Nangong Yue was slightly surprised when she heard the words, and blurted out: "Sister Xia, what's going on?"
Han Qixia looked a little dazed, and murmured: "... I don't know either."
Nangong Yue took a deep breath, and said comfortingly, "Sister Xia, sit down first, don't be so anxious, maybe she didn't recognize it? Your appearance now is quite different from when you were in the capital. Even if It's me, and I may not recognize you when I see you suddenly on the road, let alone putting on clothes. You haven't met a few times at all."
"But… "
Nangong Yue pulled her to sit down, poured her a cup of hot tea with her own hands, and asked after she drank a couple of sips, "Sister Xia, where did you see Bai Yi?"
Nangong Yue's composure infected Han Qixia. She put down the teacup in her hand, straightened her thoughts and said: "... this morning, I went to Maofeng Town to deliver medicine to several families there." During the free clinic in Fengzhen, they met a few families who had chronic diseases and had no money to see a doctor and buy medicines. After that, Han Qixia would send some medicines there from time to time, "When I came out of Maofeng Town, I saw Clothes. She stared at me for a long time, then smiled and left, and my feeling told me that she must have recognized me."
Nangong Yue confirmed: "Sister Xia, are you sure you are putting on clothes?"
Han Qixia nodded and said with certainty: "I'm sure."
Nangong Yue thought: "Who else is there besides her?"
"There are also Imperial Physician Wu and some accompanying officers and soldiers." Han Qixia recalled, "However, Imperial Physician Wu did not see me at that time."
Physician Wu...
The day after Nangong Yue returned to Yanding City, Zhu Xing handed over the letter from Nangong Xin from Wangdu.
The letter detailed the whole story of the fifth prince's injury. Although Nangong Yue had learned about it from Guan Yubai long ago, Nangong Xin's letter was obviously more detailed and... more distressing.
Counting the time when the fifth prince was injured, the imperial physician Wu has arrived in Luoyue City. Could it be that the fifth prince is in a bad condition, so he came here to seek medical treatment from her? So, why did the clothes come here
"Baihui." Nangong Yue ordered in a deep voice, "Go to the front and ask Zhu Xing if he has heard from the king's capital."
After they came to Southern Border, they did not withdraw the information network of the capital. It is impossible for the emperor to send people to Southern Border for such a big event, so it is impossible not to get some news!
Baihui backed away in a hurry, Nangong Yue poured another cup of tea for Han Qixia, tried to slow down her voice, and comforted her: "Sister Xia, there are similarities in this world. Take a step back, so what if she really recognizes you? But She is a mere foreign saint, a concubine."
At the beginning when her identity was found out, Han Qixia was really flustered and a little out of control, but now she has gradually calmed down.
Think about it carefully, just like what Yueer said, people have similarities, as long as you don't admit it, what can you do if you put on clothes? Go back to the capital and complain to Uncle Huang
"Yue'er." Han Qixia couldn't help asking, "Isn't putting clothes on the side of the third prince, why did he come to southern Xinjiang?" She still didn't know that the three princes were canonized as county kings.
Nangong Yue shook her head, it was unbelievable that Bai Yi would come here.
After a cup of tea was finished, Baihui came back. She glanced at Han Qixia and saw that Nangong Yue didn't care, so she knelt down and said, "Shizi Concubine, Housekeeper Zhu said that she received a letter from Wangdu 15 days ago. Feige passed on the letter, and sent it to Yanding City immediately."
Nangong Yue was slightly taken aback, and understood a little.
Apparently missed.
When Zhu Xing's letter arrived in Yanding City, he might have just set off, but after returning to Luoyue City, Zhu Xing instinctively thought that she had actually received the letter.
So that by accident...
Now, there is no need to delve into the matter, Nangong Yue asked directly: "Who did the emperor send here, and what is the purpose of coming to Southern Border?"
"It's because of His Highness the fifth prince's illness..."
