Chang Anqing

Chapter 153 Bearing Heavy Responsibilities
As the carriage drove away from Suzaku Gate, Yu Nu and Nian Nu both sat in it with solemn expressions and remained silent, only hearing the slow sound of the wheels of the two carriages rolling over the floor tiles quickly, but within a moment Suddenly, the neighing sound of a steed came from the front of the car, and then the inner officer who was driving behind said quickly from the outside: "Miss Niannu, we have already arrived outside the imperial city."

Hearing this, Nian Nu quickly opened the curtain of the car, and through the window, she saw that the carriage had left the imperial city and arrived on the market road outside the city. When she saw Yu Nu from the next car, she would also open Driving the curtain, the two of them nodded understandingly, and although they didn't say much, they already exchanged thousands of words.

"Go to the Tai Medical Office to check the house!"

When Nian Nu let go of her hand, the curtain of the car fell down immediately, blocking the sight of the two of them, and the next moment, her calm order sounded in the car.Hearing the words, the internal officer in front of the car immediately drove his horse towards the imperial medical office to be on duty, and the chariot and horse that Yu Nu was in had also parted ways at this moment, heading towards the Taiwei's mansion.

Noticing that the carriage was galloping again, Niannu realized that she had unconsciously clenched her hands, and at some point a thin layer of sweat was forming on her back. Both she and Yu Nu knew that today they were shouldering the responsibility of their own family. The long-term planning of the princess is the life of the emperor's heir, and it also bears the hope of Queen Yang.Every link today must be sewed together like a mortise and tenon, otherwise if something goes wrong, the Princess and Empress Yang will inevitably fall into a passive situation.What followed was an unimaginable uproar, even if it stirred up the entire Chang'an.

"Ma'am, we're here."

As soon as he heard the reminder from the internal officer outside the car, Nian Nu immediately came back to his senses. Almost at the same time as the carriage and horses stopped, the internal officer outside the car got out of the car and before he had time to lift the curtain, he saw Nian Nu sitting in it. The slave couldn't wait to get off the carriage, and the next moment he almost rushed towards the Imperial Medical Office with his skirt in his hands.

Due to the large number of concubines in Ye Ting and the strict rules and regulations, the Imperial Medical Office is located outside the imperial city, except for the Shang Yao Bureau, which only serves the emperor and empress, which is located in the southwest corner of the imperial city and is served by female officials in the palace.

This time it is because Empress Yang has been losing appetite since she was pregnant with the dragon fetus, and the pregnancy is more difficult than others. In comparison, the imperial doctor order of the Imperial Medical Bureau is better than the female officer of the Shang Yao Bureau in this gynecological daughter, so here At the time of childbirth, Emperor Yuan Cheng also asked the imperial physician to order Sun Zhong to take turns on duty with other imperial physicians outside the on-duty room outside the imperial medical office every day, thinking that the queen would keep her baby.

When Nian Nu saw that he had arrived outside the duty room, he didn't care about his usual demeanor at this moment, and rushed in three steps at a time. After entering the room where Sun Zhong, the imperial physician, opened the curtain, The warmth of the dragon mingled with the fragrance of the medicine came over in an instant, and after walking around a bookshelf full of medical books, Niannu finally saw Sun Zhong, who was looking at, with white beard and hair, hunched over his waist and hands behind his back, with an expression on his face It was unconcealable eagerness and waiting, and there was a man dressed as a medical worker standing beside him. Hearing her footsteps at this moment, the two turned their heads to look at it. Only then did Niannu see that the person standing beside Sun Zhong was not someone else. , it was Li Wei in disguise.

"The Imperial Physician ordered that Her Highness the Empress is about to give birth, and Wei Jieyu and the Princess are urgently calling you into the palace—"

Seeing Niannu hurriedly saluting and talking, Sun Zhong finally had a gleam of light in his tense eyes, and turned to look at the empty room, but he still didn't say anything, he only looked to his side with a gesture Li Wei was shocked and said: "Quick, quickly bring the medicine box."

After finishing speaking, Li Wei hurriedly lowered his head to fetch the medicine box from the side, followed Sun Zhong and Nian Nu's hurried footsteps and walked quickly to the outside of the Imperial Medical Office. When he came to the waiting carriage, Nian Nu immediately crossed his hands and saluted: "It happened in a hurry, I can only wrong the imperial physician's order."

