Reborn as the Regent's Beloved

When Xiao Fengyi saw Feng Mingjing enter the room dressed in white, she could feel the terrifying, venomous look in his eyes.

The thought of how he cruelly drugged her and kidnapped her grandmother and two maids at Baoguo Temple made her want to kill the man in front of her, but with so many people standing there, she couldn't do it herself.

The entire Xiao family lined up and bowed to Feng Mingjing, saying, "Greetings, Seventh Prince."

"Get up."

After glancing at Xiao Fengyi and his wife standing at the back of the crowd, Feng Mingjing walked to the bedside to see Xiao Qingyin.

He stood there, staring intently at Xiao Qingyin, and ordered, "Imperial Physician, come and take a look at her."

"Yes, Your Highness." The imperial physician, carrying a box, walked to the bedside and took Xiao Qingyin's pulse.

The physician wanted to say that Xiao Qingyin had taken the medicine and would be better soon, but Xiao Qishan and Madam Shen stopped him.

With that kind of pressure applied, the physician couldn't really say anything.

He felt that the Madam and the Master were silent either because they were afraid of offending the Seventh Prince and the Imperial Physician, or because they did not believe in the Eldest Miss's treatment method.

After the imperial physicians had been examining her for a while, Feng Mingjing spoke first, "How is she? Is she alright?"

His tone was full of heartache, and Xiao Fengyi, who was standing far away, could hear it.

Indeed, whether in their past life or this one, Feng Mingjing and Xiao Qingyin are a deeply devoted couple.

While Xiao Fengyi was inwardly mocking, the imperial physician had already finished taking her pulse and stood up to say to Feng Mingjing, "Your Highness, the Second Miss Xiao is out of danger. I observed that her pulse is stable, so she must have taken the right medicine. The physicians of the Xiao family are very skilled."

After the imperial physician finished speaking, he was still searching for the local physician in the crowd. He couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "With your medical skills, you could work in the Imperial Hospital!"

The royal physician, not wanting to take credit, clasped his hands and said to the imperial physician, "Seventh Prince, Imperial Physician, my medical skills are meager. It was not I who administered the medicine to the Second Miss, but the Eldest Miss."

Miss, isn't that... Xiao Fengyi?

Feng Mingjing's venomous eyes quickly found her, and the glance he gave her was like a venomous snake baring its fangs.

The man strolled up to Xiao Fengyi and said, "Miss Xiao, you have truly impressed me."

Xiao Fengyi feigned politeness and calmly replied, "Seventh Prince, you flatter me. Saving my sister is what I should do."

Seeing that she could still put on an act in front of him, Feng Mingjing couldn't help but take a second look. "How did you save Qingyin? When the maid from the Duke of Xiao's mansion came to me, didn't she say that she was beyond saving? How come she's cured again? Miss Xiao, why don't you reveal the treatment method so that we can learn from it?"

When this question was raised, the Xiao family fell silent.

They dared not let Feng Mingjing know that Xiao Fengyi had used the jade bead from the phoenix crown of the Empress of Yong Kingdom as a medicinal ingredient.

Seeing that Xiao Fengyi remained silent for a long time, Feng Mingjing asked again, "Miss Xiao, why are you not speaking? Are you afraid to tell me the prescription, or are you afraid that I will reveal it?"

His question caused everyone in the Xiao family to look at Xiao Fengyi. Everyone wanted to know how she would respond. Would she really reveal the matter of scraping the Jade Pearl?

Xiao Fengyi bowed slightly to Feng Mingjing and said, "Actually, it's just a common prescription for typhoid fever. My sister will be fine after taking it."

"Really?" Feng Mingjing didn't believe it and kept asking, trying to make Xiao Fengyi reveal her true colors.

The woman looked at Feng Mingjing as if it were the most natural thing in the world and said confidently, "It's true. My sister is already better. I have no reason to lie to you."

