Sixth Story (4)
Zhou Zhao woke up in a daze, the first thing he saw was Shen Xinyu’s pale face, and asked subconsciously, “Why are you here?”
Zhou Zhao didn’t like seeing Shen Xinyu, especially in recent years. Shen Xinyu’s appearance always reminded him of the days when he was trembling in Zhao Wang’s mansion, couldn’t eat well, couldn’t sleep well, and had nightmares all night. I’m afraid that one day I will be framed and dragged into prison by my brother.
He promised to treat Shen Xinyu well, and he also felt guilty for Shen Xinyu, but he still didn’t want to see Shen Xinyu, and after the prince’s accident, he even started to walk around Shen Xinyu.
He was afraid that Shen Xinyu would question him, and he knew that he really felt sorry for Shen Xinyu, so he simply ignored Shen Xinyu and avoided Shen Xinyu completely.
Shen Xinyu didn’t know Zhou Zhao’s thoughts before, or even Zhou Zhao didn’t want to understand it, but what she saw in Mu Ling’s telescopic mirror made Shen Xinyu see through this person.
After Zhou Zhao ascended the throne, because of the supremacy of the throne, she inevitably beautified this man in her heart, and when she saw him wearing a dragon robe, she felt that he was the real son of the dragon.
But in fact, this man has never changed, he has always been the king of Zhao who only knows how to escape.
“Your Majesty, you suddenly fainted, I’m so worried!” Shen Xinyu said, she used to dislike saying these nasty words, but after becoming a queen, in order to compete for favor, she has become more and more good at saying these words, her face I don’t even know how many masks I’ve been wearing.
Shen Xinyu caring about her appearance made Zhou Zhao a little uncomfortable. At the same time, he also remembered what happened before he fell into a coma. At that time, he was about to hold the precious concubine again when he suddenly fainted, and now he is still uncomfortable. Especially the place between the legs…
Zhou Zhao wanted the imperial physician to do a detailed examination for him, but seeing Shen Xinyu was there, he couldn’t speak, so he could only bear it for the time being: “Empress, I’m fine, you go back and be fine. Just rest.”
“Your Majesty, the life and death of the concubine’s son is unknown, and you have a sudden illness, how can the concubine rest?” Shen Xinyu covered her face with a handkerchief, and when she thought of her child, tears immediately soaked the handkerchief.
Zhou Zhao became more and more uncomfortable when he heard Shen Xinyu’s words. He hadn’t gone to see the prince after the accident. Shen Xinyu said this, shouldn’t he be accusing him?
Because of the pain and discomfort all over his body, Zhou Zhao felt uncomfortable when he saw Shen Xinyu, but he felt guilty in his heart, and he didn’t really want to do anything to Shen Xinyu – the prince has become like that, and there are almost no days left. Good job, he can’t scold Shen Xinyu any longer at this stall.
“Your Majesty, let the imperial physician take a good look at you.” Shen Xinyu reminded again.
Zhou Zhao was about to respond, but he didn’t want to. At this moment, a palace maid broke in and knelt directly in front of Zhou Zhao: “Your Majesty, the fourth prince has been making a fuss and hitting the wall with his head, the servants couldn’t stop him. If you are injured, ask Your Majesty for mercy and find an imperial doctor to show the Fourth Prince.”
Shen Xinyu knew that this was the method of the precious concubine the moment the palace maid ran in, knowing that this was the place of the precious concubine, she could even reprimand her. The precious concubine could not stop the precious concubine’s eyes and ears.
However, she had expected this for a long time, and now she doesn’t care about these small tricks.
Shen Xinyu was very calm, but Zhou Zhao was a little anxious: “How did you all take care of the fourth prince, it would hurt him!” Zhou Zhao has a lot of children, and he didn’t like the stubborn fourth prince very much in the past, but since the fourth prince Broken leg, he tolerated a lot for the fourth prince.
This son of his is lame, which is really pitiful. He feels that he has an obligation to protect him so that he will not be bullied by others, such as the prince.
Zhou Zhao has seen the prince and his fourth sons conflict more than once, and his perception of the prince was even worse after he found that the prince did not know how to tolerate his weaker brother at all.
He is still alive, and the prince treats his younger brother so badly. If one day he dies, will his younger sons be killed by the prince?
