53 Chapter 53
◎The prince said he wanted to take a concubine.◎
Outside the window, there were bursts of bird sounds, and the breeze blew up branches and leaves, causing them to fall to the window, and blew the curtains, making a rustling sound.
Nanzhi stood guard in the outer room, listening attentively to the movements coming from the inner room, but heard nothing for a long time.
Just now she was about to apply medicine to the princess, but the prince got there first with the ointment. Now so much time has passed, but there is still no movement inside, which is really worrying.
She glanced at Lin Xiao who was standing beside her.
The little girl is no longer as thin as when I first met her, and her skin is no longer dry and dull. Now she is plump and fair, and has grown a lot taller.
She was worried here, but Lin Xiao stretched his neck to watch two birds fighting in the tree outside the window.
What a carefree girl.
Of course Lin Xiao is very carefree.
Now she has food and clothing and has no worries. She is no longer wandering around without a fixed place to live. She has a lot of money to earn every month, and her life is much better than before.
What's more, the princess is now accompanied by a major general. What's so scary?
The two of them had different thoughts, but neither of them spoke. Finally, they waited until the prince walked out of the inner room.
"Go and apply medicine to the princess."
The expression on the prince's face was not very good. He didn't have his usual smile, but was gloomy instead. Nanzhi was afraid that he would take out his anger on the princess, so she quickly responded and walked into the inner room.
But he saw his own princess leaning against the head of the bed, her lips were bright red and swollen, and there was still some red in the corners of her eyes that had not faded.
"Princess..."
She had never been optimistic about the Prince Wei. Not only were there many rumors about him in the streets, but there were also many rumors about him in the palace.
What about taking three concubines in one day, staying in brothels for three consecutive days without returning home, and even falling in love with the palace maid beside Concubine Zhao?
All in all, not a single good word.
If the princess was not in a hurry to get married and leave the palace, how could she have chosen such a playboy?
It's not even as good as a single hair of General Xie.
Xu Qinghe was brought back to her senses by Nanzhi's call of "Princess". She knew that her hair and makeup must be disheveled and she couldn't look straight, and she also knew what Nanzhi was worried about.
She shook her head at Nanzhi, pointed to the medicine box placed on the small table by Wei Che, and motioned Nanzhi to apply medicine on her.
The cool ointment applied to the body gradually reduced the stickiness and heat in the body.
After applying the medicine, she gathered her clothes and tidied her makeup in front of the dressing mirror before going out into the outer room.
Wei Che is still here.
He sat on the couch, holding a collection of poems that Xu Qinghe often read, but he had no intention of turning the pages. He was staring blankly at something in the air.
Seeing her come out, he immediately stood up, looked at her and opened his lips, as if he wanted to say something.
Xu Qinghe looked over there with some inquiry in his eyes.
But Wei Che said nothing in the end.
Since he didn't say anything, she was too lazy to ask. The incident of her accidentally eating peanuts happened in the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion, so naturally he needed to investigate.
As long as he is willing to check, he will be able to find out. Now it just depends on whether he wants to or not.
Xu Qinghe acted as if there was no one else in the room, walked to the east room, took another book from the bookshelf, and sat at the desk reading without caring whether Wei Che was still there.
When he looked up again, Wei Che had disappeared.
The weather in early May was not too hot, but Xu Qinghe always felt stuffy. She asked someone to remove the incense burner in the room, but she still didn't feel comfortable, and the rashes on her body became more itchy.
"Princess, please don't scratch it, or you'll get a scar." Nanzhi held her hand down and looked down at the red rash on the princess's neck, which was already bleeding.
She went around to the other side and saw the same thing.
I turned up the princess's collar and saw that the area above her neck was also not spared.
Needless to say, wherever the rash appeared on the clothes, it must have been stained with blood.
This is very wrong.
More than a month ago, the princess also ate peanuts and developed a rash, but this situation has never occurred before.
First, he accidentally ate peanuts last night, and then the rash started to ooze blood. Xu Qinghe gave Nanzhi a look and asked her to send someone to call the palace doctor.
No, maybe the palace doctor is not trustworthy either. No one in the Prince of the State’s Mansion is trustworthy.
But she had just married into the mansion. Who was he and what grudge did he have against her that he was so anxious to take her life?