She spoke with absolute certainty and without a single flaw, making it impossible not to believe her.

However, Feng Ming's mirror image seemed to have been tipped off beforehand, and his face was full of suspicion.

He turned to Xiao Qishan and asked, "What about the dregs of the medicine that Xiao Qingyin ate?"

The fact that they were going to investigate the dregs of the medicine caught Xiao Qishan off guard. The old lady also looked at Shen with suspicion, constantly wondering if Shen had someone betray Fengyi.

Xiao Qingyin had taken three doses of medicine, but only the third dose contained two pearls of powder.

In order to prevent Feng Mingjing from discovering any clues and thus harming Fengyi and the Xiao family, Xiao Qishan wanted to use the residue from the first two doses of medicine to deceive the Seventh Prince and the imperial physician.

He told Feng Mingjing in a fawning tone, "Oh dear, what a coincidence, Your Highness. We left the medicine bowl outside after giving Qingyin her medicine. We'll go get it for you now."

The Seventh Prince didn't say anything, but waved his hand, signaling the other person to quickly bring the medicine bowl.

Upon seeing Feng Mingjing's gesture, he instructed the servants, "Quickly, bring over the dregs of the medicine."

"Yes, sir."

As soon as the servant went out, Feng Mingjing, with his keen eyesight, spotted a medicine bowl.

"What is this?" When he picked up the medicine bowl, everyone broke out in a cold sweat, their winks and grimaces almost giving him away.

Feng Mingjing sniffed the medicine and handed the bowl to the imperial physician beside him. "Take a look at what's in this bowl. If you can't tell, I'll turn you into medicine dregs."

The imperial physician was startled by the Seventh Prince's words and immediately took the medicine bowl and examined it.

Looking at the imperial physician's cowering figure, Xiao Fengyi recalled how she had been killed by the man in front of her in her previous life, and couldn't help but feel a surge of sorrow.

She couldn't get rid of this cruel man no matter what she did.

Before long, the imperial physician had roughly identified the ingredients of the prescription written by Xiao Fengyi.

Holding the medicine bowl, she said to Feng Mingjing, "Your Highness, most of these herbs are for treating typhoid fever, clearing heat and detoxifying, including honeysuckle, notoginseng, and bupleurum."

"only these?"

Feng Mingjing pressed on relentlessly, seemingly determined to uncover something extraordinary before he would give up.

The imperial physician glanced at Xiao Fengyi and said to Feng Mingjing, "This medicine contains two pearl powders to help Miss Xiao detoxify smoothly?"

Feng Mingjing frowned. "Two pearl powders, what are those?"

The imperial physician explained to Feng Mingjing, "It's a powder made from two kinds of precious pearls mixed together. This medicine should contain Dongzhu powder and Bizhu powder."

After hearing this, Feng Mingjing laughed and said to Xiao Qishan, "Your Xiao family is really generous. To save Xiao Qingyin, you actually used such precious Dongzhu and Bizhu. I remember Dongzhu was a tribute item, wasn't it?"

Upon hearing the prescription, Xiao Qishan trembled. "Your Highness, the Eastern Pearls are indeed tribute items, but they were bestowed by the Emperor during the New Year. They were originally intended to be properly enshrined, but in order to save my daughter, I have no choice but to give up these pearls."

The origin of the Eastern Pearl is easy to explain, but how do we explain the Jade Pearl?

Xiao Qishan was really in a difficult position.

Just as he was struggling with this dilemma, the man launched into a relentless interrogation: "Where did you get that jade bead? I remember that jade bead is a rare treasure. In the Great Yun Dynasty, only the Empress and my mother each have two on their headdresses. It's extremely rare. Where did your Xiao family get it? Could it be that you have a treasure hidden away and are unwilling to offer it to my father, the Emperor?"

A hidden treasure!

Xiao Fengyi actually laughed. Feng Mingjing really knew how to fabricate charges against people!