concubines

Chapter 182 It's Not Necessary
The eldest princess showed no signs of fear, she lowered her body slightly and asked, "What is a suspicious person, and the people around me are also suspicious people?"

The father-in-law knelt on the ground and replied: "I don't have that intention, I'm just afraid that His Highness won't notice for a while, and let insidious thieves sneak into my side. This slave also obeys the holy order, please be considerate of Your Highness."

"What if I don't let you investigate?"

"Return to Your Highness, the emperor has orders, and those who are not allowed to check are not allowed to leave the city."

The eldest princess gritted her teeth and said, "Do you think you can stop me?"

"The servant dare not. If His Highness really wants to break out of the city gate, he will step over the servant and the imperial decree!"

After all, the father-in-law took out a scroll of imperial decree and stood in front of him, pretending to be deceiving himself.

All the people around were holding their breath, silently paying attention to the development of the situation.If the eldest princess goes out on the imperial decree, she will tell the world that she doesn't take the emperor seriously.It is enough to say that she has a heart of treason, no matter how much credit she has made in the past.

The eldest princess looked at the imperial edict and held back her anger. If she didn't have so many eyes watching, she would have stepped on this imperial edict.

Sitting in the carriage, Miao Li suddenly had some doubts. She hadn't left the city for so long, so she thought that there should be no obstacles for the eldest princess to go out of the city.

The weather is very cold now, the outside of the carriage was covered with several layers of thick felt, Miao Li couldn't hear what was being said outside, only heard the emperor's decree.

The eldest princess sat on the horse and thought for a while, then jumped off the horse and said: "If you want to check, check it."

The eldest princess opened the curtain and lowered her voice and said to Miao Li: "No matter what you say, don't admit your identity. You must leave the city tonight." She waved her hand and asked the people in the carriage behind to come down.Then he said loudly, "Come out."

Followed by the eldest princess asked to take care of Miaoli's maids, wearing the same clothes.The eldest princess had been prepared for a long time, and let the servant girl and Miao Li wear the same veil.Miao Li has always been not very concerned about her clothes, and her dress is very simple, the light is not so bright at night, and she is not very obtrusive among a large number of people.

Miaoli heard the last words of the eldest princess, although she didn't know what the situation was, she still followed what the eldest princess said, and walked to the side of the crowd inadvertently after getting off the car.Standing with her head bowed and her hands tied, she looked like a timid maidservant.

The father-in-law stood up from the ground, bowed his body and said to the eldest princess: "Your Highness, that slave will offend you!"

The eldest princess didn't even want to talk to him, she kept a straight face and said nothing.

The father-in-law had noticed Miaoli's anomaly a long time ago, but he didn't dare to go too far. He didn't go directly to Miaoli, but asked people one by one to look carefully under the torch.

People passed by one by one, and they were about to reach Miaoli.

Suddenly on the road behind him came a small sedan chair.Miao Li glanced over there, and there was only one person outside the sedan chair, who was dressed similarly to her, with a veil covering her face, and even the bearers covered their mouths and noses.There is only one reason for this kind of dress, the people in the sedan chair must have some kind of infectious disease.

The flat-topped soap-covered sedan chair carried by the two of them should belong to an ordinary family, not someone with power, no matter how you say it, it has nothing to do with the eldest princess anyway.

Seeing the sedan chair coming, the father-in-law looked over again and asked, "Who is he and what does he do?"

The city gate officer leaned into his ear and said, "It's the master's concubine of Wan'an County, who has contracted tuberculosis. I came here to say hello a long time ago, and I got a token to leave the city. Now I have to send her out overnight."

The father-in-law looked over and saw that the bearer and the people on both sides of the sedan chair were covering their mouths and noses.I also hid a little to the side in disgust, waved my hand and said, "Get out."

Again, he carefully apologized in front of the eldest princess, "His Royal Highness, now, except for those suffering from tuberculosis, no one can easily leave the city. I'm sorry, Your Highness."

The eldest princess gritted her teeth with a cold face and said, "If you talk nonsense again, I will screw your head off and kick you out of the city!"

The father-in-law wiped off his cold sweat, and then asked the maidservant to come over and check one by one.

Just saw a person, followed by a fast horse.

The visitor jumped down and knelt in front of the eldest princess and said, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince has something to pass on to His Highness, let me take a step to speak."

What are people doing here at this time? The eldest princess followed him.

"whats the matter?"

"The emperor fainted, and the crown prince asked His Highness to enter the palace quickly. And the crown prince said that if you don't send someone out, you don't need to send them out. If you send them out, you should quickly chase them back."

It wasn't even close to getting out.

"Understood, tell him that I will enter the palace immediately."

The eldest princess turned around to let everyone get on the carriage, got on the horse herself, turned the horse's head and said: "Going out of the city is so troublesome, I am too lazy to waste time with you!"

Let people take the carriage back to the princess mansion, and ride the horse to go to the palace by herself. During the whole process, the eldest princess didn't even look into the carriage Miaoli was sitting in.At this time, the sedan chair had already left the city, and the city gate was tightly closed again.

When I got outside the palace gate, I saw bright lights inside, as if the whole palace was alarmed, and there was a lot of battle.

