Chapter 3610 It seems that something happened in the north
After everyone left, Nan Yan also dismissed the servants, closed the door, and sat back down by the bed.
Zhu Fengren was still feeling a little lethargic, his eyelids were heavy, and he looked like he was about to fall asleep at any moment.
But when he felt Nan Yan sitting back on the bed, he slowly raised his eyelids and looked at her, then said in a hoarse voice: "Why did you call everyone down?"
Nan Yan said, "Whatever the emperor wants, I will serve him."
Zhu Feng squinted his eyes and looked at her for a while, then suddenly smiled.
Nan Yan didn't say anything, and even in the candlelight, her face looked a little dark and gloomy. She took the cup and filled it with some water to moisten his throat, then she simply washed up, went to bed wearing only a thin nightgown, lifted a corner of the quilt, and lay down in it.
As soon as she lay down, she reached out and hugged Zhu Feng's waist.
Her arms were thin and originally had no strength, but perhaps it was because her skin was sensitive after the high fever, even through a layer of thin pajamas she had just changed into, Zhu Feng could still feel her arms exerting force, which made him feel a little painful, and even had a vague feeling of being clamped by an iron clamp, and she was wrapping her arms around his waist to prevent him from moving.
Zhu Feng struggled subconsciously, and Nan Yan immediately hugged him tighter.
"Where is the Emperor going?"
“…”
At this time, Zhu Feng also came back to his senses. He looked down at her, then smiled and said softly, "I'm not going anywhere. Please loosen up."
“…”
But Nan Yan didn't.
Zhu Feng looked at her for a while, finally sighed, reached out from under the quilt and gently patted the back of her hand.
"Are you scared?"
The two people were so close that they didn't even need to make any sound when talking, and could hear each other clearly just by the sound of their breathing; but because of this, the sound with the hot breath seemed to come from the two people's tightly pressed bodies, piercing straight into the heart.
Nan Yan looked up at him, and Zhu Feng noticed that her eyes were a little red.
Not only did her eyes become bloodshot from not sleeping day and night for the past few days, but she was also gritting her teeth to suppress something. But at this moment, when she hugged Zhu Feng with both hands and felt that he was still there, she finally couldn't hold it anymore.
However, she remained tense, gritting her teeth, and after a long while, she managed to utter a few words: "No."
Zhu Feng chuckled.
He reached out and gently rubbed Nan Yan's back, as if to dispel the haze that was pent up in her heart, and then said, "I'm fine. Look, I'm fine now, aren't I?"
“…”
Nan Yan still didn't say anything, she just gritted her teeth and hugged his waist tightly.
This time, Zhu Feng felt that his waist was about to break in her hands.
He sighed again, then said, "I'm really fine."
When Nan Yan spoke again, her voice was clearly choked with sobs: "It's okay, then why is this happening?"
Having said that, she buried her face in Zhu Feng's shoulder.
Zhu Feng said patiently, "I'm really fine. This time it's just—probably because I completed a big task, I was a little lax, so this happened."
At this point, he laughed at himself and said, "It seems that I really can't relax for even a day."
“……!”
Hearing these words that clearly sounded like a joke, Nan Yan felt her heart sink to the bottom.
She raised her head and stared at Zhu Feng for a long moment. The long silence between them was like a knife, cutting through the quiet moment and drawing blood. After a long moment, she calmed down and said firmly, "No matter where the emperor goes, I will accompany him."
“…”
Zhu Feng's throat choked.
He also looked at Nan Yan for a long time. Although her eyes were gentle, they were also firm without any flicker. People often say that words are powerful and resounding, but every word in her words was like a mountain of thunder, which could not be shaken at all.
After a long time, he finally sighed softly, then reached out and hugged Nan Yan.
Softly said: "Okay..."
After this night, everything seemed to have returned to normal.
Although Zhu Feng's high fever had subsided, the outside world was naturally jubilant, but only the doctors in the Imperial Hospital knew that they had felt like they had been through the gates of hell in the past few days.
Even though His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have recovered from his illness, they did not dare to relax at all.
After this incident, Zhu Feng's health was not very good. He could still barely keep up appearances before, but after that, he couldn't even keep up appearances. He lost weight rapidly, his face turned sallow, and he was often short of breath. Sometimes, after attending a morning court session, his underwear was soaked with cold sweat.
Faced with this situation, Nan Yan was extremely worried.
Ordinary people would just take good care of themselves if they were in poor health, but Zhu Feng didn't know whether he had become stubborn due to old age or he was afraid of seeing a doctor. He refused to take good care of himself when he was in poor health. He often stayed up all night in the imperial study to handle government affairs. Nan Yan would often go to see him in the middle of the night with supplements, and find him still reviewing memorials with the imperial pen, his eyes full of bloodshot.
If you say a few more words to him, he will frown and ignore you.
