After changing Yuan Yao's clothes, Danqing carried her out of the side room.
Stepping out of the side room, Yuan Yao was once again a pitiful little dumpling who had fainted due to a fever.
Upon seeing her, the emperor immediately said, "Give me Yuan Yao."
Danqing did as instructed and handed Yuanyao over.
The emperor had changed into a dry set of everyday clothes.
He held Yuan Yao firmly in his arms, reached out, and touched Yuan Yao's forehead.
Upon this inquiry, the emperor coldly replied, "Imperial Physician!"
The imperial physician wiped his sweat: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
The emperor said, "Look, isn't Yuan Yao's temperature even higher than before?"
The imperial physician checked her temperature and nodded: "It is high. However, this is normal."
The princess had been standing in the rain for half an hour, kneeling the whole time, and her body was weak. It's normal for her to develop a high fever after being soaked like that.
The emperor angrily said, "Then why don't you try to cool her down?"
"If anything happens to Yuan Yao, the first thing I'll do is take your head!"
The imperial physician said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, I will go and fetch the medicine for the princess immediately..."
At this moment, Jiang Lanyue, having finished crying, loosened her fist under her sleeve and timidly said, "Father, my sister Yao'er is sick and not feeling well."
Why don't we carry her to Yue'er's bed to sleep?
"Father's arms get tired from holding her all the time, and little sister Yao'er gets uncomfortable too."
The Empress Dowager also said, "Emperor, Yue'er is also worried about Yuan Yao. Let's take Yuan Yao over first."
Should Yuan Yao be sent to sleep in Jiang Lanyue's bed?
That won't do!
The emperor glanced at the palace gate and asked Li Deshan, "Go and see if the rain has lessened."
Upon hearing this, Li Deshan jogged to the door and returned a moment later, saying, "Your Majesty, the downpour has stopped."
However, the clouds are thick; it's likely another storm will occur around midnight.
Upon hearing this, the emperor decisively stood up: "Return to Yong'an Palace!"
Jiang Lanyue spoke up unwillingly, "Father..."
The emperor glanced at her coldly: "I remember that before you went to Fotai Mountain, you were in the same school as Yuan Yao."
At Fotaishan, one would likely learn more slowly.
Upon his return, he copied the *Standards for Being a Good Student and Child* a hundred times, intending to present it to me before leaving the capital.
Copy the *Standards for Being a Good Student and Child* a hundred times?
Jiang Lanyue's already pale face completely lost its color.
Even the Empress Dowager couldn't stand it anymore: "Emperor, Yue'er is not in good health. One hundred recitations of the Disciple's Rules is a bit too much."
Is that too much?
If it weren't for the fact that Jiang Lanyue is his bloodline, he wouldn't have spared her any face.
At that time, what she was asked to copy was not just the "Standards for Being a Good Student and Child"!
Upon hearing this, the Emperor coldly replied, "If Mother feels sorry for her, why not copy it for her? I would accept that."
Empress Dowager: "..."
The Empress Dowager pursed her lips, clenched her handkerchief, and said to Jiang Lanyue, "Yue'er, your father is worried about your studies. Aren't you going to thank him?"
Jiang Lanyue, fighting back tears, kowtowed, her head swaying precariously: "Yue'er thanks Father Emperor..."
The emperor held Yuan Yao in his arms, shielding her from the wind and rain with his sleeve, and said coldly, "Return to the palace!"
Li Deshan cried out in a shrill voice, "Your Majesty is departing..."
The emperor arrived abruptly and left in a hurry.
Once everyone left, Huining Palace fell silent.
The Empress Dowager sighed, bent down, and personally helped Jiang Lanyue up.
She said slowly, "Today, it's all Grandmother's fault. I've wronged Yue'er."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Lanyue bit her lip, her eyes blurry with tears: "Yue'er is not wronged, and Grandmother is not wrong either."
The Empress Dowager took her hand and patted it gently: "Good child..."
The emperor carried Yuan Yao and hurriedly returned to Yong'an Palace.
Yong'an Palace.
The Xianghe Hall was brightly lit by candlelight.
