si-mexico Chapter 339: Cold Poison Backlash
Chapter 339: Cold Poison Backlash
Chapter 339: Cold Poison Backlash
The emperor announced to the world that he had deposed Consort Shu, expelled the second prince, and dismissed Duke Ningguo.
Concubine Shu and Ning Guoli colluded with each other and sneaked into the Heavenly Prison to kill people. This act of stabbing the emperor with a knife was almost the same as treason.
But the emperor still spared their lives, he is truly a man of great affection.
But Mu Rong knew that the emperor's action was far worse than killing someone and destroying his heart.
The Li family is not allowed to take the imperial examinations for three generations, and is not allowed to hold an official position above the seventh rank within five generations... No matter whether they are prominent or common people, no one will marry into such a family. No matter whether they are direct descendants or side branches, they will become extinct within two generations.
Letting Li Mingyi watch his own people perish with his own eyes is more painful than being tortured to death by slicing.
The same goes for Concubine Shu. Chongyi is the lowest rank among the concubines. Not only that, she will be under house arrest forever... All the people in Concubine Shu's palace and her personal servants will be executed, and the rest will be confiscated to the Yiting Palace. Without loyal people by her side, no one will know even if she gets sick, dies, or rots.
And what about Wu Tianchi? The Crown Prince was deposed as Prince of An and relocated to Anzhou, where he still had a fiefdom. But Wu Tianchi was directly expelled from the capital, never to return...
He had no fiefdom, no means of livelihood, and could not lift or carry anything. No one knew how miserable his end would be.
Each of them met a fate worse than death, but the emperor was praised by the people for sparing their lives.
This was the first time in two lifetimes that Mu Rong had clearly felt the emperor's cruelty.
The Emperor...had his uncle always been like this? Before Mu Rong could even gather his thoughts, he felt a sudden chill surge through his body, and even with the swift application of his internal energy, he couldn't suppress it at all.
He thought to himself that this was not good, but it was already dark. If he invited Shu Qing into the house at this time, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of Mu Yi and others.
So he didn't say anything and endured the whole night until the next morning, when Shu Qing came to his house as usual to check his pulse.
Shu Qing is now well-known in the capital. With the demeanor of a famous doctor, he has long learned to remain calm in the face of various situations.
But when he saw Mu Rong's eyebrows and temples covered with white frost, he was still shocked.
After he checked the medicine bottle he had left for Mu Rong, he was so angry that his face turned green!
"The medicine I prescribed for you, my Lord, is enough to last you three months! But it's only been half a month, and already there's very little left? I told you not to take this medicine continuously, have you forgotten?" Shu Qing's beard trembled. Mu Rong replied, "I didn't forget, but I've had so much to discuss with the County Lady these days, so I took a little more to avoid her suspicion."
"Your Majesty, you're treating this medicine like a candy pill and turning a deaf ear to my warnings!" Shu Qing sneered, glaring at Mu Rong. "Your Majesty keeps saying that you don't want the county lady to be criticized after you take the poison, so you're hiding it from her and everyone else. But if you continue like this, you might suddenly die in front of everyone one day! And then, do you still want to silence the gossip?"
Shu Qing was furious and spoke without mercy.
Mu Rong knew that he was in the wrong, so he patiently listened to Shu Qing's lecture.
After the other party finally calmed down, he suppressed his discomfort and asked, "I did not follow the doctor's instructions. It is indeed my fault. I will definitely remember the doctor's teachings from now on and will never forget them again... But I wonder if there has been any progress on Mr. Shu's antidote?"
Shu Qing squinted at him and snorted coldly, "With the Marquis's endless torment now, I'm afraid you won't need the antidote anymore!"
Because before the antidote is developed, you may be dead!
Shu Qing held back the rest of his words, but how could Mu Rong not hear it? He smiled wryly, "While what I did was certainly inappropriate, I had no choice. From now on, I will never abuse drugs again, and I will never again risk my life."
Shu Qing was silent.
He has lived for forty years, how could he not see that the downfall of the Second Prince and his faction that has caused a lot of uproar in the capital these days must be the work of the person in front of him?
After working so hard, how can I not be attacked by the cold poison?
He frowned and added, "Besides abstaining from drug abuse, you also shouldn't overwork yourself!"
"Sir, you are right. I will take note of this." Mu Rong readily agreed. "Please don't give up on me, sir."
After all, he is about to marry Xu Rongrong, and he must not let anything go wrong at this time.
"Am I giving up on the Marquis? It's the Marquis who doesn't care about himself!" Shu Qing was almost angry to death again.
He took a deep breath to prevent himself from saying something rude again, and took out a silver needle from the medicine bag.
"I've only been studying the death row prisoners sent by Lord Chu for half a month, and I haven't made any progress yet. For now, I can only use the old method to suppress the toxicity for the Marquis."
Mu Rong understood. He lowered his head to take off his outer robe, and then pulled his inner garment down to his waist.
Shu Qing inserted silver needles into acupuncture points all over his body.
Mu Rong also used his internal force to suppress it.
Gradually, the coldness between Mu Rong's eyebrows gradually dissipated, and the white frost condensed on his eyebrows and temples also disappeared.
Shu Qing was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he noticed something was amiss! Mu Rong was a first-rank military marquis, and injuries were inevitable from years of fighting on the battlefield. Those scars had gradually faded after healing, leaving only faint traces... But now, those healed areas, resembling the scars, were gradually gathering patches of blood, as if they were about to burst open again.
how so!
Shu Qing frowned deeply.
As the needles pierced the acupuncture points and the internal force suppressed him, the scars on Mu Rong's body became more and more obvious.
"My Lord, please don't use your internal energy anymore!" Shu Qing cried out in a low voice.
But at this moment, Mu Rong seemed to have lost control.
The pain of his scar bursting made him subconsciously increase the output of his internal energy.
The most serious wound was on his chest! It was last year in the hunting palace, when he was trying to dispel Xu Rongrong's suspicion and was almost shot through the heart by an arrow. The old wound here also made his lips turn black.
Shu Qing quickly took out the heart-protecting gallbladder from the medicine bag and fed it to Mu Rong.
Acupuncture was also used to relieve the pain on his old wound.
After a while, Mu Rong gradually recovered.
At this moment, his forehead was covered with large beads of sweat, his body was full of silver needles, and the scars that had long since healed began to become swollen, looking very scary.
"Why... is this happening?" Mu Rong was a little confused.
After Shu Qing finished taking his pulse, he sighed helplessly, "I think it's the medicine I left for you... I once said that those medicines were a combination of ten of the best tonics in the Great Zhou. Using strong tonics to suppress the cold poison in your body would prevent anyone from noticing anything unusual. But because you overdosed on them, the medicinal properties accumulated in your body and couldn't be expelled, forcing the cold poison in you to become even more powerful! Just now, we used acupuncture and internal energy to suppress the cold poison, leaving it with nowhere to hide and it began attacking your weakest point - the old injury from your previous injury." At this point, Shu Qing lowered his head, "I made a mistake."
He could hardly bear to think about the pain caused by dozens of old injuries bursting out at the same time.
Seeing this, Mu Rong shook his head weakly, "Sir, don't blame yourself. This is the backlash from me not following the doctor's advice."
He lowered his head and looked at the scars on his body.
Fortunately, she didn't see me like this.
He looked at Shu Qing and asked, "Sir, can you provide a solution?"
Shu Qing said nothing, took out a porcelain bottle from his medicine bag and handed it over.
Mu Rong took it and asked, "Antidote?"
Shu Qing shook his head: "It's for pain relief."
Mu Rong: "..."