Zhu Yu stared anxiously at Lu Yuyan, his voice trembling slightly: "What happened to her?"
Lu Yuyan didn't speak, but took out a bottle from his pocket, poured out a pill, and put it into Lu Xiaoyun's mouth.
The medicine melted instantly in her mouth, and before long, Lu Xiaoyun's lower abdominal pain gradually subsided.
It came quickly and left quickly, which is quite strange.
Lu Yuyan helped Lu Xiaoyun up and asked Zhu Yu, who was standing beside her, "Tell me, what happened?"
"What? What happened?"
"You don't know your own body?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yu remembered and asked urgently, "What day of the month is it today?"
During this period, he hardly left the courtyard of Feixue Garden. He lived day and night without a care in the world, and he didn't even know how many days it had been since the two of them switched bodies.
"The 26th of the twelfth lunar month," Lu Xiaoyun asked Zhu Yu, rubbing her stomach. "Is something wrong?"
This pain is strange, it feels like a woman's period.
But now, she's a man.
Zhu Yu pursed his lips: "It's my fault, I forgot to tell you. Every two weeks I have a sharp pain in my stomach. The pain goes up to my lower abdomen, but it only lasts for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. After that, I'm fine."
Lu Yuyan sneered: "Haven't you seen a doctor?"
"I've seen many doctors, even Physician Jiang couldn't find the cause. I didn't think it would have any effect on my health, so I didn't pay any attention to it."
"Once every two weeks?" Lu Xiaoyun remembered. "So, the day we both woke up from our comas, when I was taking your mother back to the front courtyard, was that the reason I suddenly had a severe stomachache?"
Zhu Yu nodded: "You've been in pain once? Why didn't you tell me?"
He thought the two of them had switched bodies, and Lu Xiaoyun had never mentioned it. He also thought the abdominal pain that had plagued him for ten years was gone.
Lu Xiaoyun awkwardly grabbed the cup next to her and took a sip of tea. That day, she couldn't help but go into a latrine in the west courtyard. Who knew that there was a maid in the latrine who was also using it? As a result, Zhu Yu's body was seen naked by the maid, which scared her crazy.
"At the time, I thought I had eaten something bad, and the pain subsided soon after, so I didn't take it seriously."
Seeing Lu Xiaoyun's guilty look, Zhu Yu knew she probably wasn't telling the truth, but with Lu Yuyan nearby, he couldn't ask.
Lu Yuyan asked, "When did you start having these attacks every two weeks?"
Without thinking, Zhu Yu said, "Ten years ago, I first had an attack on my way to the Northern Army."
That memory was so vivid that even after ten years, the situation is still clear in my mind.
It was because of that incident that the only seventy taels of silver he had left was stolen by bandits, and he almost lost his life at their hands.
Later, he begged his way to the Northern Army in the Northwest. During this time, he fought with dogs for food, slept in pigsties, and almost died in the belly of wolves.
Lu Yuyan's expression was somewhat solemn. He looked at Zhu Yu and asked seriously, "Do you know who poisoned you?"
Lu Xiaoyun was shocked. Poisoned? Zhu Yu had been poisoned all along?
She stared at Zhu Yu in disbelief. Who could poison someone like him?
Zhu Yu nodded: "I didn't know at first, but I figured it out later. I've also found some clues over the years."
Lu Xiaoyun's expression changed. If the Empress Dowager hadn't told her everything that afternoon, she wouldn't have understood either. But after hearing the Empress Dowager's words, she understood everything.
Lu Xiaoyun grabbed Zhu Yu's slender wrist: "It's the old emperor!"
Zhu Yu nodded, then gave a bitter smile: "I'm used to it, I don't blame him. Anyway, I only have stomach pains once every two weeks, it doesn't really affect my health. He's just doing this to remind me that I'm his unloved son, to stop me from having unrealistic thoughts and thinking about things I shouldn't."
Lu Yuyan scoffed, "No effect on your body? Ha, it has no effect on your body, it just makes you infertile."
"Wh-what?" Lu Xiaoyun exclaimed in surprise.
Zhu Yu's expression also changed. He had consulted many doctors and had Imperial Physician Jiang examine his pulse several times, but no one could give him a clear answer.
It turns out that his father, the emperor, wanted to cut off his lineage!
A prince who cannot have children will naturally be ineligible for the supreme throne, and thus none of the things his father feared will happen.
Lu Yuyan sneered, not even glancing at Zhu Yu, and said to Lu Xiaoyun, "This poison can make his sperm lose its vitality, like a broken tail, unable to swim, so naturally his wives and concubines cannot conceive his children."
He then turned to look at Zhu Yu: "I really don't understand. Isn't the old emperor your father? What kind of deep-seated hatred do you have that he would treat you like this?!"
He wanted to kill his own son so that he would have no heir.
Zhu Yu's eyes dimmed little by little. Although he didn't understand what Lu Yuyan meant by "tadpoles," he understood the phrase "to be childless and without descendants."
The hatred between him and his father went far beyond mere deep-seated grudges.
It was because his mother and he harbored a deep-seated hatred for each other, a hatred that led to the destruction of their kingdom.
Therefore, the fact that the Emperor allowed him to live was already the greatest concession he could make to him and his mother. It was perfectly normal for him not to have any more children.
Lu Xiaoyun stared blankly at Zhu Yu, who remained silent, her heart filled with mixed emotions; she was also feeling uneasy.
"Ayan, do you have a way to detoxify?"
Lu Yuyan nodded and then shook his head: "There is a way, but it is very difficult. There is one medicine that is extremely rare. I know all the medicines in the Prince's Pharmacy, but there is no such medicine."
"What medicine?" they both asked in unison.
"Four-colored grass, this herb has four leaves, each a different color, and it grows on cliffs, guarded by poisonous snakes. Unfortunately, it is extinct, and I have only seen it in ancient books."
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