When Zhao Ji rushed to Longyou Palace, he heard a whimpering cry. The sound made his heart flutter and his legs limp.

Zhao Ji, who was walking behind him, seemed calm and light-hearted, and Zhao Ji firmly believed that in a person who was not very normal, any reaction was normal. What's more, there are only a limited number of people who can find his abnormality. But he could breathe a sigh of relief: he didn't have to face him head-on.

To have so many people in one room is either a great joy or a great sorrow. Except for a dozen imperial doctors, eunuchs and palace people who were busy handing out scarves and water, several young princes stood with different expressions, several ministers paced back and forth by the bedside anxiously, and concubines wept and wiped their tears outside the door.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the door, the Queen Mother stepped forward angrily: "Wow, the front foot is pretending to have a dinner party in the palace, and the back foot runs out to have fun, you two are terrible, relying on the seniority, the front rank, right? I tell you, the current emperor does not dare to do this! You are really amazing, and you are a good example for other brothers!"

I only heard two crisp snaps, and the Queen Mother rewarded them with a slap!

The Queen Mother is old, but well-maintained, her skin is delicate, her eyesight is excellent, her eyes are sharp and sharp, her small nose and mouth are a little mean when she is old, but she is still a beauty - the Queen Mother of the year, with the beauty of the Central Plains.

The queen mother wears a crown, the crown is very high, there is a big dragon in the middle of the crown, there is a pearl in the mouth, surrounded by a slightly smaller dragon and phoenix, each holding a pearl and a treasure in the mouth; the other part of the crown is strung with pearls into peonies, and the pearls are inlaid in it like the dewdrops of peony flowers. Wearing a dark blue multicolored Zhai pattern, the neckline is entrenched in a red cloud dragon pattern, wearing a green gauze middle single, a dark blue waist covering the knees, a white jade double pendant, and a cane.

The temperament of the Queen Mother, Zhao Ji is clear. The Queen Mother is majestic and absolutely authoritative, and her anger foreshadows a serious consequence, a necessary bow.

So Zhao Ji knelt down on his knees: "It's all the grandson's fault, the grandson doesn't dare anymore, please punish the imperial grandmother!"

Zhao Yan looked at him incredulously, the expression on his face was slightly complicated.

The same lie was told many times, and in the end he believed it himself, not to mention that the Queen Mother favored him, and gradually he became fearless, backbone is not something to be used in front of relatives, once suffering a loss and half a life, there may be nothing wrong with this.

However, this time the Queen Mother didn't seem to appreciate it, and said coldly: "Again, you still want to 'again'? There is no next time." ”

"Grandmother is angry, what happened?"

The Queen Mother raised her cane and nodded at the two of them tremblingly, then closed her eyes and shook her head, her expression sad and angry.

"Your brother, he only has half a life left now!"

"What?"

"When?"

Zhao Ji suddenly raised his head. He immediately got up, walked to the bed one step ahead of Zhao Yan, pushed away the circle of people, and unexpectedly pushed it to Prime Minister Zhang.

Zhang Dian sneered and said loudly: "His Royal Highness King Duan, put down all the things at hand and take a look at the emperor, it's really commendable!" Zhao Ji ignored him. The imperial doctor was checking the emperor's physical condition, and when he saw that King Duan was coming, he refused to let him, until the queen mother also walked over, and they neatly avoided a road, so Zhao Ji saw the emperor's appearance.

"Mother save me...... It's a ghost, and the devil wants to burn me...... Queen ......"

The twenty-two-year-old emperor, bleeding from all over the world, was dying and calling his mother, who had passed away for many years. His throat seemed to have been burned by something, and he couldn't make a sound, and when he listened closer, he could hear such a hoarse almost sighing wail, accompanied by a gurgling friction sound, and every gasp he used all his strength, and blood bubbles came out of his mouth;

Bright red spots began to appear on his face and neck, and his pinna and earlobes were cherry red. His breathing became more and more difficult, his eyes were half-open, and his eyeballs rolled up.

