"Ah Shen?" Li Zhuoqi was stunned, frowning slightly, "How did you provoke him again?"
Li Qishen usually looked free and easy, as if he didn't care about anything, but when he really showed his fangs, ordinary people really couldn't handle it. Li Taoqi had occasionally heard Li Qishen mocking people a few times. The teenager had a cold and beautiful face, but when he was mean, he was really mean. If he was stabbed all over, people with thin skin would probably cry on the spot.
But no matter how angry he was, it was a bit too much to hang himself. Li Taoqi thought for a moment and thought that the Crown Princess was doing something naughty again, which made Li Qishen angry and said something hurtful.
He didn't see it in person, so it's hard to say who's right or wrong. He thought about it and comforted the Crown Princess in a gentle voice, "I've told you before that Ah Shen is half Xianbei. He lost his mother at a young age and is still young. Although he invited Xu Xueshi from the Hongwen Academy, he didn't learn the rules very well. He's fifteen years old this year, and it's time for him to leave the palace. After he's crowned a prince and has his own palace, you won't see him many times a year. The East Palace is so far from the Qingsi Palace, and he doesn't usually go here. Why bother to provoke him?"
The Crown Princess looked at Li Tuoqi in astonishment, as if she couldn't believe her husband could say such a thing. More tears oozed from the corners of her eyes, flowing over her pointed jaw and spreading on the hem of her skirt. Her lips trembled, but she didn't say a word.
After a long silence, she suddenly raised her hand and grabbed her collar, her shoulders trembling slightly.
Li Tuoqi felt something was wrong, sighed, and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears. Seeing that she looked so strange, he couldn't get anything out of her, so he turned around and asked Gui Yan, "What happened between the Crown Princess and the Seventh Prince?"
"This..." Gui Yan was confused. She looked at the Crown Princess, then at the Crown Prince, and simply knelt on the ground, lowering her head tightly. "Your Highness, I dare not say anything."
Li Taoqi's heart tightened, his brows furrowed even tighter, and his tone hardened: "Speak."
“…Yes.” Gui Yan glanced at the Crown Princess quietly, and after hearing her look, he licked his lips and spoke out the words he had prepared with a trembling voice, “New medicinal herbs were put into the warehouse yesterday. The Queen, out of consideration for the Seventh Prince, sent Taozhi to deliver them… But the Seventh Prince…”
"But what?" Li Taoqi was anxious.
Guiyan paused, lowered his head, and rested his forehead on the back of his hand: "But he humiliated Taozhi! He also said that Taozhi was just a plaything. If the queen dared to go, it would be the same..."
Li Taoqi's pupils shrank, and he thought it was impossible at first; but when he thought about it more deeply, and thought of the pair of light amber eyes, he suddenly became unsure.
With Shen's personality... is it really impossible for him to do such a thing
But he still didn't want to believe it, and was silent for a moment: "Where's Taozhi?"
"Your Highness, Taozhi was humiliated and she took poison when she came back. She is still lying on the couch. I asked a female doctor to treat her. I don't know if she can survive." Guiyan said, "The queen also hanged herself because she couldn't bear the humiliation."
Li Zhuoqi was stunned for a moment, then his whole body suddenly collapsed, and he became even more depressed in an instant.
One took poison, the other hanged himself. It must have happened. No matter how gentle he was, he usually gave in to his half-brother and considered himself a qualified brother. But when he knew that Li Qishen had done such a despicable thing, Li Taoqi couldn't stand it. He felt angry. His heart was broken. On the one hand, he felt sad and lamented why Li Qishen had come to this. On the other hand, he felt a strange sense of relief, as if he had finally seen through the true face of his brother.
"… Go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to summon the Imperial Physician. It's not Taozhi's fault that she was humiliated. She must be rescued." Li Taoqi slowed down and slowly embraced the Crown Princess in his arms. "It's my fault. I let the wolf into the house by mistake. I can't protect you. I am unworthy of being a husband."
The Crown Princess sobbed softly in his arms: "Then Your Highness...what are you going to do?"
"After a few days when the situation stabilizes, I will tell Aye and let him decide. He will definitely give you and Taozhi justice." Li Zhuoqi said, "A Shen will leave the palace, and I will never let him go easily."
"What if the Seventh Prince turns against me and slanders me... What will Your Highness do?"
"I won't believe it." Hearing the Crown Princess' hesitation, Li Taoqi felt even more uncomfortable. He raised his hand to tidy up her hair. "I've been so ashamed of you these years. I didn't notice that he was so... I made you suffer. I won't make the same mistake again this time."
"With your words, I feel it's all worth it." The Crown Princess whispered, leaning on Li Taoqi's chest.
Li Taoqi responded, lowered his head and gently kissed the crown princess's head, then slowly closed his eyes. He didn't notice at all that in the shadows that he couldn't see, the crown princess suddenly smiled with an ambiguous meaning.
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Maybe the ointment Xie Wangzhi gave was very effective, or maybe the weather had turned cold in the past few days and there was less pollen flying around, the rash on Li Qishen's body gradually disappeared, and when he touched it, he could still feel a few particularly stubborn ones, which were completely invisible when he looked at them.
The bronze mirror was polished to a bright shine, but it was hard to tell the color. Li Qishen touched it a few times, but couldn't tell if the red spots had completely faded. He held up the collar with one hand and asked Chang Zu beside him, "Take a look, has the rash disappeared?"
Changzu moved closer and took a closer look, then took a few steps further and took another look. He came to a conclusion and shook his head: "Your Highness, it's gone, not a single bit."
Li Qishen breathed a sigh of relief and pulled his collar back: "Then there's no need to boil the medicine anymore. I find it too bitter."
"It's hard to say... How about calling the imperial physician to come and take a look?" Chang Zu was timid. "It's been a few days since the rash disappeared. I'm worried that it might relapse."
