Chapter 26
Lambs to Slaughter
Bai Qingqing’s was frightened and her face suddenly turned pale, and she instantly hid herself into the quilt, saying to Zhao Yuchen: “Don’t let the emperor know I’m here, find an excuse to send him away . ”
Zhao Yuchen was amused by her childish behavior and said with a snicker, “Why don’t you dare to let Rui know it?”
“What would your son think if he sees a woman who was no his mother sleeping in his father’s bed?”
“Maybe he has treated you as his mother . . . ”
Bai Qingqing in the quilt was stunned by what she heard .
At this point, the footsteps of the little emperor were getting closer and closer .
Bai Qingqing slapped him hard in the quilt and warned him sharply, “Anyway, I don’t want him to know that I slept in the same bed with you last night . ”
“Father...”
By this time the little emperor had stepped into the door of the inner chamber of the palace .
Fortunately, Zhao Yuchen’s bed was shielded with two curtains hanging outside . Even if the little emperor came in, if he did not open the curtain, he could not see the scene inside .
Zhao Yuchen coughed softly, indicating the little emperor that he was awake .
The little emperor immediately went over and said, “I heard that father had a bad fever last night . Now are you getting better?”
“It’s all right, Rui . Did you just come back from the court in the morning?”
“Yes! I came to visit father after attending the court in the morning . Well, isn’t Sister Bai here?”
Bai Qingqing, who was hiding in the quilt, blushed involuntarily . This time she was really embarrassed .
Although Zhao Rui was born by her after ten months of pregnancy, she was only an eighteen-year-old sister to Zhao Rui at that time .
It was unacceptable for the young heart of the little emperor to see her getting in his father’s bed without any explanation .
Zhao Yuchen played with Baiqing Qing’s delicate and soft skin in the quilt . She even could not help to gasp slightly, but was afraid that the little emperor outside the curtain would hear the voice of her, so she had to endure desperately and leave the bastard do whatever he wanted to do to her .
Facing the little emperor’s inquiry, Zhao Yuchen answered calmly: “Bai Guniang stayed here to attend me all night yesterday and was overtired . Now she has gone back to her room to rest . Don’t disturb her . When she wakes up, she will go to the Palace of Harmony to see you . If there is nothing else, go to the Imperial Study Room and read memorials . ”
The little emperor seemed to want to say something more . Seeing his father showed no sign to keep him any longer, he could only obediently answer the question and reluctantly kneel down and leave .
As soon as the little emperor left, Bai Qingqing, who buried herself in the quilt, was impatient to escape .
Zhao Yuchen held her back in his arms and whispered in her ear, “Rui has gone, you don’t have to be shy anymore . ”
“Who says I’m shy? I just don’t want to stay here anymore . ”
“But we haven’t finished our topic yet . ”
“What topic do we have to talk about?”
Zhao Yuchen gently pulled her body and said solemnly, “What a heartless girl . How could you forget it so soon? But that’s all right . Since you forget, let’s do something else first . We’ll talk about it later when you remember it . ”
After that, he gently pinched her little chin, targeted at the beautiful pink lips, and slowly kissed her
When Bai Qingqing’s consciousness came back, she had become a lamb to be slaughtered and was eaten by Zhao Yuchen, the wolf .
As Zhao Rui’s disease gradually recovered, Bai Qingqing, the so-called “imperial doctor”, should also retire after winning merit .
However, she was reluctant to leave her son now, so she pretended to find the excuse of continuing to stabilize his illness . She lingered in the palace and accompanied continuously with Zhao Rui all day, paying no attention to anyone’s query .
Zhao Yuchen and his son were happy to see this . For Zhao Yuchen, it was his dream for so many years that three members of his family could live together happily .
As for Zhao Rui, he lacked the care of his parents since he was a child . Now his father and Bai Jiejie stayed in the palace all day to accompany him . He felt that he was on cloud nine .
The three in one family stayed together for a few days, but only to find that a storm might arise from a clear sky and man’s fate was as uncertain as the weather .
On that day, Zhao Yuchen was having dinner with Bai Qingqing and his son Zhao Rui . Li Dafa ran in a panic and reported that many of the people in the palace had fainted without cause . Several of the weak ones even foamed to death .
