Chaos in the Chu Palace

Chapter 67
After hearing this, Wan Hui suddenly sneered a few times: "Her son is fate, but other people's children are not fate? According to slaves, this is retribution for her. Why can't the little eunuch in the palace get it, but her son gets it?" The retribution is not good." Wan Hui said and went to work.

Wan Hui has always had a clear distinction between love and hate, ever since she learned of Xu's experience, she has been very shameless towards Liu's actions.In addition, the Liu family also secretly poisoned Ouyang Ruo.So she has always had a deep dislike for her.Wan Hui's words shot into Ouyang Ruo's mind like a ray of light, and Ouyang Ruo felt his mind suddenly wake up.

It is easy to get wind and cold in spring, and many palace people have this disease, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs has isolated those palace people who are sick, and sent doctors to diagnose and treat them. It is reasonable that they will not be contagious in the palace.Moreover, there are many servants who live in very simple and crowded places, and they have never heard of suffering from wind chills in the cold weather.When the eldest prince of the Liu family usually goes out, a large group of maids and maids follow him, how is it possible?This is too strange.

The more Ouyang Ruo thought about it, the more wrong she became, so she called Ming Ying and said, "Go and invite the doctor Qin Yu to come, and he said that my heart is stuffy."

Mingying hurried away.After more than half an hour, Qin Zhi was invited over.

Seeing his tired face, Ouyang Ruo couldn't help apologizing: "Qin Yuyi has worked hard. I called you here this time to ask how the eldest prince is doing?"

Qin Zhi hesitated for a moment, then bowed and said: "From the perspective of my humble minister, it seems to be a cold syndrome, and I have to wait for the fever to subside before I can diagnose it."

He said with a sigh.Ouyang Ruo stared at his complexion carefully, and suddenly said: "Ming Ying stays to wait on me and let Qin Yu doctor diagnose the pulse, and the rest go to work."

Qin Zhi opened the medicine box and was about to take the cushion, when Ouyang Ruo suddenly said, "Doctor Qin please explain clearly. What kind of disease does this eldest prince have? You and I are not strangers, but it's okay to say. "

Qin Zhi froze, hesitated for a long time before softly saying: "I'm a fool, I think it's this..." He dipped the tea he put on the table and wrote two words on the medicine box.

Ouyang Ruo froze when she saw it, and then sighed: "I didn't expect to guess it right." Qin Zhi looked at her in surprise, naturally he didn't understand why she knew, but after thinking about it, it's better not to know why. wonderful.

He whispered: "Those old doctors said it was wind-cold, but when I checked the doctor, I felt that there was a hot and humid air flowing from the eldest prince's body. This poison will not kill people, but it is very dangerous. Chickenpox after a high fever. According to my opinion, about tomorrow or the next day, the eldest prince will get chickenpox."

"Chickenpox?" Ouyang Ruo asked in surprise.Ming Ying was also very surprised, and lost her voice: "That will kill people." She seemed to remember something, and said in a dazed way: "My younger brother also died of measles back then. My parents cried so sadly. Mother even When he got sick, my father was so sad that he looked around for wine every day..."

She spoke with a sad look on her face, Qin Zhi looked at her sympathetically, with pity in her eyes.

Ouyang Ruo asked again: "Have you told Mrs. Liu Guo?" Qin Zhi nodded: "Yes, but I only said that the eldest prince has damp and hot air, and was immediately refuted by other old doctors. It seems that Mrs. Liu Guo doesn't believe in Wei Chen either. This matter is so important that Wei Chen doesn't dare to speak out, and if it is true, many people will lose their lives."

Qin Zhi paused and said again: "Although I am young, I have seen such symptoms among the people. It seems to be caused by eating some grass by mistake. This is not actually poison, it can only be regarded as an introduction , to draw out the source of the human body's disease. Children's resistance is low, and it is easy to cause other diseases. Some children with bad spleen and stomach will vomit and diarrhea, and some will feel dizzy, like the eldest prince who has been pampered since childhood. Fish and meat are smelly, and damp and hot qi stagnates in the body, so it will naturally be more serious. Therefore, I can see that there are already symptoms of watery measles."

After he finished speaking, he sighed a few times, others spoke lightly, he had already been envied by other colleagues when he jumped from a doctor to an imperial doctor, and Mrs. Liu Guo didn't trust him, this matter was very important, so he naturally didn't dare to speak nonsense.Ouyang Ruo was silent for a while, then sighed softly.After ordering him to diagnose his pulse, he asked Mingying to send him out, and ordered Mingying to keep his mouth shut.

