The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

Huo Wuyou has limited spies in the palace, and even if he passes the news on, he can only ask the empress dowager for help.

However, he didn't want his grandmother to get involved in this matter, and he needed someone to open the palace door for him.

As expected, no one knew how Gu Shichong had managed to get the news into the palace. Within a stick of incense, a eunuch came hurriedly to report, "Your Majesty has ordered that Marquis Lin'an bring a doctor to the palace to see the Emperor!"

Huo Wuyou just glanced deeply at Gu Shichong, then led Sui Yunlang into the palace.

The eunuch Huo Wuyou who led the way recognized him as someone close to the emperor.

"My Lord, I wonder if Your Majesty is angry when I ask for an audience late at night?"

The eunuch who led the way lowered his eyebrows and said, "An Zhaoyi was supposed to be attending to the sick tonight, but the Empress was worried about Your Majesty, so she also went to the Changsheng Palace. When the Empress learned that the Marquis wanted to see her, she discussed with An Zhaoyi and woke up Your Majesty, asking Your Majesty to issue an order to summon him. When Your Majesty woke up, he did not reprimand the Empress."

The emperor's illness is important, but the commander of the cavalry battalion's request for a meeting late at night is also in accordance with the rules. Whether or not to wake the emperor tonight, both have their reasons. An Zhaoyi's words are naturally not more effective than those of the queen. Since the queen has nodded in agreement, there is no reason not to follow the rules.

On the long palace road, Huo Wuyou could only think: The last time Concubine Ge was eliminated, the Queen and Gu Shichong had cooperated, which made the originally neutral Queen begin to lean towards Prince Gong.

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The inner hall of the Hall of Eternal Life.

The emperor was half lying on the couch with a thick soft pillow behind him. He looked very weak, with his eyes constantly closing and opening again, making people fear that he might suddenly faint.

Outer hall.

The Queen and Concubine An sat quietly, looking at each other without saying a word.

Under her sleeves, An Zhaoyi's hands were shaking slightly... Why would he suddenly come to the palace to ask for an audience with Marquis Lin'an on the night of his wedding?

She suppressed her thoughts and looked at the Queen calmly: She was the only one taking care of the patient tonight, so why did the Queen come here so unexpectedly without any warning?

The two of them had their own thoughts, and the Queen calmly met An Zhaoyi's gaze.

When she arrived at the Changsheng Palace, although An Zhaoyi tried her best to hide it, she still caught the fleeting panic in her eyes. What was An Zhaoyi doing before she arrived at the Changsheng Palace? Why did Prince Gong suddenly send a letter to her to let Lin'an Hou enter the palace?

After staring at each other for a moment, An Zhaoyi showed a worried look on her face: "Empress, I am really worried about your Majesty's health, so I took the initiative to refuse the Marquis of Lin'an. It was my ignorance..."

The Queen's expression darkened unnoticeably: "Your Majesty is the most important thing to us, and I understand that."

As they were talking, a young eunuch came in and said to Peng Hui, "Eunuch, the Marquis of Lin'an is here."

Peng Hui nodded and went to the inner hall to pass the message.

There was a screen between the inner hall and the outer hall. After a moment, Peng Hui walked out from behind the screen and said, "Call the Marquis of Lin'an."

Huo Wuyou was seen wearing his wedding dress which he had not had time to change out of, and walked into the hall with a doctor behind him. He paid his respects to the two concubines, then bowed towards the inner hall and explained the reason for his visit.

"Uncle is not feeling well, and the imperial doctors in the palace have been trying to cure him but have been unable to do so. Wuyou has searched for a good remedy and has finally found one. Please allow me to recommend a doctor to diagnose your uncle's pulse."

Hearing this, An Zhaoyi stood up unconsciously and said, "Marquis Lin'an, the palace physician is very experienced, how could he be inferior to a wandering doctor?"

An Zhaoyi was also a little puzzled. You know, when Huo Wuyou was in Jiangzhou, he almost died due to serious injuries. But Xue Tingliu died in a tragic way and his body was burned. The things on his body had long been burned to ashes. Even His Royal Highness Prince Sheng didn't know whether Huo Wuyou was seriously injured because of the Seven Days of Grief-Relieving Formula.

Huo Wuyou was still respectful: "Empress Zhaoyi, although the Imperial Hospital has the most brilliant doctors in the world, they may not have seen as many cases as the doctors in the folks. Just let him check my uncle's pulse, maybe he can get some other results."

Restraining her guilty conscience, An Zhaoyi glanced at the Queen again and lowered her eyes slightly: "I am also worried about Your Majesty."

She couldn't object too strongly now, otherwise even the Queen would be suspicious. Moreover, since Huo Wuyou didn't die at that time, the poison he was poisoned with was most likely not the Seven Days to Eliminate Hatred Formula. There was no antidote for this poison, and she didn't believe that Huo Wuyou really had a way to detoxify it.