Before the court physician was called in, Wei Che was the first to step into the room. There was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, obviously he had rushed all the way back.
After checking her more severe rash, his face became even uglier.
The court doctor came over and checked Xu Qinghe's wound first, then cut out the ointment for inspection.
The old doctor, who was over forty years old, moved slowly and carefully, but Wei Che couldn't wait any longer and urged him directly: "What's going on?"
The court physician pondered for a moment and said, "There's nothing wrong with this medicine. It's supposed to soothe and repair, and it shouldn't have this effect. ...I wonder what the princess ate today?"
Wei Che reported today's lunch menu to him, and ordered someone to go to the kitchen to get the leftover food and check it one by one.
"Oh, I just drank a few sips of kumquat and pear soup." Wei Che suddenly remembered and immediately ordered someone to bring back the kumquat soup which had run out of liquid but still had some leftovers.
Xu Qinghe glanced at her, and raised his face slightly, which was covered with red rashes and looked a little scary.
He just mentioned that the soup was given by his eldest sister.
She had heard some rumors about Wei Fu, the eldest daughter of the Wei family, before.
She is gentle, generous and friendly. Although she lives in a military family, she remains gentle. After getting married, she manages the household well and is praised by everyone in the capital.
But last year, for some unknown reason, her husband suddenly fell seriously ill. After more than half a year of intermittent treatment, his condition did not improve and he eventually passed away.
So Wei Fu returned to the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion.
If there really is something wrong with the soup...
But they had never met before, so why would she want to harm herself?
It can't be that her marriage is not happy and I am about to
They were newly married, so they attacked in anger?
When the court doctor finally found out, it turned out that the problem was indeed the snow pear soup.
"This soup contains tangerine peel, which is supposed to soothe the throat, but it conflicts with the herbs used in the ointment. Applying the ointment after taking it will cause blood stasis."
It seems that this was most likely an unintentional mistake.
Xu Qinghe stroked his chest and gave Nanzhi a look. Nanzhi understood and asked the court doctor, "Besides that, the princess also felt chest tightness early this morning. What's going on?"
Wei Che looked at Xu Qinghe who was sitting on the couch.
He hadn't noticed her discomfort.
"This... I dare not say anything rashly. If I suddenly have symptoms today..." He suddenly thought of something and asked Wei Che, "Does the prince also feel chest tightness?"
Wei Che has always been in good health and did not have the obvious symptoms like Xu Qinghe, but he also felt something was wrong after waking up this morning.
The court doctor immediately had a plan in mind: "Could you please let me into the inner room to take a look?"
Nanzhi first looked at Wei Che, thinking that this was the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion after all, and she should seek the Prince's opinion, but then she saw the Prince turned to look at her own princess.
Since his own life was at stake, Xu Qinghe naturally agreed and asked Lin Xiao to go in with him.
Finally, the court doctor took out the two sachets hanging in the bed curtain.
Xu Qinghe recognized the two exquisitely embroidered sachets. She had hung them there since she moved into her new house yesterday. The first smell she got from them should be the scent of Fenghe Chenxiang.
"The so-called Fenghe Morning Fragrance is made from lotus flowers and lotus leaves, with sandalwood added. It should have the fragrance of raindrops on the lotus pond in the morning."
The court doctor paused, then picked up the two sachets and sniffed them, saying, "But the fragrance in these two sachets is unusual. As for what's extra, I'll have to examine them carefully before I can find out."
After finding two unusual-smelling sachets from the inner room, Wei Che's face grew increasingly gloomy. After a long pause, he managed to squeeze out a single word from between his teeth: "Investigate."
Lin Xiao sent the court doctor out. Nanzhi saw that the prince looked unhappy and hesitated whether to leave as well.
Only after the princess gave her an affirmative look did she leave the bedroom and close the door.
The room was silent for a moment, with only the chirping of birds on the branches outside, their cries pounding through the window and ringing in their ears.
Xu Qinghe looked at Wei Che quietly, knowing that he must have something to say.
The latter closed his eyes and exhaled heavily, then walked to her and squatted down. He raised his hand towards her, as if to hold her hand.
But it eventually sank.
He didn't even dare to look up at her, only a hard voice squeezed out from between his teeth: "Sorry Qinghe, I thought too much."
