"Your Highness, it's rumored in the inner palace that Empress Dowager Cheng is ill and has even invited a Taoist priest. His Majesty and the Empress have both gone to see her. Would you like to go and take a look as well?"
Yue Jiang smiled in surprise: "Yesterday, when Cheng Suyun left the East Palace like that, I thought it was her who was sick. I didn't expect it to be Empress Dowager Cheng. I have to go. It would be disrespectful not to go."
She quickly packed her things and prepared to go to the inner palace. When she reached the front hall, she met Shang Yu.
When Yue Jiang saw Shang Yu carrying a medicine basket and a hoe, she took the initiative to greet him.
"Shang Yu, shall we go out and gather herbs?"
Hearing the voice, Shang Yu turned around and cupped his hands in greeting: "Your Highness, I'm going to gather herbs!"
Yuejiang looked around the courtyard, walked towards a peach tree, found a bud that was about to bloom, and picked it off, entrusting it to someone.
"Please deliver this to His Highness for me!"
Shang Yu scratched his head and explained, "I'm not going to pick them on Your Highness's mountain."
Yue Jiang insisted on handing it over, brooking no argument: "No, you're going to the mountain where His Highness is staying. Hurry up, or the peach blossoms will bloom and I won't be responsible!"
"Huh?" Shang Yu was even more confused. Before he could understand what Yue Jiang meant, a peach blossom branch that was about to bloom was stuffed into his arms, and Yue Jiang had already walked out of the East Palace before him.
But the more confused he became, the more complicated things seemed to Shang Yu. Without further ado, he rode his horse out of the city.
When they arrived at the military camp, Shang Yu, panting, handed over a peach blossom.
"Your Highness, this is a peach blossom gift from the Crown Princess."
Jing Yan took the peach blossom from his hand, glanced at it inexplicably, then looked at Shang Yu, who was drenched in sweat, and asked, puzzled, "What does this mean?"
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