The Favorite of the Court of Joy

Concubine Li Gui of Yikun Palace saw that the emperor sent a young eunuch to pick her up, she was both happy and confused, but she was mostly happy, so she happily followed the little eunuch without thinking about it.But as she walked, she realized that she was not going to the Emperor's Qinzheng Hall, but to Concubine Ying's Zhongcui Palace, and she began to feel a little uneasy. "Xiao Lizi, where are you taking Bengong?"

"Return to the imperial concubine, the emperor is waiting for you at Zhongcui Palace."

Li Minghui felt more uneasy in her heart, and wanted to pretend to be "dead", pretending to be weak, and said: "Ah... I am dizzy, I am afraid I won't be able to go. Xiao Lizi, you go and tell the emperor, just say that I am sick and cannot move. , I must personally plead guilty some other day.”

"Your concubine, you probably don't know yet. Doctor Jiang is in Zhongcui Palace. You are unwell and let him take a look. If you have difficulty moving, we will prepare a sedan chair right away, and we won't keep you waiting for too long."

Concubine Li Gui held her breath, she didn't want to go in; she couldn't go back.She whispered something in her ear to her close maid He Hua, and then she had to bite the bullet and follow Xiao Lizi to Zhongcui Palace.

When Li Minghui arrived at Zhongcui Palace, she saw the emperor sitting on the rug of the main seat, Xue Yanru sitting beside her, and Imperial Physician Wu kneeling on the ground, as if she had already been interrogated.Li Minghui took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

"The concubine joins the emperor and empress."

"Stay flat." Although Zhao Yunxuan asked her to stand up, he didn't let her sit down.

"Concubine Li, Imperial Physician Wu said that you ordered her to harm Concubine Ying, what do you have to say?"

"You are wronged, Your Majesty." Li Minghui yelled wronged, "I have no grievances or enmity with you, Imperial Physician Wu. Why did you frame me? Did someone instigate you?" Li Minghui said while looking at Xue Yanru, as if to tell For others, this is the queen's trick.

Imperial Physician Wu didn't expect her to beat her up, instead she said she was wronged, and said angrily: "Your imperial concubine, it is obvious that you used your status in the imperial hospital and my son's future to threaten the minister to make Concubine Ying infertile according to what you said. "

"You are talking nonsense, you have nothing to prove, show the evidence." Concubine Li Gui yelled.

"Weichen really has a piece of evidence." Doctor Wu gradually calmed down, and then took out a jade bracelet from his pocket. "This is the evidence. At that time, Weichen refused to agree to your request. After you threatened, he gave you a jade bracelet, saying that it was a little bit of good. If the matter is done, not only will Weichen be guaranteed to ban Jiang Taiyi as the head of the hospital position, and let Grand Master Li help Quanzi find a position in the imperial court."

When the bracelet was revealed, Concubine Li Gui immediately panicked.Zhao Yunxuan and Xue Yanru saw that Li Minghui exposed themselves in one go, and they really thought she was stupid and superfluous.Her threats have long made Wu Taiyi dare not disobey, but she was lucky enough to leave evidence for others.

Zhao Yunxuan was furious, "Li Minghui, your thoughts are really vicious, you dare to murder my concubine."

"No... no... I didn't give it to you, he..." Li Minghui pointed at Imperial Physician Wu and said viciously, "He stole it."

"Concubine Li Gui, you are spitting blood." Now is the moment when life is at stake, and Imperial Physician Wu will not give in. Even if Mrs. Li came later, he would not be able to take the blame. "I'm a lowly subject, and I can't go to your palace if I have nothing to do. Even if I go, the empress is surrounded by palace maids, how can I do it? Take ten thousand steps back, even if the humble minister can really get the empress What does Wei Chen want this jade bracelet for, if Wei Chen really wants to steal it, he has to steal something more valuable."

After finishing speaking, before Li Minghui could fight back, Imperial Physician Wu repented again to the emperor, saying: "Your Majesty, Empress, think about it, why did I have no grievances with Concubine Ying, why did I kill her? This was all ordered by Concubine Li. Everyone in the house knows that Concubine Li Gui is jealous, and I also heard that the emperor loves Concubine Ying a lot recently. I heard from the eunuch in the respect room that the emperor stayed in Concubine Ying's bedroom many times. I came here to threaten Weichen to give me medicine. I regret my behavior very much, this matter was all threatened by Concubine Li, and has nothing to do with Weichen's family, please the emperor carefully investigate."

