Lu Ziyuan sighed, "You really care about your maid."
Zhong Muyu said meaningfully, "Of course I care. There are so many wolves and tigers in the Prince's mansion. What if someone kidnaps her?"
“How could they be jackals and tigers? They are all brave and valiant men.”
"Those are jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards."
Lu Ziyuan couldn't help but laugh: "What if she really gets kidnapped?"
"That depends on whether the person who kidnapped her is a good person. If he's not, I'll break his legs!"
Hearing Zhong Muyu say this, Lu Ziyuan felt inexplicably worried for Chengfeng.
It seems that the road to winning back his wife is long and arduous.
The banquet was still in full swing when a figure walked through the crowd and came to Lu Ziyuan and Zhong Muyu.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, something terrible has happened! Please return to the manor immediately!"
Lu Ziyuan's eyes sharpened: "What happened?"
"It's Xinxiang Courtyard, the people there are all..."
Seeing the guard's indescribable expression, Zhong Muyu jumped up and ran outside: "What happened to them? Take me back to see them quickly."
"Zhong Muyu, don't panic."
Lu Ziyuan followed her, and Zhong Muyu said, "Let Zaochun and the others stay here, and just the two of us will go back."
Lu Ziyuan knew she wanted to protect Zaochun, so he agreed.
The two rode back to the Prince's mansion at top speed, and as soon as they entered the gate, they saw Uncle Qiu looking anxious: "Your Highness and Your Highness, you're finally back!"
Zhong Muyu asked first, "What exactly happened at Xinxiang Courtyard?"
"This is strange. In short, those maids suddenly fell ill and their condition is now terrible. The royal physician is doing his best to treat them."
"A sudden illness? How could that be?"
Zhong Muyu simply couldn't believe it; Xinxiang Courtyard was spotless every day, and you couldn't even see a mouse.
However, just in case, she still took out two masks: "Wear these, just in case."
Lu Ziyuan put on a mask just like her, and the two quickly headed to Xinxiang Courtyard.
They were neatly arranged in a room. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they heard cries and screams coming from inside. When they opened the door, a strange smell rushed out.
The smell of blood mixed with the smell of medicine was unbearable.
Several physicians were doing their best to treat the maids. Zhong Muyu saw that the maids had varying degrees of redness, swelling and ulceration on their bodies and faces, but because of the strict separation of men and women in this era, the physicians only dared to examine their faces and arms.
Some people's clothes were soaked with pus and blood, revealing patches of light red marks.
Zhong Muyu gestured to Lu Ziyuan, "Why don't you go out first?"
“If they are really sick, I don’t feel comfortable leaving you here.”
Lu Ziyuan was worried that they had contracted some strange infectious disease.
Zhong Muyu turned to one of the palace physicians and asked, "Have you found out? What exactly happened to them?"
"It seems they have been poisoned, but this poison is very strange; we have never seen it before. However, please rest assured, Your Highness and Your Highness, their lives are not in danger, and this condition is not contagious."
Zhong Muyu asked, "Could we try to concoct an antidote?"
"Since we've never seen this poison before, we can only do our best."
Lu Ziyuan waved his hand: "Then go and prepare the antidote as soon as possible, don't delay!"
The physicians nodded repeatedly and all left.
Of all these people, Qiao'er's symptoms seemed the mildest, but even so, she still had a cut on her face that was bleeding.
"Waaaaah! Your Highness, am I going to die?"
The maids were crying their hearts out. Zhong Muyu felt very complicated. Even if it wasn't fatal, ruining their bodies and appearances was equivalent to ruining their lives. The person who poisoned them was really too ruthless.
Zhong Muyu comforted them, "None of you will die. I will do my best to save you."
"But even the imperial physician doesn't know the cure for this poison. How can we get an antidote?"
Zhong Muyu thought for a moment, then took out a transparent petri dish from her sleeve.
“I need the pus and blood from your bodies or faces now, please squeeze some out.”
The group looked at each other, wondering what she was going to do.
However, Zhong Muyu had no time to waste. They were still in pain, and she needed to find out who had poisoned them as soon as possible and try to find out the antidote.
Zhong Muyu carefully collected a little bit, then put it in her sleeve, and it disappeared.
Lu Ziyuan asked, "What are you doing?"
"I have my own uses. The most urgent task is to find out why they were poisoned."
Qiao'er said, "We don't know either. Everyone was fine when we woke up this morning, but after breakfast, our bodies and faces started to itch, and soon..."
Qiao'er became more and more upset as she spoke. Now they were crying not only because of the pain and itching on their bodies, but also because of the emotional blow of disfigurement.
"Did this happen after you ate? Did you come into contact with anything during that time? Or did you find anything strange at Xinxiang Courtyard?"
The maids chattered on and on about what she had done after getting up in the morning, which consisted of nothing more than washing up, getting dressed, sweeping the floor, cooking, and tidying up the room.
After gathering the information, Zhong Muyu told them to rest well, and then left the room with Lu Ziyuan.
Lu Ziyuan said, "Looking at it this way, Xinxiang Courtyard is not safe at all. Zhong Muyu, you shouldn't stay here for the next few days."
"No, not necessarily. Why did they have an accident, but Zaochun and I were fine? Our room is definitely safe. Maybe they touched some poisonous tool or ate something poisonous. People come and go in Xinxiang Courtyard, so it's not hard to find an opportunity to poison someone."
The more Zhong Muyu talked, the more she felt that she had to investigate this matter herself.
No one would make things difficult for a group of maids; the poisoner was likely targeting her.
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