The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 36

Chengrui was wearing a bright red 'Kirin Hugging the Sun' apron, her little hands and feet were exposed, pink and tender, but she seemed a little out of spirit, her chubby little face had her eyes tightly closed, presumably it was a day trip to the garden Tired.

The concubines saw that the child was cute, so they couldn't help boasting, most of the words were flattery, but no one knew how sincere they were.

Following the discussion, the emperor looked at Chengrui lovingly, and just saw the delicate apron he was wearing, looked at it for a moment and asked with great interest: "The apron is very well embroidered, and the scales on the Qilin Ruishou are made of gold. It is sewn with thread, and the stitches are hidden at the junction of the scales on the face. The gold thread is rough, so that it will not hurt the baby's delicate skin, and it can also highlight a sense of luxury. It doesn't look like the craftsmanship of the manufacturing office. "

"That's right." Rong Gui leaned over and smiled, and raised his eyebrows to look at Rong Yue: "This apron was originally made by the concubine Xian, and the empress looked at it carefully, and Chengrui was also happy to see it and said 'Yeeah' endlessly. No, the concubine quickly changed it for him after receiving the gift."

The emperor nodded, looked towards Rong Yue and praised: "I don't want Concubine Xian to be so kind-hearted, it really makes me look sideways."

Rong Yue's face was slightly red, she nodded and smiled shyly and replied: "The emperor's absurd praise, it's the elder brother's birthday, the concubine just wants to show some kindness."

"Sister is humble." Concubine Hui took Rong Yue's words and said: "I have been sewing for more than a dozen days and nights day and night. If this intention is still said to be 'slightly exhausted', I will feel wronged when I hear it." As he said that, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the tiger-headed hat on Chengrui's forehead and laughed at himself: "The tiger-headed hat made by concubines is really rough. I'm grateful that the nobleman doesn't dislike it, so I just wear it for my elder brother."

The concubines and concubines quarreled with each other, Concubine Yi, who hadn't spoken for a long time, took a few mouthfuls of the frosted sugar cake on the table, remembering this dessert Chengrui usually likes to eat, so she asked the wet nurse to wake Chengrui to take a few mouthfuls too.

The nurse patted Chengrui's back lightly a few times in response, and then swayed in her arms, but Chengrui seemed to be asleep and didn't move at all.

It stands to reason that although a child of this age is sleepy, he always sleeps restlessly. During the banquet, the sound of silk, bamboo and wind music can be heard endlessly, and the concubine's conversation is also noisy. It seems abrupt that he sleeps so deeply.

Concubine Yi was thinking about it, so she put down the silver pen in her hand and asked, "But elder brother is not feeling well?"

After the words fell, the concubines nearby immediately stopped talking and focused their eyes on Cheng Rui.

The emperor took a closer look and saw that Chengrui's complexion was red, he frowned and ordered the wet nurse to bring Chengrui to have a closer look.

The emperor stroked Chengrui's cheek, and the hand felt abnormally hot when he touched it, and immediately reprimanded him: "Your body is so hot? How do you take care of this wet nurse?"

Ronggui was panicked when he saw this, and almost knocked over the soup, bowl and spoon in his hand.

She hurriedly got up and walked to the high seat, leaned over and touched Chengrui's cheeks and limbs, and saw that his breathing was a little short, and she shed tears in her heart: "How could this be? Wasn't it all right just now?"

With a crying voice, she snatched Chengrui from the nurse's arms and hugged her gently to coax her: "Chengrui, wake up, look at my mother."

After calling several times, Cheng Rui was still asleep, Rong Guiren stared round and scolded the wet nurse: "Idiots, how do you take care of the master? If Cheng Rui makes a mistake, I will never forgive you!"

The wet nurse knelt down and cried out for injustice, but the others did not dare to say anything when they saw this, and only listened to the emperor's order to Liang Jiugong, ordering him to invite Fu Zhuolai to be judged by the imperial hospital.

The court judged that Fu Zhuo was the most experienced imperial physician in the imperial hospital. He had been serving him since the first emperor came to the throne. Now that he is over fifty, he is the top doctor in the imperial hospital.

The emperor invited him here, which shows that he attaches great importance to Chengrui, the eldest son of the emperor.

When Fu Zhuo rushed here with Liang Jiugong, Chengrui's situation became more and more serious.

His young body began to twitch uncontrollably, and milky white milk began to overflow from the corners of his mouth and nasal cavity.

