In the dormitory of the Changle Palace, it is as warm as midsummer. Not only is the earth dragon in the hall burning, but there is also a red-hot charcoal basin burning in front of the phoenix couch in the dormitory.

Xiao and the Empress Dowager lay quietly on the phoenix couch, her eyes narrowed, her face was no longer smooth with a trace of abnormal redness, and her lips were chapped and peeled due to high heat.

She was pressed with a thick brocade quilt on her body, and her body couldn't stop trembling slightly.

Zhiyue's eyes were slightly red, and she knelt on the foot couch in front of the bed. From the copper basin on his side, he carefully twisted a cool veil and replaced the already warm veil on the head of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe.

Zhiqiu walked in, followed by the already aged Imperial Physician.

Seeing this, Zhiyue hurriedly put the handkerchief in his hand into the basin, wiped the water on his hand clean, and then took out the hand of Xiao and the Empress Dowager from the thick quilt.

Zhiqiu took a gauze from the small table and gently covered it on the wrist of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager.

Imperial Physician Wang sat on the carved table moved by Zhiyue, looked at the face of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager twice, and then squinted his eyes lightly, and carefully diagnosed the pulse of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager.

After a long time, he raised his hand and asked Zhiqiu, who was standing on the side, "How is the Empress Dowager today?" ”

"This morning, the Empress Dowager Qing'er ate half a bowl of rice porridge, but she vomited it again in less than half an hour." Zhiqiu bit his lip, endured his crying, and said, "Imperial Physician, the medicine you prescribed a few days ago, the Empress Dowager didn't make any difference after taking it......

Imperial Physician Wang sighed helplessly and said, "The Empress Dowager is already old, and she can't use those tiger and wolf medicines anymore." Now I can only focus on conditioning and raise it slowly. ”

"But the Queen Mother has been sleeping like this since the afternoon this day, and she is still crying cold." Zhiyue wrung the handkerchief in her hand, and her pale little face was full of anxiety.

"In a while, I will ask the medicine boy to send three pairs of medicines, and let the Empress Dowager subside the high fever first." Imperial Physician Wang picked up the wrist pillow, stood up, and said, "Then I'll consider a prescription again......

Xiao He on the phoenix couch took a few deep breaths and opened her slightly cloudy eyes. After swallowing a mouthful of spit, she said in a slightly dry voice, "Imperial Doctor Wang, is it you?" ”

Doctor Wang hurriedly bowed down to the phoenix couch and said, "The Empress Dowager is an old minister. ”

"Don't think about any special prescriptions, what medicine to use for the emperor to reduce high fever on weekdays, and what medicine to use for the mourning family."

"Mother, I can't help it." Imperial Physician Wang persuaded in a low voice, "The emperor is in the prime of life, you ......"

"The mourning family is old, and the mourning family knows." The Empress Dowager Xiaohe tucked the quilt on her body again and sighed, "But if the days after this go by, the mourning family might as well take the crane early." Just use those medicines, if the blessing of the mourning family is great, it will be good if the two pairs of medicines go down. If the blessing is not great, the mourning family can be regarded as a blessing......"

Hearing the tone of filial piety and the Empress Dowager, the imperial physician could only nod silently and said, "Okay, the old minister will let the medicine boy go to get the medicine for the empress dowager......"

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe closed her eyes again, and the burning breath exhaled from her nose made her lips slightly sore.

Just when Zhiyue thought that Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager were asleep again, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe opened her eyes again and said, "Zhiqiu Zhiyue, you go out, and the mourning family has something to say to the imperial doctor." ”

Zhiqiu and Zhiyue glanced at each other, put down the things in their hands and went out.

Imperial Physician Wang watched Zhiqiu Zhiyue walk out of the dormitory, put down the heavy cotton curtain embroidered with pines and cypresses, and then whispered to Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, "Niangniang, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

"Are you sure?" The Empress Dowager Hyowa asked.

Imperial Physician Wang was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted, and said, "Back to the Empress Dowager, the old minister just went to Ye Guifei yesterday, and it is confirmed that the dragon heir in Ye Guifei's womb is a twin. ”

"Yes, yes, yes," the Empress Dowager Xiaohe squinted lightly, and her tone was very gratifying, "It's not in vain that you spent a year trying to condition her body." ”

"It's Concubine Ye's great blessing," Imperial Physician Wang replied softly.

"It's a blessing indeed." The Empress Dowager Xiaohe sighed lightly, "Back then, the mourning family wanted to give birth to a pair of twins, but they didn't want to end up with only Ru'er (Princess Chaoran) as a princess." As long as Concubine Ye can give birth to the twins safely, her position in the harem will be completely stable. ”

"The Empress Dowager," the Imperial Physician looked up puzzled and asked, "The old minister doesn't understand, why have you ...... in the past few years?"

"Why do you train her like this and prepare for her?" The Empress Dowager laughed lightly, but accidentally pulled her chapped lips. After frowning, Xiao and the Empress Dowager blinked her eyes that were dry from high heat twice, and said, "Because there are some things that she can only do, and she can't change someone else." ”

"The old minister understands." Imperial Physician Wang didn't ask much, only bowed his head and said, "The old minister will definitely take care of Ye Guifei's ...... carefully."

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe hummed softly, closed her eyes, and said, "If one day, she will no longer be as ...... as she is today."

"The old minister understands ......"

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe's breathing became calm and she stopped talking.

After a long time, Imperial Physician Wang said softly, "The old minister retired first......

