestnuts. Xuan Wang, that big glutton, was truly something else, eating and taking things with him.

Liu Ye opened the kitchen door, placed the bag at the doorway, and went back inside. She found Prince Xuan and Bai Zilin squatting on the floor, still peeling and eating chestnuts… ╮(￣▽￣)╭

"Brother Wang, Brother Bai, the chestnuts and potatoes are at the kitchen door..."

King Xuan and Bai Zilin stood up from the ground. "Then we'll head back first," King Xuan said politely.

"Take care, Brother Wang." (ω) Hey!

Bai Zilin smiled and waved to Liu Ye, then carried the potatoes and chestnuts with Prince Xuan and climbed over the wall back to Prince Xuan's residence.