Chapter 59
Zhou Xuanqing held a candy man in his hand, licked it, frowned and looked at the mess on the ground, and looked at Lu Zehua beside him with dissatisfaction. Did he bring her here just to see this?
Lu Zehua shrugged innocently, holding a small candied haws in his hand. The top one had been eaten. He had two buns on his head tied with red ropes, which looked very festive and swayed with his movements.
"I'm hungry. Can we go eat?" Zhou Xuanqing ignored the two people running towards her and turned to Lu Zehua.
"Are you hungry? Can you finish a bowl of porridge this time?" Lu Zehua asked, holding her hand dotingly, ready to take her away.
"Royal sister!"
“Qingqing!”
Zhou Erlan and Tang Mitang ran over together, shouting to Zhou Xuanqing, their eyes full of surprise and tears.
When everyone saw this, they all knelt on the ground, except for the Concubine Dowager and the Protector General Du Gao: "Your Highness, we pay our respects..."
But she was suddenly stunned. The emperor was no longer her. What should they call him?
Zhou Xuanqing frowned, looking at Zhou Erlan and Tang Mitang with dissatisfaction and said, "Why are you all like mourners? It's so ugly. And even if you like me, you can't all kneel, right?"
Zhou Xuanqing's next words were about the people behind her. Ever since she entered the Imperial City, some people had knelt upon seeing her, and they couldn't explain why. Brother Lu said that they knelt because they liked her. She didn't feel that her lifespan had been shortened, but it still made her uncomfortable to watch.
"Qingqing, you're okay! That's great!" Tang Midang excitedly stepped forward and hugged Zhou Xuanqing, shouting happily.
Zhou Xuanqing originally wanted to push her away, but some images flashed through his mind, and in the end he did not push her away. It was just because of the wind that he couldn't help coughing twice.
Tang Mitang let go of her and quickly grabbed her wrist. It felt extremely cold at first touch. After taking her pulse, he couldn't help but shed tears.
He is so exhausted that he doesn't even have any internal energy left!
Seeing her crying, Zhou Xuanqing didn't know what to do, so he stuffed the candy man into her hand and quickly turned around and left with Lu Zehua.
Lu Zehua followed behind her quietly. Noticing that she was walking a little faster, he quickly supported her from the side. Seeing that she was coughing uncomfortably with a handkerchief covering her mouth, he habitually picked her up horizontally and patted her back.
"Well... it hurts so much, Brother Lu, my heart hurts a little when I see that person crying..." Zhou Xuanqing said, his hands dropped weakly and he fainted.
"Royal sister!" Zhou Erlan hurried over, holding Zhou Xuanqing's cold little hand, and said in a panic: "Give me the royal sister, I will take her back to the palace."
As he said this, he wanted to take Zhou Xuanqing from Lu Zehua's arms, but Lu Zehua dodged sideways.
Tang Mitang ran over, tiptoed to check Zhou Xuanqing's body, stuffed a pill into her mouth, and said anxiously, "Hurry, take it to the princess's mansion, there are plenty of medicinal herbs there."
Lu Zehua nodded and followed her to the princess's mansion.
Chang Xi bit her handkerchief, cried with joy, and ran after Lu Zehua.
Xuan Yi and Xuan Er, who had originally stood behind Zhou Erlan, also followed behind Zhou Xuanqing. They were just lent by their master to the emperor to adapt to the government and protect his safety. When their master returned, they no longer needed to follow him.
Zhou Erlan looked at their figures and was about to follow them, but she saw people kneeling on the ground in the palace, and no one stood up.
He sighed and walked over, saying in a loud voice: "My sister has returned safely. Her status and position remain equal to mine. I will confer upon my sister Zhou Xuanqing the title of Princess Gan Ning. She will hold the royal whip, be able to veto the emperor's decisions, and have the power to participate in and make decisions permanently..."
After hearing this, all the ministers shouted "Long live the wise king".
Only then did Zhou Erlan have time to go to the princess's mansion to see Zhou Xuanqing.
"Chang Xi, go and boil the medicine." After Tang Mitang said that, Chang Xi took the medicine and ran out.
Zhou Xuanqing lay on the bed, breathing softly, eyes closed, asleep, looking exactly the same as before. If Tang Mitang hadn't known about medicine, she would never have known Zhou Xuanqing was in such poor health just by looking at her appearance.
"Um... General Lu, can you let me stay here alone?" Tang Mitang looked at the big guy beside the bed and said with some hesitation. Qingqing finally came back, she really wanted to hug her...
Lu Zehua didn't move. He stared at Zhou Xuanqing without blinking and whispered, "No, the princess doesn't remember anything. She's like a child. If we leave her here, she'll be scared..."
"Uh, she won't be afraid of me, right?" Tang Mitang asked uncertainly. Did Qingqing lose her memory?
"How could my royal sister be like this?" Zhou Erlan, who had just arrived, suddenly felt uncomfortable when she heard Lu Zehua's painting. Looking at Zhou Xuanqing lying there, she couldn't help but tremble all over.
"The princess... has been sleeping in bed for two years, kept alive by her willpower. But when she woke up, she had no memory of anything. She only said her name was Tang Qing, and she didn't know where she came from. She even remembered her own name wrong..." Lu Zehua said one sentence at a time.
When Tang Mitang heard the name Tang Qing, she couldn't hold it in anymore. She covered her face and cried silently.
Tang Qing, wasn't that just a random name she picked up? Two years ago, she even helped her win a night-shining pearl. How could her Qing Qing be so... so...
After such a long time, Tang Mitang still couldn't think of any adjectives. She just knew that her heart, which had been empty for a long time, was filled up, and instantly returned to its normal position and started beating again.
"Hmm~" Zhou Xuanqing on the bed groaned, slowly opened his eyes, and then turned over in a daze and rolled in.
The quilt was rolled away, and the purse tied around the waist fell apart, spilling a piece of candy.
Zhou Xuanqing saw the candy spilled, reached out to grab it, and stuffed it into his purse, picking up one by one. When he got to the last one, he seemed to wake up, blinked at the person beside the bed, and smiled, "Do you want some candy?"
This childlike appearance melted everyone's heart. They completely forgot that the person in front of them was already in his twenties, and they couldn't help but soften their voices and said, "No, no, no~"
"Oh~" Zhou Xuanqing responded, looked at his position, touched his earlobe in confusion, put the candy in his mouth, closed his eyes and opened them again.
"I think you look a little familiar~" Zhou Xuanqing pointed at Tang Mitang and Zhou Erlan and said, the candy in his mouth made a crunching sound, his face full of confusion.
"My name is Tang Mitang, what do you remember?"
"My name is Zhou Erlan. What do you remember, sister?"
Tang Mitang and Zhou Erlan talked together, looking at Zhou Xuanqing with anticipation, hoping that she could remember more.
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