King Xuan narrowed his gloomy eyes.
Fu Yunqiu had been granted a marriage by the emperor and would soon marry the prince. She was a confirmed crown prince, so he had to give her two cents, so he withdrew his hand.
Fu Yunqiu walked up to them and said in a gentle tone: "King Xuan is here. Just now everyone was looking for you to do the drinking ceremony, but no one was found anywhere."
King Xuan smiled: "I'm going back now, thank you Miss Fu for reminding me."
After that, he said goodbye to Fu Yunqiu. Before leaving, he gave Shen Dingzhu a sinister look, as if telling her to wait and see.
Shen Dingzhu's expression remained unchanged until King Xuan left, and Fu Yunqiu asked the maid to go back and get her cloak.
When only the two of them were left, Fu Yunqiu smiled slightly: "Miss Shen, we all thought you went to Mobei. It's great to see you still here. It's a pity that things are unpredictable. How did you become Lang Yan's general? Where is the room?"
In the past, before the fall of the Shen family, Shen Dingzhu and Fu Yunqiu were ranked as the most beautiful women in the capital, because their looks were very similar.
However, Fu Yunqiu is the gentle type, while Shen Dingzhu's eyebrows are more beautiful and showy. The two were often compared together, both privately and publicly.
Hearing what Fu Yunqiu said, Shen Dingzhu responded calmly: "If the prince likes it, there are not so many reasons."
She took out the plaster given by Xiao Langyan and handed it over: "The prince asked me to deliver it on my behalf."
Fu Yunqiu looked at it twice and smiled softly: "Lang Yan is really thoughtful, but this winter, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already found a healer for me. I will leave this ointment to you. Miss Shen has had an intercourse, so it will be inevitable in the future. Suffering is impossible without ointment.”
Shen Dingzhu heard the hostility in her tone, and for Xiao Langyan's sake, he was unwilling to conflict with her.
Then he said coldly: "In that case, I'll leave first."
Fu Yunqiu's eyes flashed dark and cold, not happy, but she still maintained the smile on her face. She suddenly raised her hand and stroked the black hair on her temples.
Shen Dingzhu lowered his eyes and noticed that the velvet glove cover used by Fu Yunqiu was actually the one she gave to Xiao Langyan.
Fu Yunqiu looked at her with a smile: "I just said that my hands were cold, and Langyan gave this to me just now. Miss Shen, please return this to him for me. By the way, help me ask which maid in his house this belongs to." The craftsmanship and fine stitching are really good.”
After that, she put the velvet condom in Shen Dingzhu's arms and left gracefully.
Staring at the thing in his hand, Shen Dingzhu suddenly understood why Xiao Langyan had brought the velvet condom with him in the morning. He had clearly said that he disliked what she made.
It's all for Fu Yunqiu...
At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the male guest's cabin.
With the exclamation "Your Highness, be careful", Shen Dingzhu was about to walk over to see what was going on, but suddenly realized that his identity was wrong, so he retreated to the deck where people could rest.
She found a shelter from the wind and stood there, listening to the exclamations in the cabin, which gradually turned into sighs of surprise and joy: "We were in danger just now, and His Royal Highness almost fell out of the window."
"Yes, fortunately His Highness Prince Ning's quick eyesight and quick hands caught His Highness the Crown Prince."
Immediately afterwards, the prince's voice came: "I drank a few glasses of wine, and I was so drunk that I almost fell into the river. Fortunately, my fifth brother is here!"
Shen Dingzhu couldn't hear what Xiao Langyan said, because the people inside became noisy and merry again.
Probably because of the thrilling episode just now, the boat party returned to the shore instead of going to the center of the lake, and the boat party ended.
Shen Dingzhu was taken off the ship first by Xiao Langyan's bodyguard Cheng Ting and waited in the carriage.
After a while, Xiao Langyan finally returned, with a faint blush on his handsome and cold face.
His eyes were dark, he glanced at Shen Dingzhu's face, and then frowned: "Why is your face so pale?"
Shen Dingzhu touched his cheek: "Is there any? It's probably because the wind blew for too long just now."
She ignored the matter and hurriedly asked: "Did His Majesty the Crown Prince almost fall into the water?"
Xiao Langyan glanced at her sideways: "I asked you to be right again."
Shen Dingzhu reminded him that Xiao Langyan sat next to the prince during the entire banquet, secretly paying attention to the prince's movements.
Seeing the prince drinking too much happily because of the investigation into the water transport corruption case, there was a big open window next to him!
When the prince was about to fall down the window, Xiao Langyan suddenly reached out to hold him.
"Cheng Ting has also checked, and there is indeed a man named Zheng Duo among the scattered guards on the ship."
Shen Dingzhu's eyes were filled with joy. It would have been nice to stop Zheng Duo, but that was not enough.
"The prince should send someone to keep an eye on him. If it doesn't work this time, Zheng Duo will look for a chance next time."
