I really don't want to take shortcuts anymore

Before Xue Wen could speak, Huo Xiu said hastily, "Don't worry, Doctor Xue. As long as it can be cured, no matter how rare the medicine is, we will do whatever it takes to get it - as long as you have a way to make my Yun'er better!"

Poor parents in the world. Xue Wen sighed in his heart, then slowly shook his head:

"This is a symptom of the external gate. Madam had been ill five days ago. Although she could still take in water and rice at that time, she was blocked from digestion and could not digest anything. Now that she is hiccuping and vomiting, it is already... no medicine can help her."

He uttered the last four words under Huo Xiu's expectant gaze, and watched the other party's face gradually become extremely gray.

"Please forgive me for being unable to help you." He clasped his fists and bowed deeply.

The room once again fell into deathly silence, but not long after, the silence was broken by low sobbing.

As the eldest daughter of Huo Xuan, Huo Xiu had always gotten everything she wanted easily in the first half of her life. But this was the second time she experienced the pain and powerlessness of losing a loved one.

Last time it was his younger brother Huo Yu, but this time it was his own biological daughter.

My heart seemed to be torn into countless pieces, and the pain was indescribable.

She couldn't hold it in any longer and threw herself on her daughter without any image, crying and complaining:

"Yun'er has been sensible since she was young. I have always bound her with rules, and she has never had a day of leisure. She was supposed to enter the royal family, be admired by all the women in the world, and live a life of luxury... Why did she get this disease at this time... This is unfair..."

Xin He's face was as gloomy as water. He walked up to her slowly and patted her shoulder gently to comfort her.

It didn't take long for Prime Minister Xin to go from not wanting to believe it at first to accepting the reality after his expectations were dashed. His brain had already begun to work rapidly, calculating what would happen after his daughter's death.

She is not lucky enough to become the queen, so the only one who will be lucky enough to reap the fruits in the end will be the Huo family.

It is precisely because of this that the many changes that have just occurred due to the death of Huo Yu and the Empress's falling to the Xin family will most likely be brought back to the starting point, and the multipolar structure that Your Majesty has taken great pains to create will also collapse.

The only winner in this matter is Huo Xuan.

Xin He frowned, pursed his lips tightly, and looked at his daughter's blue face. His right hand, hidden in his sleeve, clenched into a fist.

Weiyang Palace and Minghua Pond.

Yu Yan held a jade spoon and scooped out red bean-sized fish food made of wheat flour and sesame oil from the pottery jar that the young official held above his head, and slowly sprinkled it into the pond.

Under the bright sunlight, countless golden, red and colorful koi fish gathered together, with their mouths wide open, scrambling for fish food with great enthusiasm.

This scene obviously pleased Yu Yan. He showed a bright smile that suited his age, poured several spoonfuls of food, and finally picked up the half-foot-wide pottery jar and threw all the remaining fish food into the pond.

The water in the pond seemed to boil at that moment. The koi fish were like crazy, squeezing and fighting for the fish, and none of them was willing to give in.

In an instant, a huge golden carp with a body length of nearly two meters emerged from the densely packed carp group. It flapped its tail fin vigorously, driving the other koi around to the side, opened its mouth wide, and first swallowed the fish food floating on the water, then rushed left and right, blatantly snatching food from the mouths of other koi. After a long while, it finally sank down contentedly.

The water surface returned to calm again, shimmering with golden light in the breeze and sunlight.

With a smile on his lips, Yu Yan slowly turned around and said to Jiao Zuo who was standing respectfully behind him:

"Is it really a case of Guan Ge disease, not poisoning?"

"Yes." Jiao Zuo bowed and replied, "Doctor Xue has examined it personally and found no signs of poisoning."

Yu Yan's eyes flickered slightly, and he reached his hand into the golden basin brought by the maid, gently dipped it a few times, and then took a silk handkerchief to wipe it clean, and then spoke again:

"How much longer?"

Jiao Zuo was slightly startled, then he reacted and replied: "According to Doctor Xue, even if Madam Xin survives tonight, she will definitely not make it to noon tomorrow."

Yu Yan lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Jiao Zuo: "Has there been any movement from the Grand Marshal's side these days?"

"The Imperial City Department did not find anything unusual." Jiao Zuo said, and suddenly realized something, and asked in astonishment: "Your Majesty, do you think that this matter is related to the Grand Marshal?"

Yu Yan smiled faintly: "My father once taught me that there are no coincidences in the world. If Madam Xin died like this, the Grand Marshal would be the biggest beneficiary. I don't believe that he did nothing."

"But Madam Xin is also the granddaughter of the Grand Marshal!" Jiao Zuo's face was full of disbelief.

"She's just a granddaughter." Yu Yan sneered and shook his head: "If he can abandon his own son, what else can he not do?"

This inference is very consistent. Jiao Zuo nodded, and suddenly remembered something, hesitantly said: "Your Majesty, if Madam Xin dies, do you really want to be forced by the Grand Marshal to marry the daughter of the Huo family as your queen?"

Yu Yan stared at him for a few times, his face expressionless at first, but then he slowly opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. On the left and right sides of his mouth, there were two empty tooth cavities, and new molars had just sprouted white buds, like bamboo shoots that had just emerged after the rain.

"I am saddened by the death of Madam Xin, and I have no intention of getting married for the time being." He said, "I am still young, so it is reasonable to use this as an excuse to delay it for two or three years. Besides, except for the Grand Marshal himself, I am afraid that everyone else will be happy to see it happen, and they may even praise me for my deep affection, right?"

Luo Qianhuai and Xing Xuan did not stop all the way, they walked around several long corridors, passed three or five ponds and flower gardens, several-story palaces and pavilions, and finally got out of the prime minister's residence.

As soon as I went out, I saw a carriage parked under a big banyan tree at the opposite alley.

Although it was a four-wheeled carriage pulled by two horses, the curtains were made of dark green Songjiang cloth without any gold or silver embroidery. Although it was thick and durable, it was completely inconsistent with the aesthetic taste of the noble families of Dayu.

The two reddish-brown horses pulling the cart were nothing like the tall and handsome horses that people admired at the time. Not only were they relatively short, but they were also covered in curly hair, just like sheep on the grassland. Only their two pairs of black and bright eyes showed their gentleness and kindness to the world.

Luo Qianhuai always felt that he seemed to have heard of this kind of curly-haired horse somewhere in his previous life, but now he couldn't remember it at all.

She had just stared at the two horses for a few more seconds when she saw Wei Ying coming out from behind the carriage. He saluted her and said, "Madam Jing, please get in the carriage. The Marquis is waiting for you in the carriage."