"Wait." Han Qixia interjected in surprise, "What's wrong with Fifth Cousin?"
"A few days ago, my brother wrote to tell me that His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince fell down the steps when he was praying for blessings in the Temple of Heaven." Nangong Yue simply told what she knew, and Han Qixia couldn't help covering her lips. , restrained not to choke up.
Nangong Yue patted Han Qixia's hand, nodded to Baihui, and signaled her to continue talking.
"It is said that Baiyue has a miracle medicine that can heal His Royal Highness Fifth, so the emperor ordered Baiyue Saintess to ask Baiyue for the medicine."
"How many people are there in this trip?"
"The Holy Maiden of Baiyue and the Imperial Physician Wu from the Imperial Hospital, and the Grand Duke Han from the Prince Qi's Mansion led a thousand imperial guards to protect her."
Han Qixia's eyes lit up, and she said, "Brother is here too?!"
Nangong Yue smiled at her, and said, "Sister Xia, before Mr. Han returns to the capital, you can definitely meet." Then, she blinked and said, "Maybe, I can let him see you again." When I saw 'Ahe'."
After understanding the meaning behind Nangong Yue's words, a blush rose on Han Qixia's face.
Nangong Yue's thoughts moved quickly.
Regarding the fifth prince's condition, she was far away in the southern border, but she was powerless to do anything. What made her a little uneasy was the "medicine" offered by Kui Lang. Could this really be a cure
At this moment, Bai Yi will come to Southern Border, is it for the Fifth Prince, or... for something else
Nangong Yue suspected the latter even more.
Thinking of this, Nangong Yue nodded slightly to Baihui, who immediately understood her meaning and went to the front yard to let Zhu Xing send someone to watch.
In the afternoon of that day, Lord Han Huai, Imperial Physician Wu and Bai Yi entered Luoyue City, accompanied by only fifty imperial guards, and the rest were stationed outside the city. In addition to putting on clothes and entering the post station, Han Huaijun and Wu Taiyi went straight to Zhennan Wangfu to greet Zhennan Wang.
Apparently, the King of Zhennan knew that there would be people coming from the capital, so he came back from the barracks early.
When Nangong Yue got the news, Han Qixia had just returned, and she was feeding Xiaohui with jerky.
Nangong Yue touched Xiao Hui's head, and then picked up another piece of jerky, but this time before it was delivered to Xiao Hui's mouth, she heard a "meow", Xiao Ju squatted at her feet at some point, A pair of golden eyes looked at her without blinking, as if to say, what are you secretly eating
Nangong Yue twitched her brows. It was okay for Xiaoju to eat this jerky at first, but she has only been away for more than a month, and Xiaoju has gained a lot of weight because of Xiao Fei's habit. Now her body shape is bigger than Xiaobai's. It's two laps bigger.
No, I can't get used to this gluttonous guy anymore.
Nangong Yue hardened her heart and threw the jerky to Xiao Hui. Xiao Hui swallowed it in one gulp and looked down at Xiao Ju proudly.
Just when Nangong Yue was in a dilemma, Huamei came in hurriedly and said, "Shizi Concubine, Doctor Wu please see me."
Nangong Yue raised her eyebrows. She wanted to find an opportunity to call Wu Taiyi tomorrow, but unexpectedly, he took the initiative to ask to see her. Nangong Yue straightened her dress and went to meet the guests in the main hall of the outer courtyard.
After the two exchanged greetings, Imperial Physician Wu straight-forwardly explained the purpose of their visit.
"Concubine Shizi, I am here this time for His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince..." Imperial Physician Wu frowned tightly, and worriedly told the story of the Fifth Prince falling off the altar of heaven, until the Fifth Prince was serving Nangong Xinxian After the Baoming Pill, he managed to save his life and woke up the next day, but...
