Dressed as a super rare female, being chased and pampered by the big guys

All the imperial doctors took turns to feel the patient's pulse, and their responses were the same as the old doctor's.

The eyes of the two males grew brighter and brighter, with a faint glimmer of hope.

If you calm down and think about it carefully, what Prince Bao said may not be the truth. He may just have found their weak spot, deceived them, and made fun of their panic.

Thinking of this possibility, Tan Konglin's aura became much more peaceful. He ordered the imperial physician to prescribe medicine for the cold and sent the man away. He half-knelt down and held Nian Tu's hand, "Niannian, did you encounter any problems when you went out today?"

Nian Tu blinked, recalled carefully, and nodded, "The son of Marquis Anyuan mentioned to me that Marquis Anyuan heard from a traveling merchant that many people in the south seemed to be sick, and some even died of illness..."

This was the most worrying thing she had encountered today.

"Also, I was bumped by someone, but I wasn't hurt. He probably just didn't do it by accident." She recalled the beggar's miserable and pitiful appearance and shook her head. "He seems to be sick and has no money to treat him. The secret guards took him away for interrogation. We can ask a doctor to treat him at the same time."

The little bit of luck that had just arisen was wiped out.

Tan Konglin barely managed to hold on without collapsing, and dragged his heavy steps to call the leader of the secret guards.

"That beggar has a tattoo of Prince Bao's death squad on his body." The leader of the secret guards did not dare to look up at His Majesty's expression, and kowtowed with his eyes closed, "...He has already died."

Before they had time to torture him, the man turned pale as soon as they began to interrogate him. He opened his mouth but couldn't breathe. His breathing became visibly weaker and weaker, and he died in front of them.

High fever, profuse sweating, shivering all over... 99% similar to Prince Bao.

Everyone's heart sank to the bottom.

Except for Niancha.

She frowned and listened for a long time, and finally understood why her companions were so strange. It turned out that Prince Bao was plotting against her and wanted her to get sick.

"But I still think I just have a cold." She touched her forehead and face. She felt a little hot, but not serious. "I was outside in the wind today and soaked in cold water for a long time. I just caught a cold."

Her symptoms were obviously different from that person's.

Moreover, the symptoms described by the leader of the secret guards seemed somewhat familiar.

"…It sounds like Prince Bao has malaria," Nian Tu said thoughtfully, reviewing his knowledge in his mind. "If it is malaria, he won't be able to infect me with this contact."

"Not contagious?" Zong Shouyuan's ears perked up. "Really?"

He believed Nian Nian's words unconditionally, but this time was different. He was worried that Nian Nian was deliberately deceiving him.

Nian Tu shook his head honestly, "It's not that it's not contagious, it's just that it's not contagious in this way."

Malaria is not influenza; mosquito bites are the main mode of transmission of malaria.

The poor old hospital historian was tormented twice in just one night. Not long after he retired, he was summoned again to discuss some mosquito-borne epidemic with the Empress Dowager.

"I seem to have heard of malaria before, but I have never seen it with my own eyes," the old hospital historian tried hard to recall, but could only remember that it seemed to be recorded in a medical book, but it was not called this name. He also did not remember how to treat it, he only remembered a mosquito bite.

"Okay, go back and look through some medical books." Nian Tu didn't get any help from the old hospital manager. He sighed and decided not to take any chances. "Although I think I just have a cold, I'll still be isolated from today and avoid contact with outsiders until I recover."

In case the judgment is wrong and it is not malaria, but she is also infected, isolating her can infect fewer people.

In addition to her, the secret guards and others who had contact with Prince Bao and the beggar warriors also had to be temporarily quarantined.

The outsiders left the bedroom, and the remaining two males stayed on Nian Tu's left and right and refused to leave.

Nian Tu narrowed his eyes and pinched their ears, "Do you have to stay?"

These two guys actually came to kiss her on the mouth when they thought she had a terrible infectious disease! They didn't say it explicitly, but it was clear that they wanted to go with her and never live alone.

"You are the emperor...you are also a general who protects a country..." She rubbed the males' heads helplessly, with mixed feelings in her heart.

Why should he be buried with her?

"There are many emperors. When one dies, there will always be a next one," Tan Konglin said in a muffled voice, hugging her waist tightly.

The same goes for generals, there is never a shortage of them.

But there is only one every year. Once they grab it, they will never let go.

Zong Shouyuan was tongue-tied and could not utter any nice words. He just pursed his lips and nodded silently, then suddenly started to unbutton her clothes.

He had put the clothes on her and he took them off easily and neatly.

"...What?" Nian Tu's emotions disappeared in an instant. He was startled and pulled the quilt over him, "I'm still sick."

Could it be that the mental blow was too great and really turned this honest man into a beast?

Zong Shouyuan was not upset even though he was wrongly accused. He said seriously, "Check if Nian Nian has been bitten by mosquitoes."

