Chapter 121
The Emperor was also anxious. Nothing must happen to King Jing. He hurriedly ordered the guards to send King Jing back to his tent and summoned all the accompanying imperial physicians to see King Jing.
When King Jing suddenly vomited blood, Li Yu was even more anxious than the Emperor.
In his impression, people would only vomit blood if they were seriously injured or seriously ill. King Jing wasn’t injured, so what kind of illness did he have?
To think that he didn’t even notice when they were together all day. This princess consort was too incompetent!
Li Yu was both regretful and worried for King Jing. When the guards came to send King Jing away, Li Yu jumped up and insisted on accompanying him. King Jing was still very conscious even though he had vomited blood. He lay in the sedan chair and held Li Yu’s hand, telling Li Yu to be at ease.
Li Yu nodded no matter what he signaled in front of him. In reality, how could he be at ease? If King Jing fell, his sky would also collapse. What should he do?
Some people would unexpectedly calm down when they were too anxious. Li Yu was like that at this moment.
He still had children. If King Jing fell ill, he had to support this family. He couldn’t just be sad and sad. He had to think about his children and how to help King Jing.
After returning the money, Li Yu quickly wiped the tears from his eyes and went to see the children first. The children were taken care of by Wang Xi and were very happy to see their father. Li Yu sadly told them that King Jing’s father was ill and told them not to make a fuss. He then continued to entrust them to Wang Xi. Wang Xi was also very anxious when he found out that King Jing was ill. However, the princess consort was right. The young masters also needed to be taken care of. He couldn’t let His Highness worry while he was ill. Wang Xi knelt down and begged Li Yu to take good care of King Jing. Li Yu agreed and stayed by King Jing’s side, staring at King Jing without blinking.
Wave after wave of imperial physicians came. Several times, they asked Li Yu to rest, but Li Yu just sat there. Other than asking about his condition, he didn’t care about anything else.
“Tianchi, what do you think?” Li Yu worriedly touched King Jing’s cheek.
King Jing smiled at him. It was nothing serious.
After spitting out the blood, King Jing looked better and his breathing became smoother.
Li Yu felt that King Jing was not lying to him. However, the imperial physician had repeatedly examined him, but for some reason, he had not been able to identify the illness.
The longer the diagnosis went on, Li Yu’s heart became uneasy. If the imperial physician didn’t say anything, did it mean that the illness was very serious and even the imperial physician couldn’t treat it? He didn’t have any confidence.
“Your Highness King Jing, this official has a few more questions to ask you. Your Highness, please tell me the truth.” An old imperial physician came out to ask after discussing with several other imperial physicians.
Li Yu looked at King Jing inquiringly. If the imperial physician’s questions were too complicated, King Jing would have to write. He didn’t know if King Jing’s body could take it.
King Jing was actually fine. When the imperial physician wanted to ask, King Jing nodded. Li Yu immediately rushed to the side of the table and grabbed a pen and paper.
The imperial physician asked, “Your Highness, did you feel any discomfort before you spat out the blood?”
King Jing picked up the pen and wrote, “My qi and blood were surging, my chest was stuffy and painful, and my throat was burning.”
The imperial physician asked cautiously, “Your Highness, have you ever been in a similar situation before?”
King Jing thought carefully, nodded, and wrote, “Yes, but I didn’t spit out blood.”
The imperial physician asked, “Your Highness, do you remember when it first happened?”
King Jing, “…”
King Jing wrote, “More than a year ago.”
“More than a year ago?”
Li Yu’s eyes reddened, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
King Jing hurriedly wrote for him, “You caught a cold and fell ill. I was anxious and felt unwell. I immediately got better and didn’t think too much about it.”
“… Caught a cold?”
Li Yu’s body was very good, and he rarely fell ill. He was stunned for a moment before he realized what was written. Wasn’t this when King Jing had confessed his love to him, but he hadn’t realized his own feelings and quarreled with King Jing?
At that time, he was only thinking about his own unhappiness. How could he have known that King Jing was also sick and unwell?
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know …” Li Yu was so depressed that he was about to cry.
King Jing hurriedly shook his head, “It has nothing to do with you. I didn’t care.”
King Jing was busy comforting Li Yu. After the imperial physician received King Jing’s answer, he was busy discussing with the other imperial physicians. Then, he carefully checked King Jing’s pulse.
