late at night.

The butler kept knocking on the door outside the room, "Sir, Sir."

Wu Qing was pushed to death by his concubine, "Sir, the housekeeper is calling you." Wu Qing shook his head and felt a headache. It was already April, but the weather was still warm and cold. He stayed in the study until midnight last night, but now he feels a headache when he wakes up.

"What's wrong?" he shouted in a buzzing voice.

"Sir, someone from the palace said that it was Your Majesty who promised you to meet immediately."

Wu Qi was suddenly shocked and quickly sat up. The quilt slid down and the cold wind blew. He couldn't help but sneeze. He didn't care about wearing his clothes, so he ran barefoot to open the door. The concubine behind him quickly covered his body with the quilt.

"When is it now?"

"Three minutes late at night!"

At this time, the palace came to summon, and what important thing happened? The emperor couldn't wait for dawn? "Where are people coming from the palace?"

“Hand in the living room.”

"Let him wait for me and I'll put on my clothes." Wu Yan shook his heavy head, returned to the room, and said to the concubine, "Garment me quickly."

The concubine got up reluctantly, changed into an official robe for him, combed his hair, put on his socks, and hurriedly put on his boots. He pulled a cloak and put it on and left the door.

In the living room, an eunuch had been waiting for a long time.

When Wu Yan saw this, he was shocked. The person who came was Wang Chengen, the first eunuch in the palace.

"Eunuch Wang, why are you here?"

"I don't have time to say more. The Prime Minister quickly followed me into the palace. Let's talk about it on the detailed road."

The streets of Beijing at midnight were silent, dark and dim, and there was not even a trace of moonlight. There were lanterns hanging on the carriage, and the coachman drove the carriage very urgently.

"Eunuch Wang, what happened?"

On the streets of the inner city, the patrol officers of the Five City Military Command were passing by with lanterns. Their carriage was stopped. The coachman showed the signs in the palace. After checking, the patrol officer made the registration, but he still opened the curtain of the carriage and took the lantern and illuminated the two of them.

"Please show your ID card!"

After the adjustment of the Five Cities Military Affairs Office, the public security management in the capital was stricter. All household registrations in the capital were census, all people were issued household registration books, and every person over 16 years old even had an identity card.

Each person's identity card is similar to the soldiers' waist card, and it records its name, gender, age, appearance, and home address.

When you go out, you are required to bring your ID card to your house in case of checking at any time.

Especially in the middle of the night like this, the patrolman must check when he encounters pedestrians.

Wang Chengen took out his palace waist card, "I am Wang Chengen, this is the chief assistant Mr. Wu. Our family is ordered to invite the chief assistant to come to the palace to face the saint."

Although he had reported his name, the patrol captain still carefully checked the two men's waist cards before releasing them.

Along the way, their carriage was stopped by six patrols in a row to inspect.

It was finally difficult for the carriage to enter the palace.

The Forbidden City is guarded by the palace guards of the guards, and there are also guards who follow the guards.

As soon as he entered the Forbidden City, Wu Yan discovered that tonight was unusual. Under normal circumstances, the palace gates would be locked after dark, and inside and outside were forbidden. But now, the emperor announced that he entered the palace in the middle of the night, and the palace was brightly lit and there were teams of guards everywhere.

Something must have happened, and a chill hit my heart.

On the way just now, Wang Chengen didn't say much to him, but said that His Majesty had returned from hunting in the West Mountain. Now there is an urgent matter to announce his visit.

"Empress, Mr. Wu is here." Wang Chengen shouted.

A voice came from the Ganqing Hall, "Please come in."

Wu Yan heard that this was not the emperor's voice, but the Queen Mother Zhou's voice. He couldn't help but wonder why the emperor announced that he had entered the palace in the middle of the night, but now it was the Queen Mother here.

When he entered the hall, Wu Yan found that there were already many people in the hall.

Empress Dowager Zhou, Empress Dowager Zhang, and two other princes, and many eunuchs were there, as well as several generals of the guards.

Wu Qi's eyes turned around and found out where the emperor was.

The young emperor was lying on the dragon bed, with several imperial doctors standing beside him. Empress Dowager Zhou sat beside the bed, holding one of the emperor's hands.

The emperor's face was pale, especially his eyes were tightly closed, his legs were stretched outside the quilt, and he was wearing boots. Wu Yan carefully saw that there was still soil on the soles of the boots, and even a dark red color.

There were several basins beside the bed, some of which were filled with hot water, and one was thrown into a military uniform.

The military uniform was covered with dark red stains and a smell of blood.

"Empress Dowager." Wu Qing was a little confused about the situation. What was going on.

After getting closer, Wu Yan discovered that the young Empress Dowager Zhou had just cried, his eyes were red and swollen, and he was especially tear-stained at this time.

"Your Majesty is this?"