Hearing this, Bai Qingqing put down her bowls and chopsticks and stood up and asked Li Dafa, “What are the symptoms of them?”
Since Li Dafa knew that the Sacred Emperor’s eye disease was cured by the Bai Gunaing who was standing right in front of him, he subconsciously labeled Bai Qingqing as a divine doctor .
“To reply to Bai Gunaing, at first, there were several palace maids complaining about stomachache over the laundry room . I thought that the food cooked by the kitchen was not clean . When I sent people to thoroughly investigate it, there were people in the kitchen foaming to death one after another . In addition, the Office of Imperial Horses and Office of Treasures also reported that the flunkeys who were on duty today all have showed different degrees of symptoms . I have sent the imperial doctors to see it . Several imperial doctors all said that it was food poisoning, but they haven’t found out what kind of poison it is . Fearing that things would get bigger, I have to report it to the Sacred Emperor and the emperor and see how to deal with it . ”
Zhao Yuchen turned grave and said, “How many people have died in the palace now?”
“To reply to the Sacred Emperor, there are fifteen . ”
“Find people to bury them well, and allocate money to compensate their families . In addition, call all the imperial doctors, on duty and not on duty alike, to make a thorough investigation of what the problem is . As for the chief executive of the kitchen, he should be locked up and interrogated carefully for the time being . ”
“Yes!”
Just after Li Dafa finished speaking, another eunuch came in in panic and fell on his knees and said, “The Sacred Emperor, and the emperor...”
Zhao Yuchen furrowed his eyebrows and waved at him, “What’s wrong? Speak up . ”
The eunuch was panicked and said, “Sacred Emperor, a disaster is imminent . The bodies of the eunuchs and maids who died of poisoning have obviously decayed . Several eunuchs who were responsible for carrying their corpses have suddenly fallen down one after another without knowing what had happened to them . Imperial doctor Li and Zhang went to see it and said that there might be an epidemic of infectious diseases spreading in the palace!”
Then, Zhao Yuchen’s face suddenly became badly complexed
How could there be infectious diseases in the palace?
“Bai jiejie, since you can cure the father’s eye diseases, the infectious diseases in the palace also should not be a big problem for you . ”
Zhao Rui had never experienced such turmoil since he became emperor .
He was a child after all, even though he received imperial education from an early age, and knew that he should not panic when things happened, at this time he was afraid and put all his hopes on Bai Qingqing .
Bai Qingqing did not intend to look on and do nothing . After seeing Zhao Rui’s eager and expectant eyes, her heart was even softer .
She bent down, patted Zhao Rui on the shoulder and comforted him by saying, “Don’t worry, I will never allow anyone to hurt you . ”
Although she did not know the cause of the incident, her intuition told her that behind the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, there might be some hidden conspiracy .
“Qingqing, there are hundreds of imperial doctors in the palace . You are a girl . It’s not convenient for you to be exposed to people . What’s more, the epidemic has come too suddenly . What kind of infectious disease has not yet become clear . If you venture to investigate firsthand, you may accidentally catch the disease . . . ”
Zhao Rui was thinking of putting all his hopes on Bai Qingqing, and right after he heard what his father said, his face showed a flash of worry .
He held Bai Qingqing’s hand tightly . “Father is right . It’s not too late to make a decision until the imperial doctor finds out the result . ”
Bai Qingqing knew that the two men were all concerned about her . She felt warm inside and smiled at them and said, “Don’t worry, I still have some confidence in myself about medical skills out of everything . ”
Infectious diseases were not like other diseases . She must find out the source of the disease as soon as possible in order to prescribe the right medicine and slow down the epidemic .
Otherwise, once an outbreak occurred, the consequences would be unimaginable .
Other people’s lives might have nothing to do with her . At present, these two men in front of her were the most important people in her life, and she could not give up anyway .
Zhao Yuchen was still worried, but he knew that his stubbornness and toughness would not earn her gratitude, but would make her feel worse .
That year, it was his arbitrariness that forced her away from him .
Now god gave him the chance to meet her again . Of course, he would not allow himself to make the same mistake again .
Soon, accompanied by Zhao Yuchen and several senior imperial doctors, Bai Qingqing went to the morgue to perform autopsies .
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