The Emperor also panicked. Jing-wang better be fine. He hastily ordered the guards to bring Jing-wang back to his tent. Then he summoned all of the nearby imperial physicians to see Jing-wang.
Jing-wang suddenly coughed up blood. Li Yu was even more worried than the Emperor.
In his memory, people only cough up blood when they were either heavily injured or heavily ill. Jing-wang didn’t have any injuries on him. So what illness did he have?
Even though they stayed together all day long, he didn’t notice anything at all. He didn’t seem to be a qualified wangfei here!
Li Yu was both remorseful and worried for Jing-wang. The guards came over to help bring Jing-wang away. Li Yu jumped up and insisted on accompanying him. Jing-wang coughed up blood but his mind was still very clear. Laying on a stretcher, he held Li Yu’s hand, wanting Li Yu to feel more at ease. In front of Jing-wang, no matter what he indicated, Li Yu always nodded in agreement. However, in reality, how could he feel at ease? If Jing-wang collapsed, his sky would also fall. What should he do?
Some people, when in a panic, would unexpectedly become more level headed. At this time, Li Yu was the same.
He still had the kids. If Jing-wang was sick, he still needed to support this family. He couldn’t only focus on his own distress and pain. He had to think about the kids. He had to think about how to help Jing-wang.
After returning to the tent, Li Yu quickly wiped away the faint tears at the corner of his eyes. First, he went to take a look at the kids. The kids were being cared for by Wang Xi. Seeing fish dad, they all became very happy. Li Yu sorrowfully told them that Jing-wang daddy was sick and asked them to avoid being noisy. Then he continued to entrust their care to Wang Xi. After Wang Xi learned that Jing-wang was sick, he was also extremely anxious. However, what wangfei said was correct. The little masters needed care as well. He couldn’t let his highness worry while he was sick. Wang Xi knelt down and earnestly requested Li Yu to take good care of Jing-wang. Li Yu agreed. After that, he guarded next to Jing-wang’s side, watching him without blinking.
The Imperial Physicians came in waves and waves, asking Li Yu to rest several times. Li Yu sat there dryly. Other than asking about Jing-wang’s condition, he ignored everything else.
“TianChi, how are you feeling?” Li Yu touched Jing-wang’s cheek, full of worry.
Jing-wang gave him a smile. Not bad.
After coughing up the blood, Jing-wang’s face color got better. His breathing also became smoother.
Li Yu felt like Jing-wang wasn’t lying to him. However, the Imperial Physicians had assessed him repeatedly multiple times. For some unknown reason, they still haven’t said what’s the issue here.
The longer the medical examination dragged onward, the more chaotic Li Yu’s heart became. The Imperial Physicians weren’t saying anything. Did this indicate that the illness was very serious, that even the physicians didn’t know how to cure it, and that they weren’t confident in treating it?
“Your highness Jing-wang, I have a few more questions I’d like to ask you. Please answer truthfully.” A rather elderly looking Imperial Physician came to ask after discussing with the other physicians.
Li Yu looked inquisitively at Jing-wang. If the physicians asked something too complicated, Jing-wang would have to write. Who knew if Jing-wang was capable of doing that in his current state?
Jing-wang actually wasn’t that ill. Since the physician wanted to ask, Jing-wang nodded his head in agreement. Li Yu immediately charged over to the table and grabbed the pen and brush for him.
The Imperial physician asked: “Before you coughed up blood, did you feel ill anywhere else?”
Jing-wang picked up the brush and wrote: Blood surging, chest aching, throat on fire.
The physician asked cautiously: “Have you ever felt like this before?”
Jing-wang carefully searched his memories and nodded his head, writing: Yes, but didn’t cough up blood.
The Physician followed up: “Then do you remember when it first started?”
Jing-wang: “……”
Jing-wang wrote: More than a year ago.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
It’s been here more than a year?
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At that time, he was only focused on his own unhappiness. How could he have imagined that Jing-wang was also ill and also feeling uncomfortable?
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know……” Li Yu was so dismayed he was about to cry.
Jing-wang immediately shook his head: It’s not your fault. I was careless.
Jing-wang got busy with consoling Li Yu. After receiving Jing-wang’s answer, the old physician went to discuss with the rest of the imperial physicians. Then he examined Jing-wang’s pulse extremely meticulously once more.
On the Emperor’s side. Originally, he shouldn’t have come to visit directly. However, after learning that the imperial physician still didn’t give a diagnosis yet after all this time, the Emperor also couldn’t sit still anymore and came in person to Jing-wang’s tent.
“Just what’s going on with Jing-wang?” The Emperor asked with a heavy voice.
After experiencing all of those things, the Emperor had already decided to make Jing-wang the next ruler. He really didn’t want anything to happen to Jing-wang right now.