When he said this, Tan Konglin immediately put on a serious expression and ruthlessly snatched away Nian Tu's small quilt.

The bedroom was very quiet, with only the slight rustling of clothes rubbing against each other.

The gazes of the two men seemed to emit scorching heat, which made Nian Tu speechless. Even with his eyes closed, he could clearly feel that they were checking very carefully, fearing that something might have gone wrong.

Every inch of the jade-colored skin was white and flawless, but a few red marks were eye-catching. Fortunately, if you look closely, you will find that they are not mosquito bites, but their own masterpieces.

The result was good. The three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Nian Tu took back his own quilt and changed the subject to ease the embarrassment, "What's the noise outside?"

It was intermittent; sometimes she could hear it and sometimes she couldn't. It seemed like the sound of the wind, a cat's meow, or someone crying intermittently.

I didn't have time to ask just now, but now that things have finally calmed down, I remembered to ask.

She had never heard it before, but only today.

"Is it very noisy?" Tan Konglin frowned, stood up and walked outside.

He didn't answer Nian Tu's question directly, but Nian Tu suddenly guessed it and widened his eyes, "Are you punishing people?"

Who should be punished? The palace maids serving in the bedroom?

She suddenly couldn't sit still anymore, and she jumped up, but was caught in Zong Shouyuan's arms and held down.

"They are lazy in their work. They didn't even notice that you fell asleep in the water, causing you to catch a cold. They deserve to be punished," Tan Konglin said in a gentle tone but with a cold expression.

He was so frightened and angry that he wanted to kill someone, so he rushed into the bedroom and saw Niannian curled up quietly in the bathtub, her face was frighteningly pale.

The fact that he was able to control his temper, suppress his murderous intent, and not order all the palace servants on duty to be beaten to death was the result of his great restraint.

"I didn't take their lives, I just punished them slightly." He knelt down on one knee and gently ruffled Nian Tu's hair. "If I didn't take good care of you, I would be punished myself."

“……”, Nian Tu actually believed it.

Her partner was capable of this.

But she still had a pale face and was fidgeting, "I fell asleep in the water..."

She is such an adult, why does she need to be watched and cared for by others? It is obviously her own fault that she caught a cold.

Seeing her so uneasy, Tan Konglin immediately compromised, called Shunxi, and asked him to pass on the message.

The Queen Mother showed mercy and exempted them from the rest of the punishment.

"The Empress asked you to take good care of your injuries and you don't have to serve me these days," Shunxi said. After she made the announcement, the palace servants kowtowed and thanked the Empress for saving them from the dire situation.

His Majesty has always been a person who never shows his emotions. They have served him for many years, but have never seen him so angry. He is like a tiger in a desperate situation. He will tear anyone who provokes him into pieces.

Thinking of those crazy, red eyes, everyone couldn't help but tremble.

The emperor who caused fear to everyone has now turned into a soft little kitten, nestling in Nian Tu's arms, rustling into her arms.

Nian Tu rubbed the tip of his tail, stroked his fur, and said with some melancholy, "You are quarantined with me, what will we do in the morning court?"

"It's no harm to suspend court for a few days." Between government affairs and the yearly holidays, he chose the yearly holidays.

The usually diligent emperor suddenly stopped attending court due to illness. Everyone in the court was worried about him, and memorials concerning the emperor's health were sent to the palace in carts. Tan Kong glanced at them and put them aside.

He only picked out the memorials that contained important reports and read them carefully.

Nian Tu stayed in the palace and couldn't go out. She was very bored. In order to prevent a certain gray wolf from getting ferocious by staying with her all day, she found a lot of things to do, such as studying how to weave mosquito nets and how to extract quinine.

She had managed to grow two cinchona trees that she had brought back from Yunnan, but she had almost pulled out all the branches. She asked someone to send her a bunch of Artemisia annua, and she worked with the old director of the Imperial Hospital and others for many days, and barely got a few bottles of antimalarial drugs, whose effectiveness she had no idea.

"This old minister is willing to try the medicine on himself," said the old dean, staring at the pill with great righteousness, waiting for Nian Tu's consent before putting it into his own mouth.

Nian Tu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You are not sick, why try medicine?"

Aren’t there little white mice on Siheng Mountain?

She put the medicine bottle in her pocket and went to the hall next door to find Tan Konglin. She saw the table was piled with memorials, and her male was staring at one of them with a serious expression.

"What's wrong?" Nian Tu stood behind him, lowered his eyes and glanced, and vaguely saw words such as "pestilence", "plague", and "several deaths" on the report.

"Is it a report from the south?" She also frowned.

Tan Konglin nodded and took out a stack of memorials from his hand, "Zhangzhou, Jianzhou, Fuzhou, Taizhou and other places have all been hit by plague."

