Chapter 298 Overjoyed
"Yuexi, good luck. Yuexi, good luck..."
As soon as the sun rose, Shen Yuexi was awakened by the voice of the parrot Liuli.
She loved Liuli so much that she kept it in her room at night. She never thought the bird could function as an alarm clock.
Liuli was standing on the table next to the bed. Seeing her open her eyes, she quickly lowered her head and picked up a small iron basin. She held it in the air and then let go. The basin fell to the table. Liuli scratched it with her claws twice and looked up at Shen Yuexi.
"Yuexi, good luck."
Shen Yuexi remembered that this was the small bowl for the parrot's food, and it was empty.
No wonder this parrot has grown so big, it's such a big eater.
She got up from the bed and personally filled a bowl of food for the parrot, then called the maid to help her wash and dress up.
After finishing her preparations, she wanted to go find Su Mo for breakfast. Su Mo had been so engrossed in making the hot air balloon that she forgot to eat or sleep. She didn't know if she was awake yet.
Just as I walked out the door, a maid came to announce: "Princess, Doctor Hua's son has an important matter to ask for, and he is waiting in the reception room."
Shen Yuexi was a little surprised. Ever since Dr. Hua's pharmacy opened in the city, Hua Duoduo has been too lazy to move. Was there something important that made him come here so early in the morning?
She instructed her maid, "Princess Ping, tell me when you wake up, and I'll have dinner with her."
Arriving at the reception room, Hua Duoduo was pacing back and forth inside, looking anxious. Seeing Shen Yuexi coming, Hua Duoduo lowered her voice and said with a sad face: "Princess, something big has happened."
Now that the world is peaceful, Shen Yuexi didn't care about him and sat down on the chair. Then he yawned and said, "Hua Duoduo, you came so early. If you have something important, just tell me."
Hua Duoduo looked at the maids standing on either side and said, "This is a serious matter. Please leave for now."
Shen Yuexi smiled and said, "You're just being mysterious. If you don't tell me, I'm going to eat."
Hua Duoduo had no choice but to ask, "Princess, guess who I met last night?"
"who?"
Hua Duoduo emphasized his tone and said word by word: "King Ping!"
Hearing the words "King Ping", Shen Yuexi immediately perked up and leaned forward to ask, "Is that true? You didn't recognize the wrong person, did you?"
Xiao Beiheng was a prince after all, so how could he come to Shengjing quietly? It wouldn't be in keeping with his style. Even if Su Mo came, she would have a long motorcade and a large number of guards.
"Of course it's true. Prince Ping is also famous throughout the world. How could I not recognize him?" Hua Duoduo swore, "He came into Shenghetang to buy medicine. My father and my youngest son can testify to this."
"Buying medicine?" Shen Yuexi asked doubtfully, "What medicine did he buy?"
"Sedatives to help with sleep," Hua Duoduo said, "He seems to have symptoms of insomnia."
"Tell me the details of what happened." Shen Yuexi suddenly became interested.
She had dealt with Xiao Beiheng before and knew that this person had the habit of taking a walk in the garden in the middle of the night, but she didn't know that Xiao Beiheng actually had insomnia.
Hua Duoduo recounted what had happened. When he mentioned that he pretended to be a wizard and wanted to take Xiao Beiheng to "exorcise evil spirits" and was slapped by Doctor Hua, Shen Yuexi chuckled.
"Hua Duoduo, you really haven't changed your bad habits. You even dared to lie to King Ping. You're really like a mouse trying to treat a cat..."
"Why?"
"You want money, not life."
"My father told me the same thing," Hua Duoduo said with a wry smile, "I was afraid he would harm the princess, so I hurried to tell you."
He pretended to be an immortal master and wanted to cheat money from Xiao Beiheng. He pretended to go to get a magic weapon and went back to the back hall to get the tools he had used to pretend to be an immortal master. When he was taking the peach wood sword, he was discovered by Doctor Hua and slapped him hard. He realized that he was playing with fire and hurriedly went out to refuse Xiao Beiheng, saying that he was not strong enough and asked Xiao Beiheng to wait for a few days.
Shen Yuexi smiled and said, "Don't say it as if you are thinking about me. You lied to my brother, and my brother took it seriously. You are in a difficult situation now, so you came to me, right?"
Hua Duoduo blushed and said, "The princess is so perceptive that she saw through me right away. My father said that although Prince An and Prince Ping are brothers, if Prince Ping knew I was lying to him, I'm afraid our whole family would be killed. I had no other choice, so I came to the princess. Back then, when Prince Mei was hanging on a tree, it was the princess who saved my life. The princess has the kindest heart..."
