"Hehehe..." Xiao Xier pulled back the quilt and snuggled into Xiao Lingyu's arms. "I'm a girl, so I need to soak for a while longer to smell better. How about it? Am I fresh and fragrant?"
Xiao Xier held Xiao Lingyu's face close to his.
"Smells so good, very good. You are mother's Princess Xiangxiang." Xiao Lingyu couldn't help but kiss Xiao Xier. Thinking that Xiao Xier would fly back to Nankun after tomorrow night, he kissed Xiao Xier's pink and tender little cheeks several times.
"Eeyee ...
"Oh——" Xiao Xier raised her eyebrows, "Xiao Wu, are you here to snatch mother from your sister?"
Xiao Wu's obsidian eyes stared at Xiao Xier's cheek that was kissed by Xiao Lingyu for a few breaths, then he turned his little body and put his cheek in the same position to Xiao Lingyu's lips.
"Ha..." Xiao Xier laughed, "Mom, Xiao Wu is trying to win your favor. He wants you to kiss him, and you have to kiss the same part of his body."
Xiao Lingyu didn't expect that the baby, who was only over a month old, knew how to compete for favor, so he quickly hugged him and kissed him.
Xiaowu immediately started dancing and laughing happily.
"What's keeping you three awake so late and so happy?"
"Daddy, Xiaowu is vying for your favor, come and kiss him..."
That night, only Donggong had a good sleep.
Li Haiying opened his eyes and saw that it was almost noon. He was so scared that his face turned pale in an instant.
Why is he sleeping so soundly?
He hurried to the bedroom and saw the palace servants lying all over the floor. He was so angry that he kicked them awake one by one and lowered his voice: "What time is it? Hurry up and get up..."
Li Haiying calmed himself down and walked into the inner room tremblingly.
"Ah——" When he saw the retired emperor on the dragon bed with his hands around his neck and his swollen face covered in blood, he cried out in fear.
"The Emperor." Li Haiying stepped forward and tried to take Feng Yanzhi's hands off his neck.
"Don't come over here, it's not me!" The emperor grabbed Li Haiying's wrist and threw him heavily to the ground.
"Oh, Your Majesty, it's a servant, not an assassin."
Feng Yanzhi suddenly opened his scarlet eyes and saw the familiar room. He felt like he was reborn. He took a deep breath and suppressed the panic in his heart.
It turned out that he had been dreaming.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" Li Haiying was really scared when he saw Feng Yanzhi's bloodshot eyes and bloodstains on his face.
"I..." Feng Yanzhi felt his throat dry as he spoke, "I had a dream... Nothing, the food is served."
At just a few words, Li Haiying understood that the emperor was having a nightmare. "The food will be delivered immediately, emperor, you must summon the imperial physician today. Your face..."
Li Haiying handed the small bronze mirror to the emperor.
Feng Yanzhi looked at his own appearance in the mirror, neither human nor ghost, and took a breath of cold air, "Go, call Yang Sheng."
After having nightmares all night long, Feng Yanzhi felt tired. He closed his eyes after he finished speaking, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw Shangguan Ruian flying towards him.
"ah!"
As soon as Li Haiying walked out of the inner room, he heard the emperor exclaim in surprise.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" Li Haiying turned back and saw the emperor's face full of fear. He panicked and hurriedly asked the palace servants to bring him a bowl of calming soup.
At the same time that Yang Sheng stepped into the Yangxin Palace carrying his medicine box, Yun Gu came to the East Palace with a worried look on her face.
"Your Majesty, the Grand Empress Dowager woke up with a start this morning and has not had a drop of water since then. She has been talking nonsense. Please go to Shoukang Palace to check. I am worried that the Grand Empress Dowager will fall into a coma like last time."
Xiao Lingyu was puzzled. "Yesterday, I took the Imperial Grandmother's pulse. She's recuperating well and her coma won't relapse. You just said she woke up with a start this morning and kept talking nonsense. Did you hear what she was talking about?"
Shangguan Lan was present, so Yun Gu didn't dare to tell the truth. "I don't know, I can't hear clearly. Please ask the Queen to go and see her quickly. I'm afraid the Empress Dowager is seriously ill this time."
Shangguan Lan thought it would be better if she just died from her illness!
Xiao Lingyu handed Xiaowu in her arms to Shangguan Lan and said, "Grandma, I'll go to Shoukang Palace right away."
Shangguan Lan really didn't want Xiao Lingyu to go see Empress Dowager Du, but she had no right to stop him. "Go ahead. The sooner you go, the sooner you'll be back."
Xiao Xier handed the rattle in her hand to Su Ning'an and followed Xiao Lingyu to Shoukang Palace.
Shangguan Jinnian looked at the receding figure and asked, "Mother, what could be wrong with Empress Dowager Du?"
Shangguan Lan had blind confidence in Xiao Lingyu. She believed that any difficult and complicated disease could be cured with one move, and that Empress Dowager Du would be able to escape danger this time as well.
Shangguan Lan became more and more angry as she thought about it. "How could the Queen Mother know? You should go to the palace gate and wait. Your father will be here soon."
Su Ningjie pulled Su Ning'an and Su Ningwen quietly retreated.
"Brother, it looks like my great-grandfather is going to the Yangxin Palace today. Should we go with him? What if he hits me too hard..."
"No." Su Ning'an waved his hand. "My great-grandfather knew his limits and wouldn't take the Emperor's life. He just wanted him to leave the palace."
Shangguan Qingluan had analyzed with him that grandmother now had to cover her face when entering the palace to see Xiaowu. As long as the emperor was in the palace, grandmother would not be able to enter the palace freely.
On the way to Shoukang Palace, Xiao Xier whispered to Xiao Lingyu what she had done last night.
Xiao Lingyu was surprised. She and Xingyi were still looking for a legitimate reason to send the retired emperor out of the palace and confine the grand empress dowager to Shoukang Palace.
Xiao Xier's method was so simple and crude, and it just happened to provide a reasonable reason.
"Xiao Xi'er, how come you are so smart?"
Xiao Xier blinked, "Only in this way will they, mother and son, feel that living in the palace is unsafe. After all, if you have done nothing wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door..."
When they arrived at Shoukang Palace, Xiao Lingyu glanced at Empress Dowager Du's face from afar and found that she was indeed in a state of restlessness.
Xiao Lingyu walked forward quickly, and Yun Gu and other palace servants took Empress Dowager Du's hands off her neck.
Empress Dowager Du wanted to struggle, but when she saw that the person coming was Xiao Lingyu, her heart instantly calmed down and she obediently let Xiao Lingyu take her pulse.
Xiao Lingyu frowned and glanced at Xiao Xier beside him.
Xiao Xier’s method is really powerful!
Yun Gu asked, "Empress, is the Grand Empress Dowager all right?"
Xiao Lingyu didn't reply. Instead, she said to Empress Dowager Du, who was lying on the bed, "Grandmother, you have a serious nightmare. Did you have the same dream over and over again last night?"
Empress Dowager Du looked at Xiao Lingyu with a look of panic. Little Yu'er could actually tell that she was having a recurring dream.
"Yes, it's a recurring dream. Is there any way to stop the dream and sleep through the night?"
"Can you please tell me what kind of dream it was? I've read many books on dream interpretation. Some dreams are related to fortune, some are prophetic dreams, and some are messages from deceased people to their families. If you can tell me what it is, I can ask Prince Dehe, Ayi's master, to help you interpret it."
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