The old woman dared not cover her bruised face. She knelt weakly on the ground, her lips trembling as she tried to speak, but she could not utter a word.
Li's chest heaved as she glared at the messenger for a long while before slowly suppressing her anger, holding it in and letting her breathing return to normal.
After regaining her composure, she realized she had gone too far with the messenger. Being concerned about her reputation, she coldly asked the messenger if there was any more news. Upon learning that there was none, she immediately sent her away.
When the women in the backyard learned that Lady Guarjia from Peach Courtyard had returned with an extremely unpleasant expression, and that the Fourth Prince had even summoned the imperial physician, they, like the Fujin, thought about it for a while and were no longer angry. Instead, their emotions underwent a dramatic change, and they began to gloat.
The princess raised her handkerchief to cover the corners of her mouth, thinking to herself: Could it be that she is suffering from a serious illness due to the change in environment? No wonder she looks so pale.
Li was so excited that she forgot about the broken teacup shards on the ground and stepped on them. Her joy turned to sorrow. The shards pierced her shoes and injured her foot, but her flowerpot-soled shoes gave her an instability, and she twisted her ankle.
However, thinking of the old nanny who delivered the message that Guarjia's complexion was bad and her body was weak, and that only her master could carry her back, Li was still happy even though she had twisted her ankle.
He thought to himself with amusement: "Heh heh, Guarjia clan, so what if they can accompany me on my southern tour? Tsk tsk, they still came back sickly."
Hesheli and the others were also secretly pleased. Most of them felt that Jiaming was unlucky. She had only spent some time alone with her father during his southern tour, and now she couldn't handle the good fortune and fell ill.
Ideally, she would fall seriously ill and never recover. That way, her fourth son, hehe, could be raised by her... All sorts of fantasies and wonderful ideas led Jiaming to sneeze incessantly and be cursed by others.
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