After time travel, my best friend and I exchanged supplies and became a rich woman

When Ji Chongning walked into the small courtyard surrounded by guards, he saw Prince Kang and the Princess pacing anxiously in the courtyard.

The Empress Dowager held a string of prayer beads, closed her eyes lightly, and nodded, not knowing what she was thinking about.

The imperial physician brought from the capital and several doctors from Prince Kang's mansion stood under the eaves of the main house, whispering.

Next to them, eunuchs and palace maids had set up three clay stoves and were boiling medicine.

Ji Chongning slowed down his pace, walked to the side of the Grand Empress Dowager, and asked in a low voice, "Grandmother, Grandfather...how is it?"

The Empress Dowager did not respond.

So Ji Chongning asked again: "Grandmother, are you okay?"

The Empress Dowager still did not move.

At this time, Prince Kang and Princess Kang also noticed the movement here.

The two of them hurried over.

Prince Kang looked at Ji Chongning, and then at the Empress Dowager who had her head lowered and her eyes closed.

Then he called out again tentatively: "Grandmother...Grandmother...what's wrong with you?!"

There was an almost inaudible tremor in King Kang's voice.

Princess Kang, who was half-crouching on the side, was instantly filled with fear and shock.

She thought about how they had been traveling all night, and the carriage was shaking so hard on the road that it seemed to be going up to heaven.

She almost vomited her internal organs along the way.

The Empress Dowager...how old is she?!

No matter how old he is, he must be in his eighties or nineties.

A normal old lady of this age, let alone being shaken all the way, even if no one was shaking her, might just close her eyes and fall asleep one day and die.

Moreover, now that the emperor's life or death is uncertain, the old lady will be terrified, exhausted physically and mentally, and then... die, right? !

Princess Kang became more and more frightened the more she thought about it, and she hugged Prince Kang's arm tightly.

She wanted to reach out and feel the old lady's breath, but she was a little hesitant to do so.

The old palace maid, Min Shang Gong, who had been serving at the side, also noticed the abnormality of the Empress Dowager. She turned around and asked someone to call the imperial physician over.

“Oh~~~~”

Suddenly, a sound of gasping for breath startled everyone surrounding the Empress Dowager.

Then an old voice sounded slowly, "Why are you all surrounding me? I just took a nap, not dead."

........

scare someone to death.

Princess Kang exhaled slowly, and then said softly, "Grandmother, I have already ordered people to clean up the main courtyard. You must be exhausted from the long journey, why don't you go and rest first?"

"No need," the old lady began to turn the Buddhist beads in her hand, "I have to protect the emperor."

When the Empress Dowager saw Ji Chongning standing nearby, she glanced at him and asked, "Why did you come back? Did you want to see if the emperor was dead or not?"

.........

"Go, go, go, everyone, get out!" Prince Kang began to drive people away. "The Empress Dowager has something to say to Master Wen. Except for the imperial physician, everyone else, please get out and wait!"

After saying that, he quickly pulled Princess Kang and the Fourth Young Master and walked out of the courtyard quickly.

What bad luck, King Kang thought.

I think he never wants to stand out in order to protect himself.

He was even more reluctant to build up too many connections in the court.

One of the principles that the Kangwang Palace has always adhered to is to be a palace that has no sense of existence, is mediocre, and is not easily remembered.

But now, the emperor and his coffin appeared inexplicably in Prince Kang's mansion...

Oh my God, Prince Kang’s mind is so confused right now.

He wanted to be alone.

Min Shang Gong, who had been serving the Queen Dowager, also cleverly called away the palace maids and eunuchs.

Seeing that everyone had left, Ji Chongning sat down next to the Grand Empress Dowager, and then sighed softly: "Grandmother, why are you talking so... boldly now? Look, you scared the emperor's uncle away."

"Haha," the old lady said with a wry smile, "It's already this late, why are you still bothering about those stupid etiquettes?

Life is nothing but birth and death. We are all fighting for the throne, so why should we be afraid of those things?"

"........ Old lady, what you said is......" Ji Chongning pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "It is true."

"Tell me, what are you going to do next?" The Empress Dowager looked at Ji Chongning.

Her eyes were cloudy, but there was a sly gleam in them.

Ji Chongning was shocked. "Ah! What do you mean what should I do? Great Grandmother, when you asked someone to give the emperor the medicine, didn't you think about what to do?!"

“.......How could I have known that your medicinal wine was so ineffective?” The Grand Empress Dowager retracted her gaze, patted her clothes twice and said: “But it may be that the concubine is old and the emperor doesn’t like her so much, so she is in a half-dead state.

If it were any other young concubine, the spring wine combined with the golden elixir that Prince Ning usually offered to him would probably make him feel very happy in no time. "

"Old lady!" Ji Chongning lowered his voice and gritted his teeth and said, "I gave you that wine not so that you could give the emperor an aphrodisiac! You said that your knees and legs were sore, so I made you the medicinal wine.

If I had known that you wanted that wine in order to kill yourself... I wouldn't have dared to give it to you."

"Try to glare at me again? I'll pluck out your eyeballs and stew them with eggs!" The Empress Dowager glared at Ji Chongning and said, "Besides, the emperor is not dead, right? Why are you panicking?"

"........ Old lady, I just want to ask you," Ji Chongning was really convinced, "Since the emperor is not dead, then why did you steal him?! ...

"I don't know what to do," the Empress Dowager grumbled, "I am old, and when I heard that the Emperor was going to die, I was anxious. Isn't it okay for me to just want to see him a few more times?"

"......If you want to see the emperor, why don't you go into the palace and see him! What kind of thing is it to sneak someone out?" Ji Chongning covered his face in pain.

The Empress Dowager groaned, "It's already stolen, what's the point of saying so much? Besides, do you think it's fun to blame me now?

Yes, I stole the person...No, what I mean is that I asked Eunuch Tang to move the person out.

But isn't it for you? If I hadn't planned to take the throne for you, would I have to run for my life at such an old age?

Also, since you blame me for stealing the emperor, why are you still following me?

It would be fine if you just followed me, but you even took Prince Kang's Mansion with you~~~~~Really, if Prince Kang's Mansion is confiscated and destroyed, it will all be your fault."

.........