It was raining heavily outside at this moment and it had been raining all night.
The next day, the sky cleared up and the Wei family servants were cleaning up the accumulated water in the yard.
Suddenly, two eunuchs dressed in palace clothes came to the Wei family and read the emperor's oral order to Yingbao, asking her to go to the palace to meet him immediately.
Yingbao didn't understand what was going on, but she still got on the carriage and entered the palace with two palace maids.
The eunuch took her to a palace called Zichen Palace.
There were several imperial doctors standing in the palace, as well as Imperial Concubine Lu who was crying like a tearful person, and Emperor Zhou Wuchang.
"Your Majesty, Princess Qinchuan is here." The eunuch quietly reminded the emperor who was sitting on the chair with his brows pinched.
Zhou Wuchang opened his eyes, saw Yingbao, and waved his hand to ask all the doctors and palace servants to leave.
Concubine Lu was also helped to the side hall.
Now, Zhou Wuchang and Ying Bao are the only two people left in the palace, and of course, there is also the baby lying in the baby bed.
Zhou Wuchang then said to Ying Bao: "Go check on my son. He has been poisoned. Even the antidote you gave him is ineffective."
Yingbao walked over as she was told, and was still a little surprised when she saw the baby with a blue face and dying.
"What poison has he been poisoned with?"
"I don't know." Zhou Wuchang said with a frustrated look: "The doctors have different opinions, and I don't know who to listen to. Please help me take a look."
Yingbao frowned, reached out to pull down the baby's eyelids, and then pressed her fingers on his neck to try again.
Hold the base of the baby's left index finger, and then use your thumb to push from the tip of the baby's index finger toward the base of the thumb to observe the color depth and extension of the fingerprint.
The child is indeed seriously ill and is in critical condition.
"Your Majesty, the King of Chu is indeed severely poisoned. Did you give him the antidote?" Ying Bao asked.
Zhou Wuchang: "If I hadn't given him your antidote, he would have died by now. But he has been getting sicker and weaker. Yingbao, see if there is any way to save him."
Up to now, he had only given birth to this one son, and the other concubines also gave birth one after another, but they were all daughters.
Now the daughter is safe and sound, but the only son has frequent problems. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that there is something fishy.
But even if he killed a group of palace maids, his child would still be plotted against.
This made Zhou Wuchang very angry.
But even if he killed all the suspicious people or cleaned up the entire palace, it would not prevent such things from happening again.
The enemy is hiding in the dark and we cannot defend ourselves against him.
Moreover, the child was so young that even if she was held in her mother's arms all day long, she could not avoid being assassinated.
Yingbao: "How about giving him some antidote? I don't think the antidote is ineffective, but the King of Chu has been poisoned so frequently that his internal organs have been damaged."
Zhou Wuchang nodded and watched Yingbao take out a small bottle of medicine from her bag and pour it into the baby's mouth.
The baby subconsciously moved his little mouth, showing a strong desire to survive.
Zhou Wuchang poked his head out to look for a while, then sighed and said helplessly: "I have already supervised all the drinking water in Zichen Palace. All kinds of spices are not needed. As for the wet nurse, someone is looking after her twelve hours a day." But he still couldn't stop the hidden murderous intent.
Yingbao wiped the baby's mouth and said, "If you use poison, it doesn't necessarily have to be used directly on the child. It may be applied to other places and then poison the child through a medium."
This range is a bit large.
With so many people in the palace, the ground, walls, furniture, and children's toys could all be poisoned, and then someone could accidentally bring those things to the children.
For example, if the towel in your hand is stained with a little poison, just using the poisonous corner to wipe the child is enough to make the weak baby feel unwell again.
Moreover, the person hiding in the dark does not want the child to live and will continue to poison the child until the child dies.
Zhou Wuchang had already thought of this, but it was impossible for him to kill all the palace people.
Maybe after killing one batch, another batch will come.
By then, I won't have to deal with state affairs, and I won't be able to cope with the affairs of the harem every day.
Zhou Wuchang closed his eyes tiredly, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Yingbao, I will give this child to you, and you will raise him."
Yingbao opened her eyes wide when she heard this and quickly refused: "Master... Your Majesty, I can't stay in the palace..."
Just kidding, once you enter the palace, don’t even think about leaving. If something happens to this child again someday, all the blame will probably be directed at you.
Zhou Wuchang waved his hand and said, "I'm not asking you to stay in the palace. I want you to take the child out of the palace and let him grow up outside the palace walls."
"This... isn't this more dangerous?" Yingbao was puzzled.
Zhou Wuchang: "I have my own arrangements. You just need to wait for news at home. Remember, don't tell this to outsiders, not even your husband."
After a pause, he continued, "I will give you both Zhouhe County and Qinchuan County as fiefdoms. From now on, the tax revenue from Zhouhe County will be used as food for Chen'er."
Yingbao wanted to argue further, but when she saw that her master had already picked up the pen to write something, she had to shut up.
After returning home from the palace, Wei Zhan asked her what she was doing there. Ying Bao said weakly, "His Majesty asked us to go to Qinchuan County in a few days, and also gave me Zhouhe County as a fiefdom."
Wei Zhan was surprised: "Why, why is this?" How could a county lady have two fiefs? Even a princess wouldn't have this treatment.
Yingbao blinked as she thought about something, and said casually, "Maybe he wants to take me in as his goddaughter."
"Adopt you as my goddaughter?" Wei Zhan didn't know how to breathe a sigh of relief.
After thinking for a while, he asked, "Will I go to Qinchuan County with you?"
Yingbao nodded: "Of course."
Wei Zhan grinned and said, "That's great." This way, he and his wife wouldn't have to be separated.
A few days later, the imperial edict came down, conferring the title of Princess Qinchuan as Princess Chuanhe and requiring her to move to her fiefdom within ten days.
Wei Zhan was also appointed as the Yibin of the County Princess's Mansion, and was also appointed as the General Fengguo, a second-rank official.
At this moment, the Wei family was in an uproar, and the head of the Wei family was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.
He immediately ordered his servants to return to Qinchuan County with his son.
Mrs. Wang said coldly, "What are you doing in Qinchuan County?"
That was the daughter-in-law's fiefdom. It was only natural for his son to follow his daughter-in-law back, because Wei Zhan was now equivalent to the son-in-law of the princess's mansion.
The head of the Wei family coughed lightly and said, "I want to build a mansion for Qilang. They can't live in the countryside when they return, right?"
"You don't have to worry about this. The officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will take care of the construction of the mansion. It has nothing to do with you." Madam Wang said indifferently: "You should take care of your illegitimate sons and daughters first."
The head of the Wei family frowned and sat down on a chair next to him: "Then why don't I build a big house for you? It won't be convenient for you to live in your daughter-in-law's house when you go back."
Mrs. Wang ignored him and told her maid to pack up.
Since Miaomiao was going back to Qinchuan County to live alone, she would naturally go with him. If the couple had children one day, she could take care of them.
The head of the Wei family saw that his wife ignored him, but he was not angry. He smiled and said, "Ah Jin, I will stay at your place tonight..."
Mrs. Wang frowned when she heard this and said with disgust, "You'd better go somewhere else and don't disturb others."