Chapter 81
Rong Xiang see heart know what he said is also the truth, just ready to go, suddenly remembered: “You have a hand injury, wound do not soak in water!”
The figure in the river gave a beat, said, “I know, thank you, Your Highness.”
Xiangmian sighed, went back to let Feiyun prepare clean clothes and shoes and socks, and called Linlang over to inquire.
Linlang had just laid down and rushed over with her clothes on, not knowing what had happened.
Xiangmian asked, “Did you give Yuhang fruit wine today?”
“Yes,” Lin Lang smiles before realizing that Yü Wang is not here and immediately curbs her smile, “Is there something wrong with the wine?”
Rong Xiangmian sighed, “I suspect that there is ecstasy in that wine ……”
Linlang sniffed and immediately went to bring the wine altar over, “It’s this one, it was sent by Empress Hui today, followed by those birds and finches that were brought back first.”
Rong Xiang Xiang saw and sniffed, puzzled: “Concubine Hui, how would she know about what happened in the mansion?”
Linlang immediately kneeled on the ground: “Slave girl with the Wangfei, you are my master, slave girl has never passed word with the Fu Ning Palace.”
Rong Xiangmian knew Linlang’s heart, so she had been very relieved. But she didn’t understand, why would Consort Hui, who was far away from the palace, notice that she and King Yu had never …… been together.
She sighed: “You go back and rest, tomorrow find a doctor to check.”
Lin Lang suddenly remembers something as she gets up, “Could it be that the group of people sent back to the palace, there are people from Empress Hui?”
Rong Xiangmian thought, “Maybe, but how did they know about such a private matter?”
“Girl, you and your highness never called for water at night, nor have you changed …… If you are observant, you may be able to see the clues. Empress Hui, in the end, is also for your good.”
Rong Xiangmei lightly related, Empress Hui has always been like this, it is true that she loves her, it is also true that she wants to take advantage of her. The Empress was still like this to Princess Zhaoren, let alone her.
She leaned helplessly against the bed and waited until dawn, when Xiao Nan came over to fetch her clothes.
Xiang Xiang immediately got up and asked Lin Lang to follow her over with the jar of fruit wine.
King Yu was already in his study. The river water before dawn was very cold, he was soaked to the skin and exuded a chilly aura around him.
Xiangmian wanted to urge him to go to the purification room, but he didn’t move and looked at her pale and weak face, “Why do you look so bad? Did you not sleep all night?”
The first day of Xiangmian Xin period was already difficult, Princess Hui so tossed, she was aggrieved on both sides, and sad, how can sleep.
Zhou Xian Yang looked at Lin Lang behind her with a face of remorse and said, “Help your girl to go back to rest, leave the wine.”
Saying this, he took the clothes and shut everyone out.
Xiao Nan took the wine altar and sniffed it, snorting lightly through her nose, disdainful of this underhanded tactic.
Seeing Lin Lang’s pitiful look again, she laughed, “Sister Lin Lang, there are many people who want to drug our master, you are the first to succeed!”
Her intention was to tease Linlang and ease the atmosphere, she did not expect a sentence to make her cry, she was busy apologizing to her again.
Rong Xiangmian was a little unable to stand outside the door, leaning against the porch pillar, Xiao Nan and Lin Lang did not care about other things, busy to help her.
Xiao Nan shouted inside again, “Master, hurry up, the princess is not feeling well and refuses to leave!”
Soon, the door to the study opened, Xiang Xiang’s feet were a bit wobbly as she stepped through the door and reached out to touch Zhou Xian Yang’s forehead, “You’re still feverish.”
Zhou Xian Yang picked her up and placed her on the bed in the study, leaning her upper body into his arms, “Where is it hard?”
Xiang Xiang covered her belly, a fine, dense sweat overflowing from her forehead. King Yu rubbed her for a while and said in a low voice, “Later on, Dr. Shen will come over, so let him take a look at you and prescribe a pair of pain-relieving medicine.”
“Me?” Xiang Xiang quickly saw a middle-aged man dressed as a guard pass by the window.
