After crying for a while, Granny Li, Qiangwei, and others couldn't help but try to comfort her several times, but Sun Miaoqing stopped them with a look.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Hongzhou, whether he was tired or knew that crying was useless, just kept drinking the bitter medicine and gradually stopped crying.
She stopped rolling around and sat on the carpet, her eyes red and tears welling up, pouting her little mouth in grievance as she looked at Sun Miaoqing.
How pitiful she looked!
After finishing the last sip, Sun Miaoqing said with satisfaction, "Not bad, this time it only lasted for half an hour, which is less than last time."
Sun Miaoqing put down her bowl, got up, went over and picked up Hongzhou to comfort him.
“Hongzhou, be good. It’s dangerous on the roof, and it’s taller than your mother. If you want to get up there, you have to grow taller than your mother first, understand?”
Hongzhou nodded with a wronged look on his face and said softly, "Hongzhou knows."
Sun Miaoqing asked softly, "Before Hongzhou grows up, will he still go up on the roof and ride small animals?"
Hongzhou shook his head. "Hongzhou will not ride."
Sun Miaoqing then took out a piece of candy with satisfaction. "Mother said that as long as Hongzhou is obedient, Mother will reward him. This is your favorite hawthorn milk candy. Eat it and go play with the nannies."
Upon seeing the candy, Hongzhou happily took it, put it in his mouth, and skipped and hopped towards the toy room.
Rose, Granny Li, and the others all followed after them.
Linglan said admiringly, "Your Majesty is truly resourceful. I'm sure in a few days, the Fifth Prince will behave himself and stop causing Your Majesty such trouble."
Sun Miaoqing said, "After all, he's still just a child, easily fooled. A slap followed by a sweet treat, that's the same for anyone."
"Princess Consort Zhuang is too soft-hearted and dares not discipline her. It is said that spoiling a child is like killing a child. Since Hongzhou is now my son, I will naturally teach him well."
"Otherwise, if anything goes wrong in the future, it will all be my fault as your mother."
Unfortunately, such things are quite common throughout history.
If princes and princesses make mistakes, they may not necessarily get into trouble, but their birth mothers and adoptive mothers will most likely get into trouble.
The most well-known one is Princess Haiyan from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
She had an incestuous relationship with her half-brother before marriage, and the two continued their affair openly after she got married.
When her husband, Liu Qian, entered the palace and discovered the affair, the two quarreled fiercely, and the emperor had no choice but to let them divorce.
All the children were his own, and Liu Jun's mother, Consort Pan, had been favored by the emperor for many years.
Emperor Liu Yilong then shifted the blame to Consort Jiang, the birth mother of Princess Haiyan. He claimed that the princess's mistakes were the result of her mother's poor upbringing.
The emperor directly ordered the execution of Consort Jiang, and because Consort Jiang was of lowly status, Princess Haiyan was not required to mourn her birth mother.
Unable to bear the humiliation, Liu Qian's ex-husband committed suicide, and her former father-in-law, both angry and frightened, was scared to death.
Sun Miaoqing didn't want to be that miserable Jiang Meiren, losing her life in a daze, without any control over her own destiny.
Liuli came in to report, "Your Majesty, Physician Lu said that His Majesty's health has almost fully recovered."
"As for Bai Shuang's matter, His Majesty instructed Su Peisheng to handle it discreetly, and Zhang Mi dared not speak out."
"Physician Lu said that not many people in the Imperial Hospital know about these things. It's just that everyone finds it strange that the Tranquilizing Decoction is suddenly banned."
"Because of the illness of the concubines, several of them have not been able to rest well these past few days. They sent someone to the Imperial Hospital to get some calming medicine, but they couldn't get it, and they have complained about it."
"The Imperial Hospital had no choice but to prepare some calming and sleep-inducing sachets for the ladies to place by their bedsides. But they only provided some comfort and were not of much use."
Sun Miaoqing said, "Although Su Peisheng is reliable, this matter cannot be kept secret. I suppose the Empress and Consort Hua already know about it by now."
"This stuff is bad for your health; using it too much isn't a good thing either."
"Oh, right, prepare a bowl of sweet soup. I'll take it to the Hall of Mental Cultivation later."
*
Yikun Palace
Consort Hua threw all the tranquilizers she usually took to the ground.
Seeing the medicine bottle shatter into pieces and the pills spilling all over the floor, he angrily sat down on the stool.
"Those quacks in the Imperial Hospital dared to give me poisonous medicine. No wonder I felt so drowsy and slept so soundly after taking this medicine."
"I used to think it was a sleeping pill, but now I know it's actually a symptom of poisoning!"
"Luckily, I didn't eat too much, otherwise nothing serious would have happened. If I hadn't known about this and had taken it year after year, it would have been terrible!"
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