"No, in our country, during the season when there is a lot of heavy rainfall, the embankment usually has to open the sluice gate to release water in order to save more rainwater and prevent the embankment from bursting. But I see that the water level of this embankment is very high now, and if there is a sudden rainstorm, I am afraid that it will ......."

"Zixi, what you said makes sense, I'll go back and talk to the Ministry of Industry about it......"

While the two were talking, Gonggong Li hurriedly came over in a carriage, stopped on the official road, and shouted at Xiao Jingcong.

"Little Hou Ye, something is wrong! Someone from the palace has spread the word that the emperor is critically ill, please enter the palace quickly! ”

"What?! The emperor is critically ill?! ”

When Xiao Jingcong heard this, she immediately became nervous.

He looked at Yan Zixi and wanted to explain to her, but Yan Zixi covered his mouth.

"It's okay, Jingcong, you can enter the palace quickly, you don't have to accompany me!"

Xiao Jingcong hesitated for a moment, then took Yan Zixi's hand, "Zixi, you enter the palace with me." ”

"Huh?! Jingcong, you want to kill me? I'm a folk girl, how can I meet the emperor with you! They're going to kick me out! ”

When Yan Zixi heard this, she hurriedly wanted to break free from Xiao Jingcong's hands, but helplessly, Xiao Jingcong's hands were too strong, and Yan Zixi couldn't break free even if she used all her strength.

"Jingcong, let me go!"

Xiao Jingcong didn't listen to Yan Zixi at all, pulled her directly into the carriage, and then ordered Gonggong Li to drive into the palace.

Sitting in the carriage, Yan Zixi was still restless and wanted to get out of the carriage, but Xiao Jingcong came to Yan Zixi and whispered to her.

"Zixi, you and I will enter the palace together and find a chance to see the emperor's condition."

"Huh?" When Yan Zixi heard this, she stopped struggling and seemed to understand something.

"Jingcong, what do you mean ......"

Xiao Jingcong had a calm face and said worriedly: "I suspect that the emperor's illness is caused by someone who has done something, you are a doctor, I will take you with me, maybe I can find something......

"But I'm low......"

"It's okay, everything is with me!" Xiao Jingcong gently hugged Yan Zixi and relieved her.

Although Yan Zixi was nervous, Xiao Jingcong said so, so she had to go with him to see the palace saint.

……

When Xiao Jingcong and Yan Zixi rushed to the palace, the atmosphere in the palace was obviously different from usual.

The faces of the palace maids and eunuchs were all panicked.

The guards of the Imperial Forest Army guarded the main roads in the palace to prevent chaos.

Many princes and ministers who rushed to hear the news were stopped outside the main hall by the guards, and they were so anxious that they didn't know what to do.

Seeing Xiao Jingcong coming, they came over to salute him.

"General Xiao, are you here too?"

Xiao Jingcong's face was expressionless, and he asked coldly, "What's the situation?" ”

The ministers spread their hands one after another, "We don't know, huh? You have also seen that the emperor has decreed that only the royal bloodline is allowed to visit the palace! ”

"Then you can wait here for news!"

After speaking, Xiao Jingcong took Yan Zixi to the door of the main hall, and when those guards saw Xiao Jingcong coming, they all got out of the way.

When they entered the temple, there were already many people inside.

It should all be princes, grandsons and other characters.

Yan Zixi didn't dare to raise her head, bowed down, and followed behind Xiao Jingcong with broken steps, just looking at the people in the hall with the corner of her eye.

Standing at the front was a man in his thirties and forties, wearing a golden python robe and a yellow crown, with a tall figure and a kingly spirit in his gestures.

There was also a man in a python robe, but his face was white and pure, with a little more bookish atmosphere.

Xiao Jingcong walked over and took the lead in saluting the two men.

Only then did Yan Zixi know that these two were the second prince Xiao Yuxian and the third prince Xiao Yuchen.

Standing on the other side were Xiao Yuyan, the fourth prince, and Murong Qianqian, the county lord of King Jing's Mansion.

As soon as Yan Zixi's gaze swept to Murong Qianqian, she immediately buried her head deeper.

Murong Qianqian's attention was all on Xiao Jingcong's body, but she didn't notice her existence.

Xiao Jingcong asked the princes about the emperor's illness, and the princes all frowned, and their faces were uncertain.

At this time, a crying voice came from inside the inner sanctum.

When the people in the main hall heard this cry, their faces changed greatly, and they all looked in the direction of the inner hall.

The old eunuch lifted the curtain that was separated, and then walked out with red eyes, and the old face was also filled with endless sadness.

He is Gonggong Wu, who has served the emperor for more than 30 years, and his status and identity among those eunuchs are the most noble, and he is also the emperor's most trusted old eunuch.

Gonggong Wu walked over and said to the princes, grandsons, princesses, princes, and princesses standing in the main hall.

"The emperor has decreed, please enter the inner hall to meet you!"

When everyone heard Gonggong Wu's words, their faces were desolate and sad, and everyone held their breath, slowly followed behind Gonggong Wu, and walked in gently.

