Chapter 227 Collapse
The news that Yun Qin had invited Doctor Yu to the back hall soon reached Huo Jinchi's ears.
He was startled and immediately left the table and went to the back hall.
As soon as I walked in, I could hear faint moaning sounds. My brows immediately raised, and I walked quickly to the inner hall in a few steps.
As soon as Huo Jinchi opened the curtain, he saw Yun Qin curled up on the couch, her face as pale as gold paper and sweating profusely.
"What on earth is going on!" His heart was instantly gripped, and panic turned into anger, rushing straight to his head.
Rong Xin was wiping Yun Qin's sweat when she was knocked aside by Huo Jinchi. She quickly knelt down, her voice trembling, "Your Highness has your period, but I don't know why it suddenly hurts so much."
Huo Jinchi knew that women would always feel uncomfortable during their menstruation, but he had never seen her like this. Her body was shaking with pain and her face was so pale that it looked like she would disappear in the next second.
He wanted to warm Yunqin's belly, but as soon as his fingers touched her, she shuddered violently and seemed to be extremely repulsed by his touch.
Huo Jinchi didn't dare to move immediately. His fingers stopped in mid-air. He didn't dare to touch her, and his fingertips kept trembling.
"Where is Zhang Zhian!" He couldn't help but yell again.
“Here it comes, here it comes!”
Doctor Zhang Yu was almost driven in by Xu An and Ting Chun. Seeing Yun Qin's condition, he didn't even bother to catch his breath and quickly took out a wrist pillow from the medicine box.
Yun Qin curled up like a shrimp, with her arms tightly clasped around her waist and abdomen. Huo Jinchi wanted to pull her out, but he heard her groan in pain. His heart trembled and hot sweat broke out on his forehead.
But if he didn't let Doctor Yu take her pulse, he wouldn't know how to use the medicine. Huo Jinchi gritted his teeth, hugged her in his arms, and opened her body little by little.
In fact, Yun Qin had already been exhausted from the pain. She didn't have much strength to begin with, so he easily pulled her arm out. Even her struggle was very slight, she just cried out in pain.
Huo Jinchi pressed her in his arms, wanting to hold her tightly, but he didn't dare to hold her too tightly. He grabbed her wrist with his other hand and placed it in front of Doctor Zhang Yu.
“Hurry up!”
As soon as he opened his mouth, Hawking Chi realized that his voice was abnormally hoarse, as if he was the one suffering.
Doctor Zhang Yu did not dare to delay and did not care about the wrist pillow, and hurried to take Yun Qin's pulse.
During this time, Yunqin's moans gradually weakened. Huo Jinchi felt her body soften, but his heart tightened and he quickly called her in a low voice.
"Yunqin, Aqin, don't sleep!"
As he spoke, he gently patted Yun Qin's pale face and kept calling her name.
Yun Qin had not completely lost consciousness yet. Her eyelashes, which were stuck together by tears and sweat, trembled, but she seemed to have no strength to open them.
Hawking felt so distressed that he almost became numb. He clenched his teeth unconsciously.
"Zhang Zhian!"
These three words seemed to be squeezed out from between the teeth.
Doctor Zhang Yu was sweating profusely, but at least he had diagnosed the disease. He looked at Rong Xin, who was crying and clutching her clothes, and asked, "Did the queen take any blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine?"
Rong Xin immediately shook her head, "No, the queen never takes medicine randomly."
Tingchun, who was supporting her, also cried, "Your Majesty, you know that the Empress doesn't like to take medicine."
Doctor Zhang Yu's face was covered in cold sweat. "Your Majesty, Concubine Xi was already suffering from qi deficiency and blood stasis. She suddenly took a large amount of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing food, which caused her to have a metrorrhagia. We need to stop the bleeding quickly."
"Then what are you waiting for!" Hawking Chi said angrily.
"Yes, yes." Doctor Zhang Yi quickly took out the silver needle and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, please lay the queen flat."
