freenovelworld Chapter 456: The Prince is Poisoned
Chapter 456: The Prince is Poisoned
At this moment, the prince's pupils began to dilate, and he began to mutter incoherently.
His face was almost completely bloodless, and his lips were an unbelievably dark purple, several times darker than a squid.
Fang Xiaoxiao leaned closer and reached out to examine it.
But the more she examined it, the more she felt something was wrong, and she even had a vague suspicion in her mind.
So he stood up and looked at the people from the Prince's Mansion who were surrounding him.
I thought I could find someone special among these people, but I found that everyone looked extremely sad, making it hard to tell whether their sadness was real or fake.
Standing beside her, Li Wan'er became extremely anxious when she saw that she hadn't made a move yet, and her voice even sounded like she was about to cry.
"Waaah, Xiao Xiao, you can't cure my father either, can you?!"
In her eyes, Fang Xiaoxiao was her only hope.
If she is powerless to help, then her father can only wait to die.
At this moment, Fang Xiaoxiao gestured to her with her eyes to not rush.
Li Wan'er instantly understood what she meant. After all, the two had been together for so long and had already developed a tacit understanding.
They had been through life and death together, so their friendship was nothing like the so-called "bestie" relationship between women today.
Nowadays, people's friendships are mostly superficial. As long as it doesn't involve their own interests, friends are very close.
But once their own interests are affected, their best friend might instantly turn into a devil.
Fang Xiaoxiao stood up and tugged at Li Wan'er's sleeve, speaking in an extremely soft voice that only the two of them could hear.
"Your father is not sick."
"Um???"
"Go out first and then talk."
"Um……"
Li Wan'er turned around, still using her wide sleeve to touch the corner of her eye to conceal her identity.
Of course, she, being always clever, understood the implied meaning in those few sentences Fang Xiaoxiao had just written.
The two prepared to walk towards the gate.
At this moment, Cui Sheng got up from the ground, looking like he was watching a joke.
"Hmph, hmph! I thought you, woman, had some extraordinary ability to heal my uncle, but it turns out you're just a charlatan, just like I said when I came in."
"I've seen it. My cousin Wan'er must be too naive to be easily fooled by this female swindler!"
With the help of his servants, he limped toward the two of them.
Just in time.
The servant he had sent to fetch the doctor also hurriedly arrived in front of the group with an old man with a white beard.
The old man looked somewhat weak and breathless; as soon as he regained his balance, he began to pant heavily.
"hey-hey!"
"You young man, how can you treat an old man like me in my sixties like this? Don't you know that this will make it easier for me to pass away sooner?"
"Hey, old doctor, please don't say that. It's just because the young master is urging me so much."
"Please bear with us a little longer, and go see the old prince first!"
The servant looked aggrieved and said.
At this moment, Cui Sheng, supported by his servants, walked up to the two of them, looking weak and speaking in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
"Old man, take a look at me first."
Upon hearing this, the old man cupped his hands in greeting to the other party.
“Young Master Cui, what’s wrong with you? Why are you so weak? It looks like you’ve been having too much sex.”
He knew the other person's usual character; he spent his days seeking pleasure and indulging in women.
However, he also knew that although he was the royal physician of the Prince's mansion, he was nothing more than an ant in the face of Cui Sheng.
Upon hearing this, Cui Sheng's face twitched, and his sharp eyes swept over the old man. Although his voice was weak, it gave people a sense of dominance.
"Hmph, stop talking nonsense. How could I, a young master, be such a despicable person, indulging in wine and women all day long?"
"Hurry up and take my pulse. If you delay any longer, I will drag you out and give you thirty lashes."
Good heavens, thirty strokes of the cane.
Let alone an old man like myself, even a young and strong man would not be able to withstand thirty strokes of the cane.
The old man clicked his tongue inwardly, though he had some reservations, he had no choice but to do as the other party said.
People shouldn't be born to be beasts of burden, otherwise they'll be beasts of burden again in their next life.
Seeing Cui Sheng bullying an old man, Fang Xiaoxiao, who always respected the elderly and cared for the young, naturally had to step in.
She strode up to Cui Sheng, tilted her head back, glared at him, and said rudely.
"Hey, you fat pig, don't you know this is a prince's mansion?"
"Why should this old man examine you first? If anyone should be examined, it should be the prince."
Hearing her words, Cui Sheng wanted to refute, but he was too weak and could only shrink back and take two steps back.
Fang Xiao looked down on his cowardly appearance with disdain.
She immediately looked at the old man, sized him up, and spoke.
"Hey old man, do you know what illness the prince is suffering from?"
"Reporting to this lady, this old man previously diagnosed the prince, and based on his pulse, the prince's ailment is a cold."
"Oh... old man, are you sure it's just a cold?"
“My lady, you don’t believe in my medical skills. Although my medical skills are not as good as those of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital, I have been practicing medicine for decades and have treated many difficult and complicated diseases.”
Although the old man had no way to deal with Cui Sheng, a distant relative of the Prince's mansion, it didn't mean he was afraid of the woman in front of him.
In his mind, the other party was nothing more than a personal maidservant newly recruited by the princess.
He wouldn't even consider a mere maidservant a threat.
The next second, Fang Xiaoxiao spat at him and said with disdain.
"Pah... quack doctor, no wonder after decades of practicing medicine you've only ended up in this sorry state, serves you right!"
"You...you, you little brat, how dare you..."
"What do you mean, 'dare'? I despise old-fashioned people like you who have no ambition and only know how to copy others. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to cure even a prince."
"me……"
The old man was completely taken aback by her words.
He even felt dizzy, and his chest felt like it was being blocked by a pile of big stones, making it very difficult for him to breathe.
Just as the two were arguing, Cui Sheng interrupted.
"I'm telling you, someone who knows nothing, what gives you the right to talk about the doctors in our Prince's Mansion?"
"Don't think that just because you know a little martial arts, you can be so arrogant and domineering here. If it weren't for my magnanimity in refusing to argue with a young lady..."
"Get out of here! You're a piece of trash, what right do you have to speak here!"
"I……"
Without hesitation, Fang Xiaoxiao launched into a verbal attack on the other party.
She wasn't actually angry because she'd taken some kind of poison; rather, she couldn't understand how the royal physician in front of her couldn't even distinguish whether the prince was sick or poisoned.
Such quack doctors are really harmful.
No wonder there were so few people in ancient times; it was partly due to these quack doctors.
The old man was so angry that he went completely mad, his eyes bloodshot as he spoke with hatred.
"You, my lady, are quite the sharp-tongued one. I will not waste my time arguing with you. Since you dare to question my medical skills, then I will ask you, what is the prince's ailment?"
Fang Xiao glanced at the prince on the bed, who was on his death countdown, and shook her head.
"The prince was just poisoned, not caught a cold."
"What?! The prince has been poisoned!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! If the prince were poisoned, how could I not have noticed? You're talking nonsense!"