female concubine

King Chu returned to the study, lit the candles in the room, and did not go to the desk until the door was closed and sat down, eagerly and carefully opened the letter.

The letter paper was neatly folded, and there were only a few fifty characters, which was less than half a sheet of paper. However, compared with the densely written and lacking writing strength when I went out, the strength of this letter was much more stable.

Seeing the words are like people, thinking of the eve of parting, she felt distressed and blamed herself, holding the letter tremblingly, and read intently, "The sky is as low as the old, and the children of the world are crazy. Come at night and try new makeup everywhere, but the world In the sky. I don’t feel fresh and cool like water, and my temples are as frosty as lovesickness. I dream of crossing the dry mulberry from the bottom of the sea, reading the wind and waves of the Milky Way.”

When the letter paper was opened, the concentric knot made of black silk and red string slid down to her hand along the slope of the paper.

——Boom boom boom! ———

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." She put down the letter and put the knot in her arms, wiped her eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Liu Zhu Bo's little lady made supper, and sent someone to ask A Lang if he wants to come over and eat together?"

"No, you can go if you're hungry."

The little six closed the door tightly, walked behind the king of Chu, leaned over and said in a low voice, "There is news from the eyes in the capital!" He handed a piece of paper that was densely written and incomprehensible to the king of Chu.

After seeing it, the king of Chu put it on a candlestick and burned it, "There are his eyeliners in the capital staring at the palace of the king of Chu. Now I'm stuck here and can't go anywhere. Let them be more careful."

"Yes."

In September of the eighth year of Jianping, the Eastern Palace was put on guard, and the emperor ordered the Food Bureau, and the Hanlin Medical Academy was responsible for the medical food for Emperor Liang of the Eastern Palace.

The run-in Luo on the table had been placed for nearly a month, and the aroma hadn't dissipated. Xiao Youqing sat on the chair and stared at them blankly for a long time.

——Boom! ——

"girl."

It was the maid's knock on the door that brought her back to her senses, "Come in."

Xichun gently opened the door and approached with hasty steps, "Girl, when I went to Zhuangzi with them today, a farmer gave a piece of food to the slave."

Xichun took out a piece of rags hidden in his sleeve, "I have checked, and there are no outsiders around, and the farmer's hands don't look like farming at all, as for this..."

Xiao Youqing spread it out, and said in shock: "Isn't this the territory map of the Song Dynasty... how can a farmer have it?"

"I don't know, I thought it was very strange, so I hurried back to tell you."

Apart from the tattered edges and corners of the map drawn on silk, there were two holes in the middle of the map. Xiao Youqing lowered his head and stared, "These two gaps..." Immediately got up, went to the cabinet, unlocked it and found a pair of them. good map.

Putting the tattered silk cloth on, Xichun looked at the notch on the silk cloth and then at the intact map, facing it, pointed to one of them and said: "This place is Jiangling, and this is the daimyo map." government."

Xiao Youqing pondered deeply, "Jiangling Mansion and Daming Mansion..."

Xichun suddenly remembered something, raised his head and said, "Oh, by the way, that farmer whispered a word when he left."

"What?"

Xichun recalled the conversation during the day in the outskirts of the city, "The first sentence seems to be some kind of sage... nothing, but the latter sentence has a difference..."

"Yes, the sages and sages have fallen together, and Lin Qi is abusive?" Xiao Youqing raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, yes, he repeated it several times, but I didn't care at the time."

The places circled on the map are Jiangling Mansion and Daming Mansion, Xiao Youqing frowned and said: "This is made by Shixian, three seasons are divided into Warring States, seven heroes are in chaos..." quickly looked down at the two incomplete places on the silk cloth , "Seven Kingdoms... The predecessor of Jiangling was Ying City, the capital of the Chu Kingdom."

Xichun looked at another sign, "What about the name..."

"Handan!"

In mid-September of the eighth year of Jianping, Sun Hongda, a medical officer of the Imperial Academy, took over Yang Shu's post, not only asking for the pulse of the emperor and concubine, but also asking for the pulse of peace for the three princes.

