40. Chapter 40

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When the emperor learned the news that the crown prince was highly poisoned and his life was in danger, and rushed back to the palace, he never expected that his beloved concubine and beloved son would lie down twice!

In Taixiu Palace, the queen's clues were found except for the bag of chili powder that no one had heard of. By the time the emperor arrived, she was about to fall into a frenzy: "Rubbish! Rubbish! I can't find anything, what do you want?! ”

The emperor was much calmer than the queen, although he was also worried about the prince's condition, but he still ordered in an orderly manner: "Jing Tianhong, you go and check, who else in the palace has the same thing." Wu Chun asked someone to go to Dali Temple and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to find out who was selling this thing in the capital. In addition, the letter stone is a medicinal material, and then ask someone to check who has taken out the letter stone from the Tai Hospital in recent months. ”

The emperor's words were like a shot in the arm for the queen, as soon as the emperor came back, he sent Sedum Tianhong, who had the most fierce reputation and the most iron-faced and cold-hearted among the internal guards, and the meaning of his words was to support Sedum Hong's search for the harem.

It's not that the queen didn't think about copying the palace to the bottom, but she has some women in her hands, and if she forbids the army, she can't command the women in the inner palace at all, and besides, the emperor's thinking is clear, and in a few words, she took into account all the places that she didn't take into account, she made up her mind, and looked at the emperor with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, our emperor will be fine, right?" ”

During this time, the emperor was angry with the empress, and he didn't see her again for half a month. Now that I saw her suddenly, I found that she was haggard and weak, and I felt pity in my heart, and held her hand: "No, Huang'er Jiren has his own natural appearance, and he will definitely be fine." ”

The queen softened and leaned towards the emperor: the emperor was angry with her before, and she was almost out of Kunhe Palace, if she could take this opportunity to ask the emperor to take pity on her a little more, it would be good.

The emperor held the queen's shoulder and said in a deep voice: "No, our emperor is the prince of the country, and the blessings and fortunes of the entire dynasty are put on him, as well as my true dragon body, he will be fine!" ”

The husband and wife were talking, and seeing that the imperial doctor also straightened up, he began to pull out the silver needle on the prince's body, and replied without waiting for the emperor to ask: "The prince has now excreted most of the poison. ”

"Is he okay now?" The queen interrupted the imperial doctor's words and asked.

"This ......" The imperial doctor hesitated for a moment, avoiding the important and light: "If you are an adult, you may be fine after a while, but the prince is young, and the poison is fierce, I am afraid that it will not be so easy." ”

When the queen heard this, she was anxious, "What are you talking about?" If the prince has something, this palace will ask you! ”

The imperial doctor has already done everything that should be done, and at this moment he only has panic in his heart, kneeling on the ground and saying, "Please forgive the emperor and queen", but he still does not dare to pack the ticket, and the prince will wake up intact.

The emperor's face was not good-looking: this son was not only a son-in-law, but also smart and clever, and he had always been loved by him, and he did not know how much effort he had put into this child, and now his life was on the verge of death, which made him angry and uncomfortable.

He remembered that Jing Tianhong was sent out by him, and dropped a sentence: "Go back to Qianning Palace, let Hu Yuanqing come to see me, and ask him to order him to go down, transfer 200 people, and cooperate with Jing Tianhong to do things." ”

Hu Yuanqing is the commander of the forbidden army, and the emperor is going to use people from the outer court to interfere in the search of the harem concubines!

In fact, Sedum Tianhong's manpower is completely enough for them to search the harem as quickly as possible, but the emperor's order can only show how careful he is about the prince's affairs.

Although the empress was also in pain, she also felt great comfort to see that the emperor valued her son so much.

Speaking of the emperor, he hurried to the gate of Taixiu Palace, and walked through the fork in the verandah, but heard a woman sobbing quietly. The emperor followed the sound and saw the crying woman, but he was taken aback: "Jade version, why are you here?" What about your master? ”

The jade version was obviously stunned for a moment before wiping away her tears, and choked up: "Back to the emperor, Mrs. Ying came to make amends to the queen's mother, and now she fainted, and the person is lying in the side hall." ”

The emperor came back in a hurry, and as soon as he came, he only cared about his son, and he didn't know that his beloved concubine was lying in the middle of the hall, and he was taken aback when he heard this: "Mrs. Ying made amends to the queen, why?" ”

The jade version has never seen Zheng Shao suffer such a big loss, she has always been majestic with her master, and she can fan whoever she wants, when has her master suffered such a loss? Originally, she was already in a panic, and when she listened to Zheng Wei's instructions again and helped Zheng Shao find the imperial doctor, she heard the queen asking about the chili powder, and her heart was immediately hung into fifteen buckets, seven up and eight down, all gone!

