Chapter 158: Can't Let Her Temperance Run Its Way
Ye Heng shouted, and Shen Ning could no longer consider pretending not to see this option. The person in the water stretched out his hand but remained silent. She pushed Ye Heng and said, "Go and save him."
Ye Heng was horrified: "Ah, I can't swim!"
Then what’s your name!
Ye Heng shouted for help: "Help, help, someone fell into the water..."
However, this place is remote and no one is around for a while.
Seeing that the person in the water had already sunk, Shen Ning cursed softly and could only do it herself.
Fortunately, it was already April and the lake water was icy cold enough to withstand it. After entering the water, she swam forward quickly, swam to the man, grabbed his clothes from behind, pushed his head out of the water, and then began to swim back.
It was difficult to swim with someone, but fortunately, Xiaoyan was smart enough to quickly find a broken bamboo and put it into the water for Chen Ning to grab. Then he struggled to drag Chen Ning and the person who fell into the water to the shore.
The man had already lost consciousness. Shen Ning laid him flat and immediately began pressing his chest and abdomen. After a few sudden presses, the man spat out a few mouthfuls of water and started coughing violently before finally opening his eyes.
At this moment, Ye Heng also recognized this person and exclaimed in surprise, "Second Prince."
Second prince?
Shen Ning was stunned.
At this time, the Second Prince had regained consciousness. His clothes and hair were wet, and his delicate and slightly feminine facial features were somewhat pale due to drowning. His eyes were filled with fear and panic, and he looked extremely pitiful. He clutched Shen Ning's sleeve tightly, and was obviously still in shock.
At the same time, the imperial guards who heard the noise nearby rushed over, and the leader happened to be Xiao Nanchen.
Seeing Chen Ning, Xiao Nanchen was stunned at first, then he immediately took off his cloak and stepped forward to wrap Chen Ning, and calmly brushed away the Second Prince's hand: "How are you?"
Shen Ning shook her head: "I'm fine, it was the Second Prince who fell into the water, and Ye Heng and I happened to pass by and rescued him."
"Second brother?"
Xiao Nanchen looked at the Second Prince as if he had just recognized his second brother. He scanned him up and down, then asked in a deep voice, "How are you?"
The second prince was still trembling and shook his head: I'm fine.
Xiao Nanchen asked him, "How did Second Brother fall into the water?"
The Second Prince, Xiao Nanyong, looked a little nervous and gestured to indicate that someone had pushed him.
Xiao Nanchen glanced around and asked, "Can you see who it is?"
The second prince pursed his lips, looked at him, and shook his head again.
"Send the Second Prince back first, then send the imperial physician to take a look. Surround this area and search the palace."
Xiao Nanchen spoke, and the imperial guards behind him immediately responded. Someone helped the second prince up and took him away.
"Let's go, I'll take you out of the palace."
Xiao Nanchen helped Shen Ning up, then said to Ye Heng, "You go back."
When Ye Heng saw the tall, heroic and murderous Prince Ding, he was like a mouse seeing a cat. He responded hurriedly, bowed, and then retreated obediently.
Xiao Nanchen supported Shen Ning and walked a few steps. When there was no one around, he picked her up without any warning.
Shen Ning was startled, then quickly said, "I can walk."
"You are shaking." Xiao Nanchen's face was gloomy.
Shen Ning explained: "It's a little cold."
"You know it's cold, but you still save people?"
Xiao Nanchen's tone was helpless, and seemed to contain some resentment?
Shen Ning didn't understand the ins and outs of the palace, and she became a little nervous when she heard this: "Shouldn't I have saved him? I was a little hesitant at the time, but since Ye Heng had called out, it would have been hard to pretend to be blind... He shouldn't be in any trouble, right?"
Hearing the nervousness in Shen Ning's tone, Xiao Nanchen immediately slowed down his tone: "No, don't be afraid."
Shen Ning breathed a sigh of relief: “When you just said that, I thought I was in trouble.”
Xiao Nanchen fell silent, and after a pause, he said, "Sorry, I'm a little anxious."
He had just seen the look on Lao Er's face, still clutching Shen Ning's sleeve, and he almost couldn't help but kick the mute away.
