"What did the doctor say?" Qianmian asked anxiously.
He said that the amount of opium I used was very small and not enough to cause addiction, and that it would take about a year to completely get rid of it.
"What do you plan to do?" Qianmian knew that Grand Tutor Li was the guardian of the Southern Chen Kingdom, and he would definitely not allow anything to happen to the Crown Prince.
Xiao Sheng told Qianmian about the plan.
Qianmian nodded, then jumped out of the window and disappeared into the night.
After gathering his emotions in his room, Xiao Sheng grabbed his hair and started crying.
Xiao Sheng thought about what he had experienced in his dream, those horrible faces, the pain after drinking the poison, and the feeling of wanting to scream but being unable to. He felt as if he had really gone mad.
Little Ma had just finished dealing with the ten beauties and had someone help him back to the courtyard to rest. He then asked someone to call the imperial physician to examine his injuries. When he returned to the prince's room, he had only reached the door when he heard the prince laughing and crying intermittently.
It was already midnight, and everyone in the palace had gone to bed. But Xiao Sheng's shrill cries and screams woke up the people in the Eastern Palace.
Little Ma had no other choice but to send someone to fetch the imperial physician.
When the imperial physician arrived, he saw the prince's symptoms: he was crying and screaming, waving his arms and legs wildly, and wouldn't let anyone near him. His face was pale, and he smashed all the ornaments in the room to the ground. He would also pull at his hair and tear at his clothes from time to time, and then roll on the ground and convulse.
The imperial physician quickly had Xiao Ma call several palace servants to hold the crown prince down. He stepped forward to take Xiao Sheng's pulse, and as soon as he did, the imperial physician's eyes widened in surprise.
This imperial physician has no name on the Imperial Medical Academy's ranking list, but he is actually a hidden doctor with superb medical skills.
He diagnosed the prince's pulse as abnormal and suspected that it was due to opium addiction.
However, no one in Nanchen Kingdom had used opium for four hundred years, so he had never treated opium addicts. But the pulse and symptoms were indeed those of opium addicts as recorded in medical books.
The imperial physician suppressed his shock and pondered how to describe the prince's illness.
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