Chapter 176
Rong Xiangmian led him, to Zhou Xianyang. Hongyi knelt down and stroked Zhou Xian Yang’s knee with both hands, crying as he said, “I’m sorry Fourth Uncle …… Are you still in pain?”
Zhou Xian Yang poked him in the chest, “An arrow pierced you here, do you think it hurts?”
Hongyi bawled even more.
Xiang Xiang waited for him to get tired of crying before handing him a handkerchief.
After Hong Yi wiped his tears, he said with a trembling voice: “I want to ask father why he wants to harm the fourth uncle and the Royal Grandfather …… but …… the Royal Grandfather forbids me to see father.”
Zhou Xian Yang said, “You asked, and what can be done? It’s all a conflict between adults, and it has nothing to do with you as a child. You stay well in the Jin Wang Mansion, follow Hong Qi and the others to school and have fun, don’t think too much.”
Hong Qi deflated his mouth, “Fourth Uncle, do you hate me?”
Zhou Xian Yang pinched his face, “If you cry like a flower cat every day, I really don’t like you anymore.”
Hongyi hurriedly collected his bitter face and said, “I ate fresh fruits from Annan at the Jin Wang Mansion, and they are very sweet. I’ve brought them all, fourth uncle try them.”
Zhou Xian Yang smiled, “It’s hard for you to remember, I’ve just had my lunch, I’ll eat later.”
Hongyi touched Zhou Xianyang’s knee again, “Fourth uncle, I’ll come to see you more often and bring you good food, as a way of making amends for my parents.”
Zhou Xian Yang was not impressed by the mention of King Kai and his wife, “Your father’s sins will be punished by His Majesty. The mistakes made by adults don’t need to be repaid by children. If you want to come and visit me at Yü Wang’s residence, that’s your honor. Just don’t mention the word “atonement” again.”
Hongyi seemed to understand, and nodded his head.
Zhou Xianyang asked again, “Are you still comfortable in the Jin Wang Mansion?”
“Seventh Uncle treats me very well, better than at home. But I still want my own home, I miss my mother ……” said Hongyi, wanting to cry again, but remembering Zhou Xianyang’s words, he changed to sobbing, and the tears only swirled in his eyes, never flowing down.
When Zhou Xian Yang saw him, he instantly remembered the dream in Chong Hua Hall. His mother was deposed and secluded in the imperial tomb, and he followed her.
This dream is not like the past, woke up and gradually faded away, but instead vividly remembered in general.
Hongyi kowtowed to Zhou Xianyang again: “Fourth Uncle, Uncle Grandpa and Fifth Uncle are afraid to take me to see Imperial Grandpa, for fear that Imperial Grandpa will be angry. Please, write a handwritten letter to Imperial Grandpa and ask him to send me to Xijing as well. I want to be with my parents.”
Zhou Xian Yang sighed, “Have you thought about it? You go to Xijing, meet your parents, and then what will happen, have you thought about that?”
Hong Yi froze.
Zhou Xian Yang’s tone was icy cold, “You will go to Xijing, and you will live with your parents in a place even smaller than this courtyard. You won’t be able to leave the door for the rest of your life, and you can only look up to see this side of the blue sky. What you eat every day, are meals sent in by others, you can’t pick what you eat, and you can’t eat the Annan fruits that you love.”
Speaking here, Hongyi has been a little confused, Zhou Xian Yang continued: “This is just, your family of three suffering in the joy is not impossible. But one day, you will grow up, your parents will grow old, and one by one they will die. The corpses will be dragged out and buried in places you don’t know. And from then on, you’ll have to live alone in that little yard with nothing. Are you sure, you want to go and stay with your parents?”
With his words, Hong Yi seemed to see a bleak picture that he had never imagined before, and he shivered, “I don’t want to I don’t want to …… But I want my mother …… They all have mothers, I don’t have a mother anymore ……”
Zhou Xian Yang leaned back in the rocking chair, a little helpless, just said too many words, a little tired.
Rong Xiangxian handed him a bowl of tea and squatted down himself to take Hongyi’s hand, “Hongyi, you’re not the only person in the world who doesn’t have a mother. When I was four years old, my mother died. Look at Feiyun, her parents are gone. We are still living well today. Even if you go to Xijing, one day you’ll lose your mother. Everyone in this world will lose their mother one day and walk alone. It’s hard, but the sooner you face that day, the sooner you grow up. Hong Yi, you are His Majesty’s eldest grandson, the oldest child, you can do it right?”
Hong Yi sobbed and after thinking for a while asked, “Fourth Aunt, do you miss your mother?”
Rong Xiangmian smiled, “Of course I want to, it’s just that she died so early that I don’t even really remember what she looked like, and there’s nowhere to think about her. I just think about her watching over me from heaven, she wants me to grow up well and live in peace. At least your mom is still alive! You miss her, and she misses you, and you can still look at the same moon and hold on to each other. Do you remember the last time you saw her, what she told you?”
Hongyi was bewildered for a moment before recalling, “She told me to listen to Mr. and memorize the newly learned articles well. She told me not to take off my jacket secretly, as the wind was still strong. She told me not to play with the lanterns, so as not to burn myself.”
“That’s it. Your mother wants you to study well and take care of your health. Would she be happy if she knew you were sent to Xijing and locked up there for the rest of your life?”
Hong Yi thought for a moment, “She would scold me ……”
“That’s it.” Rong Xiangmian pulled him up and wiped his tears, “You’re doing well in Jin Wangfu, if you’re doing well, your mother will naturally be happy. If anything goes wrong, come and tell us.”
Hong Yi grabs her sleeve and asks, “Fourth Aunt, don’t you hate me? Can I still come to the Yu Wang Mansion?”
