The death of Princess Dai did not cause any disturbance in the capital. However, her death was not a good thing for the Xuanping Hou Mansion.
The Marquis of Xuanping loved his eldest daughter very much. His eldest daughter passed away at a young age, which was a huge blow to him and made him look ten years older in an instant.
Princess Dai was smart and filial, and the Xuanping Hou Mansion could have the glory it has today because of her contribution.
Marquis Xuanping often said that Princess Dai was most like Concubine Rong. This did not mean that they looked alike, but that they were equally intelligent.
Princess Dai grew up next to Concubine Rong. She was deeply influenced by Concubine Rong and did things in Concubine Rong's style. However, she is a little more delicate than Concubine Rong. It is precisely because of this delicacy that she can always detect the emotions of Dai Wang.
She was very good at talking and could always calm down the angry King Dai. Both Xuanpinghou and Concubine Rong were worried that with Princess Dai gone, who could persuade him.
King Dai has a bad temper, is quick to do things, and is also a bit stubborn. When his temper comes, he will become stubborn and find it difficult to listen to other people's advice. He can only listen to the words of Princess Dai.
If the King of Dai is compared to a wild and untamable horse, then Princess Dai is the leash that reins in the wild horse of King Dai. Now that the leash is gone, who else can restrain the king?
The death of Princess Dai was also a huge blow to King Dai. During this period, he felt as if he had lost his soul. He had no appetite even for meals, let alone going to court.
Concubine Rong was very worried about the king, so she specifically asked the emperor for an order and went out of the palace to visit and persuade her son.
The king was too sad to listen to anyone's advice for the time being.
Concubine Rong had no choice but to take out her grandson, which cheered up the king.
In order to save the princess, the king invited eighty-one eminent monks to chant sutras for the princess for seventy-seven and forty-nine days.
When the people saw that King Dai was so affectionate towards Princess Dai, they all praised him as a good husband. For this reason, he won a good reputation among the people.
"Your Highness, His Highness the King of Dai is deliberately pretending to be affectionate." Tong Xi did not believe that His Highness the King of Dai was deeply affectionate for the Princess.
"Not necessarily." Zhao Yao thought about how when they went to mourn, he saw the grief-stricken King Dai, and he felt that the King Dai was not pretending. "King Dai and Princess Dai grew up together and are childhood sweethearts. Their relationship should be very good."
"Really?" Tongxi looked suspicious, "Your Highness, can a person like Dai Wang be affectionate?" He couldn't imagine Dai Wang being as affectionate as in the storybook, it was too scary.
Zhao Yao glanced sideways and said with joy, "Why can't the acting king be affectionate?"
Tongxi said: "It always feels weird."
"Nothing strange." Zhao Yao said, raised his hands and stretched, then crossed his hands and held his head, walking lazily.
"Your Highness, if the acting princess is gone, will the other princess become the step princess?"
"No, neither Xuanping Marquis nor Rong Guifei will agree." Zhao Yao guessed, "I guess they will let the younger sister of the acting princess be the step princess."
Tongxi exclaimed: "Isn't this just like the empress?" After the first empress died of illness, her sister, now the empress, married the emperor and became his successor.
"Yes, just like the Queen..." At this point, Zhao Yao suddenly thought of something, and his expression became very strange for a moment.
Tongxi saw something was wrong with Zhao Yao's expression, and asked with concern: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"
"You just said that you are the same as the Queen. What is the same?"
Tong Xi felt that Zhao Yao's question was a bit strange, but he still answered honestly: "Isn't the Empress the Queen's sister? Because the Queen died of illness, the Queen married the Emperor. Now the Princess has passed away, and the Princess's sister is Do you want to marry His Highness the Acting King and become the step-concubine?"
"That's it." Zhao Yao had a scary guess in his mind, but he quickly denied it. He felt that he was overthinking.
Tongxi saw Zhao Yao's face changing from one expression of horror to one of shock to one of denial. He couldn't help but feel worried: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"
Zhao Yao shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I'm just overthinking." He had a very scary thought just now. Really, how could he have such horrible thoughts.
"Your Highness, what were you worried about just now?"
"There's nothing to worry about." Zhao Yao said, "It's getting late, go back quickly."
Zhao Yao came back from the Fourth Prince. Just like two years ago, he would go to the Fourth Prince to learn something every night. I used to learn Li family calligraphy from the fourth prince. A year ago, he learned all the Li family characters.
The fourth prince saw that he was about to become a king when he came of age and would leave the capital to be separated from Zhao Yao, so he wanted to teach Zhao Yao as much as possible before leaving. This is why after Zhao Yao finished learning the Li family characters, he went to the fourth prince to learn them every night.
Zhao Yao didn't want to learn, but when he saw that the fourth prince wanted him to learn, and thought that the fourth prince was also worried about him, he couldn't refuse the fourth prince's hard work.
When he was halfway there, he heard a strange sound. Tongxi jumped up in fright and almost screamed.