The more Wu Taiji said, the more solemn his face became: "Prince Concubine, since His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince woke up, he has had a headache from time to time, sometimes once a day, sometimes three or four times a day. Once the headache occurs, His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince will Becoming violent..." The empress saw the five princes suffering from headaches every day, and when the pain was extreme, she even hit her head on the desk. Naturally, her heart ached. The empress washed her face with tears every day, and couldn't sleep.
Imperial Physician Wu sighed quietly: "The imperial hospital has also been troubled by this. Several imperial physicians have consulted several times and tried various methods such as acupuncture, massage, moxibustion, decoction, external application of ointment, etc., but it is not right for His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince. There is no help at all... I can only watch the fifth prince haggard and suffer day by day. Until later, His Highness Kui Lang, the third son-in-law of Baiyue, offered a kind of medicine of Baiyue - Wuhe ointment. Originally, the emperor and empress did not dare to take it lightly. Using this Wuhe ointment, but once His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince cut himself with a knife because of unbearable headache, bleeding profusely, so the emperor decided to take a risk..."
Nangong Yue listened attentively. Now that the emperor asked Bai Yi to go this way, Kui Lang's medicine must...
really-
Imperial Physician Wu continued: "After taking Wuhe ointment, His Royal Highness Fifth Prince's headache eased, and his mood became peaceful and stable. The emperor and empress were overjoyed, and ordered the third son-in-law to continue to donate the medicine, but the third son-in-law said that Baiyue When the envoys came to Dayu, they did not have much Wuhe ointment on their bodies, so they had to send someone to Baiyue to get it. Later, the emperor summoned the old man and ordered the old man to go with the concubine in order to test the medicine. .”
Obviously, Imperial Physician Wu didn't know why he ordered Bai Yi to come here in the end. After all, no matter what her original identity was, she is now just the side concubine of the county prince's mansion. It is really against the rules to act like this. Nangong Yue guessed that there might be something else happening in the capital, and this matter was either too secretive or too important to be known to Imperial Physician Wu.
Nangong Yue's face was as heavy as water. She had originally suspected that the fifth prince's life was in danger because of blood congestion on his head. Even if there was a life-saving pill to protect his heart, it was obvious that the fifth prince's illness would be severe if the blood congestion was not removed for a day. To cure. And since it is a blood stasis, ordinary medicine should at most only relieve it, not cure it. The effect of this Wuhe ointment is so good, it makes Nangong Yue a little uneasy.
After a long time, Nangong Yue raised her eyes and asked, "Doctor Wu, do you have that Wuhe ointment on hand?"
"Shizifei," Wu Taiyi shook his head, "The amount of Wuhe ointment offered by the third son-in-law is too small. The journey is far away. The empress is worried that we will not be able to make it back to the capital, so she will keep it in person. When His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince is ill and has a headache, he will take a little bit of it to relieve the pain." At this point, he stood up and bowed, "Concubine Shizi, I am taking the liberty to ask for an audience today, but I actually want to ask if there is still concubine Shizi His Royal Highness Fifth Prince can be treated by other methods." Imperial Physician Wu also felt that there was something wrong with Wuhe Ointment, but now only it can suppress His Royal Highness Fifth Prince's headache.
Nangong Yue pondered for a moment, and asked instead of answering: "Mr. Wu, how long will you stay in Luoyue City?"
Physician Wu bowed and replied: "Before we left the capital, the emperor ordered the third son-in-law to write a letter in person, and the letter was sent back to Baiyue by Feige. Counting the days, the people in Baiyue must have received the letter." , it is estimated that they will come to Luoyue City with Wuhe ointment in the next few days." After getting the medicine, they must rush back to the capital.
Nangong Yue nodded slightly. It seemed that the emperor sent Bai Yi to be just a compromise. In fact, he didn't believe in Bai Yi, let alone Kui Lang, that's why he ordered Han Huai Jun to lead a thousand imperial guards to escort him. It is supposed to be an escort, but in fact it should be a surveillance...
To keep Bai Yi from leaving Luoyue City is obviously to keep the variables to a minimum.
