0p0 Chapter 561: Check the Pulse of the Crown Prince and Concubine
Chapter 561: Check the Pulse of the Crown Prince and Concubine
Since the matter concerns the royal heir and involves Su Heng, it must naturally be reported to the emperor and the flower viewing banquet cannot continue.
Prime Minister Cui turned to the crowd and said, "Everyone, due to an unexpected incident, the flower viewing banquet has come to an end. After you have finished your meal, please return home!"
"Understood, Prime Minister."
"Yes."
……
Everyone naturally knew what was important and responded in unison.
Fang Bingwen looked down at the painting in his hand, then stood up and asked, "Master Prime Minister, Madam, my painting is finished."
He said, raising his hand.
He rolled up the scroll, held it in his hands, and looked at Prime Minister Cui and Madam Cui with a serious expression.
"This?" Mrs. Cui looked at Prime Minister Cui.
Prime Minister Cui met his extremely persistent gaze and said, "Master Fang, you have seen it too. Now I have to go to the palace to see the emperor. The poetry and painting competition is cancelled."
Thinking of Xiaoyan's words, Fang Bingwen still didn't give up, "But..."
Su Lingyue held her forehead with her hand. This Fang Bingwen was really persistent.
But in the current situation, it is naturally more important to settle accounts with Su Nanxing, and nothing can stop it.
"Mr. Fang, there will be another poetry and painting competition in the future. Don't delay the Prime Minister's official business." Su Lingyue's words were half an order and half an exhortation.
Fang Bingwen looked at Su Lingyue, searched around, but didn't see Xiaoyan, so he had to give up.
After Prime Minister Cui instructed his wife to take good care of Su Nanxing, he went straight to the palace.
Su Lingyue's back hurt more and more, and she could no longer support herself. Her body softened and she fainted completely.
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The emperor was in Jiapin's palace when Eunuch Wan suddenly came in to report, "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister wants to see you and is waiting in the Qinzheng Hall."
"What's the matter?"
"I don't know. The Prime Minister only said it concerns the heir to the throne."
Jiapin leaned in the emperor's arms and smiled softly, "The Prime Minister is not only concerned about state affairs, but also about the issue of your majesty's offspring. I wonder which royal heir you are talking about?"
As he spoke, he patted his belly.
The emperor also smiled and touched Jiapin's belly, "I won't tell you about this in your belly! You should rest well."
Returning to the Qinzheng Hall, the emperor looked at Cui Maoxing, who had a heavy expression on his face, and asked, "Lord Cui, I remember that you were holding a flower viewing banquet in your residence today. Why did you come to the palace?"
Cui Maoxing lowered his head slightly and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, I was hosting a flower viewing banquet in my residence today, but something important happened and I had to come."
"Oh? What's the matter?" The emperor asked with great interest.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Concubine also came together. However, in the middle of the banquet, the Concubine fainted. I asked a doctor to take her pulse, and the doctor found a serious problem."
"The doctor took the concubine's pulse and said she is not pregnant at all."
Upon hearing this, the emperor's brows furrowed, his eyes filled with disbelief. "What? Not pregnant!"
"Yes. I was worried about the doctor's misdiagnosis, so I invited several more, and they all said the same thing. The concubine will never be able to conceive again, and naturally there will be no royal heir in her womb. The doctors are all in my residence, and Your Majesty can send someone to inquire at any time. Since this concerns the royal heir, I dare not delay a moment and am here to report to Your Majesty."
Cui Maoxing didn’t say anything more.
The emperor would naturally send people to find out who was the mastermind, who helped conceal the truth, and who was an accomplice.
"Bastard!"
The emperor angrily slammed his palm on the rosewood table, making a buzzing sound.
"Liu Fang, bring the Crown Prince and his concubine into the palace! Summon all the imperial physicians!"
"Yes!" Liu Fang responded and left with a team of people.
Han Feng was a little confused. Usually, he was the one who ran errands outside the palace, but today he asked Liu Fang to do it.
Maybe I just called the wrong person.
But now is not the time to worry about this.
The emperor suddenly summoned the crown prince, the crown princess, and all the imperial physicians.
And Chief Minister Cui's audience was for the emperor's heir.
Han Feng vaguely felt that today's events seemed not simple.
He walked to the corner and whispered to his men, "Go to Kunning Palace."
