Your Majesty, the princess is fleeing famine with her child!

Chapter 254 Seeing is Believing

After Yun Fuling had boiled the medicine, she brought it over and watched Zhao Xuesi drink it before saying:

"You will live in Prince Yi's Mansion for the time being. I will have someone watch over this courtyard and will not allow you to have any chance to come into contact with the golden cream again."

"While your drug addiction is not too severe now, there is still a chance to quit your dependence on the golden paste."

"I will use acupuncture and herbal medicine to help you quit and relieve your pain during withdrawal."

"But the most important thing is your own will. You have to get through this by yourself."

"If you don't have a strong will and can't get through it, no matter how much others do, it will be useless!"

Zhao Xuesi nodded, with a grateful look on his face: "Sister-in-law, thank you so much today!"

Yun Fuling: "The prince regards you as a brother, there is no need to be so formal as we are a family."

Xiao Jingyi raised his hand and patted Zhao Xuesi on the shoulder, "Listen to your sister-in-law, you must stop taking this golden ointment!"

"Unless you want to be controlled by it for the rest of your life."

Yun Fuling said coldly: "It doesn't take half a lifetime. If you take it for a long time, it will only take two or three years at most, and then you will be dead!"

Zhao Xuesi has already experienced the power of the golden paste and hates it deeply.

When I thought about the previous attacks, I felt restless and uneasy, and lost all my rationality, and I felt a little scared.

"Don't worry, I will get through this."

Zhao Xuesi assured solemnly.

Zhao Xuesi was afraid that the news would get to the Duke of Xiangguo's Mansion and make his family worry about him, so he wrote a letter in his own handwriting, saying that he had to leave the capital for something, and asked someone to deliver the letter to the Duke of Xiangguo's Mansion.

Anyway, he will be isolated in Prince Yi's Mansion for a period of time to wean himself off his dependence on the golden ointment.

As long as he doesn't go out and is not seen by others, the Xiangguo Mansion will not suspect his whereabouts.

Xiao Jingyi also ordered the servants who knew about this matter to keep their mouths shut and not allow anyone to leak it to outsiders.

The next morning, Xiao Jingyi brought the box of golden cream he got from Zhao Xuesi and went directly to the palace to ask to see Jing **.

In the Zichen Palace.

After listening to Xiao Jingyi's report, Jing looked at the golden ointment that he had someone present to him and frowned, saying, "Is this thing really as powerful as you said?"

"It's absolutely true!" Xiao Jingyi nodded, his expression solemn, "I dare not lie to you, father. Zhao Xuesi only smoked twice, and he got addicted last night."

"Luckily the princess was here, using acupuncture and herbal medicine to help him control it."

"I have imprisoned him in Prince Yi's mansion to stop him from relying on the golden paste."

"However, Zhao Xuesi didn't want the Duke of Xiangguo and his wife to know about it. They were worried about him, so he wrote a letter and sent it to them, falsely claiming that he was out of the capital on business."

Xiao Jingyi paused, and then said, "Zhao Xuesi is not the only one among the young men in the capital who has been harmed."

"Your Highness, I would like to invite you to come and have a look."

"Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. You can tell whether it is true or false by just looking at it."

Jing** also wanted to know whether this golden ointment was really as harmful as Xiao Jingyi said.

He nodded, "Then I will go and see it with my own eyes."

Jing** immediately changed out of the dragon robe, put on an ordinary silk robe, and left the palace in plain clothes with a simple entourage.

Because it was a temporary decision, Jing ** only brought Eunuch Gao and the commander of the imperial guards with him.

After leaving the palace, the carriage went straight to a three-courtyard house in the outer city.

At this time, there were five or six people locked up in the house.

Last night, after Xiao Jingyi witnessed the scene after Zhao Xuesi's drug addiction attack, he asked him to write a list of people he knew who had entered and left Shenxianju.

Then he asked the secret guards to secretly kidnap the people on the list and bring them to this house.

Since we want to let Jing** know the harm of the golden paste, we support him to thoroughly investigate Shenxianju, find out the mastermind behind the scenes, and bring him to justice.

Isn't it too pale and powerless to just express it in words?

Is there anything more shocking and frightening than seeing the onset of drug addiction with your own eyes?

Just like he saw with his own eyes last night the ugly appearance of Zhao Xuesi after his drug addiction broke out.

Cui Xudong, the seventh son of Duke Cheng'en's Mansion, clearly remembered that he slept in his own room last night, but when he woke up this morning, he found himself sleeping in an unfamiliar room.

He stood up and tried to open the door to go out, but found that the door was locked from the outside.

No matter how he shouted, threatened, or begged, no one paid any attention.

Cui Xudong was shocked and frightened, and couldn't help but wonder who did this?

What did that man want to do by tying him here?

As time passed, Cui Xudong couldn't help yawning frequently, and a feeling of anxiety arose from deep in his heart.

He subconsciously touched the golden paste and pipe on his body, wanting to take a puff.

But he touched nothing.

Enveloped by mania and anxiety, Cui Xudong picked up a stool and started banging on the door frantically.

While smashing the things, he shouted to the outside: "Is there anyone there? I want the golden paste..."

This kind of scene is not unique in this house.

Jing** followed Xiao Jingyi all the way here and witnessed with his own eyes these people crying and begging when their drug addiction attacked, rolling on the ground like maggots, smashing things violently, even banging their heads against the wall, self-mutilating, and so on.

Jing** was so shocked that he was speechless for a long while.

"Did they all become like this because they inhaled the golden paste?"

Xiao Jingyi nodded: "Yes."

"The control that the golden paste exerts over people goes far beyond this."

Xiao Jingyi pointed at the door in front of him and said to Tianquan, "Open it."

Cui Xudong was in extreme pain, with bloody marks on his arms from being scratched. When he heard the noise at the door, he rushed over immediately as if he had seen a life-saving straw.

"Give me the golden ointment..."

Xiao Jingyi kicked him away.

Cui Xudong ignored the pain in his body and crawled towards Xiao Jingyi, pulling at the corner of his clothes and begging: "Please, golden cream, I want golden cream..."

"I have money. I'll give it all to you. All you need is a box of golden cream..."

"Let me take a puff, please..."

Xiao Jingyi looked down at him: "I can give you the golden ointment, but you have to answer a few questions for me."

Cui Xudong nodded his head, "As long as you give me the golden paste, I will do anything for you."

Xiao Jingyi looked at Jing** and then asked, "Who are you?"

Cui Xudong immediately replied: "I am Cui Xudong, the seventh son of the Cheng'en Mansion."

"The Empress Dowager is my great-aunt, Concubine Cui is my aunt, and the Third Prince is my cousin."

"Our Cui family is extremely prominent in the capital. If you give me the golden cream, I will never treat you unfairly in the future!"

Xiao Jingyi squatted down, took out a box of golden cream from his sleeve, and shook it in front of Cui Xudong.

Cui Xudong's eyes lit up, like a thirsty man finding a drop of fresh rain, and he reached out to grab it.

However, Xiao Jingyi easily avoided him.

He shook the golden paste in his hand and said, "I heard that the Cui family has many secrets."

"As long as you tell me the secret of the Cui family, I will give you this box of golden cream."