The carriage was driving on the cold street. The wind blew past, lifting a corner of the curtain and making Song Qingxue feel a little cold.

She rubbed her arms subconsciously, then lifted the curtain and looked out.

It was dark and there were no lanterns on the road. Only the two lanterns hanging in front of the carriage were swaying in the wind, burning firmly, with the flames flickering.

"How long will it take to get there?" Song Qingxue asked.

Lin Xian heard this and quickly responded, "Princess, we'll be there in another quarter of an hour."

"oh."

It was indeed a bit scary to go out like this in such a cold night.

There are too many unknowns in this world. You might be assassinated even if you stay at home, let alone go out in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, the journey was smooth and Yopu did not encounter any assassins as she had imagined.

When they arrived at the gate of the palace, Song Qingxue took out the regent's token and showed it to the guard at the gate, and then she was allowed in.

After asking the palace maid in Xiahou Le's bedroom, she found out that Xiahou Chongyuan was still in the imperial study.

She strode over to the imperial study to look for someone.

Xiahou Chongyuan was surprised when he heard the servant's report.

After asking the servant to let her in, Xiahou Chongyuan quickly asked, "Why are you here?"

Song Qingxue looked at the servant beside her, and the servant immediately understood and walked out of the door with his body bowed.

"I found a way to detoxify." She lowered her voice and leaned close to Xiahou Chongyuan's ear.

The warm breath sprayed on his ears, and Xiahou Chongyuan's heart was in turmoil for a moment.

He adjusted himself very quickly and said, "What method?"

"Didn't you throw away the pot of Thousand Mile Incense?"

"Yeah." Xiahou Chongyuan responded, and then asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"The antidote is in that pot of flowers."

"Um?"

Song Qingxue said, "I have read many medical books and just found a way to detoxify. You should ask someone to dig up the flower and use its rhizome to boil water for the emperor to drink."

"Is this the only way to detoxify?" Xiahou Chongyuan was a little bit unbelieving.

How could something that so many imperial doctors were helpless to cure be so easy?

"Hey, don't look at me with suspicion." Song Qingxue said, "You and I are now on the same side. Killing the emperor will not benefit me. Besides, even if I can sacrifice my life, I can't drag down my father and the entire Song family."

Xiahou Chongyuan looked at her without saying anything, obviously still a little hesitant.

"Really! I guarantee it with my life! I guarantee it with my future!" Song Qingxue raised her hands to her temples and said in an extremely serious tone: "I swear, if what I said is false, I will not die a horrible death, and I will not be able to divorce you!"

Xiahou Chongyuan: “…”

I'm a little angry about what's going on.

So she was so resistant to being his wife?

Xiahou Chongyuan couldn't understand it at all. Even if he wasn't the most handsome man in the world, at least he wasn't so ugly that it angered both humans and gods!

This woman is really!!

Xiahou Chongyuan gritted his teeth, "Are you so resistant to being my princess?"

As he spoke, he grabbed Song Qingxue's wrist and pressed his whole body against her, with their faces very close.

His action instantly made Song Qingxue flustered and her face turned red.

“No, no, no…”

Song Qingxue didn't know how to argue, so she suddenly had an idea, held back some tears, and said with slightly red eyes: "My lord, you hurt me."

Xiahou Chongyuan silently let go of her hand, but his face was extremely dark.

Song Qingxue never expected that one sentence would make the man so angry.

I don't care in the first place, so what difference does it make even if we get divorced?

Oh! This damn desire of men to conquer!

To be honest, she was really scared.

He is indeed a villain! He gets angry when he disagrees with something. He is really moody!

“…”

Xiahou Chongyuan also had nothing to say.

Sometimes it's not good to be able to hear other people's inner voices, just like now, he is forced to listen to this woman saying bad things about him in her heart every day.

But even though he heard it, he couldn't do anything.

Xiahou Chongyuan felt that he was angry, but he had been in power for many years and had long learned to conceal his emotions and adjust his mood, so he quickly calmed down.

