Inside the royal palace, Jiayuan I, lying on his bed, struggled to open his heavy eyes and shouted hoarsely.
“Someone come.”
Immediately outside the door, a servant girl came in, picked up Lin Mo’s elixir from the table and put it into Jiayuan I’s mouth.
Feeling his body being filled with a warmth, Jiayuan Yi Shi then felt some strength in his body and looked at the maid in front of him.
“Where is the royal concubine? Why is the Crown Princess not seen here today.”
“Your Majesty, the Queen Consort has not yet come today.”
Jiayuan I nodded and waved his hand to let the maid out, when the door was pushed open again.
Yin Xiao Anaconda, dressed in a gorgeous long dress, walked in carrying a bowl of fragrant seafood congee.
“Your Majesty, I know that you have not recovered from your illness and your appetite is not good, so I have specially stewed the seafood congee for you, please try it.”
Jiayuan I looked at Yin Xiao Anaconda’s innocent smile and the ashes stained on her gorgeous dress and bailed her out heartily.
“You silly girl, just leave such things to the underlings, look what has become of you.”
Yin Xiao Anaconda smiled nervously, “As long as Your Majesty likes it, Xiao Anaconda will do it for you, not to mention a bit of dust, even for a dragon pond.”
Jiayuan I doted on Yin Xiao Boa’s nose and opened his mouth to take a sip of the seafood congee she handed over.
The combination of smooth minced shrimp and soft q-tip sea cucumber, along with a faint aroma of medicine, gave Jiayuan I some appetite.
“Little girl, has there been anything interesting going on in King City recently?”
Yin Xiao Anaconda had been telling Jia Yuan I a little something interesting about the city every day for a long time, and Jia Yuan I, the emperor, was happy to hear about his people’s affairs.
“Your Majesty, there is nothing interesting today, but there is a case.”
Yin Xiao Boa pretended to be distressed, and his silly look aroused Jiayuan I’s curiosity.
“Oh? Then our beloved consort speaks to find out.”
“I’m not going to say it so easily, I won’t ask until His Majesty gives me the benefit of the doubt.”
Looking at Yin Xiao Boa’s silly perfunctory look, Jiayuan I Shi laughed and gave her two pinches directly on her waist, causing the latter to say loudly that you are bad, Your Majesty.
Jia Yuan Yi looked at his palm that had no strength after squeezing his waist a few times, and a trace of despondency flashed in his eyes.
For some reason, he felt that the effect of the elixir was getting worse and worse in his midst, from the vividness he had at the beginning to the barely standing he had now, it was like a difference between heaven and earth.
“There was an old man in the city who was always weak, and one day a healer came who saw the old man’s condition and gave him some medicine for free.”
“After taking them the old man felt better all over and his whole body was much younger, but then he found that the more he took the medicines the less effective they became and he didn’t want to go back to the same state he was in before, so he went to the healer again.”
“When the healer saw the old man arrive, it was as if he had expected it, and he directly asked for a sky-high price for the medicine, and since the old man had experienced that feeling, he never wanted to go back to his old self, so he…”
“Pah!”
The sound of the jade bowl smashing on the ground rang out and instantly shattered into pieces, and Jiayuan I’s originally cheerful cheeks were now thick with dark clouds, as if a violent storm was about to erupt the next moment.
Yin Xiao Boa’s words, which did not seem to have anything to do with him, struck hard into Jiayuan I’s heart, and he, who was already somewhat suspicious of the diminishing effects of the medicine, was now even more suspicious.
Could that so-called Chinese medical sage be doing this to himself, causing him to grow uncertain and seek out his medicine?
It was so terrifying to have the head of a country caught in the crosshairs of someone, and Jiayuan I was like an angry lion returning to life.
The pressure of the king’s power made Yin’s face pale, but the look in her eyes was one of excitement and urgency.
Her plan had already succeeded in its first stage, and Jiayuan I was already determined to kill Lin Mo.