Chu Yingluo shook her head: "I'm fine."
Su Liuyan frowned, feeling very confused about the Fourth Princess's weird behavior, but she quite liked the Fourth Princess's lively temperament, which was completely different from hers.
"Fourth Princess, don't you want to take my pulse?"
Her words brought back Chu Yingluo's thoughts.
Chu Yingluo glanced at her. Although she knew she was not his best friend, seeing her face, she couldn't help but miss "Su Liuyan".
Both of them were pretty and graceful, but the difference was that the Crown Princess had a very poor complexion due to long-term illness and no color at all. She was a sickly beauty.
This look is quite pitiful.
"Come here, I'll show you." Chu Yingluo pulled her to sit on a chair and took her pulse.
Su Liuyan nodded gently.
Chu Yingluo looked at her and said, "Tell me, what symptoms do you usually have?"
Su Liuyan said: "I often have dry mouth, am afraid of cold, have poor appetite, often cough at night, have night sweats, feel chest tightness, and feel lack of energy."
Chu Yingluo frowned: "When did you start getting sick?"
Su Liuyan lowered her eyes and said slowly: "When I was three years old, I fell into the water once and caught a cold in the ice and snow. I have had it since I was a child..."
"Fell into the water?" Chu Yingluo asked doubtfully.
Su Liuyan whispered softly, with a look that could not hide her sadness: "My father is a tutor, but I am a concubine. Just because my mother was a side wife, she died in childbirth when I was born. No one loves me. My father is busy with work, and even more... I have no time to take care of it. My aunt hates my mother and me, so much so that even the servants in the house don’t care about me..."
"I accidentally slipped and fell into the water, but no one looked after me in the winter. My aunt said I was playful and punished me by standing outside for four hours."
Realizing that she had said too much, Su Liuyan quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Fourth Princess, I said too much."
Chu Yingluo shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter. I think your experiences and mine are somewhat similar."
She was always bullied by the Song family when she was in the General's Mansion.
Su Liuyan was startled at first, and then said: "I have heard about the experiences of the fourth princess. Mrs. Song in the General's Mansion is notoriously difficult to deal with, and she is your adoptive mother. She must have had a difficult life as well, but Yan'er is still okay. Fortunately, I got the prince's favor..."
Having said this, a smile appeared on the corner of Su Liuyan's mouth: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not despise my background and accepts me as his concubine. This is Yan'er's greatest blessing in her life."
Chu Yingluo raised her eyebrows: "It seems you love the prince very much?"
Su Liuyan nodded slightly, her daughter's shyness reflected in her brows.
But the next second, a hint of sadness flashed in her eyes, and she smiled bitterly: "Unfortunately, I know that my body cannot be cured. The imperial doctor said that I will not live to be twenty-five years old. Now I only have less than five years left." time......"
"How is that possible! Which imperial doctor said that?" Chu Yingluo said angrily.
Su Liuyan raised her head and was slightly surprised. She didn't expect her reaction to be so big.
"It's okay. I'm used to it. The doctors who have treated me since I was a child have always said this. Today the prince brought me to see a doctor. I had no hope at all, but I didn't want to see the prince disappointed..."
Thinking of this, she suddenly grabbed Chu Yingluo's hand and said, "Fourth Princess, can you promise me something?"
Chu Yingluo frowned: "What's the matter?"
Su Liuyan said slowly: "What I told you today, you should not tell the prince, including my previous experience in the Taifu Mansion. I don't want him to know, lest the prince worry about me, and I am afraid that the prince will be angry with me. My father is not good for the Taifu Mansion."
Chu Yingluo was silent for a moment: "I know, but I won't tell others." She and the prince haven't gotten to know each other that well yet, so naturally they won't talk too much.
But, is that ruthless prince really as good as Su Liuyan said?
Chu Yingluo thought for a while and then got back to the topic: "I just checked your pulse and already understand your situation. If you believe me, I will treat your illness in the future and ensure that you live a long life."
"Live a hundred years?" Su Liuyan opened her eyes wide in surprise, her eyes filled with disbelief. She had never thought that she could live a hundred years, "Fourth Princess, are you trying to trick me into being happy?"
Although it was a lie, she still felt happy. In the past, when those high-ranking ladies saw her, they would only mock her for being a sick child. Why is she not dead yet...