It was night, in the main room of King Zhao's mansion, King Zhao stretched out his hands and lay on his side on the couch.

The candlelight swayed gently, Zhao Wang looked at the imperial medical envoy, who was not yet 50 years old, and asked, "I heard that Sun Taiyi's ancestral home is Shanyin?"

Sun Hongda took the pillow away from King Zhao's wrist, nodded and said, "Yes."

"Shanyin in Shuozhou was ceded to the Khitan during the previous dynasty and was occupied by the Khitan. It was not recovered until I ascended the throne to His Majesty. In the battle of regaining it, this king went to the front line with His Majesty!"

"The emperor is mighty and sage, and the three kings are also brave. It is my great fortune!"

A fast horse stopped beside the stone lion in front of King Zhao's Mansion. The person on the horse jumped off almost at the moment it stopped, rubbed against the bluestone ground, and then got up in a hurry, "Dr. inside?"

"Who is so bold, dare to stop the horse in front of the palace?"

The servant took out a right amulet engraved with two concave and convex carp waist cards facing each other on the back, "I am the servant of the Eastern Palace, and I am here to invite Doctor Sun under the order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Hearing that it was the Eastern Palace, the guards at the gate of the palace did not dare to slack off. They moved closer to see the words engraved on the front of the waist card, and immediately changed their tone, "Zhonggui, wait a moment, let me go back and report to the lord."

The mansion guard turned around and trotted in, bumping into the chief manager of King Zhao's Mansion, "What are you doing so impetuously, this is the mansion, are there any rules?"

"Shen servant, there is a servant from the East Palace outside the door asking to see you."

"People from the East Palace?" The manager raised his white eyebrows and said arrogantly, "I don't see you!"

"But the crown prince is going to summon Taiyi Sun to the East Palace, and the servant came here on horseback and seemed in a hurry."

The steward narrowed his eyes, "I know about this, but the prince is not feeling well, and the princess is also... Physician Sun is currently treating the third king. You go back and watch it first, don't let anyone come in. I will talk to the third king in a while." Wang said."

"Yes."

After a long time, the head of the palace came to the main room.

"The third king is a villain."

"Come in." Zhao Wang lay on the couch, raised his eyes and asked, "What's the matter?"

The chief steward then walked to King Zhao's couch, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "The crown prince asked Sun Taiyi to go to the East Palace, I'm afraid that Emperor Liang is about to give birth."

Zhao Wang turned his head and looked at the servant in surprise. The imperial physician in the palace is not allowed to enter the inner room. Except for special circumstances, if the East Palace is giving birth, there should be a special midwife at this time. Zhao Wang looked at Sun Hongda in front of him again. He was brought out by Yang Shu Yes, he is also proficient in obstetrics. The prince sent someone to call Sun Hongda urgently. Wang Zhao thought that the East Palace must be in danger, so he smiled secretly, "Go out first."

"Yes!"

The servant from the East Palace hurriedly turned around at the gate of King Zhao's Mansion, "Half an hour has passed, why haven't you come out yet?"

"My prince is not feeling well. Doctor Sun is treating him. What happened to the East Palace so anxious?"

"It's something you can't afford!" Seeing that the Zhao Palace seemed to be deliberately delaying, the servant turned around and stepped on the horse with wide eyes, "What a Zhao Palace, just wait and see!"

To the south of King Zhao's Mansion is the East Palace. In the pavilion where Emperor Liang of the East Palace lived, the palace people kept coming in and out with hot water. When the clear water was brought in, it turned bloody red when it came out.

The obstetrical medical officers of the Hanlin Medical Official Hospital gathered in a pile, and drew pictures of the delivery process and the position of the fetus, and the palace servants sent them in to the midwife who delivered the baby in the room.

At night, the palace servants in the room rushed out to report that the situation seemed to be very difficult. Before the crown prince could speak, the crown prince ordered her servants to invite the Hanlin medical officer.

