His wound was not big, but it was very deep. The most worrying thing was that the internal bleeding would not stop, or the wound would rot and not heal for a long time. Once there were these two signs, his life would be in danger.
After that night, the eunuch came to report that although the Emperor was still handling government affairs every day, he had become more cooperative with the imperial physician's advice and went to bed early every night.
The imperial physician's daily reports also confirmed the eunuch's words.
The wound has not worsened. The imperial physician said that your majesty's injury has been carefully treated these days and is slowly getting better. I dare not say that there will be no sequelae in the future, but as far as the injury itself is concerned, it is a good sign.
Regardless of whether Mu Fulan genuinely cared about the man's life and death, good and bad, just from his identity, as the supreme ruler of a new dynasty, he was like a pillar and the cornerstone of all stability.
The day after he was injured, he fell into a coma. In order to prevent him from not showing up and arousing the suspicion of the ministers, Mu Fulan secretly summoned Liu An to tell him the truth and asked him to conceal it.
From the day Xier was helped to become the crown prince by him, she was tied tightly to him, no matter how unwilling she was, and she naturally hoped that everything was going well for him.
Now his injuries were finally getting better, but before she could breathe a sigh of relief, something else happened that took up a lot of her energy.
Xie Changgeng's mother was attacked by Qi Lingfeng that day. After the imperial physician rescued her, she looked fine at the time, but she became suspicious and often couldn't sleep all night. Mu Fulan and the imperial physician treated her and prescribed a lot of tranquilizers, but they didn't work. Her condition fluctuated, and she had an accident a few days ago.
That day, the palace maid came hurriedly to report that the empress dowager had fallen into a drowsy sleep, and when she opened her eyes when she woke up, she saw a palace maid serving her at her bedside, or perhaps the palace lantern shone a little farther away, and she insisted that she was Qi. She hated her so much that she was so emotionally excited that she accidentally fell down, hitting her head on the edge of the bed and fell to the ground. After being lifted up by the palace maids, she suddenly became paralyzed on one side of her body and became confused. Except for Xie Changgeng and Xier, who remembered them clearly, even Amao, who had been by her side for many years, sometimes did not recognize her.
Xie Changgeng's injury had not yet healed. There were already many things to do in the court every day, and the empress dowager's accident made him even busier. He went back and forth between the Council Hall, the Imperial Study, and the empress dowager's palace every day. Within a few days, he became increasingly thin.
Mu Fulan couldn't just turn a blind eye, so she stayed by Xie's mother's bed. Xi'er knew that the Queen Mother recognized her, so she would come to accompany her mother every day after school.
In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed. Despite the many treatments by Mu Fulan and the imperial physician, Xie's mother's condition still did not improve and she could only lie down. When she was awake, she was relatively quiet, but when she was confused, it was difficult to take care of her.
After Xie's mother fell ill, Mu Fulan spent almost every morning and evening in the Empress Dowager's palace except for necessary matters.
On this day, it was almost midnight when Xie's mother fell asleep. Mu Fulan brought Xi'er back from there, sent him to the bedroom in the side hall to rest, and then returned to her own bedroom.
She felt extremely tired, and took a bath with the help of her maid, then went to bed and lay down. She had no extra energy to think about anything, so she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep. Not long after she fell asleep, a servant from the Queen Mother's Palace came to call her again, saying that the Queen Mother had just woken up and mistook the servant for Qi, and was in a state of agitation. The servants were afraid and came to her for help first.
Mu Fulan immediately got up, dressed, tied her long hair casually, and hurried away.
Ah Mao came out to greet her, with a sad face, "Queen, the Queen Mother doesn't even recognize me! Ah Mao knows that the Queen has been worried these days, but I really can't appease the Queen Mother here, and I'm afraid that if the Queen Mother continues like this, something bad might happen again. Your Majesty, the Queen has previously instructed that it is not a big deal and should not be disturbed. Ah Mao had no choice but to ask someone to invite the Queen back."
Mu Fulan said it was okay, and then went inside. She saw Xie's mother leaning against the bed, half of her body unable to move as usual. The hand that could still move was pointing at a palace maid kneeling in front of the bed, and she cursed vaguely: "Qi! My son is the emperor, and you are still haunting me. You dare to come here to harm me and my son? Someone, take her down and kill her..."
She yelled, slapping the bed with one hand, looking extremely angry.
The palace maid was terrified. She kept explaining that she was not Qi and begging for mercy. She heard footsteps behind her and turned around to see Mu Fulan. She crawled towards her, knelt behind her, and begged for mercy in tears.
Mu Fulan asked the palace maid to leave, took out the golden needle, and ordered someone to help Xie's mother lie down, preparing to give her acupuncture.
When Xie's mother's manic illness flared up, she refused to take tranquilizers and could only be calmed down by acupuncture with gold needles.
Ah Mao and the palace maid knew how to operate it, and they hurried over. Ah Mao coaxed Mother Xie, and the palace maid tried to hold down her arm that could still move. Unexpectedly, her eyes were fixed on Mu Fulan who was walking towards her. Suddenly, she didn't know where she got the strength from, and she turned over from the bed, and the only hand she could move grabbed Mu Fulan fiercely.
Mu Fulan's back of hand was immediately scratched by her, leaving several bloody marks. Blood slowly seeped out from under the skin, causing a burning pain.
"Queen, how are you?"
Ah Mao was startled, and then cried and begged: "Queen Mother, can you please be quiet? Please. The Queen is here to treat you!"
