This voice seemed to carry an indescribable clarity and coolness.
Even the furious emperor felt his violent mood ease somewhat. He turned his head toward the door and saw that Ye Shaohua, who had originally been waiting outside, had already come in.
“Move aside.” Ye Shaohua took out the gold needles that Ye Bozhong had left her.
The imperial physicians present and the emperor naturally recognized Ye Bozhong’s gold needles. These had been passed down through generations of the Ye family, and back then they had been handed down by Imperial Physician Ye.
The emperor did not know why, but looking at the confident Ye Shaohua and then thinking of his fourth son,
He actually did not vent his anger on Ye Shaohua. Instead, he stood up and made room for her.
Back then, Ye Shaohua had used the Nine Yin-Yang Needles to cure Chu Yunmo’s illness. Now her medical skills had improved even further. Although the empress dowager’s illness was tricky, removing thirty percent of the poison in one session would not be a problem.
Liu Mingxin did not believe in ancient acupuncture at all.
Seeing Ye Shaohua actually bring out gold needles, even though her own situation was bad, she still wore a mocking smile.
Ye Shaohua had someone help the empress dowager sit up. The empress dowager had been bedridden for several months, and her body was already far worse than before. However, although Liu Mingxin had just caused the poison that had been suppressed inside the empress dowager’s body to erupt, by a strange twist of fate it had also helped the empress dowager’s constitution recover somewhat.
Otherwise, the empress dowager would not have been able to withstand the Nine Yin-Yang Needles.
As she inserted one needle after another, the emperor personally witnessed the dark blue-black color on the empress dowager’s face slowly fading.
Ye Shaohua put away the last silver needle.
The imperial physicians beside her understood the empress dowager’s condition best. Now, seeing the empress dowager like this and then taking her pulse again, the gloom in their eyes was completely gone, replaced by a layer of shock.
Ye Shaohua maintained a cold expression throughout.
The emperor did not know why, but when he thought of Imperial Physician Ye, he actually did not dare ask her.
He had originally wanted to ask the imperial physicians, but unexpectedly, they did not even look at him.
Every one of them crowded around Ye Shaohua. “Miss Ye, was what you just used the Nine Yin-Yang Needles that your father once used? From the looks of it, you have comprehended far more than your father did.”
“Miss Ye, do you know what poison the empress dowager was afflicted with? Could you tell this old man where such a rare and deadly poison comes from?”
“I can actually still live to see someone use the complete Nine Yin-Yang Needles! Miss Ye, you truly are as talented as your father—what a great talent!”
“…”
For the first time, the emperor discovered that these people, who had always feared him so much and put on the airs of imperial physicians in front of outsiders, actually had this side to them. One after another they surrounded a young girl, their attitudes carrying a bit of respect.
“How is my mother?” Only after the imperial physicians finished speaking did the emperor instinctively ask.
Meeting Ye Shaohua’s half-smiling gaze, he actually turned his head slightly, not daring to meet her eyes at all, feeling deeply guilty.
“Reporting to Your Majesty, the poison in the empress dowager’s body has already been somewhat alleviated. By this afternoon, the empress dowager should awaken,” one imperial physician replied to the emperor. “As for the remaining poison, after Miss Ye administers the needles a few more times, she will fully recover.”
Liu Mingxin and Jiu’er, kneeling to the side, were completely stunned!
And what happened inside the bedchamber was naturally heard by those outside, especially that Liu Mingxin had caused the suppressed poison in the empress dowager’s body to erupt, nearly killing her, and the Imperial Medical Institute had been helpless to do anything.
Yet unexpectedly, Ye Shaohua had saved her!
“A divine doctor! Truly a divine doctor!”
The emperor also came to his senses at this point. Hearing the imperial physician say the empress dowager was about to recover, he was stunned for quite a while before he could not help trembling and said several times, “Good.”
At this moment, he also reacted and looked at the imperial physicians and Ye Shaohua. “All of you are saying that my mother was poisoned before?”
“That’s right,” Ye Shaohua nodded. “The poisoner’s methods were brilliant. I do know what could counteract the poison, but the antidote herb grows at the peak of the snowy mountains and only bears one plant every hundred years. It is extremely rare. In other words, there is no cure—but the poisoner clearly did not anticipate that our Ye family possesses the art of the Nine Yin-Yang Needles.”
The emperor now completely believed Ye Shaohua. Hearing her words, he pondered for a moment before saying, “So what your father used back then was also the Nine Yin-Yang Needles? Why… why did my mother vomit black blood after drinking his medicine?”
Hearing the emperor’s words, Ye Shaohua could not help closing her eyes.
She took a deep breath.
She dug her nails into her palm, and only after a long while did she calm down. “My father knew long ago that the empress dowager had been poisoned, but he did not know who had done it. He had only learned the basics of the Nine Yin-Yang Needles and could not cure the empress dowager. He could only temporarily suppress the poison within her body to keep it from seeping into her internal organs, but it also alleviated the fatal poison in her body. That is also why the empress dowager vomited black blood.”
“As for that bowl of medicine, it was never meant for the empress dowager to drink!”
If it was not for the empress dowager to drink, then what was it for?
The emperor froze in place.
But at this moment, inside the empress dowager’s bedchamber, the imperial physicians, eunuchs, and grand ministers all did not dare speak. Their heads hung very low. Which of them had not experienced deceit and scheming? Now that Ye Shaohua brought it up, they naturally remembered.
Why? Naturally because Ye Bozhong knew he had become a pawn, so he used that bowl of poisoned medicine to warn the emperor that someone wanted to harm the empress.
And it was precisely because of that bowl of poisoned medicine that the emperor dismissed all the palace maids around the empress dowager.
Ye Bozhong had clearly used the gold needles to alleviate the empress dowager’s poison, yet he did not defend himself, because he knew he had no way to cure the empress dowager. Even if he spoke, no one would believe him. And when the news spread that the empress dowager had vomited black blood, it would make those who wanted her dead feel they had achieved their goal.
Ye Bozhong used the blood of his entire household to warn the emperor, to make him guard against those with ill intentions toward the imperial family!
The emperor stared blankly at his own hands. But what had he done?
