She picked up the young prime minister while fleeing famine

There are only a few pills of this antidote. If you have to take two or three pills, how can he find people to test it on?

"One pill is enough," Murong Qing said calmly, glancing at him.

Do I still need to take a few pills of the antidote she made?

Wouldn't that be an insult to her medical skills?

However, Prince Cheng didn't care about any of that. After listening to what the other party said, he immediately ordered his guards to find someone and randomly selected one of the people who had been hit by darts to have the royal physician take their pulse.

Sure enough, the darts on his body were poisoned with the same kind of poison. Instantly, the faces of the other seven or eight people at the banquet who had been hit by the darts turned ashen.

Good heavens, this poison requires Tian Shan snow lotus to cure, and most of them don't have such a precious medicinal herb at home.

What's even more worrying is the person chosen to test the medicine. Although his family doesn't have anything as good as the Tian Shan Snow Lotus, he doesn't know if the shaman of that tribe has any real skills.

What if this pill doesn't detoxify him and instead kills him?

However, Prince Cheng didn't care about all that. Once the royal physician confirmed that the other person had the same type of poison as him, he directly ordered the guards to bring the person to him and personally put the medicine into his mouth while watching him swallow it.

Although the antidote wouldn't take effect immediately after being taken, Prince Cheng still had the royal physicians continuously take the pulses of the patients and observe any changes.

The physician, looking distressed, took the pulse of the patient, while the crowd, equally distressed, dared not utter a sound as they waited for the results.

Now that King Cheng has been poisoned by a strange poison, if it cannot be cured, none of the people who attended the banquet today will survive. If it can be cured, then we must investigate the origins of the assassins today.

Unable to please either side, everyone could only hope that the witch doctor of this small tribe was truly skilled; otherwise, they were in real trouble.

At least if King Cheng is alive, they will at most be interrogated and threatened or beaten a few times; their lives will still be guaranteed.

Fortunately, everyone didn't have to wait too long. After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the physician's expression changed noticeably.

He stared wide-eyed as if he had discovered something extraordinary, and pressed his hand down further as if to confirm something.

A moment later, he looked down at the woman sitting calmly beside Rouge in shock. She could actually cure the poison?

He had smelled the pills just now, and they certainly didn't have the scent of Tian Shan snow lotus.

Although it is difficult to distinguish the ingredients when the medicinal materials are made into pills, the unique fragrance of Tian Shan snow lotus cannot be masked by any medicinal material. For the first time in many years, the prefectural physician showed a fervent passion for medicine.

What kind of formula is this that can cure such a strange poison without using Tian Shan snow lotus?

"How is it possible to detoxify?" Seeing the obvious change in the physician's mood, Prince Cheng hurriedly asked hopefully.

"Congratulations, Your Highness! This pill can indeed detoxify. Your Highness should take it quickly, otherwise the toxins will damage your health if they stay in your body for too long," the physician hurriedly replied.

That's great, his life is saved, and the lives of his family members are saved too.

However, this incident served as a reminder to the physician that he needed to leave himself, or at least his children and grandchildren, a way out.

After all, King Cheng became increasingly cruel after declaring himself king.

King Cheng was overjoyed upon hearing this. He poured out a pill from the porcelain bottle he had been holding dear and swallowed it. Then he summoned the royal physician to examine his pulse.

The imperial physicians naturally complied without question, but since the previous person had been able to detoxify, they felt that it was a certainty that the Prince of Cheng would also be able to detoxify.

Sure enough, after another cup of tea, the royal physician announced that Prince Cheng's poison had been cured, and Prince Cheng also felt much better.

Cheng Wang's body, which had been somewhat paralyzed due to the drug, had recovered. Without that feeling of weakness, he carefully put the porcelain bottle containing the last pill into his sleeve.

"This matter must be thoroughly investigated. I want to see who has the audacity to come to my residence and assassinate me."

"This matter will be handled by you, Patriarch Liancheng, and Tiecheng." King Cheng finally had the mind to deal with today's assassination attempt and directly assigned one of his trusted confidants to investigate together with Liancheng Ruihong.

Then, he showed signs of fatigue and wanted to go back to rest, but someone knelt out before he could get up.

"Your Highness, save us! We have also been poisoned by a strange poison. Please allow this shaman to cure us."

"I am willing to offer ten thousand taels of silver for the antidote," a wealthy merchant knelt on the ground, pleading.

Although his family had a lot of money, they didn't have Tianshan snow lotus. If they didn't ask this lady for the antidote, where would they get it?

Although the physician didn't say how long it would take for the poison to take effect, judging from his expression, it wouldn't be long, otherwise he wouldn't have been so frightened.

If the antidote isn't obtained before the poison takes effect, wouldn't I be doomed?

"Please, Your Highness, save my life. I am willing to offer you silver."

"Me too."

"Me too."

With the first person taking the lead, the remaining seven or eight poisoned individuals jumped out and knelt down to beg, forcing King Cheng to look to Murong Qing for help.

He thought for a long time before finally remembering how to address the other person.

"Lady Rong, what do you think?" Prince Cheng passed the buck to her.

These people were poisoned because of his banquet, so it wouldn't be right for him to completely ignore it. But if he were to force this person to give them an antidote, he was afraid of offending them.

Lady Rong's medical skills are better than those of the royal physicians in the palace. Who would be foolish enough to offend such a doctor?

"I can give you the antidote, but it will cost a thousand taels of gold per pill," Murong Qing said coldly, glancing at the group.

Her request caused everyone to gasp in shock.

This thousand-year-old gold is worth 100,000 taels of silver! How dare she ask for it?

Even King Cheng showed his displeasure. This woman, who had shown him some respect, was now taking advantage of his fame to extort money. She was unforgivable.

However, Cheng Wang's stern face was only for a moment, because Rou Ge immediately tugged at Murong Qing's sleeve, and then she sighed as if helplessly.

“I don’t want this gold either. I’ll keep one-tenth for my daughter Rouge as her dowry, and the remaining nine-tenths can be my way of supporting Rouge in her future ascension to the throne.”

Upon hearing this, King Cheng laughed with satisfaction, while the few who were kneeling at the end burst into tears.

In particular, there was a small merchant among them. It wasn't that he couldn't come up with 100,000 taels of silver, but if he did, he would almost go bankrupt. All the wealth he had earned over the years of traveling around would be gone.

The dancers were positioned near the main table, where most of the people sitting were wealthy and powerful. Only one small businessman was unlucky; he wandered around when the smoke started and accidentally got hit.

The men looked even paler, but with such a powerful figure as King Cheng pressing down on them, and knowing they valued their lives more, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and pay.

Of course, it's not possible to pay in cash right now; the only option is to continue with a written agreement.

"Tsk, so that's what they were waiting for."