A few days later, the team arrived at the imperial capital.
Pei Zheng got off the carriage carrying the person and went straight into the back garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion. No one had lived in that small building for a long time, but there were servants cleaning it every day.
In the cold winter, the moonlight hangs bleakly in the night sky.
Candlesticks were quickly lit in the small building, illuminating the entire building.
The little man in a white flannel robe was placed on the bed. His face was getting paler and paler, his lips were getting purpler, and even began to turn black.
The journey was inevitably tiring, and the poison gradually began to take root in his weak body. Even with Pei Zheng giving him air every day, he could not resist the poison.
The housekeeper of the mansion quickly ordered people to set up a stove in the small building. The charcoal fire burned brightly, warming up the cold air in the room.
But when Pei Zheng touched the little guy's still cold hand, his face immediately turned cold.
"You can't even start a fire, what a bunch of losers!"
Several servants were already sweating on their foreheads, and after hearing this, they quickened their pace in throwing charcoal into the fire. The outer wall of the stove had already been roasted red.
If it were in the past, Pei Zheng would have to severely punish this group of people in order to calm his anger, but at this moment his attention was not on anyone else.
Waving his hand to send everyone away, Pei Zheng simply sat down beside the bed, holding the little guy's hand tightly, and using his other hand to brush away the loose hair beside his cheek.
"You've been sleeping all the way, and you still won't wake up?"
"Have you been happy these days since you escaped? Do you really think I don't know where you have been?"
"I've captured you and thought of thousands of ways to threaten you, punish you, break you, or even drive you crazy. Is this the only way you'll obey me?"
"Forget it, just get well, get well soon, and I will never punish you again, okay?"
**The little person lying there had his eyes tightly closed, looking pale and weak, with no reaction at all.
Not long after, the door of the small building was suddenly pushed open, and two figures came in, covered in cold wind.
As soon as Chengfeng entered the imperial capital, he rushed to the Imperial Hospital in the palace to find Jiang Yubai.
It was so late that Jiang Yubai had already gone to bed. After being awakened by Chengfeng, he hurried over with his medicine box, sweating all the way.
The fire in the room was burning brightly, and as soon as Jiang Yubai entered the room, he was hit in the face by the heat.
Seeing the little man lying on the bed with a pale face, his heart tightened. Without even having time to say hello to Pei Zheng, he directly picked up the little man's arm and started to feel his pulse.
The pulse was extremely unstable, sometimes strong and sometimes slow. There was something wrong with the blood flowing under the thin skin. It must have been infiltrated by toxins.
"This poison is a secret poison made by foreigners. It is very toxic. Once it enters the blood, it will quickly spread throughout the body. If you drink it, the poison will start to spread from your internal organs, and then slowly rot through your intestines and cause death."
"But your highness's condition is obviously different. His five internal organs are still intact, and only a small amount of toxins are flowing in his blood. However, if the toxins are not eliminated in time, his whole body will fester and he will die."
At this point, Jiang Yubai glanced at Pei Zheng and said, "I guess Lord Pei used his inner strength to protect His Highness' heart and internal organs. Otherwise, His Highness might have died on the way back to the imperial capital from the border..."
"Then, Doctor Jiang, do you have any solution?"
Jiang Yubai asked Chengfeng to take his medicine box. "The emperor had also been poisoned by this kind of poison in the early years, but I diagnosed it before any symptoms appeared, so it didn't take much effort to detoxify. The situation is different now. Your Highness has been poisoned for too long and the poison has taken effect. I can only try."
"Try?" Pei Zheng raised his eyes indifferently, "You have to save him, you must."
Jiang Yubai's hand paused, and the medicine box almost fell to the ground. Chengfeng quickly picked it up and handed it to him.
"Heh! Pei Zheng, what right do you have to say this to me?"
Jiang Yubai had been holding his breath since he stepped into the Prime Minister's Mansion. "I tell you, I want to rescue His Highness more than you do! But what after I rescue him? Will I let you torture him to death? It would be better for me to follow General Zhao and guard the border and never come back!"
—After he finished speaking, the whole building fell into deathly silence.
Pei Zheng twisted his hands gently under his sleeves, his eyes were dark and his emotions could not be seen. He smiled suddenly, "You, say it again."
Jiang Yubai stiffened his neck and opened his mouth to try again, but was suddenly covered by Chengfeng's hand.
Chengfeng's face showed some rare emotions.
"Master, please let Imperial Doctor Jiang start the treatment. His Highness' health is of great importance and we cannot delay any longer!"
Jiang Yubai glared at Chengfeng fiercely. His hands were very strong and he covered his mouth so that he couldn't move at all.
Seeing that Pei Zheng remained silent, Chengfeng let go of Jiang Yubai.
"Puh, puh, puh!" Jiang Yubai rubbed the corner of his mouth desperately. Chengfeng was right. Now was not the time to argue with Pei Zheng. The most important thing was to save people first.
He swiftly opened the medicine box, took out a set of silver needles, and spread them out on the bed. Then he pulled back the quilt, revealing the entire body of the little person who had been lying quietly inside.
"You! Go add some fire! Make it burn more vigorously!" Jiang Yubai pointed at Chengfeng.
"You! Come over here and help!" Jiang Yubai pointed at Pei Zheng.
Chengfeng added a few more pieces of charcoal into the stove, and the room immediately became a little warmer.
Pei Zheng didn't say much. He walked to the bedside and lowered his eyes to watch Jiang Yubai busying himself.
