Zhao Changde led Cen Xue into the soft sedan, and Lan Qi'er followed beside the sedan. Zhao Changde led the way through the Imperial Garden and into the East Palace, heading towards the small Buddhist hall that the Empress Dowager ordered repaired in front of her.
Cen Xue closed her eyes and sat quietly in the sedan chair. For some reason, she had been having trouble sleeping recently. She asked the imperial doctor to check her pulse. He couldn't explain the reason. He just said that she was usually too nervous and worried, so
I can't sleep at night.
She gently rubbed her temples and tried to relax herself. Was she really too nervous on weekdays?
After half a stick of incense, the sedan stopped outside an old-looking courtyard. Zhao Changde bent down and respectfully asked the people in the sedan for instructions: "The Queen, you have arrived."
"Yes." Cen Xue in the sedan agreed softly, and Lan Qi'er beside her immediately stepped forward to lift the curtain of the sedan and helped her down.
Standing in front of this courtyard, this place must have not been repaired for some years. It seems that very few people come here.
"My Lady, this is a small Buddhist hall that the Empress Dowager ordered people to repair in the past. Later, the Empress Dowager ascended to heaven. Only the Empress Dowager comes here a few times a year. In the past few years, the Empress Dowager also went there, but no one has come again, so this is
The courtyard is relatively old
"The old slave ordered someone to come and clean it yesterday, but it can't be compared with the past. I hope the empress won't mind it too much. Tomorrow, the old slave will order someone to come and repair it again." Zhao Changde ordered someone to open the door.
Lead Cen Xue inside.
"It's okay, just listen to the king's instructions." Cen Xue never cares whether it is as gorgeous as new, as long as it is clean and tidy.
Walking into this small Buddhist hall, it is actually an inconspicuous small courtyard renovated in the East Palace. There is no main hall inside, only one hall, and this hall has been modified into a Buddhist hall. Stepping inside the door, you will see a lifelike statue of Buddha.
The Guanyin statue comes into view, and it is almost the same as the furnishings in the temple. No wonder it is called a small Buddhist hall.
The surroundings looked very clean, and it seemed that as Zhao Changde said, he did have people come here to clean it thoroughly beforehand.
"Eunuch Zhao, you all should wait for me outside. Just leave Lan Qi'er to wait on you." Cen Xue didn't like such a large group of people following her, so Qi'er was enough to take care of her.
"Yes." Zhao Changde led the others out and waited outside the yard.
Lan Qier stepped forward to support her, carefully knelt on the soft mat, put her hands together, closed her eyes, and prayed to Guanyin Bodhisattva in her heart...
Lan Qier stood behind her without saying a word. After the master finished praying, he brought her three sticks of incense and offered them to the Bodhisattva.
"Qi'er, do you think Master Guanyin can hear what I just said?" Cen Xue stood there and looked at the Guanyin statue in confusion and asked.
"Master, you must have heard a saying, sincerity leads to success!" Lan Qier stepped forward to support her and answered.
Sighing lightly, I hope so...
When Zhao Changde saw her coming out, he immediately stepped forward to greet her: "Your Majesty, do you have any other instructions?"
"It's okay, let's go back to the palace. However, I don't want to take the soft sedan. I want to walk back slowly. It's not far anyway. It's just a good time to take a walk." Cen Xue smiled and looked up at the weather today. It's good and it's okay to take a walk.
good.
"Yes." Zhao Changde ordered four young eunuchs to carry the soft sedan away, and he walked back slowly with her.
She has lived in this harem for a while, and she is still a little confused about the harem. Not to mention the West Palace, there are only a few palaces in the East Palace, and she is not familiar with it yet.
Lan Qier supported her and walked to the Imperial Garden, chatting and laughing all the way. The weather today was particularly sunny, and there was a ray of warm sunshine shining on her body. The spring breeze occasionally blew quietly by, letting her smell the fragrance of flowers.
"Master, are you tired? Do you want to rest for a while?" Lan Qi'er saw that Qingfeng Pavilion was in front of her, and she was worried that the master was pregnant and walked for so long, and worried that she would be tired.
"It's okay, it's okay, let's keep walking." Cen Xue was in a particularly good mood today, not feeling tired at all.
She continued to walk forward at a leisurely pace, but before she reached the Qingfeng Pavilion in front, Cen Xue vaguely felt waves of abdominal pain. She stopped where she was, holding Lan Qier beside her tightly with her palms and said
: "Qi'er, go back to the palace immediately. My stomach hurts..."