Li Minghui collapsed to the ground immediately, and the words of Imperial Physician Wu spoke her heart, and she was jealous of Concubine Ying being favored.She hated Xue Yanru even more.She married Zhao Yunxuan at the age of 14 as a noble concubine. Originally, there was a queen Meng Wanzi standing in front of her, but she was finally "get rid of". How could she not hate Xue Yanru when she thought of killing Xue Yanru in the end and becoming a queen in one jump!Xue Yanru and Zheng Yinger are sisters in love, and the emperor has favored Concubine Ying many times, making her eyes red.If either Xue Yanru or Zheng Yinger were pregnant, it would be a threat to her, and only if neither of them could give birth to a child, would she have a chance to fight for the queen's throne again.She had been looking for a chance to do something, and it happened that Concubine Ying needed to take medicine due to the cold these few days, so she approached Physician Wu to coerce and lure him to prescribe medicine to prevent Concubine Ying from conceiving.

At this point, the truth has become clear.

Zhao Yunxuan announced, "The evidence of Li Minghui's murder of Concubine Ying is conclusive. Someone came to Yikun Palace to take back the treasure book and imperial concubine's court clothes, and sent Mrs. Li to the Leng Palace. Order, Imperial Physician Wu is suspected of murdering Concubine. He will be dismissed immediately, and he will no longer be allowed to enter the capital or practice medicine in this life, and his son will not be allowed to take the scientific examination for three years."

A passage scared the two sinners.Physician Wu was glad that he was still alive, but then he heard that "his son will not be allowed to take the scientific examination for three years", which means that his son will not be able to take the scientific examination this year, and all these years of hard study were ruined in vain because of his momentary confusion An opportunity to find an official.Fortunately, the emperor is still merciful, and it is only within three years.At worst, I will take the exam again in three years.

Zhao Yunxuan cherishes talents, if Imperial Physician Wu's son is really talented, why wait for three years.Gold will always shine.

As for Li Minghui, she was dumbfounded on the spot.The emperor not only wants to abolish her, but also drives her to the cold palace.Li Minggui walked over on his knees, hugged Zhao Yunxuan's thigh, cried and said: "The emperor's concubine knows his mistake, and his concubine knows his mistake. Your majesty, take back your life, don't abolish your concubine, and don't send your concubine to the cold palace. "

"If you know you are wrong, can you pretend that nothing happened? You are not only murdering Concubine Ying, you are also murdering my emperor's heir. If you make a mistake, you want me to take it back. You are alone in the harem." Is it? Come and pull Mrs. Li down."

Two guards held Li Minghui's arms, Li Minghui kept struggling, and said, "Your majesty, you can't treat me like this. My aunt is the queen mother. She won't let you do this. You can sit on this dragon chair. It was given by our Li family. By the way, my maid, I asked her to invite my aunt, why hasn’t she arrived yet. No... I won’t go to Lenggong, I want to see my aunt.”

Li Minghui really stepped on her where she shouldn't have stepped on.Zhao Yunxuan was able to sit on the throne, not only because of the love of the former emperor, but also because of the support of the Li family, but they only supported him as the emperor because they wanted him to become a puppet emperor.He hated the Li family's dictating in the court, causing him to kill several Zhongliang by mistake. Fortunately, Prince Rui came back to assist him later, so he didn't make a big mistake, otherwise it would probably be their Li family's world now.

Seeing that Zhao Yunxuan was about to get angry, Xue Yanru was afraid that he would go too far and it would be difficult to explain to Queen Mother Li, so she said to the guards: "Why are you still standing there, gag her, and quickly take her down."

Li Minghui was gagged, and the whole palace was clean.

"Physician Wu, you'd better go to the Imperial Hospital to explain the matter at hand, pack your things, and leave the city with your family earlier." Xue Yanru said.

After Imperial Physician Wu left, Imperial Physician Jiang came out to meet Zhao Yunxuan, but he didn't say anything about being threatened by the Queen Mother, but took out a prescription and said to Xue Yanru: "This is the prescription prescribed by my minister, the Empress Dowager Please see."

Xue Yanru was a little surprised. Why did Physician Jiang suddenly want to show her the prescription? Even if she read the prescription, she should first show it to the emperor.

Xue Yanru looked at the prescription with doubts. When she read it for the first time, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong, it was just some prescriptions for regulating the body. "Chun'er, take the prescription and go to the imperial hospital with the doctor Jiang to get the medicine."

"Yes, ma'am."

When Chun'er was about to take the prescription, something strange flashed in Xue Yanru's mind, and she looked at the prescription again before handing it to Chun'er again, and then said to Imperial Physician Jiang: "The medicine prescribed by Imperial Physician Jiang, I've seen it, it's nothing Inappropriate. Doctor Jiang, go down."

"Yes. I will retire."

"Your Majesty, do you want to go in and see Concubine Ying's younger sister?"

Xue Yanru blinked at him, as if she had something to say, Zhao Yunxuan nodded, and went into the bedroom with her.