"Hold on!" Jiang Yubai shouted.
Pei Zheng sat directly on the edge of the bed and leaned the soft little guy against his chest.
Jiang Yubai began to untie the little guy's robe, but he couldn't get it untied no matter how hard he tried. Instead, he became so hot that he broke out in sweat.
He looked around the room, intending to find a pair of scissors to cut it open, but he saw Pei Zheng free one arm, and his slender fingers moved flexibly.
In two strokes, he took off the little man's outer robe, and not a drop of sweat could be seen on his face.
"Are you going to take off your inner clothes?"
“… Take it off.”
"under
"… Take it off, um, no no no, you don't need to take off your pants…"
The topless little person was as white as jade, his skin was so delicate and fragile that it could be blown away. All the scars and other marks from before had long since disappeared, and the entire white area exposed to the air was so dazzling that it made people lose their minds.
But there was one scar that could never be erased, and that was the neat and conspicuous bite mark on the delicate and fair collarbone.
The bite must have been so painful and deep to leave such a permanent mark.
The room was full of heat, but Pei Zheng's fingers were still a little cool. He rubbed the collarbone lightly twice and drew two circles along the bite mark.
"Does it look good?" Pei Zheng's voice was a little hoarse, but his tone was ambiguous and smiling.
Jiang Yubai had reason to suspect that what he was actually asking was, "Does it look good? I bit it."
"Bah! Pervert!" Jiang Yubai gritted his teeth, "Okay, put him down. I want to give him an acupuncture treatment!"
The little guy was put back into the bed, lying on his back obediently. Jiang Yubai's silver needles slowly inserted into the acupuncture points all over the little guy's upper body. Soon the little guy's body was covered with long and thin silver needles.
But the person still didn't wake up and there was no change at all.
"What's going on?"
Jiang Yubai frowned, "This shouldn't be the case. Why isn't he waking up yet..."
He felt her pulse again and took out a slightly thicker and longer needle, "Chengfeng, bring me a teacup."
Chengfeng took the teacup.
Jiang Yubai asked him to continue below, pinched the little man's slender white fingers, and inserted the silver needle into them.
The blood couldn't flow out at first, so Jiang Yubai had to stab deeper. As soon as the needle was pulled out, blood instantly flowed out in streams, but the color of the blood was wrong. It was not bright red, but a slightly dark red, or even a little black.
Jiang Yubai used his finger to stop the bleeding of the little guy, then sniffed the blood in the teacup, dipped his finger in the blood and smeared it on the back of his hand to observe carefully.
"How did this poison enter the body?"
"Medicinal bath." Chengfeng answered standing aside.
"No wonder..." Jiang Yubai nodded.
He suddenly realized something was wrong, and his eyes changed, "Who gave you the prescription for the medicine you drank earlier?"
Chengfeng hesitated for a moment and looked at Pei Zheng, who nodded slightly.
Cheng Feng said, "I heard from a soldier under General Zhao who knows medicine that when they fled to a town, an old doctor there gave them a prescription."
"What town? What's the man's name?"
Jiang Yubai shook his head. "Not only is there nothing wrong with the prescription, it actually has miraculous effects. Drink it on time and in the right amount. No matter who has what disease, it can temporarily prolong life."
"Isn't that just right?"
"It's just that it's too good, it's a problem. How can an ordinary doctor prescribe such a prescription... But, I don't have time to worry about these things for now."
Jiang Yubai began to withdraw the silver needles from Qi Changyi's body, "Your Highness must have been very weak before, otherwise you wouldn't need this prescription."
He glanced at Pei Zheng and said, "We must first force the poisonous blood out of the body before we can proceed with the subsequent diagnosis and treatment. The acupuncture just now can no longer draw out the poisonous blood. We have to rely on internal force to pull it out, but doing so will inevitably consume a lot of energy..."
Before he finished speaking, Cheng Feng bowed to Pei Zheng and said, "Master, let me have a try."
Pei Zheng stroked his hand and walked to the bedside, "I'll do it."
Cheng Feng was a little surprised. "Master, you have to go to court tomorrow. There must be a lot of things waiting to be dealt with in the past few days. You can't make any mistakes! Let me..."
"You're too talkative."
The two words "Pei Zheng" immediately shut Cheng Feng up.
Jiang Yubai helped the little guy up and put him in a meditation posture. Pei Zheng also sat down on the bed, cross-legged, and closed his eyes to rest.
"You must control the force. Just separate the poisonous blood from the blood. I have my own way to draw out the poisonous blood."
Pei Zheng raised his eyes, his powerful internal force surging in his body, eager to find a breakthrough, but he couldn't release all of it. It could only gather into a small undercurrent and slowly flow from Pei Zheng's palm into Qi Changyi's body, then travel through his blood like a dragon, flexibly separating the poisonous blood.
Qi Changyi frowned slightly, and the purple color of his lips began to fade slowly. His whole body seemed to be shrouded in golden light, and his three thousand black hairs flew up behind him. His upper body was not dressed yet, and with his eyes closed and brows furrowed, he looked like a fairy waiting to awaken.
"Okay! Collect it quickly!" Jiang Yubai shouted from the side.
Pei Zheng suddenly retracted his palm and forced the mobilized internal force back. He immediately felt that all his five internal organs were shaken by the internal force that was returning to him. Such forced repression would actually greatly damage the internal force and might even cause a certain degree of damage to the body.
A fishy and sweet taste suddenly surged up his throat, but Pei Zheng suppressed it calmly.