Other people don't know what chili powder is all about, how can the jade version not know? She followed Zheng Shao, don't look bolder than Chengxin, but she has never done such a harmful thing. I didn't expect to fall into the eyes of people the first time I did it, how could she not be afraid?

The jade version called the imperial doctor, but she didn't dare to say it in the hall, and then she paid attention and learned that Wicker was dead, and she was suddenly even more afraid. Looking at her master in a coma on the bed, even if the doctor repeatedly assured her that she would not hurt a single hair, and the fetus in her womb was very safe, but she always knelt for more than half an hour and suffered a great sin, which was even worse.

At this time, taking advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention, the jade version found a secluded place, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became, so he cried. She didn't expect that this cry would actually lead the emperor over.

Fortunately, she has followed Zheng Shao for many years, and she is not a vegetarian, so when she was shocked, she immediately had a statement: "Mrs. Ying has been vomiting day and night for the past few days, and the slaves and maids are very worried, so they took it upon themselves to invite the imperial doctor, but the prince was poisoned at this time, and Mrs. Ying was afraid that because most of the imperial doctors were in Jingchen Palace, they were too late to rush to Taixiu Palace, and they delayed the prince's condition, so they rushed over to ask the queen for their guilt." ”

The emperor immediately grasped the point: "There are always seven or eight imperial doctors in the imperial hospital, and I also took three of them with me, and the others actually followed them to Jingchen Palace?" Is there no one left? ”

The imperial doctor was personally invited by the jade version, and she knew this very well: "When the slave maid went to ask the imperial doctor, the imperial physician Jiang, who was usually responsible for conditioning Mrs. Ying's body, was not there. And Imperial Doctor Jiang also said before that Mrs. Ying only vomited for a few days, and then vomited again in the past few days, which is really strange. The doctors were afraid that there was something new, so they said that they would come over and have a consultation with their wife. Unexpectedly, the prince was suddenly poisoned at this time, which was really a coincidence. Your Majesty, as soon as our wife heard that the prince was sick, and she had only diagnosed half of her own illness, she asked all the doctors to go to Taixiu Palace first. ”

Although the jade version was panicked, she was clearly organized, and she ordered everything that should be said and where it should be ordered. The emperor couldn't see what was wrong here, so it could only be attributed to coincidence. After all, Zheng Shao's dragon fetus, it is not an exaggeration for the doctors to be cautious.

In the emperor's heart, the crown prince is of course the most important, but the child in Zheng Shao's belly must not be missed. It is precisely because of the small number of children that each one is particularly precious.

The emperor strode around: "Take me to see." ”

A guard asked behind him: "Your Majesty, is Master Hu still going to Qianning Palace?" ”

The emperor thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, you pass on the words just now, and let him personally lead someone to find Sedum Tianhong." ”

In the main hall of Taixiu Palace, the queen saw at the window that the emperor was about to walk out, but she was hooked by the palace maid next to Mrs. Ying after saying a few words, and her lips trembled with anger: "Cheap maid!" Kitsune! It's all at this time, and I don't forget to hook the emperor to her! ”

The huge palace room was obviously full of people, but it was as silent as a tomb.

The anger in the queen's heart almost boiled into a pot of poisonous juice, and she wished that she could spit at that damn slut through the window! Just as the anger in her heart was burning brighter and stronger, the prince, who was lying quietly on the bed, suddenly groaned.

The pot of boiling poisonous juice in the queen's heart immediately became dumb, and she turned her head to look over, "Emperor, are you awake?" Are you alright? ”

Separated by a wall, when the emperor had just stepped into the side hall of Taixiu Palace, Zheng Shao had already woken up under Zheng Wei's "care".

Before the two sisters could say a word, the emperor broke in and came straight to Zheng Shao: "Concubine Ai, are you okay?" ”

Zheng Shao was somewhat tortured because of the past, she was already ill, and the sick look on her face didn't need to be pretended to be very similar at all. And before Zheng Wei could tell her about the emperor being in Taixiu Palace, the emperor came, so the dumbness on her face was not pretended at all: "Your Majesty, why are you here?" How is the prince? ”

The emperor looked at Zheng Shao, he usually didn't think that he often met, but today he looked at it suddenly, his beautiful, healthy, and somewhat mellow favorite concubine turned out to be a yellow face, and the whole person was sorrowful, completely losing the usual lively brightness, even compared to the queen next to him, it was not inferior.

