Chapter 221 Jade Ling
Shen Yuexi originally planned to get up and coax Mei Dai out of the tent first. Unexpectedly, Mei Dai spoke viciously and actually drove Xiao Zhuosheng away in anger.
She glared at Mei Dai hatefully, and curse words almost came to her lips, but she held them back.
She was not a polite and good girl, and would curse when she got anxious. She was able to stop because she thought about why Mei Dai had become like this.
Both her parents died, leaving her with only her brother as a relative, who also died in front of her.
She is already crazy, why should I bother with a madwoman?
Seeing Mei Dai sitting on the ground humming a song and playing with a horse whip, she didn't want to say anything mean to her anymore. She turned around and wanted to chase out of the tent to find Xiao Zhuo, but Doctor Hua stopped her:
"Princess, please leave Prince Zhao alone. He must accept this reality."
Shen Yuexi was worried that something might happen to Xiao Zhuo, so she shouted to the outside of the tent, "Qiang Lin, don't stay here any longer. Hurry and catch up with King Zhao. Don't let anything happen to him."
Qiang Lin agreed outside the tent.
Qiang Lin was an absolutely reliable bodyguard. With him leading the secret guards to protect Xiao Zhuo, Shen Yuexi finally felt relieved. Turning back to Doctor Hua, she asked, "What reality are you saying you want to accept?"
"Prince Zhao's father is indeed not Emperor Yongde." Doctor Hua responded in a heavy tone and slowly put down the scissors in his hand.
Shen Yuexi held her head in her hands: "Doctor Lian Hua, are you starting to talk nonsense too?"
What's wrong with this world? Why is everyone suddenly saying that Xiao Zhuo is an illegitimate child?
Doctor Hua shook his head and said, "I am not making this up. Princess, you should remember that I have always paid close attention to the jade pendant worn by Prince Zhao."
"Yes, when you were treating my husband's injuries in Xiaogang Village, you paid special attention to this jade pendant," Shen Yuexi recalled the scene. "At that time, I hung the jade pendant on my wrist, and you stared at it for a long time. You did the same just now."
"That's because twenty years ago, the owner of this jade pendant came to me for consultation," Doctor Hua said, his back hunched. "Now I finally know who that mysterious woman was."
"Queen Pei?" Shen Yuexi asked.
Even the most confused person should understand by now.
"Yes, but I didn't know it then. I practice medicine in a town south of the capital, and I'm well-known for my pulse diagnosis. I'm quite famous." Doctor Hua raised his dim eyes and gazed into the distance. "She came in just as the shop was closing, wearing a veil. The jade pendant was hanging around her neck... Two maids accompanied her. They placed a thin handkerchief on her wrist and let me feel her pulse through it... Although her pulse was weak, it flowed smoothly, like beads rolling on a jade plate. It's a slippery pulse."
"Doctor Hua, what does slippery pulse mean?" Shen Yuexi asked in confusion.
"Empress Pei is pregnant," Doctor Hua said. "Now I think about it, it was three days before Empress Pei entered the palace. She was already pregnant at that time."
Shen Yuexi was stunned. Empress Pei was already pregnant before entering the palace. She only gave birth to one son, Xiao Zhuo.
It turns out that Xiao Zhuo is really not the son of Emperor Yongde.
Doctor Hua sighed and continued, "When Empress Pei learned the result, she was silent for a long time. Then she asked me if there was any way to hide it from the examiner. I thought Empress Pei was probably the daughter of a wealthy family, about to get married, but encountered such a thing. But I just wanted to stay out of it and didn't want to get involved. I was afraid of getting into trouble, so I declined to participate. I didn't expect Empress Pei to be so deceiving. I don't know what means she used to successfully conceal the truth from the emperor."
Upon hearing this, Shen Yuexi subconsciously turned her gaze to the broken jade pendant on the ground. However, she noticed that Mei Dai had unknowingly been holding two pieces of broken jade in her left hand, and was looking at a piece of white silk a few inches long and only the width of her fingers in her right hand.
