Chapter 530 Afraid to take action, they could only suffer in silence.
Du Wanchun replied, "His Majesty had been ill before and relied on the imperial physicians' medicine to prolong his life. He was already in poor health, so it's unlikely that he was faking it, but it doesn't seem like he can't even leave his room either."
"Have you not seen him these past few days?"
She asked the Seventh Prince and Zhou Ruiyuan seriously.
The Seventh Prince and Zhou Ruiyuan remained silent.
A moment later, the Seventh Prince replied, "I have seen him, but he was behind a gauze curtain, so I couldn't see his face."
Du Wanchun then looked at Zhou Ruiyuan.
Zhou Ruiyuan shook his head with a rather solemn expression.
Du Wanchun slowly stood up and said, "Could His Majesty be no longer in the palace?"
The Seventh Prince and Zhou Ruiyuan both looked up, their eyes immediately filled with unease.
"If he's not in the palace, then where could he be?" the Seventh Prince asked, puzzled.
After a moment of contemplation, Du Wanchun replied, "Have any reports come from the spies you've placed around him lately?"
The seventh prince shook his head.
Zhou Ruiyuan stood up and said, "I will send someone to the palace to check whether he is faking illness to leave the palace."
Du Wanchun nodded slightly, "Husband, please send a message to Father and Mother as quickly as possible, telling them to be careful and it would be best if they went to Changliu Village to hide for a while."
“Okay, I’ll take care of it right away.” Zhou Ruiyuan immediately left the residence.
The Seventh Emperor also quickly got up and followed.
Zhou Ruiyuan boarded a carriage and arrived outside the palace gate, where he found a trusted confidant who was a royal physician in the palace.
This imperial physician did not hold a high official position and usually could only follow behind other imperial physicians.
Zhou Ruiyuan asked him, "His Majesty has been ill for several days. How is his condition?"
The imperial physician lowered his head, hesitated for a moment, and then replied, "These days, the imperial physicians don't allow me to enter the emperor's palace with them."
Zhou Ruiyuan frowned, having roughly figured out the answer in his mind, and continued to ask, "How has Physician Cheng been looking lately?"
The imperial physician paused, then looked up and said, "It's strange, really. The Emperor is seriously ill and has been staying indoors, but Physician Cheng didn't seem to notice any anxiety in him."
If the Emperor were truly that ill, the Imperial Hospital would have been in a state of chaos long ago.
Zhou Ruiyuan was now completely certain of Du Wanchun's guess. After the imperial physician left, he immediately wrote a letter and sent it by fast horse to Granny Zhou in Cheng'an County.
Sending a message from the capital by fast horse would take at least a day and a night.
Within Cheng'an County, the emperor had been staying opposite the Zhou family's residence for several days.
Every day, he would secretly hide in the distance and watch Zhou Da Niang and the Third Prince's family being affectionate.
The emperor was both angry and resentful, but he dared not make any moves that might alert the enemy.
That day, when Aunt Zhou came out of the house, she looked up and saw her new neighbor across the street.
The new neighbor often had his head down and back hunched over, like a lonely old bachelor.
She stared intently at his back, about to ask a question, when the Third Prince came up behind her, draped a cloak over her shoulders, and said with a smile, "It's a bit chilly today, be careful not to catch a cold."
Aunt Zhou wanted to visit the incense shop in the village, so she left home early today.
She adjusted her cloak, took his hand, and said softly, "You too, don't just focus on taking care of the child."
The emperor was very close to them, listening to their sweet words, and felt as if ants were biting his heart, making him extremely uncomfortable.
The Third Prince also noticed him. "Sir, are you new here?"
The emperor deliberately hid his face with strands of hair, and replied in a low voice, "Yes, we just moved here a few days ago."
The Third Prince found him somewhat strange and couldn't help but keep a watchful eye on him. After seeing Aunt Zhou off onto the carriage, he secretly sent someone to investigate this new neighbor.
The emperor turned back to look at the Zhou family's gate, his hands clenched into fists, and said coldly, "Third brother, third brother, you're really living the high life. Don't worry, your good days are coming to an end."
After he finished speaking, he turned and walked towards his own residence.
These past few days he'd been thinking about how to deal with those two, but after much deliberation, he couldn't come up with a solution.
He was spouting vicious words, but when he took a step toward the Zhou family, he couldn't utter a single word and could only feel jealous.
After the emperor entered the room and sat down, he slammed his hand on the table twice.
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