Mother Xie sneered: "What do you know! Do you think I don't recognize her? She is not a good person! She took my son away! My son used to listen to me the most. He listened to me no matter what I said. But because of this woman, she seduced my son. My son listens to her and no longer listens to me. In his eyes, I am no longer his mother! I will beat her to death..."
She struggled hard and wanted to pounce on Mu Fulan again, but was held down by several palace servants who rushed over. She was unable to move, but the eyes she looked at Mu Fulan were still full of disgust.
Mu Fulan frowned, took a handkerchief to wipe the scratched back of her hand, and then twisted the needle to prick the acupoints.
After a while, Xie's mother slowly calmed down, closed her eyes, muttered something, and finally fell into a deep sleep again.
Mu Fulan collected the things and instructed the palace servants to take turns to serve the empress dowager.
Ah Mao sent Mu Fulan out with red eyes. Mu Fulan comforted her with a few words and then returned to Ziwei Palace.
She entered the bedroom and ordered the maids and palace servants to go and rest. After washing her hands, she was not sleepy at all. She sat alone in front of the lamp, staring at the flames. She was lost in thought for a moment, and felt the pain on the back of her hand begin again. She took a look and saw that the scratches had begun to swell. She stood up and went to get the bottle of ointment that had the effect of relieving pain and removing toxins.
She opened the box where she usually kept her medicines, looked through it, and didn't see the ointment she wanted. Then she remembered that a few days ago, a palace maid who served her was going down the stairs in the dark and fell, scraping the skin on her hands and feet. She had passed the ointment on to him.
Mu Fulan closed the box.
It was the late night, and I was too lazy to ask someone to go to the Imperial Hospital to get it.
She picked up a clean handkerchief and was about to wrap it around her hand to sleep through the night when she suddenly heard light footsteps coming from the entrance of the bedroom.
She turned her head slowly.
A figure appeared in the shadows that were not illuminated by the palace lanterns in the bedroom. He paused there and slowly walked towards her.
The palace lantern gradually reflected the face of a man who had become thinner due to a serious illness, and his brows and eyes became more sword-like.
he came.
It had been so long, since he woke up that night and left at five in the morning the next day. Tonight was the first time he came to her bedroom.
He worked until very late every day and slept directly in Yuanchen Palace, every night. It is said that there was a private rumor among the palace that Your Majesty was unlucky to be the Queen. It was only because of the prince that the Queen was brought from Changsha to the capital and became the Queen.
However, Mu Fulan soon learned of another rumor.
It is said that one night, a maid who served in Yuanchen Palace, relying on her beautiful appearance, wanted to warm the bed for the emperor who was still reviewing memorials late at night. As a result, she was dragged out by the eunuchs that night and was never seen again. It is said that she was classified as a spy in the palace that had not been cleared out before. You can imagine what her fate was. When the news spread, the maids were all frightened and dared not have the slightest thought of breaking the rules from then on.
Soon, another rumor came out that His Majesty the Emperor did not open the six palaces, only the Empress, but did not sleep in the Ziwei Palace. The reason was not as everyone had previously guessed, that he did not like the Empress, but quite the opposite. The Empress was displeased with His Majesty the Emperor, and came to the Central Palace from Changsha for the sake of the Crown Prince.
Naturally, these rumors about the complicated relationship between the emperor and the empress came and went like the wind. In this cold and strict palace, no one dared to discuss them in public.
Mu Fulan quietly put down her injured hand and covered it with her sleeve.
Xie Changgeng stopped a few steps away from her, paused, and said, "Just now, when I finished my work and went to visit my mother, Ah Mao told me..."
His gaze moved from her face and her falling black hair to the sleeve that hid her hand.
"How's your hand?" His voice sounded a little hoarse.
"It's nothing. It's just a minor skin break. It will be fine in two days." Mu Fulan smiled and answered him.
He walked over and finally stopped in front of her.
"Let me see it."
There was a kind of pity and regret in his voice that perhaps even he himself was not aware of. After hesitating for a moment, he stretched out his hand towards her.
Mu Fulan took a step back, put her hand behind her back, and smiled: "It was just a scratch. I just dealt with it myself. It's okay, no need to look."
He looked at her, his hand paused in mid-air, and after a moment, he slowly retracted it, and then spread out the other palm that had been clenched just now.
In the palm of that hand lay an exquisite little bottle.
"This is the finest jade ointment newly made by the Imperial Hospital." He put the ointment down.
"Starting tomorrow, you don't have to go there anymore. I don't want you to suffer like this anymore. She has imperial doctors and palace maids serving her. I will go to visit her myself," he said.
"Thank you for your consideration, Your Majesty."
Mu Fulan did not refuse, she just lowered her eyes and spoke in a low voice.
Xie Changgeng didn't leave, but continued to look at her in silence.
Just when Mu Fulan couldn't help but say that she was tired and wanted to rest, she heard him say: "In a few days, the leaders of the three Miao tribes in the southwest, and..."
He hesitated for a moment, as if he had finally made up his mind.
"Yuan Handing and I will go to the capital to pay tribute together."
"Yuan Handing has made great contributions to Changsha State. Just tell me what title you want me to bestow on him. As long as I can afford it, I will not hesitate to give it to him."
When she heard the name, she quickly raised her eyes, a faint smile overflowing from her eyes—it was a smile of joy from the heart, which he had never gotten from her before.
What qualifications does he have to make her smile like that to him
In the past, even the person who saved her and her child from danger was not her husband.
Xie Changgeng stared at the beautiful eyes in front of him. His chest was once again tightly blocked by something. His lungs, which had been injured and not yet healed, seemed to be aching slightly.