Chapter 231 Her Secret
"The Queen Mother is fine!" Ying Zheng's expression softened. "Don't worry! I'm here and won't put the Queen Mother in any danger."
Fusu sniffed and nodded, then was taken away obediently by the palace servants.
After the two little guys left, Ying Zheng rubbed his temples and looked through the tent at the figure lying quietly on the bed, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Just as his mother had said that night that he was not worthy of being a son, he knew that from that day on, he probably would no longer have a mother.
This person who suddenly appeared made him wary and confused, but also gradually convinced him.
She is not a smart person, and she can even be described as stupid in many things, but she is also trustworthy. She appears in front of him without any disguise, covering up her talent with poor acting skills. However, she has such talent and is also an extremely kind person. Ying Zheng can't figure out what kind of place would raise such a strange person like her.
When he thought that someone like her might leave him, Ying Zheng lowered his eyes and his hands trembled slightly.
From morning to night, and then to dawn, Fusu and Ziying came back halfway. Seeing that their grandmother had not woken up yet, they burst into tears. Ying Zheng was annoyed and asked someone to take them out again.
Zhao Yuanxi was indeed sleeping at the beginning, but she woke up at noon the next day. She heard all their conversation, but this body seemed to be imprisoning herself and preventing her from waking up.
She struggled for a long time before she realized that the cause was the system.
Because the system was being upgraded, energy could not be supplied to her, causing her to lose control of the body and fall into a coma.
Zhao Yuanxi looked at the system update prompt in front of him and was so anxious that he was walking around in the system space.
"You'd better update some other functions, otherwise I will beat you to death!" Zhao Yuanxi cursed and counted the time bit by bit.
After an unknown amount of time, she no longer had the energy to curse and complained, "You said you could update at some other time, but you chose to do it right after I returned to Xianyang. You're deliberately making them anxious!"
"Why don't you remind me in advance so I can make some preparations?"
How could a normal person be so sleepy that she couldn't be woken up no matter what? If she hadn't been still breathing, she would have been buried.
The system did not respond, but simply updated the data bar below it silently.
There was nothing in the system space. Zhao Yuanxi stared at the white space in a daze, listening to the footsteps coming and going, and the occasional angry voice of Ying Zheng.
"waste!"
"If you can't save the Queen Mother, you should stop being the imperial physician and just drag her out to be buried alive with her."
Zhao Yuanxi howled loudly, "What do you mean by burial alive? Calm down!"
"Let me out! Let me out! Someone's going to die!"
She really couldn't sit still anymore.
With a ding—
[System update completed, new functions are being enabled, please wait patiently! ]
"What are you waiting for? Let me out now!"
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Yuanxi's consciousness returned to that body, and she finally opened her eyes in reality.
"I can't be buried alive with the dead, I can't be buried alive with the dead!" She sat up suddenly, not caring that her body was pricked like a hedgehog. She looked around for Ying Zheng and saw him standing beside her, staring at her closely.
Zhao Yuanxi hurriedly said, "I'm fine! But burying people alive with the dead is unacceptable. With the example of Duke Mu of Qin, you can't make such a foolish mistake!"
Ying Zheng laughed softly, feeling helpless and happy.
Zhao Yuanxi stared blankly at the redness in the corners of Ying Zheng's eyes. Did he just cry?
She whispered, "I'm sorry for making you worry!"
Ying Zheng pursed his lips slightly, and after a long moment, he sighed, "I'm glad the Queen Mother is alright."
No matter what, as long as I'm alive, that's enough.
Zhao Yuanxi felt a little uncomfortable and scratched her hair. Suddenly, she gasped in pain.
The surrounding imperial physicians hurriedly said, "Her Majesty, please do not move. I will remove the needle for you right away."
She said she felt strange. It turned out that she had been pierced by a lot of silver needles. The one on the palm of her hand had penetrated half an inch into the flesh because she didn't pay attention, and a bean-sized drop of blood came out of her palm.
Zhao Yuanxi finally calmed down and let them remove the needle for her.
Every time the imperial physician pulled out a needle, Zhao Yuanxi counted it. There were 27 needles in total, all of which were stuck in her small head, and another nine were stuck in her arms.
She was lucky that she didn't stab herself to death just now.
The Queen Mother took her pulse again and said, "The Queen Mother's pulse is calm and she is fine."
There was clearly no change in the empress dowager's pulse, but she suddenly woke up after a deep sleep. The imperial doctors couldn't figure out the reason and were all confused.
Yu Jiao couldn't help but ask, "Does the Queen Mother know why she fell into a deep sleep?"
How could Zhao Yuanxi say that it was the system's fault? He could only pretend that he was unaware of it.
Yu Jiao didn't ask any further. "The Queen Mother hasn't eaten much in the past two days. I think she's hungry now. I've ordered someone to prepare some easily digestible food."
Zhao Yuanxi was indeed hungry. He nodded and smiled, "Then I'll trouble you, Doctor Yu."
After the crowd dispersed, Ying Zheng was still standing not far away and did not leave, just looking at her with a complicated expression.
"The Queen Mother really doesn't know the reason for her coma?"
"Maybe my body can't take it after running around these days. Besides, the imperial physician can't find the reason, so how can I know?" Zhao Yuanxi was not panicked at all. She spread her hands. The system couldn't find anything even if she searched it thoroughly. Was she afraid that Ying Zheng would find out?
"I am not questioning the Queen Mother. I am just worried about you." He could accept that the Queen Mother had her own secrets, but he could not accept that because of this secret, if the Queen Mother passed away one day, he would not know the reason.
Today he must find out what is going on!
When Zhao Yuanxi met Ying Zheng's eyes, his heart inexplicably tightened, and after hearing these words, his pupils trembled slightly.
Did she hear it right? Is Ying Zheng worried about her?
Zhao Yuanxi avoided Ying Zheng's gaze, tightened his fists hidden in the quilt, opened his mouth, and swallowed the words back.
If she really told Ying Zheng about her origins, would he believe her? Would he really not catch her and burn her like a monster?
Although she is now the Queen Mother of Zhao, and Ying Zheng cannot attack her openly, it is still easy for him to use some shady tricks behind her back. There are so many ways to kill someone!
Although she was not afraid of death, she did not want to die in obscurity. She was living a good life in this world, and it would be a pity to die!
Zhao Yuanxi was having a fierce battle in his heart at this moment, and his palms were sweating with nervousness.
"Queen Mother, are you really unwilling to tell me the reason? Is it because you don't trust me?" Ying Zheng lowered his eyes, with a hint of disappointment in his tone.
If you want to talk about trust, then of course she doesn't trust you!
This was not Ying Zheng's problem, but she really didn't want to gamble on the mind of a king, not to mention that this person was the first emperor in history books.
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