Wishful Things

He could hear it—the empress wanted to save this person.

Xiao Chenzi focused her eyes on any movement that might come from the palace.

A man in a black cloak was lifted out of the box, and he prostrated himself on the ground to salute Emperor Qingming.

"See Your Majesty..." There was a hint of numbness in the dry voice.

Emperor Qingming looked at the people on the ground: "Doctor Qiao, do you know why I invited you here?"

"The villain doesn't know."

"I don't know..." Emperor Qingming laughed inexplicably, his eyes were full of scrutiny: "Then do you still remember that I ordered you to prepare an unsolvable poison earlier?"

"The villain remembers."

"Then tell me, why the poisoned person didn't die?"

"Your Majesty, this is impossible..." Qiao Bing always maintained the posture of prostrating and kowtowing, and never raised his head, so that people could not see the slightest demeanor, only a slight surprise could be heard in the tone at this time.

Emperor Qingming's face turned cold: "You just need to tell me whether it is really a poison with no cure!"

"Return to Your Majesty..." Qiao Bing replied with fear: "The poison is indeed not unsolvable in the true sense. Your Majesty once explained that it needs to be colorless and odorless, so that it is not easy to be detected by others. There are quite a lot of them, so it is impossible to be worthy of a truly unsolvable poison, but the method of detoxification is extremely difficult and complicated, and there are probably only one or two people in the world who can cure this poison..."

"One or two people..." Emperor Qingming almost gritted his teeth.

But such good luck happened to make Xu Qiwei bump into it!

It's really lucky, or there are traitors around him, and there are more than one...

"I don't know if Doctor Qiao has met anyone in private during these days, or told anyone about this detoxification method?" Emperor Qingming looked at Qiao Bing fixedly, and the candlestick cast his figure behind him, The black shadow shrouded him, making him look like a giant beast that seemed to rush forward and tear people apart in the next moment.

"How can a villain have the opportunity and reason to do this!" Qiao Bing froze and said in a trembling voice, "The villain's plan is nothing more than the safety of his wife and children at home... How dare you have two intentions!"

Emperor Qingming just stared at him closely until beads of sweat trickled down the corner of his forehead.

"I think so too, that's why I patiently listened to Doctor Qiao's explanation..." The emperor spoke again, his voice suddenly softened a lot, but no matter how he heard it, it still made people feel creepy: "But Doctor Qiao missed my important matter, and it is also As a matter of fact, I have always been very clear about rewards and punishments... Doctor Qiao is reluctant to punish me, so after thinking about it, it can only be Mrs. Qiao."

Qiao Bing suddenly raised his head.

"Your Majesty... This is the villain's fault. Please punish the villain! I heard that my old wife has been weak and sick in recent years. Please spare her life!"

As he spoke, he kowtowed heavily.

Emperor Qingming sighed vaguely: "It's too late, what I ordered people to feed Mrs. Qiao was the poison prepared by Mrs. Qiao's doctor - only one or two people can be cured. If you want to think about it, Mrs. Qiao will take the poison." Not so lucky.”

The blood on Qiao Bing's face faded, and his figure also froze.

What the wife took was the poison he had prepared? !

Why did the emperor do this?

Is it really to punish him, to get angry at General Xu because he was saved, or...to use his wife's life to test something?

He knew too little news, even the fact that General Xu was saved was inferred from the emperor's attitude!

But no matter what, he can only kowtow to beg the emperor for mercy now, and promise again and again that he will work harder in the future.

After knocking his head down, the gold brick in front of him was soon stained with blood.

Emperor Qingming watched this scene with great interest, and after a long time, he said as if his heart softened: "Okay... I am not the one to kill everything, the reason why I did this is just because I am afraid that the doctor Qiao will secretly divorce me I just want to let Dr. Qiao take advantage of this to make a long memory. Since I know that this poison can be cured, there is room for it—"

While speaking, he instructed Li Ji: "Give the pen and paper to Doctor Qiao."

Qiao Bing stopped kowtowing, and raised his head in a daze, his face was already mixed with blood and tears.

Emperor Qingming seemed quite unbearable: "Physician Qiao wrote down the detoxification prescription, and I will send someone to detoxify Mrs. Qiao—"

If Qiao Bingying had really colluded with others secretly, he might not easily reveal the real antidote prescription, which he had to guard against.

"Yes, yes! Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Qiao Bing quickly thanked him, grabbed the pen and paper from the inner prisoner's hand, dipped his hand in ink, and wrote anxiously and tremblingly.

However, at the end of the writing, it was as if he suddenly thought of something, the hand holding the pen paused, his face turned pale, he shook his head, and murmured: "It's too late...I'm afraid I won't have time to find this medicine..."

Emperor Qingming narrowed his eyes slightly: "You don't have to worry about this, Imperial Physician Qiao. Is there any medicine in the world that I can't find?"

As he spoke, he signaled the inner supervisor to put away the prescription.

The inner eunuch then presented the somewhat illegible prescription.

Emperor Qingming's eyes moved inch by inch on the paper. He knew nothing about medicine and didn't know what these medicinal materials were, but he was sure of one thing, there was no word Ganoderma lucidum on it...

He raised his eyes and looked at Qiao Bing: "Did Doctor Qiao write all the medicinal materials needed to detoxify this poison?"

"Yes...Your Majesty, the last medicine called Fire Lotus is extremely hard to find, and the villain only saw this medicine when he was young when he traveled to the territory of the Li Clan...I'm afraid we may not be able to find it in the capital in a short time!" Qiao Bi Ying's face kept changing due to anxiety.

"Fire lotus? Li family?" Emperor Qingming's expression changed suddenly.

Could it be that the antidote is not Ganoderma lucidum, but a strange medicine that grows in the Li tribe? !

If this is the case, it is no wonder that Xu Qiwei, who was poisoned in Dongyuan City, will be able to detoxify smoothly!

Did Qiao Bing know the news that the Duke of Zhen was going to conquer the Li clan, so he deliberately made such a move in the poison earlier?

This conjecture was denied by Emperor Qingming in an instant—impossible, he ordered Qiao Bingying to prepare the poison even before Xu Qiwei left, let alone Qiao Bingying, even the queen cannot have a prophet Ability!

Could it just be a coincidence...

Xu Qiwei didn't die because he took advantage of the right time and place, and the empress and the national teacher had nothing to do with this matter?

Emperor Qingming turned his eyes several times, looked at Qiao Bing who was at a loss and didn't seem to be lying at all, suddenly smiled, and said: "Physician Qiao, don't worry, I will definitely order someone to find this medicine and detoxify Mrs. Qiao."

Qiao Bing was still in a daze, as if he didn't dare to give too much hope, but he still kowtowed tremblingly: "Yes, thank you Your Majesty..."

Emperor Qingming tightly held the prescription in his hand, and said in a cool and authentic voice, "Come here, take Imperial Doctor Qiao home."

The two palace servants stepped forward silently, and packed the person into the lacquered wooden box like an object.

"Arrange it." Emperor Qingming stood up, throwing the ball of paper in his hand at his feet: "This person, I can't keep it anymore..."

Good night everyone, see you tomorrow.