"Has your King noticed that there’s sothing quite wrong with this situation?" Yan Daoxin asked.
"No, because the King has always been taking care of his health and nurturing his body, so he felt like after a period of recuperation, he could start practicing Yang Supplenting Yin. He was even quite happy at that ti."
Zhu Yu listened to the eunuch’s words, surprised, he looked up at the person speaking and saw that he spoke solemnly. He didn’t seem to be lying, but even had a hint of confusion, as if in his mind, his King should naturally be able to absorb more vitality from won. Why is it that this ti it’s simply not working!
"Does the concubine serving die in about half a year... Is this every single one of them or just an occasional coincidence?" Yan Daoxin continued to ask.
"Every, every single one..." The eunuch seed to also realize that this matter was indeed quite abnormal. But when King Fan was fine, those serving him didn’t bother about the life or death of those concubines since those won ant nothing to them; if the King didn’t care, why should they?
But now that sothing has happened to the King, and soone is questioning the dead concubines, realizing that every single one of them has indeed died, a strong unease arose in the eunuch’s heart.
"If it really is Yang Supplenting Yin, how can it turn a living person into such a state?!" Yan Daoxin was infuriated upon hearing this, pointing at King Fan on the ground, seemingly grappling with the urge to curse at the eunuch. But considering lives are at stake, now isn’t the ti for cursing, he said to the eunuch, "Go fetch the elixir pills your King normally takes to nourish his body! Let see what kinds of bizarre things he’s actually been eating!"
The eunuch hesitated again, and Zhu Yu quickly pulled him aside: "Why are you not hurrying up! If we don’t figure out the source of the poison, how will our Divine Doctor prescribe the dicine!
Delaying any longer, who knows, your King might cross Naihe Bridge anyti!"
Upon hearing this, the eunuch dared not think further, he scurried off to fetch the dicine, and returned shortly with a scarlet brocade box in his arms, held tightly as if afraid of any mishap.
But when he handed it to Yan Daoxin, Yan Daoxin didn’t share such carefulness for handling it gingerly. He opened the brocade box and saw 11 elixir pills sealed in wax inside, with four empty spots which had evidently been consud.
Yan Daoxin picked up a wax pill, crushed the outer wax shell, revealing a bright red pellet inside, with a faint dicinal fragrance wafting through the broken wax.
"Where did this co from?" Upon seeing the hue of the pellet and slling its aroma, Yan Daoxin’s brows knitted into a knot.
"This didn’t co from anywhere, it’s specifically crafted by our High Priest for our King; the ingredients used are extrely rare and many outside people can’t obtain them no matter how hard they try." The eunuch hastily waved his hand, explaining the origin of the pills, "The High Priest used to prepare them intermittently for the King to consu in the near term.
Later, when he was about to retreat, the King asked how long he would be away and what to do about running out of supplents. The High Priest worked tirelessly to make sufficient elixirs for the King before retreating."
Yan Daoxin waved at Zhu Yu: "Help continue asking him!"
Having said that, he crushed a pellet in his fingers, rubbing it a little, then brought it to his nose carefully to sniff, and tasted a bit with the tip of his tongue, distinguishing it thoughtfully with furrowed brows.
Zhu Yu knew he was in a rush to concoct an antidote, needed to understand the contents of the pill, so couldn’t spare ti to interrogate, thus he asked the eunuch: "You said earlier that the concubine serving your King dies in about half a year... What about these two cases today? Perfectly hit the half-year mark?"
"That’s not how it is..." The eunuch shook his head quickly, "Initially, won serving the King might last over half a year, with their vitality waning day by day until they perished.
But gradually, after several months, we noticed that so won only lasted three or four months serving the King before becoming ill-fated. Further down the line, after a few months, won only lived slightly over two months after serving the King.
Later on... and later on it shrank from two months to barely half a month, then to dying every other day, and now... it just... beca like this."
"What happens if your King doesn’t find won to serve?" Zhu Yu surmised that behind this gradual weakening and death following exposure, while King Fan appeared increasingly radiant, lay so strong counteraction.
As expected, upon being asked, the eunuch quickly glanced at Yan Daoxin beside him: "If our King doesn’t find won, he becos lethargic, short of breath, physically weak, and dispirited.
Moreover... even in such a weak state, there’s still an urge to find soone to serve him, that fire can’t be extinguished..."
Zhu Yu frowned, and Yan Daoxin also cast his gaze towards the eunuch, looking oddly at him.
"Our King has noticed lately that this isn’t right, he doesn’t want this to continue, fearing long-term repercussions - after all, as the King of Bhutan, being renowned for indulging in pleasures isn’t exactly reputable.
Additionally... originally selecting a concubine involved assessing family background and appearance; later on, even regular families refused to send daughters into the Prince Mansion, let alone those with good lineage. The further it went, the harder it beca to find won sent into the mansion, causing the King greater unease.
However, this matter ultimately isn’t well-spoken of, nor does it sound good, can’t let outsiders know. anwhile, the High Priest hasn’t erged from retreat since, guards were sent several tis but weren’t allowed to disturb the retreating High Priest.
Running out of options, the King had to post reward notices outside, claiming strange illness, heavily rewarding capable doctors or witch doctors for diagnosis.
Over a year passed aimlessly with worsening conditions; initially, one woman could stabilize the King’s state, now two are needed... but still no doctor could be found.
Finally encountering you Wandering Divine Doctoring folk today, before we could even finish speaking... it just... again..."
He halted, unable to speak further.
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