Caiyu carried the medicinal soup and entered the back temple. From afar, she saw many new - faced guards standing outside the Buddhist courtyard where Lü Baiwei lived.
Song Chengyuan had just arrived on the mountain. It was needless to say who these people belonged to.
It was reasonable for the crown prince to visit his concubine.
However, Caiyu keenly thought that it was obviously abnormal for Song Chengyuan to visit a woman he hated at the risk of being infected.
These two despicable people might be having an important and immoral matter to discuss.
Caiyu pursed her lips. Instead of taking the medicine in, she turned around and went around to the back wall.
The wall was in disrepair. It was only after Sheng Jiangli brought them up the mountain that it was repaired once. Caiyu was quite familiar with the walls of Qixia Temple.
She quickly found the easiest place to climb over, easily crossed the wall, and jumped into the secluded area behind the Buddhist courtyard.
Song Chengyuan's guards never expected that there would be someone climbing over the wall to eavesdrop in Qixia Temple. So they were all very slack, gathering in the front and chatting in low voices. They didn't notice at all that someone had furtively poked a hole in a window paper at the back.
The scene and conversation inside were clearly visible and audible.
Song Chengyuan stood far away from Lü Baiwei's bed. His nose and mouth were tightly wrapped. He looked at Lü Baiwei's haggard appearance with extreme disgust.
"Originally, I was a bit interested in your beautiful face. Look at you... How did you let yourself become such a mess? It's disgusting!"
"I just told you to pretend to be ill on the mountain. How could you really get infected?"
Caiyu's pupils shrank slightly, and her heart pounded violently.
The mastermind behind this plague was actually Song Chengyuan!
He sent his concubine up the mountain to be trapped by the epidemic, and then he could reasonably ask to come for the rescue.
Unexpectedly, Lü Baiwei really caught the plague.
Lü Baiwei didn't have the strength to explain how she got infected. She just gasped and tremblingly reached out her hand to Song Chengyuan and pleaded, "Your Highness, Your Highness... Please, Your Highness, give me the medicinal soup..."
Song Chengyuan stroked his sleeves slowly. He didn't even bother to look at her. Like enjoying the pleasure of a cat playing with a mouse, he showed an evil smile.
"Come on, beg some more."
"When asking for help, one should have the right attitude. If you want me to save you, how can you beg while lying in bed? Don't you know how to kowtow?"
Caiyu's heart skipped a beat again, and then began to pound violently.
So, Song Chengyuan had the prescription to solve this plague?
Yes, Song Chengyuan also wanted to make contributions.
Since he had artificially created this plague, he must have the prescription.
It turned out that Song Chengyuan created the plague in order to make contributions!
After Caiyu figured this out, she was greatly shocked by Song Chengyuan and couldn't calm down for a long time.
How could Daye choose such a person as the crown prince?
For his own self - interest, he played with the lives of the common people in the world!
If the common people in the world were to live under the rule of such a king in the future, how miserable their lives would be.
What about the emperor?
Did the emperor know the true face of the crown prince he had chosen?
Lü Baiwei knew that Song Chengyuan wouldn't save her easily.
She gritted her teeth and used all her strength to turn over on her side.
"Bang!"
The loud noise startled Caiyu.
Lü Baiwei rolled off the bed and rolled towards Song Chengyuan like a radish!
Song Chengyuan was also scared. He quickly got up from the chair and jumped away to avoid Lü Baiwei. He scolded,
"Bitch! Are you trying to die?"
Without anything to stop her, Lü Baiwei rolled until she was severely hit by the chair leg and was forced to stop.
She flipped over and lay on the ground like a dying fish. Her chest rose and fell, and she looked at Song Chengyuan desperately.
"Your Highness... Your concubine is really going to die."
"Oh? So what? Do you think I'll be reluctant?"
"Your Highness, the Prince of Yan has already taken control of the situation... Even if the imperial physicians can't develop an effective anti - plague medicinal soup, this plague will subside after all the existing plague - infected people die..."
Song Chengyuan's pupils shrank slightly.
He had already heard the intelligence just now.
The prescriptions developed by the imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital could still effectively control the condition of mild patients.
