female concubine

After hearing the baby's cry, Wei Shu heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly stepped forward to ask, "Is the grandson?"

Sun Hongda walked out with a gray face, took a deep breath, and immediately knelt down with his knees limp, bowed his head and trembled: "Liangdi, I'm dead!"

After hearing this, Wei Shu took a few steps back with his eyes wide open, sat down heavily, and asked in disbelief, "Doctor Sun, what are you talking about?"

"I have tried my best, Liang Di was difficult to give birth, I only saved the little emperor's grandson, and Liang Di..." Sun Hongda kowtowed again, "I am incompetent, please forgive me!"

Wei Shu tilted his head to the side and took a deep breath, leaned on the chair and stood up with difficulty, and shouted: "Why, hasn't she been fine all the time? Didn't I just say a few words to her during the meal!" Walk and run towards the room.

When I came to the door, I was stopped by the palace people, "Your Highness is a man of gold..."

Then a palace man pushed the door out with a gold basin dyed red, and with him was a sitting woman who was holding a crying baby wrapped in cotton cloth in her arms.

The cry of the baby was getting closer and closer, "Your Highness, it's the little emperor's grandson!"

With his trembling mouth half-opened, Wei Shu turned his head and stared angrily at the imperial physician on the ground, "Aren't you the official envoy of the Imperial Academy? You can't even save yourself, what are you still doing in the Imperial Academy?"

Sun Hongda raised his head, knelt down to the prince and said, "Your Highness, when I entered, Concubine Liang was weak, and the situation is no longer optimistic."

"Come on!" the prince shouted towards the outside of the palace with red eyes.

Immediately, dozens of Eastern Palace guards came in.

"Arrest everyone in the palace, and no one can leave until the matter is clarified!" He approached Sun Hongda again, "The imperial medical officer's treatment is ineffective..."

"Your Majesty has an edict!" Before the crown prince's words came, the servants who came from the palace saw the guards of the East Palace drawing their knives in the delivery room, so they shouted loudly.

The crown prince cast an angry look at the Hanlin medical envoy, and immediately walked out, "My lord, I wish your Majesty the best of luck!"

"According to His Majesty's oral order, call the Hanlin medical envoy to the palace to have an audience." The servant said again: "Your Majesty also said that the Hanlin medical envoy will come to see me again after the affairs of the East Palace are over. I have something to ask."

The prince stood up in shock, "Does Your Majesty know?"

The servant asked suspiciously: "The villain doesn't understand, what is your Highness talking about?" He quickly explained: "Your Majesty just ordered the villain to inquire about the situation in the East Palace. Your Highness, the Crown Prince, don't panic."

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In the Hall of Funing, the emperor had just woken up and ordered his servant to go to the East Palace with a message.

Several palace servants helped him dress and tie his hair. Xiao Xianfu walked in hastily just after washing. The emperor saw the hurried look in front of the bronze mirror and said to the left and right: "You all step back. .”

"Yes."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for breaking into the inner palace without permission."

"Did something happen to the East Palace?" The emperor walked out from behind the screen, went to the couch, put on his robe and sat down.

"Yes, the emperor's eldest grandson was born in the East Palace, but Emperor Liang... died."

The emperor raised the teacup to his lips, and put it down immediately, "Dead? What's the matter, didn't Sun Hongda go?"

"This, I don't know, whether I need to summon Sun Taiyi."

The emperor shook his head, "I have sent someone to call just now, and I have been watching it every day, but it is still impossible to guard against it. Did I ask you to investigate it yesterday?"

"I checked the Shangshi Bureau and the Hanlin Medical Official Academy. Among them, the Shangshi Bureau is the most suspected. Do I need to investigate it?"

The emperor narrowed his eyes, walked out of the palace with his hands behind his back, and said indifferently: "The woman is just giving birth, there is nothing to investigate, don't investigate!"

Xiao Xianfu followed beside the emperor.

The emperor rode on Yuhuo, "Let people from the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites and the Zongzheng Temple of Taichang Temple wait in Wende Hall, and order people to appease Chen's family. This matter cannot be announced to the outside world for the time being."

"Yes."

And said to the left and right: "Go, Donggong!"

In the East Palace, the servants summoned the Hanlin medical officials to enter the palace, and the prince had no choice but to let Sun Hongda go.

Before leaving, Sun Hongda turned to the crown prince and said: "Concubine Liang is indeed an irregular child. As a doctor, as a subject, how can I not be dedicated, and this is not what I want to see. Your Highness, please forgive me. The minister will leave!"

The more the deputy medical officer said this, the more the prince didn't believe it. He watched Sun Hongda leave and turned his head to the prince Zhan Shi who had just entered, "Give me all the people from the Eastern Palace Food Bureau and Pharmacy Bureau. Grab it!"