She was busy shaking her head, “No need! I’m just having a letter period, I’m not sick, so you can see for yourself.”
Seeing her insist like that, Zhou Xian Yang knew that she was shy, after all, the doctor was also a strange man, so he didn’t force himself and went to the outer room by himself.
Shen Che entered the room and bowed, Zhou Xian Yang did not let him check his pulse first, but said, “Prescribe a pair of medicines for women’s letter period pain relief, tell your people to boil it as soon as possible, and the flavor should be sweeter.”
Shen Che gave a start, raising his head to glance inside the bed frame in the inner room, a charming reclining figure, and busily instructed his disciple waiting outside.
And then, King Yu signaled him to look at the wine first.
Shen Che lightly tastes a drop: ”This wine is laced with the medicine for the entertainment of love in the room, and it is mostly used to please those nobles in your family or in the green house. The good thing is that the portion is not too much, it just makes your highness’ mood high, if you are not alert, you will only think that you are newly married to the princess, and you are just indulging in a moment of love.”
Zhou Xian Yang’s gaze was somber: “Got it, you go down.”
Shen Che, however, did not leave and stared at King Yu: “Your Highness, you already have the appearance of wind chill and must immediately recuperate. Your humble servant must immediately diagnose your pulse and prescribe medicine.”
Only then did Zhou Xian Yang extend his hand.
Xiangmian waited for Shen Che to leave and got down to sit beside him, “I’m sorry, that wine was given to me by Empress Hui yesterday, and Linlang didn’t think much of it, so she gave it to you to drink.”
Zhou Xian Yang hated being counted by someone close to him in his life, but when he saw the Princess’s sad look, his voice unconsciously warmed down, “I’m sorry, my brain burned out last night, I shouldn’t have treated you like that, moreover I shouldn’t have suspected you.”
Sagami shook his head, “What did Auntie Hui do for me, and what is the difference between what I did?”
“What does what she did have to do with you? Why are you apologizing? In the end, it is ultimately because I have wronged you. Otherwise, why would I have to ask Princess Hui to worry about the affairs of the house after a month of marriage.”
After saying this, Zhou Xian Yang sneezed. Rong Xiangyang saw that he was busy handing him paper. He added, “Take the medicine and go back to sleep and sweat. Being like this last night, you must have been very sick.”
Zhou Xian Yang raised his head, “Tell the maid to bring the bedding over, I’ll sleep here, or I’ll pass the sickness to you.”
A moment later, Lin Lang came in jittery, laid out the mattress, saw that both King Yu and Wangfei were emaciated, and knelt down in silent tears.
Zhou Xian Yang made a fist with his hand, pressed it against his lips, and coughed, “Get up. Remember, in the future, anything that comes from outside the Yuhang Mansion, remind me before entering. Otherwise, I would have thought it was the fruit wine your girl made last time.”
Lin Lang never thought that Consort Hui would treat her and the Wangfei like this, she was aggrieved and angry, seeing that King Yu did not punish her, she said with tears in her eyes, “It’s the slave girl’s negligence, in the future, the slave girl won’t trust anyone outside of the Wangfei’s mansion.”
After Lin Lang left, Zhou Xian Yang and the crown princess drank warm water and waited for Shen Che to decoct the medicine.
Looking at the wangfei’s demeanor, which was not at all as sad as Lin Lang’s, Zhou Xianyang was a bit strange: “You don’t seem surprised by Princess Hui’s move.”
Xiang Xiang’s tone was light, “Do you know why the Sixth Princess is bent on marrying to the Northern True Kingdom?”
As soon as this was mentioned, Zhou Xian Yang became interested, “I heard that His Highness Enji of the Northern True Kingdom is extremely outstanding in appearance.”
“That was only one of the reasons.” Xiangyang recalled the past, his gaze falling on the sycamore tree outside the door.
“When I first entered the palace, Empress Hui was still a concubine. One time, just in time for Auntie Hui’s birthday, His Majesty had agreed to go to Fu Ning Palace. But when it came to that, the inner officer sent word that His Majesty was not available. It was only later that I found out that he had stayed at Chengqian Palace to accompany Empress Zhang.”
