Seeing her, Shen Qingqiu couldn't control his heartbeat.
"The Queen."
Li Wanting looked back at Gu Yanwei, only to see that Gu Yanwei was also frowning, looking at Shen Qingqiu with some heartache. It was obvious that he didn't want Shen Qingqiu to see him.
"Sister Defei, you are here."
Shen Qingqiu didn't say anything, but just walked silently to Gu Yanwei's side. Li Wanting looked at the two of them, but didn't care. She left the imperial study on her own, but forgot to take the bowl on the table away.
"Qingqiu, you..." Gu Yanwei was a little worried about Shen Qingqiu. Ever since Shen Qingqiu lost his child, Gu Yanwei deliberately exempted Shen Qingqiu from paying his respects to the Queen every day. He didn't want Shen Qingqiu to see Li Wanting and think of the child he was not destined to have and be sad.
Shen Qingqiu shook her head, suppressed the sadness in her eyes, and said: "I'm fine." She raised her eyes and saw the leftover bowl on the table, and said: "It seems that the emperor has already eaten, so I..."
Just as Shen Qingqiu was about to leave, Gu Yanwei grabbed her and said, "It's just a bowl of porridge. My stomach is still growling with hunger. Let me see what Qingqiu has done?"
Gu Yanwei opened the lunch box that Shen Qingqiu brought, which was filled with his favorite dishes.
"Yeah, they're all my favorites." Gu Yanwei helped Shen Qingqiu sit on the table beside him, and said, "They're delicious, and I'm getting hungrier just by looking at them."
Looking at Gu Yanwei's greedy look, Shen Qingqiu was finally amused, "Eat quickly."
After dinner, it was almost noon. Shen Qingqiu cleared the dishes on the table and was about to leave when Gu Yanwei's head began to hurt violently again.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what’s wrong with you?” Seeing him sweating in pain, Shen Qingqiu shouted anxiously, “Quick, go call the imperial physician!”
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"Imperial Physician, what's wrong?" Looking at Gu Yanwei lying on the bed with a pale face, Shen Qingqiu grabbed his clothes nervously.
The imperial physician also frowned, "Your Majesty, your Majesty's pulse seems to indicate poisoning!"
"What?!" Shen Qingqiu took several steps back, "How could it be, how could he be poisoned? Isn't there someone who checks the emperor's pulse every day? What did the previous imperial doctors do for a living? Why did they only discover it now?"
The kneeling imperial doctors said in panic, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. The emperor's pulse has not been normal for a day. There was no sign of this before. The poison came so suddenly. Your Majesty, what did you eat just now?"
"The food I brought." Shen Qingqiu looked at the leftovers they had eaten, and suddenly his eyes were fixed on the half bowl of porridge left on Gu Yanwei's desk. He immediately ran over and said, "Imperial Physician, porridge, quickly check if there is anything wrong with this porridge?"
Shen Qingqiu should have suspected earlier how a person could suddenly change his temperament. It was her who underestimated the queen.
The imperial doctors gathered around the remaining half bowl of porridge and tested it again and again. Shen Qingqiu waited for a long time but got no answer. They all frowned.
"What's going on? Tell me."
"To reply to Madam Defei, I really can't find any problem with this porridge."
Shen Qingqiu frowned, "Isn't it her?"
However, the emperor did not go anywhere else except having meals with me every day, and it was impossible for me to poison him, so why did he get poisoned?
Shen Qingqiu looked at the remaining half bowl of porridge and thought about Li Wanting's recent strange behavior. She was sure that it must be the problem with this bowl of porridge.
"It must be this bowl of porridge, that's right." Shen Qingqiu suddenly remembered that Li Wanting had drugged him before, but because it was a poison from the Western Regions, it could not be found out, and maybe it will be the same this time.
"Imperial Physician Chen, go and get Imperial Physician Fang."
At this time, on the other side, in Fengwu Palace, Li Wanting had just been carried in when the palace maid came to report the news.
"Empress, something bad has happened. Something terrible has happened."
Li Wanting turned her head, frowned, and said, "Why are you so anxious? What happened?"
"Your Highness, the Emperor has suddenly fainted. The imperial doctors in the palace are now in the imperial study. It seems that he has been poisoned. The Emperor is unconscious and Your Highness is alone there. You have to go and take a look."
"What?" Li Wanting herself did not expect that Gu Yanwei would fall down so quickly.
But she still forced herself to calm down, "Okay, I understand, you go back first, I'll go change my clothes."
After the maid left, she said anxiously, "Madam, what should we do? The Eighth Prince can't come back right now. Madam Defei will soon find out that it was us who poisoned the emperor."
"Why are you panicking?" Li Wanting smiled coldly, "The Concubine De will definitely suspect me, but the imperial doctors in the Western Region's Poison Palace can't find out the truth in a short time. If they can't find any evidence, what can the Concubine De do to me?"
Here, in the imperial study, a group of imperial doctors gave Gu Yanwei acupuncture and medicine, and finally he woke up. Seeing him open his eyes, Shen Qingqiu almost shed tears.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are you okay? Are you feeling unwell anywhere?” Shen Qingqiu looked him up and down.
