"So, you have no way to get an antidote?"
Yan Beimo sat down on the edge of the couch with an air of authority, looking down at the imperial physicians kneeling on the ground. His expression was calm, but it made everyone break out in a cold sweat.
"I have been studying this poison for the past few days. Several of the medicinal ingredients in this poison are located in the Western Regions. I need to bring them back to refine and study the prescription."
What kind of medicinal herbs?
Physician Hu hesitated for a moment, then said, "Blood lotus seeds, Gelsemium elegans, and Green Corpse Beetle."
Yan Beimo said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, these medicinal herbs are all poisons."
"Yes, the poison of the Dove Feather Night is extremely potent, a rare poison from the Western Regions. These are medicinal herbs that are mutually reinforcing and mutually antagonistic, making them extremely difficult to find."
After speaking, Physician Hu hesitated for a moment before continuing.
"We also need one more medicine, called the Fiery Lotus, which grows on a snow-capped mountain that is covered with snow all year round at the border between the Western Regions and the Northern Desert."
"At the foot of the mountain lies a thousand-year-old cold pool, from which a fire lotus emerges once every ten years. Its stamen can be used as a medicinal ingredient to cure all poisons. If you have it, refining antidotes will be twice as effective."
These medicinal herbs are extremely difficult to find. Even if he did find them, he wouldn't dare to casually concoct the antidote. If he ruined it, there would be no more herbs left.
It is clear that the person who poisoned the victim was malicious.
Yan Beimo instructed Qilin, "Send people to the Western Regions to search."
"yes."
"All of you, get out."
After the imperial physicians left, Yan Beimo looked at Chu Changning, who was sitting silently with her eyes down, staring at her intently without saying a word.
Chu Changning felt uncomfortable under his gaze, brushed a stray hair behind her ear, and spoke softly.
"Aren't we going back to Jiankang?"
"Are you really that eager to see that brat?"
Chu Changning, "---"
She was too lazy to waste words with him and pushed him away to get off the bed.
Chaoge is close to Jiankang, and it only took two days by boat to reach the capital.
Chu Changning missed Ayu so much that he followed Yan Beimo back to the palace.
Ayu usually lives in the warm pavilion next to the emperor's bedroom. These past few days, she has been taken care of by a wet nurse. As soon as she entered the main hall, she saw Ayu sleeping on the couch.
The old women serving in the hall saw the person but didn't recognize him at first. When they saw His Majesty following in, they realized who he was and quickly bowed and withdrew.
Chu Changning hadn't seen Ayu for a long time. He had completely lost the rosy complexion he had when he was a newborn. His skin was smooth and porcelain white, and his pair of dark eyes were tightly closed. He looked well-behaved and cute.
But his eyebrows and eyes were becoming more and more like those of the madman behind him.
"So ugly, what's so good-looking about her?"
Suddenly, an annoying voice came from behind.
Chu Changning didn't turn his head, carefully examining Ayu.
Seeing that she ignored him, Yan Beimo walked over, took off his cloak, glanced at the sleeping little dumpling, and said in a low voice.
"Sleeping like a pig."
Chu Changning turned around and glared at him.
Yan Beimo chuckled when he saw her fierce expression, and leaned down to whisper in her ear.
"I have to say, I look quite like you when I'm asleep."
Ayu is a light sleeper. When she heard the two voices, she opened her eyes.
Chu Changning had his back to the child, unaware that the child was awake, and was swearing and cursing.
Yan Beimo glanced sideways at Ayu, and saw him twist his little body to get up from the couch, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"Your son is awake."
Chu Changning paused, then turned around.
When Ayu saw her, she stared blankly for a few moments, then lay motionless on the couch.
Chu Changning felt a pang of sadness. When Ayu was taken away, she was too young. After so much time, she probably wouldn't even recognize her anymore.
“Ayu.”
She sat down on the edge of the tatami mat with a smile, picked up the soft baby, and played with him.
Ayu glanced at her, then at her father with his unfriendly expression, and reached out her chubby little hand to tug at him.
Chu Changning was stunned. Before she could react, she saw Ayu, who was nestled in her arms, step back and hook her arm around Yan Beimo, indicating that he should hug her.
"---"
Yan Beimo sat down next to her, picked up the little dumpling with one hand and held her in his arms, while hooking his other arm around her waist and pulling her onto his lap.
"open."
Chu Changning was caught off guard by his manipulation. Before she could react, her son was taken from her arms, and she was imprisoned in his embrace.
She struggled with her waist in anger and pushed him away.
"This is what your son wanted."
He glanced at her indifferently, his hand still gripping her waist tightly.
Not wanting to frighten Ayu, Chu Changning gave him a furious glare and whispered a warning in his ear.
"Your Majesty, don't forget what you said."
Yan Beimo paused, his face turned cold, and he let go of her hand.
Chu Changning stepped out of his embrace, glanced at Ayu who was staring at the two of them curiously, and gently reached out her hand.
"Ayu, can Mommy hold you?"
Ayu glanced at her father on the left and her mother on the right, then climbed down from her father's arms with her little bottom sticking out, and went to the bed by herself.
He lay on the couch, staring at her.
Chu Changning coaxed him into speaking in a soft, gentle voice.
Ayu stared at her for a while, then reached out her soft little hands to hook her neck, wanting her to hug her.
Yan Beimo found the intimate scene between the two extremely irritating.
Chu Changning ignored him, holding the soft little dumpling in her arms and giving it a gentle kiss.
Why did you kiss him?
Suddenly, he stood up abruptly, snatched his son away, and threw him onto the bed.
Ayu fell, but luckily the tatami mat was thick, so he didn't get hurt. He didn't cry either, and just twisted his little body to get up.
Chu Changning was taken aback by his sudden action. Seeing his son being thrown, he said angrily.
What are you doing?
Yan Beimo grabbed her.
Chu Changning angrily shook off his hand, "What's wrong with you?"
"you--"
He couldn't explain it clearly, and after a long silence, he blurted out a sentence.
"You've been poisoned, don't kiss him."
Is there any necessary connection between these two?
Chu Changning recalled the scene on the boat when he was pinned against the screen and kissed, and said sarcastically, "Why didn't you say this when I was kissing you?"
"Children have weak immune systems."
"---"
Chu Changning was too lazy to argue with him. He walked to the bedside to check Ayu's body and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she was not injured.
As soon as Yan Beimo returned to the palace, he sent Ye Ying to summon the imperial physician, who was already at the door.
"Your Majesty, shall we summon them now?"
After Night Hawk finished speaking, he saw his master staring at the mother and child on the bed with an unfriendly look, and hesitated, not daring to urge him.
Yan Beimo snapped out of his reverie, his voice cold, "Tell them to wait in the side hall."
After settling Ayu in, Chu Changning heard the imperial physician arrive and got up to go to the inner room of the side hall.
She lay on the couch and could see the imperial physicians standing outside the curtains.
Yan Beimo sat on the edge of the couch, and the imperial physician taking his pulse trembled under his gaze.
"How about it?"
"The lady has indeed been poisoned by Jiu Yu Ye. This poison is rarely seen in the Central Plains. Imperial Physician Jian Zong once recorded this poison. I need to go back and study it."
Yan Beimo calmly recounted the medicinal herbs requested by the imperial physician from Libei.
The imperial physician frowned upon hearing this. "This Fire Lotus is indeed a once-in-a-century find. Its stamen can be used as a medicinal ingredient to neutralize most poisons. However, this Dove Feather Night is cold in nature, similar to cold poisons, so we're afraid they will counteract each other."
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