CHAPTER 516: CHAPTER 506: IF SHE DRINKS THIS, SHE’LL DIE, RIGHT?

The physician hesitated to speak as if facing a dilemma.

Wei Xiheng still trusted him at this moment and promptly said: "I won’t hide it from you, doctor, during this time, I’ve visited numerous medical halls, and have consumed all sorts of medicines you prescribed, to no avail."

Silver flowed out like water.

If not for the Chengbo Marquis Mansion, how could the Wei Family’s estate suffice for his prodigal spending?

Moreover, he also has a legitimate younger brother.

Once Wei Xiheng became useless, his mother reinstated everything as it was, but his father was fully cultivating his younger brother—although he wasn’t envious or resentful, nevertheless he wasn’t comfortable.

He must recover.

Only by having his own offspring could he wipe away the previous shame.

He was in pain.

"Ordinarily, I’ve never ceased consuming remedies like sheep whip, ox whip, and deer blood."

The fishy taste made him nauseous and wanting to vomit.

Yet he was still ineffective.

"These matters require patience, young man must maintain a calm mindset, avoid being anxious. I will prescribe a medicine for you, take it for a few months and let’s see the effects. It’s just that..."

"Speak freely, no harm done."

"It’s just that the price of these medicinal ingredients, ordinary families I’m afraid would not be able to afford."

Wei Xiheng thought it was something serious, but upon hearing this he breathed a sigh of relief.

Money? Chengbo Marquis Mansion has it.

"Use the best medicine! No matter the cost, I can afford it!"

The physician shook his head: "But your body is already deficient. Perhaps the last time the intercourse was too indulgent, resulting in the utter ruin of your body, suffering even more from violent rebuffs. If you wish for a complete cure, I, an old man, am not a Daluo Immortal and genuinely cannot guarantee anything; I can only act according to my abilities."

This person accurately stated the root of his ailment, each word fitting the facts. He didn’t boast about himself, ensuring that the medicine would cure the disease.

Not even the Imperial Physician has such abilities, it seems there are indeed able doctors among the commoners.

In this way, the more deeply trapped Wei Xiheng became, the more he trusted him.

After all, he was already a broken man, as long as it was not the deadly mercury sulfide, he dared to drink anything.

The physician took up the writing brush and flamboyantly wrote down one medicine name after another.

He only knew a bit of Qihuang Skill, minor illnesses were not a problem, but he didn’t have the ability to treat difficult and complicated diseases. His profound air was nothing but a guess at the identity of the man before him as soon as Wei Xiheng entered!

Although the various medicine shops are competitors, they also have some interactions and competitions on usual days. Secretly, the news of Wei Xiheng seeking doctors everywhere had already spread.

He was cunning, had specially looked at Wei Xiheng’s portrait, waiting for good luck to make a fortune.

In front of other physicians, Wei Xiheng had revealed a bit of his symptoms.

Not much, but once integrated, it became his! Diagnosis!

It can’t be said that he lacks medical ethics after all, even the Imperial Physician in the palace was helpless with such a disease. He could only try his best to prescribe various expensive tonic medicines.

At least to strengthen the body.

Wei Xiheng treasured the prescribed formula and went to another room to get the medicine.

As soon as he lifted the curtain, the girl sitting there blocked his way.

Wei Xiheng was frightened: !!!

Shen Hua spoke faintly: "So you’ve come out."

The girl sighed, seemingly unable to comprehend his obstinacy: "Are you truly determined not to go to the palace for castration to be an eunuch? That position is tailored for you. If you won’t go, I’m really quite regretful."

"Drinking medicine every day, what torments are you putting yourself through?"

Wei Xiheng had the urge to strangle her.

It seemed that ever since that day at First-tier Sky, when Shen Hua gave Cui Rong a hint, causing her to turn completely against his younger brother, he hadn’t had a single break of good fortune, one piece of bad news after another rolling in.

But he didn’t dare.

He took a deep breath. Glancing at the person behind the girl, he slinked away.

Seeing this, Shen Hua couldn’t help but criticise: "I was doing this for his own good! Even if he doesn’t go, the least he could do is say thank you, truly lacking in manners."

