"oops!"
Fortunately, Ruyi and Luoying were holding her and preventing her from falling. They also protected her stomach in time and relieved some of the force, so she was fine.
The person who bumped into her seemed to have fallen quite hard.
Ning Yuxi looked closely and saw that it was the Second Prince. The palace maids beside him hurried forward to help him up, then knelt down to apologize: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. The Second Prince was in a hurry to go to class and bumped into you. Please don't blame me."
The Second Prince might have hit his nose, and at this moment, his sticky snot was running long. He covered his nose with both hands and cried out in pain: "It hurts so much, it hurts so much! Who dares to block my way? I think you don't want to live anymore!"
The second prince turned a deaf ear to the words of the servants around him, raised his head angrily, and when he saw Ning Yuxi, he restrained himself a little, but did not bow his head to admit his mistake.
Ning Yuxi stepped forward and pulled the man up: "I'm fine, and the Second Prince didn't fall, did he?"
Seeing that she had surrendered, the Second Prince became even more arrogant. He snorted, shook off her hand, and ran away without looking back.
Ruyi was furious: "He's too arrogant. He bumped into the master and still has this attitude!"
Ning Yuxi was too busy to pay attention to Ruyi's words at the moment. She thought about how she had just taken the Second Prince's pulse when she pulled him up, and realized that the Second Prince had not recovered from his cold yet!
Ning Yuxi hurriedly asked Fang Quan beside her, "Wasn't the Second Prince sick a few days ago? Why is he back in class?"
Fang Quan: "Your Majesty, the Second Prince recovered from his cold the day before yesterday. The Empress was afraid of delaying the progress, so she started sending him to class yesterday."
Ning Yuxi frowned tightly. The Second Prince had clearly not recovered from his cold, but the Empress said that he had and even let him go to class despite his sick body. This was probably to infect Cheng Zhao!
Ning Yuxi didn't delay any longer and went straight to Cheng Zhao's bedroom. At this moment, Doctor Li had just finished taking his pulse. Ning Yuxi hurriedly asked, "Doctor Li, how is the Third Prince?"
Imperial Physician Li bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Third Prince has a mild cold. He fainted because he hasn't been getting enough sleep lately. Don't worry, I've prescribed some medicine for him. He'll recover quickly after a good rest."
Ning Yuxi breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, Imperial Physician."
After seeing off Imperial Physician Li, Ning Yuxi looked at Cheng Zhao's slightly tired face and asked Fang Quan, "What did the Imperial Physician say about the Third Prince's lack of sleep?"
Fang Quan was also a little confused, but soon he thought of something and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, you also know that the Third Prince never lets servants keep watch at night, so we will come to check on him every hour.
One night last month, at the end of the night of Hai, I went to see the Third Prince and found him still reading. Perhaps he knew I was coming and quickly put away the book and pretended to be asleep.
"The next day, I was going to report to you, Your Majesty, but the Third Prince told me that it was because the Grand Tutor had left too much homework yesterday, and he promised that he would not stay up late to study anymore.
The Third Prince was afraid you would worry, so he asked me not to tell you. Later, I didn't see the Third Prince staying up late, so I didn't report it to you. I guess the Third Prince was secretly staying up late reading again."
Fang Quan's voice became lower and lower as he spoke. He had betrayed the Empress's trust. If he had reported it to the Empress at that time, the Third Prince would not have fainted from lack of sleep.
"Fang Quan has failed the Empress's trust, and I hope the Empress will punish me!"
Ning Yuxi gestured to Ruyi to help the man up: "Alright, get up quickly. I know your intentions and I don't blame you."
Ning Yuxi knew that Fang Quan was not careless, but soft-hearted. Cheng Zhao was a smart little guy and could see it at a glance. Whenever he did something, he would look at you pitifully with those eyes, forcing you to agree to him.
Not to mention Fang Quan as a servant, even she, an elder, sometimes had to succumb to the little guy's eye attack.
It seems that she will have to give Cheng Zhao a good "education" after he recovers from his illness!
At this time, a palace servant outside the door shouted: "The emperor has arrived!"
Ning Yuxi was just about to stand up to greet him when the emperor came in. Seeing this, he hurriedly asked her to sit still.
Although the emperor's illness was treated by Doctor Zhong with acupuncture every month, it was only treating the symptoms and not the root cause. He had become visibly more haggard in the past six months.
He covered his lips and coughed lightly, then looked at Cheng Zhao who was sleeping on the bed and asked worriedly: "How is Cheng Zhao? What did the imperial physician say?"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. The imperial physician said it was a cold. He'll be fine after taking some medicine and getting some rest."
Gu Qilan frowned slightly: "It's the middle of summer now, and Cheng Zhao has always been in good health, how could he have caught a cold?"
"Yes, I heard that the Second Prince also caught a cold a few days ago. He has always been in good health. I wonder if something happened to Chonghua Palace?"
Gu Qilan frowned even deeper. He had heard about Cheng Hui's illness, but he didn't know if he was better now. So he asked, "Is Cheng Hui's illness better?"
"I heard that the Second Prince recovered the day before yesterday and went to class yesterday, but..."
"But what?" Gu Qilan asked.
"I just ran into the Second Prince in the courtyard. I think he hasn't recovered yet."
Ning Yuxi didn't care what the Queen would think if she knew about this. The Queen was the one who harmed Cheng Zhao first. If she still looked around and didn't dare to speak out, she would just have to wait for death.
The emperor understood Ning Yuxi's meaning and immediately instructed Song Qu to investigate.
Soon Song Qu came to report, "Your Majesty, the Second Prince has indeed not recovered from his cold, and the Empress said the other day that he should not delay his studies now that he has recovered, so she sent him to the study yesterday."
"Bang!" Gu Qilan was so angry that he smashed the teacup on the table to pieces.
He started coughing again as his lungs heaved violently, and Ning Yuxi hurried forward to help the emperor calm down.
Gu Qilan held Ning Yuxi's hand and said, "Don't worry, I will not let the culprit off easily."
The emperor immediately went to the queen. It was not known what the two talked about, but the final result was that the emperor took back the queen's power to manage the harem and confined her to house arrest for three months.
The emperor originally wanted to give the power to manage the harem to Ning Yuxi, but Ning Yuxi's due date was approaching, and it was not appropriate for her to take care of these matters. For a while, there was no one in the harem who could take charge of this matter temporarily.
Now, under the Queen in the harem is Ning Yuxi, the Concubine Yi, and under Ning Yuxi are only Concubine Qin, Concubine Jing, Concubine Xian and Concubine Lian.
The emperor had no choice but to let Concubine Qin and Concubine Xian take charge of the affairs of the harem temporarily. One of them had seniority and the other had a high family background.
Although Concubine Jing and Concubine Lian both came from prominent families, Concubine Jing was careless and Concubine Lian had little experience, so neither was suitable.
The two people who had been invisible all along were suddenly entrusted with an important task, which shocked everyone in the harem.
Especially Concubine Qin, she served the emperor before the empress. Because of her low status and the fact that she had no children, she had always been like an invisible person. Now that she has been entrusted with the power to manage the harem, she is very excited.
Concubine Xian, on the other hand, was not in the mood and even came to Ning Yuxi to complain about disturbing her relaxing time. However, thinking that Ning Yuxi was about to give birth, she would have to take care of everything, and having the power to temporarily manage the harem would make things more convenient for Ning Yuxi.
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