The lights in the warm pavilion were slightly brighter, and Nianqiu was still stroking Zhu Jiu's back with his eyes closed.

Suddenly hearing the door opening, she looked up and glared at her unhappily, and the next moment she met Xuanyuan Che's anxious gaze, and she was instantly stunned in place.

"Your Majesty...... Slave and maid to your Majesty's greetings."

Nian Qiu turned around and knelt down to say goodbye, Xuanyuan Che's eyes and thoughts were all on Zhu Jiu, and he just waved his hand to signal her softly.

"Is the queen better?"

Xuanyuan Che walked towards the edge of the bed, and asked Zhu Jiu, who was still closing his eyes, in a low voice.

"Back to Your Majesty, although Niang Niang has used some medicine, she has not improved."

Seeing that Zhu Jiu was silent, Nian Qiu had the courage to reply for her.

"How so?" Hearing this, Xuanyuan Che sat on the corner of the couch and stroked Zhu Jiu's forehead by himself, but fortunately there was no fever.

"What kind of medicine did you use, Min Que sent it?"

This sentence was to ask Nianqiu, and I saw her reply in a low voice: "Earlier, Lord Minque sent a tranquilizer over, but when the mother fell asleep, the effect of the medicine was delayed. The queen mother just used the slave maid to boil it with her own hands according to the recipe of Lord Minque."

After hearing this, Xuanyuan Che subconsciously glanced in the direction of the medicine cup on the high table, and the slightly pungent taste also caught his attention.

This conversation between Xuanyuan Che and Nian Qiu did not deliberately lower their voices, it stands to reason that Zhu Jiu should have heard it a long time ago, and even if it was so, he should have reacted no matter what.

Can ...... now

Xuanyuan Che suddenly raised his eyes to look at Zhu Jiu, his eyes were full of horror.

"Ninety-nine?"

Xuanyuan Che hurriedly reached out to shake Zhu Jiu, his mind was already in turmoil to the extreme.

"Uh-huh......

In a trance, Zhu Jiu snorted a few times, but his consciousness was not fully awake.

"Ninety-nine, don't scare me."

Xuanyuan Che didn't dare to startle her, so he could only whisper softly, and at the same time couldn't help but be distracted by why she had become like this.

The next moment, Xuanyuan Che's face suddenly changed color, just because Zhu Jiu slowly opened his red eyes and stared straight at him.

is neither enemy nor hatred, why does she look at herself with such "resentful" eyes?

"Ninety-nine?"

While Xuanyuan Che stared at her, his hands couldn't help but reach out to Zhu Jiu's shoulders and clenched them tightly, trying to regain her sobriety.

Who knew that half an moment later, his hands were pushed away by Zhu Jiu's struggle.

"What are you going to do? Care about me?"

The lights in the warm pavilion flickered, because the lights on the candlestick burst down, and the wick was dyed instantly.

When Nian Qiu saw it, he immediately got up and picked up the other two palace lamps that were shelved on the window case.

"Get it done, go out, Lone and the queen have something to say."

The curtains beside the bed were swept by the wind blowing from nowhere, revealing the high table on the side, which seemed to remind Nianqiu that he had not yet packed up the medicine cup.

So she picked up the palace lamp and came over again, leaned over to carry the medicine cup on the high table, and prepared to pack up everything before leaving.

"Don't get out of here!"

Xuanyuan Che suddenly became furious, and Nian Qiu immediately knelt down to plead guilty when he heard the voice, looking panicked.

"Your Majesty will come at me when she is angry, and scare her into doing anything."

Zhu Jiu quickly moved, her plain white hand lifted the brocade quilt on her body, she supported her and slowly got up, her long black hair fell on the lotus-colored dirty clothes, looking lovely and pitiful.

"Who told you to get up, and didn't care about your body?"

Xuanyuan Che couldn't hide his distress and held her up.

"You don't care."

Zhu Jiu took a step back, intending to break free of his arm, but still said coldly, "I'll be fine after drinking the medicine."

She didn't say that Xuanyuan Che hadn't noticed it yet, but now that she mentioned it, Xuanyuan Che felt more and more that the taste of the medicine was very special.

"Niangniang, the medicine will lose its effect when it is cold, and the slave will boil it again and send it back."

Nian Qiu replied tremblingly.

