Qu Moying's hands and head hurt, and her whole body was in pain. Although the injury was not serious, the scar on her palm still hurt and made her mind dull. She didn't have the energy to talk at the moment, and waited for the two maids to tell the doctor some precautions and the medicine to be prepared.
His lowered eyelids fell quietly on the blood-stained corner of his clothes, and it took him a while to react.
I'm very tired and just want to take a nap, but I'm just forcing myself to stay asleep.
Suddenly she felt someone was watching her. She reacted a little slowly by raising her long eyelashes, then slowly raised her head. Her face was pale, but her eyes were as dark as ever with a faint mist in the bottom of her eyes.
In a trance, I saw a familiar face, King Wei Pei Qingmin
Qu Moying stretched out his uninjured hand and rubbed his brows. He raised his head again and still saw Pei Qingmin's pale and handsome face. He tried hard to force a smile, but was powerless. After pressing his knee lightly, he felt a piercing pain. His eyes went dark and he passed out.
"Miss!" Yu Dong reacted the fastest. He turned around and supported the unconscious Qu Moying. Yu Chun on the other side also hurriedly raised his hand.
"Miss Qu Si?" Pei Qingmin finally spoke.
"Your servants greet His Royal Highness the King of Wei!" The two maids only bent their knees slightly and supported their young lady, not daring to make any big movements.
"Miss Qu Si?" Pei Qingmin asked again, his voice so hoarse that the eunuch following behind him could hardly recognize it as his own prince's voice.
"She's our young lady." Yudong said quickly.
This should be the first time that the King of Wei saw the true face of his young lady. He couldn't recognize her at first, but he recognized himself and Yuchun, so he came up to ask.
"This is... what happened?" Pei Qingmin's gaze moved down, looking at Qu Moying's wrapped hands and the blood on his body.
"He was accidentally injured at the Duke of Qi's mansion." Yu Chun felt that something was wrong with the King of Wei and answered cautiously.
"Let me take a look!" Pei Qingmin said as he reached out to take Qu Moying's hand that was hanging by his side.
Yu Dong stepped forward cautiously. He felt that something was wrong with the situation before the prince. He was not as indifferent and distant as he used to be. There was not only a gender difference between the two of them, but also a seniority difference. How could he just reach out his hand? "Prince, our young lady has been bandaged. The doctor said it's nothing serious?"
"Nothing serious?" Pei Qingmin seemed to come to his senses after being blocked by Yu Dong. He turned around and sat down on a chair beside him and asked, "He went to the Duke of Qi's mansion fine, how come he is injured like this? Is there an assassin in the Duke of Qi's mansion?"
"Your Highness, Prince of Wei, there was no assassin. There was a fire in the Duke of Qi's mansion, and when our young lady was going there, she was bumped into the broken fish tank."
Seeing him sit down properly and his expression return to his usual attitude, Yu Dong breathed a sigh of relief. The reaction of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei before was really strange.
"The Duke of Qi's mansion was fine, but it suddenly caught fire, and Miss Qu was hit into this state!" Pei Qingmin frowned and looked at the eunuch behind him.
The eunuch took out a small jade bottle from his sleeve and handed it to Yudong.
"This is the best medicine for wounds. Give some to your young lady after we return home. It can quickly heal wounds and scars. If it's used up, just come to my palace for more. I don't bring much with me when I travel." Pei Qingmin said.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Yu Dong thanked him sincerely.
Yuchun also paid for the medicine, and the two of them carefully helped Qu Moying out. The doctor had just examined him and said that after taking the medicine, he felt relaxed for a while and fell asleep, but it was nothing serious.
Watching the two maids from the Qu Mansion taking Qu Moying away, Pei Qingmin's eyes were fixed on their backs until they were completely out of sight.
"Your Highness, Your Highness?" Seeing that he was in a daze, staring blankly at a place where there was no one anymore, the eunuch couldn't help but whisper.
"It turned out to be her!" Pei Qingmin retracted his gaze, smiled bitterly, lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the ground, and said to himself.
The eunuch could not respond to this and could only stand quietly aside, not daring to say anything more to remind his own prince.
It took a long time for the King of Wei to come to his senses. He looked at the doctor who had been standing opposite him for a long time, took out a prescription from his arms and handed it to him: "Look at the medicine on it, is there any?"
After examining the patient, the doctor pointed to four of the herbs and said, "Your Majesty, I have all of these herbs here!"
"That's good. Please pack ten doses of medicine for me!" Pei Qingmin coughed twice and closed his eyes slightly, revealing a bit of sickness and fatigue.
"Your Highness, would you like to go to the carriage to rest first? I will wait here," the eunuch asked hurriedly.
Originally, the prince didn't need to come here himself for such matters, but he was worried and came here specially to inquire. Whether it was a clinic or a pharmacy, the previous ones were not complete, but this one was complete.
Pei Qingmin nodded, stood up, turned around and walked out.
Such decisiveness and straightforwardness actually stunned the eunuch for a moment. He thought that the prince would be as stubborn as before and would do everything himself.
