In the Chengguang Hall of the imperial palace, Consort De, the mother of the Fourth Prince, sat in the hall with a frosty face. The malevolence between her eyebrows was so terrifying that it seemed as if she could devour people.
In front of her knelt several trembling imperial physicians. The sweat on their foreheads dropped to the ground like raindrops. They all lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound or even wipe the sweat.
"Several days have passed! You can't even figure out what kind of poison it is. What use are you imperial physicians? If you still can't find out, you don't need to live either." Consort De angrily slapped the table beside her. The teacup "banged" and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.
"Your Highness, this kind of poison is truly unheard - of. Otherwise, issue a reward notice among the common people. Maybe some folk miracle doctors can recognize this poison. Your servant believes that the Fourth Prince is a lucky man and he will surely be fine."
The leading senior imperial physician didn't care about the face and dignity of the Imperial Medical Office at this moment. The most important thing was to save their lives.
If there were really folk doctors who recognized the poison and saved the Fourth Prince, at most, they would give some reward silver, but their lives could be saved. If they couldn't cure him, the anger of Consort De could also be diverted, and their chances of saving their lives would be greater. It was a win - win situation either way.
The other imperial physicians had the same idea and quickly nodded in agreement.
Consort De sneered at the group of imperial physicians in front of her. She knew exactly what these people were thinking, but currently, there was no better way. Posting a reward notice to find a highly - skilled person among the common people to treat the Fourth Prince was the most urgent matter.
Just as she was about to order these imperial physicians to leave, a young eunuch stumbled in.
"Your Highness, something terrible has happened! The Emperor has vomited blood and fainted!"
The imperial physicians, who had just let out a sigh of relief, became nervous again. Why were these accidents happening one after another? It was really an unlucky year.
Consort De was shocked. She looked at the out - of - breath young eunuch and urgently questioned, "What on earth is going on? Why did the Emperor vomit blood for no reason?"
The young eunuch didn't dare to delay and quickly replied, "Your Highness, just now, the Emperor received an urgent report. Along the way from the border to the capital, there were people posting documents everywhere. The documents contained the correspondence between the Fourth Prince and the Great Prince of Beiyue. It was evidence of their plan to kill the Northern Yue Emperor and frame Princess Wenqing. All this was done by Princess Wenqing. She also said that the Fourth Prince had been sending people to hunt her down. She even wrote her own name on the documents. Now, these documents have spread to the areas around the capital. The Emperor was so enraged that he fainted."
Listening to the young eunuch's words, Consort De's face turned paler and paler. She was so shocked that she suddenly stood up. Then, she felt dizzy and almost fell.
Her son was going to inherit the imperial throne in the future. With Princess Wenqing's actions, even the Emperor couldn't designate her son as the crown prince anymore. Even if they tried to claim that this was false, the common people would surely not believe it.
Her son's reputation had been ruined by Lu Qianning. Consort De's anger reached its peak at this moment, and her eyes turned blood - red.
The prince's mansion had been emptied, he had been poisoned with an unknown poison, and now his reputation was gone. It seemed that her son had been cursed.
"Lu Qianning, I will never let you go."
Consort De gritted her teeth and said, then her body swayed, her vision went black, and she fainted.
The maid beside her quickly supported her and shouted urgently, "Your Highness, Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Imperial physicians, come and save her quickly!"
The several imperial physicians looked at each other in dismay when they saw this scene. Another person fainted?
Before they could step forward to save her, the young eunuch said embarrassedly, "What should we do? Eunuch Du asked me to tell Your Highness and then invite all of you imperial physicians to feel the Emperor's pulse."
As soon as he finished speaking, the leading imperial physician quickly replied, "Eunuch Ji, I'll go with you. Your Highness here just suffered from a fit of rage and is not in serious condition. Just leave one person here to watch. The Emperor has vomited blood. We can't delay."
After saying that, he pulled Eunuch Ji and walked out.
The other several imperial physicians also followed. They all said they wanted to see the Emperor's imperial body. Only the slowest - reacting imperial physician was left behind.
The young eunuch didn't care about other things. Eunuch Du asked the others to go to the Imperial Medical Office to invite people and sent him here to the Consort De's place to invite imperial physicians, aiming to find more imperial physicians to treat the Emperor. Compared with the Emperor, Consort De was not that important.
Looking at the backs of the other imperial physicians walking away in a hurry, the remaining Imperial Physician Wang really wanted to slap himself. Why was he so slow?
After feeling Consort De's pulse, he said calmly, "Your Highness fainted because she couldn't accept the situation for a moment. Her body is not in serious condition. Let Your Highness rest and sleep. After she wakes up, there will be no problem. I'll prescribe some medicine for Her Highness to take later. You should also persuade Her Highness to take it easy and not to get angry again."
Actually, Imperial Physician Wang could make Consort De wake up on the spot, but he was afraid that after she woke up, being in a fit of rage, she would start killing people randomly. It was better for her to sleep and calm down first.
Outside the imperial palace, the documents were also being brought into the city from outside.
Unconsciously, Lu Qianning's people had posted the documents near the capital. They had traveled day and night and finally achieved results.
Every time the officials of the government found out, the documents had already been posted all over the city. The speed of reporting the news couldn't catch up with the speed of posting the documents. They had given silver to the vagrants and beggars to post the documents everywhere. They were never short of manpower.
Lu Qianning had now arrived in Yuncheng and settled in a mansion there.
After she and Luo Ling arrived at the mansion, they immediately took a bath and changed clothes. Now they were wearing plain - colored women's dresses.
The days of traveling had really exhausted them. They hadn't even had a good rest, let alone taking a bath.
The two of them were sitting in the pavilion, drinking tea and eating their favorite pastries. Beside them was another maid, Mu Jin, who was staying there.
"Mu Jin, what's the situation in the capital recently?"
Hearing Lu Qianning's question, Mu Jin started to tell her with a smile.
"Princess, the capital has been very lively recently. Two children came to the mansion of the Seventh Princess. They are the adopted younger sisters recognized by the Seventh Princess. One is about seven or eight years old and the other is three years old. They emptied the Wangji Pastry Shop in Yuncheng. A series of things have happened in the capital because of this..."
She vividly told the two of them what had happened recently. Lu Qianning and Luo Ling looked at each other with strange expressions. Why did it sound so familiar?
"What are their names?" Lu Qianning couldn't help but interrupt Mu Jin.
Mu Jin thought for a while and said, "They seem to have the surname Yue. Many people heard the princess call them Sister Yue, but I don't know their full names."
Hearing this, Lu Qianning couldn't help but smile. "It's really them. They arrived in the capital seven or eight days earlier than us."
Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered something and looked up at Mu Jin sharply. "How did they enter the capital? On mules or in a mule - drawn carriage?"
Mu Jin was confused by her question but still honestly replied, "Princess, they came in a mule - drawn carriage. It was the Seventh Princess who drove the carriage for them in person and took them directly to the mansion."
Only then did she remember that just now she had only mentioned that the princess had personally received the person to the princess mansion, but hadn't given the specific details. But it didn't seem to be a big deal, right?
