Chapter 3468 It’s not a cold, it’s an injury
Nan Yan hurried over.
After just a few days of not seeing her, Xie Jiaojiao had become much thinner than before, and even seemed to be emaciated. She was covered with a quilt that was neither thick nor thin, but in the weather in Yongzhou, such a quilt was still a bit heavy.
Xie Jiaojiao looked up at Nan Yan. Although her face was pale, her eyes were inexplicably red. After glancing at Nan Yan, she lowered her head and said softly, "How can I bear the burden of troublesome Your Majesty to come here again?"
These words seemed to carry a hint of resentment.
Even Ruoshui, who was following behind Nan Yan, frowned and looked at Aunt Tongyun beside her with displeasure.
But Aunt Tongyun said nothing and just stared at Xie Jiaojiao's face.
Nan Yan said softly, "I heard you were ill, so I came to see you. Why, can't you get up yet?"
A maidservant guarding the bedside immediately said, "Your Highness, our Madam is very ill and cannot be moved for the next few days."
Nan Yan said, "What did the doctor say?"
The maid said, "The doctor just said that Madam should rest well."
The implication is that the imperial concubine's visit to the patient disturbed Xie Jiaojiao's rest.
The displeasure on Ruoshui's face became even more pronounced.
Xie Jiaojiao, on the other hand, smiled faintly, but even though it was a smile, it looked rather frightening on her skinny face. She whispered, "What's with all this talk of rest? Lying here every day is no different from a living dead person. It's rare that the Queen still thinks of me."
Nan Yan sat down beside the bed and said softly, "What are you talking about?"
She sighed and said, "It's my fault too. I took you out of the city and ran around in the wilds for so long that day that you caught a cold."
Xie Jiaojiao said, "This has nothing to do with the Empress."
“…”
"It's me...it's my fate."
Nan Yan couldn't help but frown when she heard this.
These words sounded so dejected that they really didn't seem like something a lady from a wealthy family would say, especially in front of the imperial concubine.
Nan Yan then said, "What nonsense are you talking about? You just caught a cold, and you're talking about your life. Isn't your life going to be bad?"
Xie Jiaojiao looked up at her, her eyes redder than before. Her eyes flickered for a long moment before she smiled faintly and said, "Yes, my life was originally good, but—"
Nan Yan looked at her: "Just what?"
“…”
Xie Jiaojiao was silent for a while before she smiled and said, "Nothing. It's so rare for the Empress to come visit me, I really shouldn't say such discouraging words."
Nan Yan looked at her for a while before saying, "That's right."
“…”
"It's just a minor cold, no need to say it's bad luck or anything like that."
As she spoke, she glanced around again and said, "By the way, where are your parents?"
Xie Jiaojiao immediately lowered her eyes.
The maidservant beside her whispered, "Your Majesty, the master left before daybreak."
"Out?"
Nan Yan frowned slightly: "You are still sick, why did he go out?"
Xie Jiaojiao's throat choked slightly before she said, "My illness isn't a serious one."
Nan Yan thought for a moment and said, "That's right. His Majesty must have some important matter for him to do. I'll talk to His Majesty when I get back. If it's nothing urgent, you should let him stay at home with you. If he stays with you more, your illness will get better sooner."
Xie Jiaojiao looked up at her, and after a moment, she said with a half-smile, "Yes."
At this moment, a maid came in with a bowl of freshly boiled medicine.
Seeing that she wanted to take the medicine, Nan Yan immediately stood up and walked to the side to sit down. Two maids came forward to help Xie Jiaojiao to stand up. After struggling for a while, both of them were sweating all over. Finally, they half-helped and half-carried Xie Jiaojiao to sit on the head of the bed. Then a maid took a bowl and spoon and fed Xie Jiaojiao the medicine one spoonful at a time.
Nan Yan watched silently from the side.
After she finished drinking the medicine, the two maids took great pains to help her lie down. Nan Yan then stood up and said, "You should rest after drinking the medicine. I will not disturb you anymore."
Xie Jiaojiao looked up at her and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, what are you talking about? Your Majesty's coming here is a great honor to our humble home. How can it be a disturbance?"
“…”
"It's a pity that my master is not at home today, otherwise - he would definitely be very happy."
Ruoshui's brows were twisted into a knot.
Nan Yan didn't say much, just told the people in the house to take good care of them, and then left with her people.
As soon as they left the Li residence and boarded the carriage, Ruoshui couldn't hold back her curses. "This is too much! It's a great honor for our queen to come to see her, but she spoke in a gloomy and cold manner. Besides, she sat there for half a day and didn't even offer a cup of tea. She was just sending beggars away!"
Nan Yan glanced at her and said with a half-smile, "You've been greatly wronged."
Ruoshui said, "How have I felt wronged? It's you, Madam, who should be treated like this!"
Nan Yan smiled and shook her head, then turned to look at Aunt Tongyun, who hadn't said a word all the way. At this moment, she was frowning, as if thinking about something.
Nan Yan asked, "What's wrong?"
Aunt Tongyun then looked up at Nanyan, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, there is something wrong with Madam Li."
Nan Yan asked, "What's the problem?"
Aunt Tongyun said, "From the look of her, she doesn't look like she's caught a cold."
"oh?"
Nan Yan raised her eyebrows slightly.
In fact, she had the same feeling just now. They stayed for such a long time, and Xie Jiaojiao neither coughed nor blew her nose. She did not look like she had caught a cold.
Nan Yan asked, "Then what's going on with her?"
Aunt Tongyun said, "From the way I see her, she looks more like she's injured."
"What?!"
Nan Yan said in surprise: "Injured? How is that possible?"
Aunt Tongyun said, "I don't know why, but just now when I saw the two maids helping her up, her body, no, should I say one of her hands, seemed to have no strength at all, which is why it was so strenuous. And the medicine she drank, from the smell I could smell, it wasn't medicine for a cold, but medicine for wounds."
Ruoshui looked incredulous: "She's an official's wife, how could she be injured so easily? Even if, even if she was injured accidentally, she should have just told the truth. Why did she lie to the emperor and say she caught a cold? Isn't this a crime of deceiving the emperor?"
Aunt Tongyun said, "I don't know about that."
Ruoshui frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly turned to look at Nanyan: "Could it be that the reason for her injury cannot be disclosed?"
Aunt Tongyun said, "What can be said and what cannot be said is, after all, their own family affairs."
As she spoke, she looked at Nan Yan.
But Nan Yan's expression gradually became gloomy and she no longer said a word.
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