Chapter 49: The Epidemic (2)
Hua's woman, as the emperor, must not step out of the palace gate. However, at this time, Lin Yuan was the ruler of the harem, and she held the Empress Dowager's decree and the book table given by the emperor, and no one dared to stop her along the way.
Compared with sending the imperial doctor to cure the nobles, this kind of treatment is more appropriate for the harem.
As long as the noble people do not spread the disease, this palace will be safe. As for the life or death of the noble man himself, it does not matter.
However, Lin Yuan's efforts could not turn the tide after all.
An hour later, King Zhao and Emperor Changning in the upper study had symptoms of the epidemic.
Lin Yuan's heart was tense, it was so dangerous, but fortunately she left the three imperial doctors to Qiqi.
When she learned the news that Huagui people were infected with the disease, Lin Yuan felt that the epidemic was not aimed at Huagui people at that time. Huagui offended a lot of people after Jin Feng, and it is very likely that the concubine next to her took advantage of her asthma attack to infect her with the epidemic because of jealousy - but this practice is too risky, just the concubines compete for favor, so they dare to spread the epidemic in the palace, which is a big crime to rob the family and exterminate the family.
Another possibility is that someone in the palace deliberately spread the epidemic for the purpose of the emperor's heir.
Hua Guiren is always healthy, but when he has an asthma attack, he becomes weak, much like a child who is easily infected.
would rather believe it than not, Lin Yuan didn't dare to take it lightly. She couldn't find out what means the other party used, but if she really wanted to slaughter the imperial heir - whether it was the Shangguan family's rebellion, or someone else plotted against Shangguan Li and murdered the imperial heir, the sixth prince, the most beloved child of his father, would bear the brunt.
With the infection of the prince and the princess, the emperor faced an unprecedented crisis. He immediately ordered that the children of King Zhao be taken to Changle Palace, and the five princes, who were not yet ill, were sent to take care of them. At the same time, Takubahiro senses that something is wrong and begins to thoroughly investigate why several children are sick.
The Changle Palace was impenetrable, and all the palace people who took care of Yuan Rong were not allowed to leave the Changle Palace for a single step. The epidemic is not a disease caused by the human body, but is transmitted from domestic animals to humans, and there is a large number of infections among people. Since Changle Palace is tightly sealed, how did the Huagui people get infected?
Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that asthma worsens into pneumonia and not into plague, which are two diseases with different natures.
It's just that because Huagui people are weak during asthma attacks, they are more likely to get infected.
At the end of the day, there is still a source of infection.
Let's talk about King Zhao and them. The older princes and princesses are all studying in the front palace, and rarely enter the harem, Changning was forced by Zhao Zhaoyi to live in the five schools of Qiannan because of the choice of a husband, and it stands to reason that it is difficult for them to contact anyone and anything in the Changle Palace.
But something happened to them.
King Zhao is a boy, and he is older, and he is in no danger after being sent back to Changle Palace. Changning is the first in the world of Daqin on weekdays, and the live-action version of the pea princess in Lin Yuan's eyes is burned in a daze in just a few quarters of an hour, and the water and rice do not enter. The Queen Mother was so frightened that she thought that she would be burned to death like Yuan Rong, Zhao Zhaoyi cried so much that she opened Chaohuatang and rushed to Changle Palace to take care of it. Fan Yu, who lived with Changning in the five institutes of Qiannan, was sent to a side hall of Changle Palace, and the imperial doctor couldn't be sure whether she had been infected, so he could only separate her first.
The princess was just that, and the five princes and the sixth prince were sent to Huanxiu Villa by the emperor's order.
Emperor Shujia of Yanqing Gong also had mild symptoms of infection. She was sent to Changle Palace, where she was with Changning and Yuanrong.
Among the rest of the concubines and concubines, many people began to be infected. Tuoba Hong saw Lin Yuan's way of dealing with the noble people, and thought it was true, and ordered all the people with high fever to be sent outside the palace to separate. The imperial doctor in the palace was busy taking care of Changning and a few people, and he couldn't distinguish anyone to take care of others, even if the concubine master was sick, he could only leave the palace as long as he was sick.
No one is truly fearless and life-and-death. When those who were infected were tied up and sent out of the palace to fend for themselves, everyone in the palace, from the concubines to the palace people, began to be frantically afraid. Even many subordinates were ordered to be executed once they were infected, and they would not even have the opportunity to be sent out of the palace.
The cry of cruelty for survival sounded in every corner of the palace.
Things are getting bigger and bigger, and the turmoil in the palace is monstrous. When the two princes went out of the palace to avoid trouble, rumors spread that the Dao epidemic was manipulated by Empress Shangguan, and the Shangguan clan conspired against it in a vain attempt to subvert Daqin.
On the fourth day of the third lunar month, it was rumored that the queen had raised dead soldiers and spread epidemics in the capital.
This news also spread with noses and eyes, saying that there is still a large team of people in the Zhuangzi of Yangzhou City, all of whom are from the Shangguan family. The person who delivered the letter to Yangzhou by the general of Shangzhu State who fought in the northwest was intercepted and killed by the emperor's henchmen, and the letter was written in a horrific way.
Everyone in the harem was already panicking because of the epidemic. Such a strong news related to the epidemic quickly attracted much attention and spread all over the city.
And the Chonghua Palace, where the queen lives, is as silent as water.
