As time passed.
The Pingzhou Plague was an urgent matter, so Zhou Yanqing and Fang Yuanke took Imperial Physician Ye and the others to Pingzhou, bringing medicine with them.
Before leaving, Divine Physician Ye took Xie Huizhou's pulse as usual. "Much of the poison has been cleared, but you still need to recuperate. I've left plenty of antidotes here, so keep taking them, Your Highness. During this time, don't fool around with His Lordship and damage your health."
Thinking of the increasingly intimate sounds the two made, Divine Physician Ye could not help giving him a reminder. Then, feeling that was too cruel, he relented.
"Try to keep it to a minimum."
Xie Huizhou: "?"
Wait?
We're just close. We haven't been getting physical!
Divine Physician, don't go casually slandering my innocence.
Whether Divine Physician Ye believed him or not was unclear. He left a large pile of medicine and departed for Pingzhou with Zhou Yanqing and the others. The round trip would take two or three months.
Xie Huizhou continued his three-part routine of drawing, taking medicine, and secretly investigating the true identity of the Imperial Preceptor, the Snake Demon.
It was also at this time that both Imperial Preceptor Zhang Lanhe and Xie Huizhou received invitations to the Peace Negotiation Banquet with the Northern Border Kingdom Envoys.
"Peace negotiations? That's between the emperor and the envoys. What does it have to do with us?" Xie Huizhou found it baffling. Since when did a major court affair like this require his presence? "I'm just an Idle Prince who eats and waits to die."
The Northern Border Kingdom and Great Xia had grown weary of years of war. Each held half the cities, leaving them at a stalemate, so they thought they might as well negotiate peace and let the