The situation became more serious the further south you went, but it was too far from the capital and reports were not received in a timely manner.

"I sent people to various places to check, and there were people infected in the north, but the overall number was small and did not attract much attention."

Nian Tu looked through these memorials and found that some local officials had already realized the relationship between the epidemic and mosquitoes. Some doctors even figured out how to boil Artemisia annua in water and gave it to patients to drink, and some patients were actually cured as a result.

It looks like it's malaria, almost certainly.

"It just so happens that the Imperial Hospital has just made some new medicines," Nian Tu took out the medicine bottle, "Let's quickly find someone to test the medicines, and if there are no problems, we can quickly provide disaster relief."

Her cold was almost healed. She only had a brief fever that night. She was covered in the warm bodies of the males under the quilt and her fever soon went away. After that, she took cold-relieving medicine for a few days and became full of energy again.

Now, not only can she go out for a stroll, she also wants to go for a ride on horses.

After leaving the palace, Nian Tu saw the handsome black horse Xuanyun. He ran over and took out a small apple from his sleeve and gave it to him, "Good Xuanyun, this is all thanks to you."

It was Xuanyun who took her out for a horseback ride in Yunnan and they discovered the cinchona tree by accident. They should be given credit for the rapid development of the antimalarial drug.

The big black horse hadn't seen Nian Tu for a long time. It snorted happily, took the little apple from her hand, and wanted to share half of it with her affectionately. It also invited her to ride it, completely forgetting its real owner.

Nian Tu refused its offer to share food, but did not want to refuse its invitation to ride.

She hugged the black horse's smooth and strong body, stepped on the stirrups and wanted to climb up.

Before I could even straddle it, my waist was grabbed from behind and my butt was slapped lightly.

Xuan Yun turned his head fiercely, wanting to kick down the guy who was so audacious as to bully Nian Tu, but when he saw the cold face of his master, he retracted his raised hoof.

Zong Shouyuan carried Nian Tu to the pony and helped her sit firmly, "This is Nian Nian's horse."

Three years later, the foal has grown into an adult. It is even more beautiful than before, with long curly mane that glows with a light golden glow, and is very attached to its owner.

Nian Tu also loved it very much. He took out a small apple from his sleeve and fed it to its mouth, listening to the crunching sound as it ate.

Her little pony Jumble is good in every way except that he is too calm. He was running around happily when he was little, but now he walks gracefully when he grows up.

Riding a horse like this, it would be impossible for her to enjoy the breeze and thrill.

With his freedom restricted, Nian Tu glared at the gray wolf angrily.

The male stood tall and unmoved, and said the most outrageous words in a serious tone, "If Nian Nian gets sick again, I will lock her up and kiss you every day."

"......" Nian Tu's face turned red with embarrassment and he turned his head away and stopped looking at him.

She wouldn't let him kiss her!

She pinched the horse's belly and ran ahead without looking back.

The master's aura was very powerful, but Jinbao ran very slowly, not much faster than a human.

Xuanyun carried Zong Shouyuan on his back, but did not run recklessly. He followed Jinbao slowly and leisurely, always wanting to nudge its tail with his nose. He was not annoyed but rather became more excited when the beautiful golden tail fanned his face.

Looking at its shameless appearance, Zong Shouyuan felt that it looked very familiar, as if it was looking in a mirror.

Soon, a little white cat seemed to fly down from the sky and landed in Nian Tu's arms, shamelessly riding on the same horse with her.

……

A light rain fell on Siheng Mountain.

Prince Bao curled up on the cold bed, feeling chills all over his body and feeling the moisture from the rain seeping into the cracks between his bones from all directions.

His whole body ached, and his head hurt as if it was about to split. He breathed hard, his voice hoarse, "Someone, someone... water..."

"Tianlu! Lansheng!"

No one responded, and he suddenly fell back into reality from his dream. He opened his blurry eyes and realized that he was no longer a prince, but a commoner who had committed a serious crime.

All his former servants and guards were gone, and even his last remaining warriors were thrown out as chess pieces. He was left to fend for himself in this desolate and dilapidated place, with people outside watching him. No one would serve him, only giving him food and drink to keep him alive, letting him continue to struggle in pain.

The door suddenly opened from the outside, and wind carrying rain blew in.

Prince Bao thought someone had brought him water, so he stretched his neck and tried to look over there with expectant eyes, but he saw a face that he hated to the core.

"Tan, Sora, Rin..."

"What are you here for?"

After looking at Tan Konglin sinisterly for a while, he suddenly became happy, "Is Nian Tu dead?"

Even a grown man like him couldn't stand the disease and tried his best to stay alive. With a frail body like Nian Tu, it was normal for him to die after a few days of illness.

Looking at Tan Konglin's still healthy appearance, obviously not infected with the disease, Prince Bao clapped his hands and laughed happily, "You really abandoned her!"