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Shitou was afraid something bad might happen, so he ran to the main house crying and knocked on the door.

"How dare you! This is the bedroom of the Marquis and his wife, how can you be allowed to make noise in the middle of the night?" Xiang's mother was guarding the door faithfully.

"Please ask mother for leniency and report to the master and the mistress that the young master is seriously ill." Shitou was extremely anxious.

"What time is it now? The Marquis was angry about my second brother all night and just went to bed. Why are you running to the door and howling now? What's your intention?" Xiang Mom refused to give in.

"My Lord!!! Madam!!! My second brother has a high fever and is talking nonsense. Several doctors can't cure him. My Lord, please go and see him!" Shitou ignored her and shouted into the house at the top of his voice.

"If this doctor can't treat the case, just ask another doctor. Why do you have to wake up the Marquis?" Xiang's mother went forward and pulled him.

Gu Yankai's curse came from inside: "It's better to let him die, so as not to implicate the whole family!"

Then came Xiao Qin's voice: "My Lord, he is just a child. You have beaten him and scolded him. It's time for you to calm down. He is making such a fuss just because he wants you to love him more. Why bother with a child?" Her words actually implied that Gu Tingye was pretending to be sick.

"Humph, he did something wrong but he won't admit it, he won't kneel when I asked him to, and now he wants to pretend to be sick to make me soft-hearted? He's so sneaky and sinister, where on earth did he learn these dirty tricks!"

"No matter what tricks he uses, he is our son after all. Since he has given us a way out, just go and take a look." Xiao Qin persuaded softly.

"I'm his father, how can I discipline him? I won't go! You can't go either! If he wants to pretend, let him pretend. It would be best if he really dies so that the whole family can have peace!"

There was no more sound in the room.

Shitou felt disheartened after hearing this. He returned to the house and said only, "The Marquis will be here soon," and asked several doctors to examine the patient carefully.

At the hour of Mao, Gu Yankai went to court. Gu Tingye finally woke up slowly, holding his chest and saying that he was hungry. Shi Tou went to the kitchen and cooked a big pot of porridge, and asked Gu Tingye and several doctors to drink it with pickles.

The doctors were relieved to see that Gu Tingye seemed to have recovered a bit, and gathered together to mutter, "Why is the Marquis's family disciplining their son like this? This is no less than the trial of prisoners in prison."

"What do you know? The guy in the room is a troublemaker. He has been beaten by his father since he was a child."

"Would his mother agree to that? If he beat her so hard, she would be crippled if she wasn't careful."

"You don't know this. He is the son of a stepmother. His biological mother is dead. This woman is not his biological mother. She has her own biological son."

"But I heard that his stepmother is a very kind person."

"After all, he's not my biological son, how can I really love him like my own son?"

A few people were chatting when there was a loud tinkling sound from inside. Gu Tingye vomited out the porridge and medicine together.

Several doctors were horrified and dropped their bowls and began to treat the patient in a panic.

An hour later, Gu Yankai returned home from court. His family ordered breakfast, and Gu Tingye reluctantly ate a few sips. Shi Tou helped him drink the medicine again. As soon as he lay down, he suddenly vomited again. This time, yellow bile and red blood could be seen faintly. When he had no more vomit, he fainted.

This really scared everyone. Two doctors went to report to Gu Yan in person. The father finally realized something was wrong and hurriedly wrote a letter to the palace to invite the imperial physician.

When Xiao Qin saw the messenger running away with the letter, she scolded Gu Yankai in front of him, "Why are you running? Are you planning to let everyone know that something big has happened in Ningyuan Marquis's mansion?"

He turned to Gu Yankai and said, "My Lord, Erlang is making trouble outside. Many people are waiting to see him make a fool of himself. We must be sure of our actions, otherwise outsiders will guess and ruin Erlang's reputation."

"Hmph, what kind of reputation can he have?" Although Gu Yankai was still stubborn, he felt that Xiao Qinshi was right. He waved his hand and asked the servant to deliver the letter carefully.

When the imperial physician arrived at the mansion, Xiao Qin personally went outside the mansion to greet the carriage. She politely invited the imperial physician to have tea, and whispered many instructions to the imperial physician before leading him to the inner courtyard.

Another half hour had passed. During this period, Gu Tingye had not woken up once and had vomited out all the medicine that had been fed to him.

The imperial physician entered the room and saw the wound on Gu Tingye's back. He couldn't help but frowned: "This beating is too harsh. It's like beating him to death!"

Gu Yankai stood aside with no expression on his face.

The imperial physician sat down in front of the bed, felt Gu Tingye's pulse, and checked his wounds. He looked strange: "Why is this happening?"

Gu Yankai walked up to the imperial physician and asked, "What's wrong?"

The imperial physician said, "Uh... it's hard to say. Is the medicine that the second young master took still available?"

Shitou came forward quickly with the medicine in his hand and said, "Young Master vomited after taking a few sips. There is still so much left."

The imperial physician took the medicine bowl and sniffed it, his face changed drastically, and he asked again: "Where are the residues?"

Shitou's eyes were red: "I...I don't know, I didn't fry it myself."

The imperial physician asked Gu Yankai to dismiss everyone, leaving only the doctors who treated Gu Tingye last night. Then he said, "My Lord, the second young master might have been poisoned."

Gu Yankai's calm expression finally changed. He held the imperial physician's hand and asked anxiously, "Is it true?"

The imperial physician breathed rapidly, "I just smelled the medicine and saw the color of the soup. It should be Nandina domestica. Looking at the symptoms of the young master, palpitations and vomiting, I am already 70% to 80% sure. If I can see the residue, I will be 100% sure."

Gu Yankai glanced at the doctor standing beside him with an unfriendly look, and several people shouted as if they were facing a great enemy: "Impossible!"

"Nandina domestica is poisonous, and everyone knows it. I have been practicing medicine for many years, so how could I use it as medicine?"

"No, a small amount of Nandina domestica can cure asthma, but the Second Young Master was severely injured in a beating, we can't give him Nandina domestica!"

"All the prescriptions we wrote are here. Come and have a look. Which one has 'Nandina domestica' written on it?"

"You can't take care of it yourself, so you want to drag us down with you?"

Human life is at stake, and the doctors all started to curse like shrews.

The imperial physician did not argue with them, but only said: "It's not in the prescription, but what if it was put in the medicine pot? Didn't any of you notice something unusual about the red soup? This color can only be achieved by putting a handful of Nandina domestica fruits in the soup."

Several doctors came forward.

"This... isn't right. The recipe we prescribed can't produce this color."

"Maybe it was the dim candlelight at night? I don't remember the soup being this color before."

"We are here to save people. How could we possibly steal from them and poison the medicine ourselves?"

"Someone must have put some poison in the medicine jar and poisoned the Second Young Master while the chaos was going on!"

The doctors became more and more certain as they spoke, and all looked at Gu Yankai.

"Someone come! Who prepared the medicine?" Gu Yankai shouted towards the outside of the door.

No one dared to enter the house.

Gu Yankai roared again, and Shitou came in, knelt down and cried, "I made the medicine, but how would I know what Nandina domestica and Beidina domestica are? I can't possibly harm my own son!"