His Majesty is a sick beauty

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In the small kitchen of the royal study.

The ladies in the palace looked after the fire skillfully. The small gray-brown medicine cup was bubbling and steaming on the fire, and the strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine permeated the whole room.

The original imperial study room did not have a small kitchen. After all, it was the emperor's office, and he occasionally received courtiers and exchanged government affairs. It was a palace full of seriousness from the inside to the outside.But now His Majesty is not in good health, he has to take medicine every day, and His Majesty is diligent, and spends most of his time in the imperial study to deal with memorials, so he built such a small kitchen next to it to ensure that His Majesty can drink the most suitable temperature. traditional Chinese medicine.

The door on one side was suddenly pushed open, and a gust of cool wind blew into the room. The hot air mixed with the cold air, and a white mist suddenly appeared.

The visitor is no stranger, Wang Gonggong, the personal eunuch of His Majesty.This old eunuch has been taking care of His Majesty since he was a child, he is kind and gentle, and does not bully the other maids and eunuchs, so when these young maids saw someone coming, they did not panic.

After Wang Gonggong walked into the room, he walked past several medicine cups that were being boiled on a small fire, and asked, "Are you almost ready?"

"Fry it for half an hour and it will be fine."

"Well, you did a good job." Wang Gonggong nodded with his hands behind his back, "Let me watch, the national teacher is checking His Majesty's pulse, I'll send it to you in a while, you all go back first."

Today is the new year, and in the evening, all the officials in Sui will enter the palace to attend the annual banquet, and the female relatives who have orders will be received by the empress. , will enter the palace in advance, so as not to miss the time at night.

So Qinghe, who entered the palace, also took over the daily job of asking for peace pulses in the imperial hospital, and went to the imperial study to meet the saint.

Several young maids nodded in understanding after hearing this. They all knew that His Majesty was weak but determined. In other words, His Majesty did not want others to see him sick and weak.Whenever His Majesty fell ill, Eunuch Xiao, who had long since left the palace to take charge of the cold prison and the hidden guards, would return to the palace, and all the maids and eunuchs who served would be replaced by the dark guards.

And at this time, there are only a few people who can see His Majesty's true face.

Thoughts were wandering, but these young court ladies did not show any strangeness on their faces.In the eyes of outsiders, after hearing these words, they just lowered their heads obediently, and then bowed and retreated.

When only Wang Gonggong was left in the room, he turned around and took out a clean medicine cup, lit it on fire, poured clean water, and took out a small medicine bag from his arms.

Opening the medicine bag, there are some taupe medicine powders exuding a faint fragrance.

Skillfully pour the medicinal powder into hot water and stir it, and it becomes the mysterious potion that Su Xun is very familiar with.

This kind of processed medicinal powder originally only needs to be boiled a little before it can be eaten, but...

The prince paused for a moment, and stretched his hand into his arms again. This time, he took out another folded paper bag. After opening it, there was a fresh, bright red flower inside.

It has been folded off, but the flower seems to be still blooming on the branch. You can even see the morning dew from its plump petals. It is so beautiful and delicate that it makes people feel weird.

Looking at this gorgeous flower, the late emperor's entrustment to him appeared in Wang Gonggong's mind. He didn't know this flower, and he didn't even know what the medicine His Majesty wanted to drink every day was for. These mysterious powders He will appear in his room every day, but will not disturb any hidden guards in the palace.

Occasionally, he guessed that this might be another loyal hidden guard left behind by the late emperor, the second hand behind His Majesty's seizure of power.

The first emperor fought countless battles throughout his life, killing decisively and thinking deeply, but in his later years he suddenly fell ill for unknown reasons, so that he passed away without saying a word, leaving the young Majesty alone in this terrible court.

But few people know that the late emperor did not die suddenly. A few years before his physical condition deteriorated, the late emperor had a premonition and handed over this mysterious medicine to him.

In fact, it is not considered to be handed over to him, after all, his only job is to cook the medicine that appears in the room every day and feed it to His Majesty.Looking at this mysterious medicinal powder every day, the prince is both panicked and admired. He is panicked that he wants to drink this unknown medicine for His Majesty. , but also let this mysterious power be used by him.

Your Majesty is the only heir of the late emperor, and the late emperor will not harm your majesty.

He threw the flower into the medicine cup and watched the flower disappear into the gray Chinese medicine as if it had melted.

Su Xun had a bit of a cough recently, and Qinghe had read his pulse before, and came to the conclusion that he just had a slight cold, not even a cold.

The result of his own pulse diagnosis today is the same, it's not a serious illness, it's just one of the countless minor ailments that he suffers from every winter because of his frail body.

"No need to add any medicine, Your Majesty just needs to drink more water."

Su Xun: I understand the ancient version of drinking more hot water.

"Tonight's New Year's banquet..." Under the expectant gaze of the little emperor, Qing He purposely elongated his voice until he saw Su Xun's expectant gaze, before saying, "Your Majesty, please drink a small amount of alcohol."

Su Xun: Good!

Su Xun himself is not a drinker, but people in this era are either alcoholics or invisible alcoholics. At least as far as he knows, even the national teacher of Bigu does not resist drinking.

In this kind of environment, it's hard not to have a good impression of this drink.

What's more, because of the taboo, he hasn't tasted much wine for more than half a year. The last time he drank it was the one brought by the prime minister when he had hot pot with them.

And that jar of fruit wine is more like some kind of alcoholic beverage than alcohol.

Seeing His Majesty's expectant gaze, Qinghe couldn't help but smile: "But Your Majesty still needs to be restrained, don't be greedy...well, just drink three or four cups."

Qinghe blinked at him: "I don't want to be forced to ride a horse in the palace after receiving hurried news from the hidden guard again on New Year's Eve."

Thinking of the time when he was so angry that he vomited blood in the hall, Su Xun felt guilty for a moment: "...No."

Qinghe nodded, he knew that the little emperor had a sense of propriety: "The minister will retire first."

After Qinghe left, the prince who had been staying aside opened the door and walked in, handing over the boiled medicine.

The little emperor was obviously looking forward to the evening banquet at this time, without even looking at it, he picked up the medicine bowl and drank it down in one gulp.

The taupe potion disappeared into his mouth little by little, but Su Xun didn't notice that as the potion shook, a trace of almost imperceptible light pink flowed in it.