When Rong Si returned to the palace, she raised her eyebrows when she heard that Rong Feizhou had stayed in the general's mansion for a few more days before returning to the military camp.
When they met before, Rong Si could feel that he was eager to leave here, as if he was avoiding someone or something. It can be said that Rong Feizhou's eyes and eyebrows were clamoring to get away from here. Maybe he needed to change the environment to think about how to go on in the future? Why did he stay here again
Or did something happen again that was beyond Rong Si's expectations
She tapped lightly on the sandalwood tabletop, thinking carefully.
Around this time, Rong Si received a message from Mu Lianxuan saying that he would be traveling to Jiangnan in about half a month to deal with some matters there. He might not come to see Rong Si for half a month, but he would bring her gifts and ask her to stay in the palace and wait for him.
The person who delivered the message to Mu Lianxuan was an inconspicuous eunuch in the palace, the kind whose appearance was so unclear that no one could remember it.
Rong Si didn't care too much about the news and just put it out of her mind and ignored it.
But after careful calculation, it seems that the incident with her adoptive father Rong Tianpu happened within half a month. Rong Feizhou and Mu Lianxuan both left Shangjing at this time, but it does not mean that they are not suspected of harming others.
As for whether Rong Si would save that person or not, she had her own considerations.
First of all, the benefit is that saving her gives her an extra backer, so she can work hard and do her best. Moreover, she is Rong Tianpu's only daughter, so as long as the other party is alive, it will be of great benefit to her.
Secondly, with such a father, Rong Si will have a way out no matter what she does. After all, a great general Rong Tianpu is still here. As long as he is alive, the Mu brothers will have to think twice before taking action against Rong Si.
But the actual situation is that she doesn't even know who attacked Rong Tianpu in the plot, let alone what kind of poison he was infected with and how to save him
The most crucial thing is that Rong Si himself is indifferent, easily gets tired of love, and has never had any expectations for family affection. He treats Rong Tianpu as a slightly familiar stranger and can be very objective about this person's merits and demerits. He is very good to the original owner and to Rong Feizhou as well, but he is a complete mess in terms of feelings. For a palace concubine, the two women who were with him died of depression one after another, and he also killed the original queen and made Mu Yichen stupid for two years. It can be said that he is a kind of scum, and even death is what he deserves.
But Rong Si had taken possession of someone else's daughter's body after all, so after thinking it over, she decided to go back to the general's mansion after Rong Feizhou left. As soon as she got back, she saw Rong Tianpu practicing sword in the yard of the general's mansion. He looked energetic and didn't look like he was poisoned at all, which made Rong Si a little surprised.
"father!"
"Xiao Si? Why are you back today?"
"Come back to see you!"
"What's so good about an old man like me?" Rong Tianpu said angrily.
"Look at you. You've been hot and cold these past two days. My brother and I are not at home, and I'm afraid you'd get sick! Dad, how are you feeling recently? Are you feeling unwell anywhere? I remember you often said that your chest felt stuffy and painful as if a big rock was pressing on it, so I brought Zhong Yuanpan back to check your pulse." Rong Si said with concern.
"Hey, you have been worrying about nothing since you were a child. Please come in, please come in, so that you can put your mind at ease." Rong Tianpu's eyes flashed and he said with a smile.
Who would have known that after examining Rong Tianpu's pulse, Judge Zhong praised the old general for being in good health and saying that there was nothing seriously wrong with him. Finally, he prescribed two tonic medicines for him and told him to take them together to heal the hidden injuries he had sustained from his early years.
After hearing what Zhong Yuanpan said, Rong Si felt a little surprised, but she still looked very happy. She turned around and asked Nian Xia and Lian Qiu to go get the medicine.
On this side, Rong Tianpu looked at Rong Si's cautious posture, kept looking at her with a smile, and took a close look at her eyebrows when Rong Si was not paying attention.
After Rong Si finished her instructions and turned to look at him, he smiled and said, "How is it? I said I'm fine!"
"Uh-huh."
Rong Si nodded.
"Alas, you have always cared about your family the most since you were a child. If anything happened to me, your mother, or your brother, you would make everyone uneasy! You have never changed even when you grew up."
Rong Si followed with a smile, "You are my family, if I don't care about you, who should I care about?"
Family
When she said this, Rong Si herself was stunned for a moment.
Hearing his daughter say this, Rong Tianpu looked at Rong Si for a long time, "Well, we are a family, we are all a family. It's good that you and your brother have reconciled now. There is nothing to worry about in a family. Xiao Si, come here..."
"What?"
