Chapter 328 Marrying Someone Who Loves You
Seeing his nervous expression, Aunt Zhou couldn't help but laugh. "I'm fine."
The Third Prince didn't believe her and strode over, looking her up and down. "I just heard you yelp. Come and see where you're hurt."
Aunt Zhou was at her wits' end with him, so she took out her hand, which had just been pricked by a needle, and showed it to him, saying, "It was just a prick from a needle."
The Third Prince felt a pang of heartache seeing the tiny needle mark. "Don't move, I'll go get you some medicine."
After saying that, he turned around and immediately went into the house to get the ointment. Then he ran over to apply the ointment to Aunt Zhou and bandage her wound.
Aunt Zhou tried to pull her hand back, saying, "This kind of minor injury doesn't need to be bandaged."
The Third Prince grabbed her hand back. "That won't do. It's already bleeding. How can you call it a minor injury?"
"Quickly, let me bandage you up." He said, and immediately began to carefully bandage her wound.
Aunt Zhou looked at him with a smile on her face.
Having lived most of her life, she finally understood what it felt like to be with the person she loved.
In the past, when she was in the palace, she once suffered from severe abdominal pain and wanted the emperor to come to her, but the emperor was in Consort Wu's palace.
That night, she was in pain all night and called out to the emperor all night, but he never came.
The next day, he angrily went to her palace to confront her, accusing her of pretense, jealousy, and inability to tolerate his harem of three thousand beauties.
He never asked her why she had abdominal pain, whether she had seen a doctor, or whether the pain had subsided.
However, none of that happened, and in the end, she was confined to her quarters for a month.
Aunt Zhou snapped out of her reverie, her eyes slightly reddening.
When the Third Prince saw that her eyes were red, his heart broke even more. He put his arm around her shoulder and helped her up, saying, "Go inside and rest. We won't make these clothes."
Aunt Zhou nodded slightly, and the two of them walked into the house together.
The sun gradually sets, and with the passing of summer and autumn, winter is just around the corner.
In the harsh winter, every household in the village prepared stored grain.
Du Wanchun also filled the Zhou family's granary to the brim.
The rice shop was doing as well as usual, and the Zhou family's accounts showed that they were making money every day.
Nan Fengling's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and she is expected to give birth next spring.
Wu Niangzi's belly was growing bigger every day.
Perhaps because the Zhou family had so many happy events, everyone was in high spirits.
Aunt Zhou entered the house with a smile and brought a bowl of cooked pork loin to Nan Fengling.
However, just as she held the bowl in her hands, she suddenly felt a jolt in her heart, her hands trembled, and she almost spilled the bowl.
Nan Fengling quickly stepped forward to support her and asked, "Mother, what's wrong?"
Aunt Zhou clutched her chest, her face slightly somber, and said, "It's nothing, I just suddenly felt a tightness in my chest."
No sooner had she finished speaking than there was a knock on the courtyard gate.
Du Wanchun wasn't home today, so Aunt Zhou quickly put down the bowl in her hand and turned to go to the courtyard gate.
She called out towards the door, "Who is it?"
Suddenly, a voice, choked with sobs, came from outside, "Mother, it's me."
Aunt Zhou was startled and quickly opened the door, only to see Zhou Feng's wife, Han's daughter.
Han Yan'er looked haggard, her face streaked with tears. "Mother... Zhou Feng, he..."
Aunt Zhou quickly helped her up. "Child, don't be anxious. Tell me slowly. What happened to Zhou Feng?"
Han Yan'er wiped away her tears and said, "Zhou Feng went to the Northern Barbarians with a merchant caravan a month ago, but later encountered bandits and disappeared without a trace..."
"What?" Upon hearing this, Aunt Zhou felt dizzy and almost collapsed. No wonder she felt a tightness in her chest earlier; it turned out that something had happened to Zhou Feng.
Just then, the Third Prince returned from outside and quickly led the two of them inside.
He first calmed down Aunt Zhou, then asked Han Yan'er seriously, "Were the ones who kidnapped him bandits? I remember that the guards that Feng'er was with were quite skilled; they should have been more than capable of dealing with a few bandits."
Han Yan'er calmed down and thought for a moment before saying, "My father said this matter doesn't seem that simple. It's probably the Northern Di court that kidnapped him."
"What do the Northern Di people want to do?" The Third Prince asked with a worried expression.
After thinking it over, he slowly got up and walked towards Madam Wu's courtyard.
Wei Xun brought him over and asked, "Uncle, what's wrong? You look flustered."
Wu Niangzi and Wei Xun lived in the Zhou family's house for a year or two, just like half a son and daughter of the Zhou family.
The Third Prince quickly told Wei Xun about Zhou Feng's situation.
Wei Xun immediately understood. After pondering for a while, he said, "I guess it was my royal uncle who did it."
The king of the Northern Di Kingdom also had a younger brother who rarely stayed in the palace but always coveted the king's position.
Wei Xun was assassinated by his imperial uncle.
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