Chapter 67 She Poisoned the Emperor!
Shen Yuanwei slowly stepped back.
She was not afraid that Prince Rui would pull out his hairpin and stick it into her ear. After all, Prince Rui's hair was tied with soft ribbons, and the hairpin was not harmful at all.
She was just afraid that getting close would irritate or hurt the patient.
Shen Yuanwei turned to face the gate of the yard and bowed.
"Your Highness, Prince Rui no longer bangs his head against the wall, but he is afraid of me getting close to him. I cannot go forward to bandage him, so you have to come in person."
Queen Mother Jiang covered her heart and cried with joy.
She was so surprised!
She didn't expect that Madam Xiao could stop Ayou from committing suicide without giving him an acupuncture needle or knocking him out!
Queen Mother Jiang walked quickly into the yard.
When passing by Shen Yuanwei, the Queen Mother held Shen Yuanwei's arm tightly and helped her up, saying with tears in her eyes, "Thank you very much, Madam Xiao, thank you very much!"
Shen Yuanwei smiled and shook her head.
Queen Mother Jiang patted Shen Yuanwei's arm gratefully, quickly passed by Shen Yuanwei, and ran to Prince Rui impatiently.
Prince Rui, who was afraid of others approaching him, showed no rejection or fear when his mother approached him.
He looked at his mother obediently, then glanced at Shen Yuanwei at the bottom of the stairs, then hid behind his mother along the wall and moved carefully into the room, as if he was afraid that Shen Yuanwei would come and eat him.
As soon as one foot stepped into the threshold, he looked up at the table. Suddenly, he stopped, and the foot behind him refused to move forward.
Queen Mother Jiang saw him standing there straight, so she gently took his arm and led him inside. "Ayou, come in quickly, let me bandage your wound—"
King Rui resisted entering the house.
He stood motionless, silent, just staring at the table.
Queen Mother Jiang followed his gaze.
There was a porcelain plate on the table with a celadon teapot and four cups, nothing else.
Queen Mother Jiang whispered, "What's wrong with Ah You? Are you tired of using this tea set for a long time and want to change it to a new one? Can you ask someone to replace it with a new one?"
King Rui did not respond.
He just stared at the tea set, and it was hard to tell whether he liked it or disliked it.
Queen Mother Jiang coaxed him, "Come in first, I will bandage your wound and replace this tea set. Your head is still bleeding, so we can't delay. Be good, okay?"
King Rui remained silent.
When Queen Mother Jiang reached out to forcibly drag Prince Rui into the house, Shen Yuanwei heard Prince Rui's inner thoughts.
"It's not like that. The pattern is wrong. The pattern is messed up! It's messed up! It's different! It's different!"
The more he spoke, the more anxious and frustrated he became, as if the pattern had been messed up and some big deal had happened.
Shen Yuanwei raised her eyebrows.
She moved to the side and peered into the room through the gap between the mother and her child.
The four cups and teapot on the table form a set, painted with a pattern of three peacocks leisurely strolling in the grass. The grass spreads across the entire surface of the cups, which is very beautiful.
But at this moment, the four cups had peacock patterns facing the door, while the teapot had grass pattern facing the door.
What King Rui said was probably that the pattern on the teapot was wrong and it was messed up.
Shen Yuanwei knows a little about autism.
People with autism are used to arranging the things they own in their own unique way. They believe that everything around them should be placed according to their thinking habits. If it is destroyed, they will feel anxious and uneasy. They believe that everything should stay in its original position, so that they can feel comfortable and safe.
Shen Yuanwei reminded Queen Mother Jiang in a low voice.
"My Lady, the prince probably didn't think this tea set was ugly. It was because you moved his teapot. The pattern on the teapot didn't match the four cups. He felt a little anxious because you had disrupted his rhythm."
Queen Mother Jiang was stunned.
She looked back at Shen Yuanwei, then at the cups, doubtful, "Is it really a problem with the placement of the teapot?"
Shen Yuanwei nodded, "Would you like to try moving?"
Queen Mother Jiang walked into the room, moving the teapot while paying attention to Prince Rui's expression.
When she turned the teapot over so that the patterns on the four cups matched those on the teapot, she suddenly saw that King Rui, who had been standing at the door and refused to move, no longer resisted entering the house!
She saw her son step back into the doorway and walk obediently to the table and sit down.
Queen Mother Jiang was dumbfounded.
Is this really true?
In the past, Ayou would also stare at the tea sets and other furnishings in the house. She always thought that Ayou was staring at those things impatiently because he was tired of them, so she asked someone to replace those things.
But Ayou would always throw the new things to the ground and break them in a fit of anger. She just thought that Ayou didn't like the new things, so she asked people to replace them again.