Seeing that Qin Zhi had left, Wan Hui came in and asked, "Your Majesty, what did you find?"

Ouyang Ruo sighed: "I didn't expect her to be so ruthless that she would attack a child. I really don't know what to do. It seems that what we released was a fierce tiger. It is so impatient to choose someone to eat. "

Wan Hui was stunned for a moment and suddenly said: "If I were a servant girl, I would definitely do the same thing, one life for one life, without the pain of the child, I would definitely let the other party taste it."

Ouyang Ruo stroked her stomach, it's been almost two months, her stomach is still flat, she really doesn't know how painful it would be if she lost this child.She couldn't help shivering a few times.No!Not like this!Ouyang Ruo squeezed her hand tightly, her beautiful eyes were faint.

After two days, as expected, Mrs. Liu Guo's eldest prince's high fever subsided, and he started to get chicken pox.This wave of ups and downs is rising again and again.Mrs. Liu Guo looked at her precious son with a blushing measles and nearly passed out.Hastily ran to the Taimiao at night, because she was not the main wife and could not enter the temple, so she could only kneel in front of the Taimiao and pray.The weather was cold and wet, and the bluestone floor in front of the Ancestral Temple was engraved with patterns of dragons and phoenixes. It was not pleasant to kneel on it.But Mrs. Liu Guo knelt until she fainted before being carried back to the palace by the palace servants.

After hearing this, Ouyang Ruo sighed and recited a Buddha's name.I heard that after Chu Huotian found out, he ordered the queen to go to the Taimiao to beg for the blessing of his ancestors on his behalf.The entire Imperial Hospital became busy, and because chickenpox would infect the entire Yanxi Palace, it was sealed off. Outsiders were not allowed to enter at will, and people inside were not allowed to come out, and Chu Huotian was also not allowed to visit.

The entire Chu Palace was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.

Ouyang Ruo finally couldn't sit still, and one day at dusk after dinner, she changed into a plain court lady's attire and was about to go out.Wan Hui was angry and anxious, stopped her and said, "What is your mother doing? It's none of your business. Does your mother also want to take this muddy water?"

Ouyang Ruo looked at the dark sky outside, and said to Wan Hui seriously: "Auntie, let me go, I can't watch her be so vicious. Maybe she has a way."

Wan Hui was anxious, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty is not confused. Even if she has a way, if she did it, she would naturally refuse to save it. If she didn't do it, she would be so happy that she would not listen to your Majesty." one cent."

Ouyang Ruo thought about it carefully, but still felt that she was going there, so she asked Wanhui, "Auntie, let me go. I really don't feel at ease seeing her like that."

Wanhui had no choice but to ask Mingying to follow carefully.Ouyang Ruo quietly avoided the eyes and ears of the palace people, and went out by the side door.When she arrived at Xu Fu Palace, she knocked on the palace door, and it took a long time for someone to come to see her.It was an old nanny, and Ouyang Ruo saw that she looked familiar, so she presumably was someone close to Xu's confidant.When the mother saw Ouyang Ruo kissing her, she was slightly taken aback and invited her in.

Ouyang Ruo entered the side hall where Mrs. Xu lived, and saw that the lights were brightly lit, Mrs. Xu was reading a book by candlelight in the inner hall.

When she saw Ouyang Ruo coming, she didn't look surprised, she nodded slightly and said with a smile, "How come Rou Fangyi is free. Please sit down."

Ouyang Ruo didn't salute, she sat down and looked at the furnishings in the hall, it was very clean, not like a concubine's bedroom, but more like a place where ascetics lived.

Concubine Xu didn't greet her, she just looked at the book in her hand, Ouyang Ruo looked at the book in her hand, and said with a smile: "Xu Guifei also reads Buddhist scriptures."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Xu put down the volume in her hand, and said calmly: "Yes, I used to think that this Buddhist scripture was not interesting, but now it seems that it is a bit mysterious."

Ouyang Ruo wondered when he heard the words: "What's the mystery?"

Touching the Buddhist scriptures in her hand, Xu suddenly smiled and said: "The Buddha said that if people do evil after death, there will be [-] levels of hell. I have read them one by one, and they are really good. What are swords and fires? Tsk tsk... It's really different, it seems that the Buddha has the foresight to know what mistakes people in this world will make. Sigh... It seems that we all have to go to hell."