While speaking, she stood up gracefully.

She had enough of the drama.

She was going to the Minister of the Ministry of Justice’s Mansion.

But Cui Yun, who had been quietly following behind, suddenly moved, and under Shen Hua’s puzzled gaze, he passed her and headed for the room.

Shen Hua opened her eyes wide, only to see Cui Yun’s index finger bend and knock thrice on the table.

"Give me a copy of Wei Xiheng’s prescription."

There she goes! So Cui Yun and she were eavesdropping on something!

Shen Hua: !!!

She sharply turned and left towards the outside.

Cui Yun perceived the commotion outside, and under the fearful gaze of the physician, he didn’t even glance at the prescription; instead, he grabbed paper and brush, wrote down another prescription, and handed it to Ji Qing.

It was for moistening the throat.

He originally had the intention of letting Shen Hua off. But this girl who spouted grandiose statements would sooner or later completely ruin her throat.

Ji Qing respectfully took it and went to prepare the medicine.

"Master, should those transcripts be sent to the Minister of the Ministry of Justice Mansion?"

Cui Yun: "No need."

The man indifferently said: "Send them to Jiang Zhao."

Ji Qing: "Lord Jiang should certainly share the master’s worries."

Jiang Zhao, embracing his beloved concubine, suddenly sneezed violently.

After leaving the pharmacy, Cui Yun saw the girl standing pitifully in the corner; upon seeing him, she slowly moved towards him step by step.

"Medicine always contains poison, for the sake of your health, there’s no need for tonic."

Cui Yun: "Is that so?"

"Was it not deliberate to lure me inside?"

Shen Hua’s figure staggered; angered and embarrassed, she responded: ?? "No!"

Seeing her like this, Cui Yun’s eyebrows knitted together.

"Then I have thought too much, to assume it was especially for that, to hint not to be secretive and refuse a physician. And by using Wei Xiheng’s matter, as a warning to me."

"Then why haven’t you thrown it out yet!"

"It’s already been bought, it can’t be wasted at any rate."

Given Cui Yun’s previous ruthlessness, if he drank that, it would be horrific! The girl’s throat felt strangely dry.

She took a deep breath; unwilling to argue with Cui Yun over such an issue in the street. Leaving him, she headed straight to the Minister of Justice Mansion.

Without further complications along the way, she thought Cui Yun had not followed. But to her dismay, no sooner had she entered the mansion than he arrived right behind her.

Xie Xun, seeing the medicine in Cui Yun’s hand, felt a twinge of concern.

"Is Yangyang’s health not well again?"

Cui Yun indifferently replied: "This is for me to take."

Ji Qing quickly brought the prepared medicine.

Cui Yun received it and leisurely stirred the medicine with a jade spoon, waiting for it to cool before going to drink it.

Shen Hua felt darkness before her eyes.

By drinking this, she would die, wouldn’t she?

It was supposed to be her who needed the tonic!

The girl snatched it away, and under Xie Xun’s shocked expression, she threw her head back and gulped it down in one go.

Xie Xun: "You!"

Shen Hua, with a gloomy face: "Thirsty."

She had no face to stay here any longer, but she adamantly refused to return to the Marquis Yangling Mansion. She was boiling with rage and planned to go to the Seventh Prince Mansion to force the rest of the medicine down Ji Ge’s throat.

But she never made it.

Instead, she was carried off by Cui Yun to the Prince Mansion.

Neither of them had stayed overnight here before.

The Prince Mansion was still plastered with symbols of happiness. Someone came to clean daily.

Shen Hua only felt like she had become a new bride once again.

Water spilled over the edges of the bath tub with a relentless flow; amidst the dire straits, she only remembered clinging tightly to Cui Yun’s shoulders.

The girl cried so hard she nearly suffocated.

She finally understood well the meaning of ’disaster comes from the mouth’.

Once the water cooled, she was dizzily picked up and placed on the bed, and he pressed down on her again.

"Still talking back?"

"No longer."

She sobbed lowly, tears welling up painfully, and while prostrating on the bed, her lips bit into her pale hand.

She didn’t want to come back ever again.

"It hurts, I can’t... swallow it down."