Tianwu had a very good brain and understood what Feng Yuheng meant. He looked at Concubine Liu on the sickbed, and then thought about the Liu family, so he nodded: "Let's do it this way! I think I have done my best for both Concubine Liu and the Liu family. Now it depends on how the Liu family chooses." After he finished speaking, he stood up, without looking at Concubine Liu again, but with a tired look on his face, he put his arm around Zhang Yuan's hand that he offered to support him, and only said: "Go back! Ah Heng, go back too! You go with me, and the medical treatment will officially start tomorrow."
Feng Yuheng responded, and left with Tianwu, but he did not even leave a piece of medicine for Concubine Liu who was lying on the sickbed.
Tianwu was going back to Zhaohe Palace. Feng Yuheng accompanied him all the way, supporting him with Zhang Yuan on both sides. As they walked, she talked about Concubine Liu's illness again, but it was different from what she had just said. She said, "Father, Concubine Liu's illness is chronic. According to your judgment, it has lasted for at least five or six years. But the recent development is a bit too fast, which is not normal."
She said it relatively tactfully, but as soon as the word "not normal" came out, Emperor Tianwu immediately understood the truth. He groaned, his body trembled a little, but it finally turned into a long sigh, and then said: "It has been like this since ancient times. People can do anything to fight for power. And these things cannot be done by one person, they have to form a clique privately and let more people help. When the Liu family took the initiative to ask you to come to the palace to treat Concubine Liu, I felt something was wrong, but when I saw Concubine Liu was so sick, I agreed in a rush. Ah Heng, you should pay more attention, but don't fall into their trap. I am old, and people at this age always cause trouble for their children and grandchildren. It's also my fault that I have so many sons. It would be great if there were more princesses, and this palace would not be so deserted."
Tianwu was filled with emotion every time he mentioned such a topic, and even the two people supporting him could clearly feel a sense of sadness surrounding him. In fact, Tianwu was only in his early sixties, which was not considered old in later generations, but in this era, he was a real old man. In addition, he had been on the battlefield when he was young and had a lot of illnesses. He had been an emperor for decades and had endless worries every day. His body had long been hollowed out. With each extra year he lived, his aging would become more obvious. There was nothing he could do about it.
Feng Yuheng wanted to take good care of Tianwu's body, but the old emperor was rather stubborn and refused to take the tonics given to him on time. Sometimes he was willful and thought that he was still young and still needed to practice in the palace. As a result, his body could not be properly adjusted after several attempts, so she gave up and simply let nature take its course.
She personally sent Tianwu back to Zhaohe Hall, and brewed a calming tea herself. Zhang Yuan fed Tianwu and watched him fall asleep before sending Feng Yuheng out of the palace. After leaving the hall, she asked the question she had been wanting to ask: "Princess, don't you want to see the prescription that Concubine Liu has been taking? Just now you said that the disease is progressing too quickly and there might be a problem. Could the problem be with the medicine?"
Feng Yuheng shrugged and chuckled, "It's very likely that the problem is in the medicine, but it's useless to look at the prescription. Only a fool would tamper with something that is so obvious. If there is really a problem, it's better to check the medicine that Concubine Liu takes every day, as well as the people who serve her." After she finished speaking, she waved her hand and said, "But it's meaningless. What the Liu family wants is nothing more than me officially taking over the treatment of Concubine Liu. Now that I have taken it over, I believe that the other party will take further action in a few days. We might as well wait and see."
As she was talking, she looked up and saw Xuan Tianming coming towards her on the path to Yuehan Palace. She exchanged a few more pleasantries with Zhang Yuan and asked him to go back to serve Tianwu. She then went to meet her husband. The two of them walked out of the palace and returned home shoulder to shoulder. Then, when they talked about the matter at Anju Palace, Xuan Tianming only told her, "Seventh Brother and I are also secretly investigating a group of people under the Eighth Old Man's followers. We have already made some progress and will put pressure on them in the near future. But the Liu family is not included here. The Liu family is very well hidden, or they have not been involved in anything for so many years. They are considered to be relatively honest and moderate people, because they are not affected by the disaster. But this does not mean that the Liu family does not have evil ambitions. Just because they took the initiative to ask you to treat Concubine Liu, and Concubine Liu's symptoms are as you said, it means that the Liu family must be using this incident to make a fuss. You have to be more careful. If you can treat the disease, then treat it. If you can't, just ignore it. Anyway, the Imperial Hospital can't do anything about it. You are not a living god. How can you save a person who has been sentenced to death by all the imperial doctors by your own strength? Think more about what happened to the Yao family back then. At this time, you must not let such a thing happen again."
Feng Yuheng frowned when he heard this. The Yao family back then, yes, the Yao family back then was held hostage by the Third Prince's party because they treated a concubine and ended up killing her. In the end, if Emperor Tianwu hadn't exiled the Yao family to Desolate State, I'm afraid the Yao family would have been in decline by now.
But apart from her and her grandfather, who else would know that even though Tianwu had protected him in this way, the real Yao Xian still lost his life. But now it was different. She was not the real Feng Yuheng, so how could she be in such a situation? So she smiled, and the evil spirit at the corners of her lips was very similar to Xuan Tianming's usual demeanor. Even Xuan Tianming couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wife, you and your husband are getting more and more compatible now."
