Inside the bedroom, Yun Duoduo had been helped onto the bed. She lay on her side, curled up in a ball.
She vaguely saw Jin Jinzhi enter, then loosened her grip on her stomach and closed her eyes.
"What happened? Did you call a doctor?"
Jin Jinzhi glanced at Yun Duoduo, whose brows were furrowed on the bed, and asked in a deep voice.
Her fair face was covered in fine beads of sweat, her jaw was clenched, and she looked like she was in great pain.
The maid in the room nodded and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Yes, she has already gone to fetch the physician."
"How did you take care of her? What if something happens to Duoduo..."
Jin Jin asked unhappily. He took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her forehead, placed his large hand on her stomach, and gently rubbed it.
"We deserve to die!" The maids were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe. Since they came to the manor, although the prince always had a cold demeanor, he had never lost his temper like this before.
Jin Jinzhi ignored the maids kneeling on the ground and turned to look at Military Advisor Cao.
"Military Advisor Cao, go to the palace and fetch the imperial physician! Be quick!" Jin Jinzhi roared.
Cao, the military advisor, hurriedly ran out, mounted his horse, and rode towards the palace with the token. Although he moved quickly, he was worried that if the imperial physician came to the palace, His Majesty would definitely find out about this.
If His Majesty knew that the princess had been poisoned at the Prince's residence, would he let the prince off the hook?
Cao, the military advisor, couldn't help but shiver, but he knew that, no matter what, treating the princess's illness was the most important thing.
...
Inside the bedroom of the Prince of Jibei's mansion, Jin Jinzhi looked at Yun Duoduo with a complicated expression, feeling quite uncomfortable.
The physician, sweating profusely, entered the room, followed by a doctor whom the maid had brought from outside. Through the gauze curtain, the physician took Yun Duoduo's pulse.
Ideally, it would have been best to have the imperial physician examine Yun Duoduo, but it's too late now. If they wait for the imperial physician to arrive before treating her, Yun Duoduo might not survive the night.
For a moment, the bedroom was completely silent.
A moment later, Jin Jinzhi asked anxiously, "How is it? What happened? How did you faint from the pain? How long will it take for you to wake up?"
Jin Jin asked a series of questions.
"Your Highness, please don't worry. Perhaps, perhaps he has been poisoned."
"Let me examine it with my silver needles."
The physician took a cloth bag from a square brown medicine box and pulled out a silver needle.
Just as the physician was about to stab Yun Duoduo's wrist, Jin Jinzhi grabbed the physician's hand.
"Wait a minute! Isn't it a bit too thick?"
The physician was stunned for a moment, as were the others in the bedchamber.
"Then I'll take another one."
The physician took out a thin silver needle and inserted it into Yun Duoduo's wrist.
The silver needle was pulled out, and its color changed.
Jin Jinzhi's anger flared up the moment she saw the silver needles.
Cloud, you...
He was just a lowly medical officer, and he didn't even know he had been poisoned!
He has such a clever face, but it's all for nothing.
Jin Jinzhi frowned as she looked at Yun Duoduo, feeling both heartache and intense hatred for the person who had poisoned her.
"Although it is poisoning, the poisoning is not severe. Only if the root cause can it be treated."
"Did the princess eat anything?" the physician asked, frowning. He wiped the silver needles clean and put them back in the cloth bag.
When the doctor standing to the side heard that the person lying on the bed was a princess, his legs went weak and ached with fear.
"The princess only ate this bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup," Qingdai said, trembling as she pointed to the bowl on the ground, sobbing.
The physician picked up the broken pieces of the bowl from the ground, smelled them, and then used a silver needle to test the remaining juice on the bowl. He shook his head helplessly and with doubt.
The physician handed the fragment to the doctor.
The two communicated in silence. The doctor took out a gold needle from his medicine box, tried it, and shook his head helplessly.
Jin Jinzhi looked at the two of them, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping herself, opening her mouth and then closing it again, anxious and annoyed.
He clenched his fists, watching the two of them anxiously. [Is Duoduo going to die?!]
"Please speak freely, sir."
The doctor was an old man. He was suspicious and thought the soup was given to the princess by the prince in front of him. He was so frightened that he dared not speak.
The physician hesitated, wiping the sweat from his brow. "It is indeed poisoning, but what kind of poison is it..."
"We two are truly incompetent; we couldn't see it."
Silence fell over the room once again.
Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from outside the room, and a girl stumbled in.
"Sister Duo!"
Jin Zhuangzhuang was out of breath from running, her hair was disheveled, and the pearl hairpin on her head was about to fall off. She had originally been getting medicine from the Imperial Pharmacy next to the Imperial Medical Bureau, but when she heard that Yun Duoduo had a stomachache, she immediately jumped on her horse and rushed to the Prince of Jibei's mansion, so she arrived much faster than the imperial physicians.
She ran to Yun Duoduo's bedside, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and knelt down to take Yun Duoduo's pulse.
[Zhuangzhuang?]
Yun Duoduo felt gentle fingertips touching her pulse.
She pretended to twitch and pulled her hand away.
[Oh no, this girl's medical skills are amazing; she's probably going to see through our disguise.]
Yun Duoduo frowned, her heart pounding.
"Sister Duo?!" Jin Zhuangzhuang was startled by her sudden convulsions.
She carefully felt the pulse of the clouds and observed her facial expressions for a while.
"How about it?"
Although Jin Jinzhi didn't expect his younger sister to be able to figure anything out—after all, even the physician in the manor and the very experienced doctor who looked quite old hadn't been able to identify what kind of poison she had—he still asked a question because Jin Zhuangzhuang seemed quite capable.
Jin Zhuangzhuang looked around and noticed Bu Yaolian sitting on the ground, sobbing.
"Did Sister Duo eat anything on the ground?"
Jin Zhuangzhuang dipped his finger in the juice on the ground, then smelled it.
He then slowly said, "The person who poisoned me is truly vicious. This is juice made from millipedes mixed with strychnine."
"Eating it will cause severe abdominal pain."
"If you eat too much, your life may be in danger."
Then, Jin Zhuangzhuang took out a pill from his pocket and fed it to Yun Duoduo.
"Brother, don't worry, Sister Duo will get better after taking my medicine."
"Millipedes, strychnine..." The physicians in the manor and the doctors invited from outside pondered this prescription.
Jin Jinzhi looked at the maids and servants who came out from inside.
Jin Jinzhi angrily retorted, "How could centipedes and strychnine be found in my palace?"
"What are you all good for?!" Jin Jinzhi roared angrily.
With a thud, the maids all knelt on the ground.
"It's her! This soup was brought by Miss Bu. She's the one who tried to harm the princess, waaaaah..."
Qingdai pointed at Bu Yaolian while crying.
"Why did you harm her? If anything happens to the princess, sob sob sob..."
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