In the past, if someone had brought a prescription to the door, the housekeeper would have had someone beaten out with a stick! Wasn’t this a curse on the Sun family? But Sun Qi hadn’t been home for several days and the palace gates were closed, so the housekeeper noticed something unusual; the prescription was written by Song Wan Yue, so the housekeeper thought of something and took the prescription, “Thank you.”
After Xiao Si left, the housekeeper went back inside his house and opened the note, on which were written four words, “Give it to Sun Qi.”
His Lordship was still in the palace, how could he give it to him?
The housekeeper turned around the house a few times and came out and went to the main courtyard, “Madam, I want to send some more changes of clothes to Master.”
The lady was very worried about Sun Qi as he hadn’t sent a letter home in the past few days.
The housekeeper replied, took the clothes and went to the backyard, got into the carriage, and left the Sun Mansion through the corner gate to the entrance of the palace.
Although the palace gate was closed, there were imperial guards in front of the palace gate, and when they saw someone approaching, they immediately stopped, “Stop!”
The steward stopped and identified himself, “I am the steward of the Sun Mansion and have been instructed by my wife to bring a few changes of clothes for His Lordship.”
The steward of the Sun Commander’s house, the forbidden guards naturally did not dare to be negligent, and immediately sent the message in.
When Sun Qi heard the report, he froze. He then reacted, but did not go to the palace gate, but asked the little eunuch guarding the palace gate to bring them in for him.
It was not easy to have a chance to curry favour with the imperial army commander, so the eunuch trotted to bring it to him after he got it.
Sun Qi thanked him, spoke to his brothers and carried the parcel back to his temporary residence.
The courtyard was for the Praetorian guards to rest temporarily, and he himself lived in one room, while the rest of the Praetorian guards lived in another house, all of whom were on duty outside at the moment.
Sun Qi blocked the parcel on the table, opened it, examined it carefully and found the note, again using millet porridge to reveal the hidden words, and was so frightened that his heart beat faster when he read what was on it.
He crumpled the note into a ball and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing hard a few times before swallowing it and slowly sitting back in his chair. This was too risky! If the slightest mistake was made, they would all be finished immediately.
No! Not this way!
He stood up and strode out, but after a few steps he stopped abruptly and retreated in dismay, he couldn’t get out of the palace, the news couldn’t get out.
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“I’ll go back to the house to rest for a while, please trouble the courtyard.”
The courtier was eager to keep watch over the fourth prince at all times, to witness whether Song Wan Yue’s prescription worked or not, so he said, “Don’t worry, Your Majesty, I will keep watch every step of the way.”
Consort Xiao nodded her head and was helped by the aunt in charge to go to the next room to rest.
The courtier took three or two steps to sit down next to the fourth prince, and his fingers could not help but squeeze the fourth prince’s pulse – there was not much change yet.
“I’ll have some more herbs sent in.”
The courtier was preoccupied with observing whether the fourth prince had improved, and simply nodded at his words.
Song Wangyue made a list and handed it out.
Someone soon brought the herbs and Song Wan Yue carried them back to the temporary pharmacy in the courtyard and closed the door.
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A day and a half passed, and by noon the next day, the courtyard’s excited voice rang out, “It’s gone down, the fourth prince’s high fever has gone down!”
There was a momentary silence in the palace, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.
When she saw the fourth prince, she covered her mouth and tears flowed down her face.
“Mother Consort.”
The Fourth Prince’s voice was weak, but his face was smiling.
The moment he passed out, he thought he would never see his mother consort again.
She let go of her hand and tears dripped down the fourth prince’s face, one even went into his mouth, but the fourth prince felt sweet, these were his mother’s tears, she was not infected by him, she was still alive and so was he.
Song Wangyue was one step slower, with the smell of medicine all over her body, and squeezed the Fourth Prince’s wrist after walking to the bedside.
The Fourth Prince’s eyes widened incredulously.
How could she be here?
Then he thought of something and looked at his mother consort.
The hatred in Consort Xiao Xian’s eyes flickered as she held the Fourth Prince’s hand, “It was Yue’er who saved you.”
The Fourth Prince closed his eyes.
As clever as he was, how could he not guess how Song Wan Yue had entered the palace? And how could he not guess what the Father was planning?
He was his father’s son, and he accepted that his father wanted him dead, who let him be careless. But Song Wangyue was innocent, the Xu family was innocent, the Song family was even more innocent, how could he bear to set up a trap to take the lives of so many innocent people?
Yes, his father was a heartless man, otherwise he wouldn’t have defiled the Qin Wang Consort and destroyed the Qin Wang House back then, and he hadn’t given up on hunting down his cousin.
“It’s only receded some, still we can’t be careless.”
Song Wangyue’s voice called back the Fourth Prince’s mental wanderings. He looked at Song Wangyue guiltily, if it wasn’t for saving him, Song Wangyue wouldn’t have been summoned to the palace, nor would ……”
He didn’t dare to think further.
If anything happened to Song Wan Yue, what would happen to his cousin? What would happen to the Xu family?
“When will I, when will I be well?”
He had to get well as soon as possible, only when he was well could he protect Song Wangyue and make all of his father’s calculations come to naught.
“Not so soon, Fourth Prince recuperate at ease.”
“I’ve even bothered Miss Song.”
Song Wangyue suffered this, “It’s not just me, there’s also Lord Yuanzheng.”
“This is what I should do.” The courtier was still in the excitement of the fourth prince waking up, and was busy saying at his words.
He once again placed his hand on the Fourth Prince’s forehead, feeling the temperature that had descended. His heart was pounding, with this recipe from Miss Song, they would be able to save countless lives back.
The group of eunuch doctors outside the palace gate naturally heard the courtier’s excited voice, and they too were so excited that they immediately padded over to the door and looked in through the crack.
Sun Qi couldn’t stop them even if he wanted to, so he didn’t stop them, as there was only a small crack in the door anyway, so the eunuchs couldn’t squeeze in.
……
Outside the palace gate, the “Duke of Ding” got down from his carriage with a haggard look, walked to the palace gate and said to the guards, “I want to see the Emperor.”
The guard naturally recognised him and, after some thought, told the young eunuch at the palace gate to report to him.
The little eunuch ran all the way to the Hall of the Nurtured Heart.
The emperor had just received news from the fourth prince and was in a very bad mood.
Eunuch Huang came out and told the young eunuch, who turned to run back, when the Emperor’s words came out, “Bring him in through the corner door!”