Chapter 397 I Can't Bear to See My Son Take the Top Score
If we leave Xiao Muheng here or ask a doctor to treat his rash, then anyone who faints next time will have to take precautions, which will be a mess.
"Then I will go inform the Xiao family and ask them to send someone to bring the person back."
"Well, go quickly."
As they spoke, several people carried Xiao Muheng out of the Imperial Examination Hall. They did not dare to leave him at the door, but moved a chair to a cool place.
At the Xiao Mansion, Mr. Xiao was dreaming of his son becoming the top scholar, and he was in high spirits every day. Today he went out to have a drink with someone. Madam Xiao and her daughter went to a jewelry store, and the steward reported it directly to Liu Anyao.
Liu Anyao was looking at the account book. She jumped up from the bed in shock when she heard the words. She looked at the manager in disbelief.
"Say it again."
The steward gritted his teeth and told the story of how the young master fainted and was carried out of the Imperial Examination Hall: "...I have sent someone to take the young master back to the palace."
"He fainted in the Imperial Examination Hall and was carried out. Then...what about his exam?" Liu Anyao asked in amazement.
The steward said: "Of course it is invalid."
As he said this, he felt very regretful in his heart. Why did he faint?
The eldest young master is not such a delicate person. Now that he fainted during the exam and was carried out of the Imperial College, it meant that he gave up this autumn exam and would have to wait for three more years.
Liu Anyao's face looked extremely ugly, and she couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with Xiao Muheng.
It's really useless.
Such a mistake happened at the last minute. If he could have passed the exam, her father would have helped him get a government position without any problem.
Haven’t you always been confident that you can be among the top three?
Now, there is not even one other Jinshi candidate.
When will she be able to get the title of Lady with an Imperial Concubine? If Xiao Muheng fails the exam, she can only carry the title of Juren. What use is this in the capital? Even if her family is extremely wealthy, it cannot make her superior to others.
The steward looked at Liu Anyao and said weakly, "Then... Madam, I will tell the master and the madam to leave first."
Liu Anyao was so angry that she didn't even want to say a word and waved at the manager.
The steward clasped his fists and then stepped back.
The servant quickly brought Xiao Muheng back to the mansion, along with a doctor, who was sent directly to the main courtyard.
Liu Anyao looked at Xiao Muheng's pale face, and a hint of heartache rose in her resentful heart.
At this time, Lu Mingzhu's crying was heard outside.
"Husband, husband...what's wrong with you, husband..."
Liu Anyao was upset because Xiao Muheng fainted in the examination room and thus lost the opportunity to take the exam. When she heard Lu Mingzhu's voice, her brows immediately turned cold.
When Lu Mingzhu just ran into the inner room, Liu Anyao glared at her angrily: "Shut up, what's the point of crying like that? Get out."
Lu Mingzhu was shocked by Liu Anyao's impressive aura. After a moment of hesitation, she weakly resisted: "I won't. I want to stay here and guard my husband."
Having said that, he rushed towards the bed.
While the doctor was taking Xiao Muheng's pulse, she sat at the head of the bed, looking at him with a face full of infatuation and anxiety.
Liu Anyao's eyes suddenly darkened.
This bitch Lu Mingzhu is becoming more and more presumptuous, relying on the child in her belly.
However, Xiao Muheng solemnly told her to take good care of Lu Mingzhu, so Liu Anyao did not dare to act rashly.
"Doctor, what's going on?" Lu Mingzhu asked again after a while.
"Please be quiet, auntie, and don't disturb me while I'm taking the young master's pulse." The doctor turned his head and looked at Lu Mingzhu coldly, and said.
She started crying before she even entered the house, and he was taking her pulse carefully and talking.
Can you be quieter?
Lu Mingzhu was so angry that she choked, gritted her teeth and glared at the back of the doctor's head, but did not dare to say anything more.
He was still taking care of her own fetus. If she angered the doctor and asked him to collude with Liu Anyao to murder her son, it would be a waste of time and effort.
The room became quiet.
Not long after, the doctor took back the pulse pillow, stood up and said to Liu Anyao: "Madam, the young master is slightly poisoned."
"What? Poisoned?" Before Liu Anyao could be surprised, Lu Mingzhu covered her mouth and screamed, "My husband's food was prepared by the mansion. Who wants to murder my husband?"
As he spoke, his eyes subconsciously looked towards Liu Anyao.
Liu Anyao was so angry that she fell backwards.
"What are you looking at me for?"
Lu Mingzhu glanced at Liu Anyao timidly: "Why are you glaring at me, Madam? I didn't say anything."
You didn't say anything, but your eyes said it all.
She was the one who prepared her husband's food and clothes, and she also ordered the kitchen to prepare everything he should eat during the exam. Now that the doctor took his pulse and said he had been poisoned, wasn't she the first person to be suspected?
Liu Anyao was so angry that she was shaking all over.
Lu Mingzhu is such a pig-brained person that she doesn't even think about what benefit she will get from poisoning Xiao Muheng.
The doctor was not stupid, so he could hear the turmoil between the two. After thinking for a while, he said, "It's hard to say whether it was from the young master. Take out everything that the young master used in the Imperial Examination Hall, and I will check them one by one. I will prescribe medicine to help the young master detoxify first."
He cannot simply conclude that the problem lies with the patient's diet. This would be careless as a doctor.
Besides, it was impossible for him to stand on the same side with Aunt Lu to accuse the lady of her faults.
Liu Anyao nodded with a slightly gloomy expression, and then asked: "Is it serious that the young master has been poisoned?"
"It's nothing serious. It's not the common poison we see. It should be that the young master touched something he shouldn't have touched."
"That's good." Liu Anyao breathed a sigh of relief, and then ordered the servants to bring all the things Xiao Muheng brought into the tribute hall and put them on the table.
Whatever couldn't fit on the table was placed directly on the floor.
She doesn't want to be a widow at such a young age.
Liu Anyao sat on the soft couch beside her. Shuhua brought her a cup of tea. She watched the doctor examine her. Lu Mingzhu was also thirsty, but seeing Liu Anyao's unhappy face, she didn't dare to ask for any. She just sulked in her heart.
The doctor checked each item one by one, especially the food, and was more careful. However, when he checked the last item, he did not find anything wrong.
At this time, Master Xiao, Madam Xiao and Xiao Xiao hurriedly walked in after receiving the report from the servants.
"What's going on?"
As soon as he entered the house, he saw the mess in the inner room. Mr. Xiao was stunned for a moment and then asked.
The doctor stood up and saluted, then replied: "In reply to the master, the eldest master has a slight poisoning, and I am checking the source of the poison."
"Someone in the Imperial Examination Hall poisoned my brother. Who is so vicious?" Xiao Xiao roared angrily.
Madam Xiao was shocked when she heard this. She looked at Liu Anyao anxiously and said, "Yao'er, someone must be unwilling to see Heng'er pass the exam and become the top scholar, so they came up with such a vicious idea. Go and tell Prime Minister Liu and ask him to investigate it strictly."
"Yes, stop the autumn test immediately and continue after my son gets better." Mrs. Xiao agreed, clenching her fists.
"Dad, Mom, don't worry. If someone really wants to harm my husband, I will not let them go. However, poisoning the Imperial Examination Hall is a serious matter, so we should not rush into it. Let's wait until my husband wakes up and ask him what happened, then we can go."
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