The Emperor was asking this personally. The old physician looked left and right and first requested the Emperor to send away all of the excess servants.
The Emperor did so. Finally, the old physician knelt down and said: “Your majesty, according to our diagnosis, Jing-wang should have been poisoned. Not to mention, this was something that happened a long time ago. Because his situation was critical just now, his blood surged and actually caused him to cough up some of the poisoned blood that had been buried deep within his body. That’s why we were able to discover it.”
Poison??
Jing-wang was shocked. The Emperor and Li Yu were both astonished. How could Jing-wang be poisoned? Has the 6th Prince done this?
Li Yu felt his heart jump to his throat. Not even caring that the Emperor was present, he scrambled to ask: “Physician, what kind of poison is this? Can it be cured? What do you mean a long time ago?”
According to Jing-wang’s recount, did he get poisoned more than a year ago?
Because he was poisoned, that’s why he…… coughed up black colored blood?
The Emperor didn’t squabble about Li Yu’s rudeness and said to the physician: “Answer quickly. I also want to know the answers to these questions.”
The old physician organized his thoughts and said respectfully: “Your highness, please allow me to answer the last question first. According to our diagnosis, the poison has been concealed in his highness’ body for probably decades, until this year where its toxicity weakened slightly. This caused his blood to surge forth and unexpectedly reveal a clue to its presence.”
“Tens of years?!” The Emperor was shocked. Jing-wang was only in his 20s. How could he have been poisoned for tens of years?
Seeing how Jing-wang also looked very surprised, even Jing-wang didn’t know himself!
“What you mean is that Jing-wang was poisoned in his youth?” The Emperor recalled how Jing-wang was extremely weak upon birth. When he was very young, the imperial physicians had to treat him multiple times. He got better with age, but there were never any hints of poison. Furthermore, physicians usually changed Jing-wang’s pulse regularly. Since he’s been poisoned all this time, how come it wasn’t discovered earlier?
The old physician explained: “Your majesty, this poison is not potent. His highness Jing-wang usually looks fine and it is very hard to tell with his pulse.”
The Emperor said: “Then is this poison life threatening?”
The old physician said hesitatingly, shaking his head: “I only know that his highness is currently poisoned. However, I still need to cross reference his pulse with medical books to figure out what kind of poison this is. However, since this poison has been inside his highness’ body for such a long time, it probably wouldn’t be immediately life threatening.”
The Emperor was completely frustrated. He just finalized his decision to pick Jing-wang. Now the heavens wanted to play this huge joke on him?
Jing-wang was born mute. His path has been bumpy enough already. And now the right and proper prince, the son of his first wife, somehow got poisoned inconspicuously right under his eyes!
Since it occurred such a long time ago, it definitely couldn’t be the work of the 6th Prince who was several years younger than Jing-wang. Then who could it be? Who else wanted to harm Jing-wang?
The Emperor was both indignant and ashamed. Unable to protect Jing-wang well, he really felt like he had let down the deceased Empress Xiao Hui.
“No matter what, you must cure Jing-wang of this poison!” The Emperor ordered.
The old physician acknowledged it.
The Emperor turned around and remembered the four Baos. He anxiously asked: “Can this poison be inherited by offspring?”
The old physician can’t really say. The Emperor ordered Wang Xi to carry over the four kids. The old physician checked their pulses one by one. Then he discussed with the other physicians for a long time before answering with certainty: “The little heir and the other three little lords are not poisoned.”
The Emperor finally received a piece of good news. This can be considered a fortune amongst misfortunes.
The Emperor summoned Wang Xi over for questioning. Wang Xi had always served Jing-wang, if Jing-wang was poisoned during his youth, there must have been some irregularities. Wang Xi should know something.
However, Wang Xi recalled again and again. In the end, he swore with his own life that he had never noticed Jing-wang having any symptoms of being poisoned.
The imperial physicians suddenly announced that Jing-wang had been poisoned. The time of poisoning was also many years ago. The Emperor was already confused. However, since Wang Xi said it like that, even though the Emperor felt it was too strange, he temporarily didn’t have any other leads either.
Li Yu blankly and absent-mindedly listened to the Emperor’s questioning. After a long time, he finally recovered from his thoughts. So Jing-wang had been poisoned since his youth?
But how come he didn’t know about it? This shouldn’t be a small matter. Why didn’t the original novel mention it at all?
He remembered that in the original novel, Jing-wang was very healthy in the end. Was this saying, if it weren’t for the fact that Jing-wang coughed up blood this time, they also wouldn’t have discovered that Jing-wang had been poisoned. And that this poison would have continued to hide inside his body. Then…… just what exactly was the point of this poison?