Ouyang Ruo only felt a chill rushing up from the soles of his feet, and the warbler beside him also shrank.

Ouyang Ruo thought about it carefully, and ordered: "Mingying, you go down first." Then Mingying quickly retreated.Seeing her solemn expression, Mrs. Xu suddenly smiled and said, "Would Rou Fangyi be afraid too? I see your complexion is ugly."

Ouyang Ruo smiled lightly when he heard the words: "I'm afraid I won't. I just feel that this person has karma. It's not that he doesn't repay it, but it's just that the time has not come. But how to repay it depends on God's will. Ordinary people can't decide after all."

Hearing the meaning behind her words, Mrs. Xu suddenly sneered and said, "I didn't expect that this Gong would have made a big mistake. This Rou Fangyi is also a kind-hearted master. When I asked Ben Gong to know the truth that day, what did you do?" What did you say? Are you scared now?"

After she finished speaking, she sneered a few times, the laughter was as cold as snow, and Ouyang Ruo couldn't help but get goosebumps.

She was silent for a while before raising her head, staring at Xu's thin and pale face with piercing eyes, and asked calmly, "Did you do it?"

Xu snorted coldly: "So what if it is, so what if it's not. You don't have any evidence."

Ouyang Ruo smiled lightly and said, "Yes, I didn't come here today to question you. I was just curious that someone as shrewd and cautious as Mrs. Liu would follow your lead. It seems that I underestimated you."

Mrs. Xu remained silent, and suddenly looked at Ouyang Ruo's belly, with a pair of phoenix eyes showing a very complicated look, and asked calmly, "How many months is the fetus in your womb?"

Ouyang Ruo thought she would follow her own words, but she didn't expect her to mention such a sentence without thinking.She had no choice but to reply: "It's more than one month." After she finished speaking, she looked up at Mrs. Xu's expression, and was suddenly startled, with grief and despair flashing in her eyes.

Seeing that she was afraid, Mrs. Xu came back to her senses, put away her strange gaze, and said with a sneer, "You didn't expect that either. I won't hide it from you, I don't care, and I don't care if I go all out!" She laughed : "I just want that bitch to experience a hundred times the pain I suffered back then!! Hmph... It's actually simple. The eldest prince likes to play around, and especially likes to go to the queen's Dadi Ji to grab things to play and eat. I will Ask someone to make a pastry and put it on Da Di Ji's table. This pastry is very delicious. Da Di Ji was taught by the empress to know the rules, even if she ate it, she only ate one or two pieces, but the eldest prince is not, hehe ..."

She sneered as she spoke, with an indescribably eerie smile.Ouyang Ruo immediately understood, and was speechless for a long time. This move is really hard to guard against.

"Do you have someone on the Queen's side?" Ouyang Ruo asked suddenly.Xu just sneered and didn't answer.

"You shouldn't have done anything to the child, can he be saved now?" Ouyang Ruo sighed softly.

"It's up to fate. As you said, mortals can't decide after all." She smiled sweetly, but that smile was more terrifying than her sneer.

When Ouyang Ruo left Xu's Yanxi Palace, a thin layer of fragrant sweat oozed from his back.What Mrs. Liu said is correct, Mrs. Xu is already a bit possessed now, and only thinks about revenge.It's all your own fault, it's all your own fault.Ouyang Ruo let out a long sigh in his heart.She only thought about how to cooperate with Lian Heng, but she did not expect her hatred to be so deep.

Now we can only see how she walks this bloody road of revenge.

I don't know if it's because Xu's dose of medicine is not enough, or because the Eldest Prince is in good health, or maybe it's because Liu's beloved son is eager to move God, in short, the Eldest Prince's chickenpox is getting better day by day.

Liu finally breathed a sigh of relief, the only thing that worried her was that the serious illness left some large and small white spots on the eldest prince's chubby face, which looked very strange.Mrs. Liu tried her best to get rid of it, and seeing her son like this every day made her heart ache like a knife.But it's not bad if you can save a life, and it's fine if you can't get rid of those white spots.All the empresses in other palaces persuaded Mrs. Liu like this.What kind of person is Liu Shi?Once her child's illness was cured, she began to wonder about the ins and outs of this matter.