Upon hearing footsteps, the palace doors were opened.
A sweet, delicate voice said, "Your Majesty, why have you been gone for so long? I've been waiting for you for so long."
Upon hearing this voice, Yuan Yao couldn't help but shiver.
The emperor noticed the little one in his arms move slightly and said to his concubine, "Keep your voice down."
Unexpectedly, the concubine became even more agitated upon hearing this: "The Emperor is so wicked! Before he left, he clearly said that he liked me to shout louder..."
Yuan Yao: "???"
What did she hear?
She couldn't help but shiver.
The emperor finally frowned and said, "Shut up!"
The concubine looked completely bewildered: "Your Majesty..."
"Get out!" the emperor added.
The concubine immediately bit her lip, almost bursting into tears: "Your Majesty, you're yelling at me? You actually yelled at me!"
Looking at the concubine who was dressed in only a little bit and striking seductive poses, and then at the little baby in his arms who was as pure as a jade carving, the emperor felt inexplicably irritated.
He stared at the concubine with a gloomy expression: "I order you to get out of Xianghe Palace now!"
"If you disturb Yuan Yao, I will depose you!"
The concubine wept bitterly, and before she was even properly dressed, she was driven out of Yong'an Palace by the emperor while soaked in the rain.
Yuan Yao lay in the emperor's arms, thinking: Well, I've made another enemy.
That concubine must hate her to death.
The emperor glanced at the messy imperial bed and frowned deeply.
On the couch, there were also the concubine's undergarment and underpants.
A sweet, cloying fragrance floated in the air.
A feeling of nausea welled up in the emperor's heart.
He roared towards the outside of the hall, "Li Deshan, come in!"
Li Deshan, holding a whisk, hurried into the inner hall: "Your Majesty, is something the matter?"
The emperor pointed at the dragon bed: "Have someone come in and take all of these out and throw them away!"
After speaking, he sniffed the air and said, "Put out the incense and replace it with some calming incense!"
Li Deshan agreed to all of them.
Soon, palace maids nimbly entered and changed the bed sheets and quilts, opened the windows to let in some fresh air, and lit some calming incense.
After finishing all this, Li Deshan came in: "Your Majesty, the princess's medicine has been brewed."
The imperial physician said, "The princess was soaked in the rain for a long time tonight, and the cold has seeped into her bones. She needs a medicinal bath to expel the cold."
Medicated bath?
The emperor looked at the little girl in his arms, who was so soft and boneless, and frowned as he asked, "She's still not awake. What if she drowns while taking a medicinal bath like this?"
Li Deshan said, "It's fine to let Miss Danqing guard it."
"No!" the emperor said. "I will guard it myself!"
After a cup of tea, Yuan Yao, wearing only a thin undergarment, was placed in a bathtub filled with medicinal herbs.
The water was hot, and a rich medicinal aroma wafted through the air.
She slowly opened her eyes: "Your Majesty?"
The emperor was holding a scroll and standing guard by the bucket.
I don't know if he was reading a book or looking at people.
Seeing Yuan Yao open her eyes, he lowered his gaze slightly and asked, "Since you knew the Empress Dowager might make things difficult for you, why did you still go to Huining Palace?"
Hearing this, Yuan Yao was still a little confused from the fever. She asked back, "If Yao'er doesn't go today, won't the Empress Dowager make things difficult for Yao'er another day?"
emperor:"……"
He said, "You're quite insightful."
Yuan Yao was completely submerged in the medicinal solution, with only her small head showing.
She pursed her pale lips and said, "Yao'er is not afraid of her own suffering, but she is afraid that the Empress Dowager will take this opportunity to instruct people to make things difficult for my father."
Therefore, today, Yao'er must obey the Empress Dowager's words.
Upon hearing this, the emperor's eyes blazed: "So, tonight, you deliberately used a self-inflicted injury ruse to frame the Empress Dowager?"
The chill lingered in Yuan Yao's bones.
Meeting the emperor's gaze, she asked in a childish voice, "That's right, Yao'er deliberately plotted against the Empress Dowager. Your Majesty, will you kill Yao'er?"
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