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Huaiwang Mansion...

No one dared to breathe. In the past two days, Xiao Tianyi's skin showed signs of ulceration and he had a sudden high fever and coma. The servants did not dare to hide it and quietly reported it to Prince Huai and Princess Huai.

Prince Huai called in the palace doctor to check. After making a diagnosis, Doctor Liu turned pale with fear and waved his hands repeatedly, saying that he could do nothing...

When Princess Huai was about to scold Doctor Liu for being a quack, Doctor Liu smiled bitterly and said, "Princess, it's not that I'm incompetent, but it's the prince's illness. Even if I use all my life's knowledge, I can't save the prince!!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? The prince just has a fever. You are a quack doctor who has no ability, yet you have the nerve to curse the prince. Someone, take my token and go to the palace to invite the imperial physician..."

Princess Huai refused to believe it. It was just a high fever. This quack doctor was obviously too poor in medical skills. He dared to say that her son was hopeless. She would invite the imperial physician to diagnose him personally and make sure he was punished.

"Your Highness, please think twice and listen to my advice. Don't ask anyone else to see the prince's illness again."

"What do you mean, Doctor Liu? Just tell me what disease the prince has. I won't blame you..." Prince Huai had a bad feeling in his heart.

"The prince has...is...ah!! It's syphilis, and it's already a serious case. There's no way to save him. Even if we try our best, we can only save him for less than half a year. If the princess wants to invite another imperial physician, I'm afraid that by then everyone will know about it. But this is just my suggestion. As for what to do, it's up to you, my lord and princess, to decide..."

Princess Huai collapsed in her chair. Venereology? ? How could her daughter get venereology? ? ? What should she do? ?

Prince Huai closed his eyes heavily, and opened them after a moment. His eyes were clear. He waved his hand and said, "I have noted down what you said, Doctor Liu. If there is nothing else, go get the medicine first!"

Doctor Liu bowed and saluted, then left...

"Your Highness, maybe the imperial physician has a solution? We just need to hire a few more imperial physicians, or offer a large sum of money to find a miracle doctor, there will always be a way to save Yi'er, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about, Princess? You must have known Dr. Liu's medical skills over the years. Wasn't it because you admired his superb medical skills that you advocated keeping him in the palace with a large sum of money? Since he said he couldn't save the patient, even if you invited all the people from the Imperial Hospital, it would be useless. Instead, it would make the palace a laughing stock."

Princess Huai cried with tears streaming down her face: "Am I just going to watch Yi'er die? I can't do it... I can't do it..."

"It has to be done even if it is impossible. Since Doctor Liu said that he will not live for more than half a year, there is no need to let the Huai Palace be mired in rumors because of him. Besides, he is already deeply hated by the emperor as the prince. Now that he has this kind of dirty disease, he is no longer of any value to the Huai Palace."

"Your Highness, you watched him grow up! How could you say such cruel words?"

"What do you want me to do then? Let the Emperor know that the prince of Huai Palace has contracted the dirtiest disease in a brothel? Let the ministers and the sons of noble families in the court know that the prince of Huai Palace is a rotten rag inside? Let the people of the whole capital know that I, the Prince of Huai, have a son who is infected with syphilis? Does the Huai Palace still have any shame? Do you, the Princess of Huai, still have any shame? Do I, the Prince of Huai, still have any shame? Ah?"

Every word the Prince of Huai said made the Princess of Huai retreat step by step and finally be defeated. She knew that what her husband said was the truth, and she also knew that she really couldn't afford to lose face. She was not only the Princess of Huai, but also the eldest princess of Xuanyue Kingdom.

Princess Huai clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and after pondering for a while, she finally spoke: "Then what should we do???"

"Send Yi'er to the manor and learn about it secretly. Tell the public that the prince was attacked by unknown assassins and died in the fight. After Yi'er's funeral is handled, I will petition the emperor to appoint Ce'er as the prince of Huaiwang Mansion."

Prince Huai spoke calmly of his plan, his tone as cold as if the person whose life and death he decided had nothing to do with him.

Princess Huai nodded, knowing that this was the best solution for the moment. However, Yi'er was a piece of her flesh after all, and she still felt a little heartbroken.

"Your Highness, now that Doctor Liu also knows about Yi'er's illness, what if he leaks the secret?"

"He can't bear to see tomorrow's sun, so how could he reveal the secret? Don't worry! Beichen has already taken care of it. It's late at night, Princess, you should go back and rest early!"

"My Lord, what about you?"

What Princess Huai really wanted to say was that the prince hadn't visited her for some time.

"I have some things to deal with, so I'm going to the study first. You should have a good rest..."

Princess Huai watched the prince leave, and the words to keep him came to her lips but she couldn't say them.

Minister of Works Fei Fu...

"Master, please, let the doctor come and treat Wen Ge'er!"

Li knelt down and prayed to her husband Fei Jiheng. These days, Fei Yanwen suddenly developed skin ulcers, high fever and coma.

Old Madam Fei was fortunate enough to have seen the symptoms of this syphilis. In order to avoid making the matter public, she only left two maids to take care of the patient and did not allow anyone else to approach. She also did not invite a doctor to visit the patient for treatment.

Li couldn't bear it. Seeing that her son's life or death was unknown, her husband and mother-in-law refused to let her call a doctor. How could she accept this? At this moment, she was begging Fei Jiheng regardless of the consequences.

Fei Jiheng snorted coldly and said impatiently: "If he has this kind of disease, even if a god came, he couldn't be saved. This is his fate. If he hadn't been so stupid and insisted on framing the second son of the Marquis of Zhenbei, he wouldn't have ended up like this. He's bringing trouble upon himself."

"Master, this is your son! How can you bear to ignore his life or death?"

Madam Fei sighed, helped her daughter-in-law Li up, and analyzed the pros and cons with her. She said: "Li, I understand your feelings as a mother, but there is more than one son in the Fei family, and you have more than one child. Do you really want to give up the reputation of the Fei family for him? If it is reported that the second son of the Fei family has a heart disease at this time, think about how the other brothers and sisters will deal with it? Especially when it comes to the critical time for Sister Wei to discuss marriage, are you sure you want to ruin other children for a son who is about to die?"

After hearing this, Li could only remain silent. Although she loved Wen Ge'er, she could not risk the future of all the other children in the Fei family.

Old Madam Fei knew that Li had already made a choice. She looked at her son...

"How should we deal with Brother Wen's matter now? If we delay it for too long, there will be more trouble. Jiheng, my son, we must make a decisive decision..."

After all, Fei Jiheng holds the position of Shangshu, and weighing the pros and cons has become his standard for dealing with people and things. It is true that Fei Yanwen is his son, but since the moment the emperor deprived Fei Yanwen of the qualification to take the imperial examination in front of all the ministers, his son has been destined to be abandoned.

If this son had not been ill, he would not mind keeping a useless person in the Shangshu Mansion. But now that he had contracted this disease, his fate was doomed to be short. It didn't matter if he kept a son who was of no value at all, but he could not bring disaster to the future of the entire Fei family.

Fei Jiheng took out a bottle of poison and placed it on the table. He pushed it in front of Li and said, "Give it to him to drink. Tomorrow we will tell everyone that the second son of the Fei family died suddenly of a serious illness..."

Li picked up the bottle of poison and clenched it with all her strength. She felt extremely distressed, but she also knew that this was a last resort. She hoped that Wen Ge'er would not blame them and would be reborn into a good person in the next life!!!