Su Muge and Xia Houmo looked at each other in surprise.
“I’ll go out to see.”
“Okay.”
Xia Houmo stood up and went out.
Zuoqiu stood outside the door with a stern look. When Xia Houmo came out, he stepped forward and said, “Your Royal Highness, Qingyu’s eyes are bleeding severely now. Doctor Gui asked the Rani to come and see him.”
Qingyu was her patient anyway. Before Xia Houmo could come in, Su Muge went directly to the door.
“What did you say? Qingyu’s eyes are bleeding again?”
Seeing that she was wearing only a thin silk dress, Xia Houmo frowned, turned to enter the room, took out her cloak, and put it on her.
“Yes, just now.”
“Your Royal Highness, let’s go to have a look.”
Xia Houmo lowered his eyes, helped her tie the cloak, and held her cold hand. “Don’t worry, I’ll go with you.”
“Okay.”
When the three were outside, the courtyard was brightly lit and Su Muge saw a restless figure walking around in the room. It must be Guima.
“Her Grace and His Royal Highness are here.”
As soon as Su Muge stepped inside, Guima walked over quickly. “Go and see what is going on!”
Su Muge lowered her eyebrows and walked over to the bed. Qingyu was lying in bed with his body twitching and his eyes bleeding constantly.
“Bring me the candle.”
Guima took the candle and handed it to her in two steps.
Under the candlelight, the blood on Qingyu’s face was glowing with a strange blue and black light.
“I have already taken out the worms. How could…”
“Your Royal Highness, please save brother Qingyu. I know Her Grace does not like me. If Her Grace can save brother Qingyu, I’m willing to be at her disposal.” She said as if Su Muge had deliberately targeted at Qingyu because she didn’t like Liu Rumeng.
Xia Houmo’s eyes were fixed on Su Muge, without any notice of Liu Rumeng.
Su Muge dipped the blood on Qingyu’s face with a cotton cloth and burned it on the candle. As soon as the fire ignited the cotton cloth, there was a flame bursting out.
“Haven’t you taken out the worms? How can this happen?” It sounded like Guima was questioning Su Muge.
“The blood is poisonous.”
Su Muge went to the next room, opened the medical kit, took out a red porcelain bottle from inside, and poured a pill into Qingyu’s mouth.
“I’m going to have a second operation.” Su Muge said in a deep voice.
“There are still worms in his body? Where are they?” He always felt that she was too fast yesterday and she must have not checked it thoroughly!
“Get ready now.” Xia Houmo instructed.
“Yes.”
Donglin and others entered the room and carried Qingyu to the next room.
Su Muge prepared surgical tools and asked them to light up the room.
However, the flickering light of candlelight greatly affected the operation.
“Your Royal Highness, is there any night pearl in the mansion?”
“Yes, there is a box of east night pearls. Donglin, go and get it.”
“Yes.”
Su Muge put on the gloves and reached out to touch around Qingyu’s nose.
His eyes kept bleeding, proving that the worms were gnawing. Getting them out when they were active would be more difficult than when they were quiet.
“Your Royal Highness, the east night pearls are here.”
Xia Houmo took over the box from Donglin and opened it. There were three pearls as large as half a fist.
The light of the night pearl was very soft and not dazzling at all. Although they couldn’t illuminate the whole room, they were helpful for her to see the surgical spot clearly.
Su Muge asked to hang up the glowing night pearls above Qingyu.
“We can’t wait for the bleeding to stop?” Guima had also thought of what Su Muge thought of.
“Do you know when the bleeding will stop?”
Uh…
She had just fed Qingyu a detoxification pill. In a short time, his body would not have much change, so she had to take this time to get the worms out.
Su Muge prepared for the operation and asked other people to go out, but Xia Houmo found a chair and sat down as if he hadn’t heard it.
Su Muge didn’t want to waste any more time and had no choice but to directly disinfect and cut open Qingyu’s wound again.
When she opened Qingyu’s nose, Guima was thrilled.
“Wow, the worms are making a nest here!”
There were at least ten more worms in Qingyu’s septal cartilage!
No wonder the bleeding was so severe.
Those worms should have been full and returning to their nests. Su Muge quickly got them out and threw them into the potion.
Guima finally saw them clear; these things were so disgusting!
Seeing that Guima and Su Muge were so close to each other, Xia Houmo couldn’t help putting on a cold look.
Guima felt the cold air and shivered inexplicably.
“Strange, I have worn a lot. Why do I still feel a little cold?”
After a thorough check that there was nothing inside Qingyu’s nose, Su Muge sutured his wound.
The operation was over. Guima took a serious look at those worms, and Su Muge looked at Qingyu on the operating table with a frown.
