Chapter 72: The Crown Prince's Illness His Royal Highness is not very able to practice...
After the queen left, all the noble ladies fell silent.
"How about we play a game?" Mu Ziyu stood up and said.
"Xiao Qi, who is this woman?" Mu Xingchen asked.
Xiao Qi: "I just heard Mu Lin call her Zi Yu. She should be the Prime Minister's daughter, Mu Zi Yu. She and Mu Lin appear to have a good relationship, but in reality, it's not. Because the Prime Minister's Mansion also covets that position and wants Mu Zi Yu to marry Li Yan, so she and Mu Lin are actually at odds with each other privately. Your disturbance today actually helped her, and also helped Mu Lin."
Mu Xingchen immediately sighed, "Is that so."
Everyone coveted that position, but why was everyone so certain that Li Yan would get it? What if it wasn't him who got it, or, in other words, someone else's last name wasn't Li...
"What game?" the other girls immediately asked Mu Ziyu.
Mu Ziyu smiled and looked at Mu Lin: "Let's have a poetry competition! What do you think, Sister Lin?"
Mu Lin glanced at Mu Xingchen and smiled, "What do you think, big sister?"
Mu Xingchen raised her eyebrows and said, "Come!" She sat down at the table boldly.
Everyone looked at her strangely, with ambiguous expressions on their faces.
Mu Lin couldn't help but close her eyes. She said to the ladies awkwardly, "My elder sister is not good at speaking, so please don't make things difficult for me."
Mu Ziyu immediately disapproved and said, "Hey! Sister Lin, how can this be considered a challenge? If it is, then we'll have a sword fight!"
Everyone said in unison: "That's right, that's right."
You know, usually they would just compete directly, but today Mu Ziyu deliberately proposed a poetry competition, simply to thank Mu Qing for ruining the marriage of Mu Lin and Li Yan. Everyone knew this clearly in their hearts, so no one dared to make things difficult for Mu Qing at this moment.
Qushui Liushang, as the name suggests, whoever the cup stops in front of will drink and compose poetry.
Mu Xingchen lazily lay on the chair with her eyes half closed, bored. The water cup in front of her turned several times but couldn't get in front of her, but the others had already recited poems several rounds.
She yawned and said speechlessly in her heart: "Hahahaha, Xiaoqi, they deliberately didn't let me participate."
Xiao Qi: "Is it possible that they're afraid you'll be embarrassed if you can't answer correctly? But this doesn't feel right. Usually in such occasions, isn't the heroine supposed to be given a hard time and then stun everyone? How come you're not only not given a hard time, but you're even protected?"
Mu Xingchen was speechless: "They are not vicious female supporting characters. Do you really think that noble families in the real world would raise brainless noble ladies? They are smarter than each other." Even the words that Mu Ziyu deliberately said against her just now were just to make his position clear to the queen.
Now all three parties are happy, and she is the only one who has taken the blame, hehehehe...
She yawned: "Eh, boring."
Just as Mu Xingchen was sighing, the cup flowed in front of her.
Everyone looked at her intently, "This..." The pink-dressed woman who was reciting the poem asked in embarrassment. She turned around and glanced at Mu Ziyu with an embarrassed expression on her face.
Mu Ziyu pursed his lips, then said to Mu Xingchen, "In that case, how about a simple one, using the word plum as the title?"
Mu Xingchen's eyes lit up. "Okay." She cleared her throat and then slowly muttered, "Plum blossoms, cough cough." She coughed twice, then after a few seconds began to shake her head and said, "A few plum blossoms bloom alone in the corner of the wall in the cold. I know it's not snow because of the subtle fragrance."
Everyone fell silent again. After a few seconds, there was a burst of enthusiastic applause from behind: "Good! Good, great poem!!!"
Everyone looked behind them and saw Li Yan and two men walking towards them.
Everyone stood up and saluted, saying, "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Prince Yan, and Prince Feng."
