Chapter 2 Taking Control
When Cai Xun heard this question, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately bowed his head and said:
"I dare not."
Feng Qing ignored him, but went down to the city gate and personally welcomed Li Yueyao in.
Later, accompanied by Feng Qing, Li Yueyao had a smooth journey and arrived outside the Taiji Palace.
At this time, the empress, concubines from various palaces, princes, crown princes, and the emperor's brothers and sisters were all in the Taiji Palace.
Princess Zhaoqing was loudly scolding the imperial physicians: "Since you all said there was nothing wrong, why hasn't His Majesty woken up after two hours?"
The imperial doctors kneeling beside him all lowered their heads, trembling and not daring to speak.
"Or is it that your medical skills are not good enough and you can't diagnose the cause?"
Seeing that none of the imperial doctors answered her question, Princess Zhaoqing became even more angry:
"If that's the case, what's the point of keeping you here? Come here..."
The King of Qin, who was sitting beside the emperor's bed, felt a headache as he watched the emperor who hadn't woken up yet.
"Zhao Qing, please calm down for a while and stop making things difficult for them.
Someone has been sent to summon Zhao Yuanzheng to the palace. We'll talk about it after he arrives."
When Zhaoqing heard the words of the King of Qin, her eyebrows raised:
"Brother Prince Qin, I haven't told you yet?
You took advantage of His Majesty's coma and conspired with the Queen to control the palace. Are you planning a rebellion?"
After hearing this, the King of Qin looked at his crazy sister in disbelief.
Then he sneered, "I want to rebel? You know who wants to rebel between you and me.
It's not me who formed a clique and disrupted the government."
Princess Zhaoqing was choked by the King of Qin's rebuke, and then her face flushed red as she said:
"Brother Prince Qin, you are incredibly brave. You only ascended to the throne because my eldest brother was the eldest son. Have you ever been convinced of this? Do you really think others can't see through your thoughts?"
The Prince of Qin, Zhaoqing and Your Majesty are siblings from the same mother.
The emperor was unconscious at the moment, and the King of Qin was already worried.
It can be seen that the person who came out to stop him at this moment was not someone else, but his own sister.
He did not want to dwell on it any further, so he asked directly:
"Zhaoqing, it just so happens that today our ancestors appeared in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Do you dare to swear an oath with me?"
After saying this, he put three fingers together and pointed upwards, taking the lead in swearing in public:
"Ancestors, if I, Li Chengrui, have any ulterior motives today and want to force the emperor to abdicate, then please manifest your spirits and send down thunder to kill this unfilial son of mine on the spot."
Then he turned around and looked at Zhao Qing coldly and said, "Do you dare to swear in public?"
Zhaoqing was speechless for a moment when asked.
When the King of Qin saw Zhao Qing remained silent, he snorted coldly and turned to the Crown Prince with a gloomy face and asked:
"Your Highness, how should we decide now? Do you have any idea?"
After hearing the question, the nine-year-old prince turned to look at the queen in a daze.
The Queen then slowly spoke, "Prince Qin, why don't you listen to the doctors first and wait for Director Zhao.
If Zhao Yuanzheng arrives and is still helpless, what are our plans?"
After hearing this, the King of Qin had not yet responded when he heard a cold female voice coming from the door.
"Don't bother the doctors, I'll do it."
The guard at the door heard the voice and quickly bowed and said, "Greetings to the Grand Princess of Jinyang."
When everyone in the room heard this, they all looked up at the door.
Li Yueyao was born very beautiful, with a face like a full moon, eyes like distant mountains, eyebrows like ink paintings, and a mouth like vermilion, like a blooming peony.
But at this moment, Li Yueyao was wearing a lake blue round-necked robe, with only a jade hairpin on her head, dressed like a man, looking dusty and tired, and looked simple and thin in the cold wind at the door.
The King of Qin, the King of Jin, Zhao Qing and the others were stunned for a moment. After looking carefully, they found that it was indeed their aunt who lived in Chunshan Palace.
So he quickly bowed and said, "Meet my aunt."
The princes also bowed and said, "Greetings, Grandma."
The Queen also nodded and said, "Aunt."
