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Chapter 240 Arriving at Dongzhuang

The next day, Cao Bao established a group and beheaded 16 ministers at Meridian Gate. The ministers rejoiced.Prince Xie Ruitang was nowhere to be seen.

Haitang fed him two qi-replenishing pills and held his hand as he slowly walked down the Lingxiao Tower. The prince's steps were sloppy and he almost slipped down the stairs several times. Chang Le was so frightened that he held the prince's arm tightly. .Chang Xi also wanted to help, but the prince refused to let go of the princess's hand, so the princess had to let him hold her hand.

It was very hard to go down the 66 steps, so Chang Xi asked a few chamberlains to walk in front of them, so that if they slipped down, they would not throw the crown prince and crown princess.Haitang knew that Xie Ruitang had taken Wuxiang for many days in a row and had been seriously poisoned, which was more serious than she had just thought.

After getting off the Lingxiao Tower, a soft sedan chair carried the bewildered prince back to the East Palace.

Back in the palace, the prince was lying on the bed. He tossed and turned and kept crying out in pain: "Begonia! Begonia! The ants are biting my bones! It hurts..." Haitang sat on the edge of the bed, tears streaming down her face: She knew that Wuxiang was a poisonous medicine, but she had only heard about Wuxiang poison and had never treated it!
Haitang asked Chang Xi to close the palace door so that no one could enter or exit.She took out a silver needle and pricked several of Xie Ruitang's acupuncture points. Xie Ruitang stopped screaming and closed his eyes as if he was awake.

Shuang'er asked hurriedly: "Mother, the prince doesn't cry out that it hurts. Is he okay?"

Haitang shook his head and said worriedly: "This is not to cure his disease, it is just to seal his acupuncture points to make him feel slower and less painful."

She touched Xie Ruitang's sweaty face, then turned back to Shuang'er and said, "The acupuncture points will be opened soon. It's better to feed him some drugs and make him pass out than to be awake and in pain. I It will take a while, I am going to see the Queen Mother."

Shuang'er nodded and went to get the medicine.Haitang then told Liuying: "Go and pack your things. We will leave the palace immediately and go live in Zhuangzi in the eastern suburbs." Just as Liuying was about to go out, Haitang stopped her and said, "Pack up all your things. It's possible that we will have to stay for a long time."

"Ji'er, go to the warehouse and bring all the gold and silver. No matter how valuable the things in the silver shop are, you only want to pick out the things you can use." Haitang told Ji'er.A few days ago, all the banknotes and land deed documents were sent to the Prince's Mansion outside the palace, leaving only some cash in the East Palace.

Ji'er hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Mother, are we not coming back? If so, I will find a way to take more out."

Haitang looked at Xie Ruitang blankly and said, "I don't know what's going on in my heart. I'm afraid this poison won't be easy to cure. Just pretend that you can't come back!" Ji'er felt sad, nodded and went out.

Shuang'er poured a finger of drug into a small glass of wine and fed Xie Ruitang to drink it.Haitang asked her to watch the prince and not leave him for a moment.He went out by himself and took Cai Lian and Cai Qin to see the Queen Mother.

The queen mother heard that the prince was ill, and Haitang wanted to take the prince out of the palace to recuperate in the suburbs of Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi was not far away, an hour's journey away.The Queen Mother did not hesitate and issued a decree to let them leave the palace.Haitang went to the palace of Concubine Ji and the Queen to say goodbye.

When Concubine Ji heard this, she immediately got up and went to the East Palace to see the prince. Haitang stopped her and said with a smile: "Concubine, don't you still believe in my medical skills? In Lingxiao Terrace, the prince could not sleep for several days, and now he has fallen asleep. Dongzhuang is quiet. , the air is good, and being away from the court is also conducive to his meditation and cultivation. We will come back after a while when he recovers from his illness."

The empress was happy for them to leave, and she even hoped that the prince would never come back if he fell ill.

After Haitang walked around and returned to the East Palace, Xie Ruitang's drug addiction was almost over, and he began to hum intermittently again.