Zhou Zhao, who had been oppressed by his elder brother and watched his brother kill his brother, would reprimand the prince every time he saw the prince clashing with other brothers. In his opinion, he was good enough to the prince, and even planned to give the throne to the prince. In this way, he naturally has to help other sons, and also let the prince learn to be tolerant towards his brothers.
Zhou Zhao took it for granted, but he didn’t know that every time the prince was provoked or targeted by his younger brother, he thought that he was much older and would not care, and he would be reprimanded by his father for a while. Swallow it in his own stomach, that’s all, because Zhou Zhao often reprimanded the prince, and the wind in the court gradually changed, and many people fell to the third prince, and even started to go against the prince…
After all, people with discerning eyes It can be seen that Zhou Zhao is more fond of the third prince.
“What’s wrong with Xiao Si?” Zhou Zhao asked worriedly again, and then saw the kneeling maid looking at Shen Xinyu with a terrified face, and then knelt down and kowtowed.
It is self-evident why the Fourth Prince was injured.
“What have you done?” Zhou Zhao shouted at Shen Xinyu. The original guilt towards Shen Xinyu had long since vanished. Shen Xinyu was just because she suspected that the death of the sixth prince was related to the precious concubine. He still refuses to give up now, he really has no need to feel guilty in the face of this poisonous woman!
“Your Majesty, the concubine just asked him to copy the filial piety because the fourth prince yelled at the concubine!” Shen Xinyu said loudly, looking directly at Zhou Zhao.
Zhou Zhao looked away, he also knew that the fourth prince’s personality changed greatly after breaking his leg, and sometimes he acted very irrationally, but Shen Xinyu was a queen, why should she have the same knowledge as a child? “Empress! The fourth prince has always been like this, why are you demanding him? Come on, find a doctor for the fourth prince, and no one else is allowed to detain him!”
“Where’s Precious Concubine?” This is Precious Concubine’s bedroom, he suddenly fainted, shouldn’t Precious Concubine accompany him?
“She didn’t take good care of His Majesty, I told her to think about it behind closed doors!” Shen Xinyu didn’t hide it.
“What does my coma have to do with the precious concubine? Empress, you can’t use your power to oppress others!” Zhou Zhao looked at Shen Xinyu angrily: “Empress, I think you should think about it behind closed doors! If you act so recklessly, you are not worthy of being an empress!”
” The concubine is the queen, so I don’t even have the right to let the concubine who stopped me trying to hide the matter of His Majesty’s coma go behind closed doors and think about it?” Shen Xinyu can see through this person now, and she no longer has the slightest psychological barrier to what she wants to do next.
As for Zhou Zhao’s angry words at the moment… She has been married to Zhou Zhao for so many years, she still understands this person. Now that the prince is not in good health, this person is feeling guilty towards her.
And even if he wanted to abolish the queen, it would not be an easy task. The civil and military affairs of the Manchu dynasty would definitely have to stop them, and even the prime minister’s father, Concubine Precious, who wanted her to abdicate early, would definitely have to pretend to persuade …
What’s more, although Zhou Zhao is helping the precious concubine at the moment, when he finds out that he has a problem, I am afraid it will be a different situation!
“Queen, get out!” Zhou Zhao said immediately.
Shen Xinyu didn’t stay much, she turned around and left.
Shen Xinyu got on the phoenix chariot outside, and the confidant, who was sitting beside her with her, couldn’t help but said, “Niangniang, you were too impulsive just now.” If Shen Xinyu was softer, the emperor would never be so angry .
“Mammy, don’t worry, I’ll be fine.” Shen Xinyu looked at her mother reassuringly.
Thinking of what Shen Xinyu said before and what she did later, she finally felt relieved, but Shen Xinyu looked at the palace where the precious concubine lived.
This palace is very large, and the contents in it are even better than those in her Queen’s Palace. I don’t know how long the precious concubine can be beautiful… She had seen the scene when Mu Ling pierced Zhou Zhao with her own eyes! If it wasn’t for the fact that she had cultivated the ability to nourish qi in the past few years, I’m afraid she would have laughed on the spot, and Zhou Zhao was so tossed, it’s no wonder that she doesn’t hate the precious concubine!
But she… Now Zhou Zhao reprimanded her, and later found out that she had “misunderstood” her, and he must feel guilty again…
Shen Xinyu went back to her residence, drove out all the palace maids and eunuchs, leaving only the confidant to serve her, and then looked at Mu Ling: “Mu Ling, you said I was poisoned before?”