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Xiao Changshi only woke up slowly when he was brought to the main hall.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the emperor sitting on the dragon throne, staring at her angrily. Beside her, Su Nanxing was kneeling with her head down, her body trembling.
"Father?"
Xiao Changshi was still confused. He remembered that he was clearly in Cui's house, so how did he end up in the palace now?
He rubbed his temple, his voice muddled, "Why am I here?"
The emperor looked down at him and snorted coldly, "Why are you here? You'll find out soon enough!"
The emperor raised his hand, and Eunuch Wan shouted, "Call the imperial physician!"
More than a dozen imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Bureau filed in together.
Don’t they know what happened? When the deputy director of the Imperial Medical Bureau, Doctor Zhang, saw Su Nanxing kneeling in the hall, he was so frightened that his body shook and he almost dropped his medicine box.
It was he who diagnosed Su Nanxing's pregnancy pulse and was also in charge of matters related to preserving the pregnancy, not to mention the pulse diagnosis.
"You, take the pulse of the Crown Prince's concubine carefully and tell me whether she is pregnant." The emperor's voice was low and carried a murderous aura.
Although the imperial doctors in the palace did not understand what the emperor was going to do, they could tell that he was angry.
Xiao Changshi's dizzy mind was now completely clear.
Is this... Xing'er's fake pregnancy exposed?
Given my father's temper, if he knew that I had deceived him, he would definitely depose him.
Xiao Changshi felt that he was slowly sinking into a deep, cold pool, and soon he would drown in it.
The imperial physicians took turns examining Su Nanxing's pulse and all came to the same conclusion that the prince's concubine was not pregnant and would never be able to become pregnant in the future.
The next gaze naturally fell on Doctor Zhang who was taking Su Nanxing's pulse.
Facing the gazes of his colleagues, Doctor Zhang knelt on the ground with a thump, crying in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, spare my life!"
The emperor looked at him coldly, his sharp eyes showing no sign of fluctuation in response to his request.
"Tell me! Who ordered you to do this?"
Before Imperial Physician Zhang could reply, the eunuch outside the palace reported, "Your Majesty, the Empress requests an audience."
The emperor frowned slightly, his expression growing darker. "Let her in."
As soon as she saw the queen, Su Nanxing seemed to have found her backbone. She immediately looked for help and knelt on the ground begging: "Aunt, no mother, please save me."
The queen glanced at her coldly, looked away and stopped looking at him, but walked straight to the emperor with a gentle smile.
"Your Majesty, I heard that you summoned the Crown Prince and his concubine into the palace and were furious. I wonder what Shi'er did to anger Your Majesty?"
The emperor turned his head, glanced at her, and said coldly: "Have you heard? The queen is well-informed!"
This clearly means that the queen knew too quickly.
"Your Majesty is not only the king of Daning, but also my heaven. Naturally, I care about your Majesty's joys and sorrows." She responded calmly, her eyes sweeping around the hall, and asked doubtfully, "Your Majesty, I wonder what mistakes the children have made?"
"You don't know?" The emperor stared at the queen coldly, questioning her in his words.
"I only heard that His Majesty was angry, so I hurried here. I'm naturally unaware of anything else." She changed the subject and looked at Xiao Changshi and Su Nanxing who were kneeling on the ground, saying, "How did you anger His Majesty? Whoever is at fault should take the responsibility. Don't let your father down."
"Take the initiative to admit your mistakes. You are all His Majesty's children. His Majesty will never ignore family ties."
"Shi'er? Xing'er? You speak." Although the queen's voice was gentle in her smile, Su Nanxing felt cold all over.
Su Nanxing looked up at the Queen in shock, only to see a cold and intimidating look in her eyes, and no trace of the gentle care in her words!
The Queen's words just now were both a warning and a warning to her to take all the responsibility.
She is now the queen's abandoned child.
Behind Su Nanxing, Doctor Zhang naturally understood the meaning of the Queen's words. He was thinking about reporting the truth to the Emperor when he suddenly caught sight of the Queen raising her hand to fiddle with the two hairpins on her head.
Doctor Zhang's pupils suddenly dilated and he stared at the queen in horror.
One is for his wife and the other is for his daughter.
When the Queen saw the shocked expression on Doctor Zhang's face, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.