Chapter 36: Leaving the Palace
"It's the incense used exclusively in brothels!"
Imperial Physician Mi pondered for a moment, then stroked his beard with his fingers. A gleam of light flashed in his eyes. "This is a very common kind of incense, only used to enhance sexual desire. At most, it will only cause confusion and infatuation, but it will not cause much harm to the human body."
"Your Majesty's reaction isn't right. Could it be that the Gu has amplified your emotions and desires?"
"but--!"
Doctor Mi dragged out the last syllable of his word.
Several people fought under the moonlight. The melee over there seemed a little weak, and Gao Tang's whisk was almost broken by Xin Hongying. On the other side, Doctor Mi was lost in thought, walking slowly.
Shen Tingyu was a little anxious: "Doctor Mi, don't keep me in suspense, tell me quickly!"
"Something's not right!" Imperial Physician Mi paced back and forth in thought, nodded, then shook his head. Suddenly, he looked up and slowly asked, "Bloody clothes?"
Suddenly, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, "Could it be that the problem is this blood?"
He spoke rapidly, suddenly realizing, "This blood and the Ecstasy Incense repel each other. This is why your Majesty's lust and anger collided, causing him to lose all reason and be controlled by the insect."
Imperial Physician Mi shook the scarlet gauze in his hand and asked, "Whose blood is this?"
Lady Gu was already dead, completely cold, and no one could know. Shen Tingyu shook her head slowly, and she asked: "Then, Doctor Mi, is there any way to restore His Majesty's sanity?"
Imperial Physician Mi looked serious and nodded slowly, saying, "Of course there is a way."
He took out a pill and said, "Your Majesty only needs to take this Qingxin Yulu Pill. It will calm his lust, harmonize his yin and yang, and restore his disordered emotions to peace."
"but--!"
But what? This is an emergency, and you are still doing this. Shen Tingyu was speechless, his face darkened, and a nameless anger rose in his heart.
Shen Tingyu gritted his teeth and asked, “But what?”
The three of them fought back and forth for dozens of rounds. Gao Tang and the secret guard who suddenly appeared were almost unable to hold on. The tyrant grabbed the secret guard's neck and lifted her whole body up with her feet off the ground.
Imperial Physician Mi held up the pill in his hand and looked at His Majesty. His legs felt weak and his face looked like he was about to die. "Who can control His Majesty and make him take this Qingxin Yulu Pill?"
It's over. He never knew that His Majesty's martial arts were so powerful.
Shen Tingyu also turned his head to look, his face solemn, and said slowly: “Simple…use drugs!”
After great efforts, they finally used drugs to knock Xin Hongying unconscious completely. For a moment, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.
Gao Tang's hand holding the whisk trembled slightly, and the secret guard who suddenly appeared touched his neck and coughed lightly.
Looking at his peaceful sleeping face, Shen Tingyu gave the Qingxin Yulu Pill to the tyrant, and listened to the mechanical sound of the system broadcast, feeling a little relieved.
[Ding! The target Xin Hongying's health is increasing by 20%... 35%... 41%... 59%... 86%]
In the end, the health value stopped at 86%, and Shen Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief.
[Great, host! Xiao Qi was just afraid... afraid that you, host, would fail to complete the mission and be wiped out by the Lord God!]
Shen Tingyu's eyes became solemn. Her life was connected with the tyrant's life. If his sanity returned to nothingness, he would become a brain-dead living dead.
Then she would fail in her mission and be wiped out!
This insect is a bomb after all. There's no guarantee that one day it might kill both you and the tyrant.
She didn't want to die, so for the sake of her own life, no matter whether the great or small doctors could remove the poison, she had to find them.
The main hall had already been cleaned and the calming incense was lit again.
Doctor Mi was giving acupuncture to Xin Hongying, but even in his sleep, his brows were tightly furrowed. He was not sleeping well, and was troubled by nightmares as if he would wake up at any time.
The torturous clamor finally ended.
She pushed open the door to the tyrant's study, which seemed like an empty place.
Among hundreds of books, Shen Tingyu quickly found the message letter he had written, which he had hidden away in anger because Da Que'er was hit by a stone by the tyrant.
Her slender fingers smoothed out the wrinkles on the rice paper. She lowered her eyes and calmly admired the letter with crooked and tilted strokes. Her fingers fell on the painting in the corner that showed her and Da Que'er in a dissimilar shape and spirit.
She took out a new piece of rice paper and wrote a message again.
As the sky brightened, a carriage drove out of the palace. The carriage was light and the horse's hooves made a clattering sound on the bluestone slabs.
The guards of the imperial city did not stop the carriage. If they had lifted the curtain, they would have found that there was no one in the carriage.
There was only a tiny sparrow and a palm-sized rag doll.
Since Shen Tingyu had been appointed as the national teacher, the guarding soldiers certainly did not dare to stop her and let her carriage leave.
The short period of time that the transformation pill could be used for had passed, and she turned into a rag doll again.
The palace gates were open, and most of the common people had woken up one after another. The carriage slowly left the bustling morning market. She lifted the curtain of the carriage, and saw a prosperous scene before her.
The uncle at the street corner rolled up his sleeves and shouted loudly: "Buy steamed buns, freshly baked steamed buns, big steamed buns, meat buns! Come and have a look..."
"Madam, you look so good. My rouge will make you look even better. Hey... Madam, please don't leave!"
"Madam Wen, you're here to buy meat again! The meat is very fresh today, take a look..."
The idle chatter among the people, the bell-like laughter of children, and the curve of Shen Tingyu's lips continued to rise.
The carriage passed through the downtown area lightly and stopped in a remote alley.
The coachman was a young eunuch she had randomly picked from the palace. He looked quite young, with a slightly childish complexion, and he didn't have the hoarse, duck-like voice of the older eunuchs. His voice sounded pleasant.
He observed his nose and heart, and did not ask why the carriage was parked in a deserted alley.
He simply stopped the carriage and said respectfully, "Master, we're here."
Shen Tingyu sent the little eunuch back, then she rode on Da Que'er and waited quietly for a while. After confirming that the little eunuch had really left, she lifted the curtain of the carriage, faced the warm sunrise, and flew in a certain direction.
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In the palace, on the bright yellow dragon bed, Xin Hongying slowly woke up. His forehead ached slightly, his head was dizzy, and his body felt very heavy.
His fingers covered the space between his eyebrows and pressed slowly.
The memories of last night flooded into his mind, and he suddenly threw off the quilt, turned over and got out of bed, walked barefoot on the cold floor, and went straight to Shen Tingyu's miniature palace, ignoring Gao Tang's dissuasion.
Gao Tang followed him with his boots in hand, shrieking, "Your Majesty, be careful not to catch a cold."
Tapping his fingers lightly, Xin Hongying asked cautiously, "Fairy, are you awake?"
For a long while, there was no response from the small palace.
"Where is the Imperial Master?"
Xin Hongying's face darkened, his inky eyes condensed into a flame of anger, and he roared in a low voice.
"try to find!"
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