Chapter 4: Another Plot

Chu Liuzheng actually guessed it right.

The person who went to the rear house to deliver the news ran away early. All that was known was that His Majesty was furious and kicked the prince consort in the heart.

Xiao Jingfan was upset and pointed at Chu Liuzheng: "Help the princess up and tell her in detail what the prince consort did."

Chu Liuzheng immediately stepped forward to support the eldest princess. In front of the eldest princess's confused gaze, he complained about the bad things that his son-in-law had done with a lot of personal feelings.

The eldest princess became more and more frightened as she listened. Her face, which was already pale to begin with, turned frighteningly pale. Her frail body swayed twice. If it weren't for Nanny Liu supporting her, she would have fallen to the ground.

The prince consort actually had three concubines, and even exchanged her son for his concubine's son?

Has the prince consort been lying to her all along?

No, that's not true!

She is having a nightmare.

Everything is a nightmare.

It will be fine when you wake up from the dream.

"Princess, please think about the prince." Nanny Liu was almost dying of anxiety. She held the eldest princess's arm tightly to give her strength. "The most urgent thing is to find the prince first!"

What’s so important about being a man? The most important thing is the flesh and blood you gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy!

These words were like a wake-up call. The bewildered look in the eldest princess's eyes dissipated, and a sharp light emerged from her eyes, vaguely showing the majesty she had before getting married.

She took a deep breath to steady herself, then bent her knees to kneel down towards Xiao Jingfan. At Xiao Jingfan's glance, Chu Liuzheng immediately reached out to support her.

She softly comforted him, "Your Highness, don't worry. His Majesty has already arranged for the Imperial Guards to pick up the Crown Prince, and the Imperial Physician has also gone with them. The Crown Prince will be fine."

Hearing this, the princess felt relieved, and her forced spirit was weakened a bit. Her vision went dark, and she just barely managed to hold on without fainting.

Chu Liuzheng frowned as he watched.

She still remembered that two months ago during the Mid-Autumn Festival, a banquet was held in the palace and the eldest princess went to the palace to attend the banquet. At that time, her belly was big and round, her face was round, and she looked very healthy.

Now his face was pale and he looked as thin as a piece of paper.

The princess doesn't look like she's just given birth. She looks more like a demon has sucked her life force out of her. Her face is so pale it reflects light, devoid of any color. What kind of pregnant woman would be so emaciated just three days after giving birth? Tsk tsk, is she the victim of another plot by the Prince Consort's family?

Chu Liuzheng quietly opened the system and searched for gossip from three days ago.

[The eldest princess gave birth to a child, gave birth to a child...]

Got it!

[Frog Fun! I've really been tricked! Zhou actually put something extremely cold in the ginseng soup, hoping to kill the princess twice!]

Xiao Jingfan's eyebrows jumped when he heard this.

It is said that giving birth is like having one foot in the gate of hell, so it is normal for a woman to look worse after giving birth.

But the imperial sister was so weak, and it was all caused by that evil woman Zhou!

He said coldly: "Stop."

Zhou Yuande stopped immediately and stood beside Xiao Jingfan.

Zhou was slapped by the eunuch in front of everyone, and her cheeks were swollen like peaches.

The old lady, who usually lived a life of luxury and was respected by others, could not bear the humiliation and blow for a moment. She couldn't breathe and fainted.

Without the emperor's order, the servants did not dare to step forward to help.

The prince consort also had his mouth blocked by the Imperial Guards, and even though he was extremely anxious, he could only make indistinguishable "mmm" sounds.

Xiao Jingfan waved to the accompanying imperial physician.

Doctor Li immediately went forward with his medicine box on his back to see the unconscious Zhou.

Everyone also thought that His Majesty suddenly had a change of heart and felt that he shouldn't have ordered the eunuch to slap the second-rank lady in public, and he wanted to make amends.

Unexpectedly, when he saw Doctor Li walking towards Zhou, Xiao Jingfan kicked him in the butt and cursed, "Idiot!"

Doctor Li was kicked and staggered. He quickly hugged his precious medicine box for fear that it would be broken.

Chu Liuzheng on the side secretly rolled his eyes.

[You're the only one who kicks people because of your long legs, right? Did the imperial physician provoke you? Could you please be a little more polite to a doctor who's saving lives?!]

Xiao Jingfan's anger faltered, but he didn't continue kicking the idiot in front of him who didn't know how to read his expression. Instead, he said in a deep voice, "Check the eldest princess' pulse."

The eldest princess was stunned. She didn't expect that Xiao Jingfan asked the imperial physician to come forward because of her.

It was obvious that after she gave birth, her husband sent someone to deliver the good news to the palace, and the empress dowager and the queen both sent palace maids to deliver congratulatory gifts, but Xiao Jingfan didn't show any expression at all.

She thought Xiao Jingfan was still brooding over what happened three years ago.

It turns out that this brother who is only one year younger than her still cares about her?

The eldest princess was in a complicated mood, but Nanny Liu was very happy.

As long as His Majesty still cares about the sister-brother relationship between him and his princess, the princess will not have a hard time in the future no matter whether the prince consort is good or bad.

She quickly helped the princess sit down and asked Doctor Li to take her pulse.

"The princess's pulse..." Doctor Li frowned and glanced at Xiao Jingfan's face carefully, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Xiao Jingfan knew that there must be something wrong with his pulse, and immediately said impatiently: "Speak!"

Imperial Physician Li knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the Princess was given a fundamentally damaging drug during childbirth. If it weren't for her strong constitution, both would have died during childbirth. Even if the birth goes smoothly now, if she doesn't take good care of herself, I'm afraid... her lifespan will be shortened."

In short, you won't live long.

Everyone eating melons: "!!!"

Wow! Today's melons are really one after another.

The eldest princess was almost killed in her own princess's mansion. No one would believe this if I told them, right?

"I remember that on the day the princess launched her attack, the old lady sent someone to bring a bowl of ginseng soup. Apart from that bowl of ginseng soup, I personally supervised and prepared all the other food and supplies."

As Ma Liu spoke, she stared angrily at Zhou who had fainted on the ground, wishing she could eat her alive.

She never expected that this old hag would do something with the ginseng soup.

He was Zhou's own grandson! How could she have the heart to do that?

"Ginseng soup." The eldest princess sat on the stool in a daze, muttering these two words.

Since she married her husband, she gave in in everything, was filial to her mother-in-law, and friendly with her sisters-in-law. Whenever she got something good, she would send someone to deliver it to her mother-in-law first, for fear of being negligent in the slightest.

When her mother-in-law was ill, she took care of her personally, even preparing the medicine herself. She also knelt in the Buddhist temple every night to chant sutras and pray for her mother-in-law, hoping that she would recover soon.

After three years of heartfelt dedication, all I got in return was a bowl of ginseng soup with added ingredients.

Haha, how ironic!

The eldest princess felt cold all over, and even her heart was filled with cold, making her numb.

"Princess." Nanny Liu hugged her own princess lovingly. Noticing that her hands were cold, she quickly ordered someone to bring her a fur cloak.

But the eldest princess pushed her away, walked step by step to the prince consort, bent down and pulled off the handkerchief that was gagging him.

She asked word by word, "Do you know about this?"

The prince consort wanted to say he didn't know, but under Xiao Jingfan's knife-like gaze, the simple two words seemed to be stuck in his throat and he couldn't spit them out at all.

(End of this chapter)