The Forbidden City was extremely lively tonight. Not long after the imperial doctors came out of the Kunning Palace, they were summoned to the Qianqing Palace before they stepped out of the palace gate.
The imperial physicians in the imperial hospital were highly skilled in medicine. After they came, they checked the pulse with many people, and after consultation, the imperial physicians reported that they performed bloodletting for Emperor Hongjing, and Emperor Hongjing woke up faintly.
"I also hope that Your Majesty can take good care of the dragon's body, take good care of it, and not overwork it. This method of bloodletting can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and it will hurt if it is too extreme."
Emperor Hongjing had been suffering from vertigo for a long time. The disease was serious or not serious. Severe cases of cerebral apoplexy, paralyzed in bed, or dying are not uncommon. For those who are not serious, at most, there will be some dizziness, tinnitus, and hot heart on weekdays.
But in recent years, Emperor Hongjing's disease has become more and more serious because of the affairs of the court and the prince. This method is quite useful, but it is also like what the imperial physicians said, after all, it only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and extremes will hurt.
Emperor Hongjing waved his hand, and the imperial physicians were led down.
There was silence in the bedroom, Li Dequan leaned forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, then Meng Huo committed suicide first."
"Dead? Suicide?"
Li Dequan nodded, "The old slave ordered someone to see it. On the face of it, it is true that he committed suicide. In addition, His Royal Highness Prince Yong has been begging to see him outside, saying that he has been wronged."
Injustice
Emperor Hongjing chewed on this word, but felt exhausted in his heart.
Too many things happened today, first the prince, then the princess, and then an old case from many years ago broke out. That Meng Huo was able to lie in ambush in the imperial guards for many years, and even endured all the time in order to avenge King Yong, knew that he must be a cunning person.
Emperor Hongjing had known for a long time that these sons were not simple, but it was the first time that he faced them so directly—with ulterior motives and brothers fighting against each other.
No, last time it was King Jin.
But today, that incident was completely overturned. In fact, all his good sons probably had a hand in it back then. Not only killed the crown prince, but also cheated King Jin who was valued by him at that time.
Therefore, even Emperor Hongjing couldn't be sure whether someone else had tampered with this matter today. After all, if it succeeded, three people would be knocked down with one move.
People's hearts are too unpredictable, especially in the royal family, it is even more unbelievable and unbelievable.
"Tell him to go back, I don't want to see him."
Li Dequan nodded, and ordered someone to send a message.
The Forbidden City was very dark, especially in the middle of the night.
King Jin and the others couldn't leave the palace because the palace gates had already been locked, so they could only temporarily stay in the palace, but probably no one would be able to fall asleep tonight.
Yaoniang had already taken Xiaobao to bed, but she didn't feel sleepy at all.
Not only her, but also Xiaobao, it seems that they have changed to a new place, and both mother and son are a little uneasy. Especially the appearance of Yuchan and Anshi who were on guard secretly made Yaoniang feel palpitations.
Thinking of King Jin who has not come back, thinking of the banquet that ended without a problem, thinking of the imperial guards who came to this palace just before, and the imperial guards hurrying along the palace road, thinking of those ministers who were sent away from the palace, Yaoniang always Something must have happened.
Someone brought a supper, but Yuchan rejected it because Yaoniang was already asleep.
When Yuchan walked in, Yaoniang couldn't help but look up at her.
"Is your lady hungry?" Yuchan obviously misunderstood Yaoniang's meaning.
Yao Niang shook her head, hesitantly said: "That person..."
Yuchan understood and explained: "Now the situation in the palace is unknown, His Highness asked the servants and An Shi to be careful. It is better not to touch this kind of things sent by outsiders, lest unnecessary troubles will arise. And what happened in the palace After such a thing, there is still someone delivering supper, the servants always feel a little strange."
Yaoniang nodded again and again, "You are right. It's Xiaobao—" She looked at her son, Xiaobao didn't eat anything for two consecutive meals, the imperial banquet in the palace was beautiful but not delicious, and many dishes were cold when they were delivered up. Previously, Xiaobao just casually ate a few mouthfuls with Yaoniang. He originally planned to have a full meal when he returned to the house at night, but now it seems that he doesn't want to.
