Chapter 305: Unbearable Pain
In the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Emperor Jiaping sat on a couch wearing a cloak and was being helped to take medicine by his personal eunuch Wei Fuhai. Xiao Nanchen knelt in front of the couch, not saying a word from beginning to end, and the palace was also silent.
After a while, Emperor Jiaping seemed to finally remember that there was a person kneeling on the ground, and waved his hand to let Wei Fuhai go out.
Before he could speak, he coughed and wiped the corner of his mouth with a bright yellow handkerchief. Emperor Jiaping said in a hoarse voice: "Do you know about the poison?"
Xiao Nanchen lowered his eyes, and the next moment, he kowtowed to the ground: "Your son deserves death."
"Oh……"
Emperor Jiaping chuckled, "Your biological mother said you were cruel and ambitious, but in my opinion... you are too soft-hearted!"
Emperor Jiaping looked quietly at his most cherished seventh son and said in a hoarse voice, "If you have enough courage and heart, you can use that mother and son to kill me in one fell swoop and let the Crown Prince and the Queen take the blame...
You have Lord Xu for civil affairs and Fengning Iron Cavalry for military affairs. If you are really smart and decisive, you should kill gods and Buddhas... But you want it all, you want it all, you have the skills but not ruthlessness, you have the scheming but want to leave a way out everywhere.
What would you have done if Lao Liu had not chosen to commit suicide to protect you at the city gate, but had instead aided and abetted the evil?
If you hadn't been so soft-hearted, you would have already ascended the throne by now!"
Xiao Nanchen thought he would face the wrath of thunder, but he didn't expect his father to say these things.
He raised his eyes, his tone icy, "I do want to fight, but life has its dos and don'ts. Even if I want to fight, I don't want to turn myself into a beast just to fight."
He looked at Emperor Jiaping, his tone and expression consistent and calm. "The reason I watched Father be poisoned was because I knew it wouldn't endanger his life, and I was completely confident I could guarantee his safety. Otherwise, Father wouldn't have been so cruel... Daxuan would have been dragged to death!"
Xiao Nanchen spoke word by word, "It's not that I, your son, can't wait, but the Great Xuan Dynasty can't wait. If we don't give them hope, how can they choose to fight to the death... If we continue to let those people torment us like this, it will be the common people who will suffer, and it will be the foundation of the Great Xuan Dynasty that will be destroyed."
Before he could finish his words, Emperor Jiaping raised his hand and threw the teacup at him: "Are you saying that I brought this upon myself? I deserve it for letting me be poisoned?"
Xiao Nanchen let the teacup hit his forehead and tilted his head slightly. He said calmly, "I didn't say that."
Emperor Jiaping cursed: "But that's what you meant..."
Xiao Nanchen remained silent.
Emperor Jiaping wanted to attack again, but he had nothing to hit. He pointed at Xiao Nanchen and gritted his teeth, unable to speak...
On the other side, Shen Ning went to the Cining Palace to see the Queen Mother. After confirming that the Queen Mother fell ill due to excessive worry and a slight cold, she reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief and wrote a prescription for the old lady and asked the palace servants to get the medicine and boil it.
The Queen Mother coughed lightly and took her hand: "How is your mother?"
Shen Ning said softly: "Mother is fine, she is just worried about grandma."
The Queen Mother nodded. "It's human nature... Xie Fengting's mind is not clear, and he has implicated his family. No one in the Xie family cares. Old Madam Xie has been highly respected her whole life, and she was unaware of her son's affairs. She shouldn't have ended up like this in her old age. I have already sent someone to take care of her. She will be properly accommodated. Don't be afraid."
Shen Ning's heart suddenly surged with extreme tenderness. She didn't say that Xiao Nanchen also mentioned that he wanted to arrange for Madam Xie to be settled. She just thanked him in a soft voice: "I'm not afraid. With the Queen Mother caring about me, I'm not afraid of anything... Don't worry about these things. Have a good rest and get more sleep."
The Queen Mother nodded and closed her eyes...
When the Queen Mother fell into a deep sleep, Shen Ning left Kunning Palace and went to Concubine Xie.
The Sixth Prince died heroically, and others were filled with admiration and surprise when they mentioned him. After all, the Sixth Prince had always been timid and was notoriously difficult to help.
But no one expected that such a weak and timid Sixth Prince would choose to confront the Crown Prince at that critical moment. He knew that he would suffer a bad fate after exposing the Crown Prince, and in order to prove the Crown Prince's crime of treason, he actually jumped off the city wall in such a tragic way.
As soon as she entered Concubine Xie's Feixia Palace, Shen Ning felt a dull and oppressive feeling. In the past, because her aunt Concubine Xie had a cheerful temperament, this place was always full of laughter and joy. But now, there was only dead silence.
The palace guards outside the palace saw Shen Ning and hurriedly came forward: "Your Highness..."
"Where's my aunt?"
The palace maid bit her lip, her eyes red: "The queen is in there, she is suffering."
Shen Ning nodded, walked lightly into the hall, walked around the flower and bird screen, and saw Concubine Xie sitting there with a pair of half-made boots beside her. She knew at a glance that they were made for the Sixth Prince.
