Seeing Xiao Ting coming in, the Empress Dowager showed a weak smile and beckoned her to pass.
Xiao Ting's face collapsed, and she immediately leaned obediently in front of the Empress Dowager's couch, smelling the strong smell of medicine, she frowned slightly.
"Ma'am, what's wrong with you?"
A few days ago, it was magnificent.
Why did he become terminally ill in the blink of an eye
However, Xiao Ting, who was close, could still find that the woman in her twenties and thirties in front of her was really flawless and unbelievably beautiful.
Even if you are sick, it has a different charm.
This is an old monster.
"It's okay, don't worry, it's the people down here who made a fuss, but it was a bit stuffy during the rest of the night two days ago, I opened the window and got some wind and cold, it will be fine in two days."
This is the empress dowager's explanation, speaking very slowly, showing her weakness.
"Really? You didn't lie to me?"
Xiao Ting couldn't believe it, she stared at the imperial physicians around her with her big bony eyes.
This means that all the imperial physicians in the palace have been invited here.
"Okay, you all go down, don't scare the children!"
The imperial physicians headed by the Imperial Physician Order resigned directly.
However, he secretly slandered in his heart, who is Miss Xiao Liu who would be frightened by them, and she might as well frighten them.
Xiao Ting felt a little strange, there was no trace of worry in the eyes of these people, obviously the Empress Dowager was not seriously ill, but this posture looked a little scary.
Is it really to avoid the questioning of the other four countries and ten places
"What is the habit of living in the palace these few days?"
It's another routine of you asking me to answer.
After a while, the Empress Dowager got up slowly and patted the back of Xiao Ting's hand.
"Grandma tells you something, you have to be mentally prepared."
Seeing her being so solemn, Xiao Ting's heart skipped a beat. Could it be related to the Ninth Prince
"Your Majesty, don't scare me!"
Xiao Ting became tense on purpose, her face turned pale, and she looked serious.
"Could it be related to the prince? Did something happen to him? What happened to him? Where is he?"
When Xiao Ting was in a hurry, she put her hands on the empress dowager's shoulders, her eager face seemed to have forgotten the etiquette.
"Don't worry, it's related to Xiao Jiu's child, but..."
When the Empress Dowager said this, her voice paused, she looked at Xiao Ting solemnly and said.
"You have also seen today that the people from the other four countries and ten places are all high-ranking and powerful people, and they will never leave unless they see the national seal.
Hey, it's all my fault that I didn't arrange all of this well at the beginning, and by accident, I made it into the posture that I am now riding a tiger, dragging down the entire empire... "
What the Empress Dowager said was sincere, but Xiao Ting could not understand what she was going to say, but Xiao Ting looked at the Empress Dowager innocently.
The Empress Dowager secretly scolded the idiot in her heart, but she looked at Xiao Ting with an extremely loving and helpless expression.
"Hey, you don't understand, do you?"
Xiao Tingyi nodded obediently beside her legs.
Blinking her innocent eyes, her nerves were a little nervous, and her legs moved slightly forward two more steps.
"I'm sorry, my mother blamed me for being too stupid."
"Then, can you explain it to me more carefully? Oh, no..."
Speaking of this, Xiao Ting waved her hands again and again, "You don't have to tell me so much, just tell me, what can I do?"
The Empress Dowager rubbed the top of her hair with her hands.
He said with relief, "It's all my fault. When I returned to the palace and saw that the emperor was ill, I was very worried, so I invited many famous doctors to treat him, but none of them worked."
"Later, the emperor knew that he was in poor health. Don't tell me that Xiaojiu went to Yandi to get the national seal. When he returns, our empire will be crowned the head of the five kingdoms and ten places within twenty years and enjoy the salary of other countries. Therefore, after I asked the emperor, I discussed with him and invited people from the other four countries and ten places to come to the imperial city..."
"But I didn't expect that the news that Xiao Jiu got the Imperial Seal would leak out..."
The Empress Dowager said there, Xiao Ting listened quietly with her face up all the time.
She didn't say a word, but her expression was extremely rich, as if she was a listener.
The Empress Dowager was testing Xiao Ting's reaction while talking, to see if she knew about these things.
However, the child had so many expressions that she couldn't tell them apart.
"And then? Then?" Xiao Ting was still asking, but the Empress Dowager didn't want to talk anymore.
"So our top priority is to find Xiao Jiu."
"Your Majesty, you are right, you must quickly find the prince, otherwise if the prince is caught by them, he will die, and the national seal must not fall into the hands of those bad guys, it belongs to our empire!"
Xiao Ting followed her words and expressed her attitude righteously.
"Ma'am, do you know where the prince is now?"
The Empress Dowager took a deep breath.
"Someone saw him at the north gate last night."
Xiao Ting jumped up when she heard the words.
He said excitedly, "Last night, ma'am, you knew all about it last night, why did you just tell me now?"
"You don't send anyone to protect the prince, what if he is captured by others?"
Xiao Ting pursed her lips in displeasure.
