Yuan Yao looked at the Ninth Prince's appearance and felt her heart turn cold.
Her throat felt a little sore, and she couldn't help coughing a few more times...
At this moment, Danqing entered the rain shelter.
Looking at the scene inside, Danqing was stunned for a moment: "What happened?"
The Ninth Prince pursed his thin lips, his expression cold: "Danqing, tell Xiaoyao'er, what exactly happened to her?"
Danqing frowned: "Princess..."
Yuan Yao opened her mouth and looked at Dan Qing: "Is what I have really not the plague?"
After she finished speaking, she coughed lightly twice.
"Plague?" A hint of surprise flashed across Danqing's face: "The princess clearly has a cold, how could you think it's the plague?"
"You're not lying to me?" Yuan Yao stared straight at her.
Danqing was stunned by the question and turned to the Ninth Prince for help: "Your Highness, Princess... could it be that you have misunderstood something?"
Looking at Yuan Yao, who was lost in thought and whom even he didn't trust, the Ninth Prince felt a pang of heartache and his eyes reddened slightly.
"Yuan Yao," he said softly.
“Father…” Yuan Yao responded softly.
For a long time, the Ninth Prince stopped calling her by her full name.
This was the first time he had called her by her full name since she had been away from Beijing for so long...
"Come here, let Daddy hold you."
The Ninth Prince reached out and pulled her into his arms.
His embrace was warm and spacious.
Pinching Yuan Yao's chubby cheeks, the Ninth Prince said in a deep voice, "It's because your father didn't give you a sense of security that you're overthinking things."
Thinking about it carefully, your father really hasn't done enough for you.
Yesterday, Father shouldn't have left you alone..."
Danqing sighed softly, "Princess, yesterday you had a fever and fell into a coma. You cried for a long time until your voice became hoarse, but the Emperor couldn't wake you up no matter what he did."
The doctor took her pulse and said that the princess had been worrying too much and had caught a cold, which led to a fever and caused some damage to her lungs and throat…
Lungs and internal organs...damaged?
It's a fever that caused pneumonia, right?
Yuan Yao looked bewildered.
She had mentally prepared herself and considered the worst possible outcome...
fortunately!
Fortunately, she only had a cold that developed into pneumonia!
That's wonderful!
Yuan Yao's eyes reddened, and she threw herself into the arms of the Ninth Prince: "Father, I'm sorry."
"Don't cry."
The Ninth Prince gently pinched her chin with his fingers, forcing her to look up.
He gently wiped away her tears with his fingertips: "Would you like to talk to your father?"
Want to chat?
Yuan Yao paused for a moment before nodding, "Mm."
The Ninth Prince scrutinized her small face and asked, "In your heart, are you always worried that your father will leave you?"
Yuan Yao nodded, then shook her head.
The Ninth Prince's voice was soft and gentle: "Tell the truth."
Yuan Yao bit her lip lightly and replied, "Yes! Although Father is very powerful, there are always people lurking in the shadows, trying to harm Father..."
Every time Daddy leaves Yao'er for a long time, Yao'er is very worried..."
The Ninth Prince sighed softly: "Father never intended to abandon you. Even if I had only one breath left, Father would come back to find you, understand?"
Yuan Yao's eyes welled up slightly, and she shook her head: "Yao'er doesn't understand!"
The Ninth Prince looked slightly surprised: "What is it that you don't understand?"
Yuan Yao hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but ask, "Father, why is Daqi worth risking your life for?"
It was Father who bore the infamy, and it was Father who disregarded the danger and sacrificed for the Great Qi and its people.
Father, don't you... leave yourself a way out?
"A backup plan?" The Ninth Prince pressed his forehead against Yuan Yao's small forehead and sighed softly, "Little Yao, you are your father's backup plan."
Is she... his backup plan?
Yuan Yao felt the warmth on her forehead and didn't react for a long time.
Suddenly, she felt a light tap on her forehead.
The Ninth Prince chuckled softly: "Stupid?"
Yuan Yao placed her small hand on her forehead, looking somewhat aggrieved: "After the Huai River, Father, you must not leave Yao'er behind again and venture into danger alone!"
Otherwise, Yao'er would definitely throw tantrums and cry to her father every day, just like other children!
The Ninth Prince patted her little head: "Okay, Father swears that he will never abandon Xiao Yao'er in this life."
"So, can this knot in your heart be untied?"
"Hmm..." Yuan Yao responded listlessly.
Just then, footsteps sounded outside the awning.
The person outside said, "Your Majesty, this old man has come to take the princess's pulse."
The Ninth Prince withdrew his hand and looked at Danqing: "Bring the person in."
Danqing responded and went out, soon returning with a thin, old doctor.
The doctor stepped into the awning and bowed shakily.
Seeing that Yuan Yao was awake, he couldn't help but smile and say, "Princess, you're finally awake? Are you still coughing? Are you still feeling unwell?"
The doctor was quite old, but his voice was clear and gentle.
Yuan Yao leaned against the Ninth Prince's chest and obediently replied, "I still have a slight cough and my throat is a little sore."
The doctor put down his medical kit and said, "Here, give me your hand, I'll take your pulse."
Danqing moved a stool for the doctor and sat down opposite the Ninth Prince.
Yuan Yao stretched out her little hand and handed it to the doctor.
After taking her pulse for a while, the doctor said, "Princess, you are very delicate. You must not be frightened again. Crying is not good either. You almost ruined your voice by crying."
"I'll prescribe a new prescription and prepare medicine for the princess..."
After giving instructions, the doctor buried himself in writing the prescription.
The Ninth Prince looked at the little one in his arms: "Now, can you rest assured?"
Yuan Yao was quite embarrassed.
She scared herself, and she really scared herself...
I am so ashamed!
Feeling ashamed, Yuan Yao coughed twice and asked, her face flushed, "Father, just now, Danqing and Lord Li Tingfeng mentioned the Li siblings outside the shed..."
What did they do next?
When the Li siblings were mentioned, the smile on the Emperor's face faded considerably.
He said coldly, "Those brother and sister had secretly gone to the place where plague patients were isolated, and afterwards, they lingered for a long time at a tea shop."
Those who had come into contact with them contracted the plague and fled everywhere. Now, the number of infected people in Huai River City has increased significantly.
"How could this be?" Yuan Yao was shocked.
The Ninth Prince's voice grew even colder: "I originally thought that Li Tingfeng was a useful person."
Although he wasn't particularly capable, he was at least honest and upright, did everything himself, and was willing to consider the people's needs. It's a pity..."
Unfortunately, he was ruined by his two daughters.
"Your Majesty." The doctor finished writing the prescription and handed it over.
The Ninth Prince took it, glanced at it, and handed it to Danqing: "Go get the medicine, and see the doctor out while you're at it."
"Wait a moment," the doctor said. "Your Highness, the medicine you asked me to research has been written down."
The Ninth Prince asked, "Did you bring the list?"
The doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out a creased sheet with many words written on it.
Yuan Yao asked curiously, "What is this?"
The Ninth Prince glanced at her: "Didn't Yun Chan give you the pills? You've been taking them ever since you came to Huai River. Although you spent a long time with the Li siblings who were already infected with the plague, you didn't get infected."
However, your typhoid symptoms are not significantly different from those of patients with the Huai River plague.
After some thought, I concluded that it was the pill that had worked, so I gave the doctor the pill and sent him to analyze the ingredients.
Sure enough, the pill worked!
Yuan Yao looked at the Ninth Prince with bright eyes: "Father, is there hope for the plague in the Huai River?"
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