When Wan Jinlan entered the inner hall, he saw Xiao Feng staring indifferently at the top of the curtain with his eyes open.
Seeing her come in, he looked at her with clear eyes.
Wan Jinlan sat beside the bed and grabbed his hand, "Why didn't your Highness ask to get up today?"
"If you make trouble again, I'll probably be a widow soon."
"Before she passed away, the Queen Mother was most worried about you. As long as you get better, the Queen Mother's spirit in heaven will be comforted."
Xiao Feng's large, bony hand shook hers, "Thank you for your hard work these days."
He held her hand, as if he had done it many times, and he felt no discomfort at all.
Wan Jinlan said in a relaxed tone: "Then you must get better soon."
"Go and tell His Majesty that Prince Su is planning a rebellion. Never give Prince Su the task of suppressing the rebellion."
Wan Jinlan was stunned, "How did the prince know?"
Xiao Feng said, "Jiang Huo said that before entering the palace."
"Your Highness, do you know that you have been infected by a Gu insect? Do you know how you got infected?"
"I was originally in Jiangnan. While inspecting the salt fields, I encountered refugees fleeing from Qingzhou. I then went to Qingzhou, but was ambushed and killed. I was rescued by the Prince of Guangling's men."
He had been stabbed, sword-wounded, and poisoned, and he knew how all the wounds were caused. Only the sudden abdominal pain after having a meal at Prince Guangling's place made him suspicious.
Wan Jinlan recounted what had happened in recent days.
Xiao Feng frowned and asked, "Are you saying that Xiao Zheng proposed to exchange Princess Kangning for the antidote?"
Wan Jinlan nodded and whispered indignantly, "His Majesty doesn't want to save you."
She leaned over and whispered in his ear, "There's something wrong with your medicine..."
Xiao Feng frowned.
There is no reason for my brother to treat him like this. Why?
"Your Highness, wait until I've finished speaking before you decide whether or not to pass the news on to His Majesty."
Wan Jinlan leaned over to his ear and repeated Aunt Xia Liu's words concisely and clearly.
"Your Majesty, you are not born of the same mother. Back then, your mother gave birth to a prince, and her maid, Sui'er, also gave birth to a prince on the same day. Sui'er was so audacious that she switched the two children. Later, your brother fell ill and died. Your Majesty, your mother has investigated and found that it was Sui'er who deliberately left the child in the snow and froze him to death. Your Majesty didn't know this at first, but later, Sui'er missed him so much that she kept acting inappropriately in front of Your Majesty. And when she saw that Your Majesty's face resembled Sui'er's, the truth was revealed."
Xiao Feng looked shocked. He really didn't expect it to be like this.
"The Queen Mother skinned Sui'er alive. At the time, she was in a difficult situation. Although she was the Queen, she was neglected. Without the prince by her side, her situation was even more difficult. The Queen Mother kept those things secret from Your Majesty, who was still a prince. Although she had a grudge against him, she always treated him as her own son."
Xiao Feng's tone was dry, "Mother, can you tell me why you abandoned me in Kyoto back then?"
In Kyoto, he was kept in a separate courtyard, starving, cold in winter, and treated harshly by palace maids and eunuchs.
Every day in the small courtyard, he lived a life worse than pigs and dogs, with no dignity at all.
After the Queen Mother brought his brother back to Kyoto, he was almost sacrificed.
When he heard his mother riding on horseback outside the city and saying with a cold face that she didn't care about him and that his life or death had nothing to do with her, he would never forget the feeling of his blood freezing at that moment and the arrow that his mother shot at him coldly and ruthlessly.
Xiao Feng spoke each word with a difficult tone.
Wan Jinlan felt sad when he heard this. It turned out that he had experienced the same things in his childhood.
"If the Queen Mother hadn't said that, you would have been dead."
Xiao Feng's brows were filled with sadness. "After everything settled down, my mother did say so, but I don't dare to believe it."
He was a man abandoned by his mother.
"I left you in Kyoto because the situation was dire. I believe there is no mother who doesn't love her child."
"Your Majesty is not the Queen Mother's biological son. I have felt guilty towards you all these years. Now that she is gone, if the prince still holds a grudge against the Queen Mother, he will not let me go."
Wan Jinlan spoke softly, feeling guilty towards the empress dowager.
"If I hadn't told my mother what had happened, she wouldn't have fallen out with you and His Majesty, and she wouldn't have died suddenly."
"Before she died, Nanny Huang said that Sui'er had left a letter in blood for Your Majesty, informing Your Majesty that the Queen Mother's own son had died suddenly of an illness, and that she had taken her son away from her, intending to completely eliminate her. She then asked Your Majesty to avenge her in the future."
