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Upon hearing his mother's voice, Xiao Wenqin merely nodded faintly.

He was simply too exhausted; he just lay there quietly, without any extreme reaction.

Wang Guanzhong, who had intended to remind Consort Yun, stopped talking after the words were on the tip of his tongue.

A short while later, Lu Yao arrived, looking travel-worn.

After Lu Yao arrived, he saw Wang Guanzhong behind him and bowed to the others.

Consort Yun waved her hands excitedly and said, "No need for formalities, no need for formalities... Eunuch Lu, what do you say?"

As she spoke, Consort Yun, her face ashen, glanced behind her.

After watching for a while, no one came.

Lu Yao said to Consort Yun, "Empress Dowager, what's the matter?"

As she spoke, she looked anxious and worried, saying, "What's wrong? Didn't you say you were going to find a benefactor?"

With an extremely unpleasant expression, Yunfei said to Lu Yao, "What? What, are you going to do it yourself?"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "Yes! Of course! So this is what the Empress Dowager was referring to. That's right, I went and found the important person... and I have already found him."

As he spoke, he looked at Wang Guanzhong beside him.

Consort Yun naturally understood.

"General Wang, please excuse me for a moment. I have important matters to discuss!"

Upon seeing this, Wang Guanzhong showed a hint of displeasure.

However, he didn't voice his thoughts as a scholar.

"Then, this humble general will take his leave! Your Majesty, I'll be right at the door. If you have any questions, please call me immediately!"

Consort Yun, who was originally weak, now seemed to have been injected with chicken blood.

I felt much more energetic.

"Eunuch Lu, what do you mean? What does Your Excellency have to say about the poison we've been given?"

"Where is the benefactor?"

Lu Yao said to Consort Yun, "Empress Dowager, the Nobleman has arrived. However, he said that the people around you are too dangerous. He dares not show himself rashly."

"Moreover, he also said that only the person who poisoned you can cure this poison! We must find the person who poisoned you."

Consort Yun, upon hearing Lu Yao's words, was initially filled with hope...

In the end, after all that, this is what Lu Yao said!

It's quite disappointing...

"How could I not know? But I have tried my best... but I still couldn't find Consort Hui and her son. They escaped as if they had sprouted wings."

As Yunfei spoke, she looked at Lu Yao as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Lu Yao, is there anything between you and me that we can't talk about? Why are you begging me to speak like this!"

Lu Yao said, "Empress Dowager, have you never doubted Wang Guanzhong, General Wang?"

Consort Yun frowned slightly: "Wang Guanzhong?"

Lu Yao nodded: "This is what the important person said..."

Immediately afterwards, Lu Yao took out a letter and told Yun Fei about it.

This is the nobleman's intention; once Consort Yun has read it, she will understand what's going on.

Consort Yun was unable to get up at the moment, so she simply waved to Lu Yao.

Lu Yao knelt down and crawled to Consort Yun's side with a letter in his hand.

After Yunfei received the letter, she found that it was sealed intact.

After opening it, I could see the contents of the letter.

Consort Yun's face turned ugly, and she trembled uncontrollably. Overwhelmed with anger, she spat out a mouthful of blood.

Her eyes widened, and before she could even speak, she fainted from exhaustion.

Lu Yao hurriedly called out to Consort Yun.

After calling out for a while, Consort Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, what has the Noble Consort written? Please don't get agitated..."

Consort Yun wanted to speak, but she was too weak and kept waving her hand, signaling Lu Yao to go and see.

Lu Yao naturally knew what was written in the letter.

This letter was actually written by him.

However, his acting was excellent; after watching it, he feigned a surprised expression.

"What...the...General...the General actually..."

Before he could exclaim in surprise, Consort Yun made him make a shushing gesture.

The commotion made Xiao Wenqin, who was standing to the side, open his eyes and weakly ask, "General Wang, what's wrong?"

Lu Yao handed the letter to Xiao Wenqin: "General Wang is the one who betrayed us... He has been working with Xiao Tao from the inside out, and it was he who poisoned us... When Xiao Tao enters the city, he will open the city gates and kill both of you!"

Xiao Wenqin and Yun Fei's expressions turned extremely grim in an instant.

"It seems that transferring the commander of the Imperial Guards here was their idea!" Lu Yao said.

