"Yes, Your Majesty. Originally, the prince's health would have been restored in half a year, but I'm afraid it will take longer."
"What?!" Emperor Qianyuan looked worried. "Is his life in danger?"
The prince didn't let them mention the matter of the Seven-Day Ecstasy Powder, but the mastermind behind this was still hiding in the dark. If he did something secretly, the prince's life might really be in danger.
After weighing the pros and cons, Elder Lu chose to tell the truth, "Your Majesty, yesterday I diagnosed that the prince had been secretly drugged with Seven-Day Ecstasy Powder. He needs to have sex for seven consecutive days to eliminate this aphrodisiac. Otherwise..."
"Damn it!" Emperor Qianyuan was shocked and angry!
Someone actually gave Yu'er such dirty medicine!
"Doesn't that mean Yu'er's life will be in danger after she removes the poison?"
"Your Majesty, don't worry. Your life is not in danger for now. Last night, I sent an urgent letter to Nankun to invite the Tai family witch doctor to come. The prince will surely be able to turn danger into safety and gradually recover. However, the maid who drugged you has been silenced, and the mastermind is still hiding in the dark. If he..."
"Xu Mo!" Emperor Qianyuan shouted.
When Xu Mo arrived, he clearly felt the pressure from the emperor and knelt down immediately.
"What's the progress now? Any clues about the mastermind behind this?"
Xu Mo reported the progress of the investigation in detail to Emperor Qianyuan.
Emperor Qianyuan hadn't expected Xie Wanyi to be so courageous. "Then do as the princess wishes. Secure Xiaoyun Pavilion and Quchen Pavilion tightly and don't let any outsiders in! If Yu'er encounters any accident, you will bring his head to me!"
"It's the Emperor!"
Soon after Emperor Qianyuan returned to the palace, he dispatched additional imperial guards to strengthen the defense of the eldest prince's mansion, while keeping a close eye on the every move of the third and fourth princes.
There is no way the two of them could have such thoughts!
But we have to be on guard!
Emperor Qianyuan thought of the second prince again while thinking, and turned to go to Changchun Palace.
Cui Wan was not surprised at all to see Emperor Qianyuan coming.
"Your Majesty, why do you come to see me at this hour? Have you taken a nap?" Cui Wan graciously led Emperor Qianyuan into the bedroom. "Look, our Ce'er is becoming more and more like Your Majesty."
Emperor Qianyuan looked at the little prince Feng Jince, who looked so adorable as he slept with his mouth pouting, and his inner anxiety was relieved a lot.
"Our Ce'er really does look like me. Wan'er, you must take good care of him and let him grow up happily."
"I will take good care of Ce'er. Your Majesty, are you worried about something?"
Emperor Qianyuan raised his eyebrows, "Did you figure it out?"
"Your Majesty, it's written all over your face." Cui Wan pulled Emperor Qianyuan to sit down and skillfully massaged his shoulders with both hands. "If it's not a matter of state, Your Majesty, please talk to me. Perhaps I can help relieve your worries."
"I left the palace to see Yu'er. I originally wanted to grant him a marriage to cheer him up and help him get better soon, but I didn't expect his health to get worse and worse. Someone actually gave him such a dirty thing as an aphrodisiac."
"How could that be? Could it be that the prince asked for it himself?"
Emperor Qianyuan frowned, "What do you mean?"
"The eldest prince has returned to the capital seriously ill. I have heard a little about this. The emperor has also mentioned it to me before. The eldest prince is weak and may not be able to have sex on the wedding night. Perhaps he is relying on aphrodisiacs to make it happen. If he stops taking the drugs and takes good care of himself, he should be fine."
Emperor Qianyuan looked at her as if it was a matter of course and she was confident. It didn't seem like she was faking it. Perhaps he guessed wrong and the person behind the scenes was not her.
After all, after uprooting the Cui family, she had no one else to use.
