"The former dynasty Taizu dismissed the position of prime minister, not out of consideration for protecting the imperial power of his descendants. But without the prime minister, the civil officials still hugged each other, and the emperor went from fighting with one person to fighting with a group of people. ”

"Originally, I fought this battle just to be buried with my beloved. So far, this has become a reason, I want to let those civil officials see, who speaks counts, who is the real person in charge of this Dayan world! ”

Beloved?

Chen Xi chewed these four words silently, and put himself in his shoes, if it was himself and Du Mingxin, I was afraid that his attitude would be more resolute than Chen Yuantai.

He raised the teacup with a smile and said, "The minister there first replaced the wine with tea, and wished my father's wish to come true as soon as possible!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside, which stopped abruptly in front of the Qianqing Palace.

"What's going on?" Chen Yuantai asked unhappily.

After a while, the prince trotted in quickly, and said in a somewhat ** voice: "Back to the emperor, someone from Kunning Palace said, saying that the fourth prince suddenly had a high fever and convulsions, please go over and take a look!" ”

Chen Yuantai stood up and asked sharply, "What's the matter?" Have you asked for a doctor? ”

"He said that he had already sent someone to ask for Dr. Gao." A thin layer of sweat appeared on the forehead of the prince, but he didn't dare to wipe it.

Recently, the emperor has been troubled by civil officials because of the problem of joint burial in the imperial mausoleum. Now that the four princes have an accident again, they are waiting in the Qianqing Palace, and they are afraid that they will have their heads pinned to their belts.

Chen Yuantai frowned. He didn't have a good impression of this doctor surnamed Gao, and always felt that he was a traveling doctor, and he was lucky enough to get into the eyes of the Deng family before he could enter the palace to serve.

"Confused! If that Gao Yang is really capable, how can the fourth prince have such an emergency? Go and call all the doctors who are good at pediatrics in Tai Hospital to go to Kunning Palace! Chen Yuantai hurriedly commanded as he walked out.

The prince didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly called the little eunuch to go to the hospital to deliver the decree.

Before Chen Yuantai went to the palace, he glanced back at Chen Xi and said, "It's not early, you go out of the palace." Brother Kun is at home, you have to take care of it! ”

Chen Xi respectfully agreed.

There was a panic in Kunning Palace, and as soon as Chen Yuantai entered the inner hall, he heard a faint cry.

His heart lifted suddenly, and he walked to the bed in the hall in three steps and two steps, and saw the fourth prince lying on the bed, his little face flushed abnormally, and his breathing was still a little short.

Chen Yuantai was slightly relieved, turned his head and said to the queen who was crying beside the bed: "The child is not doing well, you are crying like this!" Isn't it unlucky! ”

The queen looked up suddenly, and when she saw that it was him coming, there was a trace of resentment in her eyes, and she did not get up to salute, but lowered her head and continued to cover her mouth with a handkerchief and weep.

Chen Yuantai was a little inexplicable by her, but the hall was full of people, and he was not easy to attack. After scanning around, he found that Concubine De and Zhang Wenyuan in the harem had arrived, but there was no trace of Qian Yulan.

He thought that Qian Yulan was pregnant and needed to avoid taboos, so he didn't think much about it, but asked Gao Yang, "How is the illness of the fourth prince?" What is the reason for such a ferocious illness? Didn't you say that he was already much better some time ago? ”

Gao Yang replied unhurriedly: "Back to the emperor, the body of the fourth prince was originally getting better day by day, his daily diet was much more than before, and his body size and weight were almost the same as those of children of the same age. According to the prince's grandmother, the fourth prince began to have a fever in the middle of the night last night. By the time Wei Chen arrived this morning, the high fever had not subsided at all, and at the same time, symptoms of convulsions and vomiting had appeared. ”

"But being able to vomit shows that it's a good thing, because Weichen judged that this time the four princes were not sick, but artificially poisoned."

As soon as these words came out, only Chen Yuantai was surprised in the room.

He looked around and saw that everyone else had the same expressions as before, knowing that Gao Yang must have said this statement before.

However, he didn't like Gao Yang's demeanor at this time, although he admired people who were in danger, but Gao Yang's expression was too calm, as if he had expected all this to happen in the morning.

"How can you be sure of poisoning?" Chen Yuantai stabilized his mind and asked in a deep voice.

"Although the fourth prince was weak before, it was only because of premature birth. Combined with his symptoms from last night to now, Weichen suspected that he had been poisoned by aconite. Then Weichen tasted the urine of the four princes, and there was indeed a spicy taste unique to aconite, and his tongue was sour after tasting it. ”

"Aconite?" It's the first time Chen Yuantai has heard of this kind of thing, "How toxic is it?" Since it is poison, how can there be it in the palace? ”

"Aconite, grass head, aconite, these herbs are very poisonous, but they also have the effect of calming the nerves and relieving pain. In the south, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, as well as Zhenla and Siam, there are home remedies for soaking wine or cooking with aconitum on the side. Gao Yang's voice was not hurried, mixed with the queen's low whimper.

"You mean the Imperial Dining Room?" Chen Yuantai's brows furrowed tightly, "But isn't the fourth prince still weaned?" How can you eat something from the Imperial Dining Room? ”

"I've been eating mush since last month!" The queen suddenly raised her voice and cried, "It's a nurse!" The nurse fed him the rice cake secretly sent by Jingren Palace! ”

After speaking, the queen burst into tears, and said while crying: "How can such a femme fatale woman, who is also pregnant with a child herself, harm other people's children?" Kang'er is so small and in poor health, what can hinder her? ”

"Or is it that she was reprimanded by me in Kunning Palace a few days ago, and she wants to make up for it on my son?!"

The words were endless, and Chen Yuantai didn't know about Qian Yulan's humiliation in Kunning Palace before.

He said to Concubine De: "Tell me, what's going on here?" ”

Concubine De hurriedly smiled: "The concubines don't know the reason like the emperor!" I only saw Qian Zhaorong coming over just now, the queen mother was in a bad mood and blamed her, Qian Zhaorong cried and went back to Jingren Palace. ”

Chen Yuantai frowned, he was arguing with the civil officials when he came back from outside the palace, and he had never been to see Qian Yulan. There was no embarrassment in him not knowing how to deal with her.

Thinking about such a delicate person who has been snubbed by himself for so long, and has been wronged by the queen, Chen Yuantai is a little unbearable.

Intuitively, he didn't believe that Qian Yulan would harm people, especially the four princes, because there was no conflict of interest between the two.

What's more, although Qian Yulan has a soft temperament, she has an arrogance. This kind of indiscriminate method of poisoning babies, she should rather quarrel with the queen openly than disdain to do it.

Zhang Wenyuan looked at Chen Yuantai's expression, a little unsure whether he doubted Qian Yulan or still believed her. After thinking about it, she decided that she should not stand still, and she could not offend Chen Yuantai in order to please the queen.