Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

The Seventh Princess's illness was a bit tricky. Once the cinnabar poison entered the body, it would be fine if the amount was small, but if the amount was large, it would be impossible to completely excrete the poison through its own metabolism. Although Du Jingshan had been trying to help the Seventh Princess detoxify, the poison had seriously damaged her spleen and stomach, and she could not take medicine or eat normally, and even could not drink much water. It was a drop in the bucket. The speed of treatment could not keep up with the speed of the disease's continued deterioration. Over time, the Seventh Princess's internal organs had gradually shown signs of failure.

Du Jingshan wanted the witch doctor to first cure the Seventh Princess of the poison she had given herself so that the Seventh Princess could wake up first, but the witch doctor disagreed.

"I know how you feel, but think about it. If she wakes up, she will have to endure the pain in her internal organs and the bitterness of the medicine. This way, she will suffer less."

Du Jingshan understood the Seventh Princess's temperament and thought that the witch doctor was right, so he no longer insisted. He suppressed his pitiful little wish and followed the witch doctor's method to concentrate on decocting soup and boiling medicine for the Seventh Princess, doing his best to help her eliminate the old toxins and nourish her stomach.

Pei Chufeng stayed for two days. With Du Jingshan assisting the witch doctor, there was nothing he could do. He had been out for a few days and it was inconvenient for him to stay here any longer, so he said goodbye to the two of them and returned to Yudu first, saying that he would come back to visit in a few days.

The chief witch doctor told him not to worry, as the Seventh Princess's illness would take quite some time to heal, and asked him to stay in the Imperial Capital and that he would find a way to contact him if anything happened.

After Pei Chufeng left, the chief witch doctor, Du Jingshan and the seventh princess lived a very regular and boring life.

Fortunately, the Seventh Princess's condition has been brought under control, but Du Jingshan knows that it will take time for the Seventh Princess to fully recover, maybe even three to five years.

Since the Seventh Princess fell into a coma, she had to rely on others to serve her when eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, and washing. Eating and drinking were fine, but defecating, urinating, and washing were very embarrassing. Before, it was Liu who did these things. Since Liu was left in the inn, the only one who could do these things was Du Jingshan.

Du Jingshan just felt that it was a difficult matter due to the strict rules between men and women, but he never disliked the dirty things.

In order to protect the chastity and reputation of the Seventh Princess, Du Jingshan was blindfolded when doing these things, and his hands were extremely well-behaved, not once directly touching the Seventh Princess's body.

However, since going up the mountain, the chief witch doctor no longer allowed Du Jingshan to do these things.

Du Jingshan disagreed at first, thinking that it was inappropriate for the witch doctor to do these things, but the witch doctor said:

"If you can't marry her, stay away from these things."

Du Jingshan was so choked by this sentence that he could only let the witch doctor do it out of spite.

However, the witch doctor took very good care of the Seventh Princess, even as good as Liu. Du Jingshan admired her virtue as a doctor, but couldn't help wondering why she was so considerate to the Seventh Princess. He wanted to ask several times, but was afraid of offending the witch doctor's taboo, so he had to give up.

In order to allow the chief witch doctor to concentrate on treating the seventh princess, Du Jingshan took on almost all other household chores, including fetching water, cooking, collecting firewood, hunting, washing, and repairing. Sometimes he would also help to sort, cut, steam, and dry the medicinal materials collected by the chief witch doctor. He was busy every day and although he was tired, he was in a much better mood than before. After all, there was hope for the seventh princess's illness.

Seeing that he had such a trouble-free and labor-saving helper, the great witch doctor was naturally happy to sit back and enjoy the results.

After a few days, Pei Chufeng came back. This time he brought a lot of things, including rice, noodles, salt, meat, rapeseed seedlings, and two laying hens.

Du Jingshan was deeply moved when he saw him gasping for breath and looking so miserable.

The witch doctor, however, looked indifferent. Instead, he told him to send it a few more times. This way, his body would be healthier. It would be the best of both worlds. It was always better to spend money on these things than on medicine.

Du Jingshan was a little dazed by the witch doctor's words. This trick of getting an advantage and still acting cute was just like that of the Seventh Princess.

Pei Chufeng naturally would not bother with his master. After a silly laugh, he put away the things he bought one by one, and then dragged Du Jingshan to build a chicken coop together.

Before Pei Chufeng left the mountain, Du Jingshan privately asked him to send someone to monitor Liu's whereabouts. Pei Chufeng understood what Du Jingshan asked him to do and agreed without hesitation.

While building a chicken coop, Du Jingshan asked Pei Chufeng about Liu's movements.

"The Liu family has not made any unusual moves and has stayed in the inn every day. But someone was probing around the inn the day before yesterday. I think someone wanted to contact the Liu family. I was afraid of alerting them, so I had people surround the inn secretly and prevent them from approaching for the time being. I quickly came to discuss this with Brother Du."

"Liu is the Seventh Princess's wet nurse and has always been with her. Now that she has been turned against the princess, her accomplices must be powerful. We need to get strong evidence."

"This is exactly what I'm worried about. Since this person is not a nobody, even if we get the evidence, we may not be able to deal with the culprit. It may also involve more grievances or a bigger conspiracy."

Du Jingshan knew that Pei Chufeng's worries were not unreasonable. He was silent for a while and said carefully:

"At least we need to know who is trying to harm the Seventh Princess, to prevent them from continuing to harm the Seventh Princess. As for how to deal with them, we will hand over the evidence to the Seventh Princess and let her decide."

Pei Chufeng nodded:

"That's all it can do."

Du Jingshan continued to speak carefully: "They contacted Liu, probably to know the situation of the Seventh Princess. Why don't we play along and give them false news? First, they will stop trying to kill the Seventh Princess. Second, we can follow the people and see who they report to. But...but if this false news spreads, I don't know if it will affect the relationship between Beiwei and Nanshen. I'm afraid it will also affect the Sixth Prince of Ximo. I'm worried that it will not end well then."

"There is no better way at the moment, so we might as well give it a try. As long as the Northern Emperor insists that the Seventh Princess is recuperating in the palace, everything will be back on track when the Seventh Princess recovers and returns to the palace. Is the Seventh Princess's condition improving? When will she wake up?"

"I don't know when I'll wake up, but at least things aren't getting worse."

"I've heard that the Seventh Princess is not a person with bad luck. She will definitely get better."

"Thank you, Third Prince. As for the Liu family, please take care of it."

"Brother Du, rest assured. I will pay attention to the Seventh Princess's affairs. Otherwise, A'ran would not have let me off so easily. However, I would like to trouble Brother Du to write a letter to Liu."

"I understand. Once I have built this chicken coop, I'll start writing."

So the two of them didn't say anything more, and they both quickened their movements.

Soon the chicken coop was built. Du Jingshan went back to his room and spread out a piece of paper to write a letter. After thinking for a moment, he picked up his pen and wrote:

"My sister's illness is irreversible. She has passed away in a foreign land. I hope you will not mourn. I failed to test the medicine properly and I am seriously ill. When I recover, I will bring you back home and send my sister back home. Written by my son, Gengshan."

After writing it, he read it to Pei Chufeng. The room was not big, and although the witch doctor was beside them, they did not avoid him.

Pei Chufeng thought about it and felt that this was the only way to write the letter, so he was about to put it away. But the witch doctor suddenly stopped him:

"Wait, these words can only deceive people, but they can't catch them."

"Master, what do you think?" Pei Chufeng asked respectfully, and Du Jingshan also looked like he was listening attentively.