"Yes!"

Before Sun Hongda left the East Palace, the emperor had already arrived in person.

"Holy One!"

"Your Majesty, I am incompetent, I..."

After the emperor stepped down, he walked past Sun Hongda's kneeling side, "I'm not confused, it's just a hell of a woman, Sun Qing has worked hard, go home and rest."

Sun Hongda knelt back and moved his body, raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, I asked for pulse at Prince Zhao's residence yesterday, Princess Zhao is very happy!"

The black boots stood still on the stone steps and stopped moving forward. The emperor turned around and looked down at Sun Hongda, "You don't need it, who are you to excuse!" He left immediately.

The prince heard the sound and ordered someone to rush to the courtyard of the East Palace to pick him up with the crying baby in his arms.

"Your Majesty, all blessings!"

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, approached the prince and bent down to help him up, and gently stroked the moist corners of the prince's eyes with callused fingers.

The prince's eyes were red, "Father, Mrs. Chen..."

"I know, I have already ordered someone to take care of the members of the Chen family."

"Doctor Sun said that Mrs. Chen..."

"I also know!" The emperor interrupted the prince, "The dead cannot be brought back to life, the prince must mourn!"

"Your Majesty?" The crown prince raised his head and stared blankly at his father, "Does Your Majesty want to calm things down again?"

The emperor wanted to hold the baby in the palace man's arms, but stopped when he heard the prince's question, and raised his hand to the side.

Left and right left, there was no baby crying and making noise, only father and son remained in the courtyard.

"This time it's Mrs. Chen, what about next time? If it's my son who dies next time, will daddy still be like this?"

The emperor turned his back to the crown prince, "What does the crown prince want to say?"

"Daddy clearly knows..."

"Are you suspicious of your own brother? Isn't it messy enough that you dislike this family? Or do you think this country is too messy?"

The prince shivered, "Is there any need to doubt?"

"The minister regards him as a younger brother, and what does he regard the minister as? Is it an obstacle from the high position, or..."

"Enough!" The emperor turned around and glared.

"I listened to your words, I didn't do anything, but what happened?"

The emperor put his hands behind his back and approached, "I said that as long as I'm here, no one will shake your position, but you just don't listen!"

The emperor gradually moved away from the prince, and he lost his original desire to see the child. He stepped up the stone steps leaving the courtyard and turned back: "The prince should look like the prince, but if you can't do it, I am the sky, and I can't do it." I can't protect you!"

The emperor left the East Palace less than a quarter of an hour later, summoned officials from the six ministries and nine temples in the three provinces, and announced to the world that the East Palace gave birth to the eldest grandson of the emperor. Publish the morning newspaper and send it to the local area.

All the ministers went out from Wende Hall, and the emperor passed Xiao Xianfu in again.

"His Majesty."

"Go and send a message to King Zhao's mansion, tell King Zhao to take off his crimson robe, stop here, if something happens again, I will never let you down!"

"Yes."

After Xiao Xianfu left, the emperor shouted in the hall: "Zhao Ci!"

"His Majesty?"

The emperor beckoned Zhao Ci to approach, and ordered in a low voice, "Send someone to investigate the Shangshi Bureau secretly, and if you find suspicious people, don't stay."

"Yes!"

The court newspaper and residence newspaper were published one after another, and soon, the news of the birth of the emperor's eldest grandson spread throughout Tokyo and the entire Wei Song Dynasty. Compared with the grief of Chen Liangdi's death due to childbirth, people only remembered the joy of the birth of the emperor's grandson.

In October of the eighth year of Jianping, half a month had passed since the birth of the eldest grandson of the emperor.

"The princess has been too worried recently, so I still need to pay more attention to my body." The imperial doctor retracted his hand to take the pulse and then thought of something, so he asked: "The princess is because of the sixth king's birthday?"

Princess Chu nodded, "Yes, I don't know, she is far away in Qishan, all alone..."

"The Six Kings were raised under the watchful eye of Xiaguan. He has a withdrawn personality and cannot be approached by ordinary people. Being able to care about you so much, Xiaguan can let go of many years of worry and fear."

Xiao Youqing looked at Sun Hongda and smiled slightly, "Doctor Sun's affection for the prince is not so deep!"

Sun Hongda raised his head slightly, looking at Princess Chu hesitantly.

"Speak up if you have something to say, you will be safe once you enter the mansion!"

"According to your instructions, I am afraid that the affairs of the East Palace will arouse suspicion, so I dare not come to see you now." He handed over a list of excerpts, "Xiaguan went to the room that day and found that the childbirth was weak, making the son Wrong way, sudden ups and downs, unable to live properly, the situation in the palace is tense, and the subordinate officials dare not investigate deeply. In terms of medicine, the subordinate officials of the Hanlin Medical Academy are all sent to the East Palace after being personally inspected by the subordinate officials. There is also a special Pharmacy Bureau, so there will be no problems with medicine."