"I have a jade pendant here. I should have given it to you on the day you entered the palace, but I never had the chance. Now that you're back today, I'll give it to you. Remember, this jade pendant is an heirloom of our Rong family. You and your brother each have one. You must not lose it. When you return to the palace, ask Nianxia and the others to find a red string to tie it around your neck to keep you safe, okay?"
"oh."
Rong Si reached out to take the piece of Hetian jade. As soon as she held it, she felt that it seemed quite heavy, much heavier than ordinary jade. There was a lifelike little white rabbit carved on it, which was exactly Rong Si's personality. She liked it very much at first sight and started to play with it immediately.
"Alright, alright, go back and play. It's getting late. As a concubine in the palace, you have to behave yourself, don't you? Go back quickly, don't let the emperor have any complaints about you. Remember to control your temper in the future, don't make everyone unhappy with you. The emperor is your husband, and although he dotes on you now, you must remember to be humble and virtuous. Oh, remember to write to your brother more often, and ask him to put you first in everything..." Seeing Rong Si's slightly surprised eyes, Rong Tianpu laughed happily again, "I'm old, and sooner or later this general's mansion will be handed over to your brother. As for you, Feizhou will be the only one you can rely on in the palace. As for me, I will practice sword, play chess, and drink tea at home, or go out for a stroll. I'm going to start enjoying my old age!"
"Dad, you are not old."
"Okay, I'm not old, I'm not old. It's getting dark, why don't you go back to the palace? Okay?"
"Well, okay then!" Rong Si nodded and led Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong forward. When they reached the door, they suddenly looked back for some unknown reason. She happened to see Rong Tianpu standing at the door with his back to the light, looking in her direction. When he saw her looking back, he waved at her, motioning her to continue walking forward.
Seeing this, Rong Si smiled and continued to move forward, not realizing that the moment he turned around, Rong Tianpu also turned around. A fishy smell of rust rushed out directly from his mouth and nose, and a trace of dark red blood slowly overflowed from the corner of his mouth.
When no one was looking, he took out a handkerchief and wiped it immediately, then put it away as if nothing had happened and returned to his yard.
What you owe to others must be repaid eventually, it’s just a matter of time.
Rong Tianpu smiled, his face full of sorrow.
Sitting in the sedan chair on the way back to the palace, Rong Si still felt something was strange. There was something wrong with the expression on Rong Tianpu's face when he spoke, and even the jade pendant was a little weird. But Zhong Yuanpan didn't reveal anything. What went wrong
At almost the same time, Mu Yichen received news from his subordinates.
"Thank you for your hard work, Dean Zhong." He said softly.
"Zhong Yuanpan was the Queen's man in his early years. Others may not know, but there is no reason why Rong Tianpu does not know. Prince, is this move a little risky..."
Hearing this, Mu Yichen did not say anything and continued looking at the two cats, one orange and one white, rolling in a ball in front of him.
Seeing that his master had no intention of answering, the subordinate immediately knelt down and said, "I have overstepped my bounds."
"Go down."
"yes."
Mu Yichen closed his eyes, and his mind couldn't help but flash back to his childhood. His mother was framed, which caused Concubine Rou, who was as favored as Murong Wan at the time, to have a miscarriage. From then on, she could no longer have children and became insane. She was directly confined to the house by the emperor, and there was even a risk of being deposed.
As a result, a group of men in black rushed in that night. The leader ignored his mother's struggle, pinched her mouth, poured drugs down her mouth and nose, wiped the drug stains on her body, put down a suicide note prepared in advance, and made it look like she was committing suicide to prove her innocence.
How did he know so much? It was because he was naughty and ignorant at the time. He didn't want to study, so he hid under the bed and wanted to play a prank on her. He happened to see all of this.
Because of his scream, the group of people dragged him out from under the bed. He clearly saw that the leader had a cold and murderous look in his eyes. He looked at him as if he were a dead object. He fed him all the remaining liquid without any hesitation and made it look like he had mischievously drunk the Queen Mother's medicine.
"Walk!"
He heard the other person say this word, and saw that half of his little finger on his right hand was missing for no reason.
If he had not been so lucky and had not had his mother's personal maid get up in the middle of the night to take a look, he might have followed his mother to death. However, he became a little fool due to being too frightened and eroded by the evil. It was ridiculous that his father, the emperor, deposed him from his position as crown prince and instead gave him the title of King Rui.
A wise person is one who is knowledgeable and wise.
How ironic!
He is a fool and yet he got such a title!
Mu Yichen chuckled.
He wanted revenge, of course he wanted revenge! And he wanted Rong Tianpu to guess that he was back for revenge. If Rong Tianpu died without knowing that it was him who did it, then he would definitely not be reconciled.
