People who are poisoned by this kind of poison will fall into a constant lethargy, and their vitality will continue to be consumed in their sleep, and eventually they will be consumed by life and death. / But why is it that Chao Ci now says that their child is three years old? He is obviously already...
At that time, the Chao family, who was watched by Chao Ci and left the imperial city in embarrassment, now came back from the same place. When I left, I was stumbling on foot, but when I came back, it was a huge carriage.
It seems that they did not suffer from these bumps on the way back.
Chao Ci was a little happy, it was rare for him to have such an emotion.
Nearly a hundred soldiers escorted these chariots and horses, and the small dot at the intersection between heaven and earth became larger and larger in sight.
Soon, the carriages stopped in front of Chao Ci and others.
The door curtain of the carriage in the middle was opened, and Chao Mingzhi was helped down by a boy.
He didn't seem to be standing very neatly, and his face was haggard, and he couldn't see the joy of being rehabilitated and returning to Beijing to become prime minister again.
Chao Ci's heart suddenly sank.
He quickly stepped forward and supported Chao Mingzhi. Chao's father looked at his son whom he had not seen for a long time. Many emotions surged up and he couldn't help but burst into tears.
At this time, everyone on the other carriages also got off. Chao Ci looked carefully, but didn't find his mother.
"Dad, where is mom?" Chao Ci couldn't help but ask, and the extremely bad feeling in his heart became more and more obvious.
Chao Mingzhi looked at him, groaned for a long time and was speechless, but his eyes were red.
At this moment, Chao Ci saw someone carrying a stretcher out of the carriage.
Chao Ci couldn't help but walked over quickly, and Chao Fu followed him.
The stretcher was placed on the ground and covered with a layer of white cloth. You could tell that there was a woman inside.
Chao Ci's chest was so clogged that he didn't dare to look any further. Instead, he turned to look at Chao Fu, hoping that Chao Fu could deny the terrible thought in his mind.
But Chaofu didn't. He said tremblingly: "Ci'er...this is your mother."
"She contracted an illness a few days ago and passed away last night."
As Father Chao spoke, tears rolled down his face.
Chao Ci had never seen him so out of control and grieving before. He was never overjoyed when he paid homage to the prime minister, nor was he sad and depressed when the whole family was exiled. He has always been calm and indifferent.
But the Ruan family had been in love with him for half their lives. Except for Chaohua's biological mother, Chaohua's father had no other concubines. Even Chao Hua's biological mother, Aunt Zhao, was only the Zhao family who was kind to Chao's father. Later, the Zhao family's family fell into decline, and Aunt Zhao went to Beijing to join the Chao family. Chao's father was forced to accept Aunt Zhao because of her kindness.
But it was too late to pay attention to Chaofu's emotions at this time.
He knelt on his knees in front of the white cloth stretcher and carefully opened the white cloth.
A familiar face appeared in front of Chao Ci. Ruan's lips were blue and white, and her eyes were closed, never to be opened again.
Chao Ci felt like he was crying. It was time for him to cry. The blow of losing his mother hit him with all the previous grief that he had suppressed, and it was heavier than any of his griefs.
But something seemed to be blocking his chest, and it seemed to be torn apart. He was unable to shed a single tear or make a single sound.
I just felt like my eyes were covered with a thin layer of black mist.
The black mist was like a sudden twilight night, spreading rapidly in a matter of seconds.
Lou Yue had been following Chao Ci and immediately noticed something was wrong with Chao Ci.
But before he could take any action, Chao Ci suddenly closed his eyes and leaned back suddenly.
Lou Yue's heartbeat stopped for a moment, and he took Chao Ci into his arms before he fell to the ground.
"Quick! Call the doctor over!"
............
Lou Yue originally thought that Chao Ci was in a coma caused by excessive grief, but the imperial doctor did not wake up after treating him for a day and night. He only said that Chao Ci's coma was not due to grief.
Or rather, much more than grief.
He might have suffered from some rare disease, or he might have been poisoned by some extremely rare poison.
But no matter what it is, it is extremely rare. The entire imperial medical office is looking for the cause, but has not been able to find it.
Chao Ci was in a coma for nearly six days.
Finally, an imperial physician found a poison that matched Chao Ci's symptoms from ancient books.