The only possible person is the second prince, who is doing something secretly.
"You don't know, Yu'er was poisoned with Seven Days of Ecstasy Powder... Yu'er couldn't possibly have used such a foul drug to have sex. The only possibility is that someone wants to harm him. Right now, the most likely person to have done this to him is the Third Prince or the Fourth Prince. Unfortunately, the clues have been cut off, and we don't know who it is..."
Emperor Qianyuan stared into Cui Wan's eyes and continued, "Besides the Third and Fourth Princes, there is also our eldest son Feng Jinxiu."
"Your Majesty, it couldn't be Xiu'er. He was demoted to a commoner and banished from the capital. He doesn't have the ability to reach out to the First Prince's Mansion."
"Humph! Don't we still have you?"
Cui Wan's face turned pale as she sank to her knees. "I am wronged. I know that the Cui family has committed grave sins. My life was saved by the Emperor despite all odds. I am too grateful to express it now. How could I possibly have the strength to harm the eldest prince? I am able to survive in the palace now because of the Emperor's favor. How could I be so ungrateful as to do something that the Emperor hates?"
"Alright, get up." Emperor Qianyuan helped her up, feeling distressed at her tearful appearance. "I believe you didn't do these things, but if we find out that the Second Prince was behind this, I won't be able to protect him."
"Your Majesty, it can't be Xiu'er!"
"Okay, wipe your eyes quickly and don't let Ce'er see it, otherwise he will think I bullied you."
Cui Wan burst into laughter and said, "It's the Emperor. We can't let Ce'er see this."
Emperor Qianyuan comforted Cui Wan for a while and then left Changchun Palace.
Peilan entered the bedroom and whispered, "My Lady, are you alright?"
"What could possibly happen to me?"
The reason why he has remained popular all these years is all due to his acting skills.
"But the Emperor has already cast his suspicions on the Empress. Should we postpone our plans for now? The letter sent to Nankun was intercepted by our men last night. The Tai family witch doctor can't be summoned, and the eldest prince won't survive for much longer."
The people under Cui Wan are all secret guards hired by the Cui family. Except for the head of the Cui family, no one knows that Cui Wan has a secret guard under her command.
"Then don't take action for now!"
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Xie Wanyi returned to the Anguo Mansion with the return gift prepared by Feng Jinyu.
When the Xie family received the news, they waited at the second gate after lunch.
"Dad, Mom, Grandpa, I'm back."
The Xie family saw that Xie Wanyi looked very good, and that Xu Mo and others were personally escorting her, which was enough to show that Feng Jinyu valued Xie Wanyi.
"Wanyi, why don't you have dinner before going back?" Yunniang looked Xie Wanyi over from head to toe, fearing that she would be wronged.
"Mother, I can't stay for dinner. Have you noticed anything unusual?"
Yunniang glanced at Xu Mo and the others and said, "Let's go to your grandfather's study and talk. Your grandfather and your father also have something to say to you."
Seeing that the princess had something to say to her family, Xu Mo did not follow them and just waited in the front hall.
Duke Xie's study.
Xie Wanyi told the three elders in detail about the fact that she had been given a sterilizing drug, and that she suspected that Feng Jinyu's old injury was not caused by a cold but had relapsed, as well as the fact that Feng Jinyu had been given an aphrodisiac.
Duke Xie, Prince Xie, and Yunniang were all shocked when they heard this.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier that you were given a sterilizing drug?" Yunniang regretted it deeply. If she had known, she would never have let her daughter marry into the eldest prince's mansion. "Are you okay now?"
"It's okay, mother. Elder Lu discovered it early and took timely measures to remedy the situation. He didn't make it public because he was worried that the person who drugged me would find out that I wasn't infected and take other extreme measures!"
"Well done!" Duke Xie spoke up at this time, looking at Xie Wanyi with a look of pride in his eyes, "You are worthy of being a daughter of the Xie family, brave and resourceful!"
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