53 Red Flower Poison

The morning.

The morning dew that lingered on the tips of the leaves fell to the surface of the ground. The wind was blowing softly carrying the dry leaves that fell lightly on the ground to some distance.

The morning was calm as usual. Especially in the Plum pavilion wherein BaiYing's room he was still sleeping so soundly with the Crown Prince embracing him. Until there was a commotion outside.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, something has happened! " the maid's voice after walking through the gate and entering the pavilion area.

BaiYing immediately sat up, his eyes widened, aware that he had fallen asleep last night and forgot what had happened.

"Your Majesty" he shook Luo Xiang's body to wake him up. The sound outside was getting louder.

"Ach YingYing, let's go to sleep again" Luo Xiang's big hands were about to hug BaiYing again.

"Your Majesty, wake up"

... ..

Not long after that at Lili's pavilion.

Everyone waited in the room while the physician examined the person lying helplessly on the bed. Mu'er looks very sick.

The healer approached Luo Xiang who was sitting waiting with BaiYing and the other concubines at a table not far from the bed.

"Sincerely Your Highness, this ..." Physician Wan did not dare to raise his head, he was a little reluctant to say it.

"Just say it physician Wan, why are you in doubt?" LuoXiang said

Physician Wan lowered his head back.

"Here, is the same poison that was taken by Majesty concubine Hua, Red Flower Poison"

"That was not too dangerous, is it? You have the antidote, right? " exclaimed BaiYing,

LuoXiang also glanced at the healer, affirming what BaiYing said, but, from the look on the physician's face, it didn't seem that simple.

"Eh, Please forgive me, Your Majesty, this time the type of poison is more dangerous because it directly attacks the heart. It is feared, that Her Majesty Concubine Ye, can not be helped."

The physician's words made BaiYing and the other concubines shocked. A maid who sat on the edge of Concubine Ye's bed was unable to hold back her tears.

"Your Majesty, Huks."

BaiYing looked at Luo Xiang, as if he asking if it was because of him again.

"Your Highness"

LuoXiang clenched his fists.

"Insolent, who is the one who seizes the opportunity at a time like this"

Fan 'er approached the Physician Wan.

"But physician, where did sister Mu get that poison? Yesterday we all ate together in the Plum pavilion with concubine Hua, if Mu'er was poisoned, so do we, right? " he asked, Lan'er agreed.

"Yes, physician"

BaiYing approached.

"Physician please save sister Mu'er, you can do anything to help her, didn't you?"

The old man stroked his chin thoughtfully, he took another breath.

"Heh, unfortunately, I can't do much, Your Majesty, right now the medicine will only remove the poison, but for the damaged organs I can do nothing."

BaiYing held back his sobs, how could he see Concubine Mu'er helpless like that? He approached LuoXiang again.

"Your Majesty, please save sister Mu'er. I beg you, Your Majesty to be able to do it like when you saved me last time, come on Your Majesty."

LuoXiang took a deep breath, stood up from his seat, and approached the bed. He then looks at his other two concubines.

"What did you guys eat yesterday?" he asked, BaiYing widened his eyes, instead of helping, that man asked an insignificant question.

"Your Highness"

Fan'er and Lan'er looked at each other until they hesitated a little.

"Eh, that"

"We ate fruit, sweets, pastries, fruit. Em, sister Ye brought the fresh fruit that San'er prepared in the kitchen. I haven't had the chance to enjoy it because I am already full"

Lan'er agreed.

"Yes, I also don't eat because I don't like the acid, it's like purple cherries."

BaiYing thought, he had forgotten whether he had time to taste the fruit or not because the food in his hand was full. Is it because of those fruits?

"Who brought it?" asked the Crown Prince.

Fan'er and Lan'er glanced at the maid sitting on the edge of Mu'er's bed. San'er immediately lowered her knees when she realized that all eyes were on her.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty, servant bring it with Her Majesty Concubine Ye. But last time I left it in the kitchen to clean it first, at that time, um, Bi'er was the one who helped me to bring it out"

BaiYing's eyes widened, why was Bi's name also mentioned? '

"Eh Bi, Bi'er?"

Concubine Lui and concubine Fu looked at BaiYing, BaiYing swallowed his saliva realizing that the Crown Prince also saw him now.

"Y-Your Majesty"

...…..

In a short time, the guards searched Bi's room in the Plum pavilion. The sound of falling and breaking objects filled the maid's restroom. BaiYing tried to prevent it but Luo Xiang held him.

"Your Highness, why did they mess up Bi's room"

LuoXiang stood tall at the door with BeiYau behind him.

While Yan and Bi were standing in a corner of the room with guards holding their bodies. Their faces looked terrified.

"Your Highness"

LuoXiang took BaiYing's hand away.

"YingYing, calm down, they are only looking for evidence"

"What evidence? My maids didn't do anything bad. There's no way Your Majesty thought one of them poisoned concubine Ye, right? "

BaiYing had not finished talking when one of the guards approached by pointing something in front of BeiYau.

BaiYing's eyes widened wide, he looked at the package and then looked at Yan and Bi who couldn't hold back their tears.

"Your Majesty"

BaiYing was about to approach them but LuoXiang's hand didn't let him go.

"YingYing"

"No way, they didn't do it, Your Majesty, something must be wrong, my maids are ignorant. They are innocent, Your Majesty."

Luo Xiang nodded at BeiYau. He ordered his men to take the two maids out of the maid's room.

Yan and Bi were still trying to look at BaiYing.

"Your Majesty, we didn't do it."

BaiYing was still trying to reach his two maids but Luo Xiang's hand kept holding him, no matter how hard he tried to break free.

"Sister Yan! Sister Bi! I'll do anything to make you out, you just hang on there"

BaiYing could still hear the two maids crying as they were led out of the pavilion, and he could not see it at all because LuoXiang's hand was holding his wrist. He pulled his hand and kicked the Crown Prince, who won't let go of the grip.

"Akh!" LuoXiang groaned, unable to prevent BaiYing from running out of the room,

"YingYing!" The crown prince immediately caught up with him.

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