Xiao Wenqin looked pained and exhausted: "Are we doomed now...? The military power is in Wang Guanzhong's hands, and we're beset by internal and external troubles. We're also poisoned!"

Consort Yun shook her head and said, "Since Your Excellency knows about this matter, you must have given a solution. Your Excellency must have a plan, right?"

Lu Yao nodded, and then, as if by magic, produced another letter from his person. He then said, "The nobleman said that if you believe the first letter, he would let me give you the second one."

Upon seeing this, Consort Yun grasped at a lifeline like a drowning person grabbing a straw.

"Of course...of course I believe it."

As he spoke, Lu Yao handed the letter to Consort Yun.

After Yunfei opened it and read it, her eyes immediately lit up: "Great! Then do it quickly..."

Lu Yao glanced at Xiao Wenqin with feigned nonchalance, and Xiao Wenqin did the same after he finished looking at him.

And he told Lu Yao to take full responsibility...

He also handed over the imperial seal to Lu Yao.

After Lu Yao received the imperial seal, he told the two men to rest assured and not to show any emotion.

He will definitely handle this matter well.

With that, Lu Yao hurriedly left.

Wang Guanzhong, who was originally at the door, saw Lu Yao leave in a hurry.

"Eunuch Lu, what are you rushing off to?"

Lu Yao had already prepared for this. He cupped his hands and said to Lu Yao, "Reporting to the General, the Empress Dowager's condition has worsened. I need to go find some herbs."

Upon hearing Lu Yao's words, Wang Guanzhong's eyes sharpened: "Oh? You have the antidote?"

Lu Yao nodded: "Of course... I went out this time to find an antidote for His Majesty and the Empress Dowager. Thankfully, Heaven intervened! I actually found one. Just now, I got the Empress Dowager and His Majesty to agree..."

Wang Guanzhong said to Lu Yao, "Eunuch Lu, are you sure this is the antidote?"

Despite being stared at by Wang Guanzhong, Lu Yao showed no fear in his eyes.

Instead, he confidently said to Wang Guanzhong, "Given the current situation of the Empress Dowager and His Majesty, how much worse can it get?"

Before Wang Guanzhong could ask any more questions, he said this.

"General, if you have any doubts, you should go and ask His Majesty and the Empress Dowager."

With that, he hurriedly left.

Seeing Lu Yao's anxious expression, Wang Guanzhong's intuition told him that Lu Yao was not a simple person.

With this in mind, Wang Guanzhong went straight in.

Looking at the two people who looked haggard, she asked, "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, are you alright?"

Consort Yun waved her hand, saying with some resentment in her heart, "If you bring that bitch Consort Hui and that Xiao Yang here, I'll be fine."

Hearing Consort Yun's words, Wang Guanzhong nodded awkwardly, "Your Majesty, I have already sent people to search as much as possible. We are not only searching within the capital city, but also going out to search for them..."

Wang Guanzhong explained it in detail, but in their eyes, it was nothing more than an excuse to shirk responsibility.

The two of them had just been exhausted by Lu Yao's antics.

Consort Yun said to Wang Guanzhong, "General Wang, you've worked hard too. Now that Lu Yao has found the antidote, you must stay here and protect our safety."

Seeing this, Wang Guanzhong nodded, his expression reassuring: "Empress Dowager, please rest assured. I won't go anywhere; I'll stay here and guard you..."

After pausing, Wang Guanzhong said to Consort Yun, "Consort Yun, have you never suspected Lu Yao?"

When Consort Yun saw that Wang Guanzhong was going to criticize Lu Yao instead, she was furious, but she dared not make any moves that might alert him.

He could only wave his hand: "General Wang, I know you're worried about us. But we absolutely trust Eunuch Lu... Besides, in our condition, if he wanted to harm me, he wouldn't have made this wasted trip. We'd be dead in ten days or half a month..."

With a weary expression, Yunfei said, "Alright, General Wang, I'm tired... I need to rest for a while. You must not leave here."

They had just agreed that they would definitely keep Wang Guanzhong here.

Fortunately, Wang Guanzhong did not suspect anything, and the two of them closed their eyes to rest again.

Little did Wang Guanzhong know that his death knell was about to toll.