He seemed to have lost consciousness and twitched mechanically, no matter whether Empress Liu was crying and pushing him, or the Empress Dowager calling his name—there was no response. Empress Liu was a little hysterical, she hammered him hard, regardless of who was around, she just read to him vigorously: "Your Majesty, can you wake up, you said that you would take me out of the palace if you have the chance, don't you want to take a look outside the palace? Who harmed you, Your Majesty?"

The Queen Mother shouted angrily: "Shut up! You are so bold, you are still talking nonsense, come on, pull her aside for me, I don't want to see her!"

When the guards stepped forward, Empress Liu sneered and said, "No need! There is no need for the Empress Dowager Lao, I will leave myself!"

The Queen Mother was so angry that her hands trembled, and she couldn't speak, so she paused and said to the imperial doctor: "How is the emperor's situation?

Zhao Ji's heart tightened at the moment, and at the same time, he glanced back at Zhao Li: Zhao Ji looked at the emperor and licked his lips quietly, and the corners of his mouth rose a little - with strange excitement.

A imperial physician examined the emperor's body about the eighteenth time, then turned around, knelt down in front of the queen mother, and trembled, "The queen mother, the emperor's current situation is really ......"

"What's wrong now? Why can't you be? You are the best imperial doctor, eating the emperor's food and doing nothing all day long, saying that no matter how difficult the incurable disease is, it can be cured, is it possible that you can't save a son of heaven now?"

The imperial doctor said: "The emperor's current situation is extremely critical. He is currently unconscious. Forgive the little incompetence, I really can't find out the reason, and the emperor may not be able to return to ......"

"Dragged down and beaten to death. The Queen Mother said.

The imperial doctor suddenly panicked: "The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, spare her life, please don't kill me—" His voice gradually weakened, and gradually faded away.

The Queen Mother had a gloomy face and asked the group of imperial doctors: "What kind of poison is in the emperor, and what is the way to cure it?" She waited for a moment, and when she saw that the atmosphere was depressed and silent, she raised her voice: "Speak, if you don't speak, you will be killed." I just want to listen to the symptoms and the methods, and I don't want to listen to your wishful thinking. People haven't died yet, so why are they like they're going to die?"

The implication is that if they can't be saved, they will never be able to get out of it.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words. A slightly bolder imperial physician pondered his sentence and said, "The emperor now has a ruptured spleen, blood congestion in the liver and kidneys, blood does not coagulate, muscles in the whole body are relaxed, and breathing may stop at any time, but ......"

The Queen Mother frowned and said, "But what?"

But he didn't have any signs of 'poisoning'. ”

At this time, not only the Queen Mother, but also other people in the palace were dumbfounded.

Zhao Yan turned around, frowned and asked the imperial doctor: "Do you know what you are talking about, Imperial Doctor Zhang?

He said these words for the Queen Mother, relieving the awkward atmosphere. In fact, it is also the meaning of the Queen Mother - there were rumors back then that the reason why the Queen Mother was able to become the Queen Mother was also related to this 'reason'.

"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Shen's words, life is at stake, and the little one will never dare to say half a lie. The poison in the emperor does not match the symptoms of various poisons recorded in the book. Therefore, the top priority is to 'stabilize' the emperor's situation......"

The Queen Mother said angrily: "Do you only recite medical books?"

The Imperial Physician hurriedly knelt down.

Gonggong Yang, who had been handing over the tonic medicine, stepped forward and said, "Queen Mother, the little one thinks that the words of the imperial doctor are right." In the current situation, who else can we trust but the doctor? There is only one point, and the little ones also find it strange......

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and shook her head, "Say." ”

"The emperor has nothing abnormal before this, except for the things he has eaten before, which is not in the plan of the imperial dining room......"

The Queen Mother asked, "What have you eaten?"

"Uh......"

At this time, Empress Liu, who had not spoken for a long time, smiled and said: "Gonggong Yang, why don't you dare to say it? It was the nourishing soup given to the emperor by the Queen Mother." The emperor has to drink the soup every day before he dares to sleep. ”

Her words were shocking, and Gonggong Yang's face was scared.

