Traveling to the ancient harem

Hong Ge'er and Qingquan were carried to Qingsangju first. Both of them were unconscious. They had not eaten or drunk for three days. Qingquan fainted from hunger, while Huang Zihong was tortured to the point of being on the verge of death, with his breathing almost inaudible.

Almost everyone in the mansion had arrived. Old Madam Chen struggled to walk to Qingsangju. The moment she saw the child, both of them fell to the ground.

The palace doctor also arrived. He asked people to quickly make ginseng soup to save the old man. The old man kept shouting to the housekeeper, Lao Chen, to open the storehouse and take out the century-old ginseng that was treasured in the palace.

The court doctor asked someone to bring warm water and soak the child's clothes that were torn into pieces by the whip. The clothes were stuck to the blood and formed hard lumps. They could not be taken off unless they softened. The wounds all over his body were turned outward, and some places had even festered.

The court doctor carefully peeled off the pieces of cloth on the child, but the child showed no reaction. The old man burst into tears. Father Huang had already taken the Huang family's invitation to the palace to invite the imperial physician. He didn't know if the child could be saved.

Qingquan was just fainted from hunger. He woke up after being fed water. Seeing a room full of people, he burst into tears. His throat was hoarse but he couldn't speak. At this time, the ginseng soup was cooked and brought over. The court doctor tried to feed the child, but his teeth were tightly closed. There was no other way but to ask someone to pry open his teeth with a silver spoon and force the soup into his mouth while he tilted his head back.

The old man also asked people to feed Qingquan ginseng soup. Qingquan recovered and told them intermittently about his experiences in the past few days.

About an hour later, the imperial physician rushed over. The one on duty today was Imperial Physician Wang, who was an expert in internal medicine and had a lot of experience in examining the lungs. The old man was panting. As soon as he got off the carriage, Huang Mingli carried him inside. He must have been very tired being carried by someone.

Imperial Physician Wang didn't bother to greet the old man and rushed to the bedside. He couldn't help shaking when he saw the miserable state of Hong'er. He had been practicing medicine for so many years and had never seen such a tragic thing. The boy was still a child. How great a hatred must one have to be to be so cruel.

Imperial Physician Wang sat down, took the boy's hand covered with blood scabs and took his pulse. Seeing him lying motionless, everyone in the room was nervous.

"I will give him acupuncture first. If he wakes up tonight, he may be saved. If he doesn't wake up, there is nothing I can do." Imperial Physician Wang picked up the needle box and inserted silver needles into Hongger's body one by one while speaking.

When Imperial Physician Wang finished the acupuncture, it was just after midnight when Hong Ge'er suddenly started to convulse and his whole body became hot. Although he was unconscious, it was obvious that he was in great pain. About half an hour later, he began to shiver non-stop and his skin was cold all over. He was still shivering even after covering himself with several quilts.

Imperial Physician Wang was helpless; he had never encountered this kind of disease before and didn't know what to do.

"The young master must have been poisoned." Qingquan cried, "When we came back, they gave him a big bowl of medicine, and he passed out after drinking it."

"What a vicious person." Father Huang slammed his fist on the table in anger. Brother Xuan also clenched his fist in anger, his eyes red.

"I am not good at treating poison. Tomorrow morning you should go and ask Imperial Physician Zhang to come. He is quite knowledgeable in this area." Imperial Physician Wang said to the old man.

"Thank you!" The old man bowed to Imperial Physician Wang.

Early the next morning, Father Huang was waiting at the door of Imperial Physician Zhang's house. When he saw Imperial Physician Zhang, he knelt down and begged him to save his life.

Last night, Hong Ge'er returned to his old condition after an hour, but he was still unconscious. Imperial Physician Wang simply prescribed some anti-inflammatory medicine for him to drink, carefully applied medicine on his body, and re-bandaged him.

When Imperial Physician Chen came to the house and saw his brother's condition, there was nothing he could do. Although he knew something about poison, he had never seen such symptoms before. He couldn't be sure whether it was poisoning or not.

By evening, Hongger still hadn't woken up, but his pulse had improved a little. At midnight, he began to have another attack. He felt alternating hot and cold for an hour, and his whole body was twitching and curled up into a ball. Chen was so distressed that she cried her heart out.

On the morning of the third day, Hongger woke up. He opened his eyes weakly and looked at the ceiling of the bed blankly. It took him a long time to come back to his senses.

Chen cried with joy and called her Hongger softly. Hongger looked at his family members surrounding him and wanted to speak, but no words came out.

"Don't talk for now. Qingquan has already told us. It's good that the child has woken up." The old man smiled with relief. God have mercy on them. They didn't know how they had survived the past few days. Now that the child has woken up, it's better than anything else.

The court physician had someone bring him some ginseng soup and asked him to drink it slowly in small sips. Then he told the kitchen staff to cook some thick rice porridge, skimmed off the rice oil on top, and asked him to drink half a bowl of it.

Hong'er's spirit and energy had improved visibly. The family was very relieved and never mentioned what had happened in the past few days. The family waited in fear until midnight, but the hateful symptoms came as expected. Looking at the child who was twitching like a ball, the family was helpless. Huang's father, a grown man, ran out for the first time and fell on the rockery in the garden and cried loudly.