After he left, Zi'an slowly climbed out of bed, sat in front of the table, poured himself a glass of water and drank it. Only then did he feel that his lips and tongue were not as dry as before.
She had been in a coma for two days, which proved that she had not drunk a drop of water or eaten a grain of rice. Even if she had not been drugged, she would not have had any strength at all.
After drinking the water, she rested for a while and reached out to touch her needle bag, but it was empty. The needle bag had been taken away by them.
Without the needle bag and scar rope, she lost the ability to save and defend herself.
Fortunately, even though there was no needle bag, she was still a doctor and knew that acupuncture points did not necessarily need to be stimulated with needles.
However, now that she hadn't eaten, she didn't have the strength to press the acupoints.
"Is anyone there?" she called out.
Someone opened the door outside. It was Shangqiu. He came in and asked with his hands down, "What do you want, princess?"
"I'm hungry and want to eat." Zi'an said weakly.
Shangqiu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Princess. When the prince went out just now, he had already ordered people to prepare it. Princess, you can eat it after waiting for a while."
"Thank you!" Zi'an looked at him and asked, "Where is this?"
"To answer the princess, this is Luancheng."
Luancheng
Zi'an was stunned. "Didn't you say you were going back to the South? Why did you go to Luancheng?"
Luancheng and Nanguo are located in the east and south respectively, which are completely different directions. Although the earth is round and you can always get there, why waste time and steps
Shangqiu smiled and said, "We are going back to the South. It is safer to go through Luancheng."
Zi'an understood. They deliberately took a detour. Many people would guess that they were going back to the South Country. However, they chose not to take the road to the south, but took the road to the east and made a big detour. If the people who were looking for her could not wait for her in the South Country, they would definitely think that they had guessed wrong and would not stay for long. They would definitely look for her everywhere.
"Princess, if you have no other instructions, I will leave first." Shangqiu said.
Zi'an suddenly called him, "Don't be in a hurry, come and talk to me."
Shangqiu looked at her with a smile, "Princess, if you want to get anything out of me, it's impossible."
"I know you are a smart person. Don't worry. I just want to know whether my husband is in the hands of your prince."
"No!" Shangqiu said.
"No?"
Shangqiu said: "There is no need to hide this from the princess. We did send people out, but we failed to catch the prince. We failed at the last moment."
Zi'an secretly wondered, if the seventh brother didn't fall into the hands of Prince Nan Huai, could it be that he fell into the hands of the emperor
If, as previously speculated, the Emperor dealt with the Seventh Prince in order to force the Empress Dowager to return, then his goal has been achieved and the Seventh Prince should be safe.
"Princess, the emperor hasn't caught the prince either!" Shangqiu seemed to know what she was thinking and told her directly.
Zi'an was shocked, "Didn't it fall into the hands of the emperor?"
"Yes, when we left the capital, the emperor had already sent a large number of people to find the whereabouts of the regent. Therefore, we inferred that the prince was not in the hands of the emperor either."
Zi'an was in a state of panic. If Lao Qi had not fallen into anyone's hands, he would have rushed to Hanshan to meet him since he had escaped. However, he was missing.
There are only two possibilities, one possibility is death.
Another possibility is that he was seriously injured and had found somewhere to hide.
However, as Shangqiu said, King Nan Huai sent people out, and the emperor also sent people to look for him. How could it be easy for him to hide
I'm afraid that the capital has been turned upside down by now. If he has the strength to escape, even if he doesn't go to Chen's Mansion, he will definitely go to Prince Li's Mansion. Otherwise, where else can he hide
I was so anxious that I felt a pain in my stomach.
She subconsciously covered her mouth with her hands, a look of pain on her face.
"Princess, please take care of yourself and think about the baby in your belly in everything." Shangqiu advised.
She was already in a weak condition, and it was extremely difficult for her to conceive. Now it was not even three months pregnant, and the fetus could be miscarried at any time.
This child was hard-earned, she can't just lose it like this, otherwise she would be letting down the seventh child.
Thinking of this, Zi'an took a deep breath, his face turned pale, and he waved his hand weakly, "Sir, can you prescribe me a medicine to keep the baby safe?"
"Of course you can!" Shangqiu said.
"Thank you!"
Shangqiu stepped forward and helped her walk to the bedside. "I know a little about medicine. Princess, you should stay in bed and rest now. Although those drugs are harmless to the fetus, you haven't eaten for two days. Your body is very weak. You should stay in bed."
Zi'an only felt a dull pain in her stomach. She was very frightened, but she did not show it. She just thanked him politely.
After Shangqiu settled her down, he turned around and went out to tell someone to get some medicine.
About an incense stick of time later, a girl in green clothes came in with a bowl of millet porridge.
The girl in green walked straight to the bedside and said, "Princess, the master asked me to bring you some rice porridge, saying that you haven't eaten for a long time and you should eat some soft rice porridge to protect your spleen and stomach."
Zi'an reached out to pick it up, but unexpectedly, he didn't even have the strength to lift a bowl of porridge.
The girl in green said, "Princess, let me feed you."
"Thank you." Zi'an can only be a waste.
The girl in green seemed to have little experience in serving others. When she fed Zi'an porridge, her movements seemed particularly awkward. Zi'an looked at her hands. There were some scars on the back of her hands, and her skin was very rough, making her look like a martial artist.
"What's your name?" Zi'an tried to get closer to her.
The girl said, "My name is Green Clothes."
"Is the green-dressed lady the one who serves the prince?"
Green Clothes was honest, "I didn't serve the prince in the past, but now he is away from home, and he is with the princess, and the prince has no female relatives around him, so he asked me to serve you."
She didn't call herself a servant, so I guess she wasn't a servant.
If she is not a servant, then she is the person in charge, then she must know the inside story.
Zi'an was not in a hurry, for fear of revealing his thoughts and arousing her vigilance.
Xiwei Palace.
Ever since Aunt Ashe gave the emperor a pill, he became more energetic and paid his respects to the East Pavilion every day. However, the Empress Dowager usually refused to see him, and when she did, she just asked him to kowtow and leave quickly.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he specially ordered the palace servants to prepare a family banquet, saying that he wanted to have a meal with his ancestors.
However, the Empress Dowager did not attend the event and just had a quick meal in the East Pavilion. He had no choice but to order the food to be sent to the East Pavilion, and all of it was given away by the Empress Dowager to be eaten by the servants.
And at the morning court on the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Empress Dowager finally decided on the distribution of military power. Each general in the army would have 50,000 soldiers under his command, and the rest would be commanded by the Minister of War, who was King Liang. In this way, it was equivalent to that the military power was in her hands.
Military power has always been the emperor's bottom line, but the Empress Dowager has been touching his bottom line. He thought that through this family dinner, he could improve his relationship with the ancestor, but he didn't expect the ancestor to be so cold-hearted, and he finally got angry.
On the evening of the eighteenth, he felt more and more aggrieved the more he thought about it in the palace, so he put on his clothes and went to the East Pavilion.
"Go to sleep. The emperor will come again to kowtow tomorrow!" Aunt Ashe blocked him outside the door.
The emperor's face was gloomy. "If she doesn't see me, I will kneel here all night until she sees me."
"Why bother? You should know that she is a person who responds to soft words and not to hard ones. After so many years, don't you understand her? Go back and don't make things difficult for yourself." Aunt Ashe said patiently.
Aunt Ashe was also afraid that he would force the Empress Dowager into a corner. Once she gets angry, she will lose her character.
If things get out of hand, it's not good for anyone.
(End of this chapter)