Xu Yixing glared at him in surprise and quickly signaled for everyone in the room to leave. Lu Anyuan had been with him for so long that his words had become so inappropriate. Was this something he could just keep saying?
"Qiqing, you have such a big heart!" Xu Yixing pretended to be angry and hit Lu Anyuan's arm, feeling a faint pain in his heart.
Because she didn't want Lu Anyuan to be the emperor at all. To be more precise, she didn't want to be the queen who was high and mighty, without any feelings, and pretended to be virtuous and generous.
It's hard to imagine that if Lu Anyuan were to become like the emperor in the future, raising more than a dozen children and marrying a palace of beauties, she would really want Ying Si to poison them one by one.
For others, the lover's heart may just want the other person to be happy, but for her, it is absolute loyalty and one-way.
Unfortunately, she couldn't say it. She knew that Lu Anyuan had been thinking about vying for the throne long before she married into the prince's mansion and long before she fell in love with him. She couldn't convince a prince to give up his desire for the throne, so she could only swallow this little bit of pain, pretending that she had never thought about it, and pretending to support him in his bid for the throne.
"It's okay. You can talk at home."
Every night after the New Year was so difficult. Although Lu Anyuan moved back from the study, he refused to touch Xu Yixing because he refused to let her take the medicine.
But almost every night, Xu Yixing could hear his heavy breathing after kissing.
Damn it, this life is worse than being a widow.
"Actually, the medicine that Ying Si gave me should be very effective, not as good as our..."
"No, are you addicted to pills? You're always thinking about pills."
Xu Yixing's words froze at his lips. Really, don't you see that you are almost a ripe shrimp, but you are still being stubborn!
Lu Anyuan slowed down his voice: "It's okay, you have to believe that Mr. Yao will definitely be able to develop a better medicine as soon as possible."
"Hmph, I trust Ying Si more than he does. They are two monsters." They are indeed two monsters. Although Xu Yixing doesn't go to Jingxi Temple often, she also knows that Ying Si often seeks out Mr. Yao for sparring after being released. The two men, one old and one young, are both crazy!
"It's all fine. I just hate that there's no medicine for men in this world. Otherwise, if I took it, you wouldn't have to worry."
"Mr. Yao did mention it, but I heard the effect was not very good."
"It's fate!" Lu Anyuan turned over and got up, helplessly burying himself in the half-cold bathtub until his heartbeat stopped, then he went back to bed to rest. How painful!
This day should have been uneventful; Xu Yixing had assumed Lu Anyuan would be home early for lunch, so he waited. But just like yesterday, the food on the table had gone cold, and he still hadn't shown up.
"I shouldn't have waited earlier, oh!" Xu Yixing asked Xiaoshan to take all the food back, reheat it and bring it back. He wouldn't wait this time!
"His Highness is back!" The announcement instantly made Xu Yixing excited. He hurried out to greet him, but he saw that he seemed a little absent-minded.
"There won't be any bad news again..." Xu Yixing felt that he had to live his life "depending on his mood", which made him laugh.
"Madam, our eldest brother is dead!" Lu Anyuan looked so painful that it made people feel distressed, but Xu Yixing didn't bother to comfort him.
"It's only been less than half a month, how could this happen!" She supported Lu Anyuan with one hand and let him sit down. Her eyes rolled, and she felt something was wrong: "The national war... was lost?"
Although he thought it was impossible, what could have happened to cause the general to die in a foreign land? Xu Yixing couldn't believe it, and his eyes were full of stars. He couldn't tell whether it was from hunger or fear.
"No, Daxia won. As soon as the Dragon Guards arrived in Southern Xinjiang, they launched a blitzkrieg against the Southern Xinjiang army, and the war was over in less than two days. The ruler of the Song Kingdom opened the city and surrendered, so Big Brother didn't make things difficult for them and directly led his troops to take over."
This is the national war that Xu Yixing imagined, and the army of Daxia will be invincible.
"Since we won, how could the eldest prince die?"
Lu Anyuan raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows hard, as if this could help soothe the sadness between his brows.
"I heard that Big Brother wasn't feeling well on the way to the battle. The air in the south and north of the Qi is hot and humid, and it's winter in the capital, so it was hard to adapt to the weather, so he contracted dysentery. But Big Brother didn't tell us about it, fearing it would upset the army. But after the Song Kingdom surrendered, the surrounding small kingdoms also came to pay homage, and there were more feasts and drinks, which aggravated his illness, and then..."
Lu Anyuan put his hands up to cover his face, but Xu Yixing still saw it. A few inconspicuous tears slipped into his collar.
The eldest prince was a good man. This was Xu Yixing's only feeling towards him. Although the original Lu Junshi was not easy to get along with, it was undeniable that the eldest prince was indeed gentle.
"Hiss! Doesn't the Emperor have the Nine-Transformation Resurrection Pill? Why didn't he bring some for the Crown Prince this time?"
Lu Anyuan shook his head through his fingers: "I don't know about this. But even if Big Brother brought it, he probably thought that there might be others who needed it more during the war, so he might refuse to eat it."
Xu Yixing sighed again. If the emperor didn't give it to him, it would mean that he was heartless and didn't take the eldest prince's life seriously. But if the eldest prince had it but didn't eat it, it would mean that he was stupid!
Dysentery is such a serious disease. Does he think he can recover by enduring it for a few days and returning to the capital?
Even so, after what happened recently, Xu Yixing couldn't help but think about the dark side: "Did he, did he really die of illness?"
Lu Anyuan raised his head, no longer hiding his tears: "I don't know, but ma'am, I can only guarantee that I didn't do this."
Xu Yixing looked at him with heartache. In fact, if something happened to the eldest prince and the emperor became suspicious, the two feudal lords, Qinan and Qibei, would surely be to blame. It was unknown whether he had been reprimanded by the emperor in the palace.
"Yuan, now that things have come to this, don't be sad anymore."
Sadness is the most useless thing in the world.
"The Emperor has already sent out a team to retrieve the spirit, and he's also brought along the most powerful corpse officials. He must have had some suspicions."
"So who's leading the team?"
"It's Mr. Liu, the former tutor of my father." Lu Anyuan wiped his face with a handkerchief and was no longer sad.
"Mr. Liu is already eighty years old, right?" Xu Yixing frowned and calculated his age. If he went to southern Xinjiang at this age, could he come back alive?
However, this also reflects how suspicious the emperor was about this matter. Not only did he not trust his son and daughter, but even many ministers in the court did not trust him. He even brought his own teacher to be a witness.
I think if the corpse official really found something wrong, a group of people in the court would be in trouble again.
"Yes, this morning, the news of victory and death came at the same time. Many ministers were stunned. Father almost fainted. It took Eunuch Kang to caress him for a long time before he recovered. Only then did he invite the old tutor out."
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