The empress felt relieved when she saw that the emperor, though still in his pajamas and lying on the bed, was in good spirits and still had his usual dignity.
She wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief and said softly, "When I heard that Your Majesty was ill, I panicked for a moment. Your Majesty, please forgive me."
As she spoke, she stepped forward, took the medicine bowl from Wang Fuhai's hand, and personally fed the medicine to Emperor Xuan Jing.
"The emperor has always been in good health, how come he suddenly has a high fever?" As he said this, he glanced at Wang Fuhai next to him. Unlike the tender look he gave the emperor, that look was faintly sharp.
Wang Fuhai's heart trembled, and he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the imperial physician said that it is due to the cold weather and the emperor's recent overwork. As long as he takes the medicine properly, he will be fine after the fever subsides."
The queen nodded and fed the patient the medicine in her hand. Still feeling uneasy, she called in Shen Yuanzheng from the Imperial Hospital and asked him about the patient's condition in detail.
At this moment, there was a commotion outside the door, followed by the sound of palace maids and eunuchs bowing. It was obvious that the empress dowager had arrived with her people.
Her face was full of worry, and she asked anxiously, "What's wrong with the emperor?"
But when he saw that the emperor was safe and sound, a barely audible hint of disappointment flashed across his eyes.
Emperor Xuan Jing caught this emotion and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
When the Queen saw the Queen Mother coming, she hurriedly stood up to greet her and repeated what the imperial physician had just said to her.
Emperor Xuan Jing suddenly felt very irritated. He rubbed his brows, his face cold, and looked at the Queen and the Queen Mother and said, "I'm fine, you all go back."
The Empress Dowager thought that the Emperor would be seriously ill after such a big incident, but she didn't expect him to be fine.
The emperor's attitude made her feel very embarrassed, and she didn't want to say the worried words she had already thought of.
After saying a few polite words of comfort, he returned to the Cining Palace.
Seeing the Queen Mother's apparent worry, the Empress Dowager's suspicions grew for the first time. Although she knew that the Queen Mother and the Emperor had a weak mother-son relationship, he was still her own son, so a bit too cold was unacceptable.
She tucked the corner of the quilt for the emperor, and seeing that Emperor Xuan Jing had a frown on his face, and considering the emperor's order to expel him just now, she also took her leave in a soft voice.
I thought the emperor just had a common fever and would be fine after two days of rest.
At least that was the news Bai Susu got. She knew that Emperor Xuan Jing was ill and was very worried. She wanted to go to the Yangxin Palace to visit him.
But after knowing that the queen had left, she was ordered to leave after only a short while, and Huifei was not even allowed to enter the door.
Bai Susu thought that Emperor Xuan Jing was ill and didn't like to be disturbed, so she didn't go.
But she was always concerned about the emperor in her heart.
Unexpectedly, the emperor's condition became worse and worse. For three consecutive days, the emperor's high fever subsided during the day but came back at night.
On the fourth day, the emperor developed smallpox.
Shen Yuanzheng was horrified, and his hand that was taking his pulse trembled uncontrollably.
This...the emperor's symptoms are clearly smallpox!
The Yangxin Palace was immediately blocked off, and the imperial guards surrounded it layer by layer.
The hall was filled with the smell of burning mugwort and atractylodes.
The palace suddenly fell into a huge panic.
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Zhaoyang Palace
"What did you say?" Concubine Hui's palms were cold. She trembled when she heard the words and cried out in horror.
Xiu Yun's face was filled with panic, her body trembling uncontrollably with fear. She gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, it's true. The Emperor... The Emperor really has smallpox. The Yangxin Palace has been completely sealed off by the Imperial Guards, and all the doctors from the Imperial Hospital have been summoned to the Palace."
Concubine Hui's body swayed. "Isn't the emperor suffering from a common fever? How could it be smallpox, a fatal disease?"
Despair welled up in her heart. If the emperor...
No! No! Concubine Hui shook her head, quickly suppressing her terrible thoughts.
No, no, the emperor is in his prime. Even if it is smallpox, he will definitely survive it.
However, this optimistic imagination gradually disappeared as the emperor's high fever continued to persist.
The panic reached its peak when several palace maids who had died of smallpox were carried out from the Yangxin Palace.
The entire imperial city is in chaos!
The emperor's sudden serious illness not only caused panic in the harem, but also shocked the previous dynasty.
In addition to praying that the emperor would survive quickly, the ministers of the former dynasty could not help but think a few more steps. If the emperor passed away, who would be entrusted with the country's foundation?
The emperor has not yet appointed a crown prince!
Although there had been concerns about this before, the emperor was at the peak of his career after all, and everyone felt that there was still a long way to go.
Who would have thought that the emperor would be infected with smallpox?
Chaos! Everything is in chaos! The Daqing Dynasty is about to end.
Regardless of their own safety, the Left Prime Minister, Lin Taifu and others went to the Yangxin Palace to see the emperor, but when they came out they were all in tears.
They had never imagined that the emperor was so seriously ill. He was in a coma and couldn't even speak.
As for the imperial physician, he was so anxious that he almost wanted to hang himself when he saw Emperor Xuan Jing's illness coming like a mountain.
Bai Susu was also completely panicked. Emperor Xuan Jing was sick... and so seriously ill. What should she do? What should she do!
She was so anxious that she had morning sickness and vomited heart-wrenchingly while holding the copper basin.
Nanchun's eyes were red with distress, and she said, "My queen, please take care of yourself."
Bai Susu stroked her belly and kept calling out to the system in her heart, but after Bai Susu successfully became pregnant, the system felt that it had completed a major task and recently disappeared to upgrade the mall.
Bai Susu scolded him hundreds of times, and she tried her best to control her emotions.
Her pregnancy should have been a great joy, but now that Emperor Xuan Jing's life or death was uncertain, she couldn't let the news of her pregnancy be known.
Otherwise, she believed, she would die quickly.
Although the emperor has accumulated power for a long time, there must be people who are ready to make moves now, such as Prince Dun.
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