Xiao Jingcong glanced at Yan Zixi gently, and then walked in with her.

This scene happened to be seen by the county lord of Qianqian, her mouth was crooked, and her chest rose and fell, but because of this occasion, she was not easy to attack, so she could only grit her teeth and endure it.

In the inner hall, there were already many people standing on both sides of the dragon bed.

The Queen Mother sat next to the bed and cried all the time, and the Queen Mother also waited for the emperor.

Several imperial doctors also bowed their heads to the side, their expressions were very solemn and ugly.

In the past few days, almost all the imperial doctors and imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital have come over, but they are all helpless.

Yan Zixi also stood on tiptoe and looked into the golden yellow tent.

I saw that on the sandalwood dragon bed, an old man with a pale face and a withered face was lying there, looking very weak.

The Queen Mother cried heartbroken, and sat on the edge of the bed, her thin body and bones becoming shaky.

The old wizened hands trembled and held the handkerchief to wipe away their tears, and although they were already trying to control it, they still wept bitterly.

The queen mother comforted on the side, and when she saw that everyone had followed Gonggong Wu in, she said to everyone in a choked voice.

"Get down on your knees!"

When those princes, princesses, princesses, and princesses heard the words of the queen mother, they all knelt down, and Yan Zixi was no exception, kneeling on the ground with Xiao Jingcong and bowing their heads.

This is not something that everyone can see.

At this time, the queen sat down in front of the bed again, leaned into the emperor's ear, and whispered a few words softly.

"Your Majesty, the children have arrived, are you taking a look?"

Hearing the queen's voice, the emperor opened his sunken eye sockets with difficulty, and his cloudy eyes swept over the sons and grandchildren kneeling in front of the dragon bed.

When the Queen Mother saw this scene, she couldn't stand it anymore and choked up again.

"Emperor, they have all come to see you, can you talk to the children?"

The emperor rolled his cloudy eyes, his gaze slowly wandered over the kneeling princes and grandsons, his lips moved, his mouth opened slightly, he wanted to make a sound but didn't say a word after all, and finally he could only let out a long breath.

Just look up at these people, they have already consumed all his strength, where can they speak again.

Yan Zixi quietly raised his head and glanced at the emperor, and saw that his face was bloated, his eyes were cloudy, and if he continued like this, he might not last long and would die.

"Is there really no way to cure it?"

Yan Zixi secretly thought in his heart, it stands to reason that the emperor has just reached sixty this year, and his age is not particularly old, although it has been relatively long in ancient times, but after all, he is the emperor, pampered and pampered, and there are ordinary eunuchs and palace maids to serve him, and he must live longer than those ordinary people.

So it shouldn't be the limit.

In other words, the emperor is sick, and he also has a strange disease, a strange disease that makes all the imperial doctors and doctors in the Tai Hospital helpless.

If this disease can be cured, the emperor may be able to ......

Yan Zixi didn't continue to think about it, there might be other things involved, he glanced at the princes, grandsons, princesses and princesses who were kneeling in front of the emperor's bed, they might all be waiting for the emperor to breathe.

However, Yan Zixi can see that although the current emperor looks dying and terminally ill, he does not really look like he is about to run out of oil.

If it is treated now, there may be a glimmer of life.

It's just that now Yan Zixi can't get close to the emperor, and there is no way to check and treat him, so he can only hope for those imperial doctors.

The emperor raised his hand, but suddenly his breath moved, his mouth couldn't stop coughing, and his breathing became short.

When the queen saw this, she hurriedly shouted outside the hall.

"Quick! Tell the Imperial Doctor! ”

"The Imperial Doctor—"

"The Imperial Doctor—"

"Get up first!" Seeing that the prince was still kneeling on the ground, the queen waved her hand and said.

Yan Zixi stood up with Xiao Jingcong and stood aside respectfully.

Soon, the three imperial doctors walked in quickly with panicked expressions.

came to the dragon bed and diagnosed the emperor one by one.

The old queen mother on the side saw that the imperial doctors had been diagnosed and treated for a long time, and the emperor still did not look any better, so she couldn't help it, so she howled and cried.

The queen was also angry, and scolded loudly.

"Over the years, has the hospital done its best to raise some rice buckets? The imperial doctor has changed batch after batch, why can't he even find out what the disease is? ”

When the three royal physicians heard the queen's anger, they immediately fell to the ground and knelt in front of the queen and begged for mercy.

"The queen mother's life! The queen spares her life! ”

"The ministers are incompetent, and they really can't find out what kind of strange disease the saint has?!"

"Where's your Dean Wu? Where he is now, send him to me at once! ”

"Back to the queen mother, Dean Wu has already left the palace to find a doctor for the saint!"

"What?!" When the queen heard this, she was immediately furious, "Dean Wu is the first imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, and he wants to go out of the palace to seek a doctor?" ”

Several imperial doctors immediately explained: "Dean Wu is also helpless, he heard that a miracle doctor came to the capital, so he ......"