Seeing her like this, Zhu Jiu couldn't bear it, so he frowned and ordered, "No need, you go down first."

Nian Qiu hurriedly responded and got up

I want to go out the door.

"Wait," who knows, Xuanyuan Che suddenly stretched out his arm towards her, opened his lips and stopped Nian Qiu who was holding the medicine cup, "Bring the medicine in the cup to Lone."

"It's just a tranquilizer prescribed by Min Que," Zhu Jiu said, "What's there to see?"

"Tranquilizer......

Xuanyuan Che's face was suspicious, and his palm grabbed the medicine cup directly.

Because Zhu Jiu only took a small sip, there was still a lot of black liquid left in this medicine cup.

As Xuanyuan Che shook the medicine cup wantonly, the bitter and indescribable taste of the medicine became more and more intense, which made Xuanyuan Che feel uncomfortable.

"What do you do?"

Zhu Jiu, who had stood for a while, had a paler complexion and a much faster heartbeat.

Xuanyuan Che ignored or looked at her, but stretched out his index finger and dipped it in a circle of liquid medicine on the edge of the lamp, and put it into his mouth without thinking.

"Xuanyuan Che!"

The moment the liquid medicine was entered, the taste instantly spread throughout his entire mouth, bitter, astringent, sour, pungent and other tastes mixed together, just this mouthful, he was already a little uncomfortable.

"Lone asks you, answer honestly."

His fierce gaze turned to Nian Qiu, who was already kneeling down again.

"Is it indeed the medicine that Min Que prescribed for the queen?"

At this moment, every word and sentence of Xuanyuan Che was like a sharp cone piercing Nianqiu's ears, and his whole body trembled.

"Yes...... It's the recipe left by Lord Minque."

Faced with Xuanyuan Che's intimidation, she opened her mouth in cringe and replied a little helplessly.

"Tell me clearly, is this medicine sent by Min Que, or did you boil it yourself for the queen?"

"This medicine is just a little more bitter than usual, maybe it's been fried for a long time, and it's none of anyone's business," Zhu Jiu immediately frowned, with a bit of anger in his words, "You don't have to be scary."

Xuanyuan Che still ignored her, and his dark eyes that could see blood were always staring at the trembling Nianqiu, "Lone is asking you, didn't you hear?"

"Yes...... It is a slave and maid according to the prescription of Lord Minque...... I boiled it with my own hands."

He had faced Xuanyuan Che's majestic Nian Qiu, who was cold all over his body, and his feet were so soft that he couldn't hold himself, and he crawled on the ground with a bang.

"What the hell are you trying to ask?"

Although it was not the first time Zhu Jiu had seen him angry, it was the first time that he had been so indiscriminate.

"Lone asks you again, what is the prescription?" Xuanyuan Che's voice became more and more gloomy, and the gaze in his heavy eyes swirled between Nian Qiu's hands, cuffs, and other places, as if he wanted to find some traces that vaguely appeared, "Where is the medicine residue?"

Nianqiu's heart was relieved, she had already put away these things according to the rules one by one, and it happened to be a mess at this moment.

The next moment, she stood up with her arms stretched, and her movements were still a little stiff and kowtowed to Xuanyuan Che, "The prescription and the medicine residue are there, the slave will go and get it."

"Don't go yet!"

Under Xuanyuan Che's sharp scolding, Nian Qiu rushed out of the warm pavilion with a rolling belt, leaving Zhu Jiu alone to face the secretly angry Xuanyuan Che.

He would turn his eyes to look at Zhu Jiu, and at the same time push her back to the edge of the bed and sit down, and whispered patiently, "What else do you want to say? I don't know how to heal, but I know you do."

As he spoke, Xuanyuan Che ignored Zhu Jiu's wishes and grabbed her wrist, completely exposing the weakness she had bothered to hide in his eyes.

"Don't tell me you don't know what's in that medicine."

The hand he was holding tightened suddenly, and Zhu Jiu forced himself to recall the taste of the potion, but now there was chaos in her mind, and no matter how she thought about it, there was only a sharp buzz in response.

"I don't know!"

Even if there is no argument at the moment, Zhu Jiu will not admit it, she can only bet on Xuanyuan Che to believe her.

No matter what the "ironclad evidence" is, as long as he believes in himself, it is enough.