The number of severe patients was not large. There were only three or four hundred people in the entire epidemic area.
Except for Lü Baiwei and Maid Mei, the other severe patients were all ordinary people.
Whether they died or were saved didn't matter much in the eyes of the court.
So the anti - plague formula he brought was of little use.
Unless this plague flared up again...
Song Chengyuan looked down at Lü Baiwei, "Do you still have a way?"
"Save me." Lü Baiwei gasped, "Save me."
She insisted not to give any advice. This was the only bargaining chip she had with Song Chengyuan.
Song Chengyuan's eyes on her were cruel. He smiled and said, "Easy!"
He knocked on the door. A guard walked in from outside, carrying two bowls of medicinal soup.
Song Chengyuan picked up a bowl of medicine and squatted down. He firmly pinched Lü Baiwei's chin and lifted her head from the ground, then rudely poured the medicine in.
While pouring, he said, "This is the prescription left by the female doctor who quelled the epidemic in Xinzhou back then. Take it for seven consecutive days, and the plague will naturally subside. Now can you talk?"
Even though the hot medicinal soup had been left for a while, it was still very hot.
Lü Baiwei was pinched by the chin and couldn't move. She could only let Song Chengyuan pour a bowl of steaming medicinal soup down her throat at one go.
A dull and hoarse scream came from her chest, and then she fell to the ground dying, which made Caiyu tremble with fear.
Song Chengyuan... was really inhumane!
No wonder Lü Baiwei had changed from a gentle and noble girl in the capital to a mentally distorted woman when living under such a person.
Song Chengyuan kicked her and urged, "Hurry up and say it!"
Lü Baiwei raised her hand to cover her burning throat and uttered words intermittently, "... Poison, put poison..."
Song Chengyuan blinked and thought for a while.
After a moment, he showed a smile in the flickering candlelight. His eyes were cold and bone - chilling, and his white teeth were faintly visible.
"Yeah, good idea... Hehe..."
Caiyu climbed over the wall again and then looked around for Sheng Jiangli and Song Yinghuai.
She had just run out a short distance when she bumped straight into Song Yinghuai's arms.
The man's solid chest hit her forehead, and she fell backward.
Fortunately, Song Yinghuai was already used to being bumped into by her. He casually hooked her waist.
The man's cold and handsome face came into her sight, and his bangs brushed against her cheek.
Sheng Jiangli and Xu Buyue were standing behind him, staring blankly at the scene in front of them.
"What happened?" Song Yinghuai frowned slightly. He supported her with his big hand but didn't let go.
However, Caiyu quietly took a step back and lowered her head, whispering, "My lord... This servant has made a major discovery about the epidemic."
Song Yinghuai finally noticed her subtle alienation. He was slightly stunned and was about to step forward again when Sheng Jiangli asked,
"Is it convenient to talk here?"
Caiyu shook her head.
"Let's find a more secluded place!" Sheng Jiangli saw Caiyu's anxiety. She must have really made a major discovery.
Caiyu responded and bypassed Song Yinghuai to follow Sheng Jiangli.
It left the man with a gloomy and handsome face.
Song Yinghuai watched the backs of the two people walking away without looking back. The knuckles of his hand at his side clenched into a fist.
Xu Buyue hesitated for a while and still stepped forward, "Fourth brother, let's follow them!"
Only then did the man follow up with a gloomy face in big strides.
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"Is it the crown prince?"
Caiyu's news shocked the three of them, and their expressions were complex.
They all knew that Song Chengyuan was cruel and regarded the common people as nothing.
But they still couldn't believe that he would do something as serious as creating a plague.
He was the crown prince of Daye!
The dead were all his people!
How dare he...
Caiyu said angrily, "My lord, this time we must find evidence against the crown prince and report his evil deeds to the emperor!"
Once the crown prince fell, the young brother would be free naturally.
And if they made great contributions, they could then ask the emperor to reconsider the case of the Lan family...
Caiyu looked at Song Yinghuai and Sheng Jiangli expectantly.
She had waited for a long time.
Finally, she had waited for an opportunity!
However, the two men didn't respond as she wished. Instead, their faces were filled with complex and solemn expressions...