The Favorite of the Court of Joy

The road from Zhongcui Palace to Zhaoyang Palace is very wide and easy to walk. They went smoothly, but on the way back, the bearer who was carrying Wanzi's sedan chair somehow stepped on a small stone. The cobblestone slipped on the soles of the feet in an instant, and fell forward and fell to the ground, causing the sedan chair to lose its balance and make a loud noise, leading to another sedan chair.And Zhang Xiaoqian was sitting in the other sedan chair. Before he could react, his sedan chair was hit, which made his sedan chair unbalanced and fell heavily on the ground. An indescribable pain.

"Master, how are you doing, master." Xiao Cheng hurriedly opened the curtain, with a worried look on her face.

Before Zhang Xiaoqian could speak, he heard Ximei's crying voice.

"What should I do? What should I do? Wan Zi, you are bleeding. I...I...go get the imperial physician right away."

Zhang Xiaoqian felt that Wan Zi must be the same as himself, about to give birth, he endured the pain and said: "Xiaocheng, call Ximei quickly."

"Ximei, come here quickly." Seeing the pained expression on the master's face, Xiaocheng's eyes turned red.

"Xiaoqian, I'm here, tell me, what should I do?" Seeing Zhang Xiaoqian's pale face, Ximei was no better than Wanzi.

"Don't go anywhere. After all, we are familiar with the palace. You will pay for it if you lose yourself later." Zhang Xiaoqian gasped, "Send one of the maids or eunuchs who serve us to go back and tell us immediately." Regarding Yanru and our matter, immediately send someone to the Tai Hospital to inform Doctor Jiang to come over."

"Yes, I will immediately ask the eunuch to find the Empress and Imperial Physician Jiang."

Zhang Xiaoqian always felt that this matter was not that simple. It went smoothly when he came, but something happened on the way back, which is not normal.He panted and continued: "Now, let's see what palaces are nearby, and send us to lie down immediately, isn't Wanzi bleeding? Then we have to hurry up, we won't be able to reach the Zhaoyang Palace, so we will go to the nearby palace .”

The eunuch who carried the sedan chair went back to him and said, "Young Master Zhang, take two steps ahead, there is the Yongshou Palace, which is cleaned every day, but the emperor does not allow anyone to enter."

"You bastard." Zhang Xiaoqian scolded, the force made her stomach hurt even more. "Can you still control so much about matters of human life? What's more, it is Long Zi who is bad for Wan Zi. You caused us to have an accident, which is a capital crime in itself. Don't you know how to pay for the crime?"

When it comes to life and death, the eunuchs who carried the palanquin were all sweating on their foreheads, and they were all dead on the left and right. Naturally, they had to try this thing that could make up for it. "Brothers, let's quickly carry the two young masters to Yongshou Palace."

The most serious one was Wan Zi, whose white dress was dyed red, and the sedan chair he was sitting in overturned, making him unable to ride anymore, Zhang Xiaoqian could still walk a few steps, so someone sent Wan Zi into his sedan chair, and immediately Go to Yongshou Palace.And with the support of others, he arrived at Yongshou Palace in the last step.

But when they arrived at Yongshou Palace, the gate of the palace was guarded by guards, and they would never let anyone in without the emperor's decree.

"You... you... ah..." Zhang Xiaoqian was in pain, and Wan Zi was so painful that she couldn't make a sound, and even fainted.

Ximei cried anxiously. "I beg you to let me in, they won't delay. One of them is pregnant with the emperor's child, and the other is pregnant with Prince Rui's child. If you stop me, you will die. If the emperor finds out, he will definitely not spare you."

"This..." The four guards looked at each other a bit shaken, but after all, the emperor has explained that no one is allowed to enter the Yongshou Palace except the emperor and the maids and eunuchs who clean up.Over the years, they have indeed never entered Yongshou Palace through anyone other than the emperor and Dasao.

"No, we only obey the emperor's orders."

"You...you..." Ximei took out something from her bosom and threw it away, "I offended you."

The two guards fainted before they could see what it was.

Seeing them fall to the ground, Ximei immediately said, "Come on, let's go in right away."

When Ximei, Xiaocheng and others arranged Zhang Xiaoqian and Wan Zi into the master bedroom of Yongshou Palace, Xue Yanru and Zheng Yinger just received the news.

"Where did something happen to them? Have you invited the imperial physician?" Xue Yanru asked anxiously.

"Go back to Empress, the place where the accident happened is near the Yongshou Palace. Someone has been sent to invite Doctor Jiang, and Doctor Jiang is probably on his way right now."

"Yanru, hurry up, let's go and see them."

"I'll go, you can't, you have to lie down and don't move."

"They all have accidents, how can I not move."

"Did you forget what you promised them?"

"But, but..." Zheng Yinger was really afraid that something might happen to them.

"Don't get out of bed. I assure you, they will be safe and sound." After speaking, Xue Yanru went out and flew away in a carriage.

When she arrived in Yongshou Palace, she saw two pale-faced people, and she was also very nervous.

"Xiao Qian, Wan Zi, what's the matter with you?" Xue Yanru asked.

"Yanru, Yanru, Wanzi and I, I'm afraid... I'm afraid we're going to give birth... Ah... It hurts..."

"Where's the imperial doctor and the midwife." Yanru shouted, "Come quickly, and invite Jiang imperial physician and the midwife here immediately."

"We have sent someone to invite Doctor Jiang, but he hasn't come yet." Ximei cried.

"Come here." Xue Yanru summoned the eunuch and said, "Drive my carriage to bring Imperial Physician Jiang over, and immediately prepare another carriage to bring the midwife over."

"Yes, the Queen Mother."