It's called Rumeng.
People who are poisoned by this kind of poison will fall into a constant lethargy, and their vitality will continue to be consumed in their sleep, and eventually they will be consumed by life and death.
The sign of this poison is that small red spots will appear on the index finger nails of the poisoned person.
This red spot appeared on the nail of Chao Ci's index finger.
"How to save him?" After listening to the imperial doctor's words, Lou Yue's heart palpitated for a long time, and then he looked at the imperial doctor with bloodshot eyes.
"According to the records in the ancient books, the poison like Meng can be cured if the antidote is obtained within three months of poisoning. But if the poisoning time exceeds three months, even if the antidote is obtained, there is no cure. But this kind of The poison will not take effect within three months, so..." When the imperial doctor said this, his tone was a little trembling. He lowered his head lower and said anxiously, "Since the queen has had an attack, it means that he has been poisoned for three months. , it's...cannot be saved..."
"Impossible!" Lou Yue's eyes were filled with blood.
impossible! In the dream, Chao Ci was clearly not poisoned. Even if he later died of dystocia, it would have been several months later. How could he be poisoned now?
"There must be other ways, you all go find them! There are so many people in the Imperial Medical Center, but they can't cure even one poison?!"
The imperial doctor quickly kowtowed and said yes.
The imperial doctor thought for a while and then said: "Although it has been three months, if we can get the antidote formula, there may be a glimmer of hope."
After the imperial doctor went back to look for a solution, Lou Yue tapped the table three more times with his fingertips, and then a tall man in black appeared in front of Lou Yue.
This is the head of the secret guard. Lou Yue's secret guards are divided into two parts, one is in the light and the other is in the dark. The ones in the light are the scouts that everyone thinks of, but few people know about the power in the dark, and its terror is difficult for ordinary people to fathom.
"Let Gu check the Linhua Palace three months ago. Tomorrow Gu will know who poisoned Chao Ci!" Lou Yue pinched the armrest beside him with a scary expression.
............
Everyone in the entire Imperial Medical Center is looking for that elusive antidote day and night.
But the next day, the murderer who poisoned the house was handed over to Lou Yue's desk.
After Lou Yue heard this, he stood up suddenly and rushed to the prison.
The sky prison is damp, dark, and silent. Even if the emperor who holds the power of life and death for them comes, these prisoners dare not go forward to complain.
Lou Yue walked all the way to the innermost part of the cell.
Compared to the other cells, this cell seemed less shabby. At least it looks neat at first glance. What was thrown in the corner was not straw, but a wooden board with a bed of cotton batting on it.
Sitting there was a woman with a haggard look and a miserable figure.
It was Chaohua who was imprisoned in Tianlao not long ago.
When Chaohua saw Lou Yue, her eyes lit up at first, and then she quickly thought of the most likely reason why Lou Yue came to find her.
She swallowed, a little scared, but then she felt joy and pleasure rising in her chest.
Lou Yue came to find her, which meant that Chao Ci was already poisoned!
She knows better than anyone else that once Rumeng becomes poisonous, there is no way to save her and Chao Ci will die!
ha! It would be nice to die! She was having a hard time, so why could Chao Ci live in such glory and wealth as him!
She didn't tell Lou Yue that day because she knew the poison was not yet three months old. If she had told Lou Yue at that time, Lou Yue would have tortured her in every possible way to make her hand over the antidote, or he could have found the antidote himself, and then Chao Ci would have been saved - this was not something she wanted to see. .
She knew that as long as Lou Yue knew that Chao Ci was poisoned, her poisoning would not be hidden from Lou Yue, and Lou Yue would not let her go.
But so what? She has already been deprived of her concubine position, betrayed the Chao family and Lou Yue, and can only live in this prison for the rest of her life, so what else can she do in this life?
It's better to end it early, maybe she can get another life.
Resurrecting his life has severely stripped away the inherent mystery and fear of death, and also given Chaohua some false delusions.
The jailer stepped forward and unlocked Lou Yue. Lou Yue strode into the cell and walked up to Chao Hua.
The sound of boot soles on the cold ground stopped.
Chao Hua raised his head and looked at the man's expression as if he was choosing someone to devour. Even though he was ready to die, his heart was palpitating at this moment.