The little doubt he had in his heart before entering the hall was half gone, and then after hearing that Zheng Shao had seen him, the first thing he did was not to complain, but to care about the prince's situation, and the remaining half of the doubts began to falter: "The prince has my protection, it will be fine, concubine, are you feeling okay now?" ”

Zheng Wei was about to speak, when she first smelled the scent of the emperor coming from the end of her nose, these days, she couldn't help but think of who the emperor had said to her about those love words, and how many women he had hugged in those arms......

In the past, she always avoided letting herself think deeply about these things, but recently, I don't know if it was the influence of pregnancy, she always unconsciously wondered if the emperor would be so affectionate in front of others, which was crazy, and even, how much of the smell on his body was his, and how much was someone else's?

"Gross!" Zheng Wei's sudden vomiting caught the emperor off guard, and even if he hid quickly, he couldn't help but be splashed a lot.

The emperor's eyebrows were raised, and he was about to get angry, but Zheng Wei's appearance of spitting out his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys was something he had never seen before, "What about the imperial doctor?" Why didn't you call the Imperial Doctor?! ”

Tai Doctor? Of course, when Zheng Shao was diagnosed as fine, and only needed to rest more, he was recalled to the main hall of Taixiu Palace to watch the prince.

At this time, the prince woke up, although he was a little weaker, but after consultation, the prince was still calm, as long as he was well recuperated, he was generally fine, but how much this poison hurt the prince's body can only be observed slowly in the follow-up, and it is not easy to diagnose at this time. Therefore, as soon as the emperor called, the imperial physicians immediately went to the palace next door.

There were only two left in the palace, the queen and the prince, and at this moment, at the beginning of the night, because the queen mother and son were talking privately in the palace, everyone retreated, still in the dark.

The crown prince was half-held in his mother's arms, and when he noticed the tightness of the queen's body, he called out a little frightened: "Queen Mother." ”

The queen didn't know what she was thinking, until the prince called her several times, she came back to her senses, and smiled softly at the prince in the dark: "The emperor is at ease, the queen mother will definitely protect you well in the future and not let anyone hurt you." "Even if someone could hurt you, I would never allow it!

The peace of the crown prince and the queen did not last long, and the Taixiu palace was interrupted by the noise again.

Jing Tianhong led the group of internal guards into the side hall, and knelt down at the emperor with his fists clenched: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has already found out who is in this chili powder palace." ”

As soon as Sedum Tianhong's words came out, no one else in the hall was surprised, and Zheng Wei, who was shrinking in the corner, was taken aback first: chili powder? What happened to the prince poisoning chili powder?

No one in this temple knew about the chili powder except her. This thing was originally when she followed Zheng Shao to someone else's house as a guest, and saw someone planting it for ornamental use, she came from the afterlife, of course she knew what that thing was, and even instigated Zheng Shao to ask for some seeds to let it be planted.

Later, after the chili peppers grew, she had them dried and made seasonings such as chili powder and chili oil, which were widely popularized in the Hou Mansion. It's just that this chili pepper is very spicy, and ordinary people can't stand the pungent taste at all, even if Zheng Wei vigorously promotes it, not many people are willing to use it seriously as a seasoning that can be served. Although the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion later put some chili powder in the shop to sell because of the planting of a lot of chili peppers, Zheng Wei knew that the sales of this thing had not been very good.

Now, how can there be such a thing in the palace?

The important thing is, how does this thing have to do with the prince?

Intuition told Zheng Wei that this matter is definitely related to Zheng Shao!

She forcibly restrained the panic and curiosity surging in her heart, and heard the emperor ask: "Tell me, who is it?" ”

Zheng Wei only felt that her head began to buzz, and Sedum Hong's cold voice like a machine was slightly distorted in her ears: "Back to the emperor, the minister was searched in the small kitchen of Jingchen Palace. ”

The emperor obviously didn't expect this answer either, and he was taken aback: "Jingchen Palace? Jingqing, don't talk nonsense! He had just ruled out Zheng Shao's suspicion, but now Sedum Tianhong threw such an answer in his face, and the emperor looked at Zheng Shao with a complicated expression, but found that the latter's face was more innocent than he imagined: "Emperor, what's wrong?" The concubine's taste is spicy, there is no dish that the concubine wants to eat in the palace, the last time the concubine's mother entered the palace, she asked her to bring some chili powder, is there any problem? ”

Zheng Wei almost wanted to laugh miserably: she grew up with Zheng Shao, and as soon as the other party opened her mouth, she could at least capture her love in her words, but now, Zheng Shao's appearance is so perfect, like a mirror, such unreal, but it shows that she has a ghost!