A genius girl with her own space

Qiqi, her master, and Xie Lei were two days away from reaching the imperial city. They stopped in a small town where the secret guards were waiting. They had three fine horses ready and had ordered a few dishes for them at a small roadside restaurant. Qiqi and her master were indeed tired. Xie Lei quickly poured them a cup of tea and a bowl of soup for each of them.

Qiqi picked up the bowl and drank it all in a few gulps. Seeing Qiqi like this, Yun Jizi and Xie Lei showed distressed expressions.

Xie Lei quickly picked up a large bowl of food for Qiqi. They both quickly began to eat. A pigeon's cry was heard. Qiqi had just finished eating and put down her chopsticks.

Qiqi waved to the white dove, and the white dove quickly landed on Qiqi's hand. Qiqi untied the letter from the white dove's leg and let the white dove fly away.

Qiqi opened the letter. "The prince is seriously injured." Qiqi burst into tears after reading it. Xie Lei quickly took it and read it with Yun Jizi. After reading it, they also became anxious. He pulled Qiqi up and mounted his horse. Xie Lei let Qiqi sit on his horse. After leaving the town, he let Qiqi enter the space to rest.

He and Taoist Master Yunji rode their horses quickly towards the Imperial City. They changed horses several times and arrived outside the Imperial City in a day and a night. Xie Lei called Qiqi out. Seeing Qiqi's red eyes from crying, Xie Lei touched the little girl's head with heartache.

"Master and I will take care of everything! Don't worry!" Xie Lei said. Qiqi's eyes were filled with tears again.

The prince's guards, having received a notification from the secret guards, were waiting outside the city to meet Qiqi and the others. It was still dark, and the city gates hadn't opened yet. The guards had already given them a heads-up, and when they saw them arrive, they opened the gates. The sound of hurried horse hooves echoed across the empty streets.

Qiqi rode directly to the Prince's residence. Qiqi quickly flew off the horse and went directly to Zhou Jingze's bedroom. None of the guards followed. The guards guarding the Prince's bedroom saw Qiqi return and knelt down to salute her.

Qiqi grabbed it and said, "Open the door." The guard opened the door, but Qiqi didn't dare to go in.

Xie Lei hurried over and pulled her inside. Several imperial doctors were examining Zhou Jingze's wound. When they saw Qiqi return, they quickly stepped aside and let Qiqi examine the crown prince.

Qiqi saw that Zhou Jingze had changed into clean clothes. Zhou Jingze was lying on the bed with his clothes cut open on the back, exposing his back. The imperial physician had just changed the dressing for the prince.

Qiqi saw the prince's wound. It was large, long, and black, oozing black fluid, almost festering. Qiqi quickly collected some of the black fluid and threw it into the medical room within the space to analyze for toxins. The prince's wound needed to be detoxified first, then cleaned and sutured. Zhou Jingze lay unconscious on the bed.

Qiqi didn't cry this time; her face was tense. Qiqi told the captain of the guards to send all the imperial doctors away so she and her master could bandage the prince's wounds. She also told Xie Lei and the captain of the guards to personally guard the entrance to the palace. Anyone who dared to enter would be killed.

Qiqi moved Zhou Jingze into the space, and her master was also brought in by Qiqi. Qiqi first looked at the toxin analysis sheet, which was exactly the same as her uncle's toxin. Qiqi handed it to her master for him to see.

Yun Jizi looked at it and said, "This should be done by people from the imperial city. We must find out who did it as soon as possible. Qiqi, you go out first and tell them to keep their mouths shut. Don't tell them about our return to the capital, and don't tell them about treating the prince."

"Spread the word that the prince's poison cannot be cured. Post an imperial edict, find a cure, and offer salaries to high-ranking officials to see if anyone takes the bait. We will investigate secretly, letting those who harmed the prince relax their guard. This way, we will have a better chance of catching them."

After listening to her master's words, Qiqi first gave Brother Jingze a pill to suppress the toxin. After leaving the space, she ordered the chief guard to place the imperial doctors under house arrest in the Prince's residence, under the pretext of treating the patient. Anyone in the Prince's residence who spread the news that Qiqi had come to treat the Crown Prince would be killed without mercy.

Qiqi reentered the space and saw that her master had already disinfected Zhou Jingze's back wound and was cleaning the decayed area. Qiqi asked her master to help while she cleaned Zhou Jingze's wound herself. Zhou Jingze had been injured for several days, and the decay was all over the wound, which was facing outward. Qiqi cleaned it bit by bit with hydrogen peroxide, and then with sterile water.