She is an adult, so she can bear it, but can Xiaobao bear it
Xiaobao rubbed his belly, wanting to tell his mother that he can bear it. But Ren Xiao couldn't control his body, his stomach let out a bowel sound, which was especially clear in the quiet palace.
"Xiaobao is hungry!"
Stupid girl, can you stop talking so loudly! Xiao Bao's eyes were a little sad.
As soon as Xiaobao was hungry, Yuchan became a little anxious, and couldn't help but look at Dark Eleven who was dressed as a eunuch next to him.
The always dark Eleven finally revealed its true colors. It is exactly the same as the young, pale, and shy Yuchan imagined before, and even more handsome than Yuchan imagined. This kind of image made Yuchan look down on Dark Eleven even more. In her mind, the strong should be tall and resolute, giving people an infinite sense of security like a mountain, not so weak.
Yes, the appearance of Dark Eleven only gives Yuchan the feeling that it is just a few words, and its name is in vain.
Seeing Yuchan looking at him, Anshi panicked, "Then shall I go find something to eat?"
"Don't go, it's time like this, and you're in the palace again..."
Just as he was talking, someone knocked on the door again.
An Shiyi went over and opened the door, King Jin walked in with Fu Cheng in a gust of cold wind.
Yaoniang wanted to get off the couch, but King Jin came over with a few strides and held her down.
"You sit."
"Is nothing wrong?"
King Jin shook his head, and took off his crown and clothes under Fu Cheng's service.
This heavy crown suit was worn for a whole day, and it became much lighter after taking it off. He was only wearing his shirt, and sat down to let people take off his boots, and then said to Yaoniang: "It's nothing, it's just that the father's old problem has occurred."
As for the other King Jin, he didn't intend to tell Yaoniang, the matter was too complicated to explain clearly in a few words.
King Jin set his sights on Xiaobao. Fortunately, this time because of the matter of Ningguo Duke's mansion, he had an insight into King Yong's actions in advance. He followed the line and found many clues.
And Meng Huoxian's line is not so much discovered by Yongwang's people, it is better to say that Jinwang deliberately exposed the other party. Sure enough, King Yong was fooled, and King Jin reversed the situation, and even avenged the entrapment many years ago.
It's a pity for Meng Huoxian.
However, before he planned to make this move to the East Palace, King Jin had explained the consequences of this matter to the opponent, and the opponent still had no hesitation. The only way is that if there is such a day, I hope King Jin can help take care of his wife and children. In recent years, Meng Huo had married a wife and had children first. After all, he was the only one left in the Meng family, and it was urgent to pass on the incense.
So Meng Huoxian, who had no wish, risked his life to clarify the whole matter in front of Emperor Hongjing, and helped King Jin bite Yongwang back. As he said, he is indeed an ant, but ant can also kill people.
Although Meng Huo couldn't bite Yongwang to death first, at least he planted the seeds of doubt in the suspicious Hongjing Emperor's heart. Emperor Hongjing had a common problem that all emperors would have. He was very suspicious, so he didn't know what the consequences of this incident would be.
But King Jin knew that King Yong probably had a headache right now.
He touched Xiaobao's small head, and Xiaobao, who had his head touched inexplicably, raised his neck to look at the strange-looking King Jin. Feeling his son's gaze, King Jin's face was a little embarrassed, he looked around and said to Fu Cheng: "Did you bring anything?"
"It should be coming..."
Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the door, which only rang three times.
Fucheng went out, and came back after a while, with an extra food box in his hand.
"There is something to eat! Xiaobao is hungry!"
Xiao Bao, who was hungry and actually very hungry, felt a little ashamed. However, when the food box was opened and the smelling food was revealed inside, he immediately felt no embarrassment.
In fact, it is a big soup bowl of shredded chicken and green vegetable noodles, and a few side dishes. Fragrant chicken soup, green vegetables, slightly yellowed noodles, and a few poached eggs lying on top.
There were only two small porcelain bowls, and Yuchan picked out two from the big soup bowl. Yaoniang's bowl has soup, vegetables, and eggs, while Xiaobao's bowl has only some noodles and a few vegetable leaves because he is afraid that he will be burned.