The Queen Mother said slowly: "The soup is full of ordinary tonics, if there is really any toxicity, no one in the palace may die." Father-in-law Yang, check if there is anything abnormal in the soup. ”

Gonggong Yang hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Yes." He picked up the soup at the emperor's bedside, the soup was already curdled and cold, he tasted it, frowned, stirred it with a spoon, and found something at the bottom of the bowl. He scooped it up, looked at it intently, and was taken aback.

The Queen Mother was on crutches and was watching the emperor's situation. She seemed to remember something, looked around, and called out the door in a voice that was neither high nor low: "Impermanence!"

Impermanence walked in from the door, and knelt on the ground as soon as he saw the Queen Mother: "Impermanence is here." ”

Zhao Ji had heard that the emperor had always been protected by a master, but he didn't expect that this master was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy.

Impermanence had a weak voice, a petite stature, a pale face and a bloodless face, and at first glance he looked like a sickly, malnourished boy, but he wore a long sword, the length of which was almost the same as his height, and it was extremely abrupt.

He is extremely young, but he is one of the best masters in the palace. Someone once tried to challenge him, and when he was studying in the emperor's palace, he deliberately wanted to splash water on him, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived impermanently, the long sword was unsheathed, and he put it away, and the head fell to the ground, blood splattered, and the emperor did not get a drop of water, and the bachelors present did not change color.

The Queen Mother said: "Impermanence, you are one of my most trusted people, obedient and sensible. In the past three years, I have placed you by the emperor's side, so that you will never leave, and tell you to protect him at all times. But where did you just go?"

Impermanence said: "The emperor said that if Impermanence does not go away, he will commit suicide." Impermanence cannot let the emperor die. ”

The Queen Mother sneered: "You don't want to think about it, how dare the emperor die?"

Impermanence bowed his head and said, "Yes." ”

The Queen Mother asked, "Then have you seen anything abnormal?"

Impermanence nodded: "Before that, Wuchang saw strange movements in the emperor's room, so he took a closer look, and when he got closer, he smelled some strange smells, similar to bitter almonds." Then the emperor let impermanence go. Before leaving, Impermanence seemed to see a blue ghost fire in the room. ”

The Queen Mother exclaimed: "Ghost fire?"

Empress Liu said: "Yes, it is indeed a ghost fire. Drifted towards the emperor, and before he could come back to his senses, the emperor had an accident. ”

"Queen Mother!" Zhang Dian stepped forward to interrupt them, "The minister thinks that instead of speculating about how the emperor was poisoned, it is better to think about what measures to take next." How to treat the emperor and what to do next, these are all problems that need to be solved urgently, and they are very urgent. I don't know what the Queen Mother wants?"

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "What Prime Minister Zhang said is extremely true. It's just that I don't know where to ask for sacredness in order to save the emperor's life. ”

Zhang Dian said: "The minister thinks-"

He glanced at Zhao Li, Zhao Tong understood, and stepped forward and said, "Imperial grandmother-"

"The Queen Mother!" Yang Gonggong suddenly walked over and lifted the spoon in the bowl to show the contents, "Queen Mother, look, this is-"

When the Queen Mother saw it, she was shocked, and then said angrily: "Zhao Ji!"

Zhao Ji was puzzled why the imperial grandmother suddenly became angry, and just subconsciously knelt down: "What does the imperial grandmother command?"

"What do you see what this is?"

"This is ......" Zhao Ji looked at it, and was so frightened that he immediately touched his waist, which was empty-

His purse, at some point, fell into this bowl of soup, soaked in the soup, and turned into a puddle of mud.

The purse was open.

Inside, it was filled with a thumb-sized doll.

There is a talisman on the doll, on which a piece of yellow paper is pasted; the paper has been soaked to a pulp, and it can be vaguely seen that a few words are written on it in small block letters: the first month of the year of Ding Si......

On that piece of paper, a silver needle was inserted, straight through the back of the doll!