"Your Majesty exploded when he controlled the cannon." Doctor Wang from the Imperial Hospital had already left office and enjoyed his old age at home, but was still urgently invited tonight. He was wearing a pair of white gloves and covered with blood.

"Didn't Your Majesty go to the West to hunt? How could he control artillery?"

"Actually, His Majesty took the Dragoon Company to the West Mountain to practice combat. Later, he practiced the coordinated combat of infantry, cavalry and artillery. His Majesty wanted to personally control a mountain grenade. I don't know which step was wrong. The shell exploded and His Majesty was injured." A guard officer lowered his head and said.

"What are you doing? Your Majesty's personal guards, you should protect Your Majesty, but what did you do?" Wu Qing shouted angrily. "Why no one stops Your Majesty, why no one advises Your Majesty?"

The guards all lowered their heads. At that time, the emperor suddenly wanted to manipulate the mountain prunes himself. They all persuaded them, but with the emperor's power, he ordered them to retreat, so what could they do?

But no one expected that the cannon, which had always been reliable, would have exploded. In fact, it was not the first time that the emperor had manipulated mountain grenades. Even the more complicated Emperor Changcanon had successfully manipulated it many times. The emperor even rode horses and shot many times, and threw thunder in the palm of his hand.

The emperor had done more dangerous things, but nothing happened once. As a result, this time, something happened to be in trouble.

Wu Qing had no time to hold these guards responsible at this time, so he turned to look at Doctor Wang.

“How is the situation?”

Doctor Wang and Wu Di walked aside and said softly, "The situation is not very good."

Although Doctor Wang has rich experience and many of the Doctors in the Imperial Hospital are his disciples, the emperor was too seriously injured. It was a shrapnel bullet. After the blow-off, several iron beads were penetrated into the emperor's body. Several of them were directly penetrated into the chest.

Doctor Wang took his best disciple to operate for a long time, took out all the iron bullets, and finally sewed the wounds.

However, the emperor lost too much blood and also injured his internal organs.

Until now, the emperor has been in a coma and has not yet woken up. With the experience of the Emperor Wang, it is unlikely that the emperor will wake up, and the chance of waking up is less than one thousandth. Moreover, the emperor not only has his chest injured, but his legs are also injured. Even if he can barely wake up, the emperor will definitely not be able to save his legs.

Wu Yan woke up when he heard that the possibility of one in a thousand was shocked. The emperor was only thirteen, and it took only half a year to succeed the throne.

He walked back to the dragon bed, looked at the unconscious emperor, sighing in his heart, he was really ignorant and fearless, but ended up like this.

The Empress Dowager held the emperor's hand and kept crying softly.

"Empress Dowager." Wu Yan called out.

"Your Majesty will definitely wake up. It will definitely get better." Empress Dowager Zhou said with a soft cry, unwilling to let go of the emperor's hand.

Wu Qi walked aside and found Wang Chengen.

"Have you sent someone to notify the prince?" Wu Xuan asked.

"I was about to send someone to Prince Xuan of Tongzhou to return to Beijing." Wang Chengen replied.

Wu Qi thought about it, "Old Master, the prince is now in charge of the overall situation of the imperial capitulation in Tongzhou. If the prince is recalled in a hurry at this time, I am afraid that the morale of the front line will be unstable. I think it is better not to notify the prince for the time being. Let us wait for His Majesty to wake up before making a decision. How about it?"

"I'm afraid this is not good, right?" Wang Chengen hesitated.

Wu Qing glared. "I'm not discussing with you that the prince is out of the capital. Now there is only one of the ministers in the capital who is a life-respecting minister. Now Your Majesty is unconscious. My words are the words of the emperor."

"Yes, our family understands." Wang Chengen nodded.

"Next, I'll ask all the cabinet masters and the six ministries and nine ministers to come to the palace to see the emperor."

As he was talking, the empress dowager over there exclaimed, "Your Majesty is awake. Your Majesty is awake. Doctor Wang, look, Your Majesty is awake."

Doctor Wang hurried over and reached out to take the lower pulse in the emperor's hand.

"Doctor Wang, how about it?"

"Empress, Your Majesty is looking back. If you have anything to explain, please ask me when your Majesty wakes up later." Old Doctor Wang was very straightforward. At this time, it would be useless if you hide it any longer.

After a while, the emperor really opened his eyes.

"Your Majesty." The Queen Mother cried.

Zhu Cilang blinked for a long time before he recovered his mind.

"Mother Queen."

"Your Majesty, why do you want to do such a dangerous thing? You are leaving, how can you live alone if you leave your mother?"

Zhu Cixuan coughed a few times, "Where is the imperial doctor, how is my health?"

The old imperial doctor Wang came over and said, "Your Majesty, you have injured your internal organs very seriously. Please forgive me for the poor medical skills and the inability to rejuvenate my youth."

"Are I going to die?" Zhu Cilan murmured.

He was stunned and sighed.

"Wang Cheng'en!"

"I'm here!"

"First Guard!"
To be continued...