Nan Yan tried to persuade him several times, but there was really no way. She could only secretly ask someone to buy some precious supplements from outside and put them in the Yiku Palace. Fortunately, Aunt Tongyun was also proficient in pharmacology, so she asked her to cook in the Yiku Palace and often make some nourishing soups for Zhu Feng. Every time he came to eat, the dishes on the table were mostly medicinal foods.
Because of this, Zhu Feng got angry several times and said that she treated him like a sick person.
As a result, the two of them would have a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. Sometimes, even Concubine Yi and others would worry that the Imperial Concubine would be deposed. But the next day, they would see His Majesty the Emperor going to the Yiku Palace to drink medicine soup in a shy manner. Over time, everyone got used to it, and no matter how much the two of them quarreled, no one took it seriously.
In a blink of an eye, two years passed.
On this day, it was a rare occasion for the Crown Princess to enter the palace with the young prince Chang Yi, and Nan Yan specially asked her to stay and have lunch together.
The Crown Princess smiled and said, "Your Majesty, won't you wait for the Emperor to come back and have dinner together?"
Nan Yan looked back at the sky outside the window and said, "Usually he would be back at this time. If he hadn't, then there must be something going on in the Imperial Study."
After he finished speaking, a young eunuch walked in from outside, bowed to them, and said, "Your Majesty, Eunuch Shun asked me to come over and greet you. The Emperor will have lunch in the Imperial Study at noon and won't be coming."
Nan Yan nodded.
But she thought for a moment and then asked, "Did something happen in the south?"
In the past two years, the country has had good weather and harvests, and the lives of ordinary people have become better. In addition, after that banquet, the number of merchants from various countries traveling to the country has increased several times, and the Ministry of Revenue has increased its revenue a lot, so their lives are not so tight anymore.
But Nan Yan knew very well that if there were no internal troubles, there would be external troubles.
Although Li Wushang had been secretly strangled by them, making it difficult for him to cause any major trouble, this wolf was not so docile after all, and would cause trouble on the border every few days. Cui Yuanmei was old and retired to his hometown last year. Although the court had sent more officials there, it was always difficult to suppress Li Wushang's ambition.
Therefore, just after the Chinese New Year this year, King Han Zhu Chengjun was sent to the south.
Naturally, he was accompanied by several of his close friends, including Wei Ying, Lu Linchuan and others. They had all made great contributions in the battle of Yongzhou City and had a great deterrent effect on the king and ministers of Yue State. Their departure saved Zhu Feng a lot of headaches.
However, Nan Yan had a headache again.
Only half a year after Zhu Feng's birthday that year, Lu Linchuan married Ruoshui. Nan Yan paid a huge dowry and was heartbroken as if she was marrying off her own daughter. She even gave them a house she had bought in the capital. Ruoshui was about to refuse, but Lu Linchuan thanked her straightforwardly. From then on, he worked even harder for the King of Han. This time when she went south, Nan Yan felt a little more relieved because of his presence.
However, after all, her son is thousands of miles away, so Nan Yan still has to worry about him from time to time.
The young eunuch smiled and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, nothing is wrong with His Royal Highness the Prince of Han."
Nan Yan felt relieved after hearing this.
But then he said, "What big deal is there that makes the emperor unable to even eat?"
The young eunuch hesitated for a moment and looked up at the Crown Princess - although they all knew that there was no scruples between His Majesty the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine, and the two of them even often discussed matters together in the Imperial Study, but the Crown Princess was not a member of this palace after all, and talking about state affairs in front of her would inevitably spread and cause gossip.
Gu Qiqing understood, so he carried Chang Yi to the side and asked him to wash his hands.
Nan Yan glanced at them, then looked at the little eunuch, and felt vaguely in her heart that what he wanted to say should not be simple, otherwise he would not have to say it behind the Crown Princess's back.
So he asked, "What's going on?"
The young eunuch said softly, "Your Majesty, nothing happened in the south, but it seems something happened in the north."
"North?"
When Nan Yan heard these two words, her brows furrowed.
The young eunuch said, "I dare not ask any more questions, but this morning, a secret memorial arrived from the north, and the Emperor immediately summoned several officials from Xichuan who had come to the capital to report on their work. They are currently discussing this."
“…”
Nan Yan frowned and thought for a long time before she raised her hand and waved, "You can go down."
The young eunuch bowed, saluted, and walked out.
At this time, the Crown Princess returned with the young prince. Zhu Changyi had washed herself clean and raised her two white little hands to Nan Yan: "Your Highness, look!"
Nan Yan glanced down at him, then immediately smiled broadly and said, "What a clean young man."
The Crown Princess came over and whispered tentatively, "If your Majesty has anything else to do, we will go back first."
Nan Yan immediately said, "What's the big deal? Could it be bigger than having dinner with our little Chang Yi?"
Zhu Changyi immediately laughed happily.
The Crown Princess glanced at her. Although she knew in her heart that it must be no trivial matter to make the Imperial Concubine change her expression, since she didn't say much, she naturally didn't ask any more questions. She stayed for a meal, and seeing that it was getting late, she took Zhu Changyi out of the palace.
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