|| ᴘᴏɪꜱᴏɴ ɢᴇɴɪᴜꜱ ᴄᴏɴꜱᴏʀᴛ ||

Chapters 341-350

Chapter 341: Truth of the Medicine Fan

Such reluctance!

The empress dowager stared at the Medicine Fan, her heart stifled to the point her eyes turned red. She couldn't bear to part with it! But soon enough, her wrist started itching again. When she remembered Imperial Physician Huang's advice, she could only hold back her heartache. "Someone come...take this..." After some hesitation, she finally spat it out.

"Someone come, take this Medicine Fan and lock it away in the cabinet!"

The curtain of night fell quickly upon the exhausted empress dowager, who lay on her bed to stare at the tightly locked cabinet. It felt like a knife had sliced through her heart, leaving her bitter and pained. Nightfall would be an unending nightmare for the rest of her life!

Once it grew late, Imperial Physician Huang snuck back to the Duke of Qin's estate. Han Yunxi laughed out loud after hearing his accounts of events at the Palace of Heaven and Earth. Zhao mama and Chu Xifeng were delighted by the news as well. Naturally, all of Imperial Physician Huang's words had spoken on Han Yunxi's instructions! She had poisoned the empress dowager on her first trip into the palace with something called Cicada Incense. This type of poison would only react with the medicinal ingredients sewn onto the Medicine Fan. It had a very low toxicity during the daytime, but it reacted on the scalp when night fell. Thus, one's head would feel unbearably itchy.

Cicada Incense was a rarely seen poison, while the Medicine Fan was a rarely seen medicine. Few people understood them both, much less their combined reactions. Han Yunxi was certain that the empress dowager would start suspecting her and poisons if problems arose, but she was confident that none of the woman's poison masters would be able to detect her poison. If the empress dowager couldn't solve her problem with poison experts, she would only turn to ask the Imperial Physician Courtyard for help again. Besides Gu Beiyue, the the most skilled physician would be Imperial Physician Huang. Naturally, Han Yunxi got to him first to tell him what to do.

"Esteemed wangfei, what a move! This old servant is in admiration, admiration!" Zhao mama had served in the palace for years, but she never knew you could fool with a person like that. Why didn't she know her mistress could be such a black belly?

"Satisfying! Heheh, esteemed wangfei, as this subordinate sees it, the empress dowager won't be able to resist taking out the Medicine Fan again!" Chu Xifeng grinned. When he imagined how the empress dowager would be torn between wanting to use the fan versus afraid to touch its handle in the future, the mental image of her tortured expression was quite cheering!

Han Yunxi turned back to look at the still unconscious Gu Beiyue and murmured, "Gu Beiyue, I've taken revenge in your place. When will you wake up?"

Her words silenced the occupants in the room. Though thoroughly fooling the empress dowager was a cause for celebration, Han Yunxi couldn't truly feel happy when Gu Beiyue still remained unconscious.

"Let me check his pulse again," Imperial Physician Huang said. But before he even sat down, Lil Thing gave a shrill cry from its perch by Gu Beiyue's hand.

"Chee chee! Chee chee!" As it shouted, it pointed at Gu Beiyue's left hand. Han Yunxi glanced over and saw the fingers moving.

"He moved! Imperial Physician Huang, move quick–no, no, I mean, look quickly!" Han Yunxi was so excited that she couldn't even speak in proper sentences.

Imperial Physician Huang was excited as well. He made sure Gu Beiyue's finger was really moving on its own before he pushed open his eyelids to examine the pupils. Lil Thing was the happiest one of all. It jumped right next to Gu Beiyue's face and patted him with its furry paws, hoping to wake him up.