The Empress Dowager secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that this girl was just like the rumors, with a clear distinction between love and hate, everything was written on her face.
If she had known this earlier, why would she have to make so many detours.
"This matter can't be publicized, otherwise it will be bad for others to know."
The Empress Dowager patiently explained to Xiao Ting.
"Then what should I do now? It's been so long, where can I find the prince?"
Xiao Ting paced beside her, then suddenly knelt down.
"Your Majesty, there should be hidden guards by your side, or any kind of shady guards. Can you lend me yours so that I can go find the prince? Well, this can protect the prince."
Xiao Ting looked eager, wishing she could fly out of the palace right away.
The Empress Dowager was speechless, she was still thinking about this.
Originally, she said that Xiao Ting stayed in the palace to protect Xiao Ting and planned to lure the Ninth Prince into the palace, but the Ninth Prince did not come.
She had to find a way to send Xiao Ting out again. Before she could find out the reason, the girl asked to leave the palace herself.
The Empress Dowager originally planned to let a few people around her follow Xiao Ting, continue the previous statement, and protect Xiao Ting, but in fact found the Ninth Prince. This is a good thing, before she opened her mouth, the girl directly asked her for someone.
What you want is that kind of master!
Dark guard? hehe!
Is this really stupid or is the brain really different from ordinary people
The empress dowager did not expect it to go so smoothly.
Naturally, she pretended to force Xiao Ting to ask her some advice, and when she was in a hurry, she had no choice but to agree to give her someone and let her go out of the palace to find the Ninth Prince.
Xiao Ting hurriedly turned around, suddenly remembered something, turned her head and said to the Empress Dowager.
"Mother, can you send someone to tell my aunt that I have something to go out of the palace and tell her not to worry, I will come back to see her soon?"
The Empress Dowager didn't know what to say anymore.
She only had one feeling at the moment, that is, someone came to deliver a pillow when she was dozing off.
This girl hits the nail on the head.
"good!"
Xiao Ting led several people out of the palace.
Then he raised his face and looked at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky.
She originally planned to go directly to her aunt in Yaochi Palace, and tell her what she saw and heard, and let her analyze it.
As a result, the Empress Dowager made such a move, obviously to force her to leave the palace, if she turned back to Yaochi Palace, then the aunt would definitely be able to see something, so the Empress Dowager would probably attack her aunt.
Xiao Ting didn't dare to take this risk, and she didn't want her aunt to suffer any harm because of her, so she had to avoid going to Yaochi Palace to meet her aunt.
The empress dowager asked Xiao Ting to bring four people out.
As for the secrets, she didn't care at all, anyway, her every move would be immediately passed on to that old hag.
So she turned around and gave instructions to the two of them.
"Perhaps you two also know that someone saw the Ninth Prince at the North Gate last night. Now you go to find out where the Ninth Prince disappeared in the sight of everyone?"
She was not polite at all, and casually pointed at two of them.
Then, without waiting for those two people to answer, he said to the remaining two people.
"Let's go back to the Ninth Prince's Mansion first, and I'll see if the prince has returned!"
Although Xiao Ting wanted to see the Ninth Prince in her heart, she didn't want Chu Li to fall into the hands of these people.
But she was indeed going to see Chu Li. When they separated, Chu Li's state was very wrong.
In Yandi, she fused the source of extreme yin into the body of the Ninth Prince, helping his yin and yang physique to mature.
All this was done while the Ninth Prince was in a coma, so he was very angry after waking up, which was a state Xiao Ting had never seen before.
But he didn't dare to provoke him.
However, to his surprise, the wicked and furious Ninth Prince did not appear, and was replaced by a man who was more silent and gloomy than before.
Well, she admitted, this one was scarier.
So later the Ninth Prince threw Xiao Ting away and asked her to go back to Li City alone, Xiao Ting didn't say much, and didn't follow him back to the imperial city.
After two years of not returning, the Ninth Prince's Mansion has not changed in any way.
When Xiao Ting appeared at the gate, the housekeeper immediately spotted her.
"The old slave welcomes the princess back to the mansion!"
Butler Mu is still the old man who smiles very kindly, but in Xiao Ting's heart, he looks like a thief. He hasn't seen him for two years, and the years haven't scratched his face.
"Hey, hey, Uncle Mu, it's just that we haven't seen each other for two years, and you've forgotten the rules again, don't let me shorten my life!"
Xiao Ting stepped aside quickly, for fear that the old man would give her a thump and kneel down.
After all, these people have learned from the past.
"Hey hey, what the princess said is true!"
"Has the prince returned to the mansion?"
Seeing that he was back to normal, Xiao Ting immediately stepped forward and asked.
Butler Mu's expression froze, "I thought the princess and the prince came back together!"
"No, he left me alone and ran back by himself. He is gone now. You know, a lot of people are trying to catch him."
Xiao Ting and Butler Mu walked in while talking.
"I know, I heard everyone said it was for the national seal, but our prince doesn't have that thing on him. Besides, even if there is, it belongs to our empire. Those shameless people want to grab it..."
(end of this chapter)