"The imperial physician is here." The palace maid announced at the door.
"Please ask the imperial physician to come in quickly." Princess Jiashan said hurriedly.
The imperial physician examined Madam Luo's pulse and found that she was indeed suffering from heatstroke. "The weather is hot, and more and more people are suffering from heatstroke. I have prepared some pills to relieve the heat, and you will be fine after taking a few pills."
"That's great. Thank you, Your Excellency." Princess Jiashan said politely.
"This is all my humble duty." The imperial physician was waiting nearby.
The palace maid fed Mrs. Luo some medicine. After a while, Mrs. Luo woke up. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she woke up.
Mrs. Luo's heatstroke was just the beginning. In the following days, more and more older ladies suffered from heatstroke and fainted.
Just when the Queen was wondering whether to ask the Empress Dowager to allow noble ladies over forty years old not to enter the palace to cry for the deceased, it was the turn of the women from the Prince of Jin's Mansion to enter the palace to cry for the deceased, and she immediately gave up the idea.
Early in the morning, Jiang Changning followed the concubine into the palace. When they arrived at the mourning hall, they first burned incense and poured wine to pay tribute. Then they took a stack of gold ingot paper and knelt beside the brazier to burn it.
The emperor did not show up that morning, but Jiang Changning did not let down his guard.
A dog will never stop eating shit. Even if it doesn't eat it for a while, it will eat it again later.
During lunch, Jiang Changning lost sight of the concubine.
A palace maid with a strange fragrance approached her, proving that the emperor was a dog that would never stop eating shit!
Jiang Changning is good at mixing perfumes and is very sensitive to scents. When he smelled that scent, he realized something was wrong and immediately covered his mouth and nose, "Your scent is so pungent, stay away from me."
Then he quickly walked towards Zeng Zhaofu, "Zhaofu, I feel a little dizzy, stay with me."
Zeng Zhaofu hurriedly supported her and said, "Let's sit over there for a while."
"Yeah, okay." Jiang Changning half leaned on Zeng Zhaofu and followed her.
The palace maid hesitated for a moment, but did not dare to follow.
With Zeng Zhaofu around, even if he knocked Jiang Changning unconscious, he couldn't take her away.
After a while, the concubine came back and saw Jiang Changning sitting in the corridor. "Where did you go just now?"
"I've been here the whole time. I feel a little dizzy. Zhaofu is here with me." Jiang Changning stood up in surprise. "Mother, where have you been?"
“As soon as the palace maid said you were looking for me, I went over, but I didn’t see her.” The concubine came to her senses at this time, realizing that she had been deceived, and her face darkened.
As someone who had experienced the Chenglong disaster, she knew all the intrigues in the palace too well.
The palace maid tricked her out and nothing happened, which means that this matter was not directed at her, so this matter was directed at Jiang Changning.
"You were fine this morning, why did you suddenly feel dizzy?" asked the toffee.
"There was a palace maid with a very strong fragrance. I felt dizzy when I smelled it." Jiang Changning frowned.
The concubine's eyes were slightly stern, and she thought of the aphrodisiac incense!
The palace maid knocked Jiang Changning unconscious. What did she want to do
It wasn't just the women who went to the palace to mourn.
Thinking of this, the concubine smiled at Zeng Zhaofu and said, "Thank you for accompanying her."
"Your Majesty, you are too polite. Changning and I are friends. She is not feeling well, so it is my duty to take care of her." Zeng Zhaofu said with a smile.
"I'm feeling better now, mother. Come on, let's go in." Jiang Changning saw that everyone was heading towards the mourning hall.
"It's stuffy in there, are you really okay?" Zeng Zhaofu asked.
"No problem, just bear with it and it will pass." Jiang Changning didn't smell much of the incense, so he wasn't greatly affected and had recovered long ago.
"Yes, it's only been half a day. The funeral will be held the day after tomorrow." Zeng Zhaofu held Jiang Changning's hand and said, "You are still too weak. You should learn martial arts from me in the future."
Jiang Changning's mouth twitched slightly, "Okay."
In fact, she knew some female grappling techniques, but she hadn't used them for a long time, so they were a little rusty.
"If you don't want to learn, don't hinder us. Changning has promised me." Zeng Zhaofu pushed the Changshan Crown Prince's Consort away and hugged Jiang Changning's arm tightly. "Changning, you must keep your word and don't go back on your word."
"No regrets." Jiang Changning said seriously.
The Changshan Prince's wife curled her lips, "How can you force a sale like this?"
Zeng Zhaofu glared at her, "What do you mean by forced buying and selling? I'm convincing people with reason."
After all, it was inappropriate to play around in the mourning hall, so the two of them argued for a few words and then stopped.
The Concubine Dowager did not go to burn paper with the Princess of Changshan and the wife of the Duke of Sui, but was with Jiang Changning.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law burned paper quietly without talking.
"Oh, the wife of Duke Sui has fainted!" Princess Changshan had just finished speaking.
"Oh no, Madam Qi fainted."
"Mrs. Renyi has fainted."
Three ladies fainted at once, one of them was the queen's mother, and the mourning hall was in chaos.
Everyone worked together to carry the three ladies to the side hall. The weather had been getting hotter in recent days, and even with the summer heat-reducing pills prescribed by the Imperial Hospital, they could not prevent people from fainting from the heat.
The three ladies fainted at the same time, but no one suspected anything.
Jiang Changning thought this was normal, but then another palace maid approached her and quickly stuffed something into her hand.
People are curious and want to see what is written inside the paper ball.
But Jiang Changning suppressed his curiosity. The concubine was tricked into going on a trip and was able to return safely, but if she was tricked into going on a trip, she might not be able to come back.
Jiang Changning calmly placed the paper ball under the paper money and threw them into the copper basin. He watched the paper ball being engulfed by fire and turned into ashes, then he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
The palace maid who stuffed the paper ball into the box was staring at Jiang Changning. Seeing that she didn't look at the paper ball, she became secretly anxious.
She didn't notice that Jiang Changning put the paper ball under the paper money and threw it into the brazier to burn it.
After waiting for half an hour, I saw Jiang Changning was still burning paper.
The palace maid could not hold back, and when Jiang Changning accompanied the concubine to the side hall for tea, she deliberately served tea.
Jiang Changning didn't see clearly who stuffed the paper ball into her hand, but she was somewhat wary of every palace maid.
As soon as the maid's hand moved, she noticed it and swiftly jumped away, avoiding the water splashed on her.
"Did I offend you in any way? That I let you pour such a big cup of tea on me!" Jiang Changning asked calmly.
"Please forgive me, Princess. I was tripped by my skirt and accidentally fell. I lost my balance and spilled the tea. It was not intentional. Please forgive me, Princess." The maid knelt down and said.
"You are a servant in the palace. I am just a princess. I have no right to punish you, let alone forgive you. I will report this to the Queen."
The palace maid kneeling on the ground had a snicker on her lips.
As long as Princess Jin goes to Qiyuan Palace, she will be alone, and the others can do their work.
However, Jiang Changning's next words broke her imagination. "I am the person involved. It is inconvenient for me to leave. I will trouble this maid." She pointed to the maid waiting on the side and said, "Go and ask the queen to come and have a look. No need to say more, it will be clear at a glance."
Just as Jiang Changning saw the gloating expression on the palace maid's face, he knew that if he asked her to go, she would not find any excuses to refuse.
Sure enough, the maid replied loudly: "Yes, Princess."
(End of this chapter)