"Doctor Wu," Nangong Yue thought quickly, and quickly made up her mind, and suggested, "You should take a good rest after traveling, and you can follow me to see your grandfather in two days."
The king's capital is thousands of miles away from Luoyue City. When she came here at the beginning of the year, she walked on the road for a full month. Calculating the time, Imperial Physician Wu and the others spent less than 20 days on their trip at most. They must have traveled day and night because of the fifth prince's illness. Imperial Physician Wu is also old, so he should take a good rest for two days.
grandfather? ! Lin Jingchen? ! Doctor Wu's eyes widened in shock, and he blurted out: "Old genius doctor Lin is also in Luoyue City?!" That's really a coincidence! Perhaps His Royal Highness the fifth prince should die after all... A glimmer of hope ignited in Taiyi Wu's heart.
Nangong Yue nodded and said: "Grandfather traveled here, so I left him to live in Luoyue City for a while. But he doesn't like red tape by nature, so now he lives in a house in the west of the city. I don't know if Wu Taiyi will bring him on this trip. The pulse case of His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince?"
Physician Wu hurriedly said: "Bring it with you, the old man specially asked someone to copy all the pulse records of His Highness the Fifth Prince... Concubine Shizi, I will sort out the pulse case as soon as I get back." Speaking of Lin Jingchen, the white-haired and bearded Wu Taiyi He behaved like a student who was going to see his husband, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.
Nangong Yue didn't keep him either, and ordered to see off the guests.
Physician Wu came to see him on the grounds of asking Nan Gongyue about the fifth prince's condition. After seeing him, he naturally returned to the palace, bid farewell to King Zhennan with Mr. Han Huai, and went to the inn where he was temporarily staying. And according to the news delivered by Zhu Xing, Bai Yi never came out after entering the post station, and he was very quiet about himself.
Nangong Yue nodded and ignored it for the time being. Now she still has one important thing to do...
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, a Zhulun chariot came to the general's mansion in Dingyuan.
The main gate of the General's Mansion was wide open, and all the servants in the mansion knew that today was the day when the Crown Princess came to make a small appointment for the eldest daughter of the family on behalf of the Zhennan Prince's Mansion. All of them had their chests upright and their eyebrows were beaming. Not ordinary anymore.
A nanny in charge respectfully welcomed Nangong Yue to the main hall behind the second door, where Mrs. Zhou's wife Wang, Zhou Roujia, and several female relatives from the second room of Zhou's mansion were waiting there.
When Nangong Yue entered the main hall, all the female family members of the Zhou Mansion stood up and bowed their knees to salute Nangong Yue.
After a while of salutes, everyone sat down again, and Nangong Yue was naturally the one on the main seat.
Today, Nangong Yue brought a pair of wooden wooden geese with chicken wings and four boxes of small gifts. From gold ornaments, jewelry to clothes and fabrics, there is a wide range of beautiful things in eyes. Not only is it comprehensive, but also everything is precious and exquisite. It is well prepared.
The servant girl opened each box of small gifts for the women in the house to look at, which also showed the importance that the palace attaches to Zhou Roujia.
Zhou Rouhui on the side was so jealous that she was going crazy: I don't know where Zhou Roujia was trying to please the concubine, but she was really going to fly on a branch and become a phoenix! It's really hateful, once the villain got his wish, he used the authority of the imperial concubine to force himself to live in the big house for more than a month. During this period, she can say that she lived like a year, but even her mother dared not defy the imperial concubine, she also I had no choice but to continue living in the big house... until Zhou Roujia got married!
Thinking about it, Zhou Rouhui twisted the veil fiercely with both hands, obviously she should be the one enjoying the honor now!
Nangong Yue looked at Zhou Roujia who was walking up to her with a smile—
After not seeing each other for a month, Zhou Roujia's demeanor has become more calm and introverted, and her appearance is dignified and beautiful.
