In the middle of the night, with heavy rain, Liang Jing returned to Ronghua Palace.
The queen had already rested, but the two maids who had spent the night outside were still awake.
"Mr. Liang, your Majesty has already gone to bed." Qiu Hong whispered, "If there is nothing very important, you'd better reply tomorrow morning!"
"Your Majesty must not have slept soundly yet," Liang Jing said with a cold face. Rain had fallen on his robe, bringing with it a dampness. "I will only reply through the curtain."
The palace maid then stopped blocking him. After all, it concerned the prince, and Liang Jing's identity lay there.
Yao Ziyun has not slept well in recent years, and she refuses to take too many soothing medicines, saying that taking too many such medicines will make people stupid.
"Is Liang Jing back?" the queen's voice came from inside.
"It's me who's talking to you." Liang Jing had already walked outside the curtain in the inner room and replied through the curtain, "Your Highness vomited a big breath. Although the vomiting has stopped, a fever has started."
After Liang Jing finished speaking, it took a long time for the queen to speak: "Isn't there an imperial doctor watching over you? It's common for children to have fever. I will go to see him in person tomorrow morning. You have been tired for a long day. Go and rest early. Come on."
Liang Jing responded, said nothing, and walked out very lightly.
It was raining heavily outside, and Liang Jing strode forward in the rain. The eunuch holding an umbrella for him behind him could hardly keep up.
Early the next morning, although the sky was still cloudy, the rain had stopped.
Liang Jing came over to wait on the queen. Seeing that the queen looked good, he knew that she had slept well last night.
The queen finished drinking the bird's nest and ordered the people in front of her: "Send a message to all the palaces. The weather is bad today, so there is no need to come to say hello."
"The Empress, Mr. Kang from Concubine Xian's side has come to say hello." The palace maid came in to report.
"Ask him to come in and listen to what he has to say." Concubine Xian is now grounded, and the queen has not been in her palace for many days.
Kang Guang hunched over and walked in. After asking the queen, he said, "Our queen heard in a daze that the prince was ill, so she hurriedly sent the young one over to ask. Is this really the case?"
"It's not easy for the Concubine Xian to be so well-informed when she is confined in the palace." Liang Jing said, "The Prince is indeed feeling a little unwell, but it doesn't matter."
The queen also said: "Ask Concubine Xian to take care of her. Go back and tell her that there is nothing serious about the prince. It's just that the child ate the wrong thing for a while."
"In this way, my mother-in-law can rest assured. I will tell you the truth when I go back." Kang Guang said with a smile on his face, "Then I will resign first."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Concubine Xian has always paid special attention to the Crown Prince, as if she cared more about the Sixth Prince." Liang Jing thought of coming in to investigate the Concubine Xian himself. Although he had not yet fully verified it, some clues had already aroused his vigilance.
So when he said this, he was actually reminding the queen that there was something in his words, including to Kang Guang just now.
"Yes, she will inevitably want to please me, so she will be more attentive to the prince." The queen smiled, "This is not a big deal. What's more, the prince was so troubled last night, and other palaces will not hear the news. Not surprising."
Everyone in the Yucheng Palace stayed up almost all night, figuring that the queen would definitely come the next morning, so they all cheered up.
The queen arrived, but the prince was still sleeping.
He sat back next to the prince's bed and reached out to touch his forehead. Sure enough, it was hot.
"Don't worry, Madam. Although I'm still a little hot now, it's much lighter than before. The imperial doctor took a pulse and said it's nothing serious. It just takes a few days of quiet recovery." The manager of Yucheng Palace reported carefully, " The prince asked for water half an hour ago, but he vomited it out again shortly after."
At this time, the prince heard some noise and opened his eyes. When he saw that it was the queen, his eyes suddenly turned red. He held back his sobs and asked, "Mother, why is this? Why do you do this to me?"
"You all go down," the queen said to the people surrounding her.
When only she and the prince were left in the room, the queen took the prince's hand and said earnestly: "My child, you must blame the queen for being cruel, right?"
"Mother, I have tried my best to listen to you and not let you down. But why? Why can't you even tolerate that rabbit? Or you don't allow me to play with it, take it away and put it somewhere else. Just raise it. Why kill it? Make it into soup and let me drink it?" The prince's tears couldn't help but roll down.
This incident made him painful and disgusted, but he also wanted to know why the queen did this.
"When the queen mother first entered the palace, Mrs. Xu regarded me as a thorn in her side because of His Majesty's favor." The queen did not directly answer the prince's words, but talked about the past, "At that time, I had the most capable maid by my side. She is my personal girl since childhood.
We are called master and servant, but in fact we are like sisters. She is two years older than me, and she takes good care of me.
At that time, I often thought in my heart that although I could live without my parents, I couldn't live without her.
We have said more than once that she will stay with me forever and never marry.
Mrs. Xu hated me, but because of His Majesty and because I was careful, she couldn't do anything to me for the moment, so she attacked my most powerful maid.
She devised a trap and falsely accused the palace maid of stealing her things. And let me handle it. Obviously, if my handling does not satisfy her, then the matter will fall on me. After all, it is my person who committed the crime.
At that time, in full view of everyone, I had no choice but to take a sudden turn and execute the palace maid. "
The prince was so shocked that he could not speak. If it were him, he would try his best to plead for mercy no matter what.
"Do you think the Queen Mother is cruel? But being kind and soft-hearted in this palace will only make her death worse.
When I executed that palace maid, I also executed the last bit of weakness in myself. From then on, I really made up my mind to seize the back seat.
I know that if you can't harden your heart, it will eventually be difficult. It has been said since ancient times that a kindhearted person cannot lead an army, how much more can he serve as a king?
My personal maid, that rabbit you like, only by giving up on them can you give up your dependence on foreign objects.
When you memorize it, you have to touch the rabbit to be able to memorize it. You are asked to shoot it, but you are unwilling to attack any living creature.
If the emperor finds out, he will definitely be disappointed in you. I have told you a long time ago that the emperor is gradually favoring the fifth prince and the emperor's eldest grandson. We cannot lose here. "
The queen looked at the prince steadily: "No matter how I taught you before, you refused to listen. There was no other way, so the mother gave this strong medicine. This is the mother's painstaking efforts, you have to understand."
As the prince listened to the queen's words, his mind became more and more trance-like. He felt that her voice was both close and far away, but every word made him extremely painful.
He said no more because he really had nothing to say.
The person in front of him was no longer his mother, but a lost person.
(End of chapter)
