After Jun Huailang was rescued by Xue Yan, he developed a high fever.
There was chaos in the palace.
Prince Yongning fell into a coma and was taken back to the Yongle Hall by the fifth prince, who was also soaked all over. I heard that I fell into the water inexplicably, and was rescued by the Fifth Highness who happened to arrive.
Emperor Qing Ping hurriedly sent someone to place Jun Huailang in the side hall of Yongle Hall, and immediately called Lingfu to invite an imperial physician.
The imperial doctor originally said that the Prince of Yongning was just frightened and frozen, and there was no sign of drowning. He could be cured with only two medicines. But in the second half of the night, Jun Huailang's fever became worse and worse, and even the imperial physician panicked and didn't know what to do.
The nobles of various families left the palace in a hurry, while the Jun family and his party waited anxiously outside the side hall. Emperor Qing Ping used Duke Yongning a lot these days. When such a big event happened today, he stayed here and was persuaded to rest in the palace next to him.
Concubine Shu stayed in the side hall.
She has never done the work of serving others, but at this time, she did not pretend to be someone else's hand, holding a cool handkerchief and kept covering Jun Huailang's forehead and wiping her hands and feet.
But Jun Huailang has been in a coma, his eyes are so burned that he can't open his eyes, and the temperature has not dropped.
Xue Yan silently stood by the side.
The maids stepped forward and replaced the cold water for her. Concubine Shu's hands were empty, she sat beside the bed, and after a while, she silently wiped away her tears.
After a while, she choked and said, "Go, change clothes and go."
At this time, apart from the eunuch and the palace maid serving on the side, she and Xue Yan were the only ones left. Xue Yan has been standing here since he came back, still wearing a soaked robe.
Xue Yan didn't move.
Concubine Shu turned around and reprimanded him: "Can't you hear me? This palace can't handle the second one with a fever, so why don't you change your clothes?"
At this moment, a palace maid came in with a bowl of medicine and handed it to the palace maid who was waiting by the bed.
The imperial physician followed behind her and came in to watch Jun Huailang take the medicine.
"Emperor doctor, how's it going?" Concubine Shu asked quickly. "You said just now that the fever will go down after two doses of medicine, but now the fever is getting worse and worse!"
Hearing the words, the imperial doctor hurriedly knelt down in front of Concubine Shu.
"Hui Niangniang, Wei Chen doesn't know, and Wei Chen has never seen it before!" He kowtowed. "His Royal Highness's pulse is clearly an ordinary cold, but the more I look at it now... the more it looks like I've hit an evil!"
As he spoke, he raised his head and glanced at Xue Yan next to him tremblingly. The deep meaning of his words was self-evident.
Concubine Shu was stunned for a moment, then became furious, grabbed the empty bowl next to it, and smashed it beside the imperial physician.
"I asked you to heal, who made you talk nonsense here! You are not good at medicine, so you say that Lang'er has hit the evil? Ben Gong sees that you have hit the evil, and it is time for Your Majesty to remove your head and drive you away. Evil spirit!"
The sound of the porcelain shattering made everyone in the hall tremble.
The imperial doctor seemed to be very timid, and was frightened by the broken bowl, so he knocked his head a few times to plead guilty, and ran out.
Just as he passed by, Xue Yan looked sideways and glanced coldly at the direction he was running.
It was the palace where Emperor Qingping lived.
And Concubine Shu didn't care about him at all. She wiped her tears, and then instructed the palace maid to come forward and feed Jun Huailang the bowl of medicine to drink.
Xue Yan's eyes fell on the bowl of medicine, and then moved to Jun Huailang's face.
His face was flushed red at this time, his eyes were closed, and his eyelashes were like a pair of fragile crow wings, casting a shadow on his face.
Xue Yan's eyes were full of blood that he had held back for a long time.
"Baiji." After a while, he moved his eyes away with difficulty and said in a low voice. "Come out."
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The palace where Emperor Qing Ping was located was also brightly lit.
He rested on the couch for a while, then couldn't sleep again.
In the past two years, he obviously felt that the Xu family was not very honest, and the literati of the Jiang family, who also formed gangs, only knew how to scold people all day long and couldn't do anything practical.
