The Bianjing Female Doctor Has a Melon Eating System

245- Ending

Chapter 245 Ending

　　As fine snowflakes fell, a secret message quietly spread in Bianjing - the emperor's health was not good.

　　Although there have been rumors that the emperor's health is deteriorating, these are just hearsay without any real evidence, so everyone is just watching and no action has been taken for the time being.

　　But this time it was different. This time he got the confirmation from the imperial physicians in the palace, and not just one physician said that the emperor was not in good health. Almost the entire imperial hospital believed that the emperor would not survive the winter.

　　If the emperor can't survive, who will the throne be passed to?

　　Should they choose a child with good character and appearance from the Huang clan to adopt, or should they gamble on whether the baby in the queen's belly is a boy or a girl?

　　This question lingered in everyone's mind, but no one dared to ask it rashly. The officials in the court were actually still waiting to see how things would develop. They did not think that the news of the emperor's serious illness would be leaked so easily. There must be something else going on.

　　Queen Wang Qin, however, was as steady as a rock. She had already prepared everything and was certain that the emperor had no power to turn the situation around, so she released the news.

　　"Your Majesty, are we doing it too early? The prince hasn't been born yet, and everything hasn't settled yet. If the news of the emperor's illness is leaked out so early, what if those princes are ready to make a move?" Leng Xiang was a little worried.

　　The queen laughed and said, "That's exactly what I was thinking. I wanted to use the news of the emperor's serious illness to lure out those itchy hands and catch them all in one fell swoop, and put an end to the trouble forever!"

　　The queen was ambitious, and the result was exactly as she expected. Not long after the news of the emperor's serious illness spread, the princes of various fiefdoms could no longer sit still.

　　Those with calmer temperaments requested to see the emperor and come to the palace to take care of him, while those who were more reckless began to speak nonsense, believing that they were the best among the brothers and that the throne belonged to them.

　　The queen looked coldly at these princes jumping up and down like clownish figures, and secretly deployed her capable subordinates to start closing the net.

　　As the emperor became increasingly ill, the princes began to fight for the throne. Unfortunately, they were one step behind and were eventually suppressed by the queen's thundering means.

　　During this process, the queen also found out the real culprit behind the Taiping Religion, which was the emperor's eldest brother Li Cong. He had facial blemishes caused by chickenpox when he was young, so he missed the throne and was only canonized as King Jing. The huge loss made him always hate the emperor and try to find an opportunity to seize the throne, so he planned the Taiping Religion, intending to brainwash the believers and gain their support to overthrow the emperor.

　　However, he did not expect that Xie Huaichu and Ji Yutang's visit to the Taiping Sect would make the deputy leader Feng Youqi suspicious of the past. After his investigation, he understood everything and naturally became the queen's secret helper.

　　Although Feng Youqi knew that his former lover was the current queen and that Xie Huaichu was his biological son, he did not reveal the truth. Instead, he disguised himself and helped the queen to settle everything. Then he quietly left Bianjing and no one knew his whereabouts anymore.