Xu Qinghe knew what he meant.
After all, it was he who vowed to protect her after they got married. He was his best choice, but he didn't expect that she would be plotted against on the first day after marriage, or even on the wedding day.
This was completely different from what he had agreed to do with himself.
He feels guilty.
But because of the word "Qinghe", her heart still trembled uncontrollably.
Wei Che always called her "Princess", and when he was angry, he would call her "Xu Qinghe" with her full name, but he had never called her "Qinghe" so seriously.
He lowered his head in front of her, and she could only see his smooth forehead and a pair of eyebrows.
It was already afternoon, and the sunlight from the window made his face reflective and blurry.
In the hazy vision, it seemed as if an old friend had crossed the long river of time and hurried over to her. He stood in front of her as before, and called her softly in his old voice.
"Qinghe."
It was as if time had stood still at this moment, and the tiny dust particles floating in the air had also settled in the distance. The person in front of her slowly raised his face, looked at her with a face that she was very familiar with, and called her -
"Qinghe."
However, at this moment, the two birds on the branch suddenly opened their beaks and started pecking at each other. One fat and one thin jumped back and forth on the slender branch. The thin one was not as skilled as the other. After being pecked a few times, it quickly flapped its wings and fled, leaving behind a trail of branches and leaves fluttering.
Xu Qinghe suddenly came back to his senses.
Everything in front of her returned to normal. There were no so-called old friends, only her nominal new husband.
She lowered her eyelashes to hide the strangeness in her eyes, then took Wei Che's hand and wrote the word "go" on his palm.
The next moment, Wei Che's expression suddenly became tense. His palms were very big and he could easily hold both of her hands in his palms.
"Leave? Where are you going? We have already prayed to heaven and earth and become married, where else can you go?"
Xu Qinghe knew that he had misunderstood, or perhaps she had intentionally caused him to misunderstand like this.
She shook her head at his anxious gaze and wrote on his palm: Jing'an.
Wei Che seemed stunned for a moment, but soon understood what she meant: "You feel that the Fuguo Mansion is unsafe, so you want to stay temporarily at Princess Jing'an's residence?"
Xu Qinghe nodded and waited for Wei Che's reply.
She thought that Wei Che might not be willing, but this was indeed the best choice at the moment.
Not only did someone put peanuts in her food on her wedding night, but the other party had also tampered with the sachets in her bedroom. It could have been poisoning, or it could have been just a coincidence.
But these are all what they discovered in time. Who knows what else is in those dark places that have not been discovered?
"……good."
Wei Che finally agreed.
But this happened in the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion, and the murder of the princess was a scandal in any case. She naturally could not leave with such an excuse, and she had to think of other ways.
Wei Che held her hand in his palm and said comfortingly: "Leave this matter to me, just leave it to me."
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On the second day after their son's wedding, the Duke and his wife had just finished their breakfast when they heard from their servants that the princess came to pay a visit.
They had just heard yesterday that their son's courtyard had called in a court physician again. They had originally thought that the princess's condition had worsened, but now it seemed that she had gotten much better and was even able to get out of bed and come to see them.
When they returned to the main hall, they saw only the princess coming with a veil on her head, but there was no sign of their son.
On the first day of the wedding, the son came alone, and on the second day, the daughter-in-law came alone to pay her respects. This phenomenon seems strange no matter how you look at it.
The princess injured her throat and could not speak, so she bowed first and then asked the maid beside her to express her apologies to the two of them.
Zhao Wan comforted her by saying that it was the fault of the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion for not taking good care of the princess that caused her illness, so how could it be the princess's fault?
But in the blink of an eye, the maid's eyes were red and the princess's shoulders were twitching.
She stood up suspiciously and took off the veil on the princess's head. Sure enough, she saw that her fair little face was covered with tear marks.
"What's going on?"
With her support, the tears on the princess's face fell even more violently.
Her clear eyes were red and misty, and sparkling, hot tears were streaming down her chin. However, she pursed her lips to try to hold them back, looking like someone who had been wronged but didn't dare to speak out.
She looks so pitiful no matter how you look at her.
Both the master and the servant were choking with sobs. The maid even fell to her knees and begged, "Please, Lord and Madam, make a decision for our princess!"
"The prince... the prince said he wants to take a concubine!"
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