Chapter 184 The Queen Mother's "Qi" Is Not Right
Ajiu sat up, carefully took the bowl of porridge, said "thank you" to Xuanyi politely, and then began to drink it in small sips.
She ate slowly and quietly, with only the occasional tiny sound of swallowing.
Looking at her well-behaved and pitiful appearance, Xiao Yu's irritability inexplicably dissipated a little.
At this moment, a personal guard of the palace reported hurriedly outside the door.
"Your Highness! Someone's coming from the palace! The Queen Mother...is ill!"
"What?!"
Xiao Yu stood up abruptly, his face instantly darkening.
"Have you called the imperial physician? What did he say?"
"Your Highness, the Imperial Physician has examined her. He says...the Empress Dowager is worried and depressed, and she caught a cold, which is why she's so ill."
What are you worrying about?
Xiao Yu's eyes suddenly became sharp.
Who else could she be worried about? Who else could it be besides her own nephew, Prince Yu Xiao Jing?!
"Prepare the horses! The king must enter the palace immediately!"
He grabbed his robe draped over the back of the chair and strode out.
After taking two steps, he paused and looked back.
On the soft couch, Ajiu also stood up, still holding the unfinished bowl of porridge in his hand.
A pair of eyes were filled with helplessness.
She couldn't live without him in her current situation.
Xiao Yu's brows were twisted into a knot.
Take her with you? There are so many people and so many rules in the palace...
Don't take her with you? If you leave her here alone, what if her damned "clairaudience" strikes again? I'm afraid it will make her brain a mess.
At the moment he hesitated, Jiu had already made his choice.
She gulped down the remaining half bowl of porridge, then put the empty bowl on the table, ran over with her short legs, and followed Xiao Yu closely.
She looked as if she was afraid of being abandoned by him.
Xiao Yu looked at her nervous little appearance and sighed in his heart.
never mind.
He ordered Xuan Yi, "Keep an eye on her and don't let her run around in the palace."
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
Cining Palace.
The palace, which was once majestic and luxurious, was now filled with a strong and indelible smell of medicine.
The palace maids and eunuchs all lowered their heads, remained silent as a mouse, and walked with light steps.
As soon as Xiao Yu stepped into the bedroom, a dull and oppressive atmosphere hit him in the face.
He saw the empress dowager lying on the phoenix couch at a glance.
However, after not seeing her for a few days, the woman who usually took good care of herself and looked energetic now had a sallow complexion, chapped lips, and sunken eye sockets, as if she had aged ten years in an instant.
"Mother." Xiao Yu walked to the bedside and slowed down his voice.
The empress dowager slowly opened her eyes, and when she saw it was him, a glimmer of light appeared in her cloudy eyes.
"It's... it's Yu'er..." Her voice was weak, "You... you're here..."
"How do you feel? What did the imperial physician say?" Xiao Yu asked.
"I'm fine..." The Queen Mother shook her head and struggled to sit up, but was held down by Xiao Yu.
"Don't worry about me..." She stretched out her dry hand and grabbed Xiao Yu's sleeve. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Yu'er, tell mother, Jing'er, is he... is he okay?"
It was indeed for him.
Xiao Yu's eyes grew colder. "Mother, Xiao Jing has committed the crime of treason and is now on the run. I have issued a nationwide manhunt. What you need to do now is take care of your health and stop worrying about him."
"Treason? No way..." The Queen Mother shook her head desperately, tears welling up in her eyes. "Jing'er was just confused for a moment! He was deceived by a traitor! Yu'er, please let him go! He is my only nephew! Ask him to come back, and I will ask him to admit his mistakes and make amends to you, okay?"
Her words were incoherent.
Xiao Yu's heart sank little by little.
At this moment, Ajiu, who had been following Xuanyi obediently and trying hard to reduce his presence, suddenly made some unusual movements.
From the moment she stepped into this bedroom, she felt uncomfortable all over.
The "sound" here is so strange.
There was a "sticky" and "moldy" smell in the air that she really disliked.
Unlike the overbearing and brutal black aura in the mines, the aura here is gray, with extremely thin black lines like hair, silently entwining every corner of the bedroom.
When she looked at the empress dowager on the phoenix couch, her head began to buzz again.
In her "horizon", the bright golden gas mass above the Empress Dowager's head, which should have represented "Feng Yi", was now as dim as a rusty copper ball.
What’s even more terrifying is!
On that dull copper ball, countless tiny, disgusting black lines were densely wrapped around it!
Those black lines were like countless tiny leeches, one end deeply embedded in the empress dowager's air mass, while the other end was vaguely connected to the gray and rotten air in the air.
They're moving!
They are... sucking!
Ajiu could clearly "hear" that the golden energy of the Queen Mother was emitting a faint "painful" groan.
And those black lines made "satisfied", "greedy" and "hissing" sounds!
They are "biting" the Empress Dowager's anger!
And...this taste...
Ajiu tried hard to distinguish them.
She had smelled this scent before!
She had smelled this scent of malice and evil in the mines in the western suburbs, on the body of that evil prince!
Although the smell of the Bad Guy Prince is a hundred times stronger and more overbearing, their "roots" are the same!
"ah……"
Too much confusing information and negative "voices" flooded into Jiu's mind, and her head felt like it was being pricked by needles. The pain was so severe that she couldn't help but let out a short cry of pain.
Her little face turned pale in an instant.
"Miss Jiu?!" Xuan Yi was startled and quickly supported her.
This sound also startled Xiao Yu and the Queen Mother who were talking.
"Ah...Ajiu?" The Queen Mother only then noticed Ajiu.
When Xiao Yu turned around and saw Ajiu's painful expression, he knew that her headache had come back again.
He stopped talking to the Queen Mother and said in a deep voice, "Mother, please have a good rest and don't think about anything else. I will come to see you another day."
After saying that, he no longer paid attention to the Queen Mother's call, turned around and walked to Ajiu, holding Ajiu's hand and strode out.
It was not until she left the Cining Palace and returned to the empty imperial road in the palace that the domineering dragon energy enveloped Ajiu again, and the sharp stinging sensation in her head slowly faded away, turning back into a tolerable dull pain.
"Brother Xiongxiong..." Ajiu tugged at Xiao Yu's sleeve, full of anxiety.
"Let's talk about it when we get home."
Return to the study in the Regent's Palace.
Xiao Yu let go of Ajiu, turned around and punched the antique shelf next to him hard!
With a dull "bang", a clear crack appeared on the hard rosewood frame.
Xuan Yi was so frightened that his neck shrank and he didn't dare to breathe.
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