In the entire court, he couldn't find one that he could trust and use.
He finally found Yong Ning Gong, a right-hand man who was not a party or a group. He was about to send him to Jiangnan after the new year, but he didn't expect that at this juncture, his eldest son living in the palace had a problem. .
Emperor Qingping was so annoyed that he couldn't sleep, so he called Lingfu to pour himself a cup of refreshing tea.
"Why does it sound more and more serious over there?" he asked with a frown. "Didn't you say you just fell into the water, which imperial doctor did you hire?"
Lingfu hurriedly said: "Go back to Your Majesty, it is the Imperial Doctor Zhu of the Imperial Hospital. The Imperial Physician Zhu has superb medical skills, Your Majesty, you know it."
Emperor Qingping pressed his eyebrows and nodded.
"That's weird," he muttered.
At this moment, a eunuch at the door said: "Your Majesty, I wish the imperial doctor to see you."
Emperor Qingping raised his hand: "Let him come in."
After a while, Imperial Physician Zhu knelt down in front of him.
"Tell me, what's going on with Prince Yongning?" Emperor Qingping waved his hand and asked him to get up to answer. "Prince Yongning is my servant. If something happens to his son, I will definitely take your head."
Zhu Taiyi's forehead touched the ground: "Go back to Your Majesty, the illness of His Royal Highness, Wei Chen is helpless!"
Emperor Qingping's expression changed.
"You're helpless?" he angrily said. "But it's just so cold, there's nothing you can do about it, what's the use of taking care of you in the imperial hospital!"
The Imperial Physician Zhu quickly kowtowed: "Go back to Your Majesty! His Royal Highness's illness is clearly not a cold!"
Emperor Qingping asked, "What is that?"
Imperial Physician Zhu raised his head tremblingly, and quietly exchanged a glance with Lingfu, who was waiting behind Emperor Qingping.
"His Royal Highness's symptoms... It should be that he has been restrained by filth, or hit by evil!"
The word evil was settled, and needles could be heard in the entire palace.
Emperor Qingping slowly frowned, and after a while he asked in a deep voice, "...What did you say?"
Imperial Physician Zhu repeated it tremblingly.
"Wei Chen said, Your Highness is... hitting an evil spirit."
Lingfu shook his hand, and the teapot in his hand splattered with water on the table.
Emperor Qingping looked up at him, and saw Lingfu standing beside him with trembling pupils, and whispered, "Your Majesty, that day in Laba... Qin Tianjian!"
Having said this, he looked terrified, as if he didn't dare to say the next words.
But he didn't need to say it, Emperor Qingping knew what he was talking about.
On the day of Laba, Qin Tianjian said that the evil star would move and bring disaster. And the period of calamity calculated by Lingtailang is before the new year.
Today is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, the last day before the new year.
Emperor Qing Ping was almost unable to hold the teacup in his hand.
In this case, Jun Huailang's evil spirit... Isn't it Xue Yan
He was already in Mingluan Palace with Xue Yan, and when they got close, he was not a royal heir with a real dragon to protect his body. A few days ago, I heard that he had nightmares. Today, he and Xue Yan went out alone, only to hit the evil.
Emperor Qingping fell silent.
"Is what you said true?" After a while, Emperor Qingping said solemnly. "If there is half a lie, I will punish you nine clans."
I wish the imperial doctor a deep kowtow to show that he did not dare to deceive the emperor's sincerity.
"Then what do you think should be done?" Emperor Qingping asked again.
The imperial doctor kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty can send someone to Qin Tianjian to see who has the ability to exorcise evil spirits."
At this moment, Lingfu bowed down and whispered to Emperor Qingping: "Your Majesty, why don't you invite Lingtai Lang?"
Emperor Qingping looked up at him.
Seeing Lingfu said: "Your Majesty, this hexagram was taken by Lingtai Lang. The servant also heard that he also learned the ability to treat diseases when he traveled with his master Shangxuan. Just pour a bowl of water, all incurable diseases can be cured, and evil spirits can’t get close.”
Emperor Qingping asked, "Really?"