Normally when someone was poisoned, there would be symptoms. Jing-wang he…… usually didn’t look like someone who’s been poisoned. In the original novel and here, Jing-wang had no issues at all, except……
Li Yu was just getting ready to carry over some soup for Jing-wang. Suddenly, his hands shook and with a plop, the silver spoon fell to the floor.
Li Yu bent over to pick it up but his hands were shaking so much he almost couldn’t pick it up.
Just now, he had a very terrifying thought.
Jing-wang being poisoned in his youth was only the Emperor and the physician’s tentative guess. However, it was very strange that Wang Xi, who was responsible for taking care of Jing-wang in his youth, had never noticed any irregularity with him. Li Yu trusted Wang Xi. Wang-gonggong had no reason to lie at this time. Could the timing of the poisoning be even earlier? Even before Wang Xi arrived by Jing-wang’s side?
For this poison to be hidden so deeply, having no symptoms was impossible. Could it be that there was actually a symptom that’s been overlooked by everyone? That’s why no one realized?
This symptom was– Jing-wang’s biggest lament, his mutism. Even though Li Yu wasn’t a doctor, he knew that inside court intrigue novels, there were some poisons which can make people deaf or mute.
If Jing-wang’s mutism wasn’t innate, but rather a result of poison… could this be possible?
Li Yu abruptly recalled some small things that occurred a while ago.
In order to avoid passing on his disability to his offspring, Jing-wang decided to not have any more children. Li Yu still wanted a daughter and refused to give up. He once inquired about the status of the Emperor and Empress Xiao Hui’s ancestral lines. He wanted to calculate how high was the possibility of inheriting the mutism. However after asking around, he discovered that neither of the two people had mutism in their bloodlines. In other words, within several generations of men and women, only Jing-wang was mute.
According to genetics, this was practically impossible.
However, life was strange and complicated. Li Yu transmigrated while he was still young. His knowledge of genetics was very crude and simple. He was even more worried that this was only a character setting from the original novel.
Now that he thought about it, many of the surprising settings in the original novel all had a reasonable explanation in this world. For example, how Jing-wang’s name, TianChi, was not the same as the other princes. In actuality, Jing-wang was called TianJing originally, and only changed his name later.
Then could the highly unlikely, yet present mutism also have some other explanation to it? Perhaps Jing-wang was drugged when he was very little, which caused people to mistake him for a naturally born mute later on? Perhaps it was also because of this that people didn’t notice that Jing-wang had been poisoned all this time?
Of course, there were also only Li Yu’s conjectures. If it were true, then it’d be too scary. It would be great if he could find some evidence that would either confirm or deny this hypothesis.
When Jing-wang was very little…… so young that Wang Xi wasn’t there yet…… drugged……
A scene appeared in Li Yu’s head of the infant Jing-wang laying in swaddling clothes, looking at his own wet nurse. The wet nurse who swallowed a bag of powdered drugs with tears in her eyes.
Oh fck! Li Yu jumped up in fright by his own thoughts. Why would he suddenly recall this?
This was Jing-wang’s secret. He had been unable to understand it all this time. Although the time matched, and there was no Wang Xi…… but the person taking the drug here was the wet nurse, not……
No wait!
Li Yu started remembering a casual conversation he had with the JinJue Princess. The other seemed to have mentioned that after a wet nurse consumed medication, she can pass on the effect of the medication to a child through breast milk and use this method to treat kids.
Then…. What if the wet nurse drank poison? Would the infant also???
Li Yu: “……”
Li Yu felt that after letting his thoughts run wild, he might have hit the mark! Shocking!
Xiao Yu? Seeing him in a trance, Jing-wang squeezed his fingers slightly.
Li Yu returned from his thoughts and controlled the impulse to tell Jing-wang.
Everything was still only his guess. He can’t recklessly tell Jing-wang. What if it’s not right and the poison had nothing to do with his mutism? Wouldn’t that make Jing-wang experience a moment of delight over nothing?
The top priority here was to first help the imperial physicians figure out this poison.
No matter what, I’ll save you.
Li Yu looked at Jing-wang and decided resolutely.
QQ, fish loved him so much. He doesn’t want to be a widow!
Thank You for the chapter ❤⃛ヾ(๑❛ ▿ ◠๑ )
Omg, it’s all coming together! 🤯
Maybe she was also the reason of empress childrens Death. Sus
Seems like it, though she was probably controlled to do it by someone higher up
(especially since it’s regular for people of power to use someone below their status as a pawn to make movements indirectly)
I suspect the concubine zhang (6th prince mother) it said that she was once late empress maid
thanks for the chapter!
Pieces are falling into place! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Who could it be?
So… who was doing all of this? The 6th prince’s mother? She was the previous maid of empress Xiao Hui. Hmmm… idk anymore