“Yes, you want me to you detoxify for you?” Mu Ling asked, Shen Xinyu’s poison is not easy to detoxify, and you must slowly raise it to pull out the toxin, and it’s good to start detoxification earlier.
“No, I just want to know if there is any way to let others know that I have been poisoned. If not…or should I take some other poison?” Shen Xinyu looked at Mu Ling.
Mu Ling’s mind changed, and he guessed Shen Xinyu’s plan: “Well, I’ll give you a prescription, that prescription is in conflict with the poison in your body, after you drink it, some symptoms will inevitably come out, those imperial doctors are no longer there. Use it, you will definitely be able to see that you are poisoned by then.”
“Thank you!” Shen Xinyu thanked her, and her eyes turned to the mirror on Mu Ling’s waist again.
Mu Ling took off the mirror and showed Shen Xinyu the situation on Zhou Zhao’s side.
After Shen Xinyu left, Zhou Zhao asked people to release the precious concubine and the fourth prince, and at the same time asked Imperial Physician Li to treat him.
Zhou Zhao cherishes his life the most, because he is looking forward to his own long live, long live, long live, and naturally he is very concerned about his own body. As soon as Imperial Doctor Li caught his pulse, he couldn’t help asking: “Ai Qing, what the hell is wrong with me? What’s going on?”
“Your Majesty, what’s wrong with you?” Li Taiyi asked. Now that there is no Mu messy puncture, his pulse has been smoothed a lot, but he still can’t find anything… Logically, Zhou Zhao has suffered He was injured, but looking at Zhou Zhao’s appearance, it looked like he was injured at all.
“I feel uncomfortable all over my body.” Zhou Zhao said, and pointed to several parts of his body: “These areas are particularly painful, and… ahem, at the root of the dragon.”
Imperial Physician Li did not dare to ask to see one of Zhou Zhao’s I just looked at Zhou Zhao’s body, and found a few small red spots.
This red dot is very small, but it looks like the large gold needles of the imperial doctor who is good at acupuncture and moxibustion in the Taiyuan Hospital will leave marks after acupuncture. to this place.
Could it be a bleeding spot? Imperial physician Li became more and more puzzled, and could only classify Zhou Zhao’s condition as a difficult and miscellaneous disease, and then recommended other imperial physicians.
At this time, the precious concubine, who had been waiting by the side, saw that Zhou Zhao was all right, and immediately stepped forward and called “Your Majesty” with a cry.
Zhou Zhao naturally felt a little distressed about his beloved concubine, but now that his own problems had not been resolved, he was not in the mood to comfort the precious concubine. After a few words, he began to wait for the imperial doctor. The prince, seeing that the fourth prince had no serious wounds on his head, he was too lazy to care.
It was night, but there were still many imperial doctors on duty in the imperial hospital. When the emperor had a problem, they all rushed over, but they couldn’t find out what was wrong with Zhou Zhao.
Of course, some of them felt that Zhou Zhao had been beaten or injured, but the key was who dared to fight the current sage? Who else has beaten the saint today and still remains undiscovered? Even the important part of the emperor seems to be injured!
These imperial doctors couldn’t find the reason at all, so they could only prescribe some warming medicines. Zhou Zhao saw this scene, but became more and more worried and more afraid.
The Imperial Physician couldn’t find out anything. Could he be so seriously ill? And this worry reached its peak after Zhou Zhao went to the toilet once – he was in pain!
In fact, when Mu Ling pierced Zhou Zhao, he always chose the places that would not really hurt him. The wound caused by the gold needle was very, very small. Zhou Zhao would be fine as long as he kept it for a few days, but he was suspicious. The more you think about it, the more you get scared.
“Emperor doctor, tell me the truth, what’s wrong with Zhen?”
“Your Majesty’s symptoms have disappeared, and I really can’t see anything now.” Several of the imperial doctors who were called behind hurriedly said, not forgetting to launch Li Imperial Physician: “When Your Majesty was in a coma, Imperial Physician Li treated you, Imperial Physician Li may know more.”
Zhou Zhao immediately looked at Imperial Physician Li, who has always been timid and could only say: “Your Majesty’s pulse at that time was extremely strange. , I can’t see anything, I wonder if Your Majesty felt anything before he fell into a coma?”