The eldest princess hurried to Longde Hall, worried that something might be wrong with the emperor.Before I got to the palace, I saw a dense group of people standing outside. There were people from every palace. It was estimated that everyone who could come from the palace had come.

No one dared to stop her, and even voluntarily made way for her, and entered the inner hall easily.All the imperial doctors from the imperial hospital came, and they were taking turns to feel the emperor's pulse. When the eldest princess came, she happened to be the last one.

The people in Taiyuan Hospital all had a tongue, and they exchanged glances with each other. Taiyuan Hospital was walking up to Zhou Shuxuan and said, "Back to the prince, the emperor is weak because of spleen deficiency, plus some excessive worry and lack of physical strength will cause him to faint."

In the end, the imperial physician actually knew what was going on.But not only to preserve the current position, but also to preserve the future, the future world is in the hands of the prince.

Concubine Jin came out wiping her tears and asked, "Then what should we do now? Let the emperor lie here?"

Yuanzheng understood what she meant, and replied: "Go back to your mother, the emperor has reached his sixtieth year, and the dragon has been weak since he came in, so he can't use strong medicine and can only take it slowly."

Zhou Shuxuan knelt down beside the bed with a thud, pretended to be distraught, touched his tears and shouted, "I would like to kneel in front of the Buddha to pray for my father, and I only hope that my father can wake up as soon as possible."

Immediately someone nearby went to help him, "Your Highness, don't be too sad, worry about your body."

The two eunuchs supported Zhou Shuxuan to stand up, standing by the bed and touching tears.What you think in your heart is one thing, but the appearance of a filial son is still enough.

The eldest princess secretly gave Concubine Jin a look, and Concubine Jin said some things were better than her.

Concubine Jin also pretended to wipe her tears and said: "So many people here are not good for the dragon body of the Holy Majesty. You should go back first. I am here tonight. The younger sisters want to see the Emperor and come back tomorrow." .”

Concubine Jin is now equivalent to the Queen of the Central Palace. She will listen to everything she says, and all the concubines who were staying outside have left.

After everyone dispersed, Concubine Jin also withdrew.Before leaving, I said to the eldest princess and Zhou Shuxuan, "Tell me as soon as you have anything, I will be outside. If the time is too long, it will easily arouse people's suspicion."

After confirming that there was no one in the room, the Eldest Princess asked, "What's going on?"

Before everyone rushed over, Yuanzheng had already explained the truth to Zhou Shu.

"It is true that I fainted, but there is no danger of life, and I should wake up again."

The eldest princess glanced at the emperor lying on the bed, and asked blankly, "Do you think it's necessary?"

He has everything he wants, the government is basically in his hands, and there is no other kind of speech among the ministers, it is unnecessary.

Zhou Shuxuan also glanced at the emperor, and shook his head slightly.

The eldest princess added, "But it can't be too abrupt, otherwise you will probably be talked about by outsiders again, so let's take it slowly."

Zhou Shuxuan doesn't care, the emperor is unconscious now, he is already equivalent to the emperor.

The father is unkind and the son is unrighteous, this is the inevitable result.

Zhou Shuxuan has already thought about what to do, "The people in the Tai Hospital basically have no problems, and it is best to tamper with medicine."

The two were discussing how to proceed in front of the emperor's bed, and they didn't think there was anything wrong.All of this was created by them.From the moment they drugged the emperor, they were doomed to be unfaithful and unfilial.

"That's what I thought too, you can do everything yourself."

As far as this matter is concerned, since everyone thinks the same, there is nothing to argue about.

Zhou Shuxuan glanced at the bed again, and was still telling him in the afternoon that he must kill Miaoli, and it is still unknown who died first.If he could have known foresight that such an event would happen at night, he would not have let Miao Li go out.

"Is there no one to send my aunt out of the city?" Zhou Shuxuan was thinking of Miaoli very much at this moment.

"Not yet. She was stopped at the gate of the city. Judging by the emperor's appearance, she must be killed. But fortunately, she was stopped, and now I don't have to chase her."

Zhou Shuxuan sneered and said, "No, retribution is coming."

The eldest princess also laughed along with him, "You are not afraid of being punished by God for saying these things."

"God's punishment is heaven's punishment, I'm not afraid." Zhou Shuxuan looked sideways at the emperor and said:
"But I'm far behind him. If there is any punishment from God, it should fall on him first."

How the emperor has treated him for so many years, he has kept everything in mind.How many times the emperor cursed him to death, and even did that, it wasn't the final harmony that could whitewash everything.

The eldest princess patted him on the shoulder and said: "Okay, now that people are about to die, you should think about it. If you think too much, you will feel uncomfortable."

Zhou Shuxuan is not uncomfortable at all now, the emperor has suppressed him for so long, and he is finally going to be the master of the house.So don't offend your son, or you won't be able to take a sip of life-saving medicine when you get old.

The eldest princess glanced outside and said: "Let's go, if you keep the door shut for a long time, some people will talk nonsense when they see it."

Zhou Shuxuan also felt that it was time to leave, so he bent down and said to the emperor, "Father, did you ever think that you would have this day?"

Probably never thought about it, the emperor probably never thought that the throne would fall into his hands in the end.

After speaking, the two went out.

On the dragon bed, suspicious wet marks appeared beside the emperor's pillow.

(End of this chapter)