Chapter 71 - Mighty Poison
"Have you brought the cefaludan?" Seeing that his eldest son had arrived, Zhe Keqiu asked straightforwardly.
"It's here!" Zhe Yanwen gasped for air a few times, then said.
He took out a jade box from his chest and opened it. Immediately, three pure white pills appeared before everyone! This was the cefaludan! The cefaludan released a burst of fragrance. Smelling this fragrance, Yue Fei, Li Gang and the rest all felt their bodies relax! Originally, Zhao Chen was struck by the poison, causing the poison to pervade the room. More or less, everyone was injured by the poison, but now that the cefaludan's fragrance was released, they all felt the poison in their bodies dissolve!
"This... This was the best healing panacea! With this cefaludan, I think we can cure His Highness! " Li Gang said in pleasant surprise.
"Father, this cefaludan is so precious, you must not let the crown prince consume it!" Zhe Yanzhi shouted loudly once again!
"You unfilial son! If you continue to speak, I won't forgive you! " Zhe Keqiu shouted in anger!
Following that, he opened Zhao Chen's mouth and placed a cefaludan into it! Watching the cefaludan gradually dissipate, Zhe Keqiu couldn't help but reveal a look of reluctance on his face! This cefaludan was extremely precious. If it was normal poisoning, it only needed to smell the cefaludan's fragrance to dispel it! Of course, other than removing the poison, the most important use of cefaludan was to increase inner force! If three cefaludan s consumed it at the same time, it would be enough for Zhe Keqiu to enter the Xiantian Full Circle realm! However, at this moment, in order to cure Zhao Chen, he had no choice but to feed the cefaludan to Zhao Chen!
After waiting for fifteen minutes, Zhao Chen's heartbeat seemed like it was about to stop!
Zhe Keqiu was greatly shocked, he once again opened Zhao Chen's mouth and put the remaining two cefaludan into Zhao Chen's mouth together!
"What poison is this?" So powerful! How could there be such a powerful poison in the world? This was a cefaludan! actually was unable to neutralize his poison? " Zhe Keqiu was in disbelief!
Time slowly passed. Everyone silently stood there with anxious expressions on their faces!
After another quarter of an hour, the dead gray color on Zhao Chen's face seemed to have slowly faded away, and finally, his complexion changed from dead gray to a paper-white!
Seeing such a change, Zhe Keqiu was ecstatic, Li Gang, Yue Fei and the rest were also ecstatic!
"This cefaludan really has an effect! That's great! "Great!" Li Gang shouted excitedly!
He walked in front of Zhao Chen with large strides, and carefully looked at Zhao Chen's face! Now, Zhao Chen's face was ashen white, and he looked extremely haggard! Zhao Chen was only 11 years old, and was still a teenager. However, this youngster had a strong temperament that normal youngsters do not have!
Thinking back to his experiences on this road, thinking back to how he accompanied her on this road, Li Gang couldn't help but cry! Zhao Chen was not only his student, he was also his ruler! How much suffering had this ten-year-old youth suffered!? He was still suffering! He didn't know when this young man would be able to truly control his own fate and not be tormented again!
"May the heavens bless my Crown Prince of the Great Song Dynasty! Let His Highness the Crown Prince recover quickly! " Li Gang knelt on the ground, and said with a choked voice!
"May God bless Your Highness, the Crown Prince!" Yue Fei also knelt down, his face full of tears!
Li Ruoshui, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian also knelt down, and prayed to the sky!
Seeing them kneel on the ground, Zhe Keqiu hesitated for a moment before kneeling as well! Zhe Keqiu knelt down, Zhe Yanwen, Zhe Yanzhi had no choice but to kneel down, the guards outside also knelt down!
For a time, the palace was filled with voices of "God bless His Highness, the Crown Prince".
That night, Zhe Keqiu, Li Gang, Li Ruoshui, Yue Fei and the rest had been protecting Zhao Chen by his side!
The paleness of Zhao Chen's face had already faded and his heartbeat slowly recovered as well. But even until dawn, Zhao Chen still had not woken up!
"What's going on?" Zhe Keqiu said anxiously.
