Chapter 467 Blessing
Is there anything that cannot be said to mother that requires calling him to the study?
Having already sent Shen Wan to Zhaolanxuan, Xie Jingyu went to the front yard to find the prince.
In the study, the prince was looking at a topographic map. Xie Jingyu asked, "What does father want me to do?"
The prince looked up at Xie Jingyu and said, "On the sixth day of the first lunar month, my father set off for the border."
The previous arrangement was for Shen Ji to go to the border, and if he could handle it, the prince would not have to go. Now it seems that Dongliang is coming with great momentum, and this war will probably take some time.
Xie Jingyu asked, "Didn't father tell mother?"
If I wanted to tell him, I would have told him in Liuliyuan. There was no need to call him to the study.
The prince said, "Let's talk about it in two days, so as not to affect your mother's mood."
"in addition--"
"I'll take your second brother to the border."
Xie Jingyu said, "This arrangement is good, but my second brother's injury hasn't fully healed yet, so I'm afraid he won't be able to travel quickly."
The prince also knew that Xie Jing'an was not in good health for traveling, but he could not delay his trip to the border any longer, so he had to take Xie Jing'an away from Kyoto first. Otherwise, if he stayed in the mansion, Concubine Wen would not let Xie Jing'an go to the border.
The prince explained some more things. Prince Ling and Prince Cheng were competing for the throne, and Shen Wan was about to give birth. For at least the next two or three months, the emperor would definitely not let Xie Jingyu go to the border.
The prince was very conflicted. He wanted his son to go to the battlefield, after all, he had been familiar with military books since childhood. But Xie Jingyu stayed in Kyoto to protect Prince Ling and the princess. He was at the border and had no worries.
Xie Jingyu asked, "What about Concubine Wen? If she behaves well, I won't touch her, but if she..."
The prince said, "Father has already told Manager Zhou that if she doesn't behave herself, she should be sent to the farm."
Ever since he learned about the family tree, Xie Jingyu has become much more tolerant of Concubine Wen. She is no longer the prince's concubine, but the daughter of his grandfather's benefactor.
In fact, the prince and princess treated Concubine Wen in the same way, but they could not stand Concubine Wen being too noisy. After twenty years, any kindness could be wiped out.
Then Chen Wan returned to Zhaolanxuan, sat on the small couch, and asked Shanhu to massage her calves.
After walking for a while, his calves became badly swollen. Chen Wan became worried when he thought that the swelling would last for a while.
Walking more is good for childbirth, but if you walk a little more, your breasts will swell up, which is very difficult to deal with.
I just hope that the delivery will be smooth like in my previous life. I don’t know if twins conceived on the same day will be born on the same day and at the same time.
If that were the case, she would be born ten days earlier...
Shanhu's massage was very comfortable. Xie Jingyu came in and saw it. "Are your legs swollen again?"
Shen Wan said, “A little bit, it will be fine after the baby is born.”
"By the way, what did Father want you to do?"
Xie Jingyu said, "Father will leave for the border on the sixth day of the first lunar month."
This was expected, and Shen Wan was not surprised.
Chen Wan asked, "Xiahou Yi provoked a war between Dongliang and Ning Dynasty with ill intentions. Is there no way to deal with him?"
Xie Jingyu said, "My father said he has made arrangements and will not let North Vietnam reap the benefits."
Shen Wan didn't understand anything about fighting.
However, she knew that Xie Jingyu was Xiahou Yi's nemesis, and the fact that he traveled thousands of miles to get rid of Xie Jingyu showed how much of a threat Xie Jingyu posed to him.
But Chen Ping went to see Fu'an, why hasn't he come back yet?
Shen Wan took a nap, and the first thing he did when he woke up was to ask if Chen Ping had returned. Shanhu shook his head, "Not yet."
Shen Wan frowned, "You haven't come back yet?"
She was worried that something might have happened to Chen Ping.
Chen Wan got off the bed and went to the study to find Xie Jingyu. Coincidentally, when she went in, Chen Ping jumped in through the window.
Fortunately, I have seen it many times, otherwise I would be scared if I saw someone jumping in through the window.
Shen Wan asked, "Why did you take so long?"
