Chapter 40: The medicine the lady gave me is sweet
In the palace, Xiao Fufeng heard that Princess Rongyang brought Doctor Yun into the palace to treat his father and received a large reward. He was so angry that he smashed all the furnishings in his bedroom.
"Someone, come here! Help me dress up. I want to see my father!" She wanted to tell her father that she was the first to see Doctor Yun, and it was Aunt Rongyang who took him away from her!
A palace maid cautiously stepped forward and said, "Princess, Eunuch Yang, who is with His Majesty, came to tell you a quarter of an hour ago that you should stay in your bedroom to reflect on your mistakes and copy the "Female Code" a hundred times. You are not allowed to leave without the emperor's order."
"Ah!" Xiao Fufeng kicked the palace maid hard in the chest, knocking her over. His brows and eyes were ferocious, and he didn't behave well in front of others at all.
"I already know about this. Do I need you to remind me again and again? Are you deliberately trying to make me feel uncomfortable by reminding me of this?" Xiao Fufeng kicked the maid several times but still felt unsatisfied. "Someone, drag her away and cut off her tongue."
The palace maid's face turned blue with pain. When she heard these words, she was terrified and kept grabbing Xiao Fufeng's skirt to beg for mercy, but she was soon covered with her mouth by two eunuchs and dragged away.
The personal attendant hurried forward to massage Xiao Fufeng's shoulders. "His Majesty has always doted on the princess. I believe this confinement is just for Princess Rongyang's sake. When the time comes, let the Empress and the Third Prince speak a few good words for the princess before His Majesty. His Majesty will surely release her."
Xiao Fufeng's expression eased slightly, but he continued, "My brother has recently written a paper on flood control, and he's busy trying to impress his father. I can't hold him back."
"Send someone to my mother's palace to tell her to find a way to get my father to release me."
The maidservant responded and was about to send a eunuch to pass on the message when a maidservant came in hurriedly and knelt down to report.
"Princess, something terrible has happened! His Majesty just summoned Concubine Rou to the Yangxin Palace for a talk. I don't know what she said that angered His Majesty so much that he not only demoted Concubine Rou to a talented lady, but also fined her half a year's salary."
"What?!" Xiao Fufeng was really panicked at this moment. Aunt Rongyang was really implicated along with his mother.
Unfortunately, she was punished with house arrest and couldn't even go to the Yangxin Palace to plead for her mother.
"Empress Rou is still kneeling in front of the Yangxin Palace, taking off her hairpin and awaiting punishment."
There were people coming and going in front of the Yangxin Palace. If her mother was kneeling there, wouldn't everyone in the palace see it? Aunt Rongyang was trying to stomp on her and her mother's faces!
Xiao Fufeng stood up suddenly, and after a moment he fell back heavily into the chair.
"Go, go and send a message to my royal brother, asking him to complete this flood control task no matter what. Only if he completes the task well, can my mother and I regain the favor of my father." Xiao Fufeng closed his eyes, his fingers tightly gripping the armrest. For the first time, he felt helpless from the bottom of his heart.
Rongyang and the Shen family were the ones who brought her and her mother to this point!
When her royal brother returns from flood control and wins honor in front of the emperor, she will make these people pay a thousand times the price.
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Chen Shuwei had been busy stockpiling food and medicinal herbs these days, so she naturally didn't know what was happening in the palace. However, a flood control strategy in the hands of the third prince was circulating in the capital.
Upon hearing that the Third Prince had personally presented this policy paper in front of the Golden Throne Hall, His Majesty was greatly pleased. He said that this policy paper was so insightful and incisive that there was no other like it in the world. He immediately approved the Third Prince to go to Yuzhou to control the floods.
Flood control and disaster relief have always been major events, and the profits involved are lucrative.
Because of this, officials from the Crown Prince's faction and those from the Third Prince's faction had been arguing with each other for a while. However, the Marquis of Jingning also received a lot of rewards from His Majesty for his policy proposal, and he was the talk of the town in the capital.
Shen Shuwei could hear people outside talking and praising the Jingning Marquis Mansion while she was sitting at home. She and Shen Heng didn't react much to it, but Shen Zhiyang and Shen Zhang reacted a little more strongly.
"What a load of crap! I studied hard at home and only presented this policy paper to relieve His Majesty's worries. You're so shameless!" Chen Zhang gulped down his water as he came in, slamming his cup on the table and cursing, "You don't feel guilty about stealing my brother's things, and you still dare to brag about it outside."
"That's right, second brother is right. There is not a single good person in the Jingning Marquis Mansion from top to bottom. They are all stinky shit!" Shen Zhiyang moved a small stool and sat next to Shen Zhang, nodding his head like pounding garlic.
Chen Shuwei had no choice but to pick him up. "Ayang, don't learn these vulgar words from your second brother. There will be a flower show in the capital tonight. I bought you a new dress and a new headdress. Come in and try them on."
The flower show is a unique custom in Luojing. It is held by the government at the end of summer and the beginning of autumn every year. Flowers of various colors from all over the country are arranged along the streets like flowing water for people to appreciate and select, and finally the flower king of the year is determined.
Shen Zhiyang loved to join in the fun, and when she heard that Shen Shuwei had bought clothes for her, she was so happy that she hugged Shen Shuwei and said some sweet words to her, then happily got dressed.
Shen Shuwei had been very busy these days, so he decided to take this opportunity to relax. Of course, all the Shen brothers and sisters were going, except for one person.
Thinking about the increasingly tense relationship between Jing Yin and Shen Zhang recently, Shen Shuwei rubbed his brows and sighed, then went to knock on Zhao Yun's door.
The door was quickly opened. Zhao Yun saw Shen Shuwei and smiled softly. His voice was as gentle as the spring breeze blowing across his face. "Miss, what do you want from me? But it's time for Divine Doctor Yun to see me again?"
In the past few days, under the care of Doctor Yun, his complexion has obviously become much rosier, and even his cough has become less frequent, which makes Shen Shuwei overjoyed.
It seems that it won't be long before she can let Jing Yin leave the house, and she won't have to worry about him and her second brother getting into a bloody incident in the house one day.
Shen Shuwei told him about the flower show that night. Zhao Yun's eyes flickered after hearing it. He sighed softly, and looked apologetic. "Miss, you are so kind to invite me. I should accept the invitation. However, I caught a cold this morning - cough cough cough!"
As he spoke, Zhao Yun coughed against his lips. The corners of his clear and cold phoenix eyes turned slightly red from coughing, and a misty fog floated in them.
Being looked at by Zhao Yun with such pitiful eyes, Shen Shuwei comforted him with a few words and asked the servant to boil a bowl of medicine for treating colds and bring it over.
After Shen Shuwei left, a figure appeared out of thin air behind Zhao Yun. It was Chengfeng.
"Sir, the Crown Prince wants to meet you at Fulai Tower tonight at 3:15 PM."
Zhao Yun's eyes fell on the bowl of cold medicine. He picked it up, gently placed the rim of the bowl against his lips, and suddenly smiled for no reason.
He should have let the young lady feed him the bowl of medicine before letting her go. He had not yet tasted what the medicine the young lady fed him tasted like. Was it as bitter as the poison his mother had pinched his neck and forced him to drink, or was it sweet like the young lady's soft lips?
Chengfeng looked at his master with a puzzled expression and drank the medicine with a smile. After a moment, he threw the medicine bowl to the ground, bent down and spit out the medicine he had swallowed.
“It turns out it’s bitter.”
Isn't the master always forbidden to drink things like soups and medicines? What happened today? Has he had too many good days and wants to make himself suffer?
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