He stepped forward and checked Zhao Chen's pulse once again. He felt that Zhao Chen's body was gradually recovering, but he did not understand why Zhao Chen did not wake up! Yue Fei also came to Zhao Chen's front, Yue Fei once again channeled his Spirit Qi into Zhao Chen's body, using it to stimulate his body, but Zhao Chen still did not show any signs of waking up!
"General Crop, there are still a few famous doctors from Middle Han Area Palace here, let them take a look for the crown prince!" At this time, the Middle Han Area's Prefect, Cao Rong, came forward and said.
Cao Rong arrived at midnight, and was anxiously waiting at the side.
Zhe Keqiu nodded!
A few famous doctors from the Middle Han Area arrived in front of Zhao Chen and began to diagnose him!
After an hour, several famous doctors finally stopped!
"Quick!" Speak! What exactly is going on with the crown prince? " Zhe Keqiu anxiously said.
"General Crop, my lords, His Highness the crown prince's situation is not looking good!" a doctor said.
"What's wrong?" Zhe Keqiu said.
"The poison in His Highness' internal organs and the poison on the surface of his body has been expelled! However, that poison was too powerful. It had probably invaded the crown prince's bone marrow! Thus, the Crown Prince was still unable to wake up! " the doctor said.
"Invade into the bone marrow? This … This … Those are three cefaludan s, and they're actually unable to remove the poison from their bone marrow? " Zhe Keqiu was in disbelief!
"What do you think we should do now?" Li Gang stepped forward and shouted.
"I'm afraid we are unable to do anything! When the poison invaded his bone marrow, no matter how good the healing panacea was, it was unable to heal His Highness' body! That poison is exceptionally strong. I'm afraid it will soon enter all parts of your body through your bone marrow. At that time, your highness will not be able to escape death! " a doctor said sadly.
"I'm afraid not!" The doctor lightly sighed and said.
"How can this be? Is my Song Dynasty's Crown Prince going to leave like this? No, I will not tolerate such a thing! Your Highness, you must live. This old servant will find the best doctor in the world and treat you! " Li Gang cried!
"Is there any other way?" If there's even a trace of hope, I can't give up! " Zhe Keqiu also said on the other side.
"If there is still a healing panacea like the cefaludan that has been given to His Highness to consume, maybe it can guarantee his Highness temporary death! Perhaps in the future, he might be able to find a famous doctor and expel the poison from His Highness' body! Or, if we can find out what kind of poison His Highness is suffering from, we can also face it head-on and perhaps be able to cure His Highness! " the doctor said.
"Then did you see what poison was in His Highness's body?" Zhe Keqiu said anxiously.
"We have never seen or heard of such a highly toxic poison. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find out!" The doctor smiled wryly and shook his head!
"Damn it!" You pieces of trash! " Zhe Keqiu's heart was filled with rage, now that he had reignited his anger on these doctors, he pulled out his sword and was about to slash at them!
"General Crop, you can't!" Li Gang anxiously pulled Zhe Keqiu back, and shouted loudly!
Zhe Keqiu gasped for breath, and roared "Scram", those famous doctors of the Middle Han Area were scared sh * t out of their wits!
"General Crop, you were really too rash! Those are all famous doctors of the Middle Han Area. We still have to invite them over and help protect His Highness! " Li Gang said.
"Even if His Highness has a famous doctor watching over him, he won't be able to do anything about it!" The crown prince is really going to die! " Zhe Keqiu said in a daze.
All of his ambition and ambitions were placed on Zhao Chen, and if Zhao Chen died, his ambition would also completely die as well! To him, it was no different from his own death! What was the point of living like a zombie without any ambition?
"General Crop cannot be discouraged! What we have seen are only famous doctors from the Middle Han Area Palace, there are many famous doctors in the world! We will send people to Chuan Zhong and Jiangnan to ask the famous doctors of the world to treat His Highness the Crown Prince! Perhaps His Highness the Crown Prince could recover! Now that His Highness the Crown Prince is not dead, we still have hope! There's still hope, do you understand? " Li Gang grabbed Zhe Keqiu's clothes, and shouted loudly!
