Chapter 256 Antidote
At dawn, as the morning sun slowly rose from the horizon, people came and went in Wutong Garden, but with every person who left, Shen Anan's heart grew colder, as if she were in a world of ice and snow, with only despair and confusion in her eyes.
"I can't help it. I have been practicing medicine all my life and have never seen such a disease. It is really rare."
The last doctor took his medicine box and left without even asking for the consultation fee.
"Princess Princess." Qing An said hoarsely, "We have invited all the famous people in the capital."
Unfortunately, no one can cure it.
Shen Anan hummed softly, walked slowly into the inner room, sat down on the edge of the bed, and stared at the man's face carefully, "Xiao Yuan, if it was me lying on the bed, what would you do? Can you teach me?"
The room was deathly silent. Qing'an and Qingfeng clenched their fists tightly, their eyes were red and swollen, and even their breathing became lighter.
"I can't tell what the disease is," Shen Anan murmured in a daze, "Could it be poison? Is it some special method I've never heard of? I heard that there are many methods in the Western Regions that can kill people without anyone noticing."
"If it were you, you would definitely rescue me like you did when you broke into the Second Prince's Mansion, right?"
The despair in her eyes slowly turned into sharpness, and she said coldly, "Qingfeng, gather the people, let's go get the antidote."
"Where are you going?"
"Shen Mansion."
We’ll know if they are the ones responsible after giving them a beating.
Qingfeng quickly took the order and made preparations.
"Just lie down and wait for me to come back." After saying that, Shen Anan got up and left Wutong Garden.
No, An An——
Xiao Yuan was roaring with almost all his might, but he found that he could not make any sound at all. He could not even move a finger. He could only listen to her footsteps gradually fading away.
He seemed to be trapped in a dark cage, and no matter how hard he struggled, it was of no avail. What was despairing was that he could sense everything happening outside, but he had no ability to respond or give comfort.
The doctors' sighs and groans, An An's secret crying, her despair, helplessness and confusion, filled his mind like a tide.
Don't go.
Two tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, but at this moment he was in the yard preparing to attack Shen Mansion, and no one noticed.
Xiao Yuan started to get angry and yelled in the endless dark wilderness. He wanted to go back and protect her. The capital city was full of unexpected circumstances. Without him, she would face tremendous difficulties.
But no one responded. The darkness was slowly shrinking in scope, swallowing him up bit by bit. Then, light flashed suddenly, and scenes began to play out before his eyes.
"How can I save you? What should I do to save you?"
Xiao Yuan was familiar with this scene. It was his nightmare these days. Everything in the dream was like a brand, severely tormenting his mind.
"Donor Xiao, why do you have to worry about the karma of your previous life? Why do you have to use this life to make up for the regrets?"
Xiao Yuan looked up at the person who was speaking, but he couldn't see him clearly. He seemed to be hidden in the thick fog, with only a vague outline. "Who are you? What are you talking about?"
Then, he said in the clip, "I am willing to exchange it at any price, as long as she can survive."
The man in the thick fog seemed to sigh heavily, and his figure began to slowly fade away. Xiao Yuan heard his voice clearly this time.
"Wen Yin, is that you? Don't leave. Tell me clearly what's going on."
No one responded to his roar. In the clip, his words were repeated endlessly, "As long as she can survive, I am willing to pay any price in exchange."
"The karma of the previous life will lead to regrets in this life."
He pondered and muttered for a long time, as if he understood something.
He stopped struggling and just sat cross-legged in the wilderness, watching the repeating scene over and over again. His expression gradually calmed down and even a smile slowly formed at the corners of his lips.
According to the cause and effect of the previous life, the person lying in the rocking chair should be An An, who hated him deeply in the previous life, and was killed by his indifference and ruthlessness.
——
Shen Mansion.
"Where is the Lord?"
"Mr. Chen, the master has been staying in the study since he came back and has never come out."
Chen Tian raised his eyes and glanced at the study room which was still lit with candlelight. A sad look flashed in his eyes. "Have you had dinner yet?"
The maid shook her head slightly.
"Go to the kitchen and get some food."
The maid took the order and left. Chen Tian hesitated for a moment, but still pushed open the study door and walked in. On the desk lit by a dim candle, a tall and straight figure was writing something furiously.
But he seemed not satisfied with what he had written. His brows were tightly furrowed. He tore up the paper and threw it on the ground.
Chen Tian glanced at the mess on the ground and pursed his lips slightly, "Brother, it's getting late. You are still injured and can't sit for long. Eat something and rest."
"I'm not hungry." Shen Yunbai didn't even raise his head, his pale face obviously showing that he was trying his best to hide the pain.
"The doctor said that you should rest in bed to recuperate from your injuries. You have already been sitting there for two or three hours. Brother, if you lose your life, how can you plan for anything else?"
Shen Yunbai paused, finally put down the pen, and gently rubbed his temples. "I need to come up with a foolproof plan as soon as possible to push you into the court. If we delay any further, even with the emperor's help, we will not be able to defeat the couple."
Chen Tian said nothing. He walked over to help Shen Yunbai up from behind the desk and glanced at the court relationship chart on the desk. "Brother, do you still want to win over the ministers for help?"
"Well, everyone has weaknesses. As long as we can catch those people's weaknesses, we can use them to our advantage."
There was a knock on the study door. Chen Tian walked over, took the food box from the maid, and served Shen Yunbai a bowl of white porridge.
"Use something first. There's blood on your body. The wound must have opened again. I'll bandage it for you later."
Shen Yunbai took the porridge and said after a moment's hesitation, "When you have nothing to do these few days, come to the palace and have a look. That person should really want you to visit him."
"Yeah." Chen Tian responded expressionlessly.
