Chapter 74
The next day, Su Musong woke up from a hangover with a splitting headache and swollen eyes. Some images flashed through his mind. It seemed that he had lost his composure in front of Luo Chen yesterday. He felt dry mouth for a while. He got up to pour some water, but saw Xiao Luochen sleeping on the table. He cried out that he deserved to die.
Thinking that he had worked hard to take care of himself yesterday and needed a good sleep, Su Musong did not wake Xiao Luochen up, but carried him to his bed.
After noon, Xiao Luochen did not wake up. Su Musong thought he was very tired, so he slept for a few more hours and didn't think about him.
He took Xiao Buyi to the blacksmith's shop to make a dagger. When he returned to the mansion, it was already 3:00 PM. He went to look for Xiao Luochen, but found that he still hadn't woken up. Su Musong and Xiao Buyi took turns to go forward, but neither could wake Xiao Luochen.
Su Musong then realized that something was wrong and quickly ordered his followers to call a doctor.
The doctor took Xiao Luochen's pulse and found that even though it was the coldest time of the year, beads of sweat were oozing from his forehead.
Seeing the doctor like this, Xiao Buyi thought his father was terminally ill.
"Doctor, what is my father's illness?"
"Um... Judging from the pulse, it seems that he has a slight deficiency of Qi and blood."
"What kind of disease is it?"
"this……"
The doctor hesitated to speak, and Su Musong, who was always good-tempered, became impatient.
"Just say what you want to say."
"Master Xiao... maybe he just fell asleep?"
Su Musong didn't know what to say when he heard this. After a while, he said to his followers helplessly:
"Send the doctor back."
This doctor has been practicing medicine in Kyoto for more than ten years and is not a quack. However, he gave such a diagnosis. Su Musong knew that Xiao Luochen's illness was probably unusual, so it seemed that he could only ask Changsun Chenqian for help.
Changsun Chenqian was entrusted by Su Mufeng to treat Prince Ding's wet nurse, and was currently at Su Mufeng's manor on the outskirts of Beijing.
Su Musong glanced at the sky outside. The new moon was rising in the east and the city gate was about to close. He didn't care about much else. Braving the biting cold wind, he rode his horse alone and headed towards the outskirts of Beijing.
On the second day, at dawn, as the city gate opened, Su Musong and Changsun Chenqian, who had been waiting outside, rode their horses in and headed straight for the Duke of Anguo's Mansion.
Xiao Buyi stayed up all night, but finally couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep beside Xiao Luochen's bed.
When Su Musong came back after sending Xiao Buyi back to his own residence, Changsun Chenqian had already finished the consultation.
"how?"
Chang Sunchen shook his head solemnly
"I'm afraid it's not good."
Although he was mentally prepared, Su Musong still found it hard to accept what Changsun Chenqian, known as the Medical Immortal, said.
"He...he was fine the day before yesterday...it's not like he fell asleep and couldn't wake up!"
Chang Sun Chenqian pushed the restless Su Musong onto the chair
"Musong, calm down first so I can tell you what's going on."
Su Musong took a deep breath and sat quietly for a while to calm down.
"Okay, tell me, what happened to Luo Chen?"
"Judging from the symptoms, Luo Chen might have been poisoned."
"insanity?"
"Hmm. Perhaps this Gu is from the same source as the one your emperor was infected with."
Su Musong suddenly remembered that Prince Ding was almost captured in Xizhou by the order of the Empress Dowager because the emperor was poisoned. It was thanks to Changsun Chenqian that the emperor's life was saved.
"You cured the Emperor's Gu, so you can cure Luo Chen's Gu too, right?"
Chang Sun Chenqian looked embarrassed
"I wasn't the one who cured your emperor of his poison. It was just that a friend of mine happened to have a snow toad, and that's how he cured the emperor of his poison."
"Then I'd like to trouble you to borrow your friend's snow toad again."