Huo Jinchi immediately picked up Yun Qin and put her on the bed in the inner hall. As if she was attached to his body temperature, Yun Qin gently hooked her wrist around his neck.
She had no strength in her hands, but Hawking Chi couldn't bear to take her hands away, so he simply hugged her and lay down on the bed, letting her lean on his arms.
Doctor Zhang Yu held up the silver needle, not knowing how to start.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up!" Huo Jinchi couldn't control his temper and yelled again.
Doctor Zhang Yu then made up his mind and gave Yun Qin an injection.
As time passed, Yun Qin's frown finally relaxed slowly. Although her face was still pale, she had regained some composure.
After Doctor Zhang Yu confirmed that the bleeding had stopped, he removed the needle, wrote a prescription, and asked someone to get the medicine and boil it.
Then he looked at the emperor, seeming to be hesitant to speak.
"say!"
Hawking Chi's tone was cold, but his fingers gently pushed aside the sweat-soaked hair on Yun Qin's neck.
Doctor Zhang Yu knew that the Emperor did not want Concubine Xi to know her true physical condition, so he picked out what he could to tell her.
"If you fail to save someone in time when they are having a hemorrhage, or if the bleeding cannot be stopped, it is extremely dangerous. Your Majesty has also suffered a great loss of vitality this time, and needs to be well recuperated. You must not let this happen again..."
He didn't know what to say. Since Xipin didn't eat it herself, then someone must have framed her. It couldn't be an accidental ingestion.
It's also strange. How did others know that Concubine Xi was suffering from qi deficiency and blood stasis that they almost used such a strong medicine to kill her.
How could Huo Jinchi not know what he had not finished saying? His eyes were already filled with frost.
But he did not say anything at this time. He waited until Yun Qin's breathing slowed down and she fell asleep. Then he asked someone to bring a hot water bottle and stuffed it into Yun Qin's arms. Then he slowly got off the bed.
Seeing Yun Qin slowly curling up her body again, but not waking up, just sleeping soundly with Mrs. Tang in her arms, Huo Jinchi's eyes were soft with a hint of pity.
"Keep an eye on her." He turned and said to Rong Xin.
Rong Xin nodded immediately, "Don't worry, Your Majesty."
Tingchun was not so reassured. He winked at Rongxin and followed Huo Jinchi out of the inner hall with him.
Outside, Xu An was stopping the Queen.
Seeing him come out, the queen immediately said, "Your Majesty, the palace banquet has not ended yet, we are still waiting..." Before she finished her words, her eyes fell on the bloodstains on his clothes and she asked in shock, "What happened to Concubine Xi?"
Following her gaze, Huo Jinchi saw the blood on his body. His pupils shrank involuntarily, and his heart was stabbed again.
"I'll get you clothes right away." Xu An said hurriedly.
Huo Jinchi didn't think it was a big deal, but when he thought that his blood stain would only please the person who hurt Yun Qin, he couldn't help but grit his teeth.
He only took off his outer robe, and then said to the queen: "Go to the palace and say that I am drunk, send away the relatives, and then call everyone here."
Although he did not answer her question, the queen still sensed something from his cold expression. She did not say much, just responded and returned to the banquet.
After she left, Huo Jinchi looked at Tingchun and asked, "What did your mother eat today?"
Tingchun recalled and said, "Your Majesty, we left the palace today without having breakfast. On the way, the Queen only had a snack. After that, she was too bumpy to eat. While watching the dragon boat race, she only drank a few cups of tea. The cup of mint tea was brought by you, Eunuch Xu."
"When the boat was sailing on the lake, the queen felt that it was noisy, so she went back to the cabin and slept until she got off the boat. She didn't eat anything during that time. Until the palace banquet, she ate only what was on the table."
After listening to this, Huo Jinchi glanced at Xu An.
Xu An understood what he meant and left with Doctor Zhang Yu to check the food on Yun Qin's table at today's banquet.
At this time, the banquet was about to end, and the palace maids certainly had not yet cleaned up, so the person who committed the crime would not have found a chance to destroy the evidence.