The doctor moved quickly and soon he had packed ten doses of medicine. The eunuch carried the ten doses of medicine back to the carriage parked outside. After he got on the carriage, it started moving.
After turning an intersection, we entered an alley and then stopped in a yard.
The eunuch came down first with the medicine, and Pei Qingmin followed him down from the carriage.
There was already someone waiting outside the courtyard gate. When he saw Pei Qingmin coming, he hurriedly opened the door and stepped aside.
Pei Qingmin walked in with the eunuchs.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw his cousin Zhu Yaner standing anxiously in the yard. When she saw him coming, she hurried over to him: "Cousin, have you found the medicine?"
"Found it!" Pei Qingmin said gently.
"Hurry up and boil it for Miss Zhou to take." Zhu Yan'er urged anxiously.
"Cousin, come with me to see Miss Zhou. She just mentioned you and asked where you were. She also said that there was no need to worry so much about her because her body was in poor condition."
From the concern on Zhu Yaner's face, it can be seen that she really wants Pei Qingmin to meet this Miss Zhou.
"I'll go back first. I'm feeling a little unwell!" Pei Qingmin coughed twice and put his hand on his head.
Zhu Yan'er felt that his face was a little paler than usual, and the corners of his lips were also pale. It was obvious that he was in a bad mood. She hurriedly said, "Cousin, you should go back and rest first. Miss Zhou, I'm here. It's okay! Your health is the most important!"
Pei Qingmin nodded, turned around and went out, got back into the carriage, and the eunuch followed him out.
The carriage gradually left the courtyard, turned out of the alley, went to the street, and then headed towards the Prince of Wei's mansion. There was peace in the carriage. Pei Qingmin stretched out his hand.
He covered his chest with his hands and his eyes were tightly closed. He seemed to be asleep, but also seemed not asleep. The eunuch did not dare to make any sound!
Today, our prince was very abnormal. It seemed that he behaved abnormally when he saw the fourth young lady of the Qu Mansion.
But he didn't know why. It couldn't be because of Miss Qu's beauty, right? Although Miss Qu was stunning after taking off her veil, his own prince had always been a light-hearted person, not to mention a person who valued beauty. How could he be abnormal because of Miss Qu's beautiful face
Besides, Miss Zhou was also very beautiful and had a childhood friendship with the prince. The prince had always treated her with courtesy, and although he valued her very much, he had no intention of letting Miss Zhou enter the palace.
My cousin has been persuading the prince to marry Miss Zhou first, otherwise Miss Zhou would have nowhere to go, but her status is definitely not enough to be the Princess of Wei, so just marry her first, and then marry a kind-hearted woman who is good to Miss Zhou as the principal wife...
The carriage stopped at Prince Wei's mansion. Pei Qingmin got off the carriage, stood in his own yard, reached into his sleeve, took out a jade pendant, and casually threw it against the wall.
Immediately, the originally intact jade pendant broke into several pieces.
“Your Highness…” the eunuch exclaimed in surprise. This was the jade pendant that the prince valued the most in the past, how come it was smashed like this now
"After you clean up, throw it away!" Pei Qingmin took a handkerchief and wiped it slowly. Then he threw the handkerchief on the ground and walked inside.
"Yes, Your Highness!" The eunuch didn't dare to say more. He winked at the two servants beside him and hurriedly chased after him.
Since you don't want it anymore, the servant will take care of it.
"Your Highness, this... jade pendant, didn't you like it very much in the past?" The eunuch followed Pei Qingmin all the way and saw that his face was still normal and he didn't show any anger, so he boldly asked carefully.
"It's a fake one, how can I like it!" Pei Qingmin said lightly, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Fake? The eunuch shuddered in his heart. Wasn't Miss Zhou the girl the prince met in his childhood? But didn't the prince say that she looked very similar this time? And unlike before, he also found the jade pendant that the prince gave away that year. How could it be fake
How could she have the guts to pretend to be the person the prince has been looking for? And how could she have the jade pendant? And what she said was exactly the same as what the prince asked, without any mistakes. How did she know this
The eunuch shuddered suddenly when he thought of this. If this girl wasn't too supernatural and knew about this matter, then someone had deliberately asked her to impersonate the person and told her the characteristics of the person the prince was looking for, as well as some important details.
But hasn't this always been done by my cousin
Could it be that there is something fishy going on here
Did the cousin misunderstand and fall into someone else's trap, or was the cousin also involved? Thinking about the cousin's overly enthusiastic attitude this time, the eunuch's heart shuddered. If this was really fake, then the cousin must have been involved as well!
In the past, my cousin was wholeheartedly trying to please the Empress and the Prince, and all she wanted was to marry into the Prince of Wei's Palace. So why would she help the Prince find a girl who has always been in his heart, and this girl is so beautiful
What's the point
Are you seeking the position of the principal wife who can take care of Miss Zhou and be good to her
The eunuch suddenly felt that he understood...