Chapter 350 Pretending to be Sick

The news of the princess' sudden illness spread throughout Xizhou City overnight. The prince rushed back overnight and stayed by her bedside, taking care of her personally without taking off his clothes, which made everyone in the mansion very anxious.

This news was passed back to the capital by the emperor's spies. The emperor initially thought something was amiss, until a few days later other people also learned about it.

Queen Wang ordered people to search for famous doctors and bring them to Xizhou. The Song brothers and sisters collected precious medicinal materials on a large scale and almost emptied out all the major pharmacies in the capital. The medicinal materials were sent to Xizhou in truckloads.

Even Huo Yanran came to the emperor's presence and begged him to send the imperial physician to Xizhou to save her sister-in-law.

The emperor was forced to believe that Chunzhi might have really fallen ill suddenly, and he sent two imperial doctors to Xizhou to see whether Chunzhi's illness was real or not.

With Queen Wang's secret manipulation, the two imperial physicians sent to Xizhou happened to be Imperial Physician Zhou and Imperial Physician Fan, who had been promoted by her.

Queen Wang felt that Chunzhi had always been in good health, and this "sudden illness" might have other reasons.

Imperial Physicians Zhou and Fan's medical skills were considered top-notch in the Imperial Hospital. They had previously been in and out of the Chang'an Palace to treat Young Master Gu, and had dealt with both Chunzhi and Huo Zheng.

If this disease is fake, these two imperial doctors can help testify.

If Chunzhi was really ill, these two imperial doctors would do their best to treat her after going to Xizhou.

Prince Rui Huo Yang was afraid that if Chunzhi really died in Xizhou, Huo Zheng might not want to stay in such a poor place, so he would try every means to return to the capital.

Huo Yan was looking at the secret report sent by the spy, and heard that Rendong had been surrounding Chunzhi all day long recently. He was so angry that he scolded Rendong for saving everyone but not caring about his life or death!

Everyone in the capital had their own thoughts, while Chunzhi and Huo Zheng were secretly preparing to kidnap people in Xizhou.

Many people from Xizhou went up the mountain at night to dig wild ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum and other things to send to the palace. Some also sent chickens, ducks, eggs and other things, and kept saying that they wanted to nourish the princess.

Chunzhi felt full of guilt about this. She had to pretend to be sick in order to save Yanran, and ended up tiring so many people. She ordered Cui'er and Qingye to accept the things sent by the people of Xizhou, and then convert them into silver according to the market price and give them to them.

Those who refuse to accept money will not accept things from the people.

The people who came to deliver the gifts were unwilling to accept the money at first, but when they heard that the princess had instructed the maids to do this even when she was sick, they had no choice but to accept the money, burn incense and worship Buddha, and kneel down to pray to the gods to bless the princess to recover soon.

Following the princess's instructions, Honeysuckle spread the word that this disease could only be cured by finding a hidden miracle doctor.

Huo Zheng had all official business sent to the palace. He took care of Chunzhi while handling official business.

Officials from Xizhou went in and out of the palace every day, and they all smelled the smell of medicine in the palace, which was getting stronger day by day, and they all sighed.

Mrs. Wang and the others came to see the princess. Seeing that she looked very sick and was so weak that she couldn't get out of bed, some of them couldn't help crying.

Chunzhi almost couldn't continue acting, but fortunately Huo Zheng asked them to go back first in time so as not to disturb the princess's meditation and cultivation.

As soon as these people left, Chunzhi sat up. She was used to being busy, and except for the period of confinement after childbirth, she had never lay down for so many days in a row. She really couldn't lie down for a long time, and her back and waist ached from lying down.

Huo Zheng stepped forward with his beauty fist and gave Chunzhi a shoulder and back massage. "Can't you bear to see people cry?"

"Mrs. Liang cried because she was worried about me. Her tears were streaming down her face..." Chunzhi said with a hint of guilt, "I didn't expect that my 'illness' would make so many people sad."