Chu Yingluo chuckled and said: "There is no benefit for me to lie to you, why should I lie to you? But remember, I treat you just for your sake. I have a grudge against the fourth prince and the prince, and I will never do it again in the future." I will never be polite to him."
Su Liuyan paused and frowned slightly.
"The prince has a kind heart and takes the world as his own responsibility. Why do you and the fourth prince have a grudge against him?"
Chu Yingluo glanced at her and wondered whether she was really pure in mind or was deceived by the prince's appearance, so she spoke for him.
She said calmly: "The struggle for imperial power has always been cruel. How about brothers, let alone half-mothers?"
Su Liuyan looked worried and interrupted hastily: "Princess, you are not allowed to discuss royal affairs in private."
The fourth princess is simply too bold!
Chu Yingluo disagreed: "It doesn't matter, there is no one else here. What I want to say is that the fourth prince is now paralyzed in bed and has no strength to restrain a chicken, but there are still many people who want to kill him, and the prince is one of them. "
Su Liuyan was slightly startled, shocked by her words. She nodded calmly: "I understand."
Despite this, she still didn't want to believe that the prince was that kind of person.
But after hearing what Chu Yingluo said, she still lowered her head in shame. If this was true, wouldn't it be embarrassing for others if the prince brought her to see the fourth princess for medical treatment today?
Suddenly, Liu Xianxian's cheerful voice came from outside.
"Fourth Princess? Fourth Princess, are you in there?"
After shouting, Liu Xianxian took the initiative to open the door without waiting for Chu Yingluo's reply: "Fourth Princess, I'm coming in..."
Su Liuyan calmed down and turned to look at the door.
Liu Xianxian suddenly paused: "Ah, the Crown Princess is here too?"
Su Liuyan nodded slightly, but when he saw her, a trace of shock flashed across his eyes. The former Liu Xianxian transformed into a slender beauty, which surprised everyone who saw her.
Liu Xianxian was very satisfied with the look in her eyes, and walked towards Chu Yingluo happily, with excitement in her voice: "Fourth Princess, thanks to you for helping me lose weight, I will come to see you as soon as I feel better today, and I will give you back You brought something good."
With that said, Liu Xianxian asked the maid to hand over a box.
"This is our special ambergris from Jingguo. This spice is extremely precious. There are only two boxes in total. I kept one box and left one box. I specially brought it to you."
Before Chu Yingluo could refuse, Liu Xianxian forced it into Chu Yingluo's hands.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Xianxian looked at Su Liuyan aside: "Princess, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were here, and I didn't prepare for you..."
Su Liuyan smiled and shook her head: "It doesn't matter."
She then looked at Chu Yingluo: "Fourth Princess, since someone is looking for you, I will go back first."
Chu Yingluo thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, I will write a prescription later and ask the guards to send it to you. You can just adjust your body according to my prescription."
Su Liuyan nodded slightly, then turned and left.
Walking outside the house, Mo Lingxiao came over: "Why did you come out? What did the Fourth Princess say?" He originally wanted to stop the woman Liu Xianxian, but the woman was so unruly and domineering that she barged in directly.
Su Liuyan raised her eyes and looked at Mo Lingxiao, but she was thinking about what Chu Yingluo said. She knew there were some things she couldn't ask, so she had to hide them in her heart. As long as the prince treated her sincerely, nothing else mattered.
Then she smiled and said, "The Fourth Princess said she would write down a prescription later and ask the guards to send it to the East Palace so that I could take care of myself first."
Mo Lingxiao said oh, his eyes were deep, and he was thinking secretly in his heart.
Su Liuyan said softly: "Your Highness, the fourth princess said that she has a way to cure my illness, and she also said that she can guarantee my long life. I don't know whether I should believe it..."
Seeing that the prince's eyes were dull and unmoved, Su Liuyan shouted again: "Your Highness?"
Mo Lingxiao finally came back to his senses and turned to look at Su Liuyan: "What did you just say?"
Su Liuyan was startled for a moment, then twitched the corners of her lips and said, "It's nothing, Your Highness, let's go back."
It’s better not to say those uncertain words to the prince, lest she fail to live a long life and disappoint the prince...
