Ye Feng and Ye Yun were both surprised to hear the announcement outside and quickly got up.
As soon as Xuanyuan Peng and Bai Shi entered the room, they immediately bowed and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty, greetings, Your Highness the Empress Dowager."
Xuanyuan Peng didn't even glance at the two of them, and went straight to the bedside.
Seeing Xuan Yuanzhan, who was unconscious and had clearly lost a lot of weight, Xuan Yuanpeng's face suddenly darkened: "How did you get so thin? How have you been taking care of you?"
Ye Feng and Ye Yun were so frightened that they knelt down instantly.
Ye Yun replied with red eyes, "The prince has been in a coma for almost half a month. He could still be fed medicine a few days ago, but he can't even do that these days."
How can you not lose weight if you don't eat or drink?
Hearing that Xuanyuan Zhan couldn't even swallow his medicine, Bai Shi became even more anxious.
Xuanyuan Peng's brows furrowed even more as he looked at Bai Shi and asked, "What exactly happened? How did it get like this?"
Several days ago, he heard that he had returned to the capital, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He didn't get along with the child anyway, and he didn't expect him to come and visit him. But he never expected that the child would become so ill.
Bai looked at Xuan Yuanzhan with heartache, feeling somewhat helpless: "I'm not really sure either. He came back looking like this, and he hasn't woken up for several days."
Xuanyuan Peng then glared at Ye Feng and Ye Yun: "You two tell me, how did your prince become like this?"
Ye Yun dared not hide anything, nor did he dare to tell the truth. He could only give a half-truth report: "His Highness was poisoned before. Every full moon, he needs to go to the Cold Pool to control the poison. Last full moon, I don't know what happened, His Highness suddenly fell into a deep sleep and did not wake up. After several days, His Highness did not wake up. Many doctors were consulted, but to no avail. So I took His Highness back to the capital. However, half a month has passed, and His Highness still has no reaction."
Xuanyuan Peng was startled again upon hearing this and looked at Bai Shi: "How could you be poisoned again when you were perfectly fine?"
"I'm not really sure either." Bai only heard about her son's poisoning from Ye Yun a few days ago; the child never comes back to tell her about these things.
Xuanyuan Peng frowned and said with dissatisfaction, "How come you don't know anything?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Shi also became angry and glared at him, saying, "He's never been close to me since he was little, you know that!"
Xuanyuan Peng was speechless after being yelled at by Bai Shi.
Xuanyuan Zhan went to his fiefdom when he was five or six years old, and only returned once or twice a year for the New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival. Considering the things that happened between them... Xuanyuan Zhan was really not close to them.
"Have you summoned the imperial physician to examine you?" Bai Shi asked angrily, and Xuan Yuanpeng's voice unconsciously softened.
"We've consulted two imperial physicians, but neither of them knows what's wrong with Zhan'er," Madam Bai said, sitting down by the bed and tenderly stroking Xuan Yuan Zhan's gaunt face.
If she had any other options, she would never have gone to the palace to find him.
"Summon the imperial physicians!" Xuan Yuanpeng ordered Zong Jiu, then added, "Summon all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital."
"Yes," Zong Jiu replied, and immediately went to summon the imperial physician.
Within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Academy arrived at the Holy Prince's residence.
"Your humble servants pay their respects to Your Majesty and to the Holy Princess Consort." As soon as the imperial physicians entered the room, they bowed to Xuanyuan Peng and Lady Bai.
Xuanyuan Peng frowned as he looked at them: "The Holy King is unconscious. Come over and take a look at him."
"Yes." The imperial physicians responded and stepped forward one by one to examine Xuan Yuanzhan.
About twenty imperial physicians stepped forward and examined Xuan Yuanzhan thoroughly, from head to toe, inside and out.
After waiting for more than an hour without any report from the imperial physician, Xuanyuan Peng finally spoke impatiently: "How is the examination going? What exactly is the Holy King suffering from?"
The imperial physicians looked at each other, none of them daring to speak.
Hang Yuqing, the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, had no choice but to step forward and report: "Your Majesty, we have carefully examined His Highness the Holy King and found no problems with his health."
Hang Yuqing's words immediately made Xuanyuan Peng frown: "If there is nothing wrong, then why has the Holy King been in a coma for more than ten days?"
Hang Yuqing lowered his eyes in shame: "This subject is not sure. Judging from the pulse, the Holy King is fine, and there are no wounds on his body... As for why the Holy King is unconscious, we have not yet found any reason."
Aside from a tooth mark on his shoulder, the Holy King had no other external injuries. They had also examined the tooth mark; it was non-toxic and showed no abnormalities. However, the tooth mark clearly belonged to a woman. They had always heard that the Holy King was abstinent from women, and this tooth mark seemed to prove the rumors false!
When they couldn't come up with a solution either, Xuanyuan Peng grew anxious: "If we can't find the cause, can we wake the person up first?"
I haven't eaten or drunk anything for the past ten days or so, and I've become so thin that I'm unrecognizable. If this continues, I'm afraid I'll really die!
"We will try our best." Since they didn't know what was wrong with the Holy King, Hang Yuqing dared not make such a guarantee.
Xuanyuan Peng raised his hand to Hang Yuqing, who immediately brought two imperial physicians to begin treating Xuanyuan Zhan.
Two more hours passed, and the imperial physicians who assisted him changed batch after batch. Hang Yuqing tried every method imaginable, but still could not awaken Xuanyuan Zhan.
It wasn't until Xuan Yuanpeng grew impatient that Hang Yuqing hurriedly reported, "Your Majesty, I was unable to awaken the Holy King. I am incompetent, and I beg Your Majesty to punish me!"
Looking at Hang Yuqing kneeling before him, Xuanyuan Peng was both anxious and angry: "Illness, we don't know what illness it is, and we can't save her. What use are you to me?"
"We are incompetent, Your Majesty, please forgive us!" As soon as Xuan Yuanpeng got angry, the imperial physicians all knelt on the ground.
Xuanyuan Peng was furious at the group of useless imperial physicians, but when he looked at the frail Xuanyuan Zhan on the bed, he felt a pang of heartache: "Isn't there any other way to save the Holy King?"
Hang Yuqing lowered his eyes: "I have tried all the methods that can be tried. I think we should first find out what illness Your Highness has before we can prescribe the right medicine. So I would like to take some of Your Highness's blood back to study and see if we can find out the cause of Your Highness's illness?"
Xuanyuan Peng glared: "Now that you have a method, why don't you do it!"
"Yes." Hang Yuqing immediately got up to collect the blood.
Looking at the room full of imperial physicians, yet seeing that they were all of no use, Xuan Yuanpeng was annoyed: "Leave one imperial physician to prescribe some medicine for the Holy King, and the rest of you get out!"
The imperial physicians dared not say a word. One physician stayed behind to assist Hang Yuqing in drawing blood and writing prescriptions, while the others slunk away.
After everyone had left, Xuanyuan Peng stepped forward to comfort Bai Shi: "Don't worry too much. Perhaps in a couple of days, Chief Physician Hang will find a way to cure Zhan'er."
How could these pale words comfort Madam Bai? "How can I not worry? We have no clue what to do. Zhan'er can't even take in her medicine anymore. I'm afraid she won't last more than a few days."
Although Xuanyuan Peng spoke words of comfort to Bai Shi, he was actually quite worried himself.
The cause of Xuanyuan Zhan's illness cannot be found now, and he is in such a state that he is indeed on the verge of death.
Bai suddenly looked up at Xuan Yuanpeng and said, "I want to bring good luck to Zhan'er!"
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