Chapter 303 Wei Si thought about it and slapped Wen Ruyun one more time

Wei Si was already in a bad mood.

Seeing that his children were chattering incessantly and making a lot of noise, he stood up with a cold face and slapped each of them.

When everyone was stunned, Wei Si thought for a moment and slapped Wen Ruyun one more time.

Wen Ruyun was stunned and covered her face in disbelief. "Mom, you've already hit me once! Why do I have to take another slap?!"

For some reason, he not only received two slaps, but they were also the hardest. The slaps were particularly crisp and loud, and the bright red fingerprints on his cheeks were more conspicuous than those of his two younger brothers and sisters.

Wei Si sneered, "You look most like Wen Qingsong, so I especially like beating you."

Wen Ruyun never expected that this was the reason why he was beaten!

Wen Xingluo sat on the edge of the bed, her feet dangling in the air, slowly swinging her pearl shoes.

This is really a matter of course. When she was a child, Wen Qingsong treated her differently because she looked most like her mother, and she became the least favored child in the family.

Now it was Wen Ruyun's turn. Instead of feeling sympathy, she felt only gloating.

"You—" Wen Ruyun's face flushed red as he pointed at Wei Si and held his breath for a long moment before saying, "Wait until big brother comes back, I'll let him tell you!"

He flicked his sleeves and rushed out angrily.

Wen Yueyin stamped her feet, looked at Wei Si deeply and unreasonably, and went to chase Wen Ruyun with Wen Rulei.

The hall was finally quiet.

Wei Si fell down on the couch.

She lowered her eyes to gaze at the gold lotus pattern inlaid on the floor tiles and whispered, "I often wonder if it was because I neglected to discipline you when you were young that your brothers and sisters developed such personalities. Am I... truly a very bad mother?"

Wen Xingluo put his arms around her neck and buried his little face in it. "Mother was forced by the thieves to give birth to us. You are the victim. You have no obligation to educate us. They became bad because they were bad to begin with. You never need to feel guilty or repent for what happened to us."

The girl is fragrant, soft and tender.

Every word and sentence was like redemption to Wei Si.

Spring is deep.

Xie Zhe has not set foot in Mingzhu Palace these days.

Wen Xingluo sent Cuicui to ask the palace guards, only to find out that Xie Zhe had been busy trying out elixirs these days. It was said that the two Taoists collected treasures from heaven and earth and used Xiong Lingjiao's heart as a medicine guide. The elixir they made was very useful. Now, even if Xie Zhe only slept two hours a day, he was still very energetic.

Wen Xingluo held her face.

A normal person cannot bear to sleep for two hours a day.

She suspected that the two Taoists had given Xie Zhe some kind of medicinal herb to force him to wake up.

"I heard that the two Taoist priests said this," Cui Cui beamed, stroking her nonexistent beard and imitating the voice of the Taoist priests from Tianyuan Temple. "'After taking the elixir, Your Majesty will sleep less and less. Of the twelve hours a day, ordinary people need to spend four hours sleeping, but Your Majesty is different. From now on, you will not need sleep at all. In other words, just by not sleeping, you can extend your life by twice as long as your peers!'"

Wen Xingluo: "...He believed it?"

"Of course!" Cuicui took a bite of the peach. "It would be so nice not to need to sleep. I also want to not need to sleep every day! That way I can have six meals a day!"

Wen Xingluo pushed the whole plate of fresh peaches in front of Cuicui.

These two Taoist priests looked as if they were going to beat Xie Zhe to death.

She suspected that they were her mother's or Pei Lin's people.

"Oh, right," Cuicui's eyes widened. "I also heard that the two Taoist priests are planning to refine an advanced elixir, which is said to allow people to live beyond a hundred years old. They are asking for the thousand-year-old wild ginseng from Prime Minister Mei's family. That ginseng is a family heirloom, and the Mei family really doesn't want to give it away!"

After hearing this, Wen Xingluo became more and more certain that these two Taoists were members of the restoration faction, and they were purely here to cause trouble for the nobles who betrayed the Wei Dynasty.

At this time, Kunning Palace.

Empress Mei looked grim when faced with her brother and sister-in-law who came to the palace to cry.

Thousand-year-old wild ginseng is extremely rare and priceless. It was obtained by chance by the ancestors of the Mei family and not even the royal family had it.

That is a treasure that can truly prolong your life!

She took a sip of her tea. "The whole world belongs to the king. If he wants treasures, what can we, as his subjects, do if we don't offer them? Your Majesty has been increasingly mad in his pursuit of immortality. So the most important thing right now is not the treasure, but self-preservation. And Wei Si, is she still alive?"

She ordered her brother and sister-in-law to leave, and looked out the window at the lush peony bushes, a flash of murderous intent in her eyes.

Wei Si, you can’t stay.

She waved to her trusted female official.

The female official quickly leaned forward respectfully, "Your Majesty?"

"you go……"

Empress Mei whispered a few words in her ear.

The female official nodded solemnly and immediately took the order to do it.

Half a month later.

Xie Xuchi has recovered a lot and can now barely get out of bed and walk.

He didn't seem to be in a hurry to leave Mingzhu Palace. He continued to recuperate every day and turned a deaf ear to the turbulent struggles in the court.

He especially liked to dine with Wei Si and others.

During dinner, before Wei Si arrived, Wen Xingluo blew on the fragrant tea in her hand and looked at Xie Xuchi, "I heard that the little princes are growing up and each has their own supporters in the court. It seems that your highness's position as crown prince is not stable. Now that you can walk on your own, it's time to leave my mother. Otherwise, by the time you leave, the crown prince position may have already changed hands."

Xie Xuchi was dressed in white, with only a few strands of black hair casually tied up with a wooden hairpin. His handsome face was still as pale as paper, but his slightly raised phoenix eyes held a calm and contented smile.

It was dusk.

The golden crow sets in the west, and the weeping crabapple outside the window is in full bloom, filling even the hall with the fresh fragrance of flowers.

Several home-cooked dishes were placed on the small round table made of rosewood inlaid with white marble in the hall, including stir-fried spring bamboo shoots and ham, fried meat with mushrooms and salt, fish sashimi with shrimp and orange, bird's nest and shredded chicken soup, etc., all of which were fragrant and delicious.

Xie Xuchi enjoyed the aroma of the food and asked gently, "Ningning, are you chasing me away?"

Wen Xingluo didn't like him calling her that, and said calmly, "I'm obviously concerned about you, the Crown Prince, and I'm worried that you'll lose your position as Crown Prince."

"That thing is no longer important to me."

"Really? Back then, Your Highness bullied my second brother in every way possible for the position of crown prince, turning him into a monster. I thought that position was what you cared about most."

"I already know what I did back then was wrong. I will live with guilt for the rest of my life."

"Just guilt?"

Wen Xingluo was acting sarcastic when Wei Si arrived late.

She sat down and said with a smile, "What are you talking about?"

The setting sun shines in, and the woman's face looks exceptionally gentle.

So Wen Xingluo and Xie Xuchi chose to hide their recent dispute at the same time.

Xie Xuchi personally served Wei Si a bowl of bird's nest and shredded chicken soup, "Madam Wei, try it."

Wen Xingluo: “…”

She was also about to serve soup to her mother.

She was a little annoyed and said with a half-smile, "Your Highness, don't you have a mother yourself?"