"Sister Ouyang, talk about it, someone must have made trouble in this matter." When Liu Shi went to Yunxiang Palace to visit Ouyang Ruo one day, he said viciously while there was no one around.Her elegant face was slightly distorted because of these words, and a pair of beautiful crescent eyes also flashed deep hatred.

Ouyang Ruo just didn't understand: "How to say?" She made a gesture and covered her mouth and dared not speak.You must know that poisoning the emperor's heir means ransacking the family and exterminating the family, and it is very taboo to even say it.

"I don't have any evidence right now, hmph, those heartless slaves can't take care of the First Prince well, and I have already dealt with them one by one." Liu said as if venting her anger.

Ouyang Ruo was silent for a moment, of course she knew how she punished those palace servants who guarded the eldest prince.Each of the close servants had forty boards, and after beating, they were thrown into the ranks of rough envoys, went to the Laundry Bureau to wash the clothes in the whole palace, or were thrown to the Shangshan Bureau to be the lowest firewood chopping palace servants.After the beating that day, three or four palace people died, and the fate of those who were not killed was miserable, and the other low-level palace people were directly sent to the cold palace to work as coolies.In the past few days, Liu's Palace has replaced a large number of Xingong people to serve them.

"Sister Liu calm down." Ouyang Ruo comforted.

"Sister Ouyang, you don't know, my mother is dying of anxiety. The emperor didn't like the eldest prince very much, but now he looks like this. How can I live well when I grow up?" Liu said Can not help but wipe away tears.

Ouyang Ruo sneered in his heart, could Mrs. Liu not cry?A person who is an emperor must at least look flawless in order to convince his officials.Not to mention anything else, just take Chu Huotian as an example. He has a majestic and handsome appearance, showing the air of an emperor. Before he ascended the throne, many people in the group admired him very much, secretly thinking that he is the emperor whose destiny belongs to him.Looks are sometimes a weapon.

Mrs. Liu looked at Ouyang Ruo's stomach after wiping away her tears, and sighed: "In my view, if my sister gives birth to a prince, the emperor must cherish and value her very much, and her future future will definitely be worse than that of this palace. Children are bigger."

Ouyang Ruo's heart moved when she heard the words, and she raised her eyes to see the flash of jealousy in her eyes, and hurriedly said: "Isn't Sister Liu joking with the concubine? It's not that Sister Liu doesn't know that the prince's future depends on the mother and concubine." Regarding status, the concubine knows that her status is low and dare not expect extravagantly."

Only then did Liu show her face to comfort her and said: "Sister, don't think too much. If my sister's child is born, she will not be able to escape the glory and wealth. And relax. Sigh... Unlike my palace, it attracts people's envy and hurts the child."

Ouyang Ruo comforted her a few words before tentatively asking: "Sister Liu has any clues?"

A ruthless look flashed across Liu's face: "Of course I did. Those palace people recruited as soon as they beat them. The eldest prince just ate it... Forget it, I just wish I knew who it was." She said sullenly, suddenly her eyes rolled After a while, she suddenly said to Ouyang Ruo: "Actually, it's nothing to say. As a sister in this palace, I also want to remind you to be careful of that one." She gestured.

Ouyang Ruo was terrified, and said repeatedly: "No way, the concubine looks at the empress, but she is very amiable."

Mrs. Liu snorted coldly: "Don't underestimate her, others don't know, but I know that she has done a lot of good things. This time, I actually moved my idea on Bengong's head. Don't blame Bengong for being cruel and merciless." .”

With a cold face on her face, she said to Ouyang Ruo with a sneer: "Think about it, I have a son with Concubine Lin in the entire palace now. Concubine Lin is also a weak person. That person is afraid that one day the eldest prince will choose to be the prince." Now that the crown prince is here, her life will be difficult. Don't look at her with a fair and strict look, but in fact, she has the worst eyes, and the worst thing to see others are better than her."

Ouyang Ruo sighed when she heard the words, lowered her head and said, "Thank you, Sister Liu, for your suggestion, otherwise my sister would have thought that the Empress really wanted to treat her well."

Seeing that she was convinced, Mrs. Liu's face became pale, and she comforted her: "Sister Ouyang, don't be sad. Logically speaking, I shouldn't be disrespectful to her like this, but she has done too much. In the future, you and I Is Qi Xin still afraid of her?"

Ouyang Ruo raised her head and smiled gratefully at her when she heard the words, the two held hands, and couldn't help but smile again.

(End of this chapter)