The imperial medical envoy was not at home, so the servant went to Prince Zhao's mansion after inquiring. Half an hour later, the servant returned to the East Palace. The princess asked repeatedly, "Have you gone to invite me?"

"The villain went to invite him, but King Zhao didn't let him go, and he didn't feel well even if he said anything!"

"King Zhao knows where the important people in the East Palace will release them. Have the other imperial physicians from the Hanlin Medical Academy arrived?" If it wasn't an emergency, how could he send people everywhere to invite the imperial physicians.

"Except for those who are on duty, many imperial doctors live in the new city, but the gates of the old city have been closed!"

In the midwifery room, a group of experienced maids tried various methods but were helpless.

"Your Highness!"

"what!"

There was a heart-piercing voice in the room, and the princess pinched the hand in her sleeve and asked the prince, "Okay, why did you give birth prematurely?"

The prince turned his head, "How does this palace know!"

An hour later, Sun Hongda hurried to the East Palace with the medicine box and a few subordinates.

"Your Highness, please forgive me. The third king felt palpitated and uncomfortable, so he was delayed."

"Okay, okay, go in quickly, don't you hear the screams inside?"

Sun Hongda straightened up, Liangdi is the concubine of the crown prince, it would be inappropriate for him to enter the house as a courtier with a foreign sex and the opposite sex, so he asked cautiously: "Dr. I was only conceived in late January to February, the so-called three months is just an estimate, and the delivery date has to wait until the end of October at least, and this Hanlin Medical Official Hospital also has a record, so why did she suddenly give birth prematurely?"

The prince urged him to go in, "Oh, don't ask, go save people first, and investigate this matter after saving people, I won't hold you accountable for embarrassing you!"

"Yes."

"Also!" the crown prince stopped him, walked up to him and said in a low voice, "Anyway, save this child for me!"

Sun Hongda looked up at the prince, cupped his hands and said, "Observe the order!"

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Before entering the palace in the East Palace, the Secretary of the Imperial City first gave the emperor the secret message.

"Premature?"

Xiao Xianfu nodded and said: "Yes, after the dinner, Di Liang suddenly said that she felt unwell and went back to the house. Not long after, some palace people rushed out and said that Di Liang was about to give birth."

"Didn't Sun Hongda say it's going to be October? There's still more than half a month left!" The emperor looked at Xiao Xianfu suspiciously, "Go and check the Hanlin Medical Official Academy and Shangshi Bureau, as well as those in the East Palace!"

"Yes."

"One more thing..." Xiao Xianfu raised his head hesitantly.

"Say!"

"At dusk, the three kings suddenly felt unwell and called Imperial Physician Sun to the mansion. Later, Emperor Liang ordered the concubine to go to Zhao Wang's mansion to invite someone, but he was not invited. It was not until an hour later that Imperial Physician Sun rushed to the East Palace."

The emperor put his hand on his forehead and rubbed it, "The house is restless, the house is restless!" He raised his head and said, "I have ordered all the medical officers in the obstetrics department to go to the East Palace to wait!"

"Your Majesty, all the medical officials are here, but for a woman to give birth, no matter how many imperial doctors there are, they are not good at this..."

The emperor turned cold, "Are you feeling sorry for Yang Shu?"

Xiao Xianfu knew about Yang Shu's real death, "I dare not."

The emperor's eyes were full of indifference, as if he didn't regret the death of the contemporary doctor at all, "It's just a bastard, let fate!"

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From the moment Sun Hongda entered the room until the early morning of the next day, the noise in the room became smaller and smaller, and the people outside the room waited anxiously all night.

Hearing a cock crow, the prince woke up from the nightmare, opened his tired eyes, turned his head to look at the closed door, "It's been a whole night!"

As soon as the prince finished speaking, the cry of a baby came from the room.

——Squeak~—— Immediately after the door was opened, the only person who came out was Sun Hongda, the only Hanlin medical officer who entered.