Observing the expressions on everyone's faces, the Queen remained silent and only asked silently towards the inner hall: "What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Peng Hui rushed back and forth, delivering a message for the seriously ill emperor. After a moment, he said, "Your Majesty, do as the Marquis of Lin'an said."

So, Sui Yunlang, who was already mostly sober, was taken to the inner hall to take the emperor's pulse.

The fingers under An Zhaoyi's sleeves became increasingly anxious, and in this cold winter, a thin layer of sweat broke out on her back unconsciously.

The Queen looked at Huo Wuyou. Although Prince Gong asked her to help Huo Wuyou enter the palace, the Queen was not sure what Huo Wuyou was doing today and she couldn't help feeling suspicious.

An Zhaoyi felt something was wrong and wanted to go behind the screen to check, but Huo Wuyou blocked her way with a bow and said, "Please don't stop His Majesty from seeing the doctor."

She finally couldn't help it: "Marquis Lin'an, it is abnormal for a minister to enter the palace late at night. You brought a traveling doctor with unknown origins so close to His Majesty. If His Majesty does anything wrong, your actions will be tantamount to treason!"

Huo Wuyou was as still as a mountain: "Please be careful with your words, Your Majesty, you are blessed with great fortune, and you will be safe. Moreover, I came here alone, without any soldiers. As the commander of the Cavalry Battalion, I have done nothing against the rules. I don't know how you can accuse me of treason."

Before An Zhaoyi could say anything else, Sui Yunlang came out of the inner hall with his head lowered. He bowed and said, "Reporting to the Queen and the Concubine Zhaoyi, after my inspection, Your Majesty's condition is not caused by illness, but by a strange poison."

Hearing this, the queen was startled and immediately went to the inner hall.

There was surprise and a subtle panic in An Zhaoyi's eyes. She ignored Huo Wuyou's attempt to stop her and hurried into the inner hall.

The emperor was seen half lying down, his heavy eyelids opening and closing slowly, making people feel as if he was about to faint in the next moment.

The queen sat down beside the couch, her face showing anxiety. She rebuked Sui Yunlang: "This is related to your majesty's health. This matter is of great importance. Don't talk nonsense!"

Sui Yunlang trembled and knelt down hurriedly: "I dare not! Your Majesty's symptoms are very similar to a patient I have seen before, otherwise how could I dare to jump to conclusions!"

An Zhaoyi's eyes trembled: "Do you mean to say that someone poisoned your majesty? Your majesty's food and drink must be tested for poison. Who has this opportunity?" She turned to the emperor and said, "Your majesty, I'm afraid this person is just making up stories to win credit!"

She glanced at Huo Wuyou and said, "Your Majesty, I am really curious, why did the Marquis of Lin'an use this person of unknown origin to treat Your Majesty?"

But Huo Wuyou just said calmly: "Uncle, this doctor is not a wandering doctor. He used to work in the Imperial Hospital."

The emperor looked at Sui Yunlang with gloomy eyes and said "oh" lightly.

Huo Wuyou said, "When Sui Yunlang was young, he was selected to be a doctor in the Imperial Hospital because of his extraordinary talent in medical skills. Seven years ago, it was you, your uncle, who appointed several doctors from the Imperial Hospital to accompany the army, and Sui Yunlang was one of them. His name must have been on the long-term register of the Imperial Hospital."

The emperor blinked slowly, thinking about this matter. His face was now gloomy, and his former majesty was greatly weakened by his illness. After a moment, he said, "It seems that this is the case."

An Zhaoyi became increasingly anxious, but she did not dare to show it: "But even so..."

"Let him try." The emperor interrupted her suddenly.

"Your Majesty?!" The Queen and Concubine An exclaimed almost at the same time.

The emperor coughed several times, and the phlegm in his throat gurgled. "The Imperial Hospital has been carefully treating me for these days but it has not been effective. They can't even find the cause of the disease. It's really useless. Should I continue to place my hope in them?"

Looking at all this, a strange feeling rose in the Queen's heart. To avoid any more misfortunes, she kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, I beg you to at least summon the imperial physician to take a look first to make sure that the diagnosis and treatment methods used by this doctor are not inappropriate before making a decision!"

This time the emperor did not refute it, but ordered the Imperial Medical Bureau to come for a consultation.

After discussion at the Imperial Hospital, it was determined that the detoxifying prescription presented by Sui Yunlang was harmless to the body. Even if the emperor was not poisoned, it would not harm his body after taking it, and it did not conflict with the medicine the emperor had been taking recently.

Now, the Queen and Concubine An had no reason to stop it.

The Imperial Hospital prepared medicine according to the prescription and gave it to the emperor. Leaning on a soft pillow, the emperor exhaled slowly as if exhausted, but suddenly... he frowned, covered his chest, as if he couldn't breathe, and suddenly fainted.