After Zhao Zhi laid Yun Zhang down, she gazed at his handsome face, pondering his rather inappropriate words, and couldn't help but feel suspicious.
After a moment's thought, she knelt down, placed her fingers on Yunzhang's pulse, and began to take his pulse. As time passed, her brows gradually furrowed, becoming increasingly tight.
"How could this be?" Zhao Zhi murmured softly.
She released her grip, put Yunzhang's arm back under the covers, rubbed her numb legs, and slowly stood up.
After careful diagnosis, Zhao Zhi discovered that Yun Zhang had two kinds of poison in his body. One of the poisons was very similar to the Hidden Poison in her brother Cui Shenghe's body, while the other was a strange poison that she had never seen before.
However, what surprised her even more was that the two poisons had formed a strange balance in Yun Zhang's body. Moreover, for both poisons, a little less would have no effect, while a little more would immediately put Yun Zhang in a delicate situation between life and death.
"This miracle doctor is quite a remarkable person. He's also an absolute master," Zhao Zhi murmured to himself.
It seems that what Yunzhang said was not entirely a joke; he was indeed poisoned, but this poison could not be cured without having sex with him.
Thinking of this, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but chuckle softly.
She gestured to Cuiyun to pick up the remaining memorials and take them to a side hall of Chunchao Palace to give to Zhu Sanniang for review. She then went to Cui Shenghe's bedchamber under the cover of darkness.
Cui Shenghe lay quietly on the bed, his face pale and lifeless.
Zhao Zhi sat quietly by the bed, gazing at his face, her heart filled with worry. She gently reached out and stroked Cui Shenghe's forehead, feeling his faint breath.
"Brother, when will you get better?"
Zhao Zhi skillfully picked up one silver needle after another and precisely inserted them into Cui Shenghe's acupoints. As time went on, each silver needle was accurately placed on its corresponding acupoint.
By the time all the silver needles had been inserted, she was covered in sweat, with fine beads of perspiration on her forehead and cheeks.
Cuiyun stood aside, feeling sorry for her as she watched her work so hard.
She gently wiped Zhao Zhi's sweat with a handkerchief, and said with a slightly choked voice, "Your Majesty, you come to perform acupuncture on the Emperor Emeritus every day, no matter how late it is. It is too hard for you. We have no shortage of imperial physicians in the palace, but you take on this responsibility yourself, and you don't even care about your own health. Look, you have lost a lot of weight."
Cuiyun's words made Zhao Zhi stop what she was doing. She looked up at Cuiyun, her face somewhat gloomy.
Cuiyun suddenly realized that she had lost control of her emotions just now, and quickly apologized, "Your Majesty, I only lost my composure because I was worried about you. Please punish me." She lowered her head and dared not look up at her again.
Zhao Zhi sighed softly and said, "I know you care about me, but this concerns my elder brother, and I will not entrust it to anyone else. You may leave."
Cuiyun breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the door, exchanged a glance with Qin Han who was guarding outside, and whispered, "Eunuch Qin, I'll wait here. You should go back to your room and rest."
Qin Han glanced inside, then turned his gaze to the bright moon in the sky, and said with a sorrowful expression, "This old servant truly wishes he could suffer these torments in place of the Emperor Emeritus."
Inside the bedchamber, Zhao Zhi stared at Cui Shenghe's pale face, then covered her face and sobbed.
Grandfather has been treating Cui Shenghe's health for some time now. Recently, whenever Zhao Zhi talks about the interesting things that happened when the two met in Da Xuan, although he can't open his eyes, his eyelids will twitch slightly.
This gave Zhao Zhi a glimmer of hope; she felt that as long as she persevered, Cui Shenghe would surely wake up. But this expectation lasted for more than two months, and day by day, the hope gnawed at her weary heart.
The feeling of being powerless to do anything made her very upset.
After crying for a while, Zhao Zhi wiped away her tears and began to ramble on and on.
“Brother, do you know that I encountered another strange thing today?” She said with a bitter smile. “Yunzhang, there are two kinds of deadly poisons hidden in his body, or perhaps more. One of them is quite similar to the Hidden Poison that you were poisoned with, while the other is something I have never heard of before. They counterbalance each other in his body, like the two poles of Yin and Yang, subtle and dangerous.”
At this point, Zhao Zhi stopped what she was doing and stared at Cui Shenghe's pale yet still handsome face, feeling a mix of emotions.
"The world is full of wonders. I originally thought that the way to detoxify was to fight poison with poison or to find an antidote, but I never expected that there would be such a naturally formed balance. Perhaps this is also a kind of opportunity for him."
“Brother, Yunzhang is now my Imperial Noble Consort. But don’t worry, we haven’t consummated our marriage yet. His power is deeply entrenched, and he was the one who proposed the title of Imperial Noble Consort. Your life is uncertain, and I have just ascended the throne. I have very few bargaining chips, so I can only agree to his proposal for now and take it one step at a time.”
She sighed softly, a resolute glint in her eyes, and continued to focus on the acupuncture in her hands. Each lift, insertion, and twist was like weaving a thin thread of life, trying to pull Cui Shenghe back from the brink of death.
She said softly, "Brother, I will do everything I can for you. But at the same time, you must also keep going and not give up hope. Grandpa and I are both working hard, and I believe we will definitely find a way to completely remove the toxins from your body."
As the silver needles were removed one by one, a faint herbal fragrance gradually filled the palace.
Zhao Zhi slowly stood up, walked to the window, and gazed silently at the pitch-black night sky outside. Her face was full of sorrow, and her mind was filled with countless thoughts.
In the past two or three months, Imperial Noble Consort Yunzhang has helped her solve many problems.
He first helped her meticulously plan and successfully capture Li Liang, destroying his drug-using den. Then, using his power and connections, he subtly eliminated numerous opposing voices for her.
Zhao Zhi had tried many times to ask Yun Zhang if he was the same teacher who had preached to her before, but every time she was about to speak, something unexpected would come up that needed to be reported, or Yun Zhang would cleverly change the subject.
She observed him silently for a while, but did not get any useful information.
Back then, every time she and her teacher met, there was a screen between them, so they couldn't see each other's faces.
The only clue she could use to confirm her identity was the handwriting on that Yunzhang Notebook.
However, Yun Zhang denied ever having been to Southern Chu. If he wasn't her former teacher, why would he go to such lengths to help her?
Zhao Zhi was completely baffled and felt very confused.
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