Xiao Langyan responded calmly: "I know, do you give the things to Fu Yunqiu?"
Shen Dingzhu pursed her lips and took out the bottle of ointment again: "Miss Fu said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince found a famous doctor for her this winter, so she did not accept the ointment."
Xiao Langyan took a look, and to Shen Dingzhu's surprise, he didn't show any anger or disappointment. Instead, he just said: "I know."
Shen Dingzhu lowered his head and played with the bottle of ointment. His black hair hung on his shoulders, revealing only half of his pretty and fair cheeks.
She suddenly thought that at this time in her previous life, Zheng Erlan would drug her and make her seriously ill.
It just so happened that Fu Yunqiu also fell ill at the same time, and was very ill, coughing and wheezing. She knew that there were famous doctors in Xiao Langyan's house, so she borrowed all the doctors.
Xiao Langyan listened to Fu Yunqiu's words, but he didn't know that that time, Shen Dingzhu had a high fever and it was exactly when he needed a doctor.
Later, it was Jiang Manzi, the miracle doctor she found, who prescribed medicine for her and saved her from disaster.
This time, she couldn't sit still and decided to take the initiative and take advantage of the two things.
Thinking of this, Shen Dingzhu suddenly said: "I want to go out tomorrow."
Xiao Langyan looked at her several times out of the corner of his eye, and saw that her eyes were heavy and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Finally, when she spoke, he put down the book and looked at her coldly: "What are you doing?"
"Buying something." After she finished speaking, she lowered her eyes to avoid being caught by Xiao Langyan.
Xiao Langyan's eyes were cold, with a bit of suspicion, and he said after a while: "It's up to you."
Shen Dingzhu then leaned on the carriage and closed his eyes. He felt very dizzy. It was probably because of the wind on the boat.
Xiao Langyan was not in the house that night, so he naturally did not ask Shen Dingzhu to attend to him.
Before going to bed, she reluctantly put three layers of paper on the broken window to prevent the cold wind from pouring into the house.
Despite this, she was still so cold that she sneezed and her body became slightly hot.
Shen Dingzhu thought that if she had free time tomorrow, she would definitely ask Eunuch Xu to find someone to repair her window.
When she got up the next day, she wanted to go out. Zheng Erlan stepped forward to ask why. Shen Dingzhu refused to tell her, and because she felt uncomfortable, her cheeks were flushed with illness.
She was a little impatient: "The prince has given permission, so don't ask."
With that said, Shen Dingzhu left, and Zheng Erlan stared at her back with suspicion.
Once outside, Shen Dingzhu went straight to an inconspicuous teahouse and left a letter.
When she was about to return to the palace, the sound of a horse shaking the ground was heard at the end of the street, and she quickly stepped aside.
A red-maned horse led the way, followed by five or six horse-riding servants.
Shen Dingzhu was so sick that she fell into a drowsy state with her head lowered like a wilting flower. She didn't even know that the red-maned horse had stopped in front of her.
Until a cold voice came from above the head: "Miss Shen?"
Shen Dingzhu looked up. The man in front of her was tall, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. He looked at her with a slight look of concern.
Shen Dingzhu came to his senses: "Young General."
Zhou Luli said: "Your face doesn't look good. Are you sick?"
Shen Dingzhu nodded feebly: "It must be that he caught the wind and cold... Major General, can you lend me a few copper coins? I want to buy medicine."
Zhou Luli was startled, then took out his sleeves and handed his wallet directly over: "Take them all. I heard that you are having a hard time now, so take care of yourself."
After that, he got back on his horse and prepared to leave.
Shen Dingzhu pinched the bulging purse and said hurriedly: "When I have money in the future, I will pay it back to you."
Zhou Luli held the reins in his hand and gave her an indifferent smile: "No, I also received Prime Minister Shen's guidance in the past, so I should be grateful."
As he spoke, he let out a soft chuckle and the horse's hooves shook as he left.
Shen Dingzhu felt that his whole body was burning hot, and his vision became much blurred.
She kept this kindness in her heart, turned around and went to the drug store, bought a few pairs of typhoid medicine, and then hurried back to the palace.
She borrowed the kitchen to cook the medicine and drank it while it was hot. Then Shen Dingzhu felt her head hurt even more and her whole body was as hot as a cooked cherry.
She returned to the house and fell asleep.
But not long after she touched the pillow, she was pulled up from the couch by a brutal force.
Zheng Erlan and three big-bodied ladies actually barged in to cause trouble for Shen Dingzhu!
"What a sinful slave, I knew you had unclean hands and feet, and you dared to steal things from the palace. See what I found in your room?" Zheng Erlan held up the bronze coin and gave orders.
After seeing Shen Dingzhu insisting on leaving the house, she felt something was wrong, so she went into Shen Dingzhu's room to search, and sure enough, she saw something that belonged to Xiao Langyan!
A woman shouted and cursed: "You bastard with unclean hands and feet, how dare you steal the prince's things? How many did you just take out and sell?"
