Ministers Begging Me to Ascend the Throne-Chapter 233 - One Hundred Eighty

Listening to Sun Kui, Liang Zhaoyi felt much more at ease.

The Emperor gave Liang Zhaoyi and the others a few more instructions before leaving.

"Let Noble Princess Consort Rong go to my tent."

Sun Kui instinctively asked, "What about the Empress?"

The Emperor did not respond to Sun Kui’s question, but instead looked at him expressionlessly.

Sun Kui realized he had asked the wrong question and hurriedly pleaded for forgiveness, "This servant deserves to die."

The Emperor then went to Empress Xie’s tent again, and both the Crown Prince and Seventh Prince arrived.

This time at the spring hunt, the Crown Princess Consort did not come along. She stayed back in the Eastern Palace to take care of the imperial grandson. After all, the imperial grandson was still young and not suitable for such a large event like the spring hunt, which could easily frighten him. Fortunately, they didn’t come, otherwise they might have been bitten tonight as well.

After staying for a while in Empress Xie’s tent and seeing that she hadn’t awakened, the Emperor left. Before leaving, he instructed Jiang Chuan and the others to take good care of Empress Xie. Once she woke up, they should send someone to inform him.

The Seventh Prince stayed in Empress Xie’s tent, while the Crown Prince left with the Emperor.

The Emperor’s tent was naturally the first to be checked. Shen Hu and the others personally conducted the inspection, checking inside and out several times, only feeling reassured when they confirmed there were no snakes. Then they sprinkled some realgar powder around the Emperor’s tent so that snakes would not dare approach. Fortunately, the Imperial Physician had brought some realgar powder.

On the other side, the Fourth Prince, worried that Consort Li might be frightened, decided to go and check on her. He instructed Tong Xi to keep a good watch over Zhao Yao.

The commotion did not wake Zhao Yao.

Once asleep, Zhao Yao would sleep very deeply, even thunderstorms wouldn’t wake him.

Tong Xi kept watch by the bedside, his eyes alertly scanning the surroundings.

Suddenly, Xiao Bai, which had been hiding in Zhao Yao’s sleeve and coiled around his arm, crawled out, nearly startling Tong Xi into a scream.

Xiao Bai crawled to the bedside, straightened up, and stared at the floor.

"Xiao Bai, what’s wrong with you..." Before Tong Xi could finish speaking, three snakes crawled in, causing a dramatic change in his expression. He was just about to call out when the Fourth Prince lifted the curtain and entered.

As soon as the Fourth Prince entered, he saw the three snakes. Each of these snakes was as thick as a child’s arm, extremely terrifying, and a hint of panic appeared on his usually expressionless face.

Just as the Fourth Prince was about to do something, the little white snake on the bed hissed at the three snakes on the ground.

The three snakes seemed to have seen something terrifying, shivering in fear, then quickly slithered out of the tent.

The sudden appearance of many snakes in the camp and the fact that they had bitten people caused chaos throughout the latter half of the night, and no one dared to sleep anymore.

Zhao Yao was not woken at all, sleeping soundly.

After Xiao Bai scared away the three snakes, it returned to Zhao Yao’s arm.

Tong Xi and the Fourth Prince and the others were quite frightened by the scene just now. They weren’t afraid of the snakes but worried that Zhao Yao would be bitten by them.

"Fortunately, we had Xiao Bai around." He hadn’t even noticed when those three snakes crawled into the tent, "Xiao Bai is truly the Snake King!"

He sensed an intense fear on the three snakes just now. They were very afraid of Xiao Bai.

The Fourth Prince instructed the Imperial Guard at the entrance to conduct another thorough search to ensure there wasn’t a single snake around his tent.

The realgar powder that the Imperial Physician brought was not much, and all of it had been sprinkled around the Emperor’s tent. Naturally, there was none left for the other tents.

"Your Highness, there’s still some time before dawn, you should sleep for a while now." Wei Mian said, "This servant and Tong Xi will keep watch, and absolutely won’t let another snake crawl in."

The Fourth Prince shook his head and said, "I won’t sleep." With snakes in the camp, and a high possibility of them crawling back into his tent, how could he possibly sleep? "I’ll read, you all go guard outside."

Tong Xi thought for a moment and said, "Fourth Highness, with Xiao Bai here, there won’t be any more snakes entering your tent. Neither you nor His Highness will be bitten by snakes. You should rest a bit longer."

"I can’t sleep." Said the Fourth Prince, as he glanced at Zhao Yao who was still sleeping soundly, he smiled with relief, "Luckily, the Tenth Brother sleeps deeply, otherwise he would have been scared just now."

"Fourth Highness, my lord has always slept deeply, even with thunderstorms and rain outside, nothing would wake His Highness." Tong Xi thought, even if His Highness was awake just now, he wouldn’t have been scared by the three snakes. Perhaps, His Highness might have reached out to grab them and suggested making snake soup.

The Fourth Prince smiled slightly, then asked Tong Xi and Wei Mian to withdraw outside.

Tong Xi and Wei Mian kept watch at the door, looking around from time to time to see if there were any snakes.

In the Emperor’s tent, he was accompanying Noble Princess Consort Rong.

Though Noble Princess Consort Rong had recovered quite a bit, she was still very frightened. Her bright and beautiful face was completely bloodless.