Chapter 55 Poisoning
Wu Chun had no other choice but to give up and stop trying to persuade him.
Wu Lei had a temporary residence in the palace and would come to see Wu Chun every day. Xie Sui just let her and Wu Lei waste time together. After all, Wu Lei would have to go back to southern Xinjiang, and he couldn't stay here with Wu Chun forever.
The weather gradually turned to spring, and the willow branches in the imperial capital drooped down thousands of green silk threads. New swallows pecked at the mud, and the spring spirit rose from the earth, spreading luxuriantly throughout the imperial capital.
The royal family had the custom of spring hunting, and Xie Sui was in his first year on the throne, so this ritual was inevitable. Many nobles would bring their families to show their support for the new emperor. Prince Wangsun was often accompanied by beautiful women. It seemed unreasonable for Xie Sui not to bring a woman.
Wu Chun thought about it and felt that this was a great opportunity, but how could she persuade Xie Sui to take her out?
Just when she was at a loss, she heard a piece of news from Yu Li.
A female doctor had recently come to the Imperial Hospital. She was from the Wang family of Yongzhou.
The Wang family of Yongzhou had a close relationship with Xie Sui in the past. When Xie Qingzhi pacified the chaos of the Dongyi, the head of the Wang family was a captain. The two had been through life and death for several days, and their friendship was deep. Xie Sui had also met Wang when he was a child.
But later, the Xie family fell, and the Wang family also fell into decline, and the whole family moved to a remote place.
This female doctor is Wang's daughter.
Now that she has entered the imperial capital, Wang also intends to seek refuge with Xie Sui. Xie Sui transferred her to the Imperial Medical Hospital, which can be regarded as a gesture of goodwill to Wang.
The servants said that spring hunting is actually very dangerous. How can an emperor not take a few imperial doctors out? Maybe His Majesty will take this female imperial doctor with him this time.
After hearing this, Wu Chun felt complicated, just like when Cheng Jingyi said she wanted to marry Xie Sui, she felt unhappy for a moment.
She thought that maybe because she had been entangled with Xie Sui for two lifetimes, she habitually treated Xie Sui as her property, not necessarily because she liked him that much, but out of habit.
Just like the hairpin she wore every day, she might not like it very much, but because she had worn it for a long time and was used to its existence, if someone wanted to take it away, she would be unhappy.
When she was doing that with Xie Sui by the pool at night, Wu Chun's body was stiff, absent-minded, and her eyes were wandering.
Xie Sui noticed it, hugged her from behind, turned her face, and asked softly in a low voice: "What's wrong?"
"Since your heart is not with me, why did you come to Kunning Palace? Go find your sweetheart." Wu Chun looked depressed.
Xie Sui was inexplicably happy and laughed softly, "Who is jealous? Tell me, who is my sweetheart?"
Wu Chun deliberately adopted a strange tone, "Someone has met you since childhood, and you are childhood sweethearts, and you have a family relationship. It is natural that a dead tree will come back to life and the dead will be revived... An..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xie Sui's actions, and the intermittent voice became broken.
"Are you talking about Wang Xiang? Where did you hear the rumor? I just let her take a job in the Imperial Hospital, why did it become a resurgence when it came to you?" "But
they all said... said that you want to take her to the spring hunt. You are an emperor, how can you not bring a doctor...?"
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compiled Xie Sui leaned over and pecked her lips. "You believe such a ridiculous thing? I don't bring the empress but a female doctor? Where do you stand? You are the mother of a country, where do I stand in the world?"
Wu Chun was about to cry, "But you won't let me go, how can I believe you?"
Her white and silky cheeks were steamed pink by the misty milky white steam. A few strands of hair were wet and stuck to her cheeks. She was about to cry, and I felt pity for her. Xie
Sui's throat rolled, but he was silent. He seemed to be hesitating. Wu Chun sensed from his actions that her words made him angry and happy, so she stretched out her tone, "You just don't love me, that's why you've been thinking about it for so long... You don't take me out, just to take other women out——"
No man can handle this. Xie Sui might have been able to do it in his previous life, but in this life he was a person who had walked through the world of mortals, full of sins and lust.
He was silent for a long time before he let out a breath, and from his cheeks to his neck, he was stained with a layer of intoxicated red. This book is exclusively compiled for you by the LK team
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There was a bit of helpless blame in his words.
"I really owed you in my previous life."
Although Wu Chun was tired, his goal was achieved.
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After all, spring hunting has more political significance. It is also a good time for the princes and nobles to build their network. The conversations in the tents all have hidden meanings. Wu Chun really felt that it was tiring for them to talk like this. After several ministers paid their respects to her, she went to Xie Sui's tent and stayed with him.
They were about a mile away from the foot of the hunting mountain, and the wild animals in the mountain would not come. Go hunting in the mountains during the day and return to the camp to rest at night.
Wu Lei also came. Normally, he could not participate in the hunting of Da Ning, but because of the relationship with the queen, he was also allowed by Xie Sui.
