Chapter 1,298: Past Royal Grievances

Concubine Lan anxiously guarded the emperor's chamber, and knelt down in front of the dragon couch. She looked at the pale emperor, and her fingers on the bed trembled slightly.

There was a voice at the door, and then the voice of greetings. Chu Liuchen strode in. Seeing him coming in, Concubine Lan looked better and stood up suddenly, "You... look, Your Majesty." ...The emperor suddenly fainted after consuming the soup I made."

There is also a covered bowl on the table on one side. This should not be the soup that Concubine Lan mentioned.

In the palace, Ningshen's sandalwood was burning. Chu Liuchen came out of the meditation room hosted by Huaguang Temple. The same sandalwood seemed to be slightly different.

"Has the imperial doctor been declared?" Chu Liuchen asked, looking around.

"Not yet... not yet..." Concubine Lan's eyes turned red, "The emperor just drank the soup and fainted. I... I'm afraid something will happen..."

"Since the imperial concubine is afraid of something happening, why don't you go to the imperial doctor?" Chu Liuchen said sternly, nodding and calling Xiao Xuanzi to tell people outside to ask for the imperial doctor.

The imperial doctor was in the side hall. He came over quickly. When he came in, he saw the emperor fainted on the bed, making no sound, and his legs and feet were trembling with fear.

"Why don't you go and see how your uncle is doing?" Chu Liuchen had already felt the emperor's breath, but when he saw that the imperial doctor did not dare to step forward, he said coldly.

The imperial doctor did not dare to hesitate and hurriedly stepped forward. He only breathed a sigh of relief when he stretched out his hand to hold the emperor's pulse. At that moment, he thought the emperor had died.

"His Royal Highness King Chen, the emperor seems to have taken some bad things that conflict with each other." The imperial doctor raised his head and looked at Chu Liuchen who had a cold expression on his face.

"What do you mean by something bad or conflicting? How is your uncle's health?" Shao Wanru said calmly. Concubine Lan didn't dare to cry anymore and looked at the imperial doctor with wide eyes.

"Your Highness, King Chen, don't worry. I'll give you a prescription first. Take it immediately. It will have immediate effects. Fortunately, the dosage is not large, otherwise..." The imperial doctor shook his head, also very scared.

Chu Liuchen asked the imperial doctor to prescribe the prescription. There was medicine in the side hall. He gave the prescription to Derong who hurried in and asked him to boil the medicine.

"Why did Concubine Lan send soup and medicine to the emperor today?" Chu Liuchen looked at Concubine Lan with a cold look in his eyes.

"I...I have been making soup for the emperor every day these days." Concubine Lan's expression calmed down and she thought for a while.

"Send it every day? At this time?" Chu Liuchen raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, they are delivered every day. I stewed the soup myself. It is in my own palace and stewed by myself. There is no way that anyone could drug me in the process." Concubine Lan thought about it again and said with certainty. .

"Where do the ingredients come from?" Chu Liuchen was silent for a moment and continued to ask.

"The ingredients were sent from the Royal Kitchen. I specially asked someone to pick them out. After selecting them, the Royal Kitchen will send a young eunuch to deliver them to me." Concubine Lan frowned and said.

Chu Liuchen was silent for a moment, and then said to Xiao Xuanzi who was following him: "Go and check the little eunuch who delivers the ingredients in the imperial study room!"

Xiao Xuanzi retreated in response and went outside to order someone to check.

"Did... someone put something into my soup on purpose?" Concubine Lan said in a trembling voice, "I... have been very careful."

"I don't know where the imperial concubine's caution comes from? Or where can I tell how cautious the imperial concubine is? This is the case now, and it was the same before." Chu Liuchen mocked

She curled her lips and said, "When it comes to food, the imperial concubine has been careless for decades."

"No...it's not..." Concubine Lan's lips trembled a few times, her face immediately turned pale, she raised a pair of beautiful red-rimmed eyes and looked at Chu Liuchen: "Chen'er, I know you hate me, but back then I really accidentally fell into their scheme and drank something poisonous to the fetus..."

"Okay, stop talking!" Chu Liuchen interrupted Lan Guifei's words coldly, stretched out his hand to rub her forehead: "We are still discussing the uncle's matter now. If you are not careful, you will harm others!"

"I...I'm not, Chen'er, I was really careless at that time..." Concubine Lan's tears were about to fall.

"You...don't blame her, it's my incompetence...that I didn't protect you two..." A weak voice came from the bed. The two of them turned around and saw that the emperor had woken up and stretched out his hands as if to prop him up.

Concubine Lan hurriedly stepped forward to help him, lifted him up and placed a pillow behind him.

"Chen'er, don't blame your mother. This matter... I didn't protect you... Originally, your mother wanted to marry me, but she didn't expect that the emperor's brother would fight for her love... Later - after entering the palace, to Your mother didn't cherish you either. Later... after your mother became pregnant with you, she was plotted again. It was also my... fault! As a result, you almost died when you were born. I just said that you were not born well enough to raise you..."

The emperor's voice fell intermittently in Chu Liuchen's ears. Chu Liuchen lowered his head, his eyes fell on the ground, and remained silent for a long time, listening to the emperor clearly explain what happened between the two of them.

