Early the next morning, Zhu Yu woke up with a headache, not even opening her eyes, she felt the temples on both sides of her forehead throbbing incessantly, and each throb felt like a piece of her brain was being tugged from her skull.
She sat up holding her head, and found Lu Qing sitting on the edge of the bed beside her, massaging his own forehead.
"You’re not... also having a headache, are you?" Zhu Yu was a bit surprised, the quick turn of her head intensified the feeling of pain, forcing her to squint her eyes and hold her breath to calm the discomfort.
Lu Qing looked back at the awakened Zhu Yu, grunted, and his expression seed sowhat serious, not like it was just a severe headache causing such a poor complexion.
Before the two could say anything more, there was a knock on the door, and Yan Daoxin’s voice ca from outside: "Are you up yet?"
"Yes." Lu Qing responded, getting up to head for the door.
Outside, Yan Daoxin was even more anxious: "If you’re up, hurry up and open the door, I brought you so dicine! Aren’t you having headaches?"
In the midst of speaking, Lu Qing had already opened the door.
Seeing Lu Qing’s expression, Yan Daoxin grinned, "Hurts pretty bad, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, don’t worry, your senior brother brought you dicine!"
As he spoke, he squeezed past Lu Qing and waved at the already upright Zhu Yu: "Seeing your face, I know it’s really painful, co on, co on, taking this dicine will make it much better."
After what had happened at Prince Shuo Mansion, Zhu Yu had no doubt about the efficacy of the dicine Yan Daoxin brought, so she took the pill from his hand, drank so water, and swallowed it quickly, then poured a cup for Lu Qing.
"What about the others?" After swallowing the pill, Lu Qing sat by the table and asked Yan Daoxin.
It was evident that Yan Daoxin had brought dicine to more than just the two of them, and before entering the room, he had guessed they would wake up with splitting headaches, surely because the others and even he himself had experienced the sa.
Without being asked, Yan Daoxin pulled a chair to the table and sat down, nodding: "Last night I slept like I was dead, and when I woke up this morning, it felt like my head split open, so I quickly found so dicine to take.
After the headache eased, I went out for a walk and discovered Lu Yan was also holding his head, with a face looking like a bitter gourd.
The talismans were the sa way, and after Lu Zhang got up, he was the sa.
Now with the two of you, it’s just the not-yet-up Princess Yan Shu, everyone else has had the sa reaction."
"Give the dicine, I’ll go check her room, hopefully nothing’s wrong!" Hearing that Yan Shu hadn’t woken yet, Zhu Yu got a bit anxious, fearing that after finally finding a way for her to safely return to Prince Yi Mansion, sothing had happened at this critical mont, which was not sothing she wanted to see whether in public or private.
However, in her anxiety, she got up a bit too quickly, and the headache imdiately started pounding once more, forcing her to stand there, pressing her head, attempting futilely to alleviate the explosive pain.
"Sit down, don’t rush." Lu Qing pulled her down to sit slowly, "Yan Daoxin moved unhurriedly to deliver dicine, and brought pain-relieving pills, showing that this isn’t serious.
If it really were life-threatening, given his healer’s conscience, he wouldn’t care so much and would have already broken down Yan Shu’s door."
"Exactly, I’ve checked Lu Yan’s and Lu Zhang’s pulses, although they have headaches, although both said they felt like they were dead to the world last night, sleeping without any awareness, their pulses are steady and normal.
If there were any real issues, anyway, everyone went to bed in their clothes, even if I rushed in, it wouldn’t be inappropriate, but I don’t see the need." Yan Daoxin also waved at Zhu Yu, "Don’t worry, this dicine is effective. You just rest here, and in about the ti it takes to drink a cup of tea, you should feel a lot better."
Zhu Yu had to sit there, propping her head, not daring to breathe too deeply, quietly waiting for the pill to take effect.
Lu Qing was a bit better than her, perhaps due to past detoxifications and care from Qi Yun Mountain People, while he also had a headache, it wasn’t as severe.
"Last night, after you fell into your dead sleep, did you hear any sounds?" He asked Yan Daoxin.
"Sounds... vaguely, I seed to hear soone shouting loudly, but I couldn’t wake up." Yan Daoxin nodded, being the first one to take the dicine himself, now feeling no discomfort at all.
"Hmm, that’s when I noticed sothing was off." Lu Qing frowned slightly, "During the night, I vaguely heard soone screaming horribly, I wanted to open my eyes to see what was happening, but it was as if my lids weighed a thousand pounds, completely unable to open.
I suspect we were under so kind of spell, so I’m uncertain whether the scream was real or just a hallucination I had."
"A scream?" Zhu Yu looked up at the two of them, "I think I heard sothing too, but I thought I was dreaming, so I didn’t pay it any mind earlier.
Now it seems, soone did cry out in the night, but we were so completely out of it due to whatever happened, we couldn’t wake up!
Let’s search around this building soon, see if there’s any place like incense burners or smoke pipes!"
"Alright, I’ll call the talismans and Fu Lu to search shortly, don’t rush." Lu Qing, fearing Zhu Yu would exacerbate her headache with anxiety, quickly reassured her to patiently wait for the dicine to take effect.
A mont later, Zhu Yu indeed felt her headache significantly reduce, although there was still a faint pain, it no longer hindered her actions.
She quickly asked Yan Daoxin for the pills, got up, and ran to find Yan Shu.
When Yan Shu was woken up by her knocking, she too was clutching her head with an agonized look.
Zhu Yu promptly made her take the dicine first, then sit down to talk.
"If this door wasn’t well shut, I would’ve thought soone snuck in and bashed over the head with a sledgehamr while I was sleeping!" Yan Shu swallowed the dicine with so water, saying to Zhu Yu with a pained expression.
"Did you sll any strange scents last night? Whether fragrant or stinky, anything counts." Zhu Yu asked, all the while looking around Yan Shu’s room, finding no sign of any smoke pipes or incense burners.
Yan Shu groaned, holding her head, not daring to shake it: "No, if there was I wouldn’t know. I closed my eyes yesterday and knew nothing after that, not until you knocked on my door today."
"Did you hear any sounds last night?" Zhu Yu inquired further.
"What sounds?" Yan Shu was puzzled, "I don’t think I heard any, otherwise I wouldn’t have slept so soundly."
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