Zhao Yao looked at Tong Xi who was hiding behind him speechlessly, and said with helplessness in his tone: "It seems like someone is shouting, what are you afraid of."
"Your Highness, are you really a human?"
Zhao Yao was too lazy to talk to Tong Xi and followed the sound curiously, and then he saw an unsightly scene.
"Your Highness, don't look." Tong Xi was a step too late, but still covered Zhao Yao's eyes.
Zhao Yao scolded himself in his heart. He was curious about what to do. Now he was fine. He saw such an eye-catching scene that he was definitely going to get a needle eye.
Just when Tongxi was about to leave with Zhao Yao, the two people in the rockery ended up. At this time, he and Zhao Yao recognized who these two people were at the same time. These two people are the medical eunuch and the medical woman of Tai Hospital.
"Does it make you feel comfortable?" the eunuch asked coquettishly.
The woman glared at the eunuch coquettishly and said, "Damn it, you are really getting better and better at it."
"If I hadn't covered your mouth in time, you would have screamed out of comfort." The eunuch said with a proud look on his face.
"You're not too comfortable." The woman asked, "Shall we go back now?"
"Why are you going back in such a hurry? Let's sit down and talk for a while."
"say what."
"Do you think we should tell King Dai that Princess Dai did not really die of illness?"
When Zhao Yao and Tong Xi, who were hiding behind another rockery, heard this, they both had surprised expressions on their faces.
The woman lowered her voice and said, "Are you crazy?"
"I've been thinking about this for the past few days. If we tell King Dai that Princess Dai died of illness after taking a life-threatening medicine, King Dai might reward us." The eunuch is the eunuch in charge of medicinal materials in the imperial hospital. , often accompanying the imperial physician on medical visits. He had previously followed the imperial physician to Prince Dai's Mansion, so he had the best understanding of Princess Dai's physical condition. Later, he learned from the imperial doctors the real reason why Princess Dai died of illness.
Zhao Yao was shocked in his heart: Princess Dai died of illness after taking a life-threatening medicine. Could it be poison?
"What Princess Dai took was not poison. If you go and tell King Dai, what should you do if King Dai doesn't believe you?" The woman disapproved of what the eunuch did. "What if King Dai gets angry and kills you?"
"I'm also afraid of this, so I haven't dared to go to King Dai for a long time." The eunuch said, "Although Princess Dai did not die of poison, she did take a life-threatening medicine."
"Do you think this kind of medicine really exists in the world? Could it be that the imperial doctors made a mistake in their diagnosis?" The woman said unconvincingly, "Go and tell King Dai that Princess Dai got pregnant because she took a fertility prescription." He will die, do you think King Dai will believe it?"
"That's what the imperial doctors said, and it's definitely not wrong." The eunuch added, "The imperial doctors said that Princess Dai became pregnant after taking a forbidden drug. This forbidden drug is a folk remedy for childbirth. After taking it, she will definitely become pregnant. , and she gave birth to a son, but this medicine will destroy her body."
He added: "Originally, a woman giving birth is like going to hell, and if she takes this medicine, Princess Dai will definitely not survive. The imperial doctor also said that it is a miracle that Princess Dai can delay her death for so long. ”
The woman asked in surprise: "So, Princess Dai should have died long ago?"
The eunuch nodded slightly and said, "You will die after giving birth, but Princess Dai didn't die until she was arrested by the young highness."
"I advise you not to tell King Dai about this matter." The woman frowned and said, "King Dai may not be happy when he learns the truth about Princess Dai's death. He may be even sadder and angry. Then he will really be angry with you. ,what to do?"
The eunuch thought what the woman said made sense. He hesitated and said, "Then I'd better not say anything."
The woman warned the eunuch: "This matter will rot in your stomach. You can't tell anyone else."
"I'm not a fool. Telling others about this isn't asking for death." The eunuch said, sighing softly, "I wanted to use this matter to make a fortune, but I didn't expect it wouldn't work." Dai Wang usually took action. He was very generous. He thought that if he told the king the real reason why Princess Dai died of illness, the king might reward him with a lot of money.
"Money is not as important as life. Let's live well in the palace first." One of them is a medical eunuch and the other is a medical woman. They have low status in the palace and can only live cautiously on weekdays.
"What you are saying is that I am obsessed." The eunuch also wanted to get more money so that their life would be easier.
The woman knew what the eunuch was thinking, so she held his hand and said with a very gentle expression: "I think our life is pretty good now."
When the eunuch heard what the woman said, he smiled slightly: "It's getting late, we should go back."
"Um."
The eunuch led the woman away from the rockery.
After they left for a while, Zhao Yao and Tong Xi came out.
Tongxi looked surprised and said, "They are Cao Wu and Xuemei from the imperial hospital." Tongxi has a good memory and can remember the names and looks of most of the eunuchs and maids in the palace. "Cao Wu is the eunuch in charge of medicine at the Imperial Hospital, and Xuemei is the medical woman."
