The heavens set sail from the courtyard

Chapter 1413 The Queen's Decision

Wang Gang took the Tang Wang family of three to a relatively secluded room. He personally took Li Zhongyi's pulse and remained silent the whole time.

Li Yu and Xia Tian stood aside with nervous expressions, not daring to breathe for fear of disturbing Wang Gang's pulse diagnosis.

"Your Majesty, you have been infected with a chronic poison. Although the poison is not very strong, it will gradually erode your body."

Li Yu asked nervously, "Mr. Wang, could it be that someone poisoned the food in the academy?"

Wang Gang shook his head and said, "The food in the academy is not poisonous, otherwise we would all be poisoned. I think your majesty has been poisoned for some time. He has also sought treatment from a great doctor, but the remaining poison has not been completely eliminated."

Xia Tian felt guilty when he heard this, and looked at Li Zhongyi with an apologetic look.

Li Yu gnashed his teeth and said, "Whoever poisoned my father, I will tear him into pieces."

Li Zhongyi coughed and said to Li Yu, "Yu'er, please stop talking and don't disturb Mr. Wang from taking my pulse."

Li Yu came back to his senses and asked Wang Gang anxiously: "Sir, can you help my father detoxify?"

Wang Gang sighed and said, "It's difficult. If it was when His Majesty was first poisoned, I would still be able to detoxify him, but now the poison has already penetrated deep into his internal organs, and it is difficult to completely detoxify him."

Xia Tian suddenly said with hope: "So, Mr. Wang can help His Majesty."

Li Zhongyi said to Xia Tian: "Take Yu'er out for a while. I want to talk to Mr. Wang alone."

"Father." Li Yu said.

"Go out!" Li Zhongyi shook his head and sighed.

Queen Xia Tian pulled Li Yu's arm and said, "Princess, please don't embarrass your majesty."

"Humph." Li Yu shook off Xia Tian's hand and shouted angrily: "Did you poison my father?"

Xia Tian's body trembled, and a look of panic appeared on his face.

"Asshole." Li Zhongyi was angry and slammed the table and said, "Yu'er, she is your mother, how can you think like this?"

Li Yu gritted his teeth, somewhat unwillingly.

"Get out." Li Zhongyi scolded Li Yu: "I don't want to hear that kind of talk again."

Li Yu walked out of the room with a gloomy face, and Xia Tian looked at Li Zhongyi helplessly.

"Go out!" Li Zhongyi waved his hand and said lovingly.

Xia Tian slowly left the room and closed the door.

When there were only two people left in the room, Li Zhongyi said, "Mr. Wang, please keep the fact that I was poisoned a secret. I am worried that if the news gets out, the government will be unstable."

Wang Gang said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, I will never reveal a word. However, the poison you were poisoned with is a chronic poison that cannot be accumulated over many years. It can only be someone close to you who gave you this poison."

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "I know who poisoned me, and that person has been dealt with."

Wang Gang stopped talking. He knew that it was Queen Xia Tian who poisoned Li Zhongyi.

Xia Tian was originally the descendant of the Demon Sect. He approached Li Zhongyi with the intention of killing him, so he secretly gave him a chronic poison.

But what Xia Tian didn't know was that Li Zhongyi had already fallen in love with her and also knew about the poisoning.

Later, after spending a long time with Li Zhongyi, Xia Tian fell deeply in love with him. Although she stopped poisoning him, the accumulation of poisons over the years had made Li Zhongyi's body beyond recovery, and even the Master was helpless.

"Your Majesty, I cannot completely cure the poison you have been poisoned with, but suppressing it with medicine will not be a problem. As long as Your Majesty works less and pays more attention to rest, I am confident that you can live another ten or twenty years." Wang Gang said after thinking for a while.

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Wang to be a master of medicine."

Wang Gang smiled and said, “I know a little bit.”

Li Zhongyi asked again: "I am busy with state affairs all day long, I am afraid it is impossible to rest in peace."

Wang Gang said: "If Your Majesty continues to work hard, I can only guarantee that you will have no worries for ten years." Li Zhongyi said happily: "Ten years, ten years is enough, I can train a qualified successor for the Tang Dynasty."

