However, as soon as he said this sentence, he did not receive an immediate rebuttal from Xia Houlie. His face became dark and deep, and the glimmer in his eyes gradually disappeared. Mu Qingwan was startled, and when she was about to speak, she was interrupted by Xia Houlie.

She hugged him into her arms, and after a long while, she heard his deep and depressed voice ringing in her ears:

"Wan, if you sneak away one day, I will not look for you again. I will let you come back to me on your own initiative."

When Mu Qingwan heard this, she couldn't help but look at him dumbfounded. After a long while, she smiled and hit his shoulder, curling her lips and saying:

"Then how can you make me come back to you?"

Hiss...

He held his breath and snorted softly. Xia Houlie was sweating now, but he gritted his teeth and endured the pain, and whispered:

"If I die, won't you even come back and see me?"

The magic of fate, in addition to its unpredictability, is that there are many seemingly unintentional but still unintentional coincidences.

Facts have also proved that you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. Who would have expected that Xia Houzie's unintentional joke would become a prophecy?

And this really makes people have to sigh, there are many things that seem sudden, but are actually arranged by God.

What's going on with this sound?!

Mu Qingwan's breath was suffocated, her heart felt as if a big stone had been rolled over her, and she was suddenly so stuffy that she couldn't breathe.

This man spoke in an understatement, but she clearly felt a heavy atmosphere!

Something's wrong! Something's very wrong!

If there was nothing wrong, could he keep coughing? She had checked his whole body just now and confirmed that there were no other external injuries except the arrow wound. But now that he is coughing, there is only one possibility...

He suffered internal injuries!

But she took her pulse just now and found nothing wrong.

Could it be that the arrowhead was poisoned? But there were clearly no signs of poisoning on his body.

Seeing his increasingly pale face, she didn't dare to think any more. She quickly looked around and saw Leng Su and the others waiting not far away. She quickly waved to them and asked Xia Houlie to come over quickly.

He was helped into the carriage.

As soon as he lay down in the carriage, Xia Houlie passed out, but his big hand still held Mu Qingwan's hand tightly.

Suddenly, she was horrified. Her heart felt like it was being put into a frying pan. It was hot and painful. This feeling was particularly uncomfortable, especially because he was injured because of himself. This feeling was like a sharp knife being inserted into her heart.

on the bones.

Really, really, she would rather be hurt by herself than by him...

There was a lump in her throat, and she couldn't help but choke a little, and hugged the unconscious man in her arms tightly.

For the first time in her life, she had doubts about her medical skills because she had no idea why he was in a coma. The only explanation was:

Excessive blood loss.

The carriage was going very fast, but to Mu Qingwan, it felt like he had spent a whole long winter.

As soon as they arrived at the palace, the imperial doctors who had received the news early in the morning were already waiting. Mu Qingwan, under Leng Su's instructions, put on a disguise before entering the Dragon Palace.

When he entered, Xia Houlie had already woken up, and several imperial doctors were talking to him, probably reporting his illness.

Except for Imperial Physician Lu, Mu Qingwan was not familiar with these imperial doctors, so she had no choice but to suppress her anxiety, walked to the dragon bed and quietly waited for them to finish their report before exiting.

He glanced at Xia Houlie who was on the bed. His wounds had been re-bandaged and his complexion was much better. When he saw her looking over, his eyes were full of tenderness and comfort, which made Mu Qingwan immediately feel relieved.

Finally, the other imperial doctors went out to prescribe prescriptions, leaving only Imperial Physician Lu. Xia Houlie waved to her and motioned for her to come over.

She quickly sat down by the bed, held his hand, and looked at Dr. Lu nervously:

"How is his injury? Why did he suddenly become unconscious?"

Doctor Lu glanced at Xia Houlie, who glanced at him and quickly lowered his eyes, "Don't worry, Madam, the emperor only lost too much blood and fell into coma. Now the wound has stopped bleeding, and the emperor's body

If your foundation is good, you'll be fine after a few days of rest."

Heaving a sigh of relief, Mu Qingwan nodded, "Thank you."

Xia Houlie put her hand to his lips to steady it, and a smile bloomed on his pale face:

"Wan, you are also frightened. Go and rest for a while. I have the doctors taking care of you. You will be fine."

Mu Qingwan shook her head and was about to refuse, but she looked at him with pleading eyes and had to compromise:

"Okay, okay, I'm going to take a nap for a while. If anything happens, be sure to wake me up."

