"My dear, Grandma Zhou has been waiting outside for a long time. Do you want her to come in?" Cui Qiao said in a soft voice.
Li Fei had just woken up and was lying lazily on the black mother-of-pearl bed. She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, but did not speak.
Yin Ye brought delicious tea, and Cui Qiao also hurriedly brought a basin. After Li Fei finished rinsing her mouth, the waiter carefully wiped the water stains from her lips with a brocade handkerchief.
"Concubine Xian's people want to see me," Concubine Li pondered slightly, with a smile on her lips, "Then let her come in. No matter what, Concubine Xian still thinks we are on the same team!"
"Slave, let me help you with your make-up!" Concubine Li took off her hairpin during her nap, so it was inconvenient to see people in such a state.
"Just ask her to reply through the curtain." Li Fei said, "I want to take a bath again later."
Immediately, a second-class palace maid walked out, called Aunt Zhou over and said, "Our queen has just woken up, please reply through the curtain."
Aunt Zhou was the one who passed the news between the two of them. She was not from Jiaolan Palace, but had been bribed by Concubine Xian.
"Old slave, give your regards to Concubine Li." Grandma Zhou saluted through the curtain.
"That's all, if you have anything to say, just tell me." Li Fei said.
"The Concubine Xian called this old slave to ask your Majesty for a favor. Can you please ask your Majesty to allow the Sixth Prince and his wife to come to Jiaolan Palace to meet each other during the Dragon Boat Festival." Grandma Zhou's rickety figure reflected On the soft curtain with golden incense sticks, it looks like a dead tree.
"Did Concubine Xian say anything else?" Concubine Li asked, looking at the butterfly on the pillow.
"I don't have anything else to say, just this." Nanny Zhou said with a smile.
"It's done, you can go back! I know it." Li Fei agreed happily.
"Thank you, Concubine Li." Grandma Zhou bent her body downwards and then withdrew.
"Your Majesty, the Concubine Xian is confined in the palace now. She should not be able to make any trouble for a while." Yanda walked in and said, "I wonder what kind of medicine is being sold in the gourd this time?"
"I'm too lazy to worry about this. Anyway, no matter how hard she works, in the end it will be all in vain." Li Fei was very sure, "Let her just let her do it. The more she does it, the better it will be for us."
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor authorized the sixth prince and Yao Wanyi to visit the Concubine Xian in Jiaolan Palace.
In less than two months, Concubine Xian had lost a lot of weight.
Of course the Sixth Prince felt distressed after seeing it, but since Yao Wanyi was in front of him, he couldn't say anything else. He just asked: "Why is the concubine so thin? Is she sick?"
"I'm not sick. I don't have a good appetite when the weather is hot. It's normal to be thinner." Concubine Xian smiled softly, "I see you're a little darker too. Are you often outside? Wanyi, how are you recovering these days? ? I have always been thinking about you, but now that you look good, I feel relieved. "
"I have nothing to do now, mother and concubine, don't worry. When the time comes, you will look really haggard. Just relax, things will get over." Yao Wanyi felt that the reason why Concubine Xian was like this must be related to the grounding, and she must be worried about it. Having lost the emperor's favor, I was also afraid that my mother's family would be implicated.
"That's good, that's good, I don't take these things to heart." Concubine Xian said with a smile, "Besides, seeing that you are all well, I will get better soon.
Sit down now. We haven't seen each other for a while, so we need to have a nice chat. "
The tea and snacks on the table had been prepared long ago. Only two personal maids were left to serve, and the rest were sent out.
"Wanyi, I made the soup for you with my own hands. It should be ready." Concubine Xian looked at Yao Wanyi as if she were her own daughter, with unspeakable pity and love, "You must drink this soup." .”
"What kind of soup is it?" Yao Wanyi asked with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, concubine."
"It's a nourishing soup. It's said to have miraculous effects on people who have had miscarriages." Concubine Xian said, "It's a recipe I found with great difficulty."
"My mother-in-law is so kind to me." Yao Wanyi's words were indeed sincere and not superficially polite.
Indeed, whether from outsiders' perspective or from her own personal experience, Concubine Xian was not at all considerate to her.
Sure enough, after a while, the maid in front of Concubine Xian came in with a small bowl of soup, put it on a tray and covered it with a lid.
"The soup is ready. Please use it slowly, Fifth Princess." The bowl of soup was respectfully placed in front of Yao Wanyi's table.
Then the lid on the soup bowl was opened, and a strange aroma floated out, with a faint medicinal smell.
The soup is very light. Like tea soup. There was nothing else inside, so the ingredients for the stew had obviously been grated out long ago.
"It shouldn't be hot," Concubine Xian said, "Take a bite slowly."
Yao Wanyi picked up the spoon and took a bite. Sure enough, it was just right in her mouth.
She noticed that Concubine Xian was looking at her very earnestly, so she drank the whole bowl of soup in several mouthfuls.
"Good boy, after you drink this bowl of soup..." Concubine Xian couldn't help but reach out to support her head before she could finish her sentence, and she fell forward.
Everyone was so panicked that they rushed to help him.
"Mother concubine! Mother concubine! What's wrong with you?"
"My queen, please wake up!"
The Sixth Prince held Concubine Xian in his arms and said, "Go and ask for the imperial doctor!"
"Be gentle, my wife's arm is bleeding." Shucong said, holding up Concubine Xian's arm.
"Oh, what's going on? Why is there blood here?" Yao Wanyi noticed that there was blood on Concubine Xian's sleeves.
"Your Highness, please carry my wife to the bed first, and the servants will go and ask for the doctor right away."
"How did the mother-in-law get injured?" At this time, the sixth prince had already pushed up the sleeves of the concubine Xian, and saw that her arm was wrapped in several layers of gauze, but the blood stains were still showing through.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the slaves have already given me the medicine."
"You bastard! What I'm asking is how did the mother-in-law get injured?!" The sixth prince became angry because he felt distressed. "This wound is not light."
"Your Highness, please calm down," Shu Shucong and the others knelt down and choked, "My Majesty cut it with a knife."
"What?!" The Sixth Prince and Yao Wanyi were both shocked, "Why did the mother-in-law do this?"
"It's because... it's because our empress is worried about the health of the princess, so she has been fasting and chanting Buddha's name since the princess had a miscarriage and during the days when she was grounded.
Later, I heard someone say that miscarriage is the most harmful to the body. If you want to fully recover, you have to cut off the flesh of the elder and stew it with deer fetus snow lotus to nourish the soup. "
"Ah, you mean the soup I drank just now..." Yao Wanyi immediately thought of the bowl of soup she drank just now.
"That's right, it's that bowl." Shucong cried, "My queen sent us all away yesterday, and she cut it with a knife in the house."