Mu Xingchen looked at the person who had just applauded. He was wearing a silver robe and holding a fan in his hand. The tip of the fan was shining silver in the sun and looked extremely sharp.
The other person wearing white clothes and a mask should be the prince. His white clothes are almost plain white without any patterns. He wears an inconspicuous green bamboo jade hairpin on his head. His black hair looks a little dull, and the exposed fingertips are also white. It is obvious that he is terminally ill.
"Get up." The prince said in a hoarse voice, his eyes swept across Mu Xingchen in the crowd and disappeared in a flash.
Li Fengqi glanced at Li Yan, then said with some regret: "Some people are blind and miss such a talented girl. Tsk, what a pity." He shook his head with regret.
Mu Xingchen suddenly asked curiously, "Do you think this poem is well written, my lord?"
Li Fengqi nodded without hesitation and said excitedly, "Great! Very good! That's excellent!"
Mu Xingchen curled the corners of her lips, then looked at the Crown Prince and asked, "What do you think, Your Highness?"
The prince glanced at her and said calmly, "Not bad."
Mu Xingchen immediately sighed to Xiao Qi in his heart: "How cold."
Xiao Qi: "He's not that Li Jing, of course he's cold."
"What a pity." Mu Xingchen suddenly sighed loudly to everyone.
Li Fengqi immediately put away his fan and asked in confusion, "What a pity?"
Mu Xingchen sighed: "It's a pity that this poem was not written by me."
"Who is that?" he asked curiously.
Mu Xingchen suddenly said with great vigor, "The original author of this poem is Wang Wei!"
Several people looked at each other in confusion. Li Fengqi said in surprise, "I haven't heard of it. To be able to write such a poem, he must have been famous for a long time."
"Hmph, plagiarizing other people's poems is your usual style." Li Yan said sarcastically.
"Hey!" Li Fengqi immediately disagreed, "Prince Yan, you can't say that. You are showing blatant prejudice against Miss Mu. In my opinion, this poem must have been written by her. It's just that Miss Mu is low-key. Otherwise, how could I not have heard of Wang Wei?"
Mu Xingchen twitched her lips. She had also experienced a scene in the novel.
Xiao Qi complained: "What a corny plot."
"Hehehe..." She said the two words "Wang Wei" with such vigor, but he still didn't believe it.
"Okay, that's enough." The prince said calmly.
Li Fengqi immediately fell silent: "Yes, Your Highness." After that, he said to the group of noble ladies: "The martial arts arena has been set up, ladies, come and join in the fun!"
"Okay!" everyone said in unison.
Mu Xingchen's eyes also lit up a little. Fighting was her favorite thing to watch.
"Cough cough cough." The prince covered his lips and his face turned pale.
Li Fengqi immediately asked worriedly, "Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince okay?"
The prince shook his head: "No problem."
Mu Xingchen's eyes flashed. She pondered for a few seconds and then stepped forward and asked, "Is Your Highness feeling unwell?"
Li Fengqi immediately rolled his eyes at her: "You are talking nonsense!"
Mu Xingchen smiled harmlessly and said, "This servant knows some medical skills. Could you let me take a look at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Li Jing stopped and turned to look at her, his eyes dark.
"Are you a doctor?" he asked in a slightly cold voice.
Mu Xingchen nodded and said confidently, "I know a little bit."
Mu Lin was suddenly overwhelmed. She whispered in Mu Xingchen's ear, gritting her teeth, "What on earth are you going to do? You're not done until you've offended everyone in the palace, are you?"
Mu Qinxin said something quite meaningful: "Big sister has changed a lot compared to before."
The curve of Mu Xingchen's mouth grew wider, and she sighed, "There are so many things my sister doesn't know."
This sentence can be said to have cast a shadow over the Mu family both openly and covertly.
Mu Lin immediately tried to smooth things over: "Haha, big sister, you're joking."
Li Fengqi said strangely, "Even if you know medical skills, don't you know how to practice? Even if you know medical skills, you can't treat His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Li Yan sneered, "What a disgrace."
