A court lady turned around. "Ah, Mr. Su! You come at the right time! Queen Dowager suddenly goes limp and can't wake up!"
Zhu Su took the queen dowager's pulse. He also observed the queen dowager thoroughly.
"Nayin, get the acupuncture needles and insert them into the points of Yintang, Renzhong, Neiguan, and Sanyinjiao!" Zhu Su gave instructions to Hu Nayin, who withdrew the acupuncture needles from her bag swiftly and began carrying out her work. While he himself now rushed to the medical chamber to concoct medicine.
When the concoction was finished, and when he was carrying it for the queen dowager, she could now start to move a little.
"Master, Her Majesty is starting to open her eyes," Hu Nayin informed.
Zhu Su exhaled at ease. He gave the concoction to the senior court lady, who fed it to the queen dowager.
Slowly, the queen dowager's consciousness recovered. Now her eyes could be fully opened. And she was also able to lift her body up to a sitting position upright, like a healthy person.
"Thank you... all of you..." Queen dowager smiled weakly, "I am..."
Queen dowager's face turned pale. Sweat ran down her face, which was grimacing as if she was suffering from extreme pain.
"My arms... no!" She screamed. "I can't move my arms and legs!!!"
***
The jailers pushed Zhu Su and Hu Nayin so violently that they soon fell onto the dirty, disgusted dungeon ground. As they had been lying on the ground, the jailers closed the cell door, while giving a disdainful smile before he left them.
Hu Nayin's entire body quivered so badly. She had never been prisoned before. Eyes going round in fearful, she looked around at this damp, dreadful dungeon. "If Queen Dowager's extremities can't be back to normal... will we be sentenced to death?..."
Unlike Hu Nayin, Zhu Su instead felt futile. He was no longer afraid, he just felt futile. His mind was very tangled, and at the same time, very tired. He had been in and out of dungeons so many times, hit by miserable punishments so many times, as though dungeon and punishments had become his best friend, how could he feel scared right now?
He looked heavenward, staring at the ceiling. The moment when the queen dowager screamed loudly and said that the right part of her body was palsied, still echoed in his ears. The entire corridor became the tumult, the queen dowager had tried her best to move her leg and arm, but it was useless. The king soon came as he heard a fuss which concerned with his mother. "Mother... why on earth is going on?!" The king's voice rose up, he was unable to restrain his panic.
Replacing the queen dowager, the senior court lady replied, "The Queen Dowager cannot move the right part of her body, after being handled by Mr. Su and Miss Hu!"
Zhu Su and Hu Nayin immediately turned white. "Just now Queen Dowager suddenly passed out, and we have helped her to regain consciousness..."
"But now why does it turn out like this?! Look, because of shock Her Majesty has almost fainted again!..."
"Mr. Su, I'm fed up with you who is always looking for trouble!" The senior official who was antipathy to Zhu Su joined in the tumult. "Trying to seduce the Princess, and now you take the life of Queen Dowager. Huh! That is why I dislike low people. This is the tendency of lower class people, they always have your tongues spinning here and there, once say north, but later can say south, depending on your own interests! Your Majesty! The time for you to defend this lowly wanderer is over! Now the law of nation must be carried out! Anyone who does harm to the royal family must be severely punished!"
This time, the king's attitude had changed. His face was cloudy and his eyes were glazed as he looked at the queen dowager. And when he opened his mouth, his voice was sharp and cold like an ice knife. "Put both of them in prison."
"How come..." Zhu Su sighed. But he knew, no matter how often he sighed...
He would never be able to change his life.