Rong Xiangmian laughed, “It’s not like you’ve done anything bad, what kind of uncle’s family doesn’t allow their great nephew to come to the door.”
Hong Yi was then relieved and told his subordinates to bring in fruits to give to Zhou Xian Yang.
“It’s really rare that they have fresh lychees and grapes when the day is still this cool.”
Rong Xiangshi peeled a grape and handed it to Zhou Xianyang’s mouth, before he opened his mouth to eat, Rong Xiangshi withdrew his hand.
Zhou Xian Yang ate an air.
Rong Xiangmian told Hongyi, “The Imperial Doctor said that your Fourth Uncle has many taboos now. I have a list here that I have to follow to see what I can and cannot eat. Furthermore, this journey here has inevitably stained the dust, I’ll ask someone to take it and wash it.”
Zhou Xian Yang knows that she is cautious, the heart can not say how it feels. Hongyi was unaware of this and cheerfully handed the fruit to Feixue. Then, pestered Xiangyang to see the list that the Imperial Doctor had drawn up.
“Wow, so long.” Hongyi watched Xiangmian pick up a long list from the desk with a number of contraindications written on it, and became even more embarrassed, “Fourth uncle, you’ve suffered, you can’t eat so many good things.”
Zhou Xian Yang smiled, “It won’t hurt when I get better. At that time, fourth uncle will take you hunting again, how about it?”
As soon as the topic was brought up, Hong Yi came energized.
“Fourth uncle, we won’t be able to catch the spring hunt, but the fall hunt is always possible. I heard that everyone was amazed by your archery skills in this Divine Arrow Battalion’s martial arts demonstration, and I haven’t seen it yet! Can you teach me a few tricks?”
Zhou Xian Yang nodded, “Good, you need to practice riding and archery in addition to studying well these months, so I’ll take you there again when Fourth Uncle is well.”
“Yes, I’ll go back and ask uncle and grandpa to hire a good master for me. Fourth uncle, I see that you don’t have much strength, so I won’t quarrel with you, I will come back to see you another day.” Hongyi changed his bitterness from when he came, and recovered a little childishness, and led the way back.
Rong Xiangxiang saw to it that he followed and sent his guest out. Sun Mingyue saw that Hongyi was in much better spirits and said, “It’s hard for the two of you, not to take it out on him.”
Rong Xiangshi faintly said, “What’s the use of being angry, it’s just one more poor child for nothing.”
When he returned to the study, Feixue had already washed all the fruits and brought them, saying, “I just fed the cat, it should be fine.”
Rong Xiangmian first tasted two for himself, confirming that there was nothing wrong with them before peeling them for Xian Yang to eat. He was overjoyed, “Why do you need to test the poison yourself?”
Rong Xiangmi puckered her lips, “I just had a craving.”
At the end of the first month, Zhou Xianyang was able to get down to the ground and gradually recovered his mobility.
However, with the turmoil in Jinling, Dr. Sun deliberately hid his recovery according to his instructions, and only told the palace that King Yu still needed to recuperate, and couldn’t work hard and hurt his body any more.
After being detained at home for so many days, he finally got on a carriage and went out with Xiang Xiang for the first time to go to the Duke of England’s mansion on Xiang Xiang’s full moon.
Although the full moon wine is not organized, but between the relatives of the family, or to celebrate the son of the Duke of England.
The Marquis of Yongding’s family, as well as the Duke of England’s cousins and relatives from the second house of the old Duke of England’s generation all came.
When they asked about Zhou Xian Yang’s injuries, they were all alarmed. He couldn’t stand being surrounded by a group of people, but he pretended to be sick to the end, looking like he couldn’t say a few words.
Fortunately, because it was a family banquet, there were not so many constraints, Auntie Zhong herself carried the child over and showed it to the relatives, immediately relieving him of the siege.
“Look, this child really looks like the Duke of State.” The crowd gathered around the child, temporarily allowing Zhou Xian Yang to catch his breath.
Today, except for Rong Xiangzhi who was waiting for her labor to be delivered and did not come, the rest of the later generations were all here. Mr. and Mrs. Rong Xiangyu also came early in the morning, taking advantage of an opening, the couple dragged Rong Xiangshi and Zhou Xianyang to the lakeside of Fufeng Xuan, seemingly to explain something important.
The second brother-in-law was in charge of the royal tomb guards, so Zhou Xianyang was nervous for no reason, fearing that something would happen.
Sure enough, the second brother-in-law told him, “The guards heard about your injury at the mausoleum, and when they were discussing it privately, Yu heard about it. She thought you couldn’t make it and cried to break out, asking His Majesty for permission to see you. The guards didn’t dare to pass on this word, and Yu was in a hurry, so she ran straight into a pillar …… and risked her life to see you.”
Zhou Xian Yang frowned slightly when he heard this, but didn’t say anything, and his second brother-in-law immediately relieved, “Don’t worry, Your Highness, she doesn’t have any worries about her life. It’s just that she bumped and injured herself, and the guards below couldn’t hide it before they came to report to me to find a Bone-setter to save her life. I discussed with my father, then this will be reported to the emperor …… thinking that maybe the emperor will remember your credit for saving the driver, open grace. The emperor sent an eunuch to see her, listened to the eunuch report on her injuries, and sent good herbs, doubled her portion, and ordered us to buy some ornaments in the capital, and redecorate the place where she lives.”
Zhou Xian Yang nodded, “Thank you brother-in-law, how is she healed now?”
“She’s in bad spirits, she doesn’t eat or drink. No matter how much we tell her that King Yu is out of danger, she just doesn’t believe it and thinks that you have been assassinated. The eunuch said that it is difficult to heal …… her injuries in this way You also know that injuring the head, the problem can be big or small. Your Highness, do you want to write her a letter, instructing her to recuperate at ease?”