Before she could say anything, the man in front of her suddenly grabbed her neck. His slender fingers were as strong as the steel claws of an animal. Chaohua couldn't get away at all. She was almost like this. Choking off the flesh and blood alive.
"Where's the antidote?!"
The man didn't even say anything unnecessary to her, nor did he give her any chance to defend herself. He just asked her for the antidote.
Chaohua opened his mouth to speak, but couldn't say anything because his neck was strangled.
Seeing this, Lou Yue suddenly let go of his hand and threw Chaohua to the ground.
After Chaohua was let go, she coughed violently and then struggled on the ground. This embarrassing situation made her feel even more filled with hatred.
She climbed up and said in a hoarse voice: "So what if I gave the antidote to His Majesty? March has passed, and it's useless even if I have the antidote!"
"Where's the antidote?"
The man turned a deaf ear to what Chaohua said and just repeated the previous sentence.
He looked very haggard at the moment. His eyes were bloodshot, and they were also black and blue. It was obvious that he had not slept for several days. But this haggardness could not reduce his ruthlessness and terrifyingness at all. The violent aura all over his body and the bloody aura crawling out from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain made Chaohua who faced him suddenly feel frightened.
She actually didn't intend to struggle any more.
As she said, she knew that the antidote would be useless after three months, so why bother guarding the antidote?
She laughed lowly. His vocal cords must have been pinched by Lou Yue, and his laughter was as hoarse as a torn bag full of wind.
"In the Haiyan Palace, in the piece of wood under my bed. I hollowed out the middle of it." Chaohua said.
Lou Yue turned to look at a secret guard behind him and said, "Go find him."
"yes!"
The secret guard left quickly, and Lou Yue turned back to look at Chao Hua.
He didn't have the mind to pay attention to anything that had nothing to do with Chao Ci at the moment, but he hated Chao Hua deeply.
Looking at his expression, Chaohua naturally knew that he had murderous intentions towards her.
"Kill me." Chao Hua said with a smile, "Even if I die, I can drag that bitch Chao Ci with me. My death will not be unjust."
"How can death be so easy?" Lou Yue's tone was cold to the bone.
Chapter 93
Hearing this, Chaohua looked a little stunned, as if he was frightened by Lou Yue.
Lou Yue suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched her chin hard, removing her chin.
It turned out that Chaohua had already hidden poison in his teeth, and he was just about to bite the poison. But she was discovered by Lou Yue in an instant and removed her chin.
After the jaw was removed, Chaohua was unable to speak and could only utter some uninflected syllables. She didn't expect that Lou Yue would see through this trick so easily. The great panic and fear clung to her back like an evil ghost. She could only scream "Ahhhh" while tears kept falling from the corners of her eyes.
Lou Yue ignored her and said to the people beside him: "Take her to the secret cell and let the people there treat her well - we can't let her die."
The Tianlao is a prison affiliated to the imperial court, but the Dark Prison is a private prison that Lou Yue had before he ascended the throne. It is a place where no one can see the light, no publicity, and a place more terrifying than hell.
There, no matter how strict a person is with his mouth, even if he is a dead soldier, his mouth will eventually be pried open.
Having finalized Chaohua's outcome, Lou Yue didn't want to waste any more time here. He turned around and left the prison directly. However, four people beside him stayed behind and were responsible for taking Chaohua into a secret prison.
The antidote formula was quickly found, and Lou Yue had someone send it to the Imperial Medical Clinic.
The doctors at the Imperial Medical Hall have been studying Ru Meng like headless flies for many days. After all, there are really not many records about Rumeng. The only one the imperial doctor could find from ancient books was that he couldn't find anything else after looking through all the books. They could only find a solution based on those few paragraphs and combined with Chao Ci's symptoms at this time, but Rumeng was so weird that they made little progress.
The antidote formula did provide them with a clue. The imperial doctors studied for a few more days and found that the antidote was indeed no longer usable. But another medicine can be prepared based on the antidote. This medicine cannot undo the dream, but it can prolong the life of the poisoned person, and most importantly, it can temporarily wake the poisoned person from sleep.
After learning the news, Lou Yue did not feel relaxed at all. But after all, it is better for a person to wake up than to remain asleep. This medicine was sent to Linhua Palace as soon as possible.