Xiaobao was very dissatisfied, pouted, and pointed to the poached egg in King Jin's bowl.
There are five eggs in total, his mother eats one, and there are four left. His father must not be able to eat four, so there are still his. Yuchan could only use the serving chopsticks to poke another one into his bowl.
Yaoniang is actually hungry too, she is very impatient now, she has already eaten, and said while eating: "Don't give him the egg white, be careful of choking."
This incident was attributed to Xiaobao's scandal, once he almost choked on the egg whites while eating boiled eggs, since then Yaoniang stopped giving him egg whites.
That time was an accident!
It's a pity that no one listens to what Xiaobao has to say, and he doesn't have time to talk about it. He has a small mouth too, so he's too busy sucking noodles, so he doesn't care to talk about other things.
The family of three held their bowls and sucked noodles. This was probably the first time King Jin encountered such an embarrassing scene.
Even eat noodles with a large bowl.
In fact, it's not unheard of. When I was in the military camp, I was always able to keep it simple. It is not impossible to go out without eating for a day. But the key point is that holding the Dahai Bowl and eating noodles in front of the woman's son made King Jin feel particularly undignified.
And Yaoniang kept praising him, "Your Highness is amazing, you don't know that someone gave us supper just now, but we didn't dare to eat it. Where did you get these noodles? Didn't it mean that the palace is always served as an imperial meal at night?" The fire in the room was stopped, and the palace door was locked again."
King Jin suddenly felt embarrassed, if he couldn't even get a bowl of noodles, he would have been the prince for so many years in vain.
Xiao Bao ate until his mouth was covered with egg yolk, silently watching his mother being stupid and his father worrying.
King Jin thought about what he had just heard, and looked at Yuchan, who told what happened just now. Knowing more than Yaoniang, Yuchan and Anshi also saw someone peeping outside, although it was fleeting, it always made people nervous.
King Jin frowned: "Let's rest earlier, I'm afraid the palace will not be peaceful tonight."
In the back bedroom of the Qianqing Palace, there were only a few glazed lamps in the corners, dimly illuminating it, making the surroundings dizzy yellow. The bright yellow curtain hung down quietly, and a little eunuch came in with a tray on which was a bowl of medicine.
"Your Majesty, it's time to take the medicine."
Emperor Hongjing was still leaning against the head of the bed, he had been sitting like this for a long time, the sudden appearance of the little eunuch seemed to interrupt his meditation, and made him feel a little bit dissatisfied. But it's not obvious, just a little ripple in the eyes.
The little eunuch put the tray on the table beside him, picked up the medicine bowl, and held it to Emperor Hongjing with both hands.
Emperor Hongjing glanced at him and took the medicine bowl. It was precisely this glance that made him look at the other party again.
This person seemed to be different, obviously his movements were light and his face was calm, but there was something wrong with the expression in his eyes. Emperor Hongjing raised his thick eyebrows and asked, "Where's Li Dequan?"
"Director Li went to Gong Fang."
The little eunuch seemed a little scared, and his voice trembled when he spoke. Emperor Hongjing vaguely recalled that this person seemed to be an errand eunuch named Xiao Zhuozi.
Such a person actually came to serve him the decoction, and all the people in Qianqing Palace died
Emperor Hongjing sneered and said, "You drank this bowl of medicine."
"Your Majesty..." Xiao Zhuozi looked at Emperor Hongjing in amazement, and after seeing the other's face clearly, his expression changed drastically. He still wanted to struggle, and said: "Your Majesty, this medicine is for your treatment, how dare this servant do it for you..."
"If I tell you to drink, you can drink it!" Before the words finished, Emperor Hongjing said again: "Give him a drink."
Before Xiao Zhuozi could move in time, someone snatched the medicine bowl, pressed it to the ground again, and poured the medicine into it.
He struggled like a carp on the verge of death, straightening up, as if there was some poison in the medicine. Soon, he gradually stopped moving, and then remained motionless, but a trace of black blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.
There was a sound of air-conditioning.
Then, plop, plop, everyone fell to their knees.
This is someone who wants to kill the king!
small theater:
Yaoniang: I have something to eat! Xiaobao is hungry!
Xiaobao: You're obviously hungry, so I won't take the blame.