The rotten area was cleaned, and Qiqi disinfected the wound extensively with iodine. Then, she used alcohol to deiodine the wound. Qiqi gave Jingze anesthesia and sutured the wound layer by layer. Finally, she sutured the skin, disinfected it, and bandaged it.

After Qiqi finished bandaging the wound, she was so exhausted that she could not straighten her back. Yun Jizi asked Qiqi to sit down and rest while he took care of the rest.

Qiqi gave Zhou Jingze an IV and some anti-inflammatory drugs before leaving the space.

Qiqi discussed with brother Xie Lei and asked Wei Wushuang and Wei Wuliang, brother and sister, to go to Beijing to participate in the investigation of the matter.

"Qiqi, I'll have the people from the Hidden Gate send a message to them, asking them to come to the Imperial City quickly. Don't worry! I'll have the people from the Secret Gate and the Hidden Gate monitor everyone in the Imperial City who has contact with the Crown Prince. They'll report back as soon as they have any news.

"I've checked with the captain of the guards. The assassin was planning to kill the old emperor, but the crown prince happened to arrive and saved him. Without even having time to draw his sword, the crown prince quickly threw himself on the old emperor's back, blocking the blow. Otherwise, the old emperor would have died. The crown prince was injured saving the old emperor," Xie Lei said.

Qiqi asked, "How many assassins are there? How many people have been captured?"

"The captain of the guards said that they saw the prince injured and rescued him. Those people retreated when they saw that they could not kill the old emperor. They were not caught." Xie Lei said.

"The guards didn't tell us what happened to the old emperor. He should have been guarded by secret guards. How could he have let the assassin get close to him?"

"I asked them the same thing, and they said they didn't see any secret guards around the old emperor. Maybe they were bribed or were tied up with something. It's impossible that there is no guard in the emperor's bedroom." Xie Lei said puzzledly.

"Brother Xie Lei, I will go to the palace to see the old emperor some other day and ask him indirectly. Only when we get to the bottom of it can we catch the killer. The old emperor is indifferent even though others have come to the palace to kill him. I want to see who he is still protecting." Qiqi said.

Qiqi asked the guard leader again what happened and how Zhou Jingze got injured, and he told her again.

It turned out that Zhou Jingze had been investigating the matter of the "Three" character token during this period. He found out that several of his brothers were trying to win over ministers and were doing some small things in secret. Zhou Jingze thought they were targeting him, but he didn't expect that they were targeting his father.

Zhou Jingze found out that a few strangers had entered the Third Prince's mansion that night and had come out a short while later. They followed them into the palace. Fearing they would be discovered, Zhou Jingze didn't follow them closely. So, he let them disperse after arriving at the palace, and a few of them went to the Emperor's bedroom.

When Zhou Jingze noticed that the assassins had dwindled in number and were still circling the palace, he quickly realized he was being led by the nose. He ordered his secret guards to continue following them. He and several of them quickly arrived at his father's bedroom and saw the eunuch in charge lying on the ground, injured. The emperor had been forced aside, and several eunuchs had been killed.

An assassin took a knife and slashed at his father. Zhou Jingze didn't have time to draw his sword, so he quickly used his lightness skills to grab the old emperor. The secret guard also stabbed the assassin. The assassin turned around to avoid the secret guard's sword. Zhou Jingze led the secret guard to quickly protect the prince and the emperor. Seeing that there was no chance to assassinate the emperor, the assassin retreated.

There were only a few secret guards, and when they saw that the prince was injured and unconscious, they did not chase the assassin.

They quickly sent out a signal, and a large number of palace guards ran in and surrounded the palace.

The prince's secret guard then carried the prince on his back and quickly returned to the prince's mansion. The old emperor saw that the prince was seriously injured because of him, so he quickly arranged for the imperial physician to rush to the prince's mansion to treat the prince.

The imperial physician examined the prince's injuries and confirmed he had been poisoned. A large gash had been made on his back, exposing the bone. The physicians didn't know what poison had infected the prince, and they couldn't find a cure. The secret guards summoned a white pigeon to deliver a message to Qiqi.

The imperial physician simply bandaged the prince.

The old emperor had come to see the prince, who had been unconscious and hadn't woken up. The emperor asked the imperial doctors to think of a way to investigate if anything happened to the prince.

Qiqi entered the space and Zhou Jingze had just finished the infusion. She pulled out the needle and stopped the bleeding. Just as she moved Zhou Jingze and his master out of the space, Zhou Jingze woke up.