Although one of them was a loyal official and the other one was a traitor, they both had the same goal at the moment. They both wished for Zhao Chen to live!
Hearing Li Gang's words, Zhe Keqiu took a deep breath, nodded, and said: "You're right! The Crown Prince is not dead yet. We still have hope! I'll send someone to get a famous doctor! In addition, I will send people to find all kinds of healing panaceas to ensure that His Highness does not die! "
Li Gang nodded, and said: "That's more like it!"
Zhe Keqiu turned his head to look at Yue Fei, Wang Gui, and Zhang Xian. If anything happens to your highness, I will kill you all! "
Yue Fei and Wang Gui did not say a word, but Zhang Xian said angrily, "It was clearly the maid you found that poisoned Your Highness, and you actually blame us!"
Yue Fei held onto Zhang Xian, and said: "Third brother, we are not able to take care of you, and this is our responsibility! Don't say too much! "
Zhe Keqiu snorted, and walked out quickly!
Li Gang looked at Yue Fei and the other two, and said: "Yue Fei, the three of you must protect Your Highness well. Anybody who wants to approach His Highness, you have to have someone by your side! If anything happens to your highness, I won't forgive you! "
Yue Fei nodded his head, and said: "Rest assured Master Li, from now on, I will always guard Your Highness by your side!"
Zhao Chen fell into a coma and didn't wake up after that!
In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed, and it was already the middle of April, but Zhao Chen still did not have any signs of waking up!
On this day, Zhao Chen's face turned ashen once again! Yue Fei was shocked, he anxiously sent people to inform Zhe Keqiu, Li Gang, Li Gang and a group of doctors, but these doctors were unable to do anything! After that, Zhe Keqiu and Li Gang found countless of healing panaceas, and although these healing panaceas were not as good as cefaludan, they were still extremely hard to buy with a thousand gold. After swallowing all of these healing panaceas, Zhao Chen's face became a lot less ashen!
When it was the beginning of May, the weather was already hot, and on this night, Zhao Chen suddenly woke up!
"Cold!" So cold! Why is it so cold? " Zhao Chen muttered to himself.
"Your Highness!" You're awake! " Yue Fei had been standing guard in the room the entire time. In the past few days, he almost never left Zhao Chen's side! The moment Zhao Chen woke up, he knew!
"I'm so cold! My whole body is cold! " Zhao Chen's voice began to tremble!
Yue Fei's eyes were filled with tears, he held Zhao Chen's hands and channeled his Qi into Zhao Chen's body, causing him to feel comfortable!
"What's wrong with me? I feel so hungry, so sick. Dizziness! "What's wrong?" Zhao Chen muttered to himself.
He had just awoken and was still in a daze.
"Your Highness, you have been sleeping for almost a month! For the past month, we have been hanging you from the ginseng soup, otherwise, you would have starved to death if the poison had not developed! " Yue Fei adored.
"Soup? Starve to death? Poison? "What's going on?" Zhao Chen said in shock.
"Your Highness, you have been poisoned and have been in a coma for nearly a month!" Yue Fei said.
"I've been poisoned? How could I have been poisoned? " Zhao Chen said, puzzled.
"Does Your Highness still remember that woman called A Yao? It was she who used poison to harm His Highness! " Yue Fei said.
Immediately, Yue Fei started to talk about everything, including what happened to Zhao Chen after the poison broke out, and what happened one month later!
"A Yao, that gentle and sweet girl! She wants to poison me? Why is this happening? "
"I'm not bad to her, I'll get Zhe Keqiu and the others to help her find her mother and brother! I chatted with her and we were already friends! I told her those wuxia stories! Actually... Actually, I have a good impression of her that I've never had before! She actually did such a thing! "
Zhao Chen suddenly felt as if his heart was pierced!
"Your Highness!" Are you better now? " Yue Fei was concerned about Zhao Chen's body!
"I just feel my whole body go cold, my throat is dry, and my chest hurts! I'm afraid I really don't have much time left to live! " Zhao Chen said softly.
As he spoke, he fainted yet again!