Wang Gang stopped talking and took out a pen and paper to write a prescription for Li Zhongyi.

He wrote very slowly, scribbling and revising a prescription, and it finally took him nearly half an hour to finish it.

The reason for this is that the medicinal materials in the world of Jiang Ye are a little different from those in Wang Gang's previous life, so he needs to think twice before he dares to put pen to paper.

Li Zhongyi did not disturb Wang Gang and waited patiently until the prescription was finished. Then Li Zhongyi asked:
"Mr. Wang, what do you think of Hun Yuan? If I hand over the Tang Dynasty to him in the future, will it be feasible?"

Wang Gang put down his brush and said, "This is your Majesty's family affair, and also the Tang Dynasty's national affair. It is not my place as a teacher in the academy to interfere."

Li Zhongyi said seriously: "You are also Hunyuan's teacher. I want to hear your evaluation of him."

Wang Gang shook his head and said, "Li Hunyuan is not suitable to be the crown prince now."

Li Zhongyi was surprised and asked: "Why? I see that Hunyuan has changed a lot. Could it be that Mr. Wang doesn't want his student to become the crown prince?"

Wang Gang said: "I am a teacher at the academy. The academy is independent of the Tang Dynasty and has always remained neutral. Whoever becomes the crown prince will not affect the academy."

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "Yes! The academy is aloof and will not be involved in the dispute over royal power, so I want to hear Mr. Wang's opinion."

Wang Gang said: "Bad habits are hard to change. It is impossible to change a person's nature in just three months."

Li Zhongyi was stunned and said, "Could it be that everything Li Hunyuan did was just a pretense?"

Wang Gang laughed and said, "Three parts true and seven parts false! But if a person can pretend for a lifetime, the false can become true."

Li Zhongyi thought about it and understood what Wang Gang said. He clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang."

"Since I am a teacher at the academy, I will teach my students to become talents. Your Majesty can rest assured."

Li Zhongyi was very happy. He chatted with Wang Gang for a while before leaving the room to meet Xia Tian and Li Yu.

"Mr. Wang, can you detoxify my father?" Li Yu asked impatiently.

"Yu'er, let's talk about this when we get back to the palace." Li Zhongyi held his daughter and said, "Let's go and see Li Hunyuan during the lunch break."

Li Zhongyi pulled Li Yu away, and Queen Xia Tian walked at the end. She took the opportunity to ask Wang Gang, "How many years do you have left, Your Majesty?"

"Ten years at most." Wang Gang said in a low voice.

"Ten years is good, at least we still have ten years to spend together." Xia Tian's eyes gradually became firm. Ten years later, even if Li Zhongyi passed away, she would not live in vain.

Wang Gang said: "There is actually another way to save His Majesty, but I don't think His Majesty would be willing to do so."

Xia Tian stopped, pulled Wang Gang, and deliberately kept a distance from Li Zhongyi, then asked anxiously: "What method?"

Wang Gang said: "If there are two people who practice the magic sect's skills and are willing to sacrifice themselves and absorb the poison in your majesty's body into their own bodies, there may still be a chance."

Xia Tian was moved. She was a member of the Demon Sect, so she would naturally practice the Demon Sect's techniques. If she could save Li Zhongyi, she wouldn't mind sacrificing herself.

"Does it have to be two people?" Xia Tian asked.

"The poison in your majesty's body has penetrated deep into his internal organs. In order to absorb the poison without harming his body, two demon cultivators comparable to the Fate Knower Realm must sacrifice themselves." Wang Gang said:
"But this method would be to exchange one life for two lives. Your Majesty will probably not agree to it."

"Ah, we still need to reach the realm of knowing destiny?" Xia Tian asked in surprise.

Wang Gang nodded and said, "If someone cultivates to the Heavenly Demon Realm, that's fine too."

"No one in the Demon Sect has broken through the fifth realm for a hundred years, so how can there be a Heavenly Demon Realm?" Xia Tian said in despair.

Wang Gang thought, that’s not necessarily true. There is a demon hiding in the back mountain of the academy, but it’s hard to say whether she is willing to sacrifice herself to save Li Zhongyi.

"Demon Realm? I can definitely do it!" Xia Tian murmured to himself.

(End of this chapter)