Chapter 374: Dedicated Treatment
The nights in the palace are always extremely quiet.
But tonight, the Zhaochun Palace was so lively that it seemed inappropriate.
When Xiao Jingheng heard the news and rushed to Zhaochun Palace, he could faintly hear Huifei's painful groans coming from the inner chamber as soon as he reached the palace gate.
In the brightly lit room, busy palace servants were carrying basins of hot water inside and outside, and soon they came out with basins of water soaked in blood.
In this situation, it seemed that even the cool autumn air was filled with a lingering smell of blood.
When Xiao Jingheng slowly stepped into the inner chamber, he saw Concubine Hui lying on the couch, struggling in pain.
Her face was pale, her facial features were twisted in pain, and she looked extremely hideous.
Concubine Hui's slender white fingers tightly grasped a corner of the quilt. While gritting her teeth and shedding tears, she caught a glimpse of Xiao Jingheng standing outside the door.
She immediately struggled even more, stretched out her hands to Xiao Jingheng, and cried sadly,
"Your Majesty...our child..."
Our children?
These five short words fell into Xiao Jingheng's ears and turned into a hammer made of zircon, hitting Xiao Jingheng's heart again and again.
He recalled the tender night he had spent with Concubine Hui not long ago. He had stayed in Zhaochun Palace because Chengjing was ill.
Afterwards, even he himself couldn't figure it out. He was clearly worried about his son.
Why did he develop worldly desires after being slightly provoked by Concubine Hui?
Not only did he have sex with her, but he also made love with her three times in one night...
Concubine Hui was also blessed by the emperor's grace, and she became pregnant that night.
The records of the princes entering and leaving the palace reappeared in Xiao Jingheng's mind.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Concubine Hui, and a shadow of doubt appeared in his heart.
As for Cheng Jing's death, Prince Qi was the one who murdered and silenced him.
The Qilin Xianrui birthday celebration program was also carefully planned by Concubine Hui.
He couldn't imagine what kind of hateful woman could do such a vicious thing as throwing her own flesh and blood into a frying pan.
But among the thousands of ways of death, only this method can dehydrate a person and turn him into a mummy. Even if one wants to draw blood from the body to verify the identity, it is hopeless.
If the death of Cheng Jing that day was caused by Concubine Hui and Prince Qi working together to cover up their affair,
So what now?
Whose child is this in her belly?
Before he knew it, Xiao Jingheng was already standing in front of Concubine Hui's bed.
He lowered his eyebrows and looked at the woman who had been with him for decades. He saw her grabbing the hem of her dragon robe and holding back tears.
I didn't feel any heartache, just resentment.
The doctor on duty at the Imperial Hospital tonight is Imperial Doctor Zhang, who was summoned to treat Concubine Hui.
Seeing that Concubine Hui was extremely excited after seeing Xiao Jingheng, it was even more difficult to stop the bleeding from her lower body.
So he advised: "Empress Huifei has seen that the emperor is very emotional. It is not appropriate for the emperor to stay here any longer. Please move to the main hall and wait for a while. I will use all my medical skills to protect Empress Huifei and her child..."
Before Imperial Physician Zhang could finish his words, Xiao Jingheng left resolutely, not even bothering to say a word to comfort Concubine Hui.
He sat alone in the main hall, listening to the moans from the inner chamber gradually weakening, as if Concubine Hui's condition had stabilized.
During this time, Doctor Zhang came out once and personally instructed the pharmacist to prepare the medicine.
Xiao Jingheng asked him, "What happened?"
Doctor Zhang wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeves and replied tremblingly:
"Empress Huifei was already suffering from bleeding. Judge Guo managed to stabilize her body with great difficulty. However, perhaps because of the deep worry over the death of the Third Prince, and because of her participation in the Third Prince's 37-day mourning ceremony, her bleeding turned into metrorrhagia. This disease is quite tricky, and I can only try my best to see if I can save the dragon fetus..."
Xiao Jingheng's eyes were empty, as if he was silently thinking about something.
After a while, he suddenly whispered,
"If it's really difficult, then..."
The rest of the words got stuck in his throat and he didn't say them out loud.
Doctor Zhang asked in confusion, "What did the emperor say?"
"Nothing." Xiao Jingheng stroked the ring on his thumb, his brows gloomy as a dark cloud pressing down on a city, "Just do your best to heal him."
At the end of the day, Imperial Doctor Zhang finally pulled the royal heir in Concubine Hui's belly back from the brink of death.
However, Xiao Jingheng did not show much joy about this.
He just comforted Concubine Hui in a nonchalant way, asking her to take a good rest.
Without even a simple physical contact, he left.
It was already the next morning when the news reached Changle Palace.
At that time, Zhaohua had just gotten up in the morning and washed up. When she was dressing up, Xiao Fuzi came to report the matter to her.
Zhaohua carefully drew her eyebrows with a screw-shaped ink. When she heard this, she just replied lightly,
“It’s to be expected.”
Xiao Fuzi was confused and said, "Yesterday, His Royal Highness Prince An followed the Empress's instructions and told the Emperor everything he should and shouldn't say in front of the Emperor. The Emperor should have begun to suspect that Concubine Hui and Prince Qi had an affair, and today he asked the people from the Tianji Office to keep a close eye on Prince Qi's mansion. I really don't understand, the Emperor cares about his face the most, why would he keep silent about such a thing?"
"Don't you already know the answer?"
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