Yun Qingluo snapped out of her daze and asked An Jiu, "How is the Prince doing?"
An Jiu looked up in shock. The prince had even told the princess about their own intelligence organization?
When Yun Qingluo helped the scumbag Mo Beichen collect evidence of his crimes in her previous life, she knew that Mo Beichen secretly had an intelligence organization that could transmit information very quickly.
An Jiu concealed her shock and respected Yun Qingluo even more. The princess was indeed formidable, having the prince completely under her thumb.
He has revealed everything about his family's wealth.
"Your Highness, everything is going smoothly on the Prince's side. Although the Tianlang Kingdom sent a larger army than us, the Prince is skilled in deploying troops to kill the enemy and has managed to prevent them from gaining any advantage. Your Highness can rest assured."
Yun Qingluo nodded, indicating that she understood.
After Mo Beichen became crippled in his previous life, he never went to the battlefield again and always sat in the rear of the army to command. Therefore, his troop deployment was also learned during that time.
Moreover, they are swift and decisive, and have never suffered a defeat.
Yun Tao came in and said, "Your Highness, something has happened to the Empress Dowager."
Yun Qingluo's eyes widened in surprise. "What happened to the Empress Dowager?"
Could it be that he was too excited upon hearing the news of the empress's removal?
After all, if she were good to Mo Beichen, she should know that the Empress and the Emperor had been harming him all along. Now that the Empress has been deposed, she must be overjoyed.
Yun Tao took a few steps closer and whispered, "I heard that the Empress Dowager has contracted a strange illness. She has developed a ring of pustules all over her body, and it hasn't gotten better. It's quite frightening. The imperial physicians said they were powerless to help, which angered the Emperor so much that he wanted to kill them."
Yun Qingluo's eyes narrowed slightly; how could the emperor not be angry?
First the Empress had an accident, and now the Empress Dowager has also had an accident. Such feudal superstitions in ancient times, if spread to the common people, will definitely have a bad influence.
Yun Qingluo sat up. "Yun Tao, help me change my clothes. I should go and pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."
Yun Tao hesitated for a moment, "Your Highness, the Empress Dowager is so ill, you shouldn't go there. You've already fallen into the lake and your health isn't good, you should rest and recuperate."
Yun Qingluo understood Yun Tao's meaning, but now that she had entered the palace, how could she allow Yun Tao to remain aloof?
Sure enough, there was a knock on the door.
"Your Highness, Eunuch Liu, who serves the Emperor, has arrived," a palace maid announced at the door.
Yun Qingluo nodded, and Yun Tao lowered the bed curtains, leading Eunuch Liu in.
"Why did you call me, Father-in-law?" Yun Qingluo asked Eunuch Liu through the curtain.
After bowing, Eunuch Liu said, "Your Highness, the Emperor sent me to inquire why Your Highness has not been seen by the Empress Dowager's side for two days while attending to her illness."
Yun Qingluo's face turned cold, and Yun Tao looked furious. Just as she was about to retort, Yun Qingluo silenced her with a look.
Then Yun Qingluo said calmly, "I'm sorry to trouble you to make this trip, Father-in-law. I'll change my clothes and go over."
"Then I'll go back and report to the Emperor first." After saying this, the eunuch glanced casually in the direction of the bed, snorted coldly, and left.
Yun Tao was furious. "A spineless woman dares to bully the Regent's Consort. She's really gone too far!"
"Your Highness, I'll go teach him a lesson and show him why the flowers are so red." An Jiu was also a little angry.
The person whom the prince cherishes dearly must not be disrespected by others.
Yun Qinglu waved her hand, got out of bed, and asked Yun Tao to help her change her clothes. She said, "They're just grasshoppers in autumn, they won't last long. Why should you get angry over someone like that?"
Yun Tao was about to say something when Yun Qingluo interrupted her, "Alright, alright, let's hurry up and go take a look."
Cining Palace.
As soon as Yun Qingluo stepped through the gate, she smelled a strong aroma of Chinese medicine.
When I came yesterday, it wasn't this strong. What kind of disease is it that requires so many people to be around?
Yun Qingluo stepped into the room and saw the emperor sitting in a chair to the side. Yun Qingluo gave a slight curtsy.
The emperor's face darkened. "The princess has arrived quite early."
Upon hearing this, Yun Qingluo glanced at the sun high in the sky outside and nodded, saying:
"My prince always says I get up too early and tells me to sleep a little longer. I didn't expect the emperor to think the same way. Well then, I won't let the emperor down. I'll come back another time."
After Yun Qinglu finished speaking, she turned around and walked outside.
The emperor trembled with anger, and seeing this, Eunuch Liu hurriedly stopped Yun Qingluo.
With a high-pitched voice, she said softly, "Oh dear, Your Highness, why can't you understand what I'm saying? Your Highness has come to the palace to attend to my illness, how can you leave?"
Yun Qingluo was forcibly dragged into the Empress Dowager's bedroom by Eunuch Liu.
The room was full of imperial physicians; Yun Qingluo suspected that all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital had been summoned.
“Eunuch Liu, we are treating the Empress Dowager. Why did you bring in an outsider? If she offends the Empress Dowager, can you take responsibility?” An old man with a white beard looked at Yun Qingluo with disdain and said to Eunuch Liu.
Eunuch Liu hurriedly smiled apologetically, "If Physician Wu says that, then you've misunderstood me. This is the Regent's Consort. The Emperor summoned her in, so I dare not disobey."
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces stiffened. Although unwilling, they still knelt down and bowed.
"Your humble servant pays respects to the Regent's Consort."
Yun Qingluo glanced around and, seeing their frustrated expressions, couldn't help but curl her lips into a smile. She said in a calm voice, "Please rise, gentlemen. I, the Princess Consort, have only come to see how the Empress Dowager is doing."
Suddenly, Eunuch Liu said, "You don't know, but just now the Princess Consort said to the Emperor that she was confident she could cure the Empress Dowager. Why don't you all step aside and let the Princess Consort take the Empress Dowager's pulse?"
All the imperial physicians and Yun Qingluo froze at the same time, but Yun Qingluo immediately returned to normal.
Does such a person really deserve to be emperor?
"Eunuch Liu, are you joking? We've been treating the Empress Dowager's illness for a month without any improvement. What can the Princess Consort, a mere woman, possibly do?"
"Your Highness, please don't take offense. We're just telling the truth. You're only a sixteen-year-old girl; you probably can't even distinguish medicinal herbs, can you?"
"Haha, don't say that about the princess. Maybe she knows Ba Dou?"
"Ba Dou? That's hilarious! Eunuch Liu, you'd better take the princess out of here quickly, lest she cause trouble."
"Oh dear, this is what the Emperor himself said. If you have any objections, you can go and talk to the Emperor yourselves," Eunuch Liu said, feigning reluctance.
The imperial physicians immediately cowered. Lately, they had been living on the edge, as the emperor frequently wanted to see their heads.
Now that someone has come to divert the emperor's anger, they couldn't be happier.
"Then let's wait outside, Your Highness, please." An elderly man suddenly said, but the viciousness in his eyes made Yun Qingluo more wary.
After everyone had left, Yun Qingluo walked to the bedside and saw that the Empress Dowager was deathly pale, as if she were already dead.
Fortunately, her pained expression, tightly furrowed brows, and slightly heaving chest told people that she was still alive, which startled Yun Qingluo.
Yun Qingluo stepped forward and examined it.
"It's a snake wrapped around the waist?" Yun Qingluo exclaimed in surprise.
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