Chapter 3 Silly Nephew
He turned to look at the King of Qin and the King of Jin, and opened and closed his mouth, but no sound came out.
The King of Qin and the King of Jin were shocked when they saw Li Yueyao silence Zhao Qing with one move.
King Qin, King Jin: [Aunt, you are still as powerful as you were back then.]
Princes: [Is my great-aunt so fierce?]
The Queen sighed inwardly: [It will take Aunt Jinyang to take action.]
Concubines: [This is truly an ancestor, we can’t afford to offend him…]
Li Yueyao turned around, looked at King Qin with a stern gaze and said, "Go and pass the order to lift the palace ban.
Your Majesty was just knocked unconscious and will wake up soon. Don't cause panic."
King Qin nodded blankly, turned to look at Feng Qing, and the two went out together.
After Li Yueyao finished giving the emperor acupuncture, she turned to look at everyone, her eyes calm and majestic:
"What are the details of the Taimiao today?"
When Li Yueyao asked the question, no one dared to speak for a moment.
How do you say this?
It is said that Your Majesty has lost his moral character, angered your ancestors, and was knocked unconscious by the tablets of your ancestors?
Li Yueyao turned her gaze towards the Queen and asked, "Queen?"
Seeing this, the Queen had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Aunt, today's sacrifice was going smoothly.
But as the ceremony was drawing to a close, while we were kneeling in the main hall, the ancestral tablets suddenly fell..."
Li Yueyao nodded and said, "I thought only the Fengxian Hall in the imperial palace was abnormal, but it turns out the Taimiao is also abnormal."
I couldn't help but believe a little more what my father and the others said in the dream.
The Queen frowned upon hearing this and quickly asked, "Aunt, what happened in the palace?"
"My royal grandfather and his companions have appeared in my dreams for two consecutive days. Yesterday, feeling anxious, I went to the Fengxian Hall in the imperial palace to burn incense. Halfway through, the eternally burning lamps in the hall suddenly went out.
Last night, my father appeared in my dream again, urging me to return to the palace quickly to rescue His Majesty, so I hurried back."
When everyone heard this, they were all shocked and confused.
Believe it or not, it feels a bit far-fetched to think that ancestors appeared in dreams to warn people.
Don’t believe it? The emperor in front of you was knocked unconscious by the ancestral tablet.
The hall fell silent for a moment, and no one dared to speak.
A quarter of an hour later, the emperor slowly opened his eyes.
Seeing this, Li Yueyao began to remove the needle and poured out a pill from the small porcelain bottle in her arms and asked the emperor to take it.
The emperor opened his eyes and took a long while to see the person in front of him clearly. He murmured, "Aunt?"
Li Yueyao heard the emperor calling her and smiled, "Yes, it's me. Your Majesty is awake."
Emperor Li Chenghong had only one friend when he was a child, and that was his aunt Li Yueyao.
Everyone else was very respectful to him and gave in to him in everything, but only Li Yueyao dared to ride on him and beat him.
Every time Li Chenghong went to complain after being beaten, the late emperor would say, "Isn't it normal for your aunt to beat you?"
The Queen Mother would say, "Your aunt is a woman, how much strength can she exert? And yet she is complaining."
Once, Li Chenghong got angry and beat Li Yueyao. Li Yueyao's crying echoed throughout the East Palace, and then Li Chenghong was beaten by the late emperor and the empress dowager.
From then on, Li Chenghong understood that his aunt was the person at the top of the food chain in the palace.
After Li Chenghong ascended the throne, Li Yueyao hid in Chunshan Palace, and every year Li Chenghong sent people to invite her back.
When Li Yueyao came back once and heard Li Chenghong talking about his marriage, she made excuses saying that she was in poor health and had a bad fate and didn't want to burden others, and then she slipped away.
She had the badges given by the late emperor and Emperor Taizong, so she could enter and leave the palace as if she were in her own home, and Li Chenghong could do nothing to her.
Besides, he had been bullied by Li Yueyao since he was a child, so he had no temper towards this little aunt and was sometimes even a little afraid of her.
At this moment, the emperor opened his eyes and saw his aunt, then he grinned and asked, "Why are you back?"
Li Yueyao saw this and glared at him and said, "Still laughing! Think about what you have done first and how you will apologize to your ancestors later."