"No need to flatter me, I know everything," Shen Yuexi comforted Hua Duoduo, "I'll tell my brother when I see him. You go back and tell Doctor Hua not to worry."
"Princess, please remember what Prince Heping said," Hua Duoduo said worriedly as she walked away, "From now on, Shenghetang's medicine will be discounted by 30% when it comes to Prince An's Mansion."
Shen Yuexi sent Hua Duoduo away and started to think about it.
Xiao Beiheng didn't want others to know that he was coming. It seemed that he also felt that he was not welcome here.
Considering that Xiao Beiheng had given her a large parrot first, which was full of kindness, and now that Xiao Beiheng was visiting Shengjing, she, as the host, couldn't ignore him. As for Hua Duoduo's matter, she would find a way to smooth it over when she saw Xiao Beiheng.
Just as she was about to order someone to find Xiao Beiheng's residence, Yang Cong came running over excitedly. He called out from a distance, "Madam, the master has returned. The Queen of Xiliang and the princess's sister have also arrived. The convoy is now twenty miles outside the city."
Shen Yuexi's face was filled with joy. She thought Xiao Zhuo would be back soon, but she didn't expect everyone to come.
She said to the maid beside her, "Inform General Qiu to quickly open the city gates. I want to personally welcome my husband and Sister Mei and the others."
She packed up and went to the city gate.
Qiu Liming had already ordered the soldiers to open the city gates, with drums and music playing, to welcome Xiao Zhuo and his entourage. The people in the city knew that Prince An had returned, and they crowded to the city gates and the city walls to watch the excitement.
At the front of the team, Xiao Zhuo was leading the way. Shen Yuexi stepped forward to rein in his horse and said with a smile, "Husband, I was wondering when you would come back."
Xiao Zhuo dismounted, smiled, and touched her head: "Have you been bored in Shengjing these days?"
"It's not boring. My sister-in-law is here, and we're making a hot air balloon."
After Shen Yuexi and Xiao Zhuo finished their conversation, they returned to the rear of the convoy. Mei Dai and Shen Lan had already disembarked from the carriage and greeted her with smiles. Ji Yunyan followed beside them, carrying a cage covered in black cloth.
"Sister Mei, I didn't expect you to come." Shen Yuexi didn't pay attention to the cage and hugged the three of them one by one. "This is not the place to talk. Let's go to the palace first."
When they arrived at the palace, everyone sat down in the hall and the maids brought tea and cakes.
Mei Dai said to Shen Yuexi, "Two days after you left, Prince An and I joined forces to capture Nanping. The Western Rong suffered several consecutive defeats and were severely weakened. I heard that King Duoma is currently engaged in a civil war with a Western Rong tribe and will not be causing trouble in Xiliang for the time being. Prince An said that my sister has no one to accompany her in Shengjing, so we decided to come here. It's almost the Qiqiao Festival, so we'll come and celebrate with my sister."
Shen Yuexi said excitedly: "The sisters are all here, I'm really happy."
Mei Dai smiled and said to Ji Yunyan, "Yunyan, give the gift that Prince An prepared to Sister Yuexi."
Ji Yunyan stepped forward and placed the cage covered with black cloth on the table. She removed the cloth and found a beautiful thrush hopping around in the exquisite cage. It looked very similar to the lost one, but this one was larger.
Shen Yuexi looked at Xiao Zhuo in surprise: "Husband, did you buy it?"
Xiao Zhuo nodded and smiled, "I happened to see someone selling thrush birds in Xiliang, so I bought one."
Shen Yuexi looked at Xiao Zhuo with emotion.
If there weren't so many people present, she would have hugged Xiao Zhuo and given him a good kiss.
When he lost his thrush before, Xiao Zhuo said he would buy another one. Unexpectedly, even in the tense battle in Xiliang, he hadn't forgotten this incident.
Chen Lan added: "Sister, this thrush is very aggressive, so don't let it out of the cage."
Shen Yuexi thought of what happened before, stuck out her tongue, and told the maid to put the thrush in her room and take good care of it, while she chatted with her sisters in the hall.
As they were chatting, a maid ran over in a panic, shouting breathlessly:
"It's terrible, Princess! Liuli is biting Huathrush, and Huathrush is biting Liuli... There are bird feathers flying everywhere in the house."
"How is that possible?" Shen Yuexi asked in disbelief. "Isn't the thrush in the cage? Which of you opened the cage door?"
"Reporting to the princess, it is... it is Liuli."
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