Chapter 34

Disclaimer: This is a translation of the Chinese novel 瞎娘娘 by 洗泥 > Translator: @Luxiufer

Inside the prison was gloomy and the coldness was trembling. All year round unlit by the sunlight. Spread all over this place was the smell of moldy odor.

The guards at the prison gate bowed down, carefully and cautiously said: "Your Majesty is highly respected, it's really unsuitable and inadvisable to enter."

His Majesty made a heavy expression, said with a lowered voice: "Lead the way!"

One of the guards grabbed the torch, led the Emperor to enter the prison. They walked down a section of damp and slippery steps, down to the prison cells.

Inside the prison was moist and dirty. The bad smell of moldy odor offended the nose and caused people to feel sick as if overcome by nausea. This group of people walked down the long and narrow path like an alley. After making a turn on a curved end, they caught a glimpse of two bodies piling up while lying prone from the space between the cells.

The Emperor couldn't help but wrinkle his brows: "What has happened here?"

Upon hearing the sound of a voice, Xiao Bao struggled to prop his body up from the ground. From all over his whole body, droplets of water were dripping following suit of each and every one of his movements. When he saw the one who's coming was The Emperor, he was unable to restrain his anxious howl : "Your Majesty, Master fainted again!!!"

The Emperor's heart skipped a beat, "How can that be?"

Xiao Bao explained with his hoarse voice: "Master was being punished, right now he is enduring this hardship. *When a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove. The Court Official, in order to gain Your Majesty's favor, was pouring icy cold water on him. Not after pouring ten pails of water did they finally stop. How could my Master stand that!!"

*(t/n : meaning : Everybody hits a person who is already down.)

After hearing this, the Emperor was in a great wrath: "I haven't ordered the Judicial Officers to do anything. There were actually people who were brave enough to perform this kind of illegal punishment?!"

The surrounding guards all fell down on their knees. Loudly shouted and begged for forgiveness while kneeling.

The Emperor strode to enter the prison cell; from the straw mat he took the Blind Concubine into his embrace.

The Blind Concubine's pair of eyes tightly shut. Lips were of a purple color. From head to toe drenched through and through. It was like he was just being pulled out from the river. The Emperor stretched out his hand to examine him, his cheek was freezing cold, like an ice cube. The nose had ceased to breathe.

Rui Ze's words suddenly filled his mind at that moment: "If by any chance the person really has gone for good. I would like to see what Big Brother will do!!" Sharp and loud, like a knife cut and pierced his ears.

The Emperor's heart abruptly filled with fear and shook him, "Quick! Summon the Imperial Physician!!"

His voice unwittingly had a thread of detectable quivering.

The Blind Concubine was brought back all the way to the serving quarter in his embrace. The Palace's servants hurriedly prepared things all around. Boiled the water. Fetched the quilts and bed clothes. Got the Imperial Physician. All together in a rush of confusion.

The Blind Concubine was limply reclined on the Emperor's bosom. Unmoving. His body was cold to the extreme. Xiao Bao anxiously said: "In this condition, even washing him in a bath is impossible. Want to put him in a barrel of hot water, but I'm afraid that he might lose his life!"

The Emperor ordered: "Make haste and bring me some towels. The more the better."

Immediately, the Palace's Servants holding the tray of towels walked in the room in a line. Xiao Bao grabbed a towel and soaked it in the warm water, twisting to dry it before he handed it over to the Emperor. The Emperor took off the Blind Concubine's clothes, using the warm towel, he wiped and cleaned the Blind Concubine's entire body. The towel changed from one piece to the other, one by one, after a long while, that freezing cold body gradually regained its temperature.

When the night fell, The Emperor immediately rushed back to the serving quarter from the Front Palace after finishing his discussion regarding government affairs.

Entered only a step into the quarter, he already saw Xiao Bao carrying a porcelain bowl out from the room. His face had such a worried expression.

Stepped forward, he asked while glaring at him: "What happened?"

Xiao Bao answered: "With difficulty, he finally regained his consciousness, so I fed him to eat a small bowl of porridge. He vomited all of it. I fed him again. In the end, he vomited again. Even a mouthful of food he was not able to eat."

The Emperor raised the curtain and entered the bedroom. The Blind Concubine was clinging on the edge of the bed coughing, his face became red because of the cough, his back was undulating fiercely, like a small boat that rose and fell in the middle of a storm. His cough was so bad to the point as if he was about to cough out his heart and lungs.

The Emperor's sharp eyes swept and penetrated all the Palace's Servants who stood by the side. With his severe voice, he asked them: "How come it became this heavy? Hasn't the Imperial Physician given him the medicine?!"

The Palace's Servants were scared and their knees gave out, all of them knelt on the floor. Trembling with fear: "Answer Your Majesty, The Blind Concubine right now will vomit whatever we feed him, he even vomited the medicine. The Imperial Chemist is in the process of stewing a new one for him….."

The Emperor's face muscle twitched, "USELESS!! GET OUT!!"

The Palace's Servants were trembling all over. In haste they all withdrew while kowtowing.

The Emperor heaved a heavy sigh, he bent over to get closer to the bed.

The Blind Concubine's entire body was severely trembling. His teeth were firmly gritted. Often, he twitched and shuddered for a little while. The Emperor stretched out his hand to caress his forehead, but it was like touching a branding iron, scalding hot to the utmost.

His attendant hurriedly raised the curtain and entered the room, in a low voice he reported: "In front of the Palace, there is a person requesting to see Your Majesty. Your humble subject knows that he should not only for this reason come to circulate this notice, however, that person has the former Emperor's keepsake." He said that while assuming a piece of jade pendant in a shape of a floating white colored cloud.

The Emperor received the jade pendant, upon the sight, he said: "It's Jue Yu."

Jue Yu's medical skills were exquisite. His reputation as a fine doctor was well known. In his former years, when he was still venturing the *Jianghu, he was already renowned as a youthful miraculous high skilled doctor.

The Emperor was taking this into consideration, without delay he ordered: "Quickly invite him in!"