The third prince suddenly chuckled, and seeing everyone glaring at him, he quickly suppressed his expression: "My fourth brother has suffered such a misfortune. I am willing to go to Mount Wutai in person to ask Master Huiming for blessings." But he secretly made a hand gesture in his sleeve - old bald donkey Huiming is the best at liberating the souls of the dead, so it is just right for him to recite a few volumes of the Rebirth Mantra for the fourth brother in advance.
Deep in the sycamore forest, Su Sheng finally spotted the prince. A young man with apricot-yellow sleeves was washing his horse whip by the stream. He raised an eyebrow at the question, "Is the fourth prince blind?" His jade-white fingertips traced the iron spikes on the whip, and he suddenly smiled. "You were running so fast just now that your hair is crooked."
"Cousin, you still have the mind to joke!" Su Sheng stamped his feet anxiously, "The Yang family must be suspecting you now."
"Hush—" The prince threw the blood-stained handkerchief into the stream, watching the scarlet swirl and sink to the bottom of the water. "The eunuch who brought the imperial decree is coming this way. Remember to cry sadly."
Suddenly, a shrill scream erupted from the imperial tent. The Fourth Prince was pinned to the couch by five or six guards, while the old doctor's hand holding the fine steel knife was as steady as a rock. The moment the blade gouged into his eye socket, Xinyi Zigu suddenly remembered the autumn hunt when he was twelve years old, when he deliberately loosened the Prince's saddle nails - if the Prince had fallen off the cliff at that time, he would have heard such a pleasant sound of flesh and bones being torn apart. The old hospital envoy's voice sounded particularly clear in the dead silence of the tent, with the heaviness of a doctor: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, please allow me to report. It is recorded in the ancient books of the Imperial Hospital that if one eye is severely injured, if it is not treated soon, the poison and corruption may spread and affect the other eye, eventually causing blindness in both eyes!" He kowtowed heavily, his forehead touching the ground, "This old minister has no intention of murdering the Fourth Prince. I gouged out the injured eye to save the Fourth Prince's only remaining right eye! I hope Your Majesty will understand!"
As he finished speaking, there were gasps in the tent. Several battle-hardened generals, grizzled and hairy, glanced at each other and nodded silently. An old general, scarred across his face, stepped forward and boomed, "Your Majesty, the old envoy's words are true! I do have several men under my command who, back then, were shot in the eye on the battlefield, and ended up... alas, blinded on both sides!" His voice trailed off, carrying the desolation of a warrior returning from battle. "That poisonous fire attacks the heart, it's unstoppable."
Another general echoed in a deep voice: "I have also seen such tragic scenes."
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