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Her Majesty felt dizzy and staggered twice.

Nanny Qiu supported her steadily, "Esteemed Empress Dowager, you must persevere on."

Empress Dowager took deep breaths and weakly waved her hand.

"Someone, come!"

Hearing this, the head of the imperial guards appeared before the empress dowager. "What orders does Esteemed Empress Dowager have?"

The empress dowager whispered a few words into the head of the imperial guards, and very quickly, someone galloped towards the border gates.

Xiao Hanqi immediately entered the palace, wishing that the Old Emperor would immediately fall into a coma.

The empress dowager stared coldly at him before slapping the table. "Crown Prince, you really make This Dowager look sideways!"

Xiao Hanqi was completely fearless against the empress dowager's furious berating. He coldly slandered her as he raised his eyebrows and said, "Royal Grandmother, how did this grandson know that Royal Father's dragon body is so bad?"

The empress dowager didn't even blink an eye as she locked onto Xiao Hanqi's eyes that were brimming with excitement and secret delight, as she let out a heavy snort.

At this moment, sounds of footsteps came from outside.

Everyone turned to look, only to see the empress rushing in with a worried expression. "Imperial Mother, how is the emperor?"

Her Majesty did not answer.

This mother and son pair had completely disappointed her!

Seeing the empress dowager not saying a word, Xiao Hanqi and the empress looked at each other, and the empress immediately guessed everything through the light in his eyes.

She bit her lips tightly and slapped Xiao Hanqi.

Just now, Xiao Hanqi had suffered a blow from Old Emperor, and before the five finger marks on his face could completely disappear, he was slapped by the Queen once again. Not only was his face swollen, there was even blood flowing out of the corner of his mouth.

"Mother, why did you beat me up too?" Xiao Hanqi covered his burning cheeks and glared.

"You must have rebelled against the emperor, didn't you?"

Xiao Hanqi remained silent.

The empress pointed outside. "Scram, don't appear in front of the emperor again!"

Xiao Hanqi's eyes flashed with hostility, his mother's acting skills had truly caught his attention!

He glared at the empress in frustration and didn't move for a long time.

The empress's face fell. "Get out!"

Since the empress had already scolded Xiao Hanqi in such a manner, the empress dowager naturally could not continue adding oil to the fire. She only closed her eyes and did not speak.

Xiao Hanqi breathed heavily and left in big strides.

Waiting until Xiao Hanqi left, the Queen anxiously asked about the situation of the Old Emperor.

As usual, the sentence was to rest well and not get angry. The empress looked at the empress dowager and knelt down with a thud.

The empress dowager was surprised by her actions. "Empress, what are you doing?"

The empress hastened to say, "Imperial Mother, it's all because of chenqie's lack of teaching!"

"Alright, why are you still talking about this now?" Her Majesty looked miserable.

The empress hastened to say, "Imperial Mother, chenqie will stay here to keep watch. You can go back and rest first."

The Old Emperor hadn't woken up yet, so the empress dowager naturally couldn't leave peacefully.

Just as he was hesitating, he heard a coughing sound. Old Emperor slowly opened his eyes.

The empress dowager was hurriedly supported by the Nanny Qiu to the bed. The Old Emperor said in a hoarse voice, "Muhou, I've made you worry."

"Your majesty, don't think of anything. Rest well."

The empress's eyes were also red as she said, "Your majesty, please don't lower yourself to the level of the crown prince. Chenqie will definitely teach him a lesson!"

"Enough, the emperor has just woken up. Don't say such useless things!" The empress dowager didn't hide her disgust.

In front of so many people, the empress found it hard to keep an eye on him.

"Muhou …"

"All of you, leave."

The empress didn't move. When the empress dowager raised her eyes to look at her, she could only bow and leave, unwilling to do so.

"Your Majesty, This Dowager has already sent Ah Qian back to the capital."

Old Emperor obviously didn't agree, but since the empress dowager had already decided, he didn't say anything else.

The empress had clearly heard the conversation between the two and a look of resentment surfaced in her eyes.

No wonder Xiao Qingqian was suddenly grounded in the Prince Chu’s Mansion, the Emperor had other orders!

She had wholeheartedly treated the Old Emperor, but in the end, what had she exchanged it for?

How could the Crown Prince compare to the children of that woman?

Why?

The more he thought about it, the uglier his expression became.

She took a deep breath and decided to agree to Xiao Hanqi's request.

After a while, the imperial physician came back with the soup. The empress quickly took it and mixed the powder within the armor with it.

Before this, Old Emperor had already consumed the poison that Long Xiaotian had given him several times. Today, this was the last poison that he needed to drink, then he would really fall into a coma.

Just as Old Emperor was about to drink it, the empress's hand under his sleeve clenched into a fist, and his palm was filled with sweat.

The empress dowager personally fed the Old Emperor some medicine, tucked him in, wiped the corners of her mouth, and then left.

The next morning, the eunuch called out to the Old Emperor a few times consecutively, but Old Emperor did not wake up.

The imperial doctors racked their brains but still could not come up with a solution. The pressure in the entire palace was abnormally low.

Hearing the royal doctors' diagnosis, the empress dowager panicked and fainted.

The Empire could not afford to lose a king in a single day, so Xiao Hanqi took the responsibility of taking care of all the affairs on Old Emperor's behalf and reviewing the reports.

He once again thought of the forbidden area and personally came.

However, the guards in the forbidden grounds only recognized Old Emperor, not him.

Not only was Xiao Hanqi not angry after eating the closed door soup, he was even more certain that Tian Sisi was definitely in the forbidden grounds.

When he found the time to go to the Yi Kun Palace, he saw the Queen's worried face and coughed lightly. "Imperial Mother, those who become important matters are not involved in trivial matters, don't tell me you regret it?"

After all, the Empress and Old Emperor were husband and wife. Although Old Emperor had changed in her heart all these years, he still felt sour in her heart when he saw how Old Emperor laid there unconscious.

"I'm not regretting it, it's just that …"

"Mother, your son has already said that the only one who can let mother sit firmly in the back is your son. If royal father truly had you in his heart, why would he treat me like this? "

The empress frowned for a moment, as if this made sense.

"Since I have already done it, I can only walk my own path to the end. You must not let Xiao Qingqian return to the capital! "

"Mother, don't worry, this son will definitely not let Xiao Qingqian return to the capital alive!"

The empress took a deep breath. "No matter what, does it matter if the emperor and I are husband and wife for a hundred days? We should still go and accompany them."

She stood up.

Although Xiao Hanqi disagreed, he did not stop them.

After leaving the Yi Kun Palace, Xiao Hanqi ordered some people to set up a formation.

At the border.

Wei Qing and Chen Yang had been very busy lately. Those military doctors, most of them only knew how to bandage wounds.

These days, Wei Qing was really exhausted, and she only taught military doctors.

"Don't be too anxious. At most, get someone to call for a doctor from nearby." Xiao Qingqian helped to massage Wei Qing's shoulders.