When the palace maid brought Hong Huan in, Lan Qin said, "Your Highness knows. Quickly take him into the side room and put him down first."
"Honghao, my son!" Wanyan was terrified because she saw Honghao covering his eyes with his hands and crying incessantly. She asked her eldest son, who said that he had been hit by firecrackers.
The entire Yonghe Palace was thrown into chaos. Consort De could no longer contain herself and immediately stood up, leaving behind the Fourth Prince's wife and Lady Nian.
A group of people rushed into the side room, and Lanqin naturally followed. The Fourth Prince's wife and Lady Nian also hurriedly followed.
"Mother, please save Honghao! His eyes have been injured by dynamite!" Wanyan was so anxious that she had no idea what to do, and grabbed Consort De's sleeve.
"I've already sent someone to fetch the imperial physician. Don't panic. Honghao is just a child. Do you cry because he cries?" Consort De scolded impatiently, her eyes fixed on Honghao.
Lanqin was also filled with shock: being hit in the eye by a firecracker was no good; she might even lose her eyes. She couldn't help but look at the palace maids and eunuchs responsible for caring for Honghao, who were now deathly pale with fright. If anything happened to Honghao, these people would be doomed.
Lanqin was about to look away when she caught sight of Chen Shi, who looked anxious and even had a hint of guilt in her eyes.
"Honghao! Honghao~" Wanyan fell to the bedside, calling her son's name over and over again.
A short while later, a middle-aged man was summoned by a palace maid. He was the imperial physician on duty in the palace that day. He was invited to Yonghe Palace by the palace maid, but he was thinking to himself that Consort De usually wouldn't call for an imperial physician on such a day. Who could have been injured?
When he was told that it was the Fourteenth Prince's second son who had injured his eye by setting off firecrackers, he dared not delay and immediately began to treat Hong Huan's injury.
In order not to disturb the imperial physician's treatment, Consort De called everyone out of the side room and returned to the main hall, leaving only Lady Wanyan and a few palace maids there to watch over things.
"What exactly happened?" Consort De shouted angrily at the two palace maids who were guarding Hong Huan.
"This servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die! When the young prince lit that loud firecracker, he waited for a while but it didn't start, so he went up to light it again, and that's when..." The palace maid was already pale with fright, fearing that she was going to lose her life here.
Hearing this, Lanqin naturally understood what was going on. It was a dud, of course. These palace maids were probably... How could they let a child see something so dangerous?
As expected, Consort De understood and immediately became furious, scolding, "Are you all dead? How could you let the young prince see such dangerous things! Guards, drag these two useless lowly maids away and give them thirty strokes of the cane first. If anything happens to the young prince, then we'll deal with them."
The two palace maids were trembling with fear. They were both third-class palace maids in Consort De's palace. Today, Wanyan had brought two young princes with her, and they were assigned to watch over the young princes. Originally, only one of the servants had gone with her, and now she was afraid that Wanyan would also punish her.
"Your Majesty, this servant has something to say!" one of the palace maids suddenly spoke up before being dragged out by the people called in by Granny De.
"What else do you have to say for yourself?" Consort De said sternly.
"Originally, we were watching over the young prince. If we hadn't been told to 'let the young prince play by himself,' we wouldn't have been so careless and made such a mistake," the palace maid cried. She feared for her own life and had no reason to take the blame for others; besides, she harbored resentment.
"Who said such a thing?" Consort De asked angrily.
Lanqin was startled and noticed that Chen's shoulders were trembling involuntarily.
"Yes, it was Consort Chen. She stood there watching us play with the young prince. We were the ones who were lighting the firecrackers for him, but Consort Chen told us to let him do it himself," the maid said bitterly. Since she was going to die anyway, she might as well drag someone down with her.
"Mother, I was wrong. My intention was to let the little prince experience the joy of setting off firecrackers, but I never expected such a thing to happen." Madam Chen was already crying when she came out and said.
"You, you shouldn't admit your guilt yet. Let's see how Honghao is doing first!" Consort De couldn't directly punish Chen, so she could only say this.
The two palace maids were dragged away, and Madam Chen waited anxiously for news from inside.
No one could have imagined that the eve of the Lunar New Year would be overshadowed by Hong Huan's unexpected injury.
After the banquet at Baohe Hall ended, the Fourth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince, each supported by their personal eunuchs, arrived at Yonghe Palace. The doctor who had treated Hong Huan's injuries had not yet come out. Consort De and the others were still waiting in the main hall, none of them daring to suggest going down to rest.
The two brothers entered one after the other, both seemingly quite drunk. Seeing the gloomy faces of the women in the room, they couldn't help but ask, "Mother, what's wrong?"
"Fourteenth Master asked casually. He was the first to walk in, striding into the room."
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