Lou Yue held the medicine cup and slowly fed Chao Ci.
After taking the medicine, Chao Ci's face gradually turned rosy. After about a stick of incense, his eyelashes trembled twice. At this time, no matter how heavy and sad his heart was, Lou Yue felt happy when he saw Chao Ci was about to wake up.
Chao Ci didn't open his eyes for nearly ten days.
At this time, Chao Ci was actually happily playing stand-alone games in the system space.
Even if it is a stand-alone game, the gold level is no less than other games. In the past few days, Chao Ci suddenly became addicted to single-player games while his body was lethargic. He was also a lavish spender, and he didn't hesitate to spend money. He didn't know how much money he spent on it after so many days. The system felt distressed.
Although it's not its money, it's such a waste!
Chao Ci was playing hard when he suddenly felt something and put down the game console with a frown.
However, the system breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably and said, "Lou Yue has given you medicine, it's time for you to 'wake up'."
"Okay." Chao Ci rubbed his brows and prepared to go to business.
"By the way, how do you plan to end this time?" The system asked the question it had wanted to ask for a long time, "You were poisoned and then became cold...so Lou Yue would be willing to accept it?"
"He will definitely not be willing to do this." Chao Ci saved his game and turned to raise an eyebrow at the system, "You will know when I wake up."
After saying that, Chao Ci stopped talking nonsense to the system, and his consciousness left the system space.
Lou Yue, who was outside, saw Chao Ci slowly opening his eyes. He seemed a little confused at first, and then he looked at Lou Yue. After a moment of daze, his eyes suddenly lit up. Lou Yue could clearly see that he was The joy and love in the eyes.
Lou Yue was stunned.
He didn't know how long it had been since he saw such pure love and tenderness in Chao Ci's eyes. It seems that only before Chaohua entered the palace, before Chaoci was imprisoned in Qionghua Palace, and before the entire Chao family was exiled...
On the wedding day, when he walked into the palace and opened the door, he saw eyes like this.
Obviously he had never seen Chao Ci before this. All impressions of him come only from the rumors in the Imperial City. He said that he was amazingly talented and handsome, that he was as handsome as an immortal, that a certain beauty was secretly attracted to him, and that the prince invited him to ride on a boat together. At that time, Lou Yue, who had just returned to the capital from the battlefield, was just a prince with a low status in his mother's family in everyone's eyes.
Why did Chao Ci look at him like that?
So Lou Yue remained wary and distant from Chao Ci's tenderness and indulgence for a long time, until he could no longer avoid his feelings.
But such eyes were still destroyed by Lou Yue's desire for power. After Chao Ci returned to the palace again, his expression was numb, indifferent...even desperate. Lou Yue knew that he was terribly wrong. He had no hope that Chao Ci could forgive him prematurely. He only thought that he would treat Chao Ci well from now on and slowly smooth away all the hurts and scars in the past.
Chao Ci suddenly fell into coma. Although the root cause was Ru Meng, the introduction was because he suddenly learned the news of his mother's death. In the final analysis, Ruan would not have died if it had not been for Lou Yue. Lou Yue was already prepared, Chao Ci might have other extreme reactions after waking up.
It doesn't matter if Chao Ci blames him or hates him, as long as he doesn't hurt himself.
But he didn't expect that Chao Ci would be like this after waking up.
Chao Ci looked at Lou Yue's court clothes and the daylight outside, and smiled sheepishly: "Did I go to bed late today? I didn't wake up until you finished the morning court."
Lou Yue knew that there was something wrong with such a speech. For a moment, he could only purse his lips and did not speak.
Chao Ci directly opened the quilt and planned to get out of bed. Seeing this, Lou Yue quickly helped him stand up slowly.
"Why do you seem to treat me like a patient?" Chao Ci couldn't help laughing.
Lou Yue asked people to get the clothes, but still didn't say anything, and put on the clothes one by one for Chao Ci.
Chao Ci seemed to be accustomed to the emperor's service. While getting dressed, he said to Lou Yue: "Speaking of which, tomorrow is Jue'er's third birthday. Yesterday, the little one was pestering me for a gift. I promised to make hazelnuts for him. Crisp. It's getting late now. After lunch is finished, I'll go to the small kitchen to cook it for him, that little greedy cat!"