"Forget it. You haven't slept yet tonight. I will ask someone to take you to the side hall to rest."

After saying this, Xiahou Chongyuan asked the eunuch to lead the way and let Song Qingxue go to rest first. After he sorted out the memorials on the table, he got up and went to Xiahou Le's bedroom.

He quietly ordered the palace servants to dig the thyme out of the pot, and then watched the palace servants separate the roots and rhizomes and cook them.

Just in case, he watched the palace maids cook.

He has already found out some clues about Qianlixiang's matter.

This flower was indeed sent by the eldest prince, but it was not planted by the eldest prince.

He followed the clues and found Zhao Wanqiu.

Zhao Wanqiu usually has a hobby of growing flowers. There are many rare flowers and plants planted in the Shangshu Mansion, and there are indeed a few plants of Osmanthus fragrans planted in the Shangshu Mansion.

He also found out that Zhao Wanqiu had met the eldest prince not long ago, and Zhao Wanqiu gave the eldest prince a pot of osmanthus.

When he found out this, he immediately went to the eldest prince's residence and asked him tactfully about Qianlixiang.

The eldest prince didn't seem to have any other thoughts and told him everything he knew.

It turns out that Qianlixiang can calm the mind. This was what Zhao Wanqiu said.

Although the eldest prince liked to play with flowers and plants on weekdays, he had never come into contact with osmanthus fragrans.

After collecting the osmanthus from Zhao Wanqiu two months ago, I have kept it in the yard.

As for why he sent this pot of flowers to Xiahou Le, it was because Xiahou Chun came a month ago and told him indirectly that Xiahou Le had been restless and unable to sleep well recently because he was busy with important tasks.

Although the eldest prince had been ill for many years, he was always thinking about his brother's health. He remembered that Zhao Wanqiu said that this flower could calm the mind, so he sent someone to deliver it.

He had good intentions, but unfortunately he was used as a tool.

Xiahou Chongyuan sneered in his heart. These two people are stupid themselves, and they really think that everyone else is stupid.

It's so ridiculous!

Do you think that you won't be able to find out about them by taking such detours?

Xiahou Chongyuan's eyes darkened.

There were originally ten princes, but now only three of them are left, so he never thought of letting Xiahou Le lose any more brothers.

But Xiahou Jun's ambition was too great, and he couldn't let this person stay.

In the struggle for succession, he saw too many brothers killing each other, from his generation to Xiahou Le's generation.

In order to seize the throne, he and his brother used countless schemes to harm their brothers.

Although the other imperial brothers are not biological brothers from the same mother, they are all family, and he feels heartbroken every time he thinks of them.

He actually doesn't want to see brothers killing each other.

But in this deep palace, if he is not ruthless, he will be the one to die.

This was the case when he helped his brother seize the throne, and this is also the case now in order to protect Xiahou Le's throne.

Xiahou Chongyuan felt a little heavy-hearted until the antidote was ready. He then personally served it and brought it to Xiahou Le's bedroom.

Although Xia Houle went to bed early, he was in a half-asleep and half-awake state and did not sleep very well.

When he heard the sound of Xiahou Chongyuan pushing the door, he almost immediately opened his eyes and sat up.

"Uncle."

Xiahou Le's voice was still very weak and his face looked pale and ugly.

"Yes." Xiahou Chongyuan walked to the bed with the antidote and handed the bowl to Xiahou Le, "Drink it."

"What is this? Uncle."

“Antidote.”

"Found it?"

"Um."

Xiahou Le has always trusted his uncle, the emperor, so when he heard that it was an antidote, he drank the potion in the bowl without hesitation.

As soon as he drank it, Xiahou Le started coughing.

He couldn't bear it anymore and lay on the edge of the bed coughing. After coughing for a long time, he actually coughed up a mouthful of black blood.

"Uncle Emperor..." Xiahou Le was frightened and could only look up at his uncle.

Xiahou Chongyuan was also shocked and quickly asked someone to call Song Qingxue to come and take a look.