“I fainted suddenly before I fell into a coma, and I didn’t feel anything at all.” Zhou Zhao said, suddenly thinking of something, and immediately called the old eunuch beside him: “How long have I been in a coma?”
“Your Majesty has been in a coma for an hour.” The eunuch said immediately.
“I was in a coma for an hour? Then why didn’t you call everyone from the imperial hospital!” Zhou Zhao was furious. If all the imperial physicians came when he was in a coma, maybe he would have seen the problem?
Why didn’t all the imperial physicians of the imperial hospital be called in this hour? At that time, Concubine Precious wanted to try to wake Zhou Zhao up by herself, and later went to the imperial doctor. She was afraid that the emperor fainted in her bed would be known to everyone, so she only looked for the imperial doctor Li who had been befriended by her. Come… and these are all acquiesced by this old eunuch.
But this old eunuch didn’t dare to tell the truth at this moment, he subconsciously wanted to put everything on the empress Shen Xinyu, and suddenly remembered that there were a lot of people present at that time…
“Your Majesty, the noble concubine said that you were no good at that time. After falling asleep, the old slave just called Taiyi Li, and the old slave is convicted!” The old eunuch immediately fell to the ground and kowtowed to confess the crime.
Zhou Zhao just felt sorry for the precious concubine who was sent to face the wall by the queen when he was in a coma, but he didn’t expect to hear such a thing now, and recalled what the queen said before that the precious concubine wanted to hide his coma. …
Zhou Zhao’s gaze at the precious concubine suddenly became a little unkind. As an emperor, he naturally has a confidant, so he immediately scolded the old eunuch and asked the confidant eunuch to clarify the situation in the future.
The eunuch was not biased, and quickly explained the ins and outs, and then the more Zhou Zhao listened, the more he had an opinion on the precious concubine.
To be honest, Concubine Precious didn’t do anything wrong, but for Zhou Zhao, Concubine Precious didn’t find all the people in the Imperial Hospital immediately after he fainted, that’s a mistake!
“Your Majesty, the concubine knew that I was wrong, and the concubine was also confused for a while. I heard that the empress was coming, I was afraid that she would take the opportunity…” Precious Concubine cried.
The queen took the opportunity to teach the precious concubine a lesson, but it was just to make the precious concubine face the wall to think about it. Would the precious concubine rather see him in a coma than go to the wall to think about it?
Zhou Zhao thought about it this way, and he disliked the precious concubine more and more, but he apologized to Shen Xinyu. The queen… still misses him after all.
“Come on, send Precious Concubine to face the wall to think about it, and don’t come out without my order!” Since he felt uncomfortable, Zhou Zhao naturally wanted to “teach” Precious Concubine a lesson. Of course, he also showed mercy, just let Precious Concubine faced the wall and thought about it, but there were no other substantive punishments.
Zhou Zhaoneng treated the precious concubine like this when he was ill, it was already called true love, but the fourth prince who had been beside him was unhappy again: “Imperial father, concubine mother did nothing, it was the queen who didn’t do anything. Alright, how can you treat concubine mother like this?” The fourth prince is fourteen years old this year, and young people of this age are the most difficult to discipline, but Zhou Zhao never disciplined him because of his lameness… He can question the queen, naturally can also question the emperor.
Zhou Zhao’s mood hasn’t calmed down yet. He was questioned by his son, and his face turned cold: “Are you questioning me?”
“Father, you can’t be as hateful as that queen!” He has been held by others, and when the prince sees him, he has to take a detour. At this moment, he is really not afraid of it.
“Presumptuous! Come on, take the fourth prince to ground!” Zhou Zhao immediately said, feeling that the punishment was not enough, and then remembered what the queen had done before: “Let him copy the filial piety! When he know about loyalty and filial piety he will be released again!” To say that he and the queen are hateful, this child is really spoiled! If he had spoken to the queen like this before, it would be no wonder that the queen asked him to copy the scriptures of filial piety! Zhou Zhaozheng was angry when he suddenly discovered that the precious concubine and the fourth prince, who had been punished by the queen before, had been punished in the same way by himself, and his face suddenly became hot.
Of course, even if he felt that he had wrongly blamed the queen, this emotion would not last long. What he was most worried about now was his own body.
What kind of strange disease did he have to suddenly faint and still be in pain?
