In the back bedroom of Xuanning Palace, E Wen was lying on the couch, and a layer of bead curtain was hung outside the curtain. The bead curtain was made of thousands of pearls of large and small. The beads moved with the wind, and the light shone brightly, and it sounded like the sound of a hinged pen.

Uncle knelt far outside the bead curtain, frowned, worried, and cautiously told the master that he had finally heard. Xuanning Palace is now in a state of restraint, and he could only find out a few words from the guards who changed defenses at the door and the palace servants who were sending rations. It was really not easy.

A cat moan came faintly outside the palace wall, and the uncle whispered: "Empress, that eunuch Jia is really a bit stingy. He left Xuanning Palace that day and immediately sent people to the mountain to catch more than 30 wild cats and put them in the palace to kill rats. Especially around Xuanning Palace, the cat meowed all day long. In a few days, there would be not many rats in the palace. This is like this-----" She looked up at the pearl curtain, and E Wen was still motionless, so she had to continue saying: "Besides, the king is not in the palace. The empress is so troubled, and the master is not here, so what's the use?".net

"Hmph!" E Wei snorted coldly: "They can't guard against mice and fleas. As for the king, I can't bear to bear the child and can't trap the wolf. Just a few palace ladies get sick, how can I call him back to the palace? Don't worry, I have my own way."

"Empress------" Uncle Mun was a little choked: "Is it worth it for you to do this?"

A long sigh came from the bead curtain: "What is worth it, what is not worth it? With the reputation of this empress dowager, she can't help but become a chess piece in the hands of others. It's better to fight to the death! I have decided, and you will report to the Imperial Medical Office tomorrow and say I am sick."

"No!" Uncle and his wife burst out in tears.

Compared to the last time when the rats were in trouble in front of Xuanning Palace, this time the eunuch Jia and Duoyou only saw the silence of death, and the rats stopped invading. The two followed the on-duty doctor to the small courtyard where the eunuchs lived and entered the innermost hut. The house was pitch black. Ji Jie lit an oil lamp and looked at it with the light of the fire. But he saw four people lying side by side on a large kang, each of whom covered several layers of quilts, and still shivering.

Seeing someone coming, the person who was sleeping on the outside of the kang stretched half of his body, pressed his abdomen with one hand and hugged his neck with the other hand, and vomited continuously, wishing he could vomit out all his internal organs and spit out light red bile in one mouthful. Because of the long-term vomiting, he was already out of breath and fell back to the kang again.

The eunuch Jia saw the man's face clearly through the light and couldn't help but take a breath. Isn't this the little eunuch I met in Xuanning Palace that day? How did he become so sick after just a few days?

The imperial physician lifted the man's clothes, and his neck and limbs were swollen, and the two light black spots on the ribs expanded greatly. He kept telling the imperial physician how painful his internal organs were: "It burns fire, burn me from the inside."

The little eunuch had a coal-colored lips, and it was already very difficult to speak, because the pain even caused tears to ripples from his eyes. The imperial physician took out a silver needle to stir up the abscess in his body and burned it with tinder oil. The little eunuch shouted: "Oh! It hurts so much!"

But the swelling of his neck and limbs did not disappear, and he felt as hard as wood. The eunuch Jia felt chill all over, and pulled Ji Duoyou out of the room, and breathed a long breath and said, "I heard from the old man in the palace that mice can spread epidemics to people, and it seems that they can't escape. Lord Sima, in case, your soldiers guarding Xuanning Palace will not be allowed to leave the palace from today, and can only stay in Qulu. Each team of four people, each sets of cooking, and the soldiers of each team are not allowed to move around and must not let the disease spread in the palace. How about it?"

Even though Ji Duoyou was well-informed, he was frightened when he saw the scene just now, and he quickly responded: "Assuming the arrangements of the royal city orders."

After a while, the Imperial Doctor came out of it and shook his head with a frustration: "One died, and the remaining three seem to be alive tonight."

"Die?" The uncle who came to the house at some point asked the imperial physician in a crying voice: "Is there no hope at all?"

"Yes, he is dead." said the Imperial Doctor.

The eunuch Jia shouted at his uncle and said, "You are the maid official in Xuanning Palace, why are you crying? You are so confused. Who do you ask this person in the palace to rely on? Why don't you send someone to deal with the body?"

After a while, two masked eunuchs lifted a body out. The little eunuch had mushroom-like creatures all over his mouth, his face was ashen, his lips were pale, and his eyelids were copper-gray. He was tortured by the swelling of the swelling, and his whole body seemed to be wrapped in a stretcher-----

After just a look, no one dared to look at it anymore. Only the eunuch Jia Shang was stable and kept instructing: "Remember, if a palace servant dies from this strange disease, he will immediately dig a hole and bury it on the spot. Those who have come into contact with the patient should live in a separate house, and use the utensils should be separated-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It would be fine if he didn't ask, but the uncle and uncle immediately reacted and knelt down and cried, "Mr. Wangcheng Ling, I am here to report, the Empress Dowager is also sick! I beg Wangcheng Ling to report quickly. If it's too late, the Empress's illness will be delayed!"

"What?" Ji Duoyou asked in unison with the eunuch Jia Yi. The two of them quickly looked at each other. Still, Duoyou couldn't help asking, "What are the symptoms of the empress?"

"I don't know."

"Bold maid, you are the personal female official next to the empress. You don't know. Could it be that you were afraid of the symptoms of the eunuch in the palace and deliberately neglecting the master?" The eunuch Jia scolded angrily.

The uncle kowtowed hard and said, "How dare I? I am? I have a little bit of a problem. According to the rules, I will accompany the palace servants around me to accompany me to the next life. How dare I be negligent? But after the empress felt uncomfortable yesterday, she sent all the people we served out of the palace and did not allow me to get close. I only knew that the empress was very hot yesterday and had never eaten since then. I really don't know the rest of the situation. The empress still refused to let me report it, but I saw that the situation in the palace was not good, and I heard that the royal city order came, so I dare not report it!"

The eunuch Jia Dun felt a charcoal in his hand. Although E Wen was incompatible with the King of Zhou, he was also very harmonious in front of the foreign ministers and princes. Now the second prince has been sent to Yingguo as the royal supervisor. There is a vague rumor outside that the young emperor could not tolerate his half-brother, and the words were already very unpleasant. If E Wen died of illness so unknown, how could he resist it? This matter cannot be afforded by his own royal city order and must be reported.

"Please ask the Lord Wangcheng to see the situation of the empress!" Uncle and concubine couldn't help but kowtow to invite him, but the eunuch Jia hesitated. Did he accompany the imperial physician? The disease is so serious that he has seen the difference between men and women. The imperial physician can take the pulse with a handkerchief. He is a eunuch. If the empress dowager is in any condition, he will not be able to serve him closely?

While hesitating, many friends let out a loud relief: "The royal city makes the palace busy, and you still have to report to Duke Zhao Guo. It is better for you to accompany the Imperial Doctor to come."


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