To be honest, after the previous fight and the fear of his injury just now, now that I know that he is just as diagnosed, there is nothing serious. Once the tense nerves relax, I feel really tired.

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Xia Houlie nodded and watched her go out gently.

However, as soon as her back disappeared, his eyes were no longer as gentle as before, but became sharp and stern.

"Yanchu, tell me the truth, what kind of poison is it?"

"Back to the emperor, according to my preliminary judgment, it should be the Miao Qing Gu."

"Gu?" Xia Houlie smiled bitterly, "No wonder she couldn't diagnose it. How did you know about it?"

"To be honest with you, Your Majesty, the reason why I know this thing is because my grandmother is from the Miao region. She left a manuscript that records this kind of poison."

Xia Houlie sat up from the bed and asked after a while:

"Just tell me the worst outcome. Don't hide anything."

"Back to the Emperor, anyone who has been infected by the Food Qing Gu will behave the same as ordinary people at first. When you feel your eyesight gradually declining, it is when the poison takes effect. People with the poison may be unable to see, or hear, or

The mouth is unable to speak, or the limbs are paralyzed. Eventually, the poisonous gas spreads throughout the body, and the emperor will..."

At this point, Dr. Lu's forehead broke out in cold sweat and he did not dare to say any more.

Xia Houlie continued with a smile: "I will inevitably die, won't I?"

"I deserve to die!" Lu Yanchu fell to his knees in panic.

Xia Houlie smiled faintly, waved his hand and said, "Get up. It's up to you to hide this from the Queen during this period."

"Your Majesty..." Lu Yanchu thought for a while and then spoke.

Xia Houlie raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay to just say it."

"Back to the emperor, this voodoo is called food-emotion voodoo. The voodoo poison only affects men, and its greatest harm is not to the person who is affected by the voodoo, but to the woman who is intimate with him. Once in a while, the woman will

He will bleed to death from his seven orifices, so the emperor and your empress..."

By this point, Xia Houzhi had fully understood Helian Hengzhi's conspiracy. The arrow was obviously aimed at Mu Qingwan, but in fact the real target was him. Helian Hengzhi had fully expected that he would pounce at all costs.

Go up and block the arrow for her.

And it is impossible for him to touch Qingwan again after being poisoned...

Helian Hengzhi, I didn’t expect that your scheming is so deep. You won’t let me get what you can’t get yourself?

Xia Houlie's deep facial features became more and more gloomy, and his sharp wolf eyes contained no other emotions except the piercing coldness of ice. His hands were clenched into fists. He didn't make any movement for a long time, it was just transmitted from his body.

The oppressive feeling rolled down on Lu Yanchu's heart like a boulder.

After a long while, his voice sounded in the air again: "Is there a solution to this poison?"

Lu Yanchu wiped the sweat beads on his forehead and then said:

"Back to the emperor, this voodoo is very rare. It takes the voodoo master thirty years of hard work to make it. During the thirty years, it needs to be fed with the voodoo master's blood every day. After one day, all the previous efforts will be wasted. It is extremely difficult to make. And this

The only antidote to the poison is a bowl of blood from the poison maker."

Thirty years? Although Helian Hengzhi was older than him, he was still no more than twenty | ten | seven | eight years old. How could he make such a Gu?

Could it be...

Xia Houlie suddenly remembered Helian Hengzhi's mother-in-law Lan Linghe. He heard that Lan Linghe was born in Miao territory and was also a master of making poisons. However, he only spent thirty years feeding her blood every day.

In order to make a kind of poison, the price is too high. What kind of hatred makes her so obsessed with it?

He couldn't guess, and he didn't want to guess.

At this moment, the top priority was that he himself had been infected by this poison. If it was really caused by Lan Linghe, she would have been in bliss long ago, and the source of the only antidote would have been lost.

And until the exact poison maker is found...

"This matter must not be known to the empress."

"I obey the decree."

The next few days were spent resting. After all, Xia Houlie's assassination and injury was a big deal. Everyone inside and outside the court was shocked. Fortunately, Zhaohe had come back.

What a mess.

Because of what happened last time, the identity of the palace maid Wanru can no longer be used. Xia Houlie took advantage of the fact that Longyu Palace needed manpower while he was recovering from illness, so he announced that he had transferred a palace maid from the weaving workshop to serve with Shaoyao, so it did not arouse any suspicion.

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The atmosphere in the palace suddenly became calm, but Mu Qingwan felt slightly uneasy in her heart.

She always felt that this was like the calm before the storm.
To be continued...