However, compared to before, his health seems to be much better.
Does the practice of "marrying for good luck" actually work?
"By the way, there are many precious tonics in the Prince's mansion. I'll have someone send them over later. Brother, you can send the royal physician to check them out. There should be quite a few that are suitable for pregnant women to take."
Besides gold, silver and valuables, the Prince's Mansion was mostly filled with various medicinal herbs.
After all, Zhou Xuance was a "medicine addict," and most of the royal family's precious medicines ended up in the Regent's Palace.
elder brother, sister-in-law...
Someone readily agreed with the suggestion and pronounced it so fluently.
Shen Jingchuan suspected more than once:
The regent has been possessed.
He thanked Wen Qing politely.
"If you have time, Second Brother, please come to the manor to ride horses often," Zhou Xuance said with a smile.
Shen Muzhi snorted coldly and remained silent.
Don't even think about bribing me with a horse!
The Shen family watched the Prince's carriage leave. Shen Muzhi belatedly glanced at his father and asked, "Father, why did you suddenly ask me to go and meet my little sister today? Did you suspect something would happen to her?"
Shen Chongde glanced at his second son, his expression seeming to say:
Even a fool has suddenly become enlightened?
The Shen family are all shrewd people. If they think about today's events carefully, they can find clues. Shen Qi'an is young and does not understand the affairs of the court. Shen Muzhi has sensed some clues, but his stubborn mind cannot think of anything else.
After returning to his room, Shen Jingchuan accompanied Wen Qing to take her pregnancy-stabilizing medicine before muttering, "The Regent gives me a strange feeling."
Wen Qing cleared her throat. "What's strange?"
"It feels somewhat familiar."
"Maybe...it really is someone we know?"
What do you mean by that?
"Do you still remember the guard by Zhiyi's side, that young man who was exceptionally fair-skinned and handsome?"
Wen Qing felt she had made herself perfectly clear, but Shen Jingchuan frowned and asked, "Handsome? What type do you like?"
"I……"
"That boy is even whiter than a girl, and skinny as a feather. What's so good about him?"
Shen Jingchuan and Wen Qing had been married for several months, and this was the first time he had heard her praise another man's good looks, so he was naturally unhappy.
Wen Qing laughed out loud: "Is my husband jealous?"
The point of her statement wasn't to praise Xiao Zhongxuan, but rather to describe him as a person.
"Why would I be jealous? Besides, what makes that boy better than me? Why would I be jealous?" Shen Jingchuan said seriously. "Zhiyi is now a princess. You must not mention her relationship with Xiao Zhongxuan again. If others find out, it will cause trouble again."
Wen Qing was helpless:
That's not what she meant at all.
"Jingchuan, have you ever suspected that the Prince and Guard Xiao might be the same person?" Wen Qing asked directly.
However, this only elicited a low chuckle from Shen Jingchuan:
"Qingqing, everyone says that pregnancy makes you stupid for three years. I didn't believe it before, but now I do."
"..."
Wen Qing was speechless.
She reminded him herself, and he actually called her stupid?
That's enough.
If he doesn't believe it, there's nothing you can do.
**
Prince Regent's Palace
Zhou Xuance had been imprisoned for several days and had many military affairs that urgently needed his attention, so after returning to the palace, he went directly to his study, while Shen Zhiyi went to soak in the hot spring.
The Prince's mansion was luxurious. In the past, Zhou Xuance would take medicinal baths, so a huge hot spring pool was built in a hall inside the mansion.
"Soaking in such a big pool all by herself, she really knows how to enjoy herself," Hongrui muttered.
“Young lady, we were all terrified when we heard about your accident today,” Green Lotus said.
"I'm perfectly fine."
"Fortunately, the Second Young Master arrived in time. This enemy spy is far too audacious to attempt an assassination in the capital."
"But why would the Empress suddenly commit suicide? Could it be that she was really too traumatized by the matter concerning the Third Prince?"
...
The two maids were unaware of the situation, and Shen Zhiyi simply smiled upon hearing this.
"Alright, you guys can go out now. I want to be alone for a while." Shen Zhiyi needed some quiet time to sort out all the things that had happened recently.
"Please don't soak for too long. If you feel unwell, please call us anytime. We'll be waiting outside the hall," Hongrui said, closing the hall door with Lühe and leaving quietly.
Shen Zhiyi had been troubled by Zhou Xuance's matter lately, unable to eat or sleep. Now that the matter was temporarily resolved, she felt a little more relaxed. Soaking in the hot spring, her whole body enveloped in hot water, she felt much more comfortable.
Closing my eyes, I vaguely recalled all the things that had happened in the past...
This time,
She even dreamed of an earthquake in western Sichuan.
The eldest brother broke both legs while saving Zhou Xuance.
"Save, save the young master of the Shen family!" Zhou Xuance ordered the military doctor.
"Your Highness, you are injured too." The military doctor ignored Shen Jingchuan's life or death and only fed Zhou Xuance a life-saving pill.
"I command you to go and rescue Shen Jingchuan."
"Your Highness, the Emperor's order is to rescue you and bring you back to the capital..."
“He was injured while saving me! This is the eldest son of the Duke of Zhenguo.” After Zhou Xuance finished speaking, he called out to Kong Qing, but no one answered after calling for a long time. The people only told him to rest and recover.
He was sent back to the capital and recuperated at his residence.
The palace guards, however, used the pretext of protecting him to enter the prince's mansion openly and turned the entire mansion upside down.
Even the lake in the Prince's Palace was drained of water, and the silt was turned up.
They seem to be looking for something.
In the end, nothing was gained.
Zhou Xuance, who was hanging on by a thread, passed away in his residence in the thirteenth year of the Daqian era after the emperor personally bestowed upon him a bowl of medicine.
The emperor was overcome with grief and fell ill from longing. He sought out a master to perform a ritual to help him pass on to the afterlife. The master said that he had committed too many killings and accumulated too much evil karma, and therefore it was not appropriate for him to be buried in the imperial mausoleum after death. In the end, he entrusted his body to them for disposal.
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