Shen Aojun had been busy all night, and she had not yet taken off her light pink dress, which highlighted her slender and well-proportioned figure. She wanted to get close to Cui'er but didn't dare to. The way she foamed at the mouth was really scary.

"I'll do it." Gu Yunru asked everyone to step back a foot away. The aggressiveness of these insects was specially trained. After being bitten, pustules will immediately appear on the body. If the pustules are punctured, many insect eggs will be produced inside and fly all over the sky, which is not good.

The calm eyes stared at Cui'er's face, pulled out the silver hairpin on her head, and dripped the water in the hairpin onto her lips.

"Miss Ashin, you must be careful behind you..." Shen Aojun was so scared that she was trembling all over and shrank behind Rong Zhen, while Rong Zhen was watching very coldly and calmly at the side. He pulled out the scimitar behind him and killed all the insects behind Gu Yunru. The strange thing was that after the insects died, they turned into a pool of green water, which was very puzzling.

The air was filled with the smell of blood. Cheng Shaoyuan covered his mouth and nose and vomited in front of everyone.

"Lord Cheng..." Shen Aojun handed over a handkerchief. She didn't expect that his endurance was not as good as hers. Shen Aojun looked at everything in front of her nervously. She didn't expect that there was an insect plague in the city. Hearing screams nearby, she realized that these insects had occupied the entire city gate at some point. They would pounce on people when they saw them, and many people had already suffered.

"Cui'er!" Gu Yunru directly dripped the candle flame on the bag, and quickly burned all the insect eggs inside. Then he cut off the piece of meat. It turned out that the meat on the arm had already rotted, so it was the place where the insect eggs were parasitic.

"Ms. Ashin, how is Cui'er?" Shen Aojun asked nervously and panickedly. Cui'er was the person who had been with her the longest, and she didn't want anything to happen to her.

"Her life was saved, but her arm was broken. Although she can still use it, she can no longer exert any strength because I have reconnected her tendons."

The most important thing now is to prepare some Chinese medicine for her to recuperate. Excessive blood loss may also lead to death.

"Okay, come here!" Shen Aojun called out to the servants, but she didn't expect that when she walked out of the courtyard, she saw that all these people were bitten to death by the insects. Shen Aojun's chest tightened when she saw this, and even her steps became heavy. She almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Rong Zhen was quick to support her in his arms.

"What kind of witchcraft is this?" Shen Aojun was speechless and couldn't even speak clearly. She had never seen such a weird scene in her life. It must be the witchcraft cast by those monsters from a foreign country!

"Oh no, we have to go to the palace quickly!" Gu Yunru thought about the attack power of these insects and worried about the emperor and the queen mother. The queen mother was not in good health right now. If she was scared to death by these insects, her life would be in danger.

The palace was already in a mess at this time. Aunt Hua sent people to fumigate the area near the Empress Dowager's bedroom with a lot of mugwort and lime powder, but there was no effect.

"What should we do?" Nanny Hua paced back and forth anxiously. At this time, she heard the sounds of coughing and wheezing coming from the hall.

"Madame Hua, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother..." Two palace maids in light pink clothes came forward, frowning anxiously, and came to her uneasily to report the news.

"What's the matter? Tell me!" Seeing that the two men were hesitating and unable to speak a complete sentence, Nanny Hua immediately rushed into the hall. Many insects were crawling on the hall. These insects had strange shapes and even the imperial physician could not tell their names. People were told to beat or kill them, but the reproduction capacity of these insects was too strong.

"Empress Dowager!" Nanny Hua came to the Empress Dowager's bed, saw her pair of hands as dry as old wood stretched out, and immediately walked forward and lifted a corner of the quilt, only to find a bug had fallen down. She was so scared that she immediately reached out her hand and tremblingly lifted the quilt, and the bug had already crawled all over the bed.

"Someone come!"

Aunt Hua's screams spread throughout the palace. Gu Yunru and the other two had already arrived near Xuanwu Gate, carrying a lot of stuff with them. They looked at Cheng Shaoyuan and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to go back to see Huan'er and An'er?"

Cheng Shaoyuan hesitated for a moment and then his eyes became firm and calm again.

"No, there are people watching over my house. I want to stay with you for a while longer." After Cheng Shaoyuan learned about Gu Yunru's true identity, he had long been overjoyed, but he didn't show it. Ten years, a full ten years! "Okay, do as I ask later. These things are afraid of fire." Gu Yunru glanced at Cheng Shaoyuan, then turned his head and held Rong Zhen's hand tightly. No matter what difficulties and obstacles they faced, they had to work together.

"Empress Dowager...the prince is here." Nanny Hua rushed in from the palace entrance and told the Empress Dowager the good news. The Empress Dowager was lying on the bed like a dead tree, without any life, as if something had sucked all her blood and energy away.

Rong Zhen asked someone to light a fire and use a special herb to fumigate, and finally the insects were driven away. Although the hall was much cleaner, a lot of blood could be smelled.

"Mother!" Rong Zhen walked forward and looked at the empress dowager lying on the bed, who was already very old. He suddenly realized that so much time had passed.

"Zhao'er..." The Queen Mother's eyes were filled with tears with excitement. She already felt that the situation was hopeless, but she was very happy in her heart to be able to see him for the last time.

When Gu Yunru saw this scene, her steps became heavy as if they were tied with lead. The empress dowager was now at the end of her life and there was no way to save her.

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But Rong Zhen refused to believe it and ordered Gu Yunru to rescue the empress dowager at all costs.

"Aren't you an excellent doctor? Why can't you save my mother's life?" Rong Zhen asked angrily, scaring Gu Yunru so much that he took a step back. Cheng Shaoyuan stood in front of Gu Yunru, looking down at him, his eyes suddenly widened and said, "Don't you see that the Queen Mother is already dead? Forcing her like this will not help."

Before Cheng Shaoyuan finished his words, as expected, the Queen Mother slowly closed her eyes and left forever.

Rong Zhen suddenly turned around and looked. At this moment, he knelt in front of the empress dowager's bed with a heart-breaking feeling.

Gu Yunru winked at Cheng Shaoyuan, signaling them to go out and wait at the entrance of the palace, leaving the place to him and the empress dowager. The relationship between Rong Zhen and the empress dowager had always been tit-for-tat, and now the mother and son were to be separated forever, which was really sad.

"Yun Ru, where have you been all these years?"