The others all bowed to Li Yueyao and said, "Greetings to the Grand Princess of Jinyang."
Li Yueyao looked at the group of people standing in front of her.
Wow, a room full of handsome guys!
The King of Qin and the King of Jin are both older than him. Now that they are middle-aged, they are also two handsome middle-aged men.
They both called themselves "Auntie."
Look at the princes again. The eldest prince is calm, the second prince is heroic, the third prince is gentle, and the fourth prince is elegant.
They were all handsome young men with rosy lips and white teeth, and they were all a head taller than her, but they called her "great aunt".
Li Yueyao felt depressed.
Damn it, I’m only 27 years old and I’m already a grandmother, and my eldest grandson is already 15 or 16?
Alas... I have been staying in Chunshan for all these years, what a shame.
If I had known that I would be wandering around the world, I might have met some handsome young men and had a good time.
Li Yueyao felt very sorry in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She said calmly, "No need to be polite."
Then he walked past the crowd, came before the Queen and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
The Queen quickly reached out and helped the person up: "No need to be polite. Why are you back, Aunt?"
"Come back and save His Majesty."
Li Yueyao answered briefly and walked directly to the emperor's bed. She took out a needle bag from her sleeve and placed it beside her.
Princess Zhaoqing, observing this, said, "Aunt, your medical skills...why don't you let the imperial physician take another look?"
"If you rely on them, your royal brother would have died eight hundred times already."
Li Yueyao said bluntly.
While reaching out to feel the emperor's pulse, he directed the emperor's personal eunuch Sun Fu to tear open the emperor's clothes on his chest for easier observation.
Li Yueyao felt sad when she looked at the emperor's nephew in front of her.
Emperor Li Chenghong had a fair complexion, was tall and handsome.
But now his cheekbones are prominent, the dark circles under his eyes are hard to hide, the corners of his lips are dry, and silver threads are visible among his black hair. He looks very sick.
Li Yueyao frowned and asked, "Why is Your Majesty so seriously ill?"
The Queen stepped forward and replied, "Aunt, this autumn, Your Majesty first caught a cold, but it has been recurring and has not gotten better.
It also brought up your Majesty's old illness, so..."
Li Yueyao took the emperor's pulse, looked at the location of the Tanzhongxue on the emperor's chest, and gradually frowned.
The emperor's symptoms were exactly the same as the "Slow Decline" poison described in the "Poison Classic".
He was really poisoned. What the emperor said in the dream came true again.
Just when Li Yueyao was worried about the emperor's health, Zhao Qing said without any hesitation:
"Aunt, it's not that I don't trust your medical skills, but the imperial physician is more experienced after all..."
Li Yueyao came back to her senses and looked at her niece in front of her. She had noticed her for a long time since she came in.
Just now he was shouting and yelling in this hall, challenging the King of Qin, and then he kept talking, disturbing me from treating the emperor.
Today is the day to go to the Taimiao to worship ancestors. The clothes she wears are embroidered with gold thread, and her hair is full of pearls and jade, which is extremely luxurious.
Li Yueyao recalled what the emperor's sister-in-law said in her dream about Zhaoqing, who kept lovers, amassed huge wealth, and disrupted the government.
Suddenly he became furious and stabbed Princess Zhaoqing in the elbow with a needle.
Zhaoqing suddenly felt his entire arm go numb and sore.
"Aunt, why did you hurt me?" Zhao Qing asked in disbelief.
"What's wrong with hurting you?"
Li Yueyao said in a bad tone.
Zhao Qing saw that Li Yueyao did not take him seriously and rejected his reputation in front of everyone. His face flushed immediately and his mind got hot, and he blurted out:
"My aunt hasn't left the mountain for seven years. I'm afraid she's not qualified to take charge of the situation now..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Yueyao shot another silver needle towards Zhaoqing's throat.
"If you dare to say one more word, I will make you speechless forever."
Li Yueyao's voice sounded like it had been tempered by ice.
When Zhaoqing saw Li Yueyao's fierce eyes and unfriendly expression, he suddenly remembered the two years when he was disciplined by Li Yueyao when he was a child, and his body trembled instantly.
He opened his mouth to apologize, but found that he couldn't make any sound, and panicked for a moment.
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