Detoxification
"Father!"
Princess Shaolin picked up a pill from the table and fed it to the emperor. After the emperor took the pill, his frown relaxed.
She shook her head. "This isn't a solution. This pill can only temporarily alleviate Father's symptoms, but it can't cure them."
Yu Heyi raised his hand to feel his pulse.
It was indeed as the medical officer had said, the emperor's pulse was stable and there was no sign of poisoning.
"Princess, are there any silver needles in the palace?"
"Yes, but what do you need the silver needle for? The medical officer has tried it, and there is no abnormality when the silver needle enters father's body."
Although she was confused, she lifted her skirt and hurried to the side hall to get it from the doctor's medicine box.
Yu Heyi took the silver needle, lit the candle on the table, and slowly placed the silver needle in the candlelight.
The silver needle gradually turned red in the candlelight.
The hot silver needle pierced the emperor's forehead and took his blood.
"Ayi, taking my father's blood without his permission will be considered disrespectful!" Princess Shaolin looked around and patted her chest. "But there's no one else here. If you find out, I won't betray you."
"Your father's life is almost gone, and you're still sentencing me?"
"That's true. Father's life comes first. But you see, his blood is bright red, unlike someone who has been poisoned. Is it not poisonous?"
She looked at the blood on the needle tip with a half-smile: "Really?"
"Brother, you can't just stand here and do nothing, right? Go catch that rat."
Wanqi Si folded his arms across his chest, unmoved.
"It's just catching a mouse. Do you still want to investigate?"
She pushed him to the edge of the table with one hand, stepped on his shoulder, and spoke in a low voice.
He squatted down expressionlessly and picked up the black mouse hidden in the corner of the table with two fingers.
The mouse was fat and began to struggle in his hands, squeaking.
"ah--!!"
"Why are there rats in the palace?!"
Princess Shaolin screamed and hid behind Yu Heyi.
Just a mouse.
Yu Heyi lowered his eyes and put the needle tip to the mouse's mouth.
The mouse struggled and licked it a few times, but after a moment, it stopped moving.
"Dead." Wanqi Si threw it aside.
"It's colorless and odorless, hard to detect. It's a twin poison." Yu Heyi looked at the dead rat on the ground calmly, remembering the poison she had seen in medical books. "The pulse is steady because the poison in his blood has been masked."
"Twin Poisons, as the name suggests, are two poisons coexisting together. One is mild and imperceptible, while the other is deadly and highly toxic."
"The former masks the toxicity of the latter, so the doctors couldn't see the signs that Your Majesty was poisoned."
She picked up the handkerchief to wipe off the remaining blood and gave the silver needle to Emperor Shaolin Princess.
Wanqi Si lazily leaned against the wall and said, "I didn't expect that the royal family only looks glamorous and beautiful. In fact, even rats can crawl into the emperor's bedroom."
"That's because... because my father is seriously ill, the maids who clean the chambers have been lazy! I will go and punish them right away!"
"And those good-for-nothings in the Imperial Hospital! Father was clearly poisoned, yet they still dare to keep saying he wasn't. How audacious!"
Princess Shaolin stared with her eyes wide open and her teeth chattered.
"Princess, please don't be angry. Twin poisons are extremely rare, so it's normal for some doctors to be unaware of them. But it's a bit suspicious that no one in the huge Imperial Hospital knows about it."
"you mean?"
"Maybe someone did it on purpose."
"How dare you! I didn't even know how many vicious wolves were kept in the palace!"
The veins on her forehead were throbbing, and she was about to rush out and point at the medical officer's nose to question him, but was stopped by Wanqi Si.
He raised his eyebrows slightly and sneered.
It was as if he was laughing at the fact that the human princess turned out to be such a reckless and reckless person.
At night, the sky is filled with stars.
Princess Shaolin watched Eunuch Guan help her father wash up and prepare to go back to his bedroom to rest, when she suddenly heard someone calling her name.
"Shao Lin..."
Father?
She frowned and walked back.
The emperor, who was rarely awake during the day, was now standing up.
His eyes were dull and a string of saliva hung from the corner of his mouth, wetting the collar of his robe.
Princess Shaolin took a handkerchief to wipe away his saliva, and supported his arm as she returned to the bedside: "Father, it's getting late, it's time to rest."
"Shao Lin... I want to go for a walk..."
She looked out the door, the moonlight flickering under the cover of dark clouds.
Father's illness seems to be more serious, even more serious than before.
Seeing that she was unwilling to take him for a walk, the emperor looked dissatisfied and drooled again.
If the ministers and the people saw him like this, I wonder if they would recognize him as the emperor.
She sighed, picked up her cloak helplessly, and knocked on Yu Heyi's door.
The night wind made the tip of her nose feel cold.
"Ayi, my father suddenly wants to take a walk. Can you accompany me?"
After Yu Heyi put on her clothes and went out, Princess Shaolin covered her with a cloak without saying a word and took her arm as she walked.
"Why does Your Majesty suddenly want to take a night walk?"
"I don't know either, but the spring night breeze is still quite chilly, so I brought a cloak for you."
The emperor was beside the pond in the palace.
The pond looked particularly clear and cool under the moonlight.
"Ayi, I'm not afraid that you'll dislike me, so I called you here. Please don't laugh at me."
Princess Shaolin held the emperor's arm, worried that he would fall into the pond.
The moment the emperor turned around, Yu Heyi's pupils suddenly shrank.
His expression was no different from that of a foolish child she had seen before who had gone mad.
When Chen Xu was in the Shen Mansion, he also looked so stupid. They had the same symptoms!
Poppy scent?
Sachet?
She suddenly remembered that Princess Shaolin asked her about the material of the sachet as soon as they met, but she didn't have the habit of wearing sachets.