When Xie Sui hunted outside the mountain, he would take Wu Chun with him, let her sit in front of him, and put his arms around her.
If he encountered a pheasant or a hare, he would whisper "huh" in Wuchun's ear, and his breath would tickle Wuchun's neck, and then she would not dare to make a sound, like a well-behaved rabbit. Xie Sui drew his bow and shot an arrow at her feet, his arm muscles tensed, his strokes smooth, and the arrow shot out neatly and crisply, sinking into the prey's throat, flowing like clouds and water, all in one go.
"Your Majesty is heroic and has great archery skills!" The passing nobles saw Xie Sui shooting arrows and couldn't help but praise him. It was not a compliment, but from the heart.
Xie Sui didn't look at those who praised him, but looked at Wuchun instead.
Wuchun didn't say anything, so he shot another prey, his movements were even more crisp and beautiful, and the arrow even nailed it to the tree trunk behind him.
Wu Chun finally understood, secretly thinking that Xie Sui was like a peacock spreading its tail, and he praised him, "Your Majesty is mighty!"
Only then did Xie Sui look away with satisfaction and rode forward.
The arrows he used were different from those of others. Others had to put the prey they shot into sacks, but he didn't need to. He only needed someone to pick up the arrows. Not far behind him were several guards who specialized in picking up prey and protecting his safety. Therefore, Wu Chun was free to lead the way.
At the end of each day's hunting, the number of prey obtained by each person would be counted and the top ten would be ranked. Xie Sui would always be ranked first.
Not because no one dared to rank ahead of him, but because he deserved the first place.
Bathing in a tent is inconvenient. Even for an emperor, bathing is troublesome.
Xie Sui asked his servants to fetch hot water, and let Wu Chun wash first, and then he would take a bath in the water Wu Chun had washed.
Wu Chun asked why, and he smiled and said, "If we wash together, all the water will be wasted, and the ground will be wet."
Wu Chun blushed and said no more.
When Xie Sui hunted those fierce beasts, he never brought Wu Chun with him, even though he had never been injured.
Wu Chun took the opportunity when he went out hunting beasts to meet Wu Lei, took a small cloth bag from him, and told the servants that she was tired and wanted to rest alone, so she drove him out and acted quietly.
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A few days later, when the spring hunt was about to end, Xie Sui was about to return to the tent when someone reported in a panic: "Your Majesty, something bad has happened! Something bad has happened!"
Xie Sui frowned, "Speak."
"The Empress..." The guard's face was full of panic. Everyone knew how much His Majesty doted on the Empress. "The Empress has been poisoned!"
Xie Sui's face changed, and he increased the speed of his horse. He rushed to the front of the tent, dismounted, and suddenly opened the curtain. "What's the matter?"
"The Empress may have eaten some poisonous wild fruit by mistake, so she was poisoned. Now she is weak and dying. I have called Doctor Wen, and Doctor Wen should be here soon!"
Wu Chun was lying on the couch, her face was pale, her lips were blue, and she was unconscious.
Xie Sui sat beside her, maintaining a calm appearance, "How did she get wild fruits to eat? Who sent them?"
"Your Majesty, it was the Queen who said at noon today that she felt bored staying in the tent and wanted to go out for a walk. We servants did not dare to let the Queen go too far, so we followed her. Who knew that after the Queen picked a fruit and ate it, she got poisoned."
"All food in the palace has to be tested for poison with silver needles before it can be served on the table. How could you let her pick fruits and eat them?" Xie Sui's words were already filled with anger.
"But this kind of fruit has also been tasted by eunuchs and palace maids in the service some time ago, and nothing happened to them, so I did not test poison for Your Majesty again... I am extremely wrong, please punish me, Your Majesty!"
Xie Sui said coldly: "Drag her out and give her fifty strokes of the cane first. If she is hurt, just behead her."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life--" The maid's scream was like a mountain rising and falling in the clouds, sometimes high, sometimes low, and then completely inaudible.
Doctor Wen arrived and was about to kneel down to pay his respects, but Xie Sui held up his arm and said, "Get up, saving people is urgent."
Doctor Wen did not dare to delay and examined Wu Chun. He frowned and took her pulse for a moment, saying strangely, "This poison is strange. I have never seen this kind of poison before!"
He stabbed Wu Chun's fingertips again, and a drop of blood dripped into his own secret porcelain bottle, which was filled with herbal medicine and turned black.
"Strange, strange!" Doctor Wen said repeatedly, his expression was difficult to calm down. After thinking hard, he knelt in front of Xie Sui, "Forgive me for my incompetence, this poison is too strange, it is not a local poison in Daning."
"Not a local poison in Daning? She ate the fruit here, how could she be poisoned by poisons from other places?" Xie Sui's eyes were like an icy lake under the moon, cold and sad.
At this moment, a voice of obstruction came from outside, "Prince, stop!"
The next moment, the curtain was opened, revealing Wu Lei's face.
Wu Lei said, "She was poisoned by Nanjiang."
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