Chapter 92 These bandits are actually...】
Chen Fenghe: “…”
Fine, if you don't want to admit it, then don't admit it. She's happy to play deaf and dumb.
After Jiang Shuo denied it, he still looked at her unhappily and asked, "Are you the Crown Princess?"
Chen Fenghe had no intention of hiding it and said, "The deposed Crown Princess is now nothing more than an exiled prisoner."
"What's going on with these bandits? Are you familiar with them? Do they really have evil intentions?"
Chen Fenghe naturally couldn't tell Jiang Shuo the truth, so she lied casually, "Oh, they were indeed bribed to kill us, but just as they were about to do it, I suddenly recognized that the bandit leader was my childhood playmate, so... they didn't kill me, and they even treated us to delicious food and wine..."
After hearing this, Jiang Shuo felt even more depressed.
Ha! No wonder he calls me "Big Brother" so affectionately, it turns out we are childhood sweethearts.
What Shen Fenghe said was naturally not true.
Time goes back a few hours.
Chen Fenghe, Qin Mengyue and the three children were taken to the back mountain. She had secretly released the safety of her pistol and was about to pull the trigger.
The masked man turned around and suddenly took off the black cloth from his face. He then knelt on one knee, clasped his fists, and said in a deep voice, "Empress Dowager, Crown Princess Dowager, I am late! I hope you two will forgive me!"
Seeing this, the other bandits around also took off the black cloths on their faces and knelt down!
Chen Fenghe and Qin Mengyue looked at them in surprise for a moment.
Weren't these... bandits planning to kill them? Why were they suddenly...giving them such a grand gift?
Chen Fenghe quickly came to her senses. It seemed that she was right. These bandits... did have other origins!
She asked crisply, "May I ask who you are?"
The masked man clasped his fists again and introduced himself, "My name is Luo Yan, and I am the Left General under His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! I deserve to die! I failed to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, allowing him to be harmed by a traitor! Please punish me, Your Majesties!"
The others all shouted in unison, "This subordinate deserves death! Please punish me, Your Majesty!"
Shen Fenghe was stunned for a moment.
It’s actually... the prince’s man?
Unexpectedly, the prince has been charged with treason, and his subordinates are so loyal that they are willing to disguise themselves as bandits to rescue his mother, brother, and wife...
Qin Mengyue's face turned pale as paper after hearing this: "You...are you really a general under the Crown Prince? You just said Crown Prince...Could it be that the Crown Prince...Shuo'er...is he really dead?!"
Upon hearing this, Luo Yan's face showed an expression of grief, anger, and self-blame. He pulled out a jade pendant from his bosom, presented it to Qin Mengyue with both hands, and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Highness was seriously injured and fell off a cliff. We went to the bottom of the cliff to look for him, but... apart from this jade pendant on your Highness, we didn't find anything. But we did find..."
"Did you discover...what?" Qin Mengyue asked in a trembling voice.
"We found bloodstains and... traces of a body being dragged by a wild animal. We followed the traces, but ultimately all we found was... a pile of bones..."
When Qin Mengyue heard this, she felt dizzy for a moment. The immense grief made her chest so stuffy that she couldn't even breathe. Although she was clearly grieving, her throat felt as if it was stuffed with cotton, and she couldn't even make a cry!
She looked straight at Luo Yan.
A pile of bones...? Her child?
No! How could it be possible! Shuo'er had been sensible and filial since childhood. Before every battle and after every triumphant return, he would come to her palace to report his safety!
His voice, appearance, and smile from childhood to adulthood were all still vivid in my mind. How could he... in an instant turn into a pile of bones...
"...Shuo'er...my child...ah!"
Qin Mengyue used up all her strength and shouted hoarsely. She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and then her eyes went black and she fell to the ground!
"Mom!" Chen Fenghe shouted and hurriedly supported her!
Luo Yan also stood up suddenly from the ground and shouted in a trembling voice: "Empress!"
When Xiao Yunhao saw his mother vomiting blood, he was so scared that he started crying and grabbed Qin Mengyue's hand and burst into tears.
