allonlinenovel Chapter 361 The Emperor's Symptoms...
Chapter 361 The Emperor's Symptoms...
The government affairs were handed over to the six ministers of the six ministries. Nearly half of the positions had been vacant recently. Now everyone was thinking about how to expand their influence and gain more power.
How many people will care about the emperor's actions and what they will eventually lead to?
The princes are all adults, and if the emperor accidentally encounters an accident, they can support a new emperor at any time.
Lu Xinran understood all these principles, but still couldn't help but worry: "But if this continues, aren't you afraid that things will get completely chaotic?"
"Chaos? Who do you think would care? Civil officials never care about these things."
The queen looked sarcastic, saying that only she and her father cared about these things.
"Father sent me news a few days ago that the supplies and food supplies in the northwest have been cut off again."
The emperor is now fully focused on seeking the immortal way and when he can favor his concubines again.
As for the war situation in the northwest, he no longer cared about it.
The two sisters looked at each other for a long while, and then Lu Xinran lowered her voice and said, "My queen, do you know where His Majesty is now?"
She entered the palace today just to download the emperor's booklet and then go back to make sure whether he really wanted to kill himself.
The Queen gave her a meaningful look and said, "Wait for me to have someone look for it."
"Your Highness," the Queen had just finished speaking when a palace servant came from outside the palace to say, "The Queen Mother learned that Princess Wei had entered the palace and asked her to go to Yongshou Palace."
The queen responded, then turned to look at the two sisters: "Let's go, I will go with you."
"Your Majesty," Lu Xinran suddenly pulled the Queen's sleeve: "Does the Queen Mother know the identity of His Majesty?"
"I don't know."
The Queen looked at the palace gate with self-mockery in her eyes: "After that day, I was locked up in Changchun Palace. If you hadn't come into the palace today, I don't know how long I would have to reflect on my mistakes behind closed doors."
In the Yongshou Palace, the emperor lay on the couch with his eyes drooping and yawning continuously.
When the Queen Mother saw her like this, she stepped forward with great distress and looked at his face carefully.
"You're not conditioning yourself, so why are you still so tired?"
Do those old guys in the Imperial Medical Bureau have any real ability? If they are just good-for-nothings, they should all be kicked out of the capital!
The emperor yawned again and felt sleepy.
"I have been drinking medicine these days. The Taoist priest said that we can't rush this. He asked me to be patient and wait for him to refine the elixir. I can take a few pills and my body will be completely healed."
The Queen Mother frowned, obviously very skeptical about this so-called elixir.
If this elixir is so magical, then why are there no immortal people in this world?
"Have you found out the origins of this Taoist priest? Don't let it interfere with your recovery."
"Don't worry, mother. I know what's going on. When the Taoist priest's elixir is ready, your son will send a portion to you."
The emperor yawned twice while speaking. His body became weak and his limbs began to twitch.
He was so frightened that the empress dowager hurriedly called for the imperial physician. Amidst the chaos in the palace, the empress and her two sisters had already walked into the palace.
This is?
The three of them looked at the scene together and were all shocked.
Lu Xinlan had seen all kinds of people in her previous life, and she already had an answer to the emperor's current symptoms.
She grabbed Lu Xinran's hand and signaled her not to say anything.
Lu Xinran turned around from his astonishment, and when he saw her expression, he instantly had the answer in his mind.
Yunsong, so cruel!
Actually poisoned the emperor!
She is now becoming more and more curious about what ingredients are in the aphrodisiac.
Isn’t it an extreme hallucinogenic enjoyment?
The empress dowager had no time to care about them at this time. She surrounded the emperor anxiously, not knowing what to do.
A quarter of an hour later, hurried footsteps were heard outside the hall, and several old doctors rushed into the hall with sweat on their foreheads. Without bothering to perform formalities, they immediately took out silver needles from their medical boxes and began to give acupuncture to the emperor in tacit coordination.
Just by looking at the actions of a few people, you can tell that this is not the first time.
Lu Xinran secretly asked the system to look through the booklet of one of the imperial physicians.
He found that the result was just as he guessed, the emperor had been "ill" for some time.
Originally, the time of the illness was relatively regular, but since those Taoist priests and monks entered the palace, no one knew what those people gave the emperor to eat, but the intervals between the emperor's illnesses became shorter and shorter, and more and more frequent.
Half an hour later, the emperor finally recovered from the convulsion, and fell into a deep sleep due to extreme fatigue.
The empress dowager wiped her tears and waited for the imperial doctors to leave before she took the empress and the other two to a side hall to talk.
"Why is the emperor's health failing all of a sudden?"
The Queen Mother still can't figure out why this happened.
She suddenly turned sideways and looked at Lu Xinran hopefully, hoping to hear some comforting words from her heart.
However, the chaotic and fragmented sound that had always been there before did not appear this time.
Lu Xinran was still hesitating. It was March now, and she had originally thought that the emperor's body could at least hold on until... maybe until May at most.
If the emperor only has two months to live, Song Junyan has not had time to arrange many things. If the emperor dies suddenly, what will they do!
[How did the emperor's body become like this? ]
[It should be that the aphrodisiac I took before contained an addictive ingredient, and this ingredient was very overbearing, making people unable to restrain themselves from continuing to take it. ]
[The imperial physician's current method... only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. This addictive ingredient is difficult to quit once it is acquired by anyone.]
[The emperor is probably in the late stages of addiction now. He has been relapsing more and more frequently recently. He must have taken the drug again.]
Her words were like a knife, piercing straight into the empress dowager's heart.
She thought of what the emperor had just said, and recalled the imperial physician's shaking head and sighing when he left. In her heart, she already believed 70% of Lu Xinran's words.
[If the emperor continues to use the immortal master's elixir, I'm afraid there will be no turning back. ]
[Alchemy... There is no such thing as an elixir in this world, and no one can live forever. The Taoist priest himself has gray hair and a wrinkled face. If the elixir is really that good, why didn't he become young again? ]
Queen Mother: “?!!”
that is!
No, she must scold the emperor until he wakes up!
The Queen Mother originally wanted to ask what had happened between the Emperor and the Queen that had made them so cold to each other all these years.
But at this moment her mind was completely occupied by the emperor's physical condition. She didn't want to ask more questions. She said a few words casually and waved her hand to signal them to leave first.
On the long palace road, the queen glanced at the two sisters with solemn expressions and suddenly said, "Come to Changchun Palace again to talk with me, especially you. I heard that you wanted to divorce some time ago, but what happened?"