Zhou Xian Yang was not surprised, “Zhang has always been like this. Back then, even on the fifteenth day of the month, the day the emperor and empress reunited, she would be busy competing for favor and love. When she became Empress, she was naturally even more emboldened.”
Rong Xiangmian thought to himself that Zhou Xian Yang had probably seen many such scenes when he was a child.
“Empress Zhang was already beautiful and deeply favored by the Emperor, and with the sudden loss of her son, the Emperor treated her with extra compassion and love. In addition to the then Shufei Jia Fei and Xian Concubine who had children, the Emperor would visit from time to time, the rest of the concubines in the palace, could rarely see the Emperor. Empress Hui, whose mother’s family did not have a father or brother that the Emperor valued, His Majesty seldom came to Fu Ning Palace.”
“And then?”
“Then not long afterward, the Sixth Princess fell ill.”
“Did concubine Hui do this?”
Aikami’s voice instantly chilled, “Yes. I accidentally overheard Sister’s words. It was Imperial Doctor Liu, who is a friend of Concubine Hui, who did it. I told the Sixth Princess, but she said that Lady Hui gave birth to her and raised her to love her, and that the only thing she could do was to obediently eat the tea laced with medicine.”
Thinking of the carefree Xian Yao in her memories, a thin layer of watery light flooded the bottom of Xian Yang’s eyes.
“The Sixth Princess’s illness is very dangerous, and the eunuchs are saying it’s not going to work. His Majesty stayed at Fu Ning Palace every day, guarding the Sixth Princess night after night. Empress Hui’s entire body lost weight and lost its shape during that time. I think she must have blamed herself and worried that she made a wrong move and really harmed the Sixth Princess. Fortunately, that medicine was indeed effective, and the illness looked menacing, but it gradually recuperated.”
“So later on, Xian Yao became more and more pleasing to Father Emperor?”
Xiangmian was a bit surprised, “Didn’t you already leave the capital at that time? How did you know everything?”
Xian Yang laughed, “I guessed. When she was young, Xian Yao was very naughty and didn’t like to read, write, paint, or play polo, and she didn’t like anything that her father liked. But after returning to the capital, I heard that the Sixth Princess is talented and extremely favored by the Emperor.”
“Yes, the Sixth Princess really doesn’t want to have another serious illness, she would rather be healthy and help Auntie Hui to live a good life in the palace. That’s why Mingyue and I both followed her, learned polo, and read and wrote and painted along with her.
Children are playful by nature, but in the end they are willing to circle themselves and live as adults like. She played polo better than several of the princes. Characters are also well written and poems are well done. His Majesty is becoming more and more fond of her …… Once he even exclaimed to Niangniang Hui that if Xian Yao were a boy, she would become a great man.”
Zhou Xian Yang felt a bit guilty, “She did so much, but in the end she got such a comment, I’m sure she must be very sad in her heart.”
Xiang Xiang sighed silently, “At least Empress Hui was crowned a consort and has a solid position in the palace. The Sixth Princess told me when she was determined to marry into the Northern True Kingdom that it was the last thing she could do for her mother. As long as she becomes the King of the Northern True Kingdom, whichever brother succeeds her in the future will not dare to neglect her and Empress Hui.
She is not like the eldest princess, and the future emperor has such a deep bond. If she married an ordinary son of the capital like the eldest princess, she would still have an empty name in the future and would be at the mercy of others. And by marrying to the Northern True Kingdom, she can also leave her mother in name only, leave the palace city, leave everyone she’s tired of, and go to a place where she’s free of constraints.”
“She should be happy, now.”
“Yes, but Princess Hui is now left with two righteous daughters by her side, both of whom are still married into the royal family. We’re relying on Auntie Hui’s blessings, and she naturally treats us as dependents, hoping that Mingyue and I will both give birth to hereditary sons and have a solid position in the royal family. Especially me, with such a birth, if I don’t have my husband’s favor and my own children …… I don’t know what will happen to me in the future, she worries for me.”
Zhou Xian Yang was silent for a moment and said, “She is overly worried.”