The imperial physician wasn’t supposed to visit the Emperor directly, but after learning that the imperial physicians hadn’t come to a conclusion, the Emperor couldn’t sit still and personally came to King Jing’s tent.
“What happened to King Jing?” the Emperor asked in a deep voice.
After experiencing so many things, the Emperor had already decided that King Jing would be the Crown Prince. He didn’t want anything to happen to King Jing.
The Emperor personally asked. The imperial physician looked around and asked the Emperor to dismiss all irrelevant people.
The Emperor did as he was told. The imperial physician knelt down and said, “Your Majesty, according to my diagnosis, His Highness King Jing has been poisoned for a long time. Because of the critical situation just now, His Highness’s Qi and blood surged up, causing some of the poisoned blood buried deep in his body to be vomited out. That was how we discovered it. ”
Poisoned?
King Jing was shocked. The Emperor and Li Yu were also shocked. How could King Jing be poisoned? Could it be that the Sixth Prince was the culprit?
Li Yu’s heart clenched. Ignoring the Emperor’s presence, he rushed to ask, “Imperial physician, what kind of poison is it? Can it be cured? What do you mean by ‘a long time’?”
According to what King Jing said, could it be that he was poisoned a year ago?
Because he was poisoned, he … vomited black blood?
The Emperor didn’t care about Li Yu’s rudeness. He said to the imperial physician, “Answer quickly. This is also a question I want to know.”
The imperial physician sorted out his thoughts and said respectfully, “Your Majesty, please allow me to answer the last question. According to my diagnosis, His Highness’s poison has been hidden in his body for decades. It wasn’t until this year that the poison was slightly weakened. Because of the surging of Qi and blood, it was accidentally exposed.”
“Decades?!” The Emperor was shocked. King Jing was only in his twenties. How could he have been poisoned for decades?
Looking at King Jing’s appearance, the Emperor was also stunned. Even King Jing himself wasn’t clear about it!
“You mean, could it be that King Jing was poisoned when he was young?”
The Emperor recalled that King Jing was very weak when he was born. When he was very young, the imperial physician had treated him several times. When he grew up, he got better. However, he didn’t show any signs of being poisoned. Moreover, King Jing must have checked his pulse regularly. If he had been poisoned for a long time, why wasn’t it discovered earlier?
The imperial physician explained, “Your Majesty, this poison isn’t strong. His Highness King Jing doesn’t show any obvious signs of discomfort, so it’s difficult to detect his pulse.”
The Emperor asked, “Then, is there any danger to his life after being poisoned?”
The imperial physician hesitated and shook his head, “I only know that His Highness seems to have been poisoned. However, as for what kind of poison it is, I still need to look at the medical encyclopedia and check His Highness’s pulse to confirm. However, this poison has been in His Highness’s body for a long time. I don’t think it will harm his life immediately. ”
The Emperor was speechless. He had just made up his mind to choose King Jing. Did God have to play such a big joke on him?
King Jing was born mute and had a bumpy life. Now, the dignified Crown Prince was poisoned right under his nose!
After such a long time, it couldn’t have been done by the Sixth Prince, who was younger than King Jing by a few years. Then, who could it be? Who else would want to harm King Jing?
The Emperor was angry, but he also felt guilty for not being able to take care of King Jing. He also felt sorry for Empress Xiaohui, who was in the netherworld.
“No matter what, you must get rid of this poison for King Jing!” the Emperor ordered.
The imperial physician acknowledged the order.
The Emperor turned around and thought of the four treasures. He asked anxiously, “Will this poison be passed on to the children?”
The imperial physician couldn’t say for sure. The Emperor ordered Wang Xi to carry the four children over. The imperial physician checked their pulses one by one and discussed with the other imperial physicians for a long time. Only then did he say with certainty, “The Crown Prince and the other three young masters aren’t poisoned.”
The Emperor finally received a piece of good news. This could be considered a blessing in disguise.
The Emperor summoned Wang Xi to inquire. Wang Xi had always been with King Jing. If King Jing had been poisoned when he was young, Wang Xi would definitely have reacted strangely.
However, Wang Xi recalled again and again. In the end, he even swore with his life that he had never noticed any symptoms of poisoning on King Jing.
The imperial physician suddenly announced that King Jing had been poisoned several decades ago. The Emperor was already in a mess. Since Wang Xi said so, although the Emperor felt that it was strange, he didn’t have any other clues for the time being.