Shen Yunbai paused while drinking his porridge, frowned and looked up, "What's going on outside?"
"I'll go take a look." Chen Tian stood up and went out.
In the outer courtyard, the moonlight allowed one to see palace soldiers and servants lying on the ground. They were holding various parts of their bodies and wailing in pain. The maids and old women were running around in fear, and the entire Shen Mansion was in chaos.
Qing'an and Qingfeng followed beside him, and in a trance they seemed to have returned to the day when they followed their master to attack the Second Prince's mansion.
"Where is Shen Yunbai?" Shen Anan put a dagger on the neck of the Shen Mansion's housekeeper, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
"Yes, in the study."
Shen Anan pushed the housekeeper away and walked towards the study. After a pause, she turned around and whispered to Qing An and Qing Feng, "Don't hurt anyone's life unless you have no choice."
She cannot kill innocent people indiscriminately and must accumulate blessings. Her mother once said that when one is powerless, talking to ghosts and gods is also a way.
"yes."
At the end of the corridor, a figure hurried over. The young man frowned, his thin face full of confusion.
The next moment, when he raised his eyes and saw the woman walking towards him with a ferocious look, he was stunned.
She seemed like a demon from hell, with a look of determination to perish together with her, and she advanced with unstoppable force.
Chen Tian’s first reaction was to run, he must not fall into Shen Anan’s hands, otherwise it would only put his eldest brother in a passive position again.
He turned around and ran towards the study at the fastest speed in his life, but a dark shadow landed at the corner of the corridor before him. The man stared at him coldly, and the blade in his hand shone with a sharp cold light.
Behind them were the approaching Shen Anan and a group of soldiers from the Fourth Prince's residence.
The panic in Chen Tian's eyes slowly calmed down, and his expression returned to normal. "What does the Fourth Prince's wife want to do by breaking into the residence of a second-rank official? Isn't she afraid of the emperor's accountability at the morning court tomorrow?"
Shen Anan raised her eyes and glanced at Chen Tian, just a glance, without a single word, which made Chen Tian startled.
He couldn't describe what kind of look it was, desperate, cold, crazy, and as if it was filled with a desperate and ruthless determination.
"Where is Shin Yunbai?" She did not answer his question, but asked in a very calm tone.
"My eldest brother is not in the house."
"Qing'an, catch him."
Chen Tian's pupils shrank, and the dark days when he was locked up in the Fourth Prince's Mansion came back to his mind. He struggled hard, but still couldn't withstand half the strength of Qing'an, a martial artist.
"It doesn't matter where he is, as long as you are here, he can't run away."
"Chen An'an, are you crazy? What do you want to do? You have already saved the young master of the Chen family, and my eldest brother and Lord Xu have already reached an agreement on their cooperation. What else do you want to do?"
Shen Anan, who was walking in front, paused and looked back at Chen Tian. The coldness in his eyes seemed to turn into a knife and tear him to pieces. "You'd better pray secretly that he didn't do anything, otherwise today, I will definitely raze the Shen Mansion and kill you two brothers."
In the study, Shen Yunbai finished a bowl of porridge. He still hadn't seen Chen Tian come back, and the noise outside seemed to have died down a lot.
He frowned and called a maid in, "Where is Master Chen?"
"There seems to be a sound of fighting in the front yard. Master Chen went to the front yard and hasn't come back yet."
After hearing this, Shen Yunbai stood up quickly, ignoring the pain in his back, and walked out quickly. However, before he went down the stairs, he saw a group of people walking in from the gate of the courtyard.
His pupils shrank, and his face instantly turned extremely cold, "What does the Fourth Prince's Consort mean by this?"
"Hand over the antidote."
The dagger came out of its sheath with a swipe, flashing a sharp cold light in the moonlight, and was placed on Chen Tian's neck.
Shen Yunbai subconsciously took a step forward, and Shen Anan's dagger immediately moved forward an inch. The blade cut Chen Tian's flesh, and blood flowed down the blade, stinging Shen Yunbai's eyes red.
"Do you know what you are doing? If you dare to hurt Tian'er, the emperor will never let you go."
She sneered, "If you don't hand over the antidote, you won't even have the chance to complain to that old man."
At this moment, she was like a fearless devil, her whole body burning with violent rage.
"What antidote?" Shen Yunbai coughed lightly a few times and frowned.
Shen Anan stared at him without saying anything, but just winked at Qingfeng.
The latter came up to Chen Tian with a cold face, and swung his fist with a whistling sound, hitting Chen Tian's abdomen hard. He immediately bent over in pain, his face pale and distorted.
Shen Yunbai clenched his fists tightly, his eyes were bloodshot.
“Antidote.”
"I really don't know what you mean..."
Bang——
Another punch landed on Chen Tian's chest. His whole body began to spasm and tremble, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Shen An'an!" Shen Yunbai almost roared, "What on earth are you crazy about?"
Shen Anan frowned, Shen Yunbai's expression did not seem fake, Chen Tian was his lifeline, could it be that he really didn't know? ? ? If not him, who else could it be?
The dagger once again penetrated Chen Tian's skin. Just a slight scratch would cut his blood vessels and kill him on the spot.
Shen Yunbai could no longer maintain his calmness and was completely panicked because he knew that Shen Anan would really kill Tianer.
"Put down the knife first. I really don't know what antidote you are talking about. What on earth are you talking about?"
"Who was poisoned?" Shen Yunbai's mind was still very quick. Who could make Shen Anan so crazy and had contact with him yesterday...
"The Fourth Prince has been poisoned?" Surprise flashed in his eyes.
Even the imperial physician is helpless, who is so powerful?
"Is it really not you?" Shen Anan frowned.
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