On the other side, in the Imperial Hospital within the palace.
Ru Yi, who was severely poisoned, was now lying on the couch looking deathly pale. His lips had turned purple and blue, indicating that the poison had spread deep into his body.
Fortunately, he was brought in in time. Dr. Li had used a Ganoderma lucidum to keep him alive, but the most important thing now was to come up with an antidote.
This poison was rather strange. Dr. Li had exhausted all his knowledge throughout his life but still couldn't develop an antidote. Moreover, it was extremely domineering and was now devouring the medicinal properties of the Ganoderma lucidum. If there was no antidote, the man on the bed might not last for three days.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh and could only tell the palace servants beside him to take good care of the patient.
Not long after, a person rushed into the Imperial Hospital in a hurry. It was undoubtedly Dong Hua. As soon as she heard that Ru Yi was severely poisoned, regardless of her own physical condition, she rushed over immediately.
When she saw the miserable state of the man on the bed, her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and her nose felt sour.
Without hesitation, she strode over to his side, lowered her hand and touched his forehead. It was so hot that it was hard to bear.
"How could you be in such a sorry state..." she said with a slight sob.
Since she had memories, the man in front of her had always been smiling in front of her. She had never seen him so haggard.
Thinking of this, she became even more worried about Dong Fang Yi. She thought that the second prince of the Southern Neighboring Country was so cruel and merciless. If the queen was also poisoned...
She didn't dare to think about the rest.
Just as she was in a daze, Xiao Qian rushed over in a hurry and said excitedly, "Sister Dong Hua! The queen has returned to the palace!"
Hearing this, Dong Hua was also very excited. Then, as if she had thought of something, she asked, "Is the queen injured?"
Xiao Qian shook her head vigorously and then replied, "The queen is in good health. She came back with the emperor!"
Hearing this, Dong Hua finally let out a long sigh of relief. The stone that had been hanging in her heart finally fell to the ground. She took a deep look at the man on the sickbed and then left the Imperial Hospital.
On the other side, Dong Fang Yi, who had returned to the Queen's Palace, felt a sudden urge to shed tears when she returned to the familiar environment. She never thought that this place that she had once hated would one day become her haven. It was all because of the man in front of her.
After thinking about it, she took a deep look at the man in front of her, then moved over and hugged his waist. With a sob, she said, "Thank you, He Lian Qi."
Hearing this, He Lian Qi's heart softened, but he still didn't forget one thing. So he asked, "Dong'er, do you feel any discomfort in your body?"
Dong Fang Yi showed her head from his arms and then shook her head. She really didn't feel any discomfort, except for a slight discomfort in the wound on her back.
The wound on her back?!
Dong Fang Yi suddenly seemed to think of something. Although Ye said that she was poisoned because she drank the tea, when she thought about it carefully, she only took a sip of the tea at that time, and there was no sign of poisoning in her body at all.
She also thought that after she fainted, it was Ye who applied the medicine to her. Now there was an indescribable feeling on her back. That feeling was not pain, but a kind of itch, an itch that went deep into one's heart. When she was running away, she only felt that the wound on her back was healing, so she didn't think much about it. But now, when she calmed down and thought about it again, she thought that she had been running around all day and had no time to change the medicine. How could the wound heal?
Thinking of this, her heart couldn't help but skip a few beats. A sense of uneasiness came over her. Then she said to the man in front of her, "Hurry! Help me look at my back!"
Seeing her anxious look, He Lian Qi also seemed to think of something. Immediately, he picked her up and put her on the bed. Then he gently untied her clothes.
As the clothes were untied one by one, an indescribable smell came out of her body. It was very unpleasant, and the smell filled the entire inner palace in an instant.
Because Dong Fang Yi was wearing clothes made of the most airtight linen, and the clothes were wrapped layer by layer, she naturally didn't notice that such a smell was coming out of her body.
After all the clothes were peeled off, her back was completely exposed to the air, and the unpleasant smell became even stronger.
Dong Fang Yi immediately felt that something was wrong. She wouldn't simply think that this smell would come from an ordinary wound. So she asked the man behind her, "What... happened to it?"
He Lian Qi's eyes widened in disbelief when he looked at the back of the woman in front of him.
What had the originally smooth and flawless back become?
The fleshy skin was covered with patches of something like moss, and the moss was spreading little by little. If you looked closely, you would find that there were some buds hidden among the moss. No one knew what these buds would become when they grew up, but all the unpleasant smells came from them.
He Lian Qi never thought that after only one day's absence, the back that had been injured and bleeding had become like this. So he couldn't control his emotions and roared outside the palace, "Summon the imperial doctor!!!"
"Summon the imperial doctor!!!"
Within a quarter of an hour, Dr. Li came to the Queen's Palace. When he saw the state of the woman's back in front of him, he took two steps back in horror, and his eyes widened uncontrollably.
"This is... the green silkworm pupa!!!" he roared out of control.
Green silkworm pupa? Dong Fang Yi had never even heard of this name, but she always felt that it was a very disgusting name. Then she frowned and asked the man in front of her, "Are there really bugs growing on my back?!"
Just thinking about it made her want to vomit, and the smell in the palace was also very unpleasant.
He Lian Qi's eyebrows frowned even deeper.
But Dr. Li shook his head and then explained, "No, Your Majesty. Although the green silkworm pupa is named after a silkworm, it is just a kind of poison that shows the shape of a silkworm after being poisoned. It spreads rapidly on the bloody epidermis. At first, it will be in the form of patches of green, and then small buds will grow, looking like green silkworms."
His words made Dong Fang Yi feel a chill in her heart. She couldn't imagine that her back was already covered with green patches.
"Is there an antidote?" He Lian Qi asked.
His eyebrows drooped very low, full of guilt.
If it weren't for his mistake, his Dong'er wouldn't have suffered this disaster.
And Dr. Li suddenly knelt on the ground, his shoulders trembling as he replied, "I only have a shallow understanding of this kind of poison in medical books, but I have never seen the antidote!"