That night, the precious concubine’s palace was brightly lit all night, and Zhou Zhao naturally didn’t sleep all night, but Shen Xinyu had a rare sleep after asking Mu Ling to give herself a pill called “sleeping pill”.
Shen Xinyu hadn’t slept well for a long time. She was always tossing and turning at night, and finally fell asleep. When something happened, she woke up and couldn’t sleep again. She always thought that it was because she was worried about too many things, but now through Mu Ling, she realized that it was not because of this, but because of poisoning.
It was rare to get a good night’s sleep, and when Shen Xinyu woke up the next day, she was in a very good mood, and as soon as she woke up, she looked at the confidant, “Mother, is the medicine ready?
” It’s ready.” The confidant immediately asked someone to bring a bowl of medicine.
The prescription prescribed by Mu Ling is to nourish qi and nourish blood, but there are some medicinal materials in it that collide with the poison in Shen Xinyu’s body, which will cause the poison in Shen Xinyu’s body to be released.
The maid who was waiting next to Shen Xinyu didn’t know about it, so she felt that it was normal for Shen Xinyu to drink medicine, but it was that mammy, although she couldn’t see or hear Mu Ling’s words, she did hear what Shen Xinyu said. , it is inevitable to be afraid at this time.
Shen Xinyu glanced at the mama soothingly, and smiled reassuringly, finally calming down the mama. Seeing this, Shen Xinyu also felt relieved – she has a lot of things to do next, and some of them are probably very strange, so naturally she has to stabilize this mama first.
That mama has recovered her calm, Shen Xinyu took the medicine bowl and drank the medicine in her hand.
After drinking the medicine, Shen Xinyu asked someone to carry her to the Prince’s residence. Halfway through, she suddenly opened her mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, and then she fell limply on the seat.
“There’s something wrong with the madam! Call the imperial doctor!” The maid immediately screamed, and while sending Shen Xinyu to the nearest palace, she also called for the imperial doctor.
Shen Xinyu was still conscious and felt that she could endure the situation at the moment, but she did not endure it, instead she closed her eyes and showed a weak look.
She used to be stubborn and didn’t want people to know that she was unwell, but now she was eager to let everyone know that she was poisoned, especially Zhou Zhao.
The prince was poisoned, the queen was poisoned, and the emperor was also ill… She didn’t believe that Zhou Zhao, a suspicious person, would have no idea!
Shen Xinyu closed her eyes and hid all the hatred and calculations under her eyelids.
The person who helped the queen go to the imperial hospital to find an imperial doctor did not find any of the imperial physicians, and eventually found the emperor. Therefore, Zhou Zhao, who did not go to the court today and was still worried about his own body, learned that the queen suddenly vomited blood. It’s almost gone.
Zhou Zhao had just wronged the Queen yesterday, felt guilty about the Crown Prince’s affairs, so he was immediately carried and brought to the Queen’s place. Of course, this was also because he wanted to know if the Queen was real. sick.
Zhou Zhao hurried to the queen’s place, and immediately asked the imperial doctor to come forward to diagnose and treat the queen.
The queen who was lying in the room that was temporarily cleaned up was pale, looked extremely old, and looked weak… Zhou Zhao suddenly remembered what happened when he was the king of Zhao.
The queen was very young at that time, and there were few people around them, so she would do whatever work… “What happened to the queen?”
Zhou Zhao was very worried at this moment, but the imperial doctors couldn’t help but feel a little scared.
Before they came, they thought that most of the queen was angry or something, but they didn’t expect to see it now… the queen turned out to be poisoned! And it seems to have been poisoned for several years!
When the queen of the dynasty was poisoned for several years, none of the imperial physicians found out. This time, it was the queen herself who ate the medicine that counteracted the poison in her body before the attack… The emperor hated them last night. Will they cut them off now?
You must know that if the queen can be poisoned, it means that the emperor may also be poisoned…
“What happened to the queen?” Zhou Zhao was particularly disgusted by the hesitant appearance of these imperial physicians, and said angrily.
“Go back to the emperor, the empress is poisoned.” Finally an imperial doctor fell to his knees.
Another imperial physician who was originally from the Queen’s line even said, “Your Majesty, it should have been nearly ten years since the Empress was poisoned, but the poison is so rare that no one has been able to detect it before. , so that the medicinal properties of the poison were stimulated.”
Zhou Zhao’s complexion suddenly changed.