But who would have thought that his own son Rong Tianpu was involved in this, and he didn't even reveal a word to Murong Wan. Didn't he love her so much that he would live for her, die for her, and do all kinds of evil things for her? How come she guessed his evil ambitions before she died, but didn't reveal any news to Murong Wan
But even if I want to transmit it, I can’t.
Mu Yichen looked down at the little white cat that had still rolled to his feet, and reached out to pick it up.
Looking at its watery eyes, it really feels like it is no different from its owner.
After he picked up the little white cat, the fat orange cat under his feet kept meowing and even stretched out its claws to scratch Mu Yichen's calves. It didn't stop until Mu Yichen put the little white cat down. The two of them continued to roll around in a ball, which made Mu Yichen's anger dissipate a lot.
On the other hand, Rong Si, who had stayed in the palace for a few days, did not receive any news about Rong Tianpu being poisoned or sick. She only heard that he was painting and practicing sword every day, and seemed to be living a very comfortable life in his later years.
This made Rong Si a little surprised, but Zhong Yuanpan was already the best physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau. After taking Rong Tianpu's pulse, he said that there was nothing serious. Rong Si really felt at a loss as to where to start.
But on the other hand, Shao Qingwei seemed to be living a colorful life. The concubines led by Xue Yuqiu would go to her from time to time to give her "cordial greetings", which made Shao Qingwei so frightened. Looking at every woman who came over, she felt that every word they said was meaningful and every smile was oozing with blood. After that group of people left, she began to torture her palace maids and eunuchs, asking them to clean every brick and every place the concubines had stepped on, leaving no trace at all.
This was known to some well-informed concubines. After sneering, they went there even more frequently.
Rong Si was not in the mood to get involved, but during one of her visits to the Imperial Garden, she saw Shao Qingwei was so thin that she was unbearable to look at. If Shao Qingwei before was still a beauty at second glance, the more you looked at her, the more comfortable you felt. But now, even if you look at her seven or eight times, you probably still wouldn’t be able to notice her beauty. Her belly wasn’t noticeable, but she carefully protected it wherever she went, living like a qualified concubine more than any other woman in the palace!
That's right, she is scared left and right by those women every day, plus she is pregnant. Recently, Mu Yuanxiu has been too busy to visit her. She is worried too much, how can she not lose weight
It's not that Shao Qingwei doesn't want to fight, but everything came too easily to her and was too much to her liking, so she didn't need to fight. Now because of Rong Si's intervention, her original plot trajectory deviated, so she began to fight like a fighting cock.
One day, she had just returned from paying respects to the Queen Mother when she happened to run into Mu Yichen again. He was holding the increasingly fat orange cat in his arms. He was muttering to himself all the way as he walked straight to the Imperial Garden.
It was a little dark at that time. When Rong Si saw Mu Yichen, she found him interesting and secretly followed him with Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong.
Watching Mu Yichen taking the fat orange cat to catch butterflies, after running for a while, the cat lay on the ground as if it was dying and refused to get up. No matter how Mu Yichen fiddled with it or teased it, it just lay there and refused to get up.
Finally, Mu Yichen had no choice but to catch butterflies by himself, but unfortunately, he ran too slowly and his movements were too big, so in the end, the butterflies slipped away from him instead of him catching them. This made Rong Si, who was standing far away, almost laugh until her stomach hurt. Just as she was about to ask Nian Xia to bring her butterfly catching skills over to show her the correct butterfly catching posture, she suddenly saw a group of young eunuchs in green clothes carrying a set of rosewood tables and chairs to an unknown place.
Because there were too many people, Rong Si could not see Mu Yichen's figure. Instead, the orange cat was still lying there lazily without moving.
After a while, Rong Si saw that it seemed to be bitten by something suddenly, and it jumped up suddenly, and rushed in one direction like a shot arrow.
The group of eunuchs who were moving tables and chairs had almost all left, and Rong Si, Chunxiaqiudong and others all discovered that Mu Yichen had also disappeared.
"Hey, where's King Rui?"
Fu Dong exclaimed in surprise.
Rong Si also felt a little strange. She took two steps forward to the place where Mu Yichen had caught the butterfly before, but she only saw a colorful butterfly that had been stepped on and was struggling to fly. Nian Xia immediately picked it up with a distressed look and complained that King Rui was too heavy-handed.
Rong Si still felt something was wrong, and then suddenly she heard a cat's meow.
"Did you hear anything?"
"What is it, Madam?"
"Cat, the cat is meowing..." Lian Qiu called out.
Rong Si was startled and immediately ran towards the direction where the cat was meowing. Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong behind her also felt something was wrong and immediately followed.
Then, he saw the chubby tabby cat facing a pond full of lotus leaves, meowing non-stop. When he saw Rong Si and the others coming, he meowed even louder and even circled around Rong Si.