After hearing this, Li Chenghong struggled to get up, and Li Yueyao helped him up.
The emperor sat up leaning against Li Yueyao, feeling rather dazed. After a while, his consciousness gradually became clear as he murmured:
"I was offering sacrifices in the Taimiao when a fallen ancestral tablet hit me..."
After saying this, the whole person was suddenly shocked:
"Aunt, could it be that I have done something disrespectful and angered our ancestors?"
Seeing the emperor's fear, Li Yueyao comforted him, "Your Majesty, this matter requires long-term consideration. Let's take care of our health first."
As he spoke, he gently pinched the emperor's arm.
The emperor turned his head to look at Li Yueyao, and suddenly remembered that when he was a child, whenever Li Yueyao had something that was not convenient to say, she would use a delaying tactic in front of everyone, and then speak in private when only the two of them were left.
It seems that this matter is not that simple. My aunt should know something about the inside story, but it is not convenient to say it in front of everyone now.
So he nodded and was about to speak.
The director of the Imperial Hospital was just coming in from outside the main hall. He stepped forward to apologize and said that he was late and needed to feel the emperor's pulse now.
In order to silence everyone, Li Yueyao invited someone in to take the emperor's pulse.
The director of the Imperial Hospital, an old man over sixty years old with white hair and beard, carefully felt the emperor's pulse for a long time and said:
"Your Majesty, this is due to an old illness that hasn't healed, and you were hit by an external object today, which caused you to faint. It's nothing serious, just take two doses of medicine and you'll be fine."
Li Yueyao frowned as she listened.
Wasn't this old man very good at treating me before? Is he too old now or what, he can't even tell whether I'm poisoned or sick?
So he asked, "Is your Majesty really alright?"
"Don't worry, Grand Princess, there's nothing wrong." Doctor Zhao said briefly.
Li Yueyao listened without saying anything.
After the people from the Imperial Hospital left, Li Yueyao reached out and tugged at the emperor's sleeve.
The emperor then said, "Aunt Jinyang, please stay. The rest of you may leave."
All the concubines and princes stood up and took their leave without saying a word.
Only the Queen, the Crown Prince, the Prince of Qin, the Prince of Jin, and Princess Zhaoqing remained where they were and did not move.
Li Yueyao turned to look at the King of Qin, the King of Jin, and Zhao Qing and said, "You should go back and rest first."
The emperor also waved to the three of them.
Upon seeing this, the King of Qin and the King of Jin immediately bowed and took their leave.
Only Zhao Qing stood there, holding his throat. Li Yueyao said unhappily, "Why don't you leave? What are you staying for?"
"Aunt, I want to ask, I..."
Li Yueyao glared at her and said disdainfully, "Stop talking and go back to rest for two days."
Zhaoqing bowed hurriedly and retreated.
Li Yueyao turned to look at the Queen and the Crown Prince and said:
"I have a few words to say to Your Majesty. If the Queen doesn't want to leave, please go sit in the side hall for a while and come back after a cup of tea."
After hearing this, the queen took the prince and went to the side hall.
Li Yueyao's brows were furrowed so much that they were about to be knotted.
Then, Li Yueyao waved to the eunuchs and said coldly, "Everyone, get out and stay away."
Only Li Yueyao and the emperor were left in the empty hall. Li Yueyao spoke:
"In the past few days, my royal grandfather and grandmother, my royal father and mother, my royal brother and his wife have frequently appeared in my dreams."
The emperor was rubbing his forehead, half leaning on a soft pillow. Upon hearing this, he immediately glanced over: "Oh, what did you say?"
"They said you were poisoned and asked me to come and save you. They also said the court was in turmoil, the harem was in turmoil, and there were thieves causing chaos, and the country was in danger."
When the emperor heard this, he was startled and stood up instantly, but felt dizzy. He quickly reached out to support his forehead and slowly lay back down.
"I took your pulse just now and found that you were poisoned. This shows that what the Emperor's grandfather said in the dream was true." Li Yueyao added.
The emperor had a splitting headache and had not yet recovered from what Li Yueyao had just said.
Li Yueyao continued to ask, "I heard that something happened to you in the Imperial Ancestral Temple this morning, so I rushed back. So, what exactly happened in the court?"
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