Concubine Lan was the late empress and Chu Liuchen’s biological mother. Chu Liuchen had known about this for a long time. After finding out more about this matter, he had been very resistant to Concubine Lan and even deeply hated himself for being Concubine Lan. The son, as a former empress, was willing to be humble, and for this he gave up on himself.

That past was something he refused to accept, and it was also a past he didn't want to talk about to anyone...

"Since your uncle is fine, I will go back first!" After the emperor continued to talk about the past, Chu Liuchen said goodbye to the emperor calmly.

"Chen'er..." Concubine Lan had already burst into tears and looked at Chu Liuchen with tears in her eyes.

"You go back first!" The emperor was still calm. Although his eyes were full of tears when he looked at Chu Liuchen, he still waved his hand and allowed him to leave.

Chu Liuchen turned around and strode towards Weixing, and Xiao Xuanzi hurriedly followed.

Seeing the master and servant leaving in a hurry, Concubine Lan cried and fell beside the emperor.

"Okay, don't cry. Chen'er is a good person. Even if you don't understand it for a while, you will understand it eventually. When you panicked and went to find him, didn't he come over right away!" The emperor comforted Lan in a low voice. The imperial concubine said.

"Your Majesty, the medicine is ready!" Derong whispered outside. In fact, the medicine had already been cooked. When the family was talking inside, Derong stepped aside carefully. The imperial doctor said, the emperor's body It's nothing serious, it's just that the medicinal properties conflicted, and I was injured for a while before I fainted.

"Bring it in!" The emperor nodded.

Derong brought the medicine in and waited for the emperor to finish the medicine.

"Go check on Concubine Lan's soup." The emperor calmly ordered.

"Yes, I will do it now!" Derong said respectfully, then took the medicine bowl and retreated.

"Are you...are you okay?" Concubine Lan looked at the emperor in panic.

"I'm fine!" The emperor sighed, pulled Concubine Lan to sit in front of the bed, and looked at her beautiful but slightly wrinkled eyes, "I am the one who hurt you!"

"Your Majesty, no, we...we can't help it..." Concubine Lan began to cry again, "But Chen'er...Chen'er is right...I have seen him struggling on the verge of death for so many years. I...concubine...are so distressed that I would rather die...but I can't die...I still have to protect him..."

The emperor took Concubine Lan's handkerchief from her hands, gently wiped the corners of her eyes, and comforted her softly: "Chen'er is fine now. There is nothing wrong with her health. He married a princess he likes. He is not as extreme as before, and it will only get better in the future, and he will understand us."

His hand fell, holding Concubine Lan's hand, and a flash of memory flashed in the emperor's eyes.

In fact, it was he who was originally going to marry Concubine Lan, not the late emperor. By some mistake, Concubine Lan entered the palace and became the former empress's wife. After entering the palace, the late emperor also found out that she had an affair with his younger brother. Such a relationship made her angry, so the position of Concubine Lan became vacant and she was left in the cold.

Seeing that the late queen was being neglected, the other concubines jumped out and tried to step on her.

Although Concubine Lan was the queen in the former palace, her life was not easy. One day when the emperor entered the palace, he came across the former queen crying in a secluded place. He wanted to avoid it, but he couldn't bear it, so he came out to comfort her. I did something wrong in my emotion at that time, and my heart was in trouble.

Then the Queen was poisoned during her pregnancy, and the child almost died. She finally gave birth to the child, but she almost didn't even save the child's life. It was not a congenital defect, but a poison, which caused the child to die in the mother's body. The poison that was administered affected the baby...

Later, when the late emperor was tracking down the remnants of the previous dynasty, he met the Queen Dowager of Qing County and brought her into the palace. As soon as she entered the palace, she stepped on the former queen's face, and was in the limelight for a while. If the late emperor hadn't been physically unable to survive, I'm afraid that this person may have stepped on Concubine Lan to take the position...

"Your Majesty, will Chen'er forgive me?" Concubine Lan continued to cry.

"Yes, he will understand!" The emperor sighed again and held Concubine Lan tightly. "Our son has grown up, and it is time for him to shoulder the burden after so many years. This country was originally his. .”

"Your Majesty... but he..." Concubine Lan looked up in confusion.

"It's good that he has grown up." The emperor shook his head and stopped Concubine Lan's words. There was a softness in his eyes, which was completely different from his previous toughness. "I have done enough for this throne. Recently, I have done enough." I have been thinking that the people I am most sorry for are you and Chen'er. If I don't compensate you, I will not feel at ease even if I am under Jiuquan."

"Your Majesty..." Concubine Lan's tears welled up again.

"If I get better this time, I will take you out of here and take you outside for a walk and look around. This is what I owe you back then. I have wronged you mother and son for so many years!" The emperor looked at Concubine Lan affectionately. , as if looking at the smiling girl under the peach blossom tree, she did not ask for his wealth, nor did she want to enter the palace as his queen, she just wanted to stay with him forever.

And he failed her in the end.

Concubine Lan's tears fell one after another, and she clenched the handkerchief tightly, as if she was clinging to an unbreakable dream. In the dream, there was a rainbow, including herself, him, and their children...