Chapter 1022: Am I wrong?

The guards at the Hall of Mental Cultivation were surprisingly not as strict as those at the Hall of Xianghe. Apparently that was because the emperor was poisoned, and Prince Ping felt that such a half-dead person posed no threat to him.

Therefore, they did not spend much effort on guarding it, but instead sent all the masters of the palace to the retired emperor.

The two men disguised themselves as imperial doctors asking for the patient's pulse and easily entered the Yangxin Palace.

Mo Beihan pretended to take the pulse of the unconscious emperor, then shook his head and gave his seat to Qiao Ran.

Qiao Ran stepped forward and placed her hand on the much thinner wrist.

Under the gaze of the eunuchs, she also shook her head and said in an androgynous voice:

"The emperor's pulse is weak and his heart pulse is weakened. I'm afraid... Alas!"

This expression was the same as that shown by the imperial physicians who came to check Ping An's pulse in the past, so the eunuchs who were accompanying him were no longer surprised.

Qiao Ran prescribed some nourishing medicine and asked the eunuch to go to the Imperial Hospital to get the medicine to boil for the emperor to drink in order to keep him alive.

Then, the two of them picked up the medicine box and prepared to go out.

"Prince Ping is here! Consort Xian is here!"

A shrill voice was heard from outside the door, followed by several people striding in from outside the hall.

The leader was none other than King Ping, who was wearing a yellow dragon robe and a golden crown on his head. If you didn't look carefully, you would think he was wearing an imperial robe.

At this time, King Ping's face was beaming with joy, and his walking posture was so vigorous and high-spirited that people who didn't know him would really think that he had ascended the throne and become the supreme being of Dai Viet!

Qiao Ran and Mo Beihan had already walked to the door, but when they heard the eunuch's voice, they stepped aside, bowed their heads and waited for Prince Ping to pass by.

King Ping walked past the two men without even glancing at them, seemingly not noticing these two ordinary imperial doctors.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and were about to step over the threshold and quietly leave when they suddenly heard a female voice shouting, "Stop!"

The raised foot was immediately retracted, the two bowed their heads and bowed, "Greetings to Prince Ping and Her Majesty the Concubine!"

Concubine Xian walked up to the two and said, "How dare you! Why don't you kneel when you see Prince Ping and me? You're sneaking around and trying to run away. Who are you? Lift your heads!"

The two could only raise their heads.

In front of him was a woman wearing gorgeous palace clothes. She couldn't be considered a beauty, just average. However, she was covered in pearls and jade, which made the clothes look particularly dazzling.

In the eyes of Concubine Xian, the two men in front of her looked like simple and honest old men in their fifties or sixties, with just the right amount of wrinkles on their faces. They were wearing imperial physician uniforms, holding medicine boxes in their hands, hunched over and lowered their heads, with a humble attitude.

Qiao Ran answered in an androgynous and somewhat old voice:

"In reply to the Empress Xianfei, I just took the Emperor's pulse and was in a hurry to return to the Imperial Hospital to prescribe medicine for the Emperor, so I lost my temper. I hope the Empress Xianfei will not blame me!"

The virtuous concubine looked at the imperial physician with a frown and said nothing.

For some reason, as soon as she entered the palace, she saw two people, one tall and one short, standing by the door. Although they were wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Hospital, she felt for some reason that the shorter one did not look like a man.

But now that I look closely, I don't see anything unusual.

Even when he spoke, there was a rolling Adam's apple on his neck, which clearly showed that he was a man.

Could it be that I felt wrong?

Before she could say anything else, Prince Ping had already walked to the emperor's dragon bed, grasped the hand of the person on the bed, and looked very sad:

"Father, why haven't you woken up yet? Please wake up and look at your son! Your son is here to see you! Father, Dai Viet still needs you, your son still needs you! Father..."

The calls he made sounded like a filial son.

When Concubine Xian heard what Prince Ping said, she didn't bother to argue with the two imperial doctors. She waved her hand and walked towards the dragon bed.

Qiao Ran and Mo Beihan hurriedly stepped out of the door and left this dangerous place.

However, they had just stepped out of the door when they heard screams coming from the hall behind them. Several palace maids and eunuchs who were accompanying them ran out of the hall, closed the door, and stood guard outside. The palace maids had blushing faces.