The Real Young Master Was Sold as a Slave, The Obsessive Crown Prince's Forced Love - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: The Beginning

According to custom, the Emperor’s hunting trip did not begin the day they arrived.

Instead, after various parties had settled in, the first banquet was held as night fell.

Xu Huai’en’s sharp gaze swept over the Imperial Physicians standing before him, “At tonight’s banquet, all of you must be twenty thousand percent focused. Keep your medicine chests with you at all times! If anyone delays matters, don’t blame me for not protecting you!”

“Yes!” After Xu Huai’en finished his admonishment, the Imperial Physicians responded in unison.

As soon as Xu Huai’en left, Song Yu quietly asked his colleague beside him, “Why does it feel like the Director is very nervous?”

The colleague wore a troubled expression, “You arrived recently, so you don’t know. Every year during the hunt, His Majesty always points people out during the banquet to perform. Sometimes it’s archery, sometimes it’s wrestling.

“When those nobles get drunk, they inevitably become reckless.

“Wrestling is fine, but if it’s archery, it’s very easy for someone to get killed.”

Song Yu listened, dumbfounded, “Isn’t this…”

Before Song Yu could finish, the colleague covered his mouth and chuckled, “We, as subjects, should just do our duty. We shouldn’t comment rashly.”

Song Yu immediately nodded.

The colleague released his mouth and patted his shoulder, “But don’t be too scared. Generally, no one dies. At most, they are accidentally wounded by an arrow; they just get injured. We just have to rush over in time.

“In short, the key point is to rush over in time.”

As long as we rush over fast enough, even if we can’t save them, it won’t be the Imperial Academy of Medicine’s fault.

Song Yu understood the hidden meaning in those words.

He nodded.

Just as they were talking, a small eunuch rushed over, “Quick! The heir of the Duke of Jing’s residence broke his leg while wrestling! Quick, someone follow me to treat him!”

As soon as the eunuch shouted, Xu Huai’en immediately assigned one Imperial Physician and two medical attendants to go.

Soon after, another small eunuch ran over, “Quick! His Highness the Third Prince shot His Highness the Sixth Prince in the shoulder with an arrow!”

Song Yu’s heart immediately seized up.

The Sixth Prince!

Isn’t that Qi Wang’s brother!

Before Song Yu could think further, the eunuch had rushed to the front, “His Majesty has an order for Director Xu to go personally.”

Xu Huai’en immediately grabbed his medicine chest, “Song Yu, come with me.”

Song Yu quickly grabbed his own medicine chest and followed.

In the side hall outside the main banquet hall, as soon as Song Yu and Xu Huai’en entered, they smelled a strong odor of bl00d.

Song Yu quickly scanned the room but did not see Qi Wang.

The Sixth Prince was shot. Why isn’t Qi Wang here?

A doubt flashed through his mind, and he had already followed Xu Huai’en to the Sixth Prince’s bedside.

The Sixth Prince’s eyes were tightly closed; he had already fainted.

A small eunuch next to him was in tears, “Lord Xu, please examine our Prince quickly. Our Prince fainted immediately after being struck by the arrow. He was carried down from the banquet and already has a high fever.

“He was rambling just now, but now he’s not even rambling anymore.”

Xu Huai’en took out a silver needle from his medicine chest and inserted it into the area where the Sixth Prince was struck by the arrow, while placing his fingers on the Sixth Prince’s wrist to take his pulse.

The silver needle touched the bl00d on the wound but did not turn black. The small eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, “No poison?”

Xu Huai’en shook his head, “That only proves it’s not arsenic. It’s hard to say about anything else. The pulse is thready, rapid, and irregularly intermittent…”

Song Yu’s heart jumped, “Snake venom?”

Xu Huai’en nodded and sighed, “Snake venom is entwining his body, obstructing the circulation of qi and bl00d. We must let bl00d to force out the poison. You use silver needles to acupuncture his acupoints with the ‘Burning Mountain Fire’ technique. I’ll go report to His Majesty.”

Song Yu nodded and immediately stepped forward.

He took out the silver needles and was about to sterilize them when a small eunuch standing beside him suddenly stepped forward with lightning speed and clapped a handkerchief over his mouth and nose.

Song Yu’s heart seized up instantly.

It’s happening!

I knew it!

It’s never empty words that something always goes wrong at a palace banquet.

He appeared so openly in the capital and was involved in the death of Madam Wang. How could the Earl of Anping’s residence sit still!

I just don’t know if the one making a move now is the Earl of Anping’s residence, Prince Yu… or Su Yunhe.

The moment the small eunuch made his move, Song Yu immediately twisted his wrist, counter-inserted a silver needle he was holding into his own acupoint, then held his breath, tilted his head, and pretended to have fainted.

He fell limply.

The small eunuch held him firmly, put away the handkerchief covering his mouth and nose, and said to the others in the hall, “I’ll take him away. When Xu Huai’en returns, just say he left on his own, and if asked where he went, just say you don’t know.”

The other few eunuchs all responded in unison.

Song Yu cursed inwardly.

How is Qi Wang acting as the Crown Prince? Everyone says he’s a murderous and difficult person, yet the people around his brother are all disloyal!

So many eunuchs, and not a single one tried to stop this. Clearly, they’ve all been bribed.

Fortunately, when I first came in, I looked at each of them and basically remember their faces. After I cause this big trouble, I must tell Qi Wang to deal with these people!

I really am a considerate little chess piece!

Song Yu allowed the small eunuch to drag him, leaving the side hall and entering the back door of the tents behind it.

“Did anyone see us?”

As soon as he entered the tent, Song Yu immediately heard a familiar voice, Gu Zhen.

The small eunuch replied quietly, “Everyone is serving in the front hall. There’s no one in the back.”

After speaking, the small eunuch dumped Song Yu onto the ground and turned to leave.

Once he was gone.

There was no sound in the quiet tent.

Hmm?

What is Gu Zhen doing?

Why isn’t he moving?

The previous strangeness, footsteps approached, followed by the rustling of fabric and…

An ice-cold hand.

Gu Zhen’s fingers landed on Song Yu’s cheek, stroking it lightly.

“Where do you think you’re going to run? No matter where you run, I’ll drag you back, you base slave. You can only be my little slave.”

Song Yu: …

How perverted.

The icy hand slid from his cheek to his neck, and Song Yu distinctly felt Gu Zhen’s hand trying to slip inside his collar.

“Do you know how hard I had to restrain myself at the Earl of Anping’s residence? Every time I saw your face, I couldn’t wait to press you under me and crush you fiercely.

“If it wasn’t to get you, why would I pretend to be nice to that idiot dog, Song Shian?”

Song Yu was closing his eyes and couldn’t see the words floating past.

But he could imagine how intensely the words were cursing.

After all, at the rockery in the back garden of the Earl of Anping’s residence, Gu Zhen had been kissing Song Shian and saying that he felt sick whenever he touched Song Yu.

“Prince Yu also wants to sleep with you. Why are you so alluring? Don’t worry, I won’t allow it. You are safe now. After tonight, Prince Yu will never find you.

“You can only live in my cage, the cage I personally built for you, and be my little slave.”

Just as the hand was about to touch Song Yu’s chest, Song Yu clenched the silver needle in his hand and twisted his wrist.

Pfft!

He directly plunged it into Gu Zhen’s thigh as he knelt beside him…

Uh!

It doesn’t seem to be the thigh.

It’s… it’s the thing for peeing?

Song Yu’s eye twitched.

Bang!

Gu Zhen, struck by Song Yu, immediately pitched forward without time to react.