"That's fine."
Chang Zu responded and was about to go out to ask for the imperial physician. Before he turned around, several people suddenly came in from the door. The leader was the eunuch Feng Yan, who was in charge of the imperial case. He bowed respectfully to Li Qishen and said, "Greetings, Your Highness. Please go to the Purple Palace immediately, so that His Majesty and the Crown Prince won't be waiting anxiously."
Li Qishen was slightly startled, his mind suddenly in a state of confusion, but he did not show it on his face, looking clueless: "Oh? What do you want me to do?"
"I don't know." Feng Yan really didn't know, "Your Majesty only sent me to invite you, I don't know anything else."
"I understand." Li Qishen didn't dislike this solemn and silent eunuch in charge of the case, and didn't make things difficult for him. "Then go ahead."
"Yes." Feng Yan responded, stepped back a few steps, and waited for Li Qishen to leave first.
Li Qishen didn't refuse, nor did he say much, he just walked out.
Today's weather was completely different from the previous few days. It was clearly after the Shangsi Festival, but it was exceptionally cold. The sky was gray and the sun was like a hot pancake with white edges, lukewarm, which made people feel cold at first glance. Li Qishen walked for a while with his head down, without saying a word, but suddenly stopped in front of the Purple Palace, looked up at the sky, and the gray thin clouds were reflected in his pupils.
"Your Highness?" Feng Yan wondered what was wrong with him, "But what's wrong?"
Li Qishen retracted his gaze and stepped over the threshold: "Maybe it's going to snow."
As soon as he stepped into the Purple Palace and hadn't stood firm, a teacup flew straight at him. Li Qishen tensed up and dodged it, watching the teacup hit the door frame and then fall to the ground. The teacup was smashed into pieces, porcelain chips flew everywhere, and the scalding hot tea splashed all over the hem of his round-necked robe.
"You evil creature!" Li Chengjing was furious, "You have brought shame to the Li family, and yet you dare to come to see me!"
Li Qishen was stunned, thinking that it was not me who wanted to come here, and I obviously have not lost as much face as you, but he would not say it out loud to seek death, so he pretended not to see the teacup, walked in, and saluted to Li Chengjing: "Father and brother asked me to come here, what's the matter?"
"Think carefully about what you have done!" Li Chengjing was still angry.
Li Qishen was too lazy to pay attention to him and turned his eyes to the side.
Li Tuoqi was indeed there, with a solemn expression on his face, but his eyes were fixed on Li Qishen, as if Li Qishen had snatched the meat from his mouth. Next to him was the Crown Princess, wrapped in a velvet-edged cloak, with a pale face and seemingly no makeup on, making her look even more dull.
Next to her was Taozhi, kneeling on the ground. When she heard Li Qishen come in, she looked up at him, but before their eyes met, she quickly lowered her head, bent her body tightly, and stretched and curled her hands on her knees nervously repeatedly.
They were all acquaintances, but Li Qishen was unsure of what Li Taoqi was trying to do, so he said bluntly: "I don't know."
Li Chengjin almost couldn't breathe.
This matter had naturally been told a long time ago. After the court session, Li Taoqi brought the Crown Princess and Taozhi over. There were witnesses and evidence. The man's eyes were red, and the two women were crying, making Li Qishen seem like a rare villain in the world.
Li Chengjing thought it was nothing at first, he just raped a maid, and gave her the status of a concubine. Even if he raped a noble lady, he could just marry her and pretend everything was fine. But when it came to the Crown Princess, he certainly didn't think he was wrong, but he felt a little bit bothered in his heart, this was an opportunity to make amends.
But one has to distinguish between close and distant relatives. No matter how unrelated Li Qishen is, he is still his son. Li Chengjing has decided to give him a warning first. As long as Li Qishen is willing to kneel down and beg for mercy, he will take charge of settling the matter.
However, Li Qishen was standing in the hall, and he dared to say that, looking like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. Li Chengjing had no place to act as a strict father and then a kind father, so he pushed the words to Li Zhuoqi in anger: "Yucheng! You say."
"Yes." Li Zhuoqi stared at Li Qishen with a sad face, "A Shen, why did you do such a wrong thing?"
Li Qishen was puzzled: "What did I do?"
He really didn't know, but he looked cold, and his eyes were stern when he wasn't smiling. This look fell into Li Taoqi's eyes, and the confusion turned into provocation. Li Taoqi became more and more angry, and took a deep breath: "The Crown Princess sympathized with you and sent this palace maid to deliver new medicine. Why did you use this as an excuse to humiliate Taozhi? Why did you insult the Crown Princess with words? Do you know that this is my wife, your elder sister-in-law! You are no better than a tiger or a wolf for doing this. You have come to the world in vain!"
Even though he was scolded like that, Li Qishen didn't get angry. His eyes moved from Li Taoqi to Taozhi, then back to Li Taoqi's face.
"Where's the evidence?" He was not panicked at all. "If it's just based on your words, then forget it. I can also say that my brother came to Qingsi Palace last time with an excuse and not only insulted the maids in my palace, but also insulted the eunuchs in my palace."
The author has something to say: Changsheng: ... Crazy (Old man on the subway looking at his phone.jpg)
Deep down, the prince still doesn't believe in Changsheng and doesn't want to get close to him. If Changsheng makes a mistake, he will think "Oh, as I expected", and then he will start to feel pity, entanglement, and resentment from the perspective of a brother and a victim, and finally forgive him out of self-touching emotion.
Changsheng really didn't want to get close to him and even thought he was stupid (…) After all, Changsheng had been in the palace for fifteen years, and there were only a handful of people he could really be considered close to. Of course, even if he sounded pitiful, he would not want or need other people's pity.
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