Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Gu Xingcheng personally helped Ning Ru up: "Aunt has done a great job in taking care of our mother, so I will never blame you. Get up quickly."

When he was young, every time he fell ill, it was Aunt Ning and his mother who took turns to take care of him. In his heart, Aunt Ning Ru was not a servant, but an elder.

Ning Ru didn't dare ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to help her, and quickly stood up by herself.

Qiao Shun examined her for a moment and said, "Your Majesty is in good health. Did you practice martial arts when you were young?"

Empress Shu chuckled and said, "When I was little, I played with my brother for a while. Then the palace hired a martial arts master, and I followed him to learn for a few years."

In fact, she learned from Ou Jianglin. At that time, she liked to call him Brother Jianglin and watch him do horse stance and boxing.

She then followed him in doing the horse stance and boxing. He would always come to correct her, saying that her punching posture was wrong or that she didn't have enough strength. He would even push her shoulders down when she was doing the horse stance, saying that it would be better not to practice like that. He was very picky.

When she got angry, she stopped practicing, and when she got mad, she ignored him.

Jiang Lin would panic when he saw her angry and would buy her all kinds of snacks or make some small toys himself to please her.

She is very unpromising and can be appeased by little things.

However, after her coming-of-age ceremony at the age of fifteen, she was betrothed to the prince.

In fact, ever since she was old enough to understand, she knew that she could only be a royal daughter-in-law in her life.

Brother Jiang Lin also knows this.

They never revealed their true feelings to each other.

Not long after the imperial edict was issued, her father suddenly fell ill and died. She insisted on staying at home to observe mourning for three years.

Filial piety is more important than anything else, and the prince also promised that he would never take a concubine before she entered the East Palace and would wait for her for three years, so the late emperor acquiesced.

Their love is so deep that many women in Beijing envy them.

From then on, she never practiced martial arts with Brother Jiang Lin again, and they never met alone again.

When he was seventeen years old, the previous emperor passed away and the prince ascended the throne. The three years of mourning had to stop at that moment, and the coronation ceremony and the enthronement ceremony were held together.

She entered the palace and became the queen, and "Brother Jiang Lin" could only be "Jiang Lin".

He became her subject, no longer daring to look her in the eye when speaking, and even often knelt in front of her.

Her heart ached, but there was nothing she could do, this was the imperial power.

And the prince who was deeply in love at the time, soon after he ascended the throne, took in concubines one after another and gave birth to princes and princesses one after another.

"Your Majesty, you have been worrying too much. Decades of worrying have accumulated into a serious illness. Coupled with the excessive fatigue during this period, your blood circulation is temporarily blocked and you have fainted. I will prescribe a prescription for you. You need to take good care of yourself. Your headache needs you to take care of your body first, and then I can prescribe a prescription. Your Majesty, listen to what I say, let go of everything, and combine work and rest. This is the long-term way."

Empress Shu nodded and said, "Thank you, Doctor Qiao."

Gu Xingcheng clenched his hands tightly, then slowly loosened them.

The Queen Mother had been worried about so many things in the past few decades. She was worried about his health. She was concerned about him in Northern Jin for the first ten years. After that, she was uneasy day and night because of Xiaojiu's disappearance. And Concubine Chen came to provoke the Queen Mother from time to time.

Qiao Shun glanced at him and sat aside. He didn't care how noble the man opposite him was. He took his hand and took his pulse. In fact, he knew something from the eunuch Su Chaoquan.

Gu Xingcheng knew that he had privately asked Su Chaoquan a lot about his health. Seeing that his face was dark, he chuckled and let him take his pulse.

Empress Shu knew that this miracle doctor Qiao was specially asked by Xiao Jiuer to come from Northern Jin's young Marquis Cui to treat Cheng'er. She had been worried about Xiao Jiuer's injury these days and also wanted to ask him to see Cheng'er.

But they were all blocked by Cheng'er's eyes.

Seeing that Cheng'er finally agreed to let Doctor Qiao take his pulse, his heart couldn't help but beat violently. Almost all the doctors in the Daliang Imperial Hospital asserted that Cheng'er would not live past the age of 35.

She had consulted numerous prestigious doctors in the community, and they all said the same thing.

This year, he has turned thirty.

There is only one Crown Princess in the Eastern Palace. She has been married for more than ten years but has not given birth to a child.

Qiao Shun's expression became more and more solemn, which made Empress Shu turn pale.

Gu Xingcheng smiled and gently patted Empress Shu's hand: "Mother, please don't worry anymore. Doctor Qiao has just told you not to worry too much. I have known my body since I was a child. There are still five years left. You can relax and let me and Xiao Jiuer accompany you well in these five years."

Empress Shu's eyes were red. She turned her face away, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and hummed vaguely.

After a cup of tea, Qiao Shun let go of the pulse-checking hand. Without waiting for him to speak, Gu Xingcheng smiled and said, "My illness is very difficult to treat. Doctor Qiao, don't bother. Just treat Xiao Jiu's injury."

Qiao Shun sighed, "Your Highness, did you get this cold poison from your mother's womb?"

Empress Shu said hurriedly, "Yes, when I was pregnant with him, someone gave me a cold poison. They wanted to kill us both, but because I learned martial arts when I was young, I had a good foundation, so the cold poison failed to affect me and was absorbed by the fetus in my belly."

Qiao Shun waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with whether the queen practices martial arts or not. The person who poisoned her must be a very skilled doctor. This cold poison was specially made by him. The purpose was to treat the child in the belly, not the mother."

Empress Shu was stunned. None of the imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Service, nor the many famous doctors she had sought out, had ever said that the cold poison that Peng Yang, the former director of the Imperial Medical Service, had given her was just to deal with the fetus in her womb.

A hint of joy slowly emerged on her face, and she hurriedly asked, "Doctor Qiao, do you have a way to detoxify?"

Qiao Shun sighed deeply: "It's difficult. I can only do my best."

Gu Xingcheng said, "In the past, there was a folk doctor who said that one could fight poison with poison. He said that if one had the gallbladder of a red snake and three drops of its blood, it might work."

Qiao Shun waved his hand: "No, although the gallbladder and blood of the red snake have miraculous effects, this cold poison is extremely special. Fighting poison with poison is very dangerous. If you don't handle it well, you may die on the spot."

Empress Shu was startled and said anxiously, "That must not be tried."

Qiao Shun nodded: "Besides, the red snake is extremely difficult to catch. Even if you catch it, a bite from it will kill you on the spot. Its venom is so strong that it can knock down hundreds of people at once."

Gu Xingcheng didn't expect the red snake to be so poisonous, so he said, "That's absolutely not possible."

Exchanging life for life, there shouldn't be such a way of saving people in this world.

"Your Highness, don't worry. There is still time. I will take some of your blood and study it carefully. Even if I can't completely detoxify you, I can always think of a way to reduce the frequency of your poison attacks and the pain when they occur. Now, take a few doses of medicine and recuperate first."

Gu Xingcheng bowed his hands in thanks: "With these words from Doctor Qiao, I am satisfied."

On the way back, Aunt Ning Ru held Empress Shu's arm, looking worried.

Even Doctor Qiao couldn't save the Crown Prince, and she was afraid that the Queen would be sad and upset again.