Seeing that the prince was in critical condition, Fu Zhuo didn't care about etiquette. After entering the palace, he hugged Chengrui from the hands of nobleman Rong, and put him in the "swaddling dragon couch" of his attendants.

He probed for Chengrui's pulse, and soon his expression froze, and he opened Chengrui's mouth to look at his tongue coating, and hurriedly replied: "Brother, I'm afraid it's going to be bad, I prescribed a prescription, and I asked Eunuch Liang to go to the Taiyuan soon." The hospital ordered eight bowls of water to be boiled to form a pair of medicines, and then the imperial physicians Chen and Zhao were diagnosed and treated together with the officials."

Fu Zhuo's expression was solemn and his tone was flustered. Honorable Rong jumped forward and half knelt in front of Long Yu's couch, stroking Cheng Rui's cheek and sobbing: "Doctor Fu, please don't scare me. Cheng Rui still visited the Imperial Garden with me in the morning. I laughed, how could it be bad?"

The emperor was also furious, and said solemnly: "You don't have a head and a tail in your speech, what's wrong with it?"

Fu Zhuo hesitated and showed embarrassment, but it was the emperor who gave him another angry reprimand, which made him suddenly knelt down and stammered and replied: "Brother brother's tongue coating is black, his hands and feet are twitching, and he has lost his consciousness, and the pylorus is narrow and tightly locked. The food that is eaten is flowing backwards, and I am afraid that the elder brother has been poisoned when I look at it."

As soon as these words came out, many concubines present exclaimed, and the queen nodded her nose and mouth lightly with Juanzi, and asked with a frown: "The prince's diet has been tried by three waves of eunuchs who try vegetables in turn, and the wet nurse even chooses healthy young ones. Girl, and there are people following you when you go in and out, how can you be poisoned?"

The emperor's face was livid and he asked what the poison was, but Fu Zhuo couldn't answer for a while, so he just asked the emperor to move Chengrui to the side hall for diagnosis and treatment.

Several eunuchs and guards followed him to serve, and Liang Jiugong quickly invited Chen and Zhao, not to mention delaying the diagnosis and treatment.

In the birthday banquet hall, under the high seat of the emperor and the empress, there is a three-legged exotic animal incense tripod on the left and right. The incense tripod gently exhales milky white smoke of magnolia fragrance, which floats in the Qianqing Palace with the few wisps of breeze rushing into the room.

The emperor held a blue-brown bracelet in his hand and kept swinging it, presumably his heart was extremely depressed.

After about a stick of incense, there was a noise in the Kung Fu Hall, and Fu Zhuo and Liang Jiugong stepped back and forth into everyone's sight. Liang Jiugong was holding a pear wood plate covered with a piece of plain cloth. I don't know what was inside.

Fu Zhuo knelt down and said slowly: "My Majesty, Empress, most of the residual poison in Elder Brother's body has been cleared, only a little residual poison has penetrated deep into the viscera and cannot be eliminated."

"How could this be?" Ronggui has been crying since Chengrui entered the side hall, and now hearing what Fu Zhuo said, he stepped forward to ask anxiously: "How is big brother? Are you awake? No way." , I want to see him!"

Honorable Lady Rong froze and was about to rush towards the side hall. Seeing her agitated, Fu Zhuo comforted her: "Don't worry, little master. Fortunately, elder brother's poisoning is not deep. Although the residual poison cannot be eradicated, the blood circulation in the child's body is very fast. After a while It's unknown whether it will pass out of the body on its own. Right now, the two imperial physicians are still administering needles to the elder brother, and the young master just barged in like this, delaying the imperial physician's treatment, I'm afraid it's not good."

"Needling?" Rong Gui's lips and teeth trembled, his eyes were empty, and his body limp and fell to the ground.

The maid Chan'er stepped forward to support her, but nobleman Rong pushed her away, and crawled close to the emperor's feet, pulling the emperor's trouser legs and crying: "Your majesty, Chengrui is just a baby in swaddling clothes. Being poisoned by someone like this, and still needing to use acupuncture to detoxify, my concubine is really distressed! Your Majesty, I beg you to make the decision for my concubine. You must find out the bitch who poisoned me, and it would not be too much to cut him into pieces. !"

Seeing Ronggui's crazy behavior, the queen said calmly to Qingyue next to her, "Go and help Ronggui let her sit down and rest, don't be rude in front of the emperor."

(End of this chapter)