Just happened to be passing by?
What a joke! Sheng Linyuan stood outside for half an hour. Did he think he was blind?
Shen Zhiyu forced a smile: "What brings you here, Minister Sheng?"
"There is something I would like to report to Your Majesty. Seeing that Your Majesty is saving the young prince, I will not disturb you for now. Please wait until Your Majesty is finished."
After handing the rabbit to Si Jin, Sheng Linyuan moved away from the doorway and continued to wait outside the courtyard.
Si Jin then went inside and carefully poured the medicine into the rabbit's mouth.
The rabbit struggled violently, its legs flailing wildly. A moment later, it closed its eyes completely and stopped breathing.
Si Jin stepped forward and kindly placed the rabbit beside the Crown Prince's pillow, exclaiming in surprise, "It's dead..."
"Dead?" The Empress Dowager stared at the motionless rabbit, then turned to Shen Zhiyu: "This medicine is so effective?"
"Did someone put something in the medicine?!"
His tone grew harsher, and Shen Zhiyu panicked, quickly grabbing the imperial physician: "How dare you put something in the Crown Prince's medicine..."
"Waaaaah, my bunny."
But before he could finish framing the prince, the crown prince sat up from the couch with tears in his eyes, hugging the rabbit and sobbing.
"Father, you clearly told me to fake illness to kill Mu Sijin, not my bunny! You owe me a bunny! Waaaaah!"
[Pfft.] Xiao Yao burst out laughing before she could even finish her sentence: [So, stupidity is hereditary?]
Shen Zhiyu was completely flustered. He pushed the imperial physician aside and turned around to slap the crown prince twice.
"What nonsense are you talking about? The Crown Prince... the Crown Prince has been ill and his mind is not clear. It's just a dead rabbit, throw it away!"
After saying that, he threw the rabbit down, and seeing that the prince was still sniffling and about to cry, he slapped him twice harder.
Holding the bewildered Crown Prince who had been beaten, she feigned sadness and cried, "What am I going to do? My perfectly healthy son, how did he end up like this after returning from the Duke of Liang's mansion!"
This shifts the blame back to Si Jin.
It seems that he is the one who caused this situation today.
"Your Majesty," Si Jin quickly admitted his mistake and readily said, "I have heard that if a child is frightened and talking nonsense, feeding him two buckets of swill can save him."
"This is a folk remedy from the North. If you really can't find a way to save the prince, you might as well try this."
Shen Zhiyu glared at him: "What did you say?"
Si Jin seemed completely oblivious to his anger and continued, "You must use the swill that has been left to rot for four or five days after washing the dishes in the kitchen, leave it in the sun for two hours until you smell the pungent and disgusting stench, and then have the Crown Prince drink it. That will bring him back to his senses and stop him from talking nonsense."
"You...you are simply..." Shen Zhi was overwhelmed with anger and heartache. This Mu Sijin was practically trying to kill his child!
But if we don't go along with him, how can we explain what the Crown Prince just said?
"Someone come here!" Before Shen Zhiyu could answer, the Empress Dowager summoned a servant to fetch the swill.
Coincidentally, the imperial kitchen happened to have some foul-smelling swill that was left to dry in the sun and was about to be thrown away.
The palace maid pinched her nose and fed the prince two mouthfuls.
Although the prince didn't drink it, he vomited so badly that he was too weak to even speak.
How terrifying, how terrifying! How can Mu Sijin make the Empress Dowager listen to him? Waaaaah~
The crown prince lay in Shen Zhiyu's arms, sobbing uncontrollably.
So what if he tortured a dozen people to death? So what if he burned the medicine Mu Sijin was using to save her life?
Ping'er is so cute, why treat her like this?
Waaaaaahh ...
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