Two days later, Liu Yong got news about Chen Ji.

"The slave was ordered to follow Lord Chen, and finally saw him secretly put on makeup and went out of the palace to a very ordinary house today, the slave suspected that he was sending food to the woman named Lin Yuniang, and wanted to rush in to arrest people, but he was worried that once he made a mistake, he would be sued by the Queen Mother, so he came back to ask His Majesty to decide." The eunuch stood in front of Liu Yong and said in a low voice.

Liu Yong was pleased that the eunuch had not taken action.

"It's hard work, I already know, you go and rest."

"Your Majesty, don't you rush to arrest this thief?"

"Let me think about it." Liu Yong waved his hand.

The eunuch was suspicious, didn't dare to ask more, and left.

The enemy forces outside the city have not moved, and Liu Yong can't guess the thoughts of Deng Ai and Sima Banru, but he vaguely feels that there seems to be some huge conspiracy hidden behind this silence.

The grain and grass were robbed, and the food taken out by officials at all levels could only last for a few days, and if they could not defeat the enemy army as soon as possible, they would only watch the people in the city starve to death.

Liu Yong would never allow such a thing to happen.

He thought along the lines of what Empress Zhang had said.

"Someone!" Suddenly, he shouted.

Soon, a eunuch on duty ran in, and a palace maid who had just replaced the dead palace maid also followed.

Liu Yong covered his chest with one hand, dense beads of sweat gathered on his forehead, and his expression was extremely painful.

"I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my chest, you should quickly send the imperial doctor here, and you must not delay."

The two were frightened when they saw Liu Yong like this.

"Your Majesty will stay away, and the slave will go to pass the imperial doctor." The eunuch on duty ran out.

The palace maid helped Liu Yong to lie on the bed.

Liu Yong kept turning over, and his mouth still let out painful moans from time to time.

"How could Your Majesty suddenly become so ill?" The palace maid was so panicked that she didn't know what to do.

"Go and tell my mother quickly, it's too late, I'm afraid my mother and son won't see each other again." Liu Yong intermittently instructed the palace maid.

The palace maid seemed to wake up suddenly.

In less than a cup of tea, Empress Dowager Wu hurried over accompanied by Ling'er, and then, two imperial doctors also rushed to Yongtai Palace with the medical box in their arms.

At this time, Liu Yong's face was pale, and he had already fainted in pain.

Under the constant urging of Empress Dowager Wu, the two imperial doctors were so panicked that they forgot to clean their hands.

"Back to the Empress Dowager Chitose, Your Majesty's pulse is a little strange, the villain has been a doctor for many years, and he has never encountered such a patient." An imperial doctor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied to Empress Dowager Wu.

"The villain also thinks it's very strange, and he can't find the root cause of His Majesty's disease." The other chimed in.

"Rubbish!" Empress Dowager Wu was so anxious, "You are the imperial court doctor, but you can't even diagnose and treat my emperor's illness, what's the use of leaving you to wait?" ”

The Imperial Physician fell to his knees in fright.

"The Queen Mother is angry, although the villain can't determine the source of the disease, but he can still prescribe medicine to relieve the severe pain for His Majesty, and after His Majesty wakes up and asks carefully, he may be able to find the source of the disease in order to prescribe the right medicine."

"That's what the villain means."

"In that case, don't you prescribe medicine soon." Empress Dowager Wu couldn't wait to slap the two of them in the face a few times.

The imperial doctor hurriedly stood up and prescribed medicine.

In less than a day, the entire palace already knew the news of the emperor's serious illness.

"Ling'er, quickly go to the palaces on behalf of the mourning family, this matter must not be spread outside the palace, if there is anyone who reveals the news, it will not be forgiven." Empress Dowager Wu is quite calm.

Ling'er also knew that this matter was important, and hurriedly took people to various palaces to spread the message.

Liu Yong just didn't wake up.

Empress Dowager Wu and Empress Zhang, who hurried to hear the news, stayed by Liu Yong's side until midnight, when the two went back to the palace to rest.

"Your Majesty, this illness must be because you can't deal with Chen Ji and you are angry." After Duan'er helped Empress Zhang wash, she looked at Empress Zhang, who was sitting in front of the dresser and didn't want to go to sleep, and said.

Empress Zhang didn't seem to be anxious at all.

"Your Majesty has worked hard all day in order to defend against the enemy forces outside the city, and it is better to ask him to rest for a few days."

"Why isn't the queen worried?" Duan'er was puzzled.

Empress Zhang smiled silently.

Outside the palace walls:

A dark shadow hunched out of the tunnel, crouched there for a long time, and quickly drowned in the pitch black night.

Not long after, he had already appeared in an underground storage room of Lin Yuniang's house.

The light of the candle was extremely bright in this narrow space, shining on Chen Ji's face, but it made Lin Yuniang extremely disgusting, but she didn't show the slightest.

"The concubine sees that Liu Yong is scheming, Lord Chen should not be deceived by him."

"Madame, don't be suspicious." Chen Ji held the injured arm with one hand, "The villain has gone to see it personally, this guy is probably entangled by Liu Chan's ghost, and the imperial medicine can't cure it at all, thinking that he won't have much time to come, and his wife is expected to go out of the city." ”

Lin Yuniang thought about it.

"In that case, what does Lord Chen think?"

"The villain has already thought about it, and he will go to the city early tomorrow morning to inform the soldiers guarding the city of this news, if he learns that Liu Yong is critically ill, his army will be scattered. The villain is trying to deliver a message outside the city, asking General Deng and Marquis Sima to take the opportunity to attack the city, and the city can be taken down in one fell swoop. ”

"Since Lord Chen already has a good plan, why wait for tomorrow morning, why not act at night?" Lin Yuniang was far more anxious than Chen Ji.

Chen Ji laughed lewdly.

"After the city is broken, Madame will return to Marquis Sima, at that time, the villain wants to see Madame, I am afraid it will be very difficult, tonight is a good night, how can it be empty?"

Lin Yuniang looked at Chen Ji's face, hating and angry in her heart, but she couldn't attack, so she had to smile and say, "Lord Chen's injury has not healed, and the concubine is afraid that her injury will be aggravated by this." ”

Where was Chen Ji willing to listen, and came up with a lewd smile.

Yongtai Palace:

Liu Yong was still lying on the bed, his whole body was covered by a brocade quilt, and only a thin strand of black hair was exposed on the pillow.

The palace maid was guarding the door of the dormitory, already drowsy.

At the palace gate at the back, the eunuch in charge of monitoring Chen Ji kept walking there, looking worried.

The sudden appearance of the figure startled the eunuch.

"Your Majesty, what are you ......" The eunuch's face turned pale with shock.

"Shh Liu Yong made a silent gesture at him, and then took his hand and hid in a dark shadow, "Who is guarding the city tonight?" ”

The eunuch tried to calm his heartbeat.

"The slave just went to ask, General Zhang Shao, who was originally recuperating at home tonight, personally went to the top of the city, presumably he has not left at this time."

"Good!" Liu Yongxi said, "Although this person is a little rude, but he has a very good way to command the troops, you go immediately and give this letter to General Zhang, remember, you must not be known by anyone other than him." ”

Liu Yong handed a folded piece of yellow silk to the eunuch.

"Your Majesty is good at protecting the dragon body, and the slave will go." The eunuch agreed and left immediately.

Seeing that there was no one around, Liu Yong quietly returned to his bedside, threw the black ponytail under the bed from the pillow, and lay back on the bed.

A cold wind blew from outside the door, blowing out the candles on the table, and the palace maid was startled, hurriedly stood up, rubbed her sour eyes and ran into the house.