The chief steward Qingshan bowed and said, "I will go and ask Dr. Xu to come right away!"

The Empress glanced at the people waiting in the corner of the palace, pointed at Xue Liu and said, "Come here and tell me why Xuanyi inhaled the bone-penetrating wind grass powder? Who did it?"

Xue Liu walked over, knelt down in front of the Emperor and Empress, and said with her head down, "Replying to the Emperor and Empress, the Third Prince went to the Imperial Academy to study today, and met Miss Xiao at the pavilion in the long corridor. Miss Xiao not only did not give way to the Third Prince, but also insulted him for no reason, so an argument broke out and finally a fight broke out. Miss Xiao couldn't beat the Third Prince, so she resorted to trickery and threw bone-penetrating wind grass powder at the servants..."

"How ridiculous! The Xiao family really raised a good daughter, but they dared to touch my daughter!" The empress showed her majesty and coldly issued an order, "Come here, pass on my oral order. Xiao Miaoyuan, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Xiao, has committed treason and offended the royal princess. She shall be sentenced to twenty years of punishment and ordered to copy the Dongling Laws!"

"I obey your orders!" A eunuch who was slightly younger than Qingshan bowed and went down to convey the order to watch the execution!

The female doctors in the Imperial Hospital looked at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses, and none of them spoke a word, for fear of angering the emperor and empress.

The other eunuchs serving behind the emperor and empress brought tea to them.

After waiting for a while, Chief Qingshan finally came back with Xu Jiugu's son.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Dr. Xu is the chief physician of the Yongkang Marquis's residence, so I invited him to the palace!" Qingshan stepped back, making room, and introduced, "This is Dr. Xu!"

Xu Qing'an bowed respectfully to the emperor and empress: "I, the humble servant Xu Qing'an, pay my respects to the emperor and empress!"

The Empress looked Xu Qing'an up and down. Seeing his shocking appearance, she asked with suspicion, "You are a man. How can you treat my son?"

"Your Majesty, I am not here to help detoxify the Third Prince!" Xu Qing'an said calmly, "My medical skills can only treat sick patients, not poisoned patients! If the Empress wants to help detoxify the Third Prince, you have to find my junior brother! He is a master of silver needles and will definitely be able to suppress the poison of the Five Poison Powder. As for detoxification, it depends on whether my junior brother is willing to do it!"

"What do you mean? Where is your junior brother? Where is he?" the emperor and empress asked anxiously.

Hearing this, Xu Qing'an knelt down calmly and said, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I have something to ask for. If you can grant my request, I will tell you where my junior brother is!"

When the Empress heard this, she was slightly angry: "What do you want? You are threatening my son's life! If you don't tell me the reason, I will not let you off easily!"

"Your Majesty, what I am asking for is related to the Second Prince!"

"Is it related to Yuan Yi? What happened to her?" The Empress and the Queen showed a puzzled look. "Yuan Yi is very cautious in her actions. How could she be related to a country bumpkin like you?"

Xu Qing'an was not angry when he heard this. Instead, he said sincerely, "I dare not deceive the emperor and empress. I fell in love with the Second Prince at first sight, so I was so rude. I used my junior brother's whereabouts as a bargaining chip and came to the emperor and empress in person to ask for help. Please help me!"

The empress and the queen saw that Xu Qing'an's tone did not sound fake, so they calmed down and asked him: "When did you meet Yuan Yi? How could you fall in love with her?"

Xu Qing'an was shy for a moment when he heard the question, and then his face fell into memories: "Two years ago, the Second Prince came to Jiangdu Prefecture to inspect the river bank, and happened to see me being beaten by a bully. It was the Second Prince who saved me. Since then, I have developed a crush on the Second Prince and vowed not to marry anyone but the Second Prince!"

The Empress was slightly surprised, then nodded and said, "Yuan Yi went to Jiangdu Prefecture two years ago, and the time matches, but I still need to ask Yuan Yi for the specific details. If this is true, regardless of whether Yuan Yi likes you or not, I am willing to grant you marriage and fulfill your wish."

"You'd better tell me the whereabouts of your fellow apprentice brother as soon as possible, so as not to delay Xuan Yi's treatment!"

Xu Qing'an didn't dare to make trouble, and while thanking him, he said, "Junior brother, I came to the capital after you. I believe you are staying in Dayun Temple outside the city. Please send someone to tie up Junior brother and bring him here!"

"Tied?" The Empress asked him subconsciously, "Does your junior brother dare to disobey the order?"

Xu Qing'an felt more stressed and said, "Junior brother is called the Ghost Doctor by the people in the martial arts world, not only because of his superb medical skills, but also because of his mysterious whereabouts. He learned martial arts from a strange man in the countryside. If he is unwilling to see patients, even if the emperor and empress send many soldiers, they can't catch him!"

"Can he fly?" The Empress refused to believe it and ordered Qingshan, the chief steward, "Take a team of people and go to Dayun Temple to bring him back!"

Qingshan bowed and went out.

Song Xiang woke up only after several doctors from the Imperial Hospital cured him of the poison from the bone-penetrating wind grass.

"The Third Prince has woken up!" a female doctor said happily.

Upon hearing this, the Empress stood up and hurried to Song Xiang's side: "Xuan Yi, are you awake?"

"Are there any discomforts?"

Song Xiang woke up and looked at the person in front of him: "Father, why are you here?"

"I'm fine, don't worry, father!"

"Nothing? How can you be okay?" the Empress asked worriedly, "Xuan Yi, how did you get poisoned by the Five Poison Powder?"

Song Xiang was silent for a moment before confessing, "Once I went to Pingkangfang for a trip without my guards and was kidnapped by the evil doctor Jin Li. He fed me the Five Poison Powder to threaten me..."

"How can this be possible!" The Empress' eyes turned cold. "Pass on my order to capture the evil doctor Jin Li throughout the country. Anyone who disobeys my order will be killed without mercy!!"

A eunuch took the order and left, and the emperor and empress dismissed everyone.

All of a sudden, Song Xiang and the emperor and empress were the only ones left in the room of the Imperial Hospital.

Song Xiang opened his mouth and comforted the emperor and empress: "I'm sorry to have made you worry about me!"

"Silly child, what are you talking about? I gave birth to you, but I was not able to raise you. It is already a great pity. Now that I have finally found you, I must protect you and prevent you from getting hurt again!" The Empress wiped her tears while speaking, "Tell your father what the evil doctor wanted to do with you."

Song Xiang wanted to tell the emperor and empress the truth, but when he saw that he had white hair on his temples before he was sixty, he took the words back.

After a pause, she made up her mind and said, "Father, I don't want to go to the Imperial Academy to study anymore!"

"Why?" The Empress said disapprovingly, "You have entered the Imperial Academy and made great progress in your studies. No one will dare to humiliate you as a country princess in the future. You will get to know more children of noble families and develop your own power. What's wrong with that?"

Song Xiang shook his head and frowned, "Father, although I am a good civil official, I can't help you! I want to go to the garrison camp outside the city and command the fourteen camps of the city defense department. Please ask Father to speak to you on my behalf!"

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