Li Yu listened to the Emperor’s inquiry in a daze. It took him a long time to react. So, King Jing had been poisoned when he was young?
But why didn’t he know? This shouldn’t be a small matter. Why didn’t the original book mention it at all?
He remembered that King Jing’s body was very healthy until the end. Could it be said that if King Jing hadn’t vomited blood this time, they wouldn’t have discovered that King Jing had been poisoned and the poison would have continued to lurk? Then, what was the use of this poison?
Usually, poisons would have symptoms. King Jing, he … didn’t seem to be poisoned usually. In the original book and in the current world, there wasn’t anything wrong with King Jing’s life, except …
Li Yu was originally carrying a bowl of ginseng soup for King Jing. Suddenly, his hand trembled violently. With a clatter, the silver spoon fell to the ground.
Li Yu bent down to pick it up. His hand trembled so much that he almost couldn’t pick it up.
Just now, he had a very frightening thought.
King Jing had been poisoned when he was young. This was only the Emperor and the imperial physician’s speculation. However, it was very strange. Wang Xi, who had been responsible for taking care of King Jing since he was young, had never noticed anything strange about King Jing. Li Yu believed that Wang Xi didn’t have any reason to lie at this time. Could it be that he had been poisoned even earlier than Wang Xi had come to King Jing’s side?
This poison had been hidden so deeply that it was impossible for it not to have any symptoms. Could it be that the symptoms actually existed, but were overlooked by the world, so no one discovered it?
This symptom was — — King Jing’s biggest flaw — — muteness. Even if Li Yu wasn’t an imperial physician, he knew that there were poisons in the palace literature that could cause deafness and muteness.
What if King Jing’s muteness wasn’t innate, but was caused by poison? Was it possible?
Li Yu suddenly remembered a small matter from a while ago.
In order to avoid passing his muteness to his children, King Jing didn’t intend to have any more children. Li Yu didn’t give up on having a daughter. He once inquired about the situation of the Emperor’s ancestors and Empress Xiaohui’s ancestors. He wanted to casually calculate the probability. However, after asking, he found that neither of them had any muteness. In other words, out of more than a hundred generations, regardless of gender, King Jing was the only mute.
In terms of genetics, it was almost impossible.
However, life was very complicated. Li Yu had transmigrated at a young age, and her understanding of genetics was also very shallow. She was even more worried that this was the simple and crude setting of the original book.
Now that he thought about it, many of the abrupt settings in the original novel could be explained in this world. For example, King Jing’s name was very different from the other princes. He was called Tianchi. In fact, this was because King Jing’s original name was Tianjing, but he later changed his name.
Could it be that there was a reason behind the almost impossible but real muteness? Could it be that King Jing was drugged when he was very young and was mistaken for being born with it? Was that why no one noticed that King Jing was poisoned?
Of course, this was also his guess. If it was true, it would be too terrifying. It would be best if he could find evidence to refute or verify it.
When King Jing was very young … he was so young that he was drugged before Wang Xi was born …
A scene appeared in Li Yu’s mind. The baby King Jing was lying in his swaddling clothes and looking at his wet nurse. The wet nurse had tears in her eyes as she swallowed a packet of powder.
Damn, Li Yu was shocked by himself. Why did he suddenly think of this?
This was King Jing’s secret, and he had never understood it. Although the timing was right, and Wang Xi was not there, the wet nurse was the one who took the medicine, not …
No!
Li Yu recalled that when he was chatting with Princess Jinjue, she seemed to have mentioned that after the wet nurse took the medicine, she could pass the medicine to the child through her milk. In this way, the child could be cured.
Then, if the wet nurse swallowed the poison, would the child be affected???
Li Yu was speechless.
Li Yu felt that his imagination was running wild, and his hair stood on end as he stuck close to her!
Xiaoyu? Seeing that he was in a daze, King Jing pinched his fingers.
Li Yu came back to his senses and resisted the urge to tell King Jing.
Everything was just his guess. He couldn’t recklessly tell King Jing. If it wasn’t true, and the poison had nothing to do with the muteness, wouldn’t King Jing be happy for nothing?
The most important thing now was to help the imperial physician confirm the poison.
No matter what, I will save you.
Li Yu looked at King Jing and made up his mind.
