"Why are you here?" Shen Wei said.
"Mama Li came to invite me to have dinner in the front hall, and I happened to stop by to call Jiaojiao. Unexpectedly, before I entered the hospital, I heard loud crying. I wanted to come to comfort you, but it turned out that she thought I was too old. Is it ugly?" Shen Xi looked at Shen Zhuo with a half-smile.
Shen Zhuo jumped up, took Shen Xi's arm and shook it, smiling flatteringly:
"Why do I think you are ugly? Third brother is one of the top ten young masters in Kyoto. Women who admire you can line up for ten miles from the house. Whoever dares to say you are ugly will be beaten by me!"
Seeing Shen Zhuo's smile, Shen Wei and Shen Xi relaxed their hearts, and the three of them went to the front hall, noisily.
What kind of nightmare was it that made Jiaojiao cry several times? Could it be related to Ayao's marriage? Shen Wei looked at Shen Zhuo who was arguing with Shen Xi and fell into deep thought.
Shen Weijing calmed down, thought for a few times, and suddenly realized that Xie Zhe, whom Shen Zhuo was interested in, was really a suitable candidate for Shen Yao's husband.
The Xie family is a famous Qingliu family. Although it has declined, its reputation is still there. The key is that the Xie family has no power, no wealth, and no reputation.
If the Shen and Xie families were to marry, it might put Emperor Zhengyuan's mind at ease more than letting a daughter of the Shen family marry a powerless prince.
Shen Wei couldn't help but look at Shen Zhuo with an inquisitive look. When did Jiaojiao have this idea and be able to choose such a suitable person?
In fact, Shen Zhuo and Shen Wei thought so much. She was optimistic about Xie Zhe, all because after Shen Yao died in his previous life, she saw with her own eyes Xie Zhe worshiping alone at the place where Shen Yao was killed.
Although Xie Zhe didn't say a word throughout the whole process, the sadness and pain on his body were deep and difficult to hide. At that time, Xie Zhe was the wife Shen Yao invited for his eldest son, Xiao Nan.
Later, Shen Zhuo kept paying attention to Xie Zhe and discovered that he was a true gentleman who was pure and upright.
Shen Zhuo has never had great ambitions. When she relives her life, all she wants is to stay away from the royal family so that her family can be together safely and smoothly. .
Liuyun Hall in the Imperial Palace
"Empress, Your Highness's medicine is ready." A chamberlain walked into the bedroom with a medicine tray, knelt on the ground respectfully, and raised the medicine tray high above his head.
In the dormitory, sitting beside the rosewood bed was a luxuriously dressed woman. She was dressed in a light purple butterfly dress with peony and cloud brocade, and her head was covered with pearls and jade. She was so gorgeous that people dared not look up. It was Qin Zhangyu, one of the four concubines of Emperor Zhengyuan.
Qin Zhangyu asked the maid to take the medicine bowl, and gently stirred the medicine soup with a spoon. After the medicine was warm enough to be taken in, he handed the medicine bowl to the lips of the man who was half lying on the bed.
"Concubine, you don't have to be so careful. This Yao Erchen is used to drinking it, so it doesn't matter." With that, Xiao Cheng took the medicine bowl, raised his head and drank the medicine in one gulp, and then smiled reassuringly at Qin Zhangyu.
Perhaps because he drank too quickly, Xiao Cheng suddenly choked and coughed after just finishing the medicine. His already weak face became paler and his breath became weaker.
"Cheng'er, you've suffered." Qin Zhangyu hurriedly picked up the handkerchief and wiped the medicine that Xiao Cheng had choked out from the corner of his mouth. His eyes were filled with distress, "You just have to endure it. If you continue to endure it, it will be over soon."
Xiao Cheng said: "It doesn't matter, I can still bear it. Don't be sad."
Qin Zhangyu squeezed the handkerchief tightly, hatred suddenly bursting out of his eyes, and he said in a hateful voice: "If it weren't for that bitch, how could my son have suffered for more than ten years. I hate that bitch..."
"Mother concubine!"
Qin Zhangyu's unspoken words were interrupted by Xiao Cheng loudly.
Xiao Cheng looked around the room with cold eyes and said in a deep voice: "You all get out."
The maids and chamberlains who were waiting in the room lowered their heads and filed out. After a while, they were the only two people left in the room, mother and son.
Xiao Cheng coughed a few times, forced himself to sit up, and said slowly: "My son, I have survived for eighteen years, and I don't care about two or three more years. There are many eyes and ears in the palace, so mother and concubine should be careful about what they say."
Qin Zhangyu took a few deep breaths to calm down. She held Xiao Cheng's hand and sighed: "You are a successful person, but I am angry."
"Mr. Chen came to ask for your pulse the day before yesterday. He said that the toxins in your body have reached the top and cannot accumulate any more, otherwise the foundation will be damaged. This made me confused."
Everyone knew that Xiao Cheng was frail and had to drink medicine every day to recuperate his body, but no one knew that in addition to various tonic and precious medicinal materials, his medicine was also mixed with a chronic poison.
Xiao Cheng's medicine is both a cure and a disease-causing medicine. And this medicine was not the handiwork of anyone else. It was his mother Qin Yiyu who administered the medicine.
"Cheng'er, you can't drink this medicine anymore."
"It doesn't matter, it just hurts the foundation, it's not life-threatening." Xiao Cheng smiled and didn't care, but comforted Qin Yiyu, "If I hadn't been so sick and crooked, how could I have survived until now?"
When Qin Zhangyu heard this, she couldn't help but grit her teeth with hatred: "Back then, that bitch pretended to be my sister, but I treated her sincerely and never doubted her."
"I never thought that she would secretly plot a poisonous plot. The decoctions she gave me were all poisonous. If my son was not destined to be lucky, there would be no fate for us as mother and son."
Speaking of this, tears welled up in Qin Zhangyu's eyes: "It's all my fault that I failed to protect you."
"No, mother protected her son very well." Seeing Qin Zaiyu's sadness, Xiao Cheng felt soft and called mother, which was against the palace rules.
The sound of "Mother" made Qin Zhangyu burst into tears.
After a while, Qin Zhangyu wiped away her tears, calmed down and said, "Cheng'er, you are not young anymore, so you should choose a noble girl to get married as soon as possible."
"After the wedding, you can justifiably leave the palace and open a palace. Even if that bitch is the master of the first palace, he can't reach the prince's palace no matter how long his hands are. It's time to stop taking your medicine."
"What the mother and concubine said is absolutely true, and my son and I also have the same idea."
Qin Zhangyu said: "Does Cheng'er have someone to choose from?"
Xiao Cheng nodded and smiled slightly: "The Shen family."