Lingfu has been serving him for so many years, one can tell from a glance that Emperor Qingping is moved.
He nodded quickly: "Your Majesty will call him and ask."
When Emperor Qingping heard the words, he lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before nodding his head.
At this moment, another eunuch's message came from the door: "Your Majesty, the Fifth Highness asks to see you."
For a time, several people in the palace changed their faces.
Lingfu and Imperial Doctor Zhu glanced at each other quickly, and both turned their attention to Emperor Qingping.
Seeing that Emperor Qingping's expression changed, he said, "Let him come in."
The little eunuch agreed and brought Xue Yan in.
The robes on his body still haven't changed, but after smoking in the room with the earth dragon in the middle of the night, it's already half dry. Just looking from a distance, it is still embarrassed, and at a glance, it is known that it has fallen into the water.
The Qing Ping Emperor was inexplicably guilty.
As long as he paid attention to his appearance for the first time, it would be difficult for Emperor Qing Ping to separate Xue Yan from Concubine Rong. As soon as he saw him, he would reflexively think of Concubine Rong's voice, face and smile, and if he looked a few more times, he could find that he looked alike to Concubine Rong in other ways.
Xue Yan knelt down in front of Emperor Qingping.
"Get up." Emperor Qingping said. "Looking for me at night, what's the matter?"
Xue Yan raised his head and looked at him, his expression was calm, without the slightest arrogance, but there was a sense of neither humble nor arrogant in his bones.
"Returning to the emperor, my son just heard from the imperial doctor Zhu that the prince of Yongning was hit by evil, so he came here to ask the emperor to see him."
No one expected that he would speak out about this matter in person.
Even if you want to say this, everyone knows it well. Naturally, you can't put it on the table like this and say it openly.
Just now, he still made up his mind that Emperor Qing Ping, who was going to fill Jun Huailang with talisman water, was also a little embarrassed. He cleared his throat and said, "It's just a random guess, it can't be true..."
However, Xue Yan seemed to have not heard it, and continued: "My son knows that the only evil spirit in the palace is his son, so the strange illness of the prince of Yongning must be caused by his son."
He spoke lightly but with certainty, which made Emperor Qingping feel two points of discomfort.
How can a child say so bluntly that he is evil
What's more, Dayong originally emphasized Confucianism and despised Buddhism and Taoism. Emperor Qing Ping was superstitious, and it was enough to talk privately with people who knew how to do it, but it seemed that he was absurd if he really taught the person to speak out bluntly.
Emperor Qingping was naturally reluctant to admit that he was absurd, and for a while he didn't know how to deal with it embarrassingly.
Then, he saw Xue Yan leaning over and kowtow to him.
"My son asked for an decree to go to the Buddhist hall in the palace to copy the "Due Sutra" for the son of Duke Yongning a hundred times, in order to suppress the evil spirit of the son. The son of Duke Yongning still takes medicine. The emperor pleases me."
Emperor Qingping froze in place.
He listened to Xue Yan and continued: "If there is a slight difference, Erchen will bear it all."
Emperor Qingping was speechless for a moment.
He had to admit that the one kneeling there was his and Concubine Rong's only child. But this child was treated harshly by the heavens, and he had to become a malefic star who was born to teach him that his father and son would interfere.
Now that he is asking himself like this, Emperor Qingping can't say anything to refuse.
After a moment, he said, "As you said. Go."
Lingfu, who was next to him, was startled, looked at Imperial Physician Zhu again, and stepped forward: "Your Majesty, that Lingtai Lang...?"
Emperor Qingping waved his hand.
"Wait until tomorrow, if it doesn't get better, go and invite him again," he said.
In fact, he was also betting in his heart, wanting to see if this method of copying the "Due Jing" could quell Xue Yan's evil spirit.
If you can really do it, isn't there nothing to fear yourself
He didn't see it, and Lingfu, who was beside him, gave Imperial Doctor Zhu a nervous look, and Imperial Doctor Zhu returned him a look that reassured him.
But all this fell into Xue Yan's eyes.
Those eyes seemed to be calm and waveless, but in fact, in the bottomless depths, there were terrifying stormy waves.