Zhao Yao thought of what Cao Wu and Xuemei had just said, frowned and said: "I didn't expect that Princess Dai became pregnant because of taking banned drugs, let alone that she died from banned drugs."
"Your Highness, is there really such a powerful medicine in this world?"
"There should be." Where did Princess Dai get the forbidden medicine for giving birth? Was it given by her sister?
According to the scripts he often read, the concubine of Dai Wangfei had always been jealous of Dai Wangfei and wanted to replace Dai Wangfei. He learned that Princess Dai was worried about her pregnancy, so he found a forbidden drug to give birth to a child, and then gave the medicine to Princess Dai. She knew in her heart that when the concubine Dai died, she, the concubine, would definitely marry the concubine and become the step-concubine.
"Who is so cruel? He actually gave Princess Dai such a poisonous medicine. Wouldn't this cost Princess Dai her life?" Tongxi said sharply, "And it won't be found out. Everyone thought that Princess Dai was the cause of giving birth to the little Highness." He died of illness after being injured."
"This matter has nothing to do with us, go back." Zhao Yao didn't expect that because of his curiosity, he not only saw incredible things, but also heard amazing things.
"Your Highness, Cao Wu and Xuemei had a meal with each other just now. What should we do about this? Do we want to tell Eunuch Sun?"
"We didn't see or hear anything just now." Zhao Yao knew about the eunuch and the palace maid eating against each other. "Tongxi, have you eaten the right food?"
Tong Xi was so frightened by Zhao Yao's question that he shook his head: "Your Highness, I don't have any maids, I really don't have any maids." Although many palace maids approached him for sex, he rejected them all.
Zhao Yao looked Tong Xi up and down and said jokingly: "There should be a lot of people looking for you to be friends with, right?" Tong Xi is pretty handsome, tall, and good at martial arts. There should be many palace ladies who like him.
"There are quite a few, but they were all rejected by the slaves." Those people looked for him because he was good-looking and because he was His Highness's personal eunuch. Although His Highness is not supported by ministers, His Highness is still very popular with eunuchs and maids. On the one hand, it is because His Highness is a kind person and treats low-status people like them very well. On the other hand, it is because His Highness can become a king and go to the fiefdom after he reaches adulthood. The people following His Highness will be able to leave the palace and follow His Highness to the fiefdom.
Leaving the palace is the dream of many eunuchs and maids. Although the palace ladies can leave the palace when they reach twenty-five years old, most of the palace ladies are still very young and are still too young to leave the palace. Furthermore, when the time comes for them to leave the palace, they will be helpless and may not be able to live well outside the palace. However, if they followed His Highness to the fiefdom, they might be married to His Highness's guards or others, and then their lives would be guaranteed.
The eunuchs were not as lucky as the maids and could leave the palace at the age of twenty-five. You can only leave the palace unless you make a mistake and are expelled from the palace, or you are old and useless.
The big eunuch can live a good life after leaving the palace, but the little eunuch will not have a good life after leaving the palace. In order to live well, following a prince out of the palace is the best choice.
"If you have someone you like, I don't object to you having sex with her." Zhao Yao teased.
"Your Highness, I don't like anyone, and I don't know how to have sex with anyone." The eunuch is a disabled person and has no qualifications or right to like anyone.
"Oh, forget it then."
Tongxi breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.
After walking for a while, Zhao Yao suddenly said: "I won't get needle eyes, right?"
Tongxi: "..." His Highness is only eight years old, but he has seen such an unbearable scene. That guy Cao Wu really went too far.
"I'll go back and wash my eyes with salt water." He didn't want to get a needle eye and be laughed at by everyone.
"Your Highness, you will definitely not get the eye of a needle." Tongxi comforted Zhao Yao, "If you want to grow up, you must grow up as a slave."
"You have to wash your eyes when you go back."
Back at Kunde Hall, Zhao Yao shouted to wash his eyes with salt water.
Liang Zhaoyi thought Zhao Yao's eyes were uncomfortable and asked Guixing to prepare salt water. Then, she washed Zhao Yao's eyes with salt water carefully and carefully.
Zhao Yao asked Liang Zhaoyi to wash him a few more times.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" Liang Zhaoyi carefully checked her son's eyes and found that they were not swollen or red. "Your eyes hurt or your vision is blurry?"
Zhao Yao sighed and said, "Concubine, I saw something I shouldn't have seen. I was afraid of getting needle holes, so I washed my eyes."
When Liang Zhaoyi heard this, her face looked a little ugly.
"What do you see?"
Zhao Yao told Liang Zhaoyi everything he saw and heard.
After hearing this, Liang Zhaoyi looked very shocked.
"Princess Dai died because of taking forbidden drugs?!"
Zhao Yao said with a profound look on his face: "Mother, concubine, don't you think the matter of acting as the princess looks familiar?"
"Looks familiar?" Liang Zhaoyi didn't understand what Zhao Yao meant at first, but she soon thought of it. A look of shock appeared on her face, "Are you talking about the First Queen and the Queen?"
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Author: Art comes from life.