Then, Xue Yanru called out her own hidden guard and told him to immediately inform the emperor of the news. The dark guard's legs and feet are fast, which is unmatched by eunuchs and court ladies.

People have already been sent out to handle errands, for the rest, Xue Yanru, like everyone else, can do nothing but wait anxiously.

Physician Jiang was already on his way here, and because he was in a carriage, he was even faster, and arrived at Yongshou Palace in a short while.

"Physician Jiang, take a look at the two of them."

Fortunately, Doctor Lu also lived in the palace these days, because he was the one who knew the symptoms of the two of them most clearly besides Doctor Jiang. Before Zhao Minghan left, he had to follow him into the palace to take care of Zhang Xiaoqian and Wan Zi.At this moment, the two of them went to the two of them for a pulse diagnosis first.

After the doctor of the Lu family gave Zhang Xiaoqian a diagnosis, he said, "Master, the side concubine and Mr. Wan Zi are overly frightened and are about to give birth early. Do you want to start preparing birth-inducing medicine?"

"Yes. Give Master Wan some more blood-invigorating and powerful medicine." Doctor Jiang said, he was very worried about Wan Zi, he was bleeding, his breath was weak, and his voice of pain was so low, it was not good for one dead body and two lives sign.

The doctor of the Lu family had already prescribed a prescription, and after the prescription was finished, he said to Xue Yanru, "Empress, quickly send someone to the imperial hospital to brew the birth-inducing medicine, and have someone prepare hot water immediately."

Xue Yanru scolded a group of court ladies and eunuchs, "Why are you still standing there, why don't you hurry up and do it."

"Is the midwife coming?" Doctor Jiang asked again.

"Send someone to pick it up, it's probably about to arrive." Xue Yanru was also very anxious, and said to Chun'er, the personal maid, "Hurry up and send someone to remind you. Oh, yes, send someone to invite the nanny we have selected Come."

"Yes, ma'am, the servants will do it immediately."

As soon as Chun'er went out, a horse stopped at the gate of Yongshou Palace, and two midwives got off. Seeing their unhurried appearance, Chun'er was very angry, and said angrily: "Do you want to live so slowly? I’m telling you, if something happens to the people inside because of your delay, you should go to the emperor immediately.”

The two midwives were frightened instantly, they had seen this Chun'er before, the capable maid beside the empress, seeing her in such a hurry must be the empress's intention.They thought they were just two unimportant darlings, but it seemed that they were wrong, so they didn't dare to slow down any longer, and ran into the bedroom.

Seeing Mrs. Wen coming in, Imperial Physician Jiang immediately said, "Get ready to deliver the baby." Then Imperial Physician Jiang said to Xue Yanru: "Empress Empress, the delivery room is very filthy, you should take the unimportant people out to wait first. Wei The apprentices of Chen and Weichen will also watch from behind the screen."

"You all go out." Xue Yanru called those insignificant people out, but she stayed behind, seeing Zhang Xiaoqian and Wan Zitong screaming in pain, she really couldn't wait outside with peace of mind, unless she saw that they were all safe give birth to a child.

Not long after the door of the bedroom was closed, someone shouted outside, "You dog slaves, get out of the way, I want to go in."

Xue Yanru recognized the voice of the emperor, and opened a small door to go out to meet him.

"Your Majesty, don't go into the filthy place of the delivery room."

"But, the screaming inside is so painful..."

Xue Yanru comforted him and said, "Your Majesty, don't you feel relieved that Imperial Physician Jiang is here? Believe in Imperial Physician Jiang, Xiao Qian and Wan Zi, they will give birth to their child safely. The concubine goes in first to have a look."

"Wait a minute." Zhao Yunxuan pulled her and said, "What's going on? Doctor Jiang said yesterday that it would take six or seven days for the fruit to mature. Why is it so many days earlier?"

Xue Yanru sighed, and said: "I don't know the specific concubine, so let someone who knows the concubine tell you about it."

Then, Xue Yanru entered the room and called Xiaocheng out to answer.

Xiaocheng cried and explained what happened clearly.

"It's not that simple." This was Zhao Yunxuan's first feeling after hearing it.

"The courtiers also feel the same way. From Zhaoyang Palace to Zhongcui Palace, this road has the most people passing by every day. It is impossible for the eunuchs and maids to clean it up. The eunuch who carried the sedan chair said that the soles of the sedan chair slipped when they stepped on cobblestones, which made the sedan chair lose its shape. balance, causing two sedan chairs to collide occasionally. The concubine is in charge of the big and small affairs of the harem, and there is no need to use pebbles recently, so it is impossible for a cobblestone cart to drop a pebble or two inadvertently. Now there are two It’s a question. One is that someone deliberately placed pebbles to harm them both, and the other is that the eunuch who carried the sedan chair lied.”

"Someone must have tried to harm Xiaoqian and Wanzi."

Zhao Yunxuan and Xue Yanru turned their heads to see that Zheng Yinger was walking limping on crutches and supported by others.

Xue Yanru frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you to take a good rest and not come over? Why did you run out again?"

"Oh, where am I lying down at this moment, I must come and see what's going on."

"Okay, just come, just don't run around." Zhao Yunxuan then said to Xue Yanru, "Since there are really cobblestones on the ground, it is unlikely that the eunuch who carried the sedan chair lied. I know that in the harem Those women, none of them wish them well. I want to investigate carefully, who is so brave to hurt them. Come..."

"Wait a minute, Your Majesty." Xue Yanru said, "At this moment, it is inconvenient to startle the snake. The Emperor asked the hidden guards to go to each palace to secretly observe whether the concubines have learned about this matter, and if they are able to react after learning about it, they can generally know who it is. It's the murderer."

Zhao Yunxuan nodded in agreement with her, "Then do it according to your words."