Lin Yuan watched the fire from the other side and watched the changes. When those unbearable rumors about Shangguan Li reached her ears, a stone fell to the ground in her heart.
I have known it for a long time...... The people in the shadows will not let Shangguan Li go easily.
It is estimated that these rumors are not completely fabricated, but they are still somewhat true. The important thing is that it must have been the emperor's Tuoba Hiroshi who had similar suspicions that he would decide to ground the empress.
Between the real and the false, it is most suitable for fishing in troubled waters.
Lin Yuan has been waiting for news, and what she is waiting for is the news of the queen's self-determination.
The reason why the queen can end up like this must be related to the lifeblood of the society. Shangguan Yue's daughter's position is shaken, which in itself will threaten the country, and Tuoba Hong insists on doing so, which shows that the reason behind it is more serious than Shangguan Yue being forced to rebel.
And when the rumors came out, Lin Yuan had no way to determine the truth - if most of the rumors were true, it was that the Shangguan clan was going to rebel. If most of it is fake, someone has spent a lot of money to assassinate Shangguan Li.
But either way—
If the Shangguan clan decides to rebel, it is possible to overthrow the Tuoba royal family with the soldiers and horses in the hands of Shangguan Yue. But at this time, the queen of the palace and the two princes, Emperor Zhaochun, became hostages.
The two princes are the sons and daughters of Tuoba Hong, and Tuoba Hong will not necessarily kill the killer. And they don't have the surname Shangguan, and Shangguan Yue is likely to disregard their lives. In contrast, Shangguan Li is Shangguan Yue's eldest daughter. For the sake of the great cause, what Shangguan Li should do is to commit suicide to remove the shackles for his father.
If the Shangguan clan was wronged, the attitude of the emperor and the queen mother made her speechless, and the rumors made her desperate. Tuoba Hong is such a ruthless emperor, who knows if he will issue an order to exterminate the Shangguan clan? He thought that his throne was most threatened, and perhaps before he found out the facts, he would be impatient to put an end to the scourge.
It is better to kill by mistake than to let go.
For the sake of the mother family, proving innocence by death is the only way out for Shangguan Li.
No matter what the truth is, Lin Yuan is sure that Shangguan Li will be forced to death.
But Shangguan Li is a strong woman, and she will not die willingly. Therefore, Lin Yuan lied that he was ordered by the Queen Mother to send a box of rouge to Chonghua Palace.
Giving rouge to a female prisoner, such a strange act can only be interpreted as giving death.
Lin Yuan didn't poison it. She wouldn't take risks, she didn't want Shangguan Li to be found out by the Queen Mother after her death.
But Shangguan Li's henchmen have been transferred out, and she can't tell whether there is poison in the rouge if she doesn't know medical science. She's going to struggle because of it.
It was the Queen Mother who sent Lin Yuan to deliver things......
If he dies, it will be good for the Shangguan family and the royal family. She is determined to die, which is a truce and mutual trust for both sides.
So will she accept her fate and use this box of rouge to cut herself?
Nor will it. She didn't know what was in the rouge, if not a lethal poison, but something else?
What if it's Gu? She had heard more or less about the death of Concubine Mao back then.
Miao Jiang's Gu can make people die tragically in the most painful way, but the reason why that thing is famous is not killing, but manipulating.
Even if it's not Gu, it could be something else terrifying. The world is so big that there are no surprises, the Lan family used to be loyal to Shangguan Li, and Shangguan Li should know better than others those strange prescriptions in the rivers and lakes.
The fear of the unknown made Shangguan Li not choose that box of rouge.
Hanging beams or swallowing gold are good solutions. Lin Yuan felt that her Suihou Pearl was a good choice, the real Night Pearl had a heavy weight, even more effective than red gold.
Lin Yuan thought deeply for a long time before he started. If Shangguan Li was framed, that opponent must be very terrifying. The sixth prince was in that person's calculations, if he hadn't been cautious and didn't hesitate to resist the decree to leave the imperial doctor by Xiaoqi's side, Xiaoqi would be almost as sick as Yuan Rong.
It's better to help Shangguan Li get out of trouble this time and get rid of that person.
But then again, Shangguan Li is her biggest opponent. She believes that Shangguan Li's methods will not lose to anyone, and she is also the empress's honor.
Such a good opportunity, as long as she fuels the troubles, she can put Shangguan Li to death.
The second option is more likely to succeed than the two.
Moreover, Lin Yuan really couldn't tolerate Shangguan Li. As long as this woman lives, she and Kiki will be suppressed for a day, and the danger in the future will increase by one point. Although she temporarily obeyed the emperor and became a queen with a bad reputation, how could she not have ambition?
In the future, Xiaoqi is her biggest roadblock. She and Shangguan Li used to be-for-tat, and now they are even more endless.
As for those who are against Shangguan Li? Even if she was Concubine Jing, Lin Yuan was not afraid.
Every moment in the spread of the plague is thrilling. Two days later, some people in the capital were infected with the epidemic, and hundreds of people died of illness in just one day.
The news of the outbreak of the plague in the capital soon spread all over the world, and the people of the Great Qin people were panicked. Many people in Beijing have even begun to flee.
And the cure has not yet been developed. The hospital stayed up and down all night, but nothing was progressed. Most of the patients who were tested were ineffective after taking the drugs, and a few became more serious.
It's a crazy disaster.
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