"aunt."
As soon as Shen Ning spoke, Concubine Xie looked up suddenly, her face full of tears, and she forced a smile: "Ning Ning is here."
Shen Ning walked over and sat next to Concubine Xie, holding her hand: "Aunt, if you feel uncomfortable, just cry. It will feel better if you cry. If you keep suppressing yourself like this, you will easily get sick..."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Xie's tears kept flowing out. She wanted to say something, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her throat choked and she couldn't speak.
Shen Ning reached out and gently hugged her, without saying a word, just patting her back... Beside her ears, Concubine Xie's crying sounded from choking to sobbing and finally turned into wailing.
Outside the palace, several personal palace maids looked at each other, their eyes reddened, but they all breathed a sigh of relief.
It's a good thing to cry at this time. If you keep holding it in, it will probably cause big trouble.
Concubine Xie cried for a long time, and her crying gradually subsided after a long time. After drinking the warm water handed to her by Shen Ning, she finally said the first words after her son's accident.
"Ningning...your sixth brother is gone."
Tears welled up as she spoke, Concubine Xie's voice hoarse and choked: "Now, whenever I think of the time when I used to dislike him for being timid and always scolded him, I want to kill myself... So what if he's timid? He's always been a good boy, never causing trouble, always respecting his mother... Why did I have to force him to make progress!"
Concubine Xie cried as she spoke, "Ningning, tell me, was it because I pushed him too hard and scolded him too much in the past that he foolishly tried to stand out at that moment... How could he dare? The city walls were so high, and he was so timid. How scared he must have been, Ningning, Auntie regrets it..."
Shen Ning felt uncomfortable as well, but she endured it and tried to comfort her aunt.
"Your uncle committed suicide. Before he passed away, he sent a letter saying he was sorry to me, that Nan Jin was a good child, and that he, as her uncle, had let her down...
He said, he said that before your sixth brother died, he asked him, 'Uncle, am I finally able to stand tall and proud?' 'Ningning... I don't want him to stand tall and proud anymore. I don't want him to stand tall and proud. I just want him to be well, to be my son, to live a good life, and I'll protect him all my life!
Ningning, auntie is feeling bad, Ningning..."
Shen Ning originally came to comfort people, but after listening to her aunt's wailing, she also shed silent tears. After a long while, Concubine Xie was so tired from crying that she fell asleep.
Chen Ning wiped away her tears, gave her acupuncture to calm her mind, and left a prescription for the palace servants before leaving Feixia Palace...
After leaving Feixia Palace, she let out a long sigh and looked up at the towering vermilion palace walls and flying eaves, some far and some near, with a sigh in her heart.
The struggle for power is just a few words in history books, but in reality, it is endless blood and tears...
How wonderful it would be if there were no war in the world forever!
Qiyue, who had been waiting outside the palace, trotted over and asked, "Miss, are you okay?"
Seeing that Shen Ning's eyes were red and a little swollen, the little girl was very worried.
Shen Ning shook her head: "I'm fine..."
She raised her hand and gently touched the scar on July's cheek, which was pink and still very obvious.
Shen Ning gently reminded her: "Apply the medicine well and don't be lazy. Girls, you must be careful with your face."
Qiyue was nonchalant and said, "It's nothing, as long as we grow up together. Anyway, I will never get married and will always stay by your side."
Shen Ning laughed silently and pinched the girl's ears.
At this moment, a figure ran in from a distance, came to Chen Ning and bowed his head and kowtowed: "Prince, please save my prince."
Shen Ning recognized the person as the secretary beside the Second Prince Xiao Nanrong and reached out to help the person up: "Miss Secretary, please stand up... What happened to the Second Prince?"
The secretary's eyes were red as she gritted her teeth. "Our Highness is injured, but none of the doctors in the Imperial Hospital are willing to go... Those flatterers are unwilling to go to the palace because of Concubine Xu's dethronement and imprisonment and those groundless rumors."
Shen Ning frowned: "Have you looked for Doctor Ye? Is he unwilling to go?"
She didn’t know about others, but Ye Heng was definitely not that kind of person.
The secretary shook her head. "Imperial Physician Ye has taken leave for something and is not at the Imperial Hospital... The others are all... Your Highness, my prince's injuries have worsened and he has a high fever. We outsiders cannot get in now. Please save my prince."
Shen Ning nodded: "Send someone to the Imperial Hospital to get a medicine box, I will go and take a look now."
The story of Concubine Xu had gradually spread. In addition to Concubine Xu being deposed, the Tenth Princess Xiao Bi was also imprisoned. The palace was full of cunning people. The palace coup had just happened and blood was flowing like a river. No one was willing to put themselves in danger at this time.
What if those rumors are true, the Second Prince is not a Dragon Descendant, and is hated by His Majesty? No one else is going. If I go, what will I do if I get into trouble?
Shen Ning took a breath and called a palace maid to pass a message to Xiao Nanchen. She then took Qiyue and the secretary to the Second Prince's Weiyang Palace...
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