The Crown Prince noticed the change in Song Xibai's expression, tugged at her hand, and asked with concern.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Song Xibai shook his head, took a deep breath, and said to the Crown Prince with a serious expression.
"Your Highness, I would like to personally examine the Sixth Prince's pulse."
Seeing her serious expression, the crown prince finally realized that something was wrong.
"What's wrong with Xiao Liu?"
"I can't quite put my finger on it right now, but I feel like things are very strange. Your Highness, can you ask the Sixth Prince to keep this a secret?"
The crown prince pondered for a long time.
He knew that the secret Song Xibai mentioned referred to her medical skills.
But can Xiao Liu be trusted?
He was very skeptical.
Even if Xiao Liu is reliable, the Crown Prince doesn't want to take risks with Song Xibai.
In the end, the crown prince shook his head.
Dingxiang, who was listening anxiously, couldn't help but interject, "Wouldn't it be fine once he falls asleep? Or should I put some sleeping pills in the pastries? I brought quite a lot with me when I came out!"
Song Xibai looked at her speechlessly.
"The sleeping potion you brought?"
Dingxiang pouted: "I made it myself! Who knows what might happen when you go out? You have to prepare in advance, right?"
Song Xibai rubbed her temples, about to say something to her, when the Crown Prince suddenly spoke up.
"Give it to me."
Song Xibai nearly choked on his saliva and quickly pulled the Crown Prince away.
"Your Highness, you wouldn't really be planning to drug the Sixth Prince, would you?"
Is it really necessary?
"No, I have other uses for it."
Song Xibai patted his chest, deciding to ask again after returning to his room.
Dingxiang took out a small pouch from her sleeve and pulled out a pill the size of a mung bean.
"This took a lot of my medicinal herbs! It's very potent; one pill can knock out a cow."
The prescription belonged to Song Xibai. Before, when she was bored, she and Dingxiang would study the prescription every day. In this respect, Song Xibai never held back her knowledge.
However, she has rarely touched these things since she became pregnant.
Song Xibai couldn't help but ask her, "These raw materials are rare. Where did you get them?"
Dingxiang wore a smug expression.
"I have my own way, hehe!"
The Crown Prince put away the entire bag of sleeping pills, then went to the Sixth Prince's side, gave him a few instructions, and then led the Sixth Prince out.
They didn't return until the end of the Wei hour (1-3 PM).
The sixth prince was exhausted and went to his guest room to fall asleep immediately.
Here comes the opportunity.
Song Xibai sat on a small stool, extended two fingers and placed them on the Sixth Prince's wrist, carefully sensing it.
After a long while, she finally let go.
Dingxiang asked anxiously, "How is it? Can you tell? What kind of insect is it?"
"It is indeed a parasitic disease, and it looks like a nine-parasitic disease, but it's very strange..."
For the first time, Song Xibai was not entirely sure of his pulse diagnosis skills.
She paused, then looked up and asked Dingxiang, "Did you bring the things?"
Dingxiang took out a large package.
"Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby, so I bought everything I could find. Use it as you see fit!"
Inside the package were individually wrapped medicine packets.
The crown prince asked curiously, "What kind of medicine is this?"
"Your Highness should wake up the Sixth Prince and persuade him to take the medicine, and have two servants keep an eye on him."
While speaking calmly, Song Xibai opened the medicine packet and prepared a dose of medicine on the spot.
"Wolf Fang, Crane Lice, Dryopteris crassirhizoma, Ulmus pumila... these are enough."
Dingxiang ran out with several medicinal herbs to prepare.
She moved quickly and returned shortly with a bowl of medicinal powder and a bowl of white porridge.
The Crown Prince woke up the Sixth Prince, but Song Xibai had already hidden behind the screen.
The sixth prince was half asleep when he heard the crown prince say, "Little Six, drink this." Without thinking much, he opened his mouth and drank a bowl of porridge with medicinal powder.
After finishing his drink, he smacked his lips.
"This porridge tastes really weird!"
After saying that, he was about to lie down when his expression suddenly changed. He pushed the prince away and vomited by the bedside.
He ate a lot that day, and his stomach was full of undigested lunch and snacks. When he vomited, a foul, sour, and putrid odor immediately filled the room.
After the sixth prince finished vomiting, he turned around and saw how dirty the crown prince's trouser legs and shoes were, and his face was full of panic.
"Brother, I... I didn't mean to."
The prince patted him on the back: "It's alright, you'll be fine once you've vomited it all out."
The sixth prince lay back down on the bed.
Song Xibai took the opportunity to come out from behind the screen.
She wasn't afraid of the dirt and stench; she squatted down and carefully searched through the filth.
Within that pile of filth, something was wriggling.
"Lilac, come quick!"
Song Xibai shouted.
Dingxiang immediately ran forward with a small bamboo tube and other things.
The two of them worked together to lure the insect into the bamboo tube, and Song Xibai finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is not an ordinary case of nine-worm disease."
The sixth prince was already stunned when he saw the two people who suddenly rushed out, and when he heard Song Xibai's words, he was even more confused.
At this point, Song Xibai couldn't care less about anything else.
"This is a Gu worm."
The crown prince's expression changed instantly.
"insanity?"
“Yes.” Song Xibai nodded, instructed Dingxiang to take the bamboo tube out, and added, “Go and test it as I told you before, to see what kind of Gu worm it is.”
Dingxiang, trembling with fear, gripped the rope on the bamboo tube and slowly retreated.
Song Xibai turned her head and looked at the sixth prince, who looked terrified, and asked him in a gentle voice.
"Sixth Prince, think carefully, have you eaten anything strange? This Gu worm in your body should not have been for more than a year."
Although the sixth prince was young, he could sense that something was wrong.
He tried hard to recall, while muttering to himself as if to hide his panic.
“My mother never lets me eat anything from outside. My meals are always at fixed times and in fixed quantities. I can’t eat spicy food, greasy food, or offal… and I can’t have too many snacks either. The nannies are very strict. They only give me one bowl of rice a day and one snack. I’m always hungry in the middle of the night…”
He spoke haltingly, but Song Xibai felt a pang of sadness listening to him.
The sixth prince's birth mother was probably the kind of person who was particularly strict. Not only did she not allow him to eat snacks, but she also only allowed him to eat a very small amount of rice.
Children at this age have the biggest appetite. Song Xibai still remembers that when her two older brothers were fifteen or sixteen, they once ate ten big steamed buns in one sitting.
She was stunned at the time, but her father said it was normal.
The sixth prince was lost in memories.
“Sometimes I’m so hungry in the middle of the night that I can’t stand it anymore, so I ask Xiao Guizi to secretly get me some food. Xiao Guizi has been serving me closely for three years. He was given to me by the Emperor, so I don’t think he would complain to my mother.”
Song Xibai and the Crown Prince exchanged a glance, both seeing the gravity in each other's eyes.
Well, after all this time, we've come full circle back to the emperor.
Song Xibai sneered inwardly.
If this has nothing to do with the emperor, then her name should be written backwards!
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