Seeing this, Rong Si looked at the cat under her feet, then at the broken lotus leaf stem, and suddenly an idea flashed through her mind.
Won't…
"Can any of you swim?"
"My lady, what's wrong?"
"Prince Rui has fallen. You stay here to guard the surroundings. I'll go down and take a look."
"My lady, no."
"Yes, my lady, although Prince Rui is a fool, he is also a man. If someone sees you... it will be a big deal. I will go call Xiao Luzi and the others!"
"Alright, we need to save lives quickly! Just watch!"
Having said that, Rong Si immediately took off her coat and shoes and went straight into the water.
She knew that Mu Yichen's people were definitely nearby!
Sure enough, under the largest lotus leaf, there was Mu Yichen with his mouth stuffed and his hands and feet tightly tied. The worst thing was that a big stone was tied to his feet.
Because there were people around watching his every move, Mu Yichen was not willing to act rashly. He had been holding his breath under the pond. When he heard the cat's meow, he knew that the forces on his side did not need to act rashly, so he decided to wait a little longer. Unexpectedly, the next second, the voices of Rong Si and others were heard, which made Mu Yichen startled. Then, Rong Si, as a royal concubine, actually jumped down directly from above. He saw that a large stone was tied to his feet. First, it was stabbed with a golden hairpin, then bitten with teeth, and finally, the chin was quickly pinched to rescue him from the bottom of the water.
In a daze, Mu Yichen saw Rong Si's unmade-up face soaked with water droplets, but her eyes were filled with excitement and surprise. Her fingers and body were even softer and warmer than the pool water, which made Mu Yichen a little confused for a moment.
Rong Si, Rong Si...
He murmured softly in his heart.
"Is it really King Rui? Is it really King Rui?"
"My queen, please come up quickly. There is a palace nearby. I know it. I will take you there!"
"Meow meow meow!" The tabby cat also joined in the fun.
Seeing that Mu Yichen was actually rescued by Concubine Rong, Mu Yichen's subordinates who were hiding in the dark breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time couldn't help but develop a good impression of the concubine.
At the same time, arrangements were made to send other palace servants away and not to approach this location, so as not to tarnish the reputation of the empress.
On this side, Rong Si asked Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong to help pick up Mu Yichen, and then asked someone to carry the tabby cat to the nearest palace.
The five masters and servants ran very fast as if they had done something bad, until they entered the palace and hid Mu Yichen. Only then did Rong Si breathe a sigh of relief.
Then he asked Nian Xia to ask someone to call a sedan chair over, and put her and Mu Yichen back to her bedroom.
There was no other reason. There was really no one to take care of him in the palace of King Rui. In order to save him, it would be better to take care of him for a while. It would be best if he could wake up before Rong Si could leave him alone.
After returning to the palace, Rong Si started sneezing non-stop.
It was not until he took a hot bath that he felt relaxed. In the side hall, Mu Yichen was also changed into clean clothes by Xiao Luzi. After that, he looked at Rong Si with an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
"My lady, this..."
"Alright, alright, let this idiot stay here for two days, and throw him out when he wakes up. Stop this, he's an idiot and no one cares about him. Are you really going to let him drown or freeze to death? I won't interfere from now on. Just take care of him for a while, and he'll be fine when he wakes up."
"yes."
At the same time, in the Queen Mother's bedroom.
Murong Wan looked at the young eunuch kneeling in front of her and asked, "Did you find out?"
"Reporting to the Queen Mother, something went wrong."
"what happened?"
"The Imperial Concubine was attracted by the idiot's cat and rescued him, so I couldn't tell for a moment whether the King Rui was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid. And..."
"how?"
"The Imperial Concubine jumped into the water to save Prince Rui because none of the four palace maids knew how to swim..."
"How shameful!"
Murong Wan slammed the table, "She is really becoming more and more ignorant of etiquette. How can such a woman be the mother of the country in the future? How can she teach the prince in the future?"
As she spoke, Murong Wan's eyes became more fierce.
The young eunuch kneeling below her was trembling with fear and didn't dare to say much. You know, what the imperial concubine did even surprised and shocked him.
Just at this moment, the door of the Queen Mother's palace was knocked outside.
"Come in."
"Empress Dowager, something bad has happened..."
Almost at the same time, Rong Si looked at the young eunuch kneeling in front of her, her expression stunned, and asked in a weak tone, "What did you say? Can you say it again?"
"General Rong... General Rong... is gone..."
Rong Si moved her lips, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.
Mu Yichen, who was lying on the bed behind her, moved his hand.
For a moment, I didn't know what my mood was.
He should be happy that his revenge was achieved... Why couldn't he be happy