Chapter 396: Bluff
Shen Wan thought she was hallucinating and said in a daze, "Has my mother's old illness come back again?"
Mother Zhao said, "It's happened again. Fortunately, thanks to Shanhu, there is medicine to treat it."
Shen Wan, “…”
coral,"……"
There is an antidote.
But it was the prince who gave the princess the muscle softening powder. Even if she had some courage, she would not dare to give the princess the antidote.
Why did the prince drug the princess for no reason?
Unable to figure out the situation, Shen Wan didn't dare to speak carelessly and asked Shan Hu, "Do you have any pills in your hand?"
Shanhu shook her head decisively, "No more..."
Chen Wan said, "Why don't you buy some in advance? Go to Huguo Temple and take the Buddhist scriptures I copied with you."
Coral agreed without hesitation.
Shen Wan looked at Mother Zhao and said, “Tell your mother not to worry, I’ll buy it back soon.”
Mother Zhao smiled and said, "It's an old problem. I didn't worry about it before, but now there is medicine to treat it, so there is even less need to worry."
It was also their negligence. They thought that taking medicine would cure it and it would not recur. Unexpectedly, it still recurred. Why can't it be cured completely?
As soon as Mother Zhao left, Chen Wan had someone tell Xie Jingyu that the princess had suffered a relapse of her old illness.
Upon hearing that the princess had suffered from her old illness again, Xie Jingyu's brows were twisted into knots.
Originally planning to go back to the house to have lunch with Shen Wan, Xie Jingyu stood up directly and said, "I'm going back to the house."
Riding back to Prince Jingbei's Mansion, Xie Jingyu went straight to the study to find the prince.
After entering, Xie Jingyu questioned, "Why did you drug my mother again?!"
The prince said, "Keeping vigil and attending funerals is too tiring. Father simply couldn't bear to see your mother suffer this hardship."
Xie Jingyu laughed when he heard this, "Father, do you think I'm so easy to fool?"
Prince, “…”
The prince had a headache. "Father doesn't care about what you do. Can you please stop interfering in what Father does?"
I thought he liked to be in charge.
Xie Jingyu said, "That's my mother!"
The prince still said, "Father will not harm your mother."
Xie Jingyu said, "I want to know why my father did this!"
He hadn't told him last time, so he wanted to check it himself. As a result, he was a step too late, and the princess's medical records over the years had been taken away.
He didn't allow me to ask or investigate, and ended up drugging his mother. He really thought his son was easy to talk to.
The prince knew that Xie Jingyu would come to him after drugging the princess. The prince said tiredly, "If I can tell you, my father will not hide it from you."
Xie Jingyu was shocked, "You can't even tell me?"
The prince said, "The lifting of house arrest will only prevent your mother from leaving the house. It won't cause any harm to her health."
Xie Jingyu was not satisfied with this answer, "Can I harm my mother?"
The prince knew his son was difficult to dismiss, so he could only say, "If one day you and your mother both asked your father to choose, and your father chose your mother, would that answer be enough?"
That's enough of an answer.
So infuriating.
Xie Jingyu said angrily, "Did I pick it up?"
His own father didn't even trust him, his own son.
Knowing that he couldn't get the answer, Xie Jingyu turned and left.
Shen Wan was at the princess's place. Xie Jingyu went to visit her. The princess said, "My mother is just having an old illness. Don't worry about her. You should just do what you need to do."
Xie Jingyu didn't say anything. After staying for a while, he left.
Shen Wan endured it all the way, and only when he returned to Zhaolanxuan did he ask, "Why did father drug mother again?"
Xie Jingyu said, "Keeping vigil and attending the funeral is too tiring, and my father couldn't bear to let my mother suffer this hardship."
Shen Wan, “…”
The corner of Shen Wan's mouth twitched, "Do you believe it?"
Xie Jingyu said, "I can't find out the real reason."
Shen Wan said, "Mother Zhao came to me early in the morning to ask for the antidote. I asked Shanhu to go to the Huguo Temple. Do you want to give Mother Concubine the soft muscle powder?"
Xie Jingyu said, "Let's wait for Father to detoxify Mother."
My father knew very well that he would not agree to him giving my mother the muscle softening powder again, but he still did such a thing. Even after he asked her twice, she didn't say a word. She was determined to keep my mother in the mansion and not let her go out. His intuition told him that if my mother went out, there would be disaster.