"Isn't it true that Your Highness the Crown Prince is not very capable of cultivation?" Mu Xingchen said unscrupulously.
The whole place fell silent. Although everyone knew that the Crown Prince's cultivation was low due to his physical condition, he was still the Crown Prince of a country. To say this openly...
Mu Lin immediately held her forehead with one hand. She took a deep breath and apologized to Li Jing, "Your Highness, please don't blame me. My elder sister has always been like this. She has never been to the palace before and doesn't know the limits. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
Li Fengqi was immediately puzzled again, "Why do you sisters still disagree with each other? One says she's changed a lot, the other says she's always been the same. So which one is the real her?"
Mu Lin turned around and looked at Mu Qinxin, who immediately apologized and said, "It's my fault. I had very little contact with Big Sister before, so I made an unfounded judgment. Your Highness the Crown Prince and Master Feng, please forgive me."
Li Jing said calmly, "No problem." He looked at Mu Xingchen and said, "Since you want to see it, I'll let you see it." He then stretched out his right hand. Without the sleeve covering his wrist, a spiderweb-like pattern suddenly appeared, tangled and intertwined around his wrist like a strange ancient curse.
Mu Xingchen placed her finger on it, her face darkening. "His pulse is weak, his spiritual roots have been eaten away almost completely, and every inch of his meridians feels like they've been poisoned. Xiaoqi, can you tell what poison he's been infected with?"
Xiao Qi: "This poison is similar to the Bone Erosion Poison, but it is even more powerful than the Bone Erosion Poison. It is an upgraded version of the Bone Erosion Poison."
Mu Xingchen frowned: "What do you mean?"
Xiao Qi: "Ordinary bone-eating agglutinants simply cling to the spirit veins, eroding them bit by bit and making it impossible for the person to cultivate. But this person's bone-eating agglutinant is different. It doesn't eat away at the spirit veins at first, allowing the person to cultivate unnoticed. Once the person reaches the Wind Transformation Realm, it will begin to release a deadly poison, which silently seeps into the person's meridians and internal organs. By the time the person realizes they've been poisoned, it's too late. At this point, the bone-eating agglutinants will begin to eat away at the spirit veins, and after eating away the spirit veins, it will gradually eat away at the meridians and internal organs, eventually leading to death from exhaustion."
Mu Xingchen's breathing stagnated, and she was shocked at the same time. She was too familiar with this method of making poison.
"Xiao Qi." She said with difficulty.
Xiao Qi: "You think so too, don't you? With this level of drug production, the first person I think of is that person."
Bai Xu.
Xiao Qi: "But the prince was poisoned when he was born twenty years ago. According to the timeline, it is unlikely that it was him. Maybe there is another poison-making expert."
Mu Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief: "You're right. Can this poison be cured?"
Xiao Qi: "It can't be solved. It's too late to find out. He will die unless all his meridians and organs are replaced."
This is also where the upgraded version of the bone-eroding poison is located. Once discovered, it will be in the late stage.
"Hey, have you found anything after examining him for so long?" Li Fengqi asked.
Mu Xingchen came back to her senses, she withdrew her hand and said with a pale face: "Oh, there is nothing I can do."
Li Yan snorted sarcastically, "Shame on you."
"No problem." The prince said calmly, "Let's go."
Along the way, Li Fengqi chirped in Mu Xingchen's ear: "It's okay, even the Medicine King is powerless and it's normal that you can't cure the disease, don't lose heart..."
Mu Xingchen nodded and said perfunctorily, "Thank you for your concern, Master Feng."
The prince paused and glanced back. He said calmly, "Afeng."
"Hey." Li Fengqi said and chased after him.
Mu Xingchen looked at the backs of the others with a dark expression. "It seems that Li Jing's suspicion has been ruled out, but if he is not him, who else could it be?"
Xiao Qi: "For example, he was switched when he was young? He's not of royal blood?"
Mu Xingchen couldn't help but feel a headache. Now the only clue was completely cut off.
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