"It's okay, His Highness and the emperor's heir are important."

Sun Zhong hurriedly waved his hands when he heard the words, and Li Wei, who was dressed in ordinary medical attire, helped him into the car. When Sun Zhong sat down firmly, Nian Nu also walked in under the service of the inner officer. He lifted the curtain and said to Li Wei who was outside the car: "If you can't get into the court, go back and wait."

After the words were finished, Li Wei outside the carriage bowed his head respectfully, and waited until the carriage was far away. Then Li Wei raised his head calmly, looked around secretly, and then quickly walked in another direction.

The carriage was speeding back towards the imperial city. Neither Nian Nu nor Sun Zhong said a word. The inside of the carriage seemed extremely silent at the moment. Nodding his head, his eyes were full of unconcealable nervousness and uneasiness about the unknown road ahead.

When Sun Zhong carefully opened a gap in the medicine box, Nian Nu, who was sitting opposite, suddenly saw a newborn baby lying quietly in the light from that gap. Almost at the same time, Nian Nu's pupils With a slight movement and a stagnation of breathing, he could not help but silently clenched his hands, and silently glanced outside the car curtain. Sun Zhong knew what he meant, his deeply wrinkled eyelids drooped again, covering the panic in his eyes, and his expression was indescribable. Closed, but the hands still couldn't help trembling slightly.

However, at this moment, he noticed that Nian Nu, who was sitting across from him, suddenly lifted the mattress next to him gently. When he raised his hand again, he was surprised to see that there was an ingenious partition under the mattress. plate.

At this moment Rao was at a loss as if Sun Zhong had already understood everything.

Nian Nu looked at the front of the car with the door tightly closed and the thick curtains hanging down, and then quickly and cautiously took out an identical medicine box from it and handed it to Sun Zhong, and then handed the one that Li Wei sent to him. The medicine box was placed extremely carefully into the hollow partition under the mattress, and then the mattress was carefully covered, and it seemed that nothing had changed.

Before it was half a cup of tea, the carriage returned to Suzaku Gate again. When the guards at the city gate saw the familiar carriage, although the governor was in a hurry, they had to stop the carriage as usual. Glancing at Sun Zhong in front of her, she was an old man who had served three generations of emperors after all. No matter how nervous she was, at this moment, in her opinion, there was no sign of inappropriateness on her face, only the visible eagerness to be called.

When the car door was opened again, Nian Nu couldn't help straightening her back even more. When she opened the curtain calmly, she saw the guard standing outside the curtain immediately lowered her eyes and hugged her fist.

Under the nod of Nian Nu, the guard in front of him raised his head and looked around the carriage. When his eyes fell on the medicine box in Sun Zhong's hand, he finally asked Sun Zhong a routine question.

"Please also ask the imperial physician to open this box and let me check it."

Hearing this, Nian Nu's heart almost rose to his throat, and Sun Zhong's mouth in front of him had already dried up, like a dangerous ship that had been stranded in the shallows, no one knew at this moment that his hands covered in his sleeves were covered in cold sweat One piece, slightly numb,

But he knew that if he was found out to be abnormal at this moment, the consequences would not be borne by him alone.

So in the silence, Sun Zhong glanced calmly at the man in red cloth and brocade armor in front of the car, and when he met his consulting gaze, he nodded, and took the medicine box and handed it to the two of them as required.

Seeing this, the guard quickly took them and carefully opened them layer by layer. When he saw that there were silver needles, pulse pillows and other usual items inside, he knew he had to act urgently and didn't dare to delay any longer. He quickly closed them one by one and handed them back respectfully. , then clasped his fists and yelled "Let go!", and quickly stepped back to make way for a path.

"drive--"

The sound of the inner officer driving the car sounded again, and at the moment when the soft curtain fell, Niannu's tense nerves finally relaxed slightly, as if she had come to life, and she could also deeply feel the pain in the back of her back. She was soaked in sweat, and even though she was in the car with the heater on, she could clearly feel the sweat cooling little by little, and she couldn't help shivering slightly due to the cold.

(End of this chapter)