Chapter 48 Yu Fei Cannot Stay
Jing Cang thought for a moment, then pretended to be calm and said, "Then I will go to Kunyi Palace to pay my respects to the Queen Mother tonight."
As soon as they left Yu's study, Huo Dao asked, "Your Highness, why don't you stay here to accompany His Majesty to have lunch before leaving? It's just right to wait for the orchid doctors called by the nanny to come and see you. In order to keep a low profile, I only asked one to come to the East Palace."
When nobles in the palace were ill, they would often be examined by a group of doctors. Even if the disease was a minor one, several sorcerers would be consulted. These mysterious witches and sorcerers were naturally the most reliable.
Jing Cang rubbed his brows and said, "I will go to Kunyi Palace in the evening."
Huo Dao saw that the prince looked distressed, as if he was not going to meet his mother at night, but to fight a fierce battle.
Ever since the prince postponed the diagnosis by the orc doctor he had found last night, he seemed to be struggling with something, avoiding something. It was a bit like facing a lie and knowing it but forcing himself not to expose it, continuing to deceive himself.
He wondered if there was something wrong with Gu and the prince was reluctant to see a doctor, or if he was unwilling to see a doctor earlier.
As soon as he returned to the East Palace, he knew the answer. The prince asked the Gu doctor to check his pulse, and the Gu doctor said: "The love Gu has been solved."
And it has been lifted for some time.
The prince said softly, "Is that so?"
He did not have the joy that Huo Dao had imagined, and there was not even a trace of happiness on his face. After the shock, there were flashes of understanding, loss, nostalgia, and relief across his face.
It was as if he had already convinced himself to forgive Yu Fei before she came over in person to explain the cause of the matter and begged him for forgiveness in tears.
The prince had said at the post station on his way from Shu County to Beijing that he would smash all the bones of Yu Fei after the traitor was freed. Huo Dao saw his expression and knew that if anyone touched Yu Fei in revenge, he would smash all the bones of that person's family.
In the past, it was the love pig that controlled the prince's mind, but now that the pig is gone, the prince is probably left with only love. It is true that "a land of gentleness is the grave of heroes".
Huo Dao thought about the prince's schedule tonight and said hesitantly, "As for the queen..."
Jing Cang closed his eyes and said, "I have my own way to deal with it."
In fact, there is no other way but to put pressure on my biological mother.
Even Huo Dao realized that if the Queen Mother knew that Yu Fei had no connection with him anymore, and that Yu Fei was in the clutches of Prince Ning's rebellion, she would take the opportunity to get rid of her, and would not let him lead the troops to quell the rebellion as he wished.
But he must save Yu Fei.
When Jing Cang arrived at Kunyi Palace, the Queen Mother asked several orchid doctors to check his pulse. He knelt down and said, "Mother, there is no need to check again. The orchid has been cured."
The queen ignored his words and signaled to the orchid doctors. They cautiously took his pulse one by one and carefully checked his condition before answering.
Upon hearing this, the Queen dismissed everyone and said in a cold voice: "Jing Cang, when did you know that Gu Jie had been solved? Was it last night?"
As a queen who fought together with my father for the throne among the previous generation of princes, my mother is certainly not a simple and kind mother. It is not surprising that she knows everything that the Eastern Palace does.
When he was thirteen, a palace maid climbed into his bed and tried to seduce him. When his mother found out, she found out that she was a spy sent by the Zhu family to seduce him, so she executed her. There were many such incidents. Two years ago, his mother also removed two hidden stakes that Jing Yi had buried in the East Palace with her sharp eyes.
His mother was of humble origin, and she worked extremely hard to ensure that his path to succession to the throne would be smooth and easy.
But at this moment, Jing Cang felt inexplicably offended, as if he had already married and had a family, but his mother was peeping at what was going on in the room from outside the door, and would point out the couple's mistakes and teach them a lesson when they met.
He suppressed his impatience and said respectfully, "After returning from Yu's study today."
"Then why did you call the orchid doctor last night?" The queen pondered his actions and combined them with his frequently abnormal words and deeds in the morning, and asked, "Did you know that there was something wrong with the orchid doctor yesterday?"
Jing Cang lowered his head and said nothing.
When the queen saw that he had apparently acquiesced, she was immediately furious, as if the child she had carefully nurtured did not take the smooth path she had paved for him, but instead wanted to cross the single-plank bridge that led to a deep abyss.
She clenched her right hand clenched and unclenched it, and really wanted to slap him to wake him up, but the prince had already come of age, and as a mother she could not be too harsh.
She said in a sharp voice: "'A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall'. You have read the books of sages for so many years and learned so many ways to be a king, but the result is that you disregard your own safety and want to save a woman who has evil intentions towards you?"
Jing Cang wanted to argue that Yu Fei had no ill intentions towards him now, and he would not rashly quell the rebellion and save people.
As he was thinking about what to say, the queen said, "Tell me everything about what she has done to you. Otherwise, when the imperial guards arrive at the Yu family in Shu County, it will be too late for you to plead for her and her family. None of them will survive the day after the truth comes out."
Jing Cang knew that he would clench his right fist when he felt guilty, which exposed the entanglement between the two of them that he had described in the morning. Even if he kept it a secret today, when his mother found out that Yu Fei had set him up, she would definitely investigate their past in Shu County. What Jing Yi and Yang Zhi could find out was even easier for the mother of a country.
He chose to tell the truth, but in the process of telling the story, he still tried his best to whitewash the part where Yu Fei broke his leg, as if he was an ungrateful person who didn't know how to repay his benefactor sister, and that's why he was taught a lesson.
The Queen looked at him as if she were looking at a fool, her face turned green and white, then white and red again, and she was stroking her chest and gasping for breath, as if she was so angry that he could not speak.
After a while, she took a sip of tea and yelled, "Get up and get back on the wheelchair!"
Jing Cang stood up and walked to a chair at the side and sat down.
The queen saw that he was walking normally, and her expression eased slightly. She hesitated for a moment and said coldly: "No matter what you say, Yu Fei cannot stay."