But she didn't, so what about the emperor?
"Princess, do you often wear a sachet?"
Princess Shaolin was baffled. "Of course, this is the custom both my mother and I share. My mother even stuffs sachets of perfume into father's mouth, but he doesn't like them."
"There's no time for a stroll. Princess, please return to His Majesty's chambers and give me the sachet His Majesty used!"
"You smell so good, why do you need a sachet?"
Yu Heyi heard the displeasure in her tone.
Princess Shaolin invited her to accompany His Majesty for a walk in the palace and kindly gave her a coat to wear. However, she wanted to go home before she had taken two steps.
No one would be happy if it were the case.
But she had no mind to gauge the other person's emotions.
If her guess is correct, the emperor's illness must be a trick of the two demons and the old man, and they have to get clues related to the old man from it.
Back in his bedroom, the emperor sat on the ground, completely lacking the majesty of an emperor.
Princess Shaolin found five or six sachets in a row, but none of them had the scent of poppy.
She murmured, "Guessed wrong...?"
"The smell of my father's sachets is average. If you are interested, you can try mine."
"Have you searched everything? Does Your Majesty have any other sachets?"
"Yu Heyi, what exactly do you want to do?" Princess Shaolin's face turned cold. In her eyes, the other party's behavior was tantamount to provoking trouble.
"Princess, have you ever seen someone poisoned? Would they want to take a walk at night?"
"I once saw a child in a similar situation to your Majesty. He was framed and became insane."
"The weaker of the twin poisons accumulates over time. Once it reaches a certain level, it will immediately kill you if it encounters the stronger poison. But your majesty hasn't been in any trouble yet, which means he hasn't been exposed to the stronger poison yet."
Princess Shaolin remained silent.
A poisoned person...would not think of taking a walk at night. My father's behavior is indeed difficult to explain.
Yu Heyi turned to look at the emperor, whose eyes were dazed. "Either the person who poisoned you is the same person who caused your majesty to go insane. This is for double insurance. Even if he survives, he will only be a complete lunatic in the future."
"Or the two have nothing to do with each other, but both are here to take your Majesty's life."
"Who on earth would be so cruel to my father?"
"Princess, go out of the palace tomorrow and buy some lavender to place in His Majesty's bedroom. It will have a calming effect."
At midnight, when the moon disappeared, Yu Heyi fell into a deep sleep.
A dreamless night.
The next morning, Princess Shaolin prepared the carriage and left the palace as she had said.
He could have asked a servant to buy it, but Yu Heyi was not sure if there was anyone in the palace with evil intentions, so he had to let her go to avoid alerting the enemy.
Lavender was placed on the table, and the faint scent of lavender filled the bedroom.
The emperor stood up and sat at the table, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood at Lavender.
Princess Shaolin quickly supported him, looking worried.
"Father's poison seems to be getting deeper and deeper!"
Yu Heyi took his pulse again, and it was still stable.
The emperor has not yet been exposed to the stronger of the twin poisons, but the weaker one has accumulated to a certain extent.
So much so that his condition became worse and worse.
She suddenly remembered something and took out a pill from her sleeve.
It was the Blood Spirit Pill that Qi Shouchu gave her on the day they came to the mortal world. It was said that the Blood Spirit Pill could cure all poisons in the world and was one of the few treasures in the six realms.
She placed the Blood Spirit Pill in the emperor's mouth, and was grabbed by the wrist by Wanqi Si who pushed open the door.
Wanqi Si: "This is what the old man gave you. Are you sure you want to give it to someone else?"
Yu Heyi nodded, and he didn't try to stop him and let go of his hand.
Princess Shaolin took a glass of water and gave it to him, patting his back gently.
After a while, the emperor's blackened lips gradually regained color, and his eyes were no longer as dull as before.
He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, but it was not bright red like before he took the elixir, but black blood.
"Has Father's poison been cured?"
Seeing this, Princess Shaolin looked at her with an expression of surprise that could not be concealed.
When the emperor regained consciousness, he saw two strangers standing in his bedroom and frowned involuntarily.
"Shao Lin, who are they?"
"Replying to Emperor Father, they are itinerant doctors. It was she who provided the miraculous elixir that cured the poison in your body!"
Princess Shaolin took her arm affectionately.
"Your Majesty."
Yu Heyi pretended to kneel down to salute, but was supported by the emperor.
"You are my savior, you don't have to kneel."
"May I ask, Your Majesty, who was the person who brought you food this morning?"
The emperor thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "It seems to be Eunuch Guan."
Eunuch Guan was the eunuch who invited Princess Shaolin into the bedroom yesterday.
Wanqi Si sat at the table with his legs crossed, taking a sip of tea. "Tell me, who have you been in contact with recently?"
Even if the person in front of him is the emperor of the world, he cannot change his arrogant attitude.
But the emperor did not care about this matter. Rather than being arrogant, the emperor wanted to find out who in the palace wanted to kill the king.
"I don't remember it clearly. I only remember that one day, Concubine Jing came to dine with me. I was in a good mood, so I ordered the servants to prepare a large table of food. One day, I slept with the Queen, and the Queen said that my bed was not soft enough and threw a sachet on it..."
Yu Heyi raised his eyes and thought that perhaps this matter was related to the Queen.
Last night, she and Princess Shaolin searched the emperor's bedroom but did not find any sachet made of poppy flowers. Perhaps the queen had taken it away a few days ago.
"No need to say more. It's pointless to say anything." Wanqi Si said lazily.
If the emperor continues to talk like this, he will not be able to finish until next year.
She and Wanqi Si looked at each other, and the latter immediately understood what she meant. Before the two of them left the bedroom, they heard Princess Shaolin's scream.
“—There’s a rat!!”
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