"Sister Mei," Shen Yuexi's heart moved. She quickly stood up and walked to Mei Dai's side, squatting and extending her hand, "Give Bai Ling to me."
Back in Xiaogang Village, she had once looked at the jade pendant against the light. She remembered a dark spot on it, and she'd thought it was fake jade, made by a dishonest merchant to trick the royal family. Now she realized it must have been caused by the white silk stuffed inside.
It's obvious that it could only have been put into the jade pendant by Empress Pei.
"This is my edict, do you want it?" Mei Dai stepped back with a smile, holding the white silk in the air and swinging it back and forth to prevent Shen Yuexi from getting it.
Shen Yuexi had no choice but to pick up the whip that Mei Dai had placed on the ground: "Here, take this in exchange for the one in your hand, okay?"
Mei Dai immediately ran back, reached out to take the horsewhip and held it in her arms, and stuffed the white silk into Shen Yuexi's hand: "Deal."
Shen Yuexi sighed and unfolded the white silk to take a look.
The white silk was small to begin with, and the words on it were even smaller, densely packed like ants. Furthermore, she was a complete idiot who didn't know calligraphy, so she couldn't even understand what was written on it.
This is embarrassing.
Since Empress Pei had left the jade pendant to Xiao Zhuo, the white silk was most likely a letter from her to Xiao Zhuo. Unexpectedly, at such a crucial moment, she couldn't understand it.
She held the white silk and looked at Mei Dai on the left and Dr. Hua on the right.
A madman and an old man.
Needless to say, the madman was sitting on the ground, humming a song while holding a horsewhip. It was pointless to ask. And Dr. Hua, who was quite old, probably had eyesight that was no better than hers.
I wanted to go out and ask others, but then I thought this matter was too important and I couldn't let others know.
Just as she was in a dilemma, Dr. Hua cried out, "Ouch, ouch," which scared her.
Turning around, I saw Mei Dai had stood up and was hitting Doctor Hua on the head with a whip, saying:
"Why won't the horse walk? Pull the cart quickly, we're going home."
Seeing Mei Dai holding the whip in both hands and hitting it aimlessly, Shen Yuexi hurriedly stuffed the white silk into her arms, stood up, grabbed the whip, and shouted:
"Sister Mei, stop... stop hitting me... stop... Mei Dai, I'm angry!"
Mei Dai stopped laughing, looked at her and said, "This horse is even stranger. It actually stood up."
Shen Yuexi was speechless. She turned around and was about to apologize to Doctor Hua, but Doctor Hua had already hurriedly packed up his medicine box and covered his head, saying:
"Princess, I'll go find Prince Zhao first. His wound hasn't healed yet."
He was scared by Mei Dai.
He had just turned his gaze towards Mei Dai, intending to see if her madness could be cured. After all, as a doctor for decades, he always wanted to diagnose and treat patients when he saw them.
Before he could get a good look, Mei Dai stood up and hit him on the head with the whip. It wasn't hard, but it hurt a lot. If he didn't run, he would probably get a head full of lumps.
Shen Yuexi watched Doctor Hua run out of the tent and wanted to follow him, but she still didn't understand the white silk in her arms.
Since this white silk was written by Empress Pei, it is very likely related to who Xiao Zhuo's biological father is. She must find out such important information as soon as possible.
She let go of the whip and ignored Mei Dai. She walked to the table and sat down. She lit the candle with a stick and took out the white silk from her bosom to look at it carefully.
Under the bright light, the words are much clearer, but unfortunately, I still can't understand them.
"So you really can't understand?" Mei Dai's voice sounded behind her.
"Yeah," Shen Yuexi bit her lower lip awkwardly, "I just don't understand calligraphy. Is this cursive or running script?"
Just as she finished answering, she suddenly felt something was wrong. Mei Dai's question was clearly something a normal person would ask.
Isn't Mei Dai crazy?
Just as he was about to turn around to ask Mei Dai, he suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head.
A huge black vortex appeared before her eyes, forcibly pulling her into the bottomless darkness.
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