"As soon as the carriage comes, carry the prince out of the palace." Haitang did not wait for everything to be settled, and made a prompt decision to leave the palace first. After a long time, someone would inevitably find out.Not long after, the prince was quietly carried into a carriage outside the palace.Chang Le left the palace early and notified the Prince's Mansion. Ling Yun went to Dongzhuang first. Ling Feng and Ling Xue were waiting outside the palace gate.Ling Xue drove the car in person, and a group of guards escorted the prince and princess to Dongzhuang.

In the car, Xie Ruitan woke up, still crying and yawning, and complained that his bones had a headache. The car bumped a little, and he screamed in pain and vomited a little.When he regained consciousness, he hugged Haitang's waist and kept saying: "Begonia, Haitang! Please help me! I'm in pain, I can't hold on anymore."

Haitang took off his gauze hat, pressed the acupuncture points on his head, and comforted him: "It's okay. Now let's go out of the palace to Dongzhuang, where I will treat you well. My child and I will stay with you. So brave, you only need seven days, if you survive these seven days, your illness will be cured."

Speaking of "seven days", Haitang actually said it based on the "seven days of self-healing" in the "Nei Jing" and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". She used these few days to encourage Xie Ruitang to persist.Whether it could be cured in seven days, she felt blank in her mind.In the carriage behind, in addition to gold and silver, there were two boxes of her medical books. When she arrived at Dongzhuang, she was going to look through these medical books to find out if there was any prescription for curing Wuxiang poison.

"Don't leave me, I'm in so much pain, it hurts in my bones. Haitang, don't leave, Haitang." Xie Ruitang was sometimes sober and sometimes confused. The most common word he said was the name of the Crown Princess.At this time, Ling Shuang, who was holding the prince's legs from behind to prevent him from kicking, couldn't help crying.

Ling Xue, who was sitting in front of the carriage, burst into tears at some point.

When they arrived at Dongzhuang, Ling Yun and Zhuang Tou met them at the intersection.Ling Xue and Ling Yun helped the prince out of the car and onto the sedan. The prince suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "Where is Haitang? I want Haitang! If Haitang doesn't go, I won't go either!"

Haitang was also going to get into the sedan chair, but seeing him like this, she had no choice but to come over and support his sedan chair, smiling and saying: "Haitang is here, and if the prince doesn't go, Haitang won't go either." The prince insisted on holding Haitang's hand, and Haitang had no choice but to obey. Following him, he stopped riding in the sedan and supported the prince's sedan all the way into the village.

Ling Yun was shocked when he saw the prince looking like this. Is this the prince he knew?He quickly asked Ling Shuang, who was walking behind, and he found out that Cao Baoli and the others gave the prince poppies and Wuxiang, and the prince was poisoned by Wuxiang.

"You can't forgive the hatred by beheading them, so they should be chopped alive!" Ling Xue said bitterly, and hit a small tree next to her with a whip, breaking the tree in half.

Ling Feng said to Ling Yun: "We have to make plans to live here for a long time. I have never heard of such a thing as Wu Xiang Du. Ji'er and the others' car is at the back. Go out and watch. The Crown Princess is afraid All the family members from the East Palace have moved here. There are only about ten of us, and the guards at the East Palace need to be strengthened."

Hearing the sound of horse hoofbeats on the road, Shen Congxi, Yan Shiyi, and An Qing came galloping over. They watched Cao Baoli and his group enter the prison, leaving Zhao Muzhe and Zuo Zhangquan behind to guard them, so they had to escape.

Yan Shi asked as soon as he got off his horse: "Why don't you go back to the Prince's Mansion after leaving the palace? We can't even take care of you when you go to such a remote place."

"Master Eleven, Master Shen, Prince, please go in and take a look for yourselves." Ling Yun lowered his head with a sad look on his face and just helped Ji'er unload the car.

Yan Shiyi glanced at the boxes that were brought down. Each one seemed to have some weight, not to mention there were so many boxes.Yan Shiyi frowned, looked at Ji'er and asked:

"Ji'er, tell me, what happened?"

(End of this chapter)