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Ning Ru's eyes were red. She knew she couldn't persuade the Queen, so she ordered people to bring a sedan chair. How could the clothes made by her mother not be inappropriate?

In the Eastern Palace, Gu Xingyan was still in a coma. Qiao Shun took off his clothes and was operating on him with needles.

Gu Xingcheng was standing by his side, watching nervously as Qiao inserted the needles all over his chest.

After a while, Qiao Shun removed the silver needles one by one.

Gu Xingcheng's eyes were red as he asked Qiao Shun, "Dr. Qiao, how is my brother's injury?"

Qiao Shun took a look at his haggard appearance and snorted unhappily: "He's fine. As long as he wakes up, everything will be fine. But you, if you don't have a good rest, I think you will be the one lying here!"

Gu Xingcheng was not annoyed at all. After hearing what Doctor Qiao said, he smiled and said, "As long as Xiaojiu is fine, I'll be fine. Thank you for your concern, Doctor."

"Humph! I must have owed you brothers a large sum of money in my previous life, otherwise I wouldn't have been tormented by you guys like this in this life."

Gu Xingcheng smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"The Queen is here." The eunuch reported.

Gu Xingcheng hurried forward and tried to put Gu Xingyan's clothes on.

Qiao Shun was busy with his medicine box. Seeing him like this, he shook his head softly.

However, even though Gu Xingcheng was fast enough, Empress Shu still saw it. Her face turned pale, and she strode forward and lifted up Gu Xingyan's clothes.

"Mother..."

Empress Shu's eyes were red. She pointed at Gu Xingyan's scarred upper body and asked Gu Xingcheng, "Is this why you sent your mother away every time Doctor Qiao wanted to give Xiao Jiuer acupuncture?"

"Mother, I am your son, your son..." I am afraid that you can't bear it.

"He was trained as a secret guard in Beijin. Mother is not stupid. How could she not know that he had injuries on his body? Cheng'er, why did you hide it from me?"

Aunt Ning Ru suddenly covered her mouth tightly. Each of these injuries was shocking, and each one was a brush with death.

Gu Xingcheng knelt in front of Empress Shu: "Mother, Xiaojiu will be fine."

Empress Shu helped him up and said, "It's not your fault. Go and have a good rest. He will be fine."

She turned her head and looked at the person on the bed. He was shot in the left chest outside the city of Sijiu. But when she saw the scar on the right chest, her heart suddenly ached.

The shape of the scar was very strange, winding along the entire heart wound.

Empress Shu hurried forward, sat down beside the bed, and gently stroked the shocking and hideous scar that stretched across her heart.

She calmly asked Qiao Shun: "Excuse me, Doctor Qiao, what kind of weapon caused this injury? Why does it look like a special symbol to me?"

When treating Gu Xingyan on the first day, Qiao Shun also noticed it, but the situation was urgent at the time and he didn't have much energy to pay attention to it.

At this moment, he frowned and said, "It should be a sharp weapon like a dagger. I have never seen this shape before. It looks like a self-inflicted wound."

Empress Shu and Gu Xingcheng both exclaimed, "Self-injury?"

Could it be that the training as a secret guard in Northern Jin was too hard, so he...

The two didn't dare to think about it, but they felt that Xiao Jiuer wouldn't be so fragile.

Qiao Shun nodded: "But the strange thing is, judging from the extent of the wound, it must have been stabbed in the heart. Oh, do the Queen and the Crown Prince know that the Ninth Prince's heart is on the right side?"

The two of them nodded. Only they knew this. Even Ou Jianglin and Queen Shu did not tell him at first.

Seeing that both of them understood, Qiao Shun continued, "And he stabbed me more than once. Just as the Queen said, he carved a special symbol on his heart. Logically, His Highness the Ninth Prince has no chance of survival. But, how..."

He pointed at the outer edge of the wound and said, "Look at this wound. From this angle, it should have been injured at least two years ago. But if you look at the center, it seems to have only been injured for two or three months."

Qiao Zhenzhen also stared at the wound: "Could it be that he was injured twice?"

"No." Qiao Shun shook his head.

"The two wounds won't fit so well."

Several people stared at the wound, wondering what had happened to him during those ten years in Northern Jin.

Seeing the two of them so worried, Qiao Shun said, "Don't worry, the wound here has healed. The most important injury to His Highness the Ninth Prince is the arrow in the left chest. The rest is not a big deal."

What he didn't say was that today was already the third day, and if Gu Xingyan could wake up tomorrow morning, then this danger would be truly over.

If you can't, that would be the greatest danger.

Aunt Ning Ru saw that everyone was relieved, and she knelt down to greet Qiao Shun: "Dr. Qiao, I would like you to take a look at my queen. When she first came..."

"Ning Ru!" Queen Shu interrupted Aunt Ning Ru's next words.

Gu Xingcheng asked hurriedly: "Aunt Ning Ru, what happened to the Queen Mother just now?"

Ning Ru didn't dare to go back and just stood there with her head down.

Empress Shu pulled Gu Xingcheng to sit aside: "Ning Ru is just making a fuss. I just had no appetite at noon and ate little, but she's worried."

Gu Xingcheng ignored his mother and stared at Ning Ru's face: "Aunt, you are the elder beside the mother. The mother's health has always been taken care of by you. I trust you the most. Tell me, when you came here just now, what happened to the mother?"

"Uh, this, Your Highness the Crown Prince..."

"Cheng'er, why do you have to embarrass Ning Ru?"

Gu Xingcheng still ignored her, his face darkened, and he shouted, "Aunt Ning Ru, you don't even want to listen to me! If that's the case, I'll send you out to live in your old age!"

Ning Ru knelt down, not daring to look at Empress Shu, and said in one breath: "The queen has not had a good rest in the past few days. She has been dealing with the harem's affairs day and night. She has not eaten a single bite since she got up this morning. She first dealt with the harem's affairs for two hours, and then made clothes for the Ninth Prince. She didn't take a breath for four hours. Before I came here just now, the queen almost fainted. I am guilty. It is my fault that I did not take good care of the queen. Please punish me, Your Highness!"

After that, he put his hands on his forehead and knelt on the ground.

Gu Xingcheng turned his head in a daze and looked at Empress Shu: "Mother..."

Ning Ru was still kneeling on the ground: "The queen is worried about the Ninth Prince's injury and your health. She can't sleep at night. If this continues, she will be exhausted sooner or later. Your Highness, please persuade the queen."

Empress Shu smiled faintly: "I'm fine. I just didn't get a good rest for two or three days. It's not like I didn't sleep at all. Have you forgotten that when you were sick as a child, your mother didn't sleep for three days and three nights and was fine. This is nothing."

Qiao Shun raised his beard and said, "Hehe, when you are still young, the Queen knows that you are young. You are almost at the age of knowing your destiny now, right?"

Gu Xingcheng stood up and bowed to Qiao Shun: "Please ask Doctor Qiao to take my mother's pulse."

Qiao Shun hummed twice, took out the pulse pillow, and asked Empress Shu to stretch out her hand.

Empress Shu knew that she couldn't persuade her eldest son, so she had to lend a hand.