"The Snow Toad is a sacred relic of the Qunxianhui, the largest poison cult in the southern border of Shenghuang. My friend stole the Snow Toad out of playfulness and was chased all the way from Shenghuang to Xiangping by the Qunxianhui. He returned it after detoxifying your emperor."
"Then I'll go steal again."
"The Gathering of Immortals is a place of danger and danger. Even the top masters in Shenghuang's martial arts world dare not set foot there easily. If you go there, let alone stealing the sacred artifact, you will probably die if you set foot there."
"I can't care about so much anymore. I have to give it a try."
Changsun Chenqian could only sigh as he watched Su Musong rushing to his death. When the emperor was poisoned before, Su Muliu also went to steal the snow toad without caring about anything. Although they were not biological siblings, their reactions to this situation were exactly the same.
"Alas, it's better to wait until you're at the end of your rope before taking this kind of road that's sure to lead to certain death. If you can find the person who poisoned you, perhaps you can find a way to cure it."
Su Musong was calculating rapidly in his mind.
"Xiangping was originally free of poison, yet the Emperor and Luo Chen were both poisoned... It must be him!"
Su Musong suddenly realized that the person who poisoned the emperor must be the Empress Dowager, and the person who poisoned Xiao Luochen must be Wang Zheng. Only he had the motive to poison Xiao Luochen, the channel to obtain the poison, and the opportunity to do it.
Thinking of this, Su Musong immediately rushed to the prison where Wang Zheng was imprisoned.
When he saw Wang Zheng, Su Musong didn't say a word and hit Wang Zheng with a hook punch, knocking out four of his teeth. Last time, Xiao Luochen knocked out two of his front teeth, and this time he lost four more, leaving Wang Zheng with only half a mouth of teeth left.
"Tell me, what kind of poison did you put on Luo Chen?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Wang Zheng spat out a mouthful of blood, but just laughed triumphantly without answering.
"Hurry up and tell me!"
Su Musong threw another punch, knocking the man against the wall. He used all his strength in this punch, and Wang Zheng slid down the wall like mud, but he still sneered.
"What? Aren't you very capable? How come you didn't notice that I had cast a spell on him?"
"Okay, you don't have to tell me. If you don't tell me today, I'll have one of your son's ears cut off. If you still don't tell me tomorrow, I'll have one of his arms cut off. If you delay for one more day, I'll take something off his body."
"Hmph, I tell you, what can you do?"
"Hurry up and tell me!"
Wang Zheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, sat cross-legged on the ground, and unexpectedly showed a happy expression on his face.
"He's been infected with the Heart-Eating Poison. Can you imagine how it feels like to have ten thousand worms eating away your heart, liver, spleen, and lungs bit by bit? I heard those worms only eat once a day, so it would take three months to completely devour all your internal organs. However, perhaps your lover would have died of pain before that. Hahahaha..."
"Give me the antidote!"
Su Musong resisted the urge to slap Wang Zheng to death and grabbed his collar to threaten him.
"Give me the antidote! Otherwise I will kill your wife and children!"
"Hahahaha... Even if you dig up my ancestral grave, Xiao Luochen is hopeless. There's no antidote for the Heart-Eating Gu..."
"Su Musong, just wait to collect Xiao Luochen's body! Hahahaha...!"
Seeing Wang Zheng's frantic look, Su Musong's heart gradually cooled. He knew that what Wang Zheng said was probably true. Wang Zheng wanted Xiao Luochen dead, so of course he would use an incurable poison.
Su Musong walked out of the prison in a daze and slapped himself hard. He understood that the reason why Wang Zheng had put a curse on Luo Chen was probably because he had angered Wang Zheng with the threatening letters he had sent every now and then on the way to Beijing.
Wang Zheng chose an inconspicuous poison and calculated the timing carefully. If the emperor had not captured the right prime minister in the enclosure, according to their plan, Su Musong would have been implicated and imprisoned by now. This would allow Su Musong to watch Xiao Luochen's heart being devoured by thousands of insects without being able to save him.
Although Su Musong and Xiao Luochen are not in prison now, the results seem to be almost the same.
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