As long as it is for the good of his mother, he does not object to his father using some extraordinary measures, but the premise is that he cannot hide it from him.
Why not give the medicine earlier or later, but at this time? Is it because he is afraid that his mother will leave the house and be seen by someone?
He will definitely find out!
Xie Jingyu accompanied Chen Wan for lunch before entering the palace.
At the court the next morning, the Duke of Song wanted to keep the Dongliang envoys from welcoming the bride at the post station outside the city for a few days because there was a funeral in the palace and he was afraid that the wedding would conflict with it.
However, this proposal was suppressed by the Right Prime Minister. "The Empress Chen's death is not new, so there is no need for so many precautions. If there is really a taboo, the Dongliang envoys can stay in the temporary palace for a few days and then enter the palace after the Empress Chen's funeral. How can we have them stay in the post station?"
Duke Song was not in the right, and few people agreed with him, so the proposal was shelved.
We hadn't discussed the marriage much before, but before evening today, the Dongliang envoys arrived to welcome the bride, so we had to discuss it.
The emperor only agreed to the marriage, but he has not yet decided on the candidate for the marriage, so he can't delay any longer.
However, just as the minister spoke out, the emperor asked, "Shouzhen is the only princess of marriageable age in the palace. Are there any other options?"
Minister, "..."
Just talking nonsense.
What the emperor said was no different from explicitly asking Princess Shouzhen to marry a foreign prince.
In fact, all the civil and military officials, inside and outside the palace, tacitly agreed that Princess Shouzhen was the one who went to marry.
Queen Song had no choice but to go to the Queen Mother and tell her the truth about what happened that day when she went to the Huguo Temple to burn incense. She said that the emperor could not adopt an adopted daughter was a fabricated story. She was afraid that the emperor would make the Prince of Jingbei's wife a princess, so she made it up on purpose. However, she was afraid of angering the Queen Mother and did not dare to tell her directly. She did not expect that she was not careful enough and was outmaneuvered.
The Empress Dowager leaned back on the large welcoming pillow and looked at Empress Song. "It's no use telling me this. Everyone in the world knows that the Emperor has adopted a daughter. I would be in fear for my life. Can the Emperor disregard his own reputation and my life and death and adopt my daughter as a princess to marry?"
Queen Song asked, "Is there no other way?"
The Queen Mother said, "The Emperor has already risked everything for that woman. You go and tell him the truth about the fortune-telling at the Huguo Temple. That will give him a reason to posthumously confer the title of Empress on Consort Chen and bury her in the Imperial Mausoleum as Empress."
"Do you want to protect your daughter or the position of queen?"
Queen Song's face was pale and her figure kneeling on the ground was shaky.
The empress dowager was tired and waved her hand to let Queen Song leave.
Queen Song consulted with Duke Song, but there was no solution.
However, just as Duke Song was leaving, the prince entered the palace. Duke Song stopped the prince and said, "Throughout the dynasties, it has been rare for legitimate princesses to marry into a foreign kingdom. Prince Jingbei commands a large army and should know the pressure a legitimate princess in the hands of an enemy nation would bring to the border. Does Prince Jingbei really agree with the emperor letting Princess Shouzhen marry?"
The prince dismissed the Duke of Song with one sentence, "A general in a foreign land is not subject to the orders of his sovereign."
She might not even listen to the emperor, let alone a princess who was married to Dongliang.
Duke Song said, "If the prince consort doesn't have military power, I don't think the King of Jingbei would want his son to never go to the battlefield in his lifetime, right?"
A naked threat.
The prince looked at Duke Song.
Suddenly he laughed.
"Isn't this a ready-made solution? Why does Duke Song need to ask me for help?"
After saying this, the prince rode away on his horse.
Duke Song's brows were twisted into knots.
Where is the ready-made solution?
As Duke Song watched Prince Jingbei riding away on his horse, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
The emperor cannot disregard the empress dowager's order and adopt a daughter and make her a princess, as the world is full of gossip. But if she is the emperor's own daughter, then it doesn't matter.
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PS: Threatening the King of Jingbei would be the stupidest thing Duke Song has ever done. Pei Huaijin is riding in a prisoner car to the capital, and he has to take a ride to recognize his ancestral roots again.
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