After changing four or five sets in succession, Ayou stopped smashing things and just sat there watching silently. So she thought what she did was right, as she finally got a set that Ayou liked.
Now it seems that she may have been doing it wrong.
Ayou realized that no one paid attention to him even after he smashed four or five sets of tea sets, so he gave up resisting and accepted his fate.
Queen Mother Jiang looked at Shen Yuanwei.
Her eyes were full of joy.
This Madam Xiao is really amazing. Not only can she help her eldest son who has no descendants, but she also understands her silent and autistic younger son so well!
Queen Mother Jiang smiled at Shen Yuanwei, turned around and got medicinal wine and wound medicine to bandage Prince Rui's wound.
She used medicated wine to clean the wound for King Rui, sprinkled a layer of golden wound medicine on it, then wrapped the wound with breathable cotton cloth in circles, and tied a knot behind King Rui's head with the cloth.
Queen Mother Jiang thought the task was accomplished, but King Rui raised his hand to touch his forehead, and suddenly he reached out to tear the cotton cloth in annoyance, as if he was going to pull it off.
Queen Mother Jiang quickly clenched Prince Rui's fingers and comforted him, "Ah You, my dear, I know you don't like to be wrapped in these things, but you are injured. If you don't wrap the wound, it will continue to bleed and fester—"
King Rui didn't listen.
He lowered his head and continued to pull at the cotton cloth, becoming more and more irritated.
When Queen Mother Jiang was about to give up on Prince Rui, Shen Yuanwei heard Prince Rui's anxious voice again -
"Bunny! Bunny! A little bunny with one ear!"
“…”
Shen Yuanwei stared at Prince Rui in confusion.
What rabbit?
Rabbits clearly have two ears, so how could it be just one ear?
Shen Yuanwei stared at Prince Rui's head carefully, and her eyes fell on the knot tied at the back of his head. An idea suddenly occurred to Shen Yuanwei.
Did he mean to tie the knot on this side of the forehead so that it sticks up like a little rabbit with only one ear?
Shen Yuanwei quickly said to Queen Mother Jiang, "Your Majesty, try tying the knot at the back of Prince Rui's head in front of his forehead."
Queen Mother Jiang no longer questioned Shen Yuanwei's words. She hurriedly untied the knot behind her son's head and tied a knot in front of his forehead.
The anxious Prince Rui touched the bow on his forehead, shook his head gently, and looked at Queen Mother Jiang with satisfaction.
Queen Mother Jiang's eyes suddenly became wet with tears.
"Ayou, do you still remember your childhood?"
"You were hit on the head by your father. When your mother bandaged your wound, she tied a knot on your head. You wanted to tear it off, but your brother came over and hugged you, coaxing you by saying, 'Our Ayou is so handsome, like a little rabbit with only one ear, so good, so handsome...'"
"Do you remember that you are a little rabbit, your brother's little rabbit, huh?"
Prince Rui did not react. He just kept stroking the knot on his head, still feeling happy.
After being happy for a moment, Prince Rui suddenly turned his head slowly and looked at Shen Yuanwei.
He didn't dare to make eye contact with anyone, he just glanced at her quickly and lowered his head, but Shen Yuanwei heard his inner voice again -
"It's so strange, why does that woman understand me?"
Shen Yuanwei's lips curled up slightly.
She was feeling proud when she suddenly heard King Rui's inner voice:
"My mother said that mother and child are connected by heart. Could it be that the woman is my mother?"
“…”
The corners of Shen Yuanwei's mouth that were raised slowly flattened again.
She's not that old, is she?
She is only eighteen years old and as beautiful as a flower, but she is not old enough to be a mother.
…
Shen Yuanwei had already appeased Prince Rui, and the young eunuch from Shoukang Palace then rode to the home of Song Suihuan, the successor of the ghost doctor.
Song Suihuan was giving acupuncture to his mother's legs when he learned that Prince Rui had hit his head against the wall again, and he hurried to the inner room to get the medicine box.
Mother Song immediately turned her head and looked at the small table next to her.
On the small coffee table, there was a pitch-black pill.
That was the medicine developed by Song Suihuan for the emperor.
Hatred flashed in Song's mother's eyes, and she quickly took out a small bottle the size of a thumb from her sleeve.
The bottle contained water that she had mixed with arsenic.
She poured two drops of arsenic water on the pills and murmured to herself as she watched the arsenic water seep into the pills.
"Your retribution is coming soon, Dog Emperor..."
Hearing footsteps coming from the inner room, Song's mother quickly hid the small bottle back into her sleeve.
Seeing Song Suihuan coming out, Song's mother asked nonchalantly, "You said that the pill you developed might be able to cure the emperor's infertility. Wouldn't the emperor be so happy? He would be so eager to have a son that he would swallow the pill impatiently, right?"
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