Xiao Youqing lowered his head, "There are many things that people can't live without. They should be controlled at every level, and of course it's not from medicine!"

"Yichen's many years of experience, Chen Liangdi accidentally ate cakes with hawthorns that led to her premature birth. As for why she became weak, I can't figure it out."

Xiao Youqing lowered her head and smiled slightly, "There are many things in this world that Doctor Sun can't understand!"

Sun Hongda looked at Concubine Chu with a calm expression, and asked with doubts in his heart: "Let me speak more, since you know that King Zhao will play tricks in the East Palace, why do you want to hide the truth? If you find out along the way, let the prince Wouldn't it be better to fight King Zhao?"

Xiao Youqing guessed that Zhao Wang was afraid that after the eldest grandson was born in the East Palace, the emperor would register the emperor's grandson at the same time in order to stabilize the situation, so he would definitely play tricks on Chen. She looked at Sun Hongda, "Because I am the same as the prince, We all hope that you will have a happy life, Grand Physician Sun."

"The Shangshi Bureau has changed a group of people to work on the job, and those maids who delivered the babies in the East Palace that day, if I'm not wrong, they should have all gone to Wangchuan by now!"

Sun Hongda gasped when he heard that.

Xiao Youqing said again: "When dealing with the royal family, Imperial Physician Sun should know what to say and what not to say. To be honest, you can only say it when you are one-faced emperor!"

Sun Hongda nodded, "Your Majesty was summoned that day, but he came to the East Palace in person. After that, he only let the lower officials go back, and did not send the lower officials alone."

"Because he already knew the truth, he didn't dare to investigate it carefully, just because he was afraid!"

"Son, are you also afraid?"

"If you have seen the killing with your own eyes, you will know the brutality of the killing. The emperor is also a human being, and he is not really the son of heaven. If it were Sun Taiyi, he would definitely not kill his parents and children because of the death of a female envoy, right? Come back, this is the result of connivance!" Xiao Youqing looked down coldly, "Even if I don't do anything, what should come, nothing less!"

"After the dismissal?"

"The crown prince is a man who will take revenge, and His Majesty is also watching closely. Except for asking for pulse, Imperial Physician Sun should not come to Chu Palace any other time!"

"Yes."

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Under a persimmon tree in the Han residence, King Zhao took the ammunition and put the golden pills in. With a full bow he lowered it with a chirping sound, and a green persimmon fell to the ground, but the golden pills were nowhere to be found.

"Aren't the Three Kings afraid of having nightmares when they fall asleep at night about this kind of thing? Aren't they afraid that things will come out?"

Zhao Wang smiled very proudly, "I was afraid at first, because the palace man arranged by the king disappeared suddenly, until His Majesty dismissed me, and sent Xiao Xianfu to warn me, telling me to stop here , Later, the Shangshi Bureau also changed a new group of people, so I guessed that he probably didn't want me to fall!"

Zhao Wang smiled again, "This king said that this king is a person who is willing to take risks!"

"Don't say that the King of Chu has left the capital. Even if he hasn't left, if anything happens in the East Palace, His Majesty must be the one who suspects me first. I remember that my husband said that His Majesty will let the three kings support this court. When I fall, the King of Chu will be re-elected, and I suspect that His Majesty will not be willing to see this situation, after all, His Majesty does not like the Xiao family!"

"Just like your majesty does not want the crown prince to fall but let me be the grandson, even if the child is left behind, Liangdi is dead, so why not be afraid of leaving a bastard, at least it is impossible to establish a grandson."

Han Bang lowered his head and smiled and said: "Han Bang admires the wisdom of the three kings, and within only half a year, he has been able to understand the mystery and make arrangements from it, but..." Han Bang stopped laughing and looked at King Zhao.

"But what?"

"The three kings are so sure that the palace man who disappeared was made by His Majesty?"

"The Shangshi Bureau has changed its staff, who else could it be if it's not His Majesty..." Zhao Wang said in a daze, "Could it be the King of Chu?"

"Your officer is just guessing!"

Zhao Wang shook his head, disapprovingly said: "The Chu king has already left the capital, could it be that he has clairvoyance?"

"Flying from the south to the north, the old wing has experienced cold and heat several times."

Zhao Wang stared at the other side of the wall, then turned his head to look at the other side of the wall, and woke up: "Sir, you mean Princess Chu?"

Han Bang folded his sleeves and took a few steps forward, then bent his knees and picked up the golden pills in the vegetable field, facing the wall of Chu Palace in front, said calmly: "Your official, it's just speculation!"