Chapter 141 The Queen is Sick

After a while, Yunzhu, who had been searching for a long time, ran back in a panic: "Madam, the cabinet is empty."

"Empty?" Shen Ning frowned. It seemed that he was indeed being targeted. The cabinet contained his antidote, but he did not expect that the other party would take away all of his antidotes. It was obvious that he did not want him to attend the palace banquet today.

It is now three quarters past three in the afternoon, and the palace banquet will start at the beginning of the evening. It is too late for me to prepare medicine, take a medicinal bath, and put on my makeup.

At that moment, she just sighed and said, "Forget it, Yunlan, go find His Majesty and tell him that I came back from Longsheng Palace and rested for a while, and then I broke out in a rash. I'm afraid I can't attend the palace banquet, so please ask the Royal Concubine to do it for me."

"Don't ever say I have a fever."

The Emperor of Great Chu was not a brainless tyrant. On the contrary, he had an extremely active mind. What would he do if he realized that his symptoms were exactly the same as Lu Xingwan's at that time and found out that he had the disease?

Yunlan was indeed frightened by the empress's fierce look just now. She didn't dare to say anything more. She just nodded and ran towards Longsheng Palace.

"Madam," Yunzhu went forward to help her madam change her clothes after Yunlan left, and sighed, "Isn't this a bargain for Qingyun Palace?"

"I'm afraid she has already discovered that I was the one who did this." Shen Ning knew very well that he had been given the same medicine as Lu Xingwan and had taken all the antidotes away. Now it was just a warning to him.

I'm afraid I underestimated this woman.

"Then what should we do? The Queen...she won't go to His Majesty to complain, right?" Yunzhu became even more panicked when she heard this. They had planned this for so long, they couldn't let it go to waste.

Shen Ning just shook his head: "No, if she wanted to tell the Emperor of Great Chu, she wouldn't have poisoned me. I'm afraid she still cares about the prince. Now that His Majesty has just appointed a queen..."

As Shen Ning spoke, his eyes drifted towards the direction of Jingzheng Palace: "The Great Chu Emperor has such a hot temper. If he knew about this, he would definitely seize my power. Then the former dynasty, which had just stabilized, would be in turmoil again."

"Anyway, I have achieved my goal now," Shen Ning sneered, "It doesn't matter if we fall out in the future."

"Then I will prepare medicine for Her Majesty, and You will prepare the antidote?" Hearing Shen Ning say this, Yunzhu felt relieved. Although she was still a little uneasy, she was not so panicked at last.

"Okay." Shen Ning said and sat down, starting to write down the prescription on the paper Yunzhu had prepared.

On Yunlan's side, she hurriedly ran towards Longsheng Palace, but accidentally bumped into someone at a corner.

The other person started to scold: "You should just walk properly in the palace. It's not proper to be so flustered!"

But when he saw that it was Yunlan, his expression changed instantly: "Oh, it's Miss Yunlan who served the Empress. She's not serving in Jinxiu Palace. Where is she going in such a hurry?"

Yunlan then looked up and saw Jinyu beside the Imperial Concubine: "It's Miss Jinyu."

As he said this, he began to help Jinyu pick up the things that he had just knocked off.

"Looking at the direction Miss Yunlan is heading, is she going to Longsheng Palace?" Jinyu asked with a smile.

"Yeah." Yunlan just lowered her head and cleaned up, not daring to speak.

"Then Miss Yunlan, please go quickly!" Jinyu was originally sent by the Royal Concubine to cause trouble for Yunlan, so she naturally wanted to play her role to the utmost, "Don't delay the palace banquet tonight."

Yunlan originally wanted to avoid Jinyu, but she couldn't control her words and said, "I'm afraid our queen won't be able to attend the palace banquet tonight."

"Why?" Jinyu pretended to be surprised, but in her heart she was impressed by her own queen's foresight. The queen said that Jinxiu Palace would definitely send people to Longsheng Palace, and the Empress might not be able to attend the palace banquet tonight, so she asked Jinyu to make things difficult for them.

Yunlan just shook her head helplessly, "Our queen is not feeling well."

But in the end, I didn't tell the truth.

Jinyu didn't care about these things, so she just muttered: "Can we invite the imperial physician?"

Without waiting for Yunlan to reply, he continued, "I forgot that the Empress is a doctor herself! When our Princess Yong'an had a rash and a high fever, it was the Empress who prescribed a medicine to cure her!"

"Princess Yong'an also has a high fever and a rash?" Yunlan was surprised when she heard Jinyu's words.

Jinyu naturally caught the flaw in her words, and hurriedly pulled her arm and asked, "Could it be that the Empress is the same?"

"No... no," Yun Lan realized that she had said the wrong thing and quickly denied it. "Your Majesty just suddenly felt a little tired. I think it's because you've been overworked these days."

"Well," Jinyu just nodded, "The Empress has just started to manage the six palaces, so it's natural that she will be a little uncomfortable. Miss Yunlan must take good care of her."

"What a pity," Jinyu shook her head with regret, "I heard that King Yixuan of Dali brought dancers from Dali to dance for His Majesty at the palace banquet tonight. Miss Yunlan will not have the pleasure to see them."

After saying that, he pushed Yunlan again and said, "Miss Yunlan, please go to Longsheng Palace as soon as possible, so as not to delay the time."

Yunlan then said goodbye and left, but she couldn't help but blame her own queen in her heart. Why did she fall ill at this time instead of earlier? Moreover, from what Jinyu said, it seemed that the queen's illness was exactly the same as that of Princess Yong'an at that time. Could it be some infectious disease?

That shouldn't be the case. If it was an infectious disease, it should have spread to the Imperial Concubine's palace first.

Forget it, Yunlan shook her head. If she couldn’t figure it out, she just let it go. Then she headed straight for Longsheng Palace.

Jinyu, on her part, entered Qingyun Palace happily: "Your Majesty is truly amazing. Yunlan really went to Longsheng Palace. She said that the Queen cannot attend the palace banquet tonight."

[Mother, mother, what did you tell Sister Meiying to do just now? ]

Hearing Lu Xingwan's impatient voice, Song Qingyan also wanted to tease him, so she asked slowly, "What else did you say?"

Jinyu thought for a moment and suddenly remembered: "Oh, Yunlan accidentally let it slip that the Queen was not feeling well, and the symptoms were the same as when our Princess Yongan had a fever and a rash!"

After that, he asked in confusion, "Why did Her Majesty ask me to mention the poisoning of our princess?"

But Lu Xingwan understood.

[I know! Mother drugged the queen! ]

Song Qingyan smiled. After all, she was her daughter, so she was smart.

Then he looked at Jinyu and explained, "I asked Meiying to poison Shen Ning and took away all the antidotes in her palace."

"When she returned to the palace, it was only an hour before the banquet started. It was too late for her to prepare the medicine. She had carefully prepared for this banquet for so long. It was her first banquet as the queen, so she could only reluctantly refuse."