The Song family was also in a state of gloom.
Grandma Song and Master Song went to see the old man on the first day and, like Master Sun, were stopped at the door. The two waited until dark, saw Meng come out and returned to the mansion as she did, and Grandma Song comforted her for the night before returning the next day.
“I don’t know which god damned person poisoned the old gentleman, he must not deserve to die.”
Grandma Song said through gritted teeth as she had no desire to eat.
The old man was so old, even if he woke up this time, his body would not be as healthy as before, and when she thought of this, Grandma Song wanted to take a broom and slap the person who had poisoned him to death.
Master Song sighed, “It’s been a few days now, and Doctor Yao has not developed an antidote, so I wonder if the old man will still wake up?”
“I’m sure he will.”
Song San Xiao swallowed the cold skin in his mouth.
When the old man did not wake up, the family was all anxious along with him, too angry to eat, and Song Shu and Liu Cui Lan both deliberately left a few copies of the cold skin back.
Grandma Song gave him a blank look.
“I say it’s true, the old gentleman will definitely wake up.”
Miss Qi said that Old Mister would only be betrothed to him after he woke up, and Song Sanxiao had been praying day and night for the past few days that Old Mister would wake up.
“Eat your rice!”
“Surely you can wake up.”
Song Sanxiao muttered again, taking a large bite of cold skin and stuffing it into his mouth.
Looking at the way he ate, Grandma Song felt pain in her eyes, “Can’t you eat a little slower, as if you’ve never eaten in eight lifetimes.”
Song Sanxiao hurriedly slowed down, not daring to make a sound.
……
It was dark, and the house was lit up.
Madam Qi was lost in thought, lying on the bed, Qi Wu sat on the edge of the bed and grabbed her hand, “Madam, I know you are sad in your heart, but Qian’er did not give us up until his death, just to save us, if we were exposed because of his corpse, he would not rest in peace under the nine springs.”
Mrs. Qi’s tears flowed down the corners of her eyes and onto the pillow, and Qi Wu stretched out his large, rough hands to gently wipe them for her, “I know you’re sad, and I feel worse than you. I have already ordered them to pack their things, once Gu Yi’s identity is revealed, we will leave for our sister and brother-in-law immediately, and let Run’er and Yuan’er take care of them in the future.”
“How am I going to explain this to my sister?”
Mrs. Qi choked back her sobs.
If she had known that she could take Qin Qian’s life, she would not have allowed Qin Qian to administer the drug even if she had let Qi Ying really marry Song San Xiao and take her time to pry.
“Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the people from the capital will be arriving, and being able to expose Gu Yi’s identity will be considered as revenge for Qian’er.”
On the following day, the doors of the academy were still full of people standing in front of them.
The weather was hot and the scholars’ clothes were soaked through, but none of them left.
The sound of horses’ hooves came.
All the men looked over at the sound.
The first two fast horses opened the way, escorting two men carrying medicine boxes behind them. Seeing the people standing in front of the courtyard, the man opening the way shouted, “Make way quickly, by order of the Emperor, send the imperial doctor over to save the old man.”
At his words, the crowd swiftly moved out of the way and the horse ran straight to the entrance of the academy and stopped, the two escorts jumped down first and then took the imperial doctor.
The two escorts jumped down first and then took the imperial physician with them. Before the imperial physician could stand, the man on the horse was already knocking on the door, “Open the door! The imperial doctor has come to save the old man, open the door!”
The door was opened and before the doctor could see who was knocking, one foot had already entered, “Lead the way.”
The doctor turned and ran inside —- The imperial doctor had come, the old man was saved.
The two imperial doctors were dizzily assisted into the door and were carried all the way forward in a hurry. They had been on horses for the past few days, and their old bones were falling apart from the bumps.
“Miss Song, Miss Song ……”
When they were still a long way away, the husband shouted loudly in spite of the etiquette, “The imperial doctor is here, the imperial doctor is here to save the old man!”
The few people inside the house heard this and hurriedly got up to welcome them out.
“The imperial doctor is here, he has come to save the old man.”
The doctor ran closer and said it again, unable to hide his excitement, and when he had finished, his body turned and he ran towards the backyard again to tell the dean the good news.
The guards released their hands and the two imperial doctors staggered inside.
The crowd followed behind them.
When they entered the room and saw the old gentleman’s face, the two imperial doctors exchanged glances, and the older one knelt down to take the old gentleman’s pulse. Soon after his fingers were on his pulse, his originally heavy expression eased a little, and after a long while, he let go of his hand, stood up and gestured for the other imperial doctor to take his pulse.
There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and the dean ran all the way in. When he saw the imperial doctor taking his pulse, he immediately lightened his steps again.
The two imperial doctors finished taking it and exchanged a glance again.
“How, how is it?”
Meng asked with a shaky voice.
The crowd looked at them expectantly too.
With so many eyes staring at him, the older imperial doctor almost blurted out that the old gentleman had been poisoned by the Ten Days’ Sleep, but when the words came to his lips, he hurriedly swallowed them back, “We can’t say for sure at the moment, we need to use silver needles to examine the old gentleman further, so please excuse yourselves. ”
The hearts of the crowd that had been raised for several days were a little more at ease and they quickly withdrew.
“Imperial Doctor Zheng, you see ……”
The slightly younger imperial doctor Liu’s voice was lowered.
Zheng imperial doctor took out the silver needle and stabbed it on the old gentleman’s finger, raised it to the end of his nose and smelled it, it was ten days of sleep yes, he did not panic and wiped the silver needle clean and put it away, “Don’t tell them yet, wait until the third prince and the state duke come.”
The old man had been poisoned in such a remote place, so Imperial Doctor Zheng did not think it was simply a coincidence.
Imperial Doctor Liu nodded his head.
Outside the city gates, a team of men escorted two carriages as they sped in, raising the dust very high. The soldiers guarding the city saw them and were immediately on alert.
When the carriages approached and they saw the signs on them, the soldiers were so frightened that they immediately chased away the people walking at the city gates and knelt to one side.
When the carriage passed, he hurriedly got up, took the horse next to him, rolled onto it and galloped to the government office, “My lord, the people from the capital have arrived!”
The county magistrate rose abruptly, “Who?”
“The Third Prince!”
The county magistrate drew a cold breath, the emperor had actually sent the imperial son over, this was really the end for him.
“Quickly, go to the academy!”
Outside the academy, everyone waited expectantly, waiting for good news to come out from inside.
Suddenly, the sound of horses’ hooves was heard again, and once again the crowd looked over at the sound to see the dust flying as a group of people came to protect two carriages.