The Third Prince got down from the carriage, turned to help the Duke of Qi down, and walked briskly towards the study hall.
The crowd of scholars, seeing his extraordinary bearing, did not dare to comment on him, but the onlookers did not shy away from this.
“Who is this?”
“I think he’s from the capital, and looking at his clothes, he might be a big official.”
A guard who said that he was at the side of the carriage had his hand on his waist sword and scolded the person who spoke, “This is the Third Prince, don’t talk about it!”
The Third Prince?!
The people surrounding the carriage exploded into a frenzy, and the chatter intensified.
“Isn’t it said that the emperor’s sons would make the people avoid them when they travel? But the Third Prince has no regard for this, he has descended to his dignity and hurried here, so it is clear that he attaches great importance to the old gentleman.”
“Who says otherwise, maybe it is because the Third Prince is most mindful of the old gentleman that he was sent here.”
“With the Third Prince here, the old gentleman must be saved this time.”
……
While the Third Prince’s feet were flying, his ears stayed pivoted, hearing the chatter of the crowd outside and admiring his grandfather’s ploy from the bottom of his heart.
When he was five miles from the city gates, he was puzzled when his grandfather told the guards to ride ahead with the two imperial doctors. Grandfather told him that if he came with the imperial doctors, the people’s eyes would be on the imperial doctors and would easily overlook him, and that if they went there later and acted as if they were in a hurry, the people would naturally remember him.
A doctor heard the commotion and rushed to meet them. Looking at their dress, he knew they were from the capital and led them over in a hurry.
When he stepped into the courtyard and saw the people standing in the courtyard, the third prince’s brow knitted invisibly for a moment, then quickly loosened, “How is the old man?”
No one in the courtyard knew him, only Meng could vaguely guess his identity and hastily blessed himself, “The two imperial doctors are still diagnosing.”
The Duke of Qi also entered the courtyard with him, his gaze falling precisely on Gu Yi’s face, thinking in his heart through gritted teeth that he would soon get his revenge for being scared out of his mind.
When Gu Yi looked back at him, the Duke of Qi brushed aside his gaze and followed the Third Prince into the house.
“Your Highness, the Third Prince ……”
Imperial Doctor Zheng lowered his voice, “The old man was struck with ten days sleep.”
The Duke of Qi was surprised, “Sure?”
“Your Highness, don’t worry, there is absolutely no mistake, I am afraid that something else might be involved, I haven’t told anyone outside yet.”
Duke Qi nodded, he had thought of this on the way here, since the other party was luring him over to deal with Gu Yi, naturally they would not give the old man a severe poison.
“Is there an antidote?”
“Generally there is no antidote, you can wake up naturally after sleeping enough for ten days.”
The Duke of Qi pondered, the old gentleman had already passed out for five days, which meant that in another five days the old gentleman would be able to wake up on his own.
“Can you two develop an antidote so that the old gentleman can wake up soon?”
“This ……”
Imperial Doctor Zheng and Imperial Doctor Liu looked at each other, it was unusual for them not to prepare such an antidote in the palace, and if they did so now, they were not sure they could prepare it within a day or two.
Seeing their reaction, the Duke of Qi also knew that the two could not prepare it for a while, “In this way, later on, you tell the people outside that the old gentleman was hit by the fifteenth day of sleep, and the two of you will develop the antidote without stopping for a day, and give it to the old gentleman when the ninth day comes.”
The two of them immediately understood the meaning of his words, no matter what they gave the old man, he would wake up by the tenth day.
“All yours, Your Majesty.”
“But ……”
Imperial Doctor Zheng was a little worried, “Earlier a doctor had been looking at the old gentleman, could he have seen what kind of poison the old gentleman had been poisoned with?”
The Duke of Qi also just remembered, “Where is that First Lady?”
Imperial Doctor Zheng was busy answering, “We didn’t see it when we came.”
“In this way, in a moment, the Third Prince will ask questions, and you will listen on the side to see exactly what to say.”
The two men responded.
The Third Prince sat on the round stool in front of the bed and gestured for the imperial physician to call for someone.
Imperial Doctor Liu walked to the door and lifted the curtain high, “Everyone, please come in first.”
Meng was in front, Xu and Song Wan Yue held her, the dean followed closely behind, Gu Yi was behind him, and all of them walked into the house.
“This is the third prince, who has come by order of the emperor to find the murderer who poisoned the old gentleman. ”
Qi Guoji.
The crowd was shocked and about to kneel down, but was stopped by the Third Prince, “I purposely did not identify myself, because I do not want to be restricted by this identity and cause inconvenience when finding the murderer, and you do not need to be polite.”
“Thank you, Third Prince.”
The Third Prince waved his hand and asked, “I wonder which doctor saw the old man before this?”
“It was Doctor Yao, because the source of the poison could not be found, and Doctor Yao did not know exactly what kind of poison he had been poisoned with, and developed an antidote once, but it did not have any effect.”
Meng said back.
The Third Prince nodded, “After all, it’s a doctor from the countryside, his medical skills are inferior, Imperial Doctor Zheng, tell us what poison the old man was poisoned with?”
“What the old gentleman has been poisoned with is the fifteen-day sleep. As the name implies, he must sleep for 15 days before he can wake up, but he is already old, so if he sleeps for 15 days, even if he wakes up, his body will be damaged. Imperial Doctor Liu and I will prepare an antidote as soon as possible, so that the old gentleman can wake up as soon as possible.”
Song Wan Yue glanced at him.
Imperial Doctor Zheng sensed it, and before he could look over, he saw Meng blessing herself towards them, “Trouble the two imperial doctors?”
The two men hurriedly avoided it, “It’s a matter of duty, Madam, no need to be polite.”
“Qingping County Magistrate Lu Zhiyao pays his respects to the Third Prince!”
With a thud, the county magistrate’s voice came in.
“Get in!”
The County Magistrate entered on his knees, and just after he crossed the threshold, his head knocked heavily on the ground, “The subordinate official’s lax governance has caused the old gentleman to be poisoned, so I would like to ask the Third Prince to reprimand him.”
“You are to be chastised, the old gentleman is famous throughout the world, a great scholar of his generation. Father respects him, yet he was poisoned in this small county of Qingping, if anything happens to him, you won’t need your head.”
The county governor’s official robe was wet to the naked eye.
“My humble servant deserves to die, my humble servant deserves to die.”
“You have to wait to die until you find the person who poisoned you, have you found it?”
“Found, found.”
“Found?”
“Yes, the old man was caught the first day he was poisoned, and he was taken to the prison, but his mouth was so hard that he could not be pried out no matter what ……”
“Rubbish!”
The third prince took advantage of the situation and rose, “This prince will go and see what kind of person is so daring as to poison the old gentleman? Lead the way!”
The Prefect went to one side on his knees and waited for the two to pass before he dared to get up and follow them out.
The two imperial doctors also followed them out, the dean was in a panic and also wanted to send them off, but was stopped by Song Wan Yue, “Didn’t the third prince just say, don’t let us be polite, I think he also doesn’t want us to send them.”
“Miss Song, you ……”
The dean did not know what she meant.
Song Wan Yue’s eyes flashed with coldness, she didn’t believe that the imperial doctor didn’t find out that it was a ten day sleep, but said it was a fifteen day sleep, obviously playing mind games.