Gu Yanwei felt that he had no strength in his whole body and even felt tired to open his eyes. Before he could even say anything, he fainted again.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty.” Shen Qingqiu was so anxious that tears kept falling, “Has Imperial Doctor Fang arrived?!”
"Your Majesty, Imperial Physician Fang took a leave last night, and Imperial Physician Chen has sent someone out of the palace to fetch him."
Just when everyone was anxious and uneasy, the Queen finally arrived.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Li Wanting frowned, walked through the crowd, came to Gu Yanwei's bed, looked at his pale face, and did not speak for a long time.
At this moment, when she saw Gu Yanwei hurt because of her and saw that he looked so haggard, Li Wanting's heart still couldn't control the pain. Tears welled up in her eyes, but were instantly buried by hatred.
"De Fei, what's going on?" Li Wanting wiped her tears and stood up. He pointed at the leftovers on the table and said, "You brought all this food. Please explain it to me."
Without definite evidence, Shen Qingqing cannot identify Li Wanting now.
"Empress, I have never done anything to harm the Emperor. The imperial doctors are here now, you can ask them to examine you."
Li Wanting smiled coldly and signaled to the imperial doctors around her. The doctors were also in a panic, but since the Queen had already spoken, no one dared to disobey her and tested the food on the table for poison.
"Reporting to the Queen, the food on the table is not poisonous."
At this moment, the lock core that had disappeared for a moment suddenly walked in and said a few words in Shen Qingqiu's ear. Shen Qingqiu nodded, and then found Li Wanting's side.
"Empress, if this matter is really related to you, please hand over the antidote before I produce evidence!"
Li Wanting sneered, "I don't know what Concubine De means?"
"Okay, lock core, let Doctor Fang come in."
Seeing Shen Qingqiu calling for Imperial Physician Fang, Li Wanting couldn't help but clench her hands into fists. Imperial Physician Fang had been sent to the Western Regions by the previous emperor to study. If he had seen that kind of poison in the Western Regions, then everything would be exposed.
While Imperial Physician Fang was still examining, Li Wanting quietly signaled Chun'er to come over to her.
"My lady."
"I have already sent a pigeon to inform Black Hawk. You are to stand guard outside the palace gate now. They should arrive before dawn. I will try to delay them here. You have my token. Once they arrive, let them in immediately."
"Yes, madam."
Chun'er quietly walked out when no one was paying attention, but was seen by Suo Xin.
“My Lady.” Suo Xin pointed to Shen Qingqiu in the direction of Chun Er. Shen Qingqiu raised his eyes and said, “Follow her.”
Suddenly, Imperial Physician Fang raised his head and said, "Your Majesty the Queen, Your Majesty the Virtuous Consort, I have found something."
"Imperial Physician, how is it?"
"This bowl of porridge was indeed drugged. It is a rare chronic poison in the Western Regions. It will only take effect when the poison reaches a certain level in the body. The emperor fainted due to the accumulation of poison in his body."
"If it is really the poison from the Western Region, Queen, do you have any explanation?"
Li Wanting was not panicked at all, but laughed out loud and said, "Yes, I did poison you."
The remaining imperial doctors in the imperial study were afraid to say anything due to the sudden change.
"Give me the antidote!" Gu Yanwei's face became paler as he lay on the bed. Shen Qingqiu no longer cared about anything else and only wanted to save him.
"Okay, let them all go out first."
Shen Qingqiu dismissed all the people in the imperial study until only the three of them were left. She then said, "Is it okay now, Li Wanting? I know you have the emperor in your heart. You can't bear to see the emperor die. If you think I stole him, I can ask him to return him to you. Please save him."
Listening to her words at this time, Li Wanting just found it ridiculous, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, Concubine De is really deeply in love. Your sincerity towards the emperor really moved me. Ha, but who do you think I am? Do I need your pity? Ha, you probably don't know yet, there is no antidote for the poison in the Western Regions!"
"What did you say?!" Shen Qingqiu seemed to have fallen to the bottom of a valley, his head buzzing.
"Shen Qingqiu, I hate you guys so much. You've forced me into this situation. Everything that happened today is your own fault!"
"Impossible, there must be an antidote. Why are you doing this? Do you think you can survive by doing this?"
"Of course!" Li Wanting suddenly smiled triumphantly. At this moment, Chen Jie and Suo Xin also pushed the door open and ran in hurriedly.
"My lady, this is bad, this is bad."
Shen Qingqiu looked at the two of them with red eyes.
"Your Majesty." Suo Xin panted and said, "The Eighth Prince and Lord Li Xin colluded with the Huns and broke into the palace. The palace must be in chaos right now. The guards learned from somewhere that the emperor was poisoned, and they spread rumors that the emperor is dying. The army is demoralized, and it seems that the palace is about to be defeated."
"What?!" Shen Qingqiu took two steps back weakly, and sat on the bed with paralyzed legs. His slender hands just happened to touch Gu Yanwei.
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