The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Taking advantage of the chaos in Kunning Palace, Xie Yuzhen carried the queen to the inner room. Before the imperial physician arrived, the queen took a medicine that could change the pulse and was also produced from the strange medicine system.

"I have sent someone to ask His Majesty. How is the Queen now? Can you tell me what should be done with Concubine Wang?" Concubine Chen walked in and asked Xie Yuzhen.

At this moment, the queen has "slowly woken up", but her face is haggard and she is visibly weak. Although her eyes are slightly open, they are lifeless and it is obvious that she is not fully conscious yet.

Xie Yuzhen stood up and turned to Concubine Chen: "Let's keep Concubine Wang out first..."

Before she finished her words, Yun Rong came with an unfamiliar old imperial physician: "The imperial physician is here."

Chen Guipin immediately stepped aside and asked in confusion, "Why have I never seen this lord before? Isn't the old imperial physician Bai here?"

Yun Rong quickly explained, "Master Bai is not on duty today. This is the Imperial Physician Song who has been treating the Fifth Prince. He was summoned to the palace after the birth of the Fifth Prince and does not go out often, so the Imperial Concubine has never seen him."

After the death of the Fourth Prince, Concubine Chen didn't like to go out. Seeing that the people in the room didn't show any strange reaction to this strange face, she didn't think much about it.

It was true that the Emperor and Empress had summoned Doctor Song to the palace specifically to treat the Fifth Prince. He had nothing to do with the Empress and Xie Yuzhen's fake death plan. However, Xie Yuzhen did not expect that Concubine Chen, who had gotten over the pain of losing her child, would be so attentive and perceptive. "Sister Chen, have the palace servants brought by Concubine Wang been controlled?"

Concubine Chen nodded: "We have already taken them down. As for her courtyard, I have also asked the Shanggong Bureau to send people to guard it first."

In the time it took for the two of them to exchange a few words, Imperial Physician Song had already begun to check the pulse of the Queen lying on the bed. His brows were furrowed tighter and tighter, and his face gradually turned pale. He took his slightly trembling hand off the Queen's wrist, stood up, bowed, and said, "My two majesties, please follow me outside..."

The more he felt the Queen's pulse, the more frightened he became.

Before the Fifth Prince passed away, the Queen's pulse had shown signs of exhaustion and near death, but later, perhaps because she took the secret medicine used by the royal family to save her life, the signs of near death were alleviated, but her body was still weak... But today...

Imperial Physician Song couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

He didn't know what had happened that caused the Queen's pulse to take a sharp turn for the worse, as if an elephant was hanging by a spider's thread.

He didn't dare to ask, and could only pretend to be calm and hint to the two ladies in charge in the room that the Queen's pulse was very bad. In order not to stimulate the patient's emotions, they had to go outside to discuss the specific situation.

"Sister Chen, please go and discuss the prescription with Lord Song. I will stay here with Her Majesty." Xie Yuzhen said decisively.

Chen Guipin didn't notice anything unusual. At the moment, Concubine Li was out of control and was interrogating Wang Xuanshi outside. It was very important to hear what the imperial physician said about the Queen's condition, but they couldn't both leave, so they just asked the palace maids to stay with the Queen.

But she always had a subtle suspicion in her heart, always feeling that there seemed to be an invisible hand behind the scenes manipulating everything that happened today.

But the situation was urgent now and she couldn't afford to think deeply.

At this time, Imperial Physician Song whispered carefully, "I am alone in understanding the condition of the Queen, and I am afraid I cannot be sure. Please ask the Queen to send a few more colleagues over..."

As soon as Concubine Chen and Imperial Physician Song walked out, Yun Rong called out the names of several palace maids in the room and asked them to get pens and ink and other things, and follow Imperial Physician Song and the other two to the outer room to wait for the prescription. She also asked the remaining palace maids to quickly invite the remaining imperial physicians on duty in the Imperial Hospital, and sent a few female officials out of the palace with letters and badges to invite the imperial physicians who were not on duty today.

After the palace maids and officials had all left upon receiving the order, the empress completely opened her lifeless eyes. At this moment, apart from Xie Yuzhen, the only one left in the inner room was Yun Rong.

It wasn't that the Queen didn't trust the other ladies-in-waiting, but for this kind of thing, the fewer people who knew about it, the better: "Thank you for your hard work. From now on, everything will be handed over to you, Xia'er, you must act with caution."

"Don't worry, madam." Xie Yuzhen's expression was solemn and his eyes were firm. "You also know that I can go crazy very easily."

"You're so naughty." The queen cursed with a helpless smile, took out the pill hidden beside her pillow from the small box, put it into her mouth and pressed it under her tongue.

Yun Rong picked up the small box containing the medicine, put a gem of similar size in it, and then turned around and put it on the treasure shelf next to him, blending it in with the many identical small boxes on the shelf.

Outside.

Concubine Li's half-sarcastic, half-questioning words had not yet been able to extract any useful information from the king's concubine;

Imperial Physician Song was telling Concubine Chen about the Queen's pulse condition he had diagnosed. As Concubine Chen listened, the color gradually drained from her face, and her expression became solemn and sad.

The palace servants in Kunning Palace were in panic and fear. A few female officials barely managed to maintain order in the chaos. The concubines, who were also anxious, had no power in the palace and could not say anything. They could only send the palace servants who accompanied them to the palace gate to wait for news. They themselves kept looking outside the door - why hadn't the palace servant who went to Lizheng Hall to inform the emperor of the accident in Kunning Palace come back yet?

At this moment, Kunning Palace seemed to be slowly tightened by an invisible giant hand. The atmosphere became increasingly silent and tense.

"Oh no!" A person dressed as a female official suddenly appeared at the gate of Kunning Palace screaming, scaring the palace servants who were sent by their masters to guard the gate and wait for news.

The young eunuch guarding the gate immediately recognized her as Concubine Ning's personal maid and hurried forward to ask what had happened.

The female official had disheveled hair and tears streaming down her face. She was panting and holding on to the arm of the gatekeeper eunuch to steady herself. Before she could say anything, several Yulin guards appeared behind her and chased after her.

"Oh no, oh no." The female official was extremely panicked and looked a little dazed. She just kept saying, "I have something important to report to Your Majesty!"

"This..." The young eunuch looked at the female official in embarrassment, then looked at the several Yulin guards who were chasing after her.

The female official looked back and seemed to have regained some composure. She said in a somewhat confused manner, "I really had an urgent matter, so I violated the palace rules and ran on the road. When I passed by Changrui Palace, they wanted to stop me and question me. I didn't have time to explain and just rushed past..."

"What's the urgent matter?" The young eunuch knew that Concubine Ning had a good relationship with the Queen, and wanted to help the female official, but the Queen had just fainted from fright, and he didn't know whether the other concubines could handle the Yulin Guards.

The female official cried out in tears: "Empress Ning is dead!"