When Nangong Yue personally inserted a silk-wrapped red gold and ruby phoenix hairpin for Zhou Roujia, Zhou Roujia still couldn't help lowering her head shyly.
If she received this hairpin, it means that the little ceremony has been completed, and the marriage between her and the second young master Xiao is a certainty, and there will never be any changes...
All this is thanks to Shi Zifei and Xiao Fei. Zhou Roujia silently remembered it in her heart, thanking Yingying: "Thank you, Princess Concubine."
Mrs. Zhou's wife, Wang, watched this scene with tears in her eyes, and the tears almost fell. She was happy and anxious at the same time.
The happy thing is that the twists and turns of my daughter did not ruin her life; what is anxious is that I have to start preparing a dowry for my daughter... She is just such a daughter in her life, even if her husband doesn't care about her daughter, she decides to marry her. I can't wrong my daughter, I must let my daughter get married!
Nangong Yue also had something on her mind, she changed her name to Wang with a smile and said, "My wife, since the ceremony is completed, it happens to be an auspicious day in three days, how about going to Mazu Temple to pray for blessings in three days' time, my wife?"
According to the rules in southern Xinjiang, both men and women should go to the Mazu Temple to pray together after the small ceremony, which is also to bless the marriage of the two families smoothly, and the young couple will have a harmonious life in the future.
After praying, it's time to discuss the wedding date...
The more Wang thought about it, the more excited she became, she took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly echoed, "Shi Zifei, you are the master."
Zhou Roujia's cheeks became even redder, and even the roots of her ears were burned.
In less than a short time, Mrs. Lu's mood on Tuesday has changed several times, guilty, jealous, angry, unwilling...
But what else can she do? Her sister Hui has been living in the long house for more than a month, and she has nightmares every day, for fear that the incense that is lit day and night will damage her daughter's heirs, and she will With her son... Since it was impossible, she had no choice but to accept her fate. She only hoped that she could quickly coax the concubine Shizi, let the concubine Shizi be kind, allow sister Hui to come back and live, and give her son a future.
When the time comes, I will find a doctor to treat Sister Hui's life well, so it should be all right, right
Lu Shi was immersed in her own thoughts, completely oblivious to Zhou Rouhui's gloomy expression, and glared at Zhou Roujia unwillingly, then her eyes were half-drowned, and a sternness flashed in her eyes: In a few days, she will pray at the Mazu Temple... Have the opportunity!
Afterwards, the group moved to the Xiaohua Hall again, and after using the table for a while, Nangong Yue bid farewell and returned to the Zhennan Prince's Mansion. There were still four boxes of return gifts prepared by Mrs. Wang on the Zhulun cart. For Xiao Luan, in addition to the four treasures of the study, there are also the robes, shoes and hats that Zhou Roujia personally sewed for Xiao Luan.
As soon as Nangong Yue returned to Bixiao Hall, she ordered someone to deliver the four boxes of return gifts to Xiao Luan.
Of course Xiao Luan knew what a big day it was, and also knew that the robes, shoes and hats in this ceremony were sewn by his wife who had never been married. This is not the first time someone has sewed a robe for him, those maids and Pian Pian also made a lot of clothes for him, but this is the first time someone has done this for him as a wife.
Thinking about it, Xiao Luan couldn't help thinking of the scene when they saw each other in the small garden that day. He and her seemed to be able to get along quite well, and Xiao Hui had a good impression of her, Xiao Ju liked her, sister-in-law and sister I think she's fine too...
He just said, she should be a good wife!
Xiao Luan couldn't help picking up a robe, and suddenly there was a hint of anticipation in his heart, and the corners of his lips curled slightly.
He suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he strode towards the desk, then opened the drawer and took out a wooden box. After opening the box, a smile grew on his handsome face. If it was her, she would like this gift, right? !
Xiao Luan closed the box, hurriedly called the boy, and asked him to send it to Miss Zhou's house as soon as possible.