The world is broken, the cubs mend it

"I'm fine, let me go."

Yuanyuan was having difficulty breathing because she was strangled so tightly. When she saw that she pushed Caizhi to the ground, she immediately started pushing her anxiously.

Although Concubine Jing was very good to her, Caizhi, who was with her day and night and served her, was the closest to her, and she could not bear to see Caizhi being bullied.

Two guards pried open Concubine Jing's hands from both sides and took the child out of her arms.

"My lady, what are you doing?"

Caizhi's palm was scratched but she didn't have time to take care of it. She immediately went forward and picked up the child, her eyes instantly turned cold.

"I was just too worried. Yuanyuan, I was too abrupt."

Concubine Jing looked at them apologetically, lowered her eyelashes and returned to her usual calm and weak appearance.

"Your Majesty, please go back. Don't come here if you have nothing to do."

Caizhi drove them away with a cold face. Looking at Concubine Jing's back, she always felt something was not right. She sent the guards at the door to find the Master Seal and tell him about this.

After the morning court today, the Master Seal went out and has not returned yet.

"Are you scared?"

Caizhi carried the child back to the house, looked at the child's red face and asked with concern.

"It's okay. Are you hurt?"

"It's okay, young lady, don't worry. I have been thick-skinned since I was a child, so it's no big deal if I fall a few times."

Although she said so, her palms still felt painful. The child held her hands with his two little hands and blew on her wounds, which made her heart melt.

This little episode was soon forgotten. Yuanyuan felt dizzy and fell asleep in her arms.

Caizhi carried her back to the side hall, placed her there, covered her with a quilt and stood by her side.

People tend to feel sleepy easily in spring. After a while, Caizhi also felt dizzy and fell asleep on the edge of the bed.

The guards went around most of the palace and finally found Pei Zhiyan in the duty room next to the moat.

He has never slacked off from the beginning of this plague. If the deaths of many people in the world had nothing to do with him in the past, he would just sit on the high platform and watch coldly.

But now that he has a child, he is always afraid that the child will be infected with the disease.

After the court session, he, Wu Xian, Xing Zhao and the Jinyi Guards divided into three groups to disinfect the palace inside and out and check whether all the palace maids and eunuchs had any infectious diseases.

Listening to the guard's report, he frowned, took off, stepped onto the city wall, and used his lightness skills to quickly rush towards the Moon-Watching Tower.

The yard was quiet, with only Xiao Fuzi sitting alone at the door of the main hall, holding a piece of dogtail grass in her hand.

"Master, Caizhi is sleeping with the young lady in the side hall."

Without him asking, Xiao Fuzi immediately told him where the child was going.

Pei Zhiyan walked quickly towards the side hall with an uneasy mood. The hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Beyond the screen, the child was lying quietly on the bed, while Caizhi had collapsed on the ground, limp as if she had no bones.

He placed his hand on the child's forehead and his whole body trembled. He almost forgot how to breathe, and his mouth reacted first.

"Call the imperial physician. Call the imperial physician quickly."

When Xiao Fuzi heard the trembling and shrill sound of the palm print, his heart skipped a beat and he stood up, but his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

Without thinking too much, he crawled to the Imperial Hospital and called all the imperial doctors on duty.

It was diagnosed that Caizhi and her child were both infected with the plague. Caizhi had been doing hard labor for many years and was in good health, so her symptoms were not as severe as her child's. After taking medicine, she was able to cheer up a little.

The child was burning all over, his eyes were closed, and he kept mumbling, "Daddy..."

"Master Seal Master, you'd better go out and don't get too close."

Although the imperial physician hated him from the bottom of his heart, the emperor was afraid of death and stayed in his bedroom all day long and dared not go out. He was still needed outside to take charge of the situation, so he could not fall down for the time being.

"You must find a way to heal her for me. Don't let anything happen to her."

Pei Zhiyan's eyes were bloodshot and his whole body was shaking as he spoke. Seeing the child crying for daddy pitifully despite the high fever, he wished he could suffer for the child.

"I will do my best."

The imperial physician wrote a prescription and went to boil the medicine himself. When Wu Xian learned about this, he rushed over and stared at him, worried that someone had tampered with the medicine.

Ning'an Palace——

Not long after Concubine Jing returned, she also developed a high fever. The old nanny saw her holding a ginseng slice in her mouth and sitting at the door of the main hall despite her sick body, and she couldn't help feeling distressed.

"My lady, why are you doing this? If the eunuch and the boy don't die, you will have wasted your life."

"It doesn't matter. I'm tired of staying in this palace. If I can die with that eunuch, it will be a worthy death."

Concubine Jing pinched her palms hard to keep herself awake, but her eyes became blurry uncontrollably.

From a distance, she saw a blue figure coming in with a sword in hand. She smiled to herself, thinking that the figure had finally arrived after such a long wait.

The old nanny was her wet nurse and had been with her since she got married.

Seeing Pei Zhiyan coming in with a sword, he immediately wanted to stand in front of her, but was kicked away and hit the leg of the table hard, dying.

"Why do you want to harm her?"

He raised the sword and pierced Concubine Jing's shoulder, making her chaotic vision clear with the pain.

"Of course it's because of you. You deserve to die. As long as you die, the world will be at peace."

From the very beginning she approached the child with a purpose, but the child was so soft and sweet, often reminding her of her own daughter who died young.

But if it weren't for Pei Zhiyan's hegemony, which made the emperor depressed and became corrupt and tyrannical, her child would not have died tragically so early.

She hated him to the core, but she had no chance to get close to him, so she could only start with the child.

He asked his trusted confidant to pretend to be a eunuch, take the underwear of the palace maid who died of the plague, and then put the underwear in his arms to look for the child.

She knew that Pei Zhiyan regarded the child as if he were the apple of his eye. They were together all day long, so it would be only a matter of time before his message came through.

Even if he can't be infected, let him taste the pain of losing a child, and let her feel the heart-wrenching pain.

"..."

Pei Zhiyan clenched the sword in his hand and didn't want to ask any more questions. The tip of the sword pierced Concubine Jing's skin.

The sword strikes again and again kept her awake, yet in excruciating pain.

Concubine Jing curled up on the ground, spitting blood from her mouth, but she still couldn't stop laughing wildly.

"Hahaha... Pei Zhiyan... You will not have a good death. I curse you to go to hell. I curse that all the evil you have done will come back upon the person you care about the most... Hahaha..."

She could have hanged herself, but she felt guilty towards the child and thought of enduring all these tortures as paying off her debt.

"..."

Pei Zhiyan exerted ruthless force on his hands, and the people on the ground could no longer laugh.

Moon-Watching Tower——

After the medicine was boiled, Wu Xian covered his face and carried the bowl in. Pei Zhiyan took the bowl from his hand and walked into the house.

"Master, let your subordinates go. You must take care of your body."

Seeing that he was about to rush in without any protection, Wu Xian immediately grabbed his clothes.

"release!"

Pei Zhiyan looked at him coldly and strode in with the medicine.