Mrs. Wang's eyes were also red, and they all thought that the princess had some incurable disease.

When the news reached the capital, the Queen Mother, Yanran, Wan'er and the others all knew that she was ill. Who knows how worried they must be.

But what she and Huo Zheng were going to do was too dangerous, and one move would affect the entire body. She couldn't tell them that she was faking illness. If she wanted to hide it from the emperor, she had to hide it from everyone else.

The fewer people who know about this, the better.

So Chunzhi could only continue to pretend to be sick with guilt.

Huo Zheng patted Chunzhi's waist. She stretched out her arms and turned away. "Here, here too."

Huo Zheng served the princess as instructed.

Xiaoxing lay on the small bed beside the couch and watched his father pounding his mother here and there.

The little guy was still too young to understand why he came to his mother to cry. He only knew that he was always so busy that he could not see them all day. He could only see them when he was very sleepy, or even when he woke up in the middle of a sleep. However, his father and mother stayed at home with him these days.

Chunzhi had a small bed placed next to her bed and let Xiaoxing sleep on the small bed. Everyone thought that the princess was seriously ill and couldn't bear to leave the young master, so she wanted to keep the child by her side. She was also afraid that the disease would spread to the young master, so she did this.

In fact, Chunzhi accompanies Xiaoxing to sleep and play together every day.

Huo Zheng asked Mu Kaiji to monitor the officials' implementation of the decree, while he began to discuss with the officials of Xizhou about opening up trade between Daxing and Xiling, and even opening up a trade route with Beili...

If we want long-term peace and stability, we must ensure that the people have enough food and clothing and gradually become rich.

Huo Zheng handles official business and takes care of the princess every day, but he rarely leaves the palace. Whenever he has free time, he stays in the main house.

He took care of Chunzhi himself, including feeding and changing Xiaoxing's diapers.

Xiaoxing likes to be close to his father and mother, so he is very happy every day.

Eat more and sleep better.

At this moment, the little guy was particularly interested in the cloth hammer made of rattan and satin filled with silk cotton and spices. He thought it was very interesting and stared at it. Then he climbed from the small bed to the big bed to take the beauty fist in his father's hand.

Huo Zheng saw the little guy crawling over, picked him up with one hand, and continued to massage Chunzhi with the other.

Chunzhi looked back at Xiaoxinghui and asked with a smile, "Why did you come back again?"

The little guy didn't like sleeping in the crib. He liked sleeping next to his mother, but those people kept chattering. Every time he struggled to climb out of the crib and onto the big bed, they would carry him back to the crib.

But Xiaoxing still persevered and climbed onto the big bed.

After doing it many times, he became smarter and always climbed when the maids were not around.

Daddy is different from them. When he sees him climbing onto the big bed, he won’t pull him back to the small bed, but will just pick him up.

"I want...I want..."

Xiaoxing replied to her mother, and without waiting for her to give it to her, she stretched out her arms as thin as lotus roots to grab the beauty fist in Huo Zheng's hand.

Chunzhi pressed the back of his neck: "This beauty's punch is not heavy, let him play with it for a while."

Huo Zheng handed the Beauty Fist to Xiao Xinghui as he was told, and held it with his hand for fear that he couldn't hold it.

Although the little guy's hands were so small, he was very strong. He grabbed the beauty fist and imitated his father massaging his mother's back. He did it three or four times in a row and imitated it quite well.

Chunzhi smiled and said, "Xiaoxing, are you going to take care of mother?"

"Um!"

The little guy nodded heavily. Even though he was old enough to be held by someone, he already knew how to give his mother a back massage.

"Okay." Chunzhi nodded with a smile. She raised her hand and placed it on her shoulder. "Then give mother a massage here."

The little guy raised his fist with great effort and gave his mother a shoulder pat...

The days passed by quickly, tensely and tenderly, and in the blink of an eye it was August 16th.

The Thirteenth Princess and the Miss Song got married on the same day.