Xiao Feng asked, "Did Madam Huang say when the suicide note was given to Your Majesty?"
Xiao Feng always had a strange feeling. If Prince Guangling didn't know the situation in the palace very well, how could he use Princess Kangning to sow discord between the Queen Mother and the Emperor, causing their relationship to break down?
Prince Guangling should not only know that his royal brother is not his biological brother, but also know the grudge between Sui'er and his mother.
What role did Prince Su, who had an inextricable relationship with the Qingzhou governor, play in this?
As for Nanny Huang, is she really the emperor's person?
"Aunt Xia Liu didn't say much about Sui'er's suicide note, so I'm not quite sure what the situation was. What Your Highness needs to know now is that His Majesty doesn't want you to survive!"
Wan Jinlan half straightened up and looked at him, with an apologetic and serious look on his face. "Xiao Feng, do you blame me? I was too smart and threw everything to my mother."
Xiao Feng raised his hand and smoothed her temples. "Do you think you're too smart? If I were you, I would probably choose the same method."
Wan Jinlan's heartstrings suddenly relaxed.
She gently placed her head on the crook of his neck, already accustomed to the smell of medicine lingering in her nose.
He gently put his arms around her and sighed in his heart: It seems like you are all I have.
He had never had much, his mother had passed away, and his brother, whom he once admired, now didn't want him to live.
He wanted to ask him, but was afraid that she would get into more danger with him.
She asked, "Do I need to inform His Majesty about Prince Su?"
Xiao Feng was silent for a while, his eyes dark, and finally he shook his head.
After all, he is not a saint and can no longer treat his brother the same way as before.
No one knew the emperor's fear of Prince Su better than him.
Based on his understanding of the emperor, he would not let Prince Su lead the Northern Army to attack Prince Guangling unless it was absolutely necessary.
Thinking of this, Xiao Feng's expression was shocked, "I know."
If the Qingzhou governor was originally Su Wang's man, then has the Guangling prince always been in Su Wang's calculations?
Both the emperor and he may have underestimated Prince Su's power.
Wan Jinlan looked at him in confusion.
Xiao Feng didn't continue because the imperial physician arrived.
"Go back to sleep, my lord."
Xiao Feng immediately closed his eyes obediently. When he heard her laughter, his face stiffened slightly.
The imperial physician took the patient's pulse for a long time today. His brows were furrowed and he looked confused and uncertain.
Wan Jinlan waited leisurely.
"What's going on, Doctor Song?"
Doctor Song hesitated and said, "Your Highness's health is better now than before."
Wan Jinlan's palace staff were all guarding outside. There was only one medicine boy and Doctor Song in the palace. She chuckled, "I poured out all the medicine that Doctor Song prescribed. It seems that our prince's health can get better without taking medicine."
Doctor Song was stunned, and then his expression became unnatural. The medicine boy stood there, not knowing what was going on.
Wan Jinlan sent the medicine boy to the side hall, and then looked at Doctor Song unkindly.
"I don't know how Doctor Song managed to work as the imperial physician in the Imperial Hospital for so many years. The patient actually became weaker and weaker in your hands."
Doctor Song was sweating profusely and his eyes were evasive.
Wan Jinlan sneered, "This concubine considers that the imperial physician's job in the palace is not easy, so I will not dwell on the past for now. If I find out what you are doing next, and something happens to our prince, your family outside the palace will be buried with him."
Doctor Song wiped his sweat and said, "Thank you, Princess, for your magnanimity. I will keep my mouth shut."
The two of them understood each other tacitly.
He was only following the emperor's orders, but if things got out of hand, the emperor would definitely sacrifice him.
Now the threat from Princess Qi only made him shut up and turn a blind eye to the affairs of Feiyu Palace.
He had been a doctor for many years and knew that the King of Qi's condition would not improve without other medicines.
Doctor Song was worried that if the King of Qi got better day by day, his life would be in danger.
"Don't worry, Doctor Song. When the prince gets better in a few days, I will expel you from Feiyu Palace on the pretext of poor medical skills."
Doctor Song looked even more miserable. Being accused of poor medical skills as an imperial physician meant he would have no future in the future. But compared to losing his life, this was already the best option.
"Since Doctor Song has done it, shouldn't he pay the price?"
What can Doctor Song do?
After the imperial physician left, Wan Jinlan touched Xiao Feng's face. Seeing that he didn't open his eyes, he knew that he had fallen asleep again.
She was a little worried and didn't know what to do in the future.
If the emperor was determined to attack Xiao Feng, how many times could he escape?
When Xiao Feng recovers, how will the emperor deal with him?
Compared to the pregnant concubine of Prince Rui in Concubine Lai's palace, isn't Xiao Minghuan more likely to be the one?
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