Xiao Nanchen was shocked to realize that he couldn't bear to see anyone getting close to Chen Ning.
"Prince Ding's Mansion is nearby, why don't you go to my place and change clothes?" Xiao Nanchen suggested.
Shen Ning quickly refused: "No need, it won't be too cold if you don't get into the carriage without the wind. This is the capital after all, so don't cause any criticism for you."
"I don't care about that."
Xiao Nanchen frowned: "Things related to you are not called criticism."
Shen Ning smiled and said, "I know you don't care, but I can't be too casual, and it's getting late, so it's not good to go back too late."
Seeing that she really didn't want to go to Prince Ding's Mansion, Xiao Nanchen had no choice but to give up.
In fact, he understood Shen Ning's concerns. With his identity, there were countless eyes staring at him in the capital. In the eyes of those who knew him, they only knew that Shen Ning was his benefactor. But if Shen Ning entered Prince Ding's Mansion when night fell... that would be different.
Shen Ning said that she didn't want to cause him any controversy, which meant she didn't want to affect his reputation.
Or rather, she didn't want anything to be spread between him and her...
His Royal Highness Prince Ding couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
I originally thought that after moving to Beijing and being close to each other, there would always be a chance to gradually change the way they get along with each other and Shen Ning's attitude towards him, but now it seems that she has never thought about anything else.
All day long he is either busy punishing people in the mansion or teaching people medical skills outside. These days he has also started to prepare to do business again... So, after all the trouble, it is still exactly the same as when he was in Pingning.
She hadn't thought about him at all!
This is not a solution. If I wait for her to come to her senses on her own, I don't know how long it will take.
He couldn't just let her do what she wanted.
Xiao Nanchen made up his mind and didn't insist any more. After sending Shen Ning out of the palace gate, he put her directly on her carriage and told Er Yue in a deep voice: "Go back and ask someone to make a bowl of ginger soup. Your master fell into the water. Be careful not to catch a cold."
Er Yue bowed: "Yes."
After watching Shen Ning's carriage drive away, Xiao Nanchen turned around and went back to the palace.
After Shen Ning returned home, she immediately ordered hot water to take a shower and change clothes after entering her yard. It wasn't cold in the carriage along the way, but the wet clothes stuck to her body and she felt uncomfortable.
While she was showering, changing clothes and drying her hair, the ginger soup was served.
After what happened to the Xue family, Xie Yunqing was worried and sent his maid Qingcheng to serve Shen Ning.
Qingcheng grew up with Xie Yunqing. He is loyal and respectful to Shen Ning.
Just as Shen Ning was leaning on the couch drinking ginger soup, someone beside Queen Wei in the palace bowed and reported: "After leaving the palace, His Royal Highness Prince Ding went to the Xie family, and then went on horseback with Miss Xie."
Xiao Nanchen has been in charge of the imperial guards these days. When Queen Wei heard that he went to the Xie family to look for Miss Xie after his shift, her expression became even uglier.
Nothing went well today.
First, the second brother, the mute, fell into the water, clearly in a remote and deserted place, but was rescued by someone. Then the seventh brother went to find Miss Xie.
Thinking of something, Queen Wei asked casually, "Was the seventh brother also there when the second brother fell into the water?"
The man beside him said respectfully, "In reply to your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Ding and his guards happened to be passing by. They encountered the Imperial Hospital staff and rescued the Second Prince. Then he ordered them to be escorted out of the palace, and he himself left the palace and went to the Xie family."
"Send the Imperial Hospital staff out of the palace?"
The Queen asked, "Who is the Imperial Hospital?"
"It seems that he is giving lectures to the Imperial Hospital...it seems to be Miss Shen, the Lord Shen Xiang."
Queen Wei was immediately filled with regret.
She had agreed to the Imperial Hospital's invitation for the young lady from the Shen family to come to the palace to give lectures, but she had never expected that by such a coincidence she would be able to save the second son.
However, Queen Wei was too lazy to care about this matter. What happened to the second son was not her fault, so who knew it was not a torture trick by Qianqiu Palace. It didn't matter whether he could be saved or not. The most important thing now was the matter of the seventh son and Miss Xie.
To ensure the safety of his position as Crown Prince, the Seventh Prince must not marry Miss Xie...
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