“Are there worm eggs inside before? Otherwise, how could there be so many worms in such a short time?” Guima looked up at Su Muge.
Su Muge put on a sullen face. “He is also poisoned.”
Xia Houmo glanced at the narcose Qingyu. “Donglin, how many people are guarding this yard?”
Donglin frowned. “There are five secret guards. They said that no abnormalities were found before the mutation of Qingyu’s situation.”
“The secret guards in the mansion didn’t find any abnormalities either.” Zuoqiu said.
The secret guards of Jin Mansion were all outstanding; unless the person had superb martial arts, it was impossible to avoid so many secret guards in Jin Mansion.
But why would a person with superb martial arts come for Qingyu, a blind person?
Although Xia Houmo cared about him and wanted him to be cured, it would not be a big loss for Xia Houmo even if Qingyu really had an irreparable accident.
Since nobody had broken into the mansion and poisoned him, there were only two possibilities.
Either someone in the mansion or Qingyu himself poisoned him!
But Qingyu hadn’t woken up yet, so the answer was still unknown.
“You stay and observe his situation.” Xia Houmo took Su Muge’s slightly cold hand and led her out of the room.
“Your Royal Highness, I’d better stay in case of any unexpected situation, so I can take measures in time.”
Xia Houmo looked coldly at Guima, who was still watching the worms.
Guima suddenly felt a cold sight and shivered with fright.
“Your Grace, please go back. Otherwise, no one can be well tonight!”
Su Muge could only ask them to find her if there was an accident. And then she was taken away by Xia Houmo.
When they left, Liu Rumeng came out of another room.
Since she had cried for a while, her eyes were red and her complexion seemed to be very bad.
“How is brother Qingyu, Doctor Gui?”
Guima was most impatient of crying people. He walked out of the room and closed the door.
“He won’t die. Go to bed. You can’t help anyway.”
“I, I want to see brother Qingyu.”
Guima glanced at her lightly. “Do you think he’ll be fine if you see him? Don’t make him die faster.”
Guima’s careless words made Liu Rumeng’s face pale.
Guima was absorbed in figuring out the worm and didn’t notice her expression.
Su Muge and Xia Houmo walked on their way back to Bamboo Courtyard.
There were few people in the mansion during the day. Late at night, the mansion was even emptier with the only two of them.
“What is the poison in Qingyu’s body?”
Xia Houmo held Su Muge in his arms to prevent her from being attacked by the night wind.
“Cardinal. This kind of poison is very common but strong.” Anyone who knew a little medicine could make it according to the medical book.
“This poison is colorless with a faint scent of tea. If it is mixed in tea, it will be hard to discover. A certain amount of this poison can kill people within a quarter. However, according to the time table given by Doctor Gui, the amount of poison in Qingyu should be very small. The person who has poisoned him doesn’t want to kill him.” Therefore, Qingyu couldn’t have been poisoned by an outsider, since nobody would manage to come in to poison him without killing him.
Xia Houmo had already thought of the poisoning person, and his face became dark and obscure.
“Well, I’ll not let Qingyu suffer in vain.”
The two returned to Bamboo Courtyard. Xia Houmo was afraid that Su Muge would catch a cold and asked to bring her a bowl of ginger tea. After watching her drink it up, he let her lie down and go to sleep.
It was a dreamless night.
Su Muge moved towards the heat source, turned over, and continued sleeping. She didn’t open her eyes lazily until she felt a pair of big hands moving on her lower abdomen.
There was no need to see who it was.
“Don’t you go to the morning court this morning, Your Royal Highness?”
Looking at her half-asleep and half-awake face, Xia Houmo lowered his head and kissed on her forehead. “I’ll go in a while.”
Su Muge looked out of the window. It was still a bit dim outside. In winter, the day would always come later.
It was almost the time. Xia Houmo got up from the quilt reluctantly.
Su Muge couldn’t fall asleep anymore.
“It’s cold outside. Have more sleep.”
Su Muge shook her head. “I can’t fall asleep.”
“I’ll take you to the injured barracks this afternoon.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Su Muge happily asked Yueru to come in and help her wash up. When the medicine she made worked on the patients, she would have a great sense of accomplishment.
“Wait for me at home.” After washing up, Xia Houmo walked over, held her face directly, and kissed her ruddy lips regardless of the maids in the room.
“Em…”
Before Su Muge could push him away, he turned around and walked out.
Su Muge was embarrassed!
Yueru and other maids all lowered their heads one after another, pretending that they had seen nothing.
“His Royal Highness is getting closer and closer to you, Your Grace. It would be better if you can give birth to a baby earlier …”
Su Muge was stunned… Give birth to a baby…