"What? Here, here, come, take the queen back to the palace immediately -" Zhao Changde was behind her and panicked for a moment, but he quickly adjusted and immediately ordered the young eunuchs behind him to hold the queen in pairs.
Return to the palace quickly.
Cen Xue covered the bulge in her lower abdomen with her hands. The increasingly severe pain made her sweat profusely. Two young eunuchs immediately sent her back to the palace, and Lan Qier followed closely beside her, not daring to leave even an inch.
"Ah -" there was a shout in the Xingqing Palace. Cen Xue had fallen into a semi-conscious state. The room was full of imperial doctors kneeling on the floor, nervously taking her pulse.
Helianzhi sat aside and looked seriously at Cen Xue, who was lying on the bed unconscious. How could such a thing happen? Fortunately, she was not asked to leave the palace and go up the mountain to offer incense. If something happened in the middle, this would
The consequences are simply unimaginable.
The imperial doctor frowned, took out a pill from the medicine box and stuffed it into Cen Xue's mouth. Lan Qi'er immediately brought warm water and fed the master to swallow the pill. He hoped that the master would be a blessing and nothing would happen to him. I hope Bodhisattva
May the master be safe and sound...
"How is the queen's condition now?" Helianzhi looked at the imperial doctor and frowned, feeling a little flustered.
The imperial doctor turned around and reported back to the king: "The Queen is fine now. She just needs to rest well and take good care of her body. It may have been due to the long walk just now, which may have caused the fetal gas to move."
"Really? But why did I see you frowning just now?" He Lianzhi observed carefully and would not let go of any clues.
When the king asked him this question, the doctor's eyes flashed uncertainly. He looked at the other people in the room and seemed to have something he couldn't express.
The way He Lianzhi looked at him, he guessed that he must have something in mind, so he withdrew everyone. Even Lan Qier had to leave temporarily: "Everyone, retreat!"
"Yes." After giving the order, there were only three people left in the room.
The imperial doctor turned around and looked at the unconscious queen, gritting his teeth, he couldn't hide this from the king, and if he didn't tell her, he would die!
"What are you waiting for? Tell me!" Helianzhi saw that he was still hesitant and lost his patience.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life——"
The imperial doctor suddenly knelt on the ground and trembled all over...
"What's wrong with the queen? Tell me quickly. If you hesitate or hide anything, I will kill your nine tribes!" He Lianzhi's words were cold and ruthless, as if he would kill him in the next moment.
The imperial doctor knelt on the ground, lowered his head fearfully and expressed the doubts in his heart: "Just now, when I was diagnosing the Queen's pulse, I discovered that the fetus in the Queen's belly was six months old."
Six months...
He Lianzhi looked at Cen Xue who was unconscious on the bed with some doubts. That was not what Dr. Keser said before. It should only be more than five months. How could it be six months?
If the fetus in Cen Xue's belly was six months pregnant, and a quick calculation would indicate that it was the child she conceived while she was away from the palace. During that time, she was with Tenge until he sent troops to attack Tuva.
, just brought her back...
He Lianzhi's expression immediately changed greatly, and he frowned. He looked seriously at the old imperial doctor kneeling on the ground and asked again: "You said that the queen is six months pregnant, but why were you the queen before?"
I felt my pulse but didn’t say anything, why should I say it at this time?”
"Returning to the king, it was Dr. Hu who performed the pregnancy for the queen before. Today he has not come to the imperial pharmacy. Eunuch Zhao sent someone to say that something happened to the queen, so the old minister rushed over immediately. Before that, the old minister did not
Check your pulse." The old imperial doctor finished his words in one breath, fearing that if he spoke too slowly, his head would be in danger the next moment.
The entire palace knew what had happened to the Queen, so when the old imperial doctor learned that the Queen was six months pregnant, he was sweating because it was very possible that the Queen was pregnant.
The fetus was not the king's flesh and blood, but was most likely conceived by the queen while she was away from the palace, having an affair with another man.
He Lianzhi's face became more and more ugly. He must find out about this matter because he believed that Dr. Keser would not lie to him, and Cen Xue would not cheat on him with other men!
"You have to remember this. If this matter spreads out, you will have your head turned upside down and wait to move!" He Lianzhi stared at the imperial doctor kneeling on the ground with eyes that showed no emotion. He believed that
He should know best what to do.
"Yes, I know what to do, so I must keep it secret!" The imperial doctor was shaking all over, but he still gritted his teeth and answered.
"Go down and prepare anti-fetal medicine for the queen." Helianzhi said coldly.
The imperial doctor immediately left the palace as if he had been reborn. If he had stayed for a while longer, he might have fainted from nervousness.