"A day equals a year," the mansion doctor said.
Feng Yuqin raised an eyebrow. She didn't expect such a humble mansion doctor to know about this poison that caused the immortality syndrome.
She had discovered it in Xiaojin's inventory.
She was naturally interested in poisons, so with a bit of research, she understood how it worked.
After refining the poison pill that caused the immortality syndrome, she immediately refined the antidote.
Although she told them there was only one antidote, she had a habit of always preparing enough antidotes when refining poisons, so there couldn't possibly be just one.
However, she planned to take out only one antidote.
For the rest, they could figure it out on their own.
"Can you refine the antidote?" Feng Pingqiu looked at the mansion doctor, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
A day equals a year.
That meant that in just over a month, the internal condition of his body would age by thirty years.
This was simply unacceptable to him.
The mansion doctor shook his head. "My lord, not only can I not refine it, but I'm afraid no one in the entire Western Song Kingdom can."
This news was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky to Feng Pingqiu and the others.
As if the blow to them wasn't enough, the mansion doctor continued, "Logically speaking, this poison pill has been lost for a long time. I wonder how the eldest young lady got it?"
Then his gaze fell on Feng Yuqin, full of curiosity about her.
After all, as the mansion doctor of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he had seen Feng Yuqin before.
The Feng Yuqin he saw today was completely different from the one he had known before.
Before, Feng Yuqin was timid and submissive, looking easily bullied.
But the Feng Yuqin he saw today had a powerful aura.
The change was too great.
"You brute! Where did you get this poison? When did you poison us? We haven't eaten anything since we came in. How could we have been poisoned with the immortality syndrome?" Feng Pingqiu asked, his face ashen and pointing at Feng Yuqin.
Feng Yuqin shrugged and said fearlessly, "The immortality syndrome can be refined into a poison pill or a poison powder. And I happen to have the poison powder, the kind that is colorless and odorless. So I just poisoned you when you came in."
Hearing Feng Yuqin admit this with her own mouth, the mansion doctor felt a chill run down his spine.
But he also knew that such things were not unheard of in big families.
So all he could do was try his best to reduce his presence, hoping that Feng Yuqin wouldn't turn her attention to him and poison him too.
If that happened, he would really be in despair.
"Hand over the antidote," Feng Pingqiu said.
"Didn't I just say that there's only one antidote? But all three of you are poisoned and all want this antidote. Who should I give it to?" Feng Yuqin asked indifferently, looking at Feng Pingqiu.
"I'm your father. Of course, it should be given to me," Feng Pingqiu roared angrily.
Hearing this, the Second Lady and Feng Yao turned pale.
A mocking smile played on Feng Yuqin's lips as she sneered, "Just now you were calling me a brute, and now you're my father? Where's your face?"
Feng Pingqiu was publicly humiliated in front of so many people, and his face was extremely ugly. But he was afraid of death.
Just thinking about the mansion doctor's words that there was no antidote in the entire Western Song Kingdom made him panic.
So even though Feng Yuqin was openly mocking him, he had to get the antidote first. "Aqin, poisoning me is parricide. You'll be condemned by others."
Feng Pingqiu planned to appeal to Feng Yuqin's emotions and reason.
"Hehe, you really don't know me. I don't care what others think of me. I only care about the people I care about. As for others, what do they matter to me?" Feng Yuqin said indifferently.
"Aqin, we all know you're a good child. Please hand over the antidote," the Second Lady pleaded.
"What? Now you can feel what it's like to be poisoned? You framed me by having people poison so many people outside. Did you ever think that they were also living lives?" Feng Yuqin said coldly.
Hearing this, the mansion doctor immediately looked at the Second Lady. Seeing that she didn't refute, he was stunned.
He had always thought that it was Feng Yuqin who had poisoned them.
Now he knew that it was actually the Second Lady's doing.
All this just to frame Feng Yuqin, and she had harmed so many people.
They were all living lives.
Where was her conscience?
Didn't she feel any remorse for poisoning so many people?
"The Second Lady was the one who poisoned them. Just give the antidote to me," Feng Pingqiu said. At this moment, in order to get the antidote and survive, he didn't care how ugly he looked.
"My lord?" The Second Lady looked at Feng Pingqiu in disbelief.
She never thought that the man she had devoted herself to for so many years would be like this.
Although she was disappointed last time, this time she was completely desperate.
"Father, I also want the antidote," Feng Yao said anxiously. "You're both old enough. You've lived your lives. The antidote should be mine. I'm still so young. I don't want to die."
"Yao'er..." The Second Lady felt even more desperate after hearing her daughter's words.
It could be said that the Second Lady sometimes had a bit of selfishness towards Feng Pingqiu, but towards her daughter, she had none at all.
But now her daughter's words were like a sharp blade, stabbing deeply into her heart and making it hard for her to breathe.
"Mother, don't you have the heart to watch your daughter die so young?" Feng Yao stared at the Second Lady and asked.
The Second Lady: "..."
"I've raised you for so long. It's time for you to repay me. So I won't give you the antidote," Feng Pingqiu said impatiently, not bothering to waste any more words on the Second Lady and her daughter. His attitude of getting the antidote was very firm. "Feng Yuqin, you're my daughter after all. The antidote should be given to me."
Hearing Feng Pingqiu address Feng Yao as "this prime minister," which meant he wanted to draw a clear line with her, and then address himself as "I" when facing her, Feng Yuqin knew he was playing the family card.
Her scumbag father really had no bottom line in being a person. She was truly amazed.
"My lord, are you really going to be so heartless?" The Second Lady stared at Feng Pingqiu with a pair of bloodshot eyes.
"There's only one antidote. If I give it to you, will this huge Prime Minister's Mansion still exist?" Feng Pingqiu said coldly. "As long as I'm gone, the Prime Minister's Mansion will fall apart. So the antidote must be mine."
"Father, I'll soon be going to the Central Region. I'll make the Feng family prosperous. I'll make the entire Central Region know that I'm from the Feng family of the Western Song Kingdom," Feng Yao said eagerly. This was truly what she thought in her heart, and she had the confidence.
So her words were almost like saying, "Give the antidote to me. Father, you can die in peace. I won't let the Feng family decline."
"You brute! You're simply an unfilial daughter," Feng Pingqiu pointed at Feng Yao and scolded angrily.
Hearing Feng Pingqiu scold Feng Yao, Feng Yuqin remembered how proud Feng Pingqiu was when he mentioned Feng Yao before. Now he would even scold her with words like "brute." She couldn't help but laugh.
It seemed that in her scumbag father's eyes, any child who couldn't be useful to him was a brute.