Zhong Mingwei seemed to be struck by thunder. His face suddenly turned pale and his hands began to tremble. A few drops of tea in the cup suddenly splashed out. He hurriedly put the cup down and tried not to lose his composure. After a long silence, he looked at Gu Changlin. He pretended to be calm and said, "Maybe it's because I don't like sex. To be honest, sir, although there was no shortage of women in the backyard of the East Palace in the past, the number of times I went there in these years can be counted on one hand. So... it's understandable that I have no children."
"Then Mingwei, why didn't you like sex at that time?" Gu Changlin asked again, he stared at Zhong Mingwei's trembling hands. He felt extremely uncomfortable. He knew that what he said was very heartbreaking, but he couldn't stop, "Mingwei. You are healthy and in your prime. You are the most vigorous and energetic. Even if you didn't meet your sweetheart, your body was mature after all. Why didn't you like sex?"
Yes. From the age of eighteen to thirty, men are in their best and most impulsive years. How could he, a normal man with a strong body, not be interested in those delicate women in the backyard all day long? How could he have endured for more than ten years without having a son or daughter?
Zhong Mingwei was speechless and his whole body began to tremble. At the beginning, he could still control it, but now, he could no longer control it. It was as if he was suddenly thrown into an ice cave. He was cold from head to toe.
"Mingwei, maybe I made a mistake," Gu Changlin couldn't bear to see him like this. He reached out and patted Zhong Mingwei's hand. He wanted to comfort Zhong Mingwei again, but he couldn't say it. After a while, he said, "I felt your pulse was strange from the beginning, but I couldn't tell what was strange. This time when I returned to Yanshe, I looked through all the medical records that I had saved for decades. Sure enough, I encountered the same pulse as yours twenty years ago."
"Is...is it caused by poisoning?" Zhong Mingwei said through gritted teeth.
When he was in the capital, he had never been interested in sex, and he didn't even want to look at those women. But when he came to Ningguta and faced Mei Ya, he was madly infatuated with her like all normal men in love. He was not only infatuated with her gentleness and kindness, but also infatuated with her body. He had never been so crazy and passionate. He wanted to marry her and become one with her, and he hoped to have children with her.
Even he himself could clearly feel his changes. He once wondered why Zhong Mingwei in the capital was so different from Zhong Mingwei in Ningguta. He couldn't figure it out before, but today, he suddenly realized it.
"Yes," Gu Changlin nodded, "Huanqingsan, a secret medicine from the Western Regions, is colorless and tasteless, soluble in water, and can suppress sexual desire after taking it. Long-term use will..."
Having said this, Gu Changlin couldn't continue. He looked at Zhong Mingwei, whose face was pale, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"What will happen?" Zhong Mingwei asked tremblingly.
"It will damage the foundation. In severe cases, it will be difficult for the person to have children for life," Gu Changlin said in a deep voice. He really didn't want to say this, but he had to. He looked at the colorful balls of silk in the sewing basket and felt so uncomfortable that he couldn't bear to look at it. He turned his head and said in a deep voice, "This medicine is fine for a short period of time, but if you take it for a long time, you may be fine, but your foundation has already collapsed. It will be harder than climbing to the sky to remedy it in the future."
Zhong Mingwei stared at the basket of silk threads until his face was covered with sweat. He seemed to suddenly remember something and suddenly grabbed Gu Changlin's hand as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw. He asked anxiously, "Sir, you just said that twenty years ago, you treated a patient with the same pulse as mine. What happened later? Did the patient recover? How is he now?"
"I couldn't cure him." Facing such an anxious face, Gu Changlin felt helpless and guilty. After a pause, he said in a deep voice, "Huanqing Powder is a secret medicine from the royal family of the Western Regions. It is said that it was personally prepared by a concubine hundreds of years ago and used to compete for favor in the harem. The antidote formula has long been lost. Even Huanqing Powder is hard to find in the world now. I haven't heard of this medicine for decades." At this point, Gu Changlin sighed again, "I didn't expect that the Great Zhou actually has this medicine. I just don't know who is so cruel to use it on you."
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