"Mom! Mom, please don't die! Wow..."
Shen Yichuan and Shen Qingxing were also frightened and started crying.
Chen Fenghe put Qin Mengyue on the ground and hurriedly took her pulse.
Fortunately, Qin Mengyue was only overcome with grief for a moment, which caused her to vomit blood.
She hurriedly took out silver needles and inserted acupuncture needles into the important acupoints on Qin Mengyue's body. She also pinched her Ren Zhong acupoint. After a while, Qin Mengyue woke up faintly, but her face was ashen. She just stared at the people around her in a daze, without crying or shouting, as if she was unconscious.
Shen Fenghe's heart sank. This symptom was not a good sign!
When Xiao Yunhao saw Qin Mengyue wake up, he cried out "Wow" and rushed over to her, crying even harder.
"Mom! You're awake! Mom, don't die, don't die, don't die, Hao'er!"
When Qin Mengyue heard Xiao Yunhao's voice, she moved towards him in a daze. When she saw his small body crying with tears and snot, her tears suddenly burst out.
She raised her hands and held Xiao Yunhao in her arms, comforting him softly, "Hao'er, don't cry. Mother... Mother will not abandon Hao'er..."
Chen Fenghe felt a little relieved when she saw Qin Mengyue crying.
There are many examples of people who have been so angry that they collapse and cannot wake up. This is because the sadness, anger and resentment are pent up in their hearts and cannot be vented.
Now that Qin Mengyue is crying, it means that the grief in her heart has been vented, and at least her life is no longer in danger.
Luo Yan was surprised to see that Chen Fenghe could actually perform acupuncture, and then he asked worriedly, "Crown Princess, is the Queen in any serious trouble?"
Chen Fenghe said, "I think her life is safe. However, her excessive grief has damaged her heart, lungs, and spleen. She needs some medicine to recuperate. Find a stretcher and take her into the house first..."
Luo Yan looked puzzled: "Stretcher?"
Chen Fenghe was startled and quickly said, "It's just... a door panel or something else that can lift people..."
She was so anxious that she even used modern words...
Luo Yan understood what was happening and immediately ordered his men to find a piece of wood and carry Qin Mengyue back to the house in the stronghold.
Chen Fenghe immediately prescribed a prescription, which included ginseng, lily, polygonatum, ophiopogon, mulberry bark, rehmannia root, licorice and other Chinese medicinal materials, all of which are used to nourish and protect the lungs.
The part of the body most easily damaged by excessive sadness is the lung qi, so taking these Chinese medicines can effectively relieve symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, cough and asthma.
Luo Yan took the prescription and immediately asked someone to call Doctor Yang over.
Doctor Yang was originally a doctor hired by a wealthy family in a town near Black Wind Mountain. He usually lived in the wealthy family's house. Luo Yan sent someone to "invite" him to the mountain. Before going up the mountain, he also brought a lot of medicinal materials from the wealthy family's pharmacy to the mountain.
Doctor Yang was also surprised after looking at the prescription. The medicine was exactly right and was used to cure the disease of great sorrow.
He did not dare to delay and hurriedly took the prescription to prepare the medicine and sent it over.
However, there are still a few Chinese medicinal herbs missing.
"Great... Great King, the two herbs, Polygonatum and Radix Ophiopogonis, have been used up, and there really wasn't any ginseng in the first place..."
In ancient times, ginseng was not cultivated on a large scale as a medicinal herb, and it mainly relied on wild sources.
Therefore, ginseng can be said to be the best tonic among tonics, and it is extremely scarce. This also makes it difficult for Doctor Yang.
Chen Fenghe said, "There's nothing I can do about it. These few herbs are barely enough."
She hadn't expected to get all the ingredients, so when Luo Yan sent someone to the kitchen to boil the medicine, she followed him and secretly added the missing ingredients when no one was paying attention.
While decocting the medicine, Chen Fenghe asked, "General Luo, what exactly happened with the Crown Prince being framed? Could you tell me what happened that day?"
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