Less than an hour after Imperial Physician Wang left, the medicine boy sent a pair of powerful antipyretics. When the medicine boy handed over the medicine to Zhiyue, he said, "The master said, this medicine is fried into half a bowl of medicinal juice with three bowls of water, and after the empress dowager eats it, drink more warm water, and the high fever will go away after an hour and a half." ”

Zhiyue trembled slightly and took the medicine with both hands, and her sad heart sank to the bottom.

Good and bad, it's all on this medicine.

When the fifth princess came back from Luoxue Pavilion in the night, Zhiyue had already decocted the medicine for Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager.

As the imperial physician said, after taking it for half an hour, the high fever of filial piety and the empress dowager subsided. But what followed was that Xiao and the Empress Dowager's body was cold, if it weren't for the closed eyes that moved from time to time, Zhiyue really wanted to cry.

The fifth princess saw Zhiqiu's red eyes when she saw Zhiqiu coming out of the Changle Palace, and immediately shouted, "What are you crying about, crying again will send you to the violent room." ”

The sound of milk and milk, but the words that came out were all cold.

Zhiqiu sobbed, bit his lip, lowered his head and shook his shoulders vigorously, not daring to make any more sounds.

The fifth princess lifted the corner of her skirt and walked into the Changle Palace, and found Zhiyue, who was quite stable in a group of flustered palace maids, and asked, "How is the Queen Mother?" ”

Zhiyue hurriedly blessed the fifth princess, and said with a slightly pale face, "Back to the fifth princess, the queen mother's high fever subsided after taking the medicine, but now her body has become cold, and the slave maid put three charcoal basins in the dormitory, and I still don't see the queen mother getting better......"

When the fifth princess heard that the lord walked into the dormitory of the Changle Palace, as soon as she lifted the cotton curtain, a burst of scorching heat rushed towards her, almost knocking her small body down.

Angry in her heart, the fifth princess turned around and said, "How can such heat be used to recuperate the empress dowager?" I can't even breathe well, so I don't go in quickly and remove two of the charcoal basins. ”

Seeing Zhiyue standing there without moving, the fifth princess was angry and shouted, "If something happens, this princess will bear it, otherwise this princess will tell her father that the queen mother is not well, all because you cheap slaves can't take care of it!" ”

Zhiyue stood there and confronted the fifth princess for a long time, and finally stomped her feet and ordered the two little eunuchs to go in and remove two of the charcoal basins.

The fifth princess glared at Zhiyue and took the dumb slave into the dormitory.

After entering, he saw that Xiao and the Empress Dowager were still pressed with two heavy quilts on their bodies, so they climbed on the bed in anger and took off one bed.

I touched the forehead of Xiao and the Empress Dowager, and it was really as cold as ice. The fifth princess lay on the body of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager and listened, until she heard the heartbeat of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, she sighed and put her heart down.

After sitting on the bed of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe for a while, the fifth princess bit her lip and said to the dumb slave standing beside her, "You are guarding the Empress Dowager here, and I will come when I go." Don't let them add any more charcoal to the dormitory until I return......"

The dumb slave couldn't speak, and nodded solemnly to the fifth princess, indicating that she could do it.

The five princesses jumped out of bed, rushed out of the dormitory like the wind, and ran out of the Yongshou Palace without even taking a cloak.

In the Falling Snow Pavilion, Lingxi was sitting on a low kang watching the lotus leaves embroider a small belly pocket in the candlelight. The fifth prince sat beside her, obviously sleepy, but still holding Lingxi's left hand.

Lingxi pinched the little face of the fifth prince with his right hand, and said with a smile, "Yi'er, go back to sleep when you are sleepy." ”

The fifth prince raised his head, looked at Lingxi, and then asked in a vague voice, "Mother, are you going to bed?" ”

Lingxi shook his head lightly and said with a smile, "I just had dinner, my mother will sit down for a while and then go to sleep, Yi'er will go back to sleep first." ”

The fifth prince hugged Lingxi's left hand tightly, curled up on the low kang, squinted his eyes and said, "Mother doesn't sleep, Yi'er doesn't sleep either, Yi'er is here with Mother." ”

Lingxi burst out laughing, according to the willfulness of the five princes. She raised her eyes and asked Lotus Ye, "When did the fifth prince become so willful, I haven't seen him so clingy." ”

"I'm afraid I learned it from the fifth princess." Lotus Ye grinned and said, "The fifth princess used to stick to her mother like this. ”

The Fifth Emperor raised his head, looked at the lotus leaf and said, "I didn't learn from the Fifth Emperor Sister, I was taught by the Fifth Emperor Sister." ”

Lingxi raised her eyebrows, unintentionally learning and intentionally teaching are two different things, is it okay for the fifth princess to teach the five princes?

"Yi'er, it's not a good habit to panic," Lingxi gently stroked the head of the Fifth Emperor and said with a smile, "Although your Fifth Emperor Sister spoils you, she will definitely not let you learn these things......"

"Mother, I didn't panic." The fifth prince sat up from the low kang, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and said, "It was the fifth emperor sister who said to Yi'er during the day today, saying that Yi'er should stay by her mother's side today, and she was not allowed to go anywhere, until her mother fell asleep, and Yi'er could not go back to sleep......"

The lotus leaf shook his hand, and the embroidery needle in his hand pierced his finger. She glanced up at Lingxi's face, and said to the five princes, "The five princes are not allowed to talk nonsense, be careful that the five princesses don't play with you tomorrow......"

Lingxi's heart was already flustered, she looked back at Lotus Ye, although the corners of her mouth were still smiling, but her tone was cold, "Lotus Ye, are you hiding something from me?" ”