Chen Ping said, "I'm sorry to have kept the Crown Princess waiting for so long. I know that she is very concerned about Fu'an's affairs. Fu'an has been bullied, and I dare not ignore it..."
Shen Wan frowned, “Who bullied Fuan?”
Chen Ping replied, "Eunuch Li arranged a marriage for Fu'an with the concubine daughter of the Imperial Academy's Reviewer. Yesterday, Eunuch Li died in the palace. When his subordinates went to the palace, the Reviewer Feng came to cancel the engagement. Fu'an said he would withdraw after Eunuch Li was buried. The people in the Feng Mansion disagreed and beat Fu'an..."
The Imperial Academy Reviewer was of the seventh rank, and even if she was a concubine's daughter, she was still the daughter of an official family. It was generally impossible for her to fall in love with Fu'an. To put it bluntly, she knew that Eunuch Li valued his only nephew, so she married her daughter to Fu'an so that she could get close to Eunuch Li, the favorite of the Empress Dowager.
The marriage was originally agreed to for the sake of Eunuch Li's face. Now that Eunuch Li is dead and his daughter has not yet married into the family, how could she possibly marry Fu'an?
Eunuch Li thought he had chosen a good marriage for his nephew, but before he was even cold in the cold, his nephew was almost beaten to death.
Shen Wan was so angry, "And then?"
Chen Ping said, "I beat up the people from Feng's house, but I still let Fu'an withdraw from the marriage."
Without the protection of Eunuch Li, the Feng family would not marry their daughter to Fu'an. If Fu'an disagreed, the Feng family might kill Fu'an to cancel the engagement.
Chen Ping said, "After canceling the engagement, I was preparing to return. Before leaving, I asked Fu'an if there was anything else I could help him with. Fu'an wanted to take Eunuch Li out of the palace and send him back to his hometown for burial. I thought it was not difficult, so I went to help him."
Of course, this was not difficult for Chen Ping because he was Xie Jingyu's bodyguard. He usually followed him in and out, and everyone inside and outside the palace knew him.
To some extent, Chen Ping represents Xie Jingyu's intentions.
Generally, after the death of palace ladies, there was a special burial place. Very few, no, almost none, were taken away for burial.
Fu'an has this intention and Chen Ping can do it, so he must help him.
But Eunuch Li was not an ordinary person. He was close to the empress dowager. The people in the palace did not dare to hand over Eunuch Li's body to Chen Ping, so they went to report to the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother was worried that Eunuch Li would side with the Prince and Princess of Jingbei because of his nephew, but now that Eunuch Li is dead, the Queen Mother did not try to stop him just to make things difficult for Chen Wan and Xie Jingyu. After all, Eunuch Li had served her for so many years, and the Queen Mother regarded this as the last grace she gave to Eunuch Li.
Fu'an used a straw mat to pull Eunuch Li's body out of the palace. Chen Ping bought a coffin and found someone to help set up the mourning hall, which is why it has been delayed until now.
Chen Ping said, "The Empress Dowager wanted to see Fu'an because Eunuch Li accompanied Fu'an to buy New Year's goods. A maid in the Empress Dowager's palace saw Eunuch Li give a pair of silver bracelets to Shanhu, and she reported this to the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother asked about Eunuch Li and learned that his nephew was saved by the Crown Prince and his wife, thus avoiding the fate of being castrated and sent to the palace. Eunuch Li expressed his loyalty to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother probably wanted to know why the Crown Prince and his wife helped Fu An, so she wanted to meet him..."
Shanhu didn't expect that Eunuch Li would die because he gave her a pair of silver bracelets. She suddenly felt the silver bracelets on her wrists were hot.
As expected, Eunuch Li died because of her helping Fu'an. The empress dowager was hostile to her and Xie Jingyu, and she did not even spare her own people.
However, it was not the Empress Dowager who killed Eunuch Li. Eunuch Li had an accident on the way to pick up Fu'an. If the Empress Dowager wanted to kill Eunuch Li, it should have been after she met Fu'an.
Shen Wan said, "Fu'an wants to send Eunuch Li's coffin back to Wutong County. Send two servants to help him."
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