She had no intention of studying whether it was in sync or not, because Wang Chuan reminded her at the right time: "Princess, do you still want to send yellow paper money to the Liu family?"
Feng Yuheng slapped his forehead and thought about it, so he hurriedly said, "You have to send it! Liu Huai has so many things in his heart that he wants to tell Feng Jinyuan. How can he say it if we don't send him paper money? You should go quickly and send more. If you send less, it won't be enough for him to write."
Wang Chuan covered his mouth and chuckled, then turned and left the house. Only then did Xuan Tianming raise his eyebrows and express doubt. Feng Yuheng did not intend to say that Liu Huai quarreled with her because he was unhappy with what he said, so as to prevent him from rushing to the door to silence her. She just said, "I had some quarrels with Liu Huai in Anju Palace. You know, I have never had a good attitude towards people I don't like. I insulted him a few times, and he said that I had no family education. I thought, you can't talk to me about family education! I have to talk to my father, so I thought of asking Wang Chuan to send some ghost paper to Liu Mansion, and let Liu Huai write down what he wanted to say to Feng Jinyuan on it, and then burn it, so that he can communicate with the Feng family, right?"
Xuan Tianming nodded repeatedly, praising his wife's trick. Sometimes this little girl is smarter than him! She can even think of such a trick. When the paper money is sent to the Liu Mansion, everyone in the mansion must be vomiting, right?
Xuan Tianming guessed correctly, Liu Huai was indeed so angry about the ten bundles of yellow paper that he almost vomited blood. But he didn't dare to get angry, because the person who came to deliver the paper was not only Wang Chuan who was beside Feng Yuheng, but also Madam Zhou from the Prince Yu's Mansion. This old lady was a first-rank imperial edict. When she was young, she saved the life of the Ninth Prince and brought him up personally. He was impulsive that afternoon, and because of a few words from Xuan Tianming, he provoked Feng Yuheng, and as a result, he was held hostage and the emperor almost chopped off his head. Now that the people from the Prince Yu's Mansion came to the door, how could he say a word? Even if he was unhappy, he had to take all the ten bundles of yellow paper obediently, and he had to say to Madam Zhou respectfully: "Thank you Madam Zhou for making this trip. Please sit in the mansion and have a cup of hot tea!"
Madam Zhou shook her head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Minister Liu. I won't drink the tea, so as not to disturb the conversation between Minister Liu and the deceased Master Feng." When she said this, she still raised her head slightly, not even looking at Liu Huai who was half leaning over. When she went to the Left Prime Minister's Mansion to propose marriage, she didn't care about the current Left Prime Minister of the First Rank! How could a mere Third Rank Minister be taken seriously by Madam Zhou?
After the people left, Liu Huai returned to the courtyard and ordered the servants to close the door. He then kicked the yellow paper bundles in anger. He wanted to vent his emotions, but the kick was a little too strong, and the bundles were not very strong. As a result, the yellow paper flew everywhere, and the autumn wind blew, making the whole front yard of Liu's mansion full of paper money. It looked like a funeral in the mansion.
Liu Huai vomited so much that he almost vomited blood. He quickly ordered his servants to pick up all the paper money. But what should he do with it after picking it up? It was not right to throw it away, and it was not right not to throw it away. He couldn't really write a letter to Feng Jinyuan on these yellow papers and then burn them in the middle of the night, right? That would be crazy! Liu Huai thought about it and finally came up with a good solution. He ordered his servants: "Send all to the kitchen, put them in the stove, burn them to ashes, burn them all to ashes!"
The servants continued to move the ten bundles of paper to the kitchen, where dinner was being cooked. When the cook saw so much paper coming, she simply stopped using firewood and used the yellow paper directly to make a fire, which actually burned faster than firewood.
When Liu Huai was having dinner, the eldest lady of the family was with him. She watched the servants bring dishes to the table one by one, but Liu Huai frowned after taking a few bites and put down his bowl and chopsticks again.
Madam Li was puzzled: "What's wrong with the master? Is the food not to your taste?"
Liu Huai shook his head, pulled a servant who was serving dishes and asked, "How was this meal made?"
The servant was puzzled: "It was cooked in the kitchen?"
"What do you use to burn it? I mean, what to use to burn the fire, firewood?"
The servant was startled, then shook his head: "There is no need to chop firewood today. Didn't the master order people to put those yellow papers into the stove and burn them? The kitchen is using the fire from the yellow papers to cook rice and fry vegetables. The fire is still burning!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Huai suddenly stood up, rushed outside and vomited until there was nothing left in his stomach. Then he took the water handed to him by the servant to rinse his mouth and wash his face. But when he raised his face again, it was full of bitterness. He felt very upset. He was still eating! This meal was made by burning paper money for the dead! Who in the world can eat this kind of meal? How can this be a meal for the living?
Not only was Liu Huai devastated, his wife Li was even more devastated. She was so angry that she simply overturned the dinner table, rushed to the door, pointed at Liu Huai and cursed: "What evil have you done in the court?"
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