His mouth seemed to be scolding, but his eyes couldn't help but curl up. It was another kind of tenderness different from the one he showed toward Lou Yue.
Lou Yue's heart sank.
Who is Jue'er?
He was sure that there was no such person beside Chao Ci, but he always felt that this tone sounded familiar when it came from Chao Ci's mouth.
Lou Yue lowered his head and thought for a while before he found the source of this familiar feeling.
When he forced Chao Ci to drink the bowl of medicine, Chao Ci was begging him, saying "Jue'er is not dead yet."
At that time, he thought that maybe this was the name Chao Ci gave himself to his child.
But why is it that Chao Ci now says that their child is three years old? He is obviously already...
Even if not, Chao Ci's words at this time are very wrong.
"Why haven't you said anything today? You're so stupid." Chao Ci pinched Lou Yue's face.
"I'm a little worried about political affairs." Lou Yue could only find a random reason.
Although Chao Ci felt that Lou Yue was a little dull today, he didn't think much about it after hearing the explanation.
After lunch, Chao Ci went to the kitchen to make hazelnut cakes for "Jue'er" as he said before.
In any case, Chao Ci fell into a coma for nearly ten days before he left. Lou Yue was worried about him staying alone in the kitchen, so he followed him in.
Lou Yue was the first emperor to enter the kitchen to cook.
But Chao Ci wasn't too surprised. This didn't seem to be a surprise to him.
The two of them worked for a long time before finishing the hazelnut cake. Chao Ci disliked Lou Yue's clumsiness, and Lou Yue was quite helpless. After all, this was his first time in the kitchen.
The finished hazelnut cake was still steaming a little, so Chao Ci said he would deliver it to Jue'er while it was still hot.
Lou Yue's heart suddenly tightened.
Where is the jue'er? The tablet in Linhua Palace is enshrined in the main hall!
He could only leave the kitchen before Chao Ci left the kitchen, and ordered the secret guard to put away the tablet and other things related to the child.
"When you were still awake this morning, Jue'er was making a fuss about missing grandpa, so I sent someone to send him to the Prime Minister's house." Lou Yue could only bite the bullet and explain.
In fact, his explanation is completely gambling. Because first of all, he was not sure whether "Jue'er" was so dependent on the Prime Minister in Chao Ci's heart that he would suddenly cry and miss him. Secondly, even if the prince misses his grandfather again, he can only invite people into the palace. There is no rule for letting the three-year-old prince leave the palace and go to another palace. But since Chao Ci didn't show any surprise when he dressed him or went into the kitchen with him, he could only hope that this was normal in Chao Ci's eyes.
"That's it." Chao Ci turned around and glared at Lou Yue with an angry look, "Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Seeing that there was no surprise in Chao Ci, Lou Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "It's the same thing if someone sends hazelnut cakes to the Chao Mansion now."
"Okay." Chao Ci nodded.
He played a few more games of chess with Lou Yue in the courtyard. When the sky showed signs of getting dark, he held his forehead and asked strangely: "I obviously didn't sleep until three o'clock in the morning today, why did I feel sleepy so soon?"
Of course Lou Yue knew why he was sleepy.
Although the medicine can wake people up, it can only last for four hours at most.
His chest was clogged and he felt terribly uncomfortable.
However, he still managed not to see any strange expression on his face, and said: "It's normal to feel sleepy occasionally. I'll go in with you and rest."
"Yes." Chao Ci nodded, and then ordered, "It's time to let Jue'er come back. This kid is a little too fond of his bed. If he sleeps at my dad's place, he might cause trouble again in the middle of the night."
Lou Yue responded.
The two walked into the bedroom, Chao Ci lay down on the bed, and fell asleep quickly.
After Lou Yue waited for him to wake up, he got up from the bed, sat up and looked at Chao Ci.
The feeling of powerlessness hit him from all directions like a tide. There was no escape or avoidance, and it was so overwhelming that he couldn't breathe.
At this time, the sky had completely darkened. There were lights in the palace, and everything was dim.
Lou Yue's fingertips were trembling unnaturally.
...
He thought he would stay up all night because the panic and fear in his heart almost overwhelmed him.
But the strange thing is that he fell asleep on the bed not long after.
He had another dream.