Then Xue Yanru looked at Qiu'er, another close maid of hers, and said, "Wait at the door, don't let anyone approach or eavesdrop."

"Yes, the Queen Mother."

"Yanru, do you have anything to say?"

Xue Yanru didn't answer him, walked to the bedside, and said to Concubine Ying who was pale and closed her eyes: "Okay, everyone is gone, get up."

Concubine Ying opened her eyes in a second, started to say, "All gone? Haha, how was my acting just now? I almost fooled Doctor Jiang too."

"Not bad, good acting skills have improved."

"You...you..." Zhao Yunxuan was surprised at first, then laughed, and shook his head, it turned out that all of this was just a play by them. "Okay, stop laughing, you two, it's time to talk about what's going on. Could it be that Dr. Wu was also invited by you to cooperate with the performance?"

"How is it possible, he was the one invited by Concubine Li Gui to harm me." Concubine Ying said.

Zhao Yunxuan was even more puzzled, "What kind of tricks are you two playing, quickly and honestly."

Xue Yanru began to narrate, saying: "A few days ago, Yinger really had a cold, and we did ask Dr. Wu to come over to take the pulse and prescribe medicine. In the first few days, we really took the medicine on time, but Yinger's condition was very serious. It got better slowly, and I also had abdominal pain, which is really not right. When Qiu’er was cleaning up the medicine residue, I saw that special herbs were added to the medicine residue. This kind of herb is extremely cold, and it is only suitable for cooling off in hot summer. A little bit is enough. If it is used in winter, it will greatly damage the body’s essence. The amount of this herb is too small, and it cannot be seen without careful inspection.”

"So you put on a show to see who is going to harm Ying Er." Zhao Yunxuan said.

"Yes." Xue Yanru nodded and continued, "The prescription was prescribed by Imperial Physician Wu, and he also caught the medicine. It is easy for him to harm Yinger. It's just that we have no grievances with him. Why did he want to harm Yinger? So we're sure there's someone behind him. It's either her or her."

Although they were all her, Zhao Yunxuan could understand that one of them was referring to Queen Mother Li, and the other was referring to Concubine Li Gui.

"Your Majesty, it's all your fault that I was drugged. You have to compensate us." Zheng Yinger embraced her arms, as if the other party owed more than 100 million.

"Blame me?" Zhao Yunxuan wanted to cry out.

"Of course it's your fault. I've said it a long time ago. You don't come to my palace when you're free. It's not like you don't know how jealous that Li Minghui is. If it wasn't for Yanru who discovered it in time this time, my Your body is really going to be poisoned by the medicine of Imperial Physician Wu. So, you must pay compensation."

Zhao Yunxuan suddenly laughed, and had nothing to say, "Okay, okay, you are right, it is my fault, what compensation do you want?"

"The Lantern Festival is three days later, and we will also go out of the palace to watch the lanterns."

"Okay, this matter is simple, I promise you."

Zheng Yinger cheered: "Great, Yanru, we can go out of the palace to play again."

Zhao Yunxuan thought that just now Xue Yanru specially ordered the maid not to let anyone approach her, so there must be someone else in Zhongcui Palace, so he asked: "Yanru, you probably just want to tell me that you performed a play, right?"

Xue Yanru stopped her smile, became serious, and said: "Your Majesty, just now Imperial Physician Jiang specially showed me the pharmacy. It turned out that he made a code on the prescription, and the code said that the Queen Mother knew about it." Xue Yanru is Imperial Physician Jiang The only female disciple.Little is known about this.Xueyanru was smart since she was a child, and she knew everything she could learn. Doctor Jiang loved this girl very much and took her as an apprentice.

"The master must have been threatened by the queen mother for doing this. Zhongcui palace, including my Kunning palace, has people from the queen mother, but I have used various reasons to transfer them to the outermost side to serve them. They will not get any news The Zhongcui Palace is so lively today, the Queen Mother must have gotten the news at this moment."

"I will send someone to secretly protect Jiang Taiyi's family. Jiang Taiyi is old, it's time to take a good rest. Don't worry, I promise to make their family safe and sound."

"Yan Ru thanked the emperor for his kindness on behalf of master."

"There's no need to be too polite, you guys should have a good rest. I'm going back to Qinzheng Hall to review papers."

"Congratulations to the emperor."

On the way back to Qinzheng Hall, Zhao Yunxuan asked the secret guard Ada to immediately go to Prince Rui's mansion to tell Prince Rui that Taishi Li went out after a long time after entering the palace to meet the queen mother and knew the existence of two pregnant darlings.Tell him to protect those two important people, and at the same time tell Prince Rui to be careful of Grand Master Li's insidious tricks.Ah Da waited for the order to rush to Prince Rui's mansion immediately.