allonlinenovel Chapter 345 The 5th Prince is Sick
Chapter 345 The 5th Prince is Sick
Seeing that Shen Qionghua remained silent, Huo Jing thought that his words had irritated her, so he quickly opened the door and let Luo Xiyao come in to comfort Shen Qionghua.
Luo Xiyao was eavesdropping through the crack of the door, with her whole body pressed against it.
When Huo Jing opened the door, he almost fell to the ground.
Luo Xiyao stumbled for several steps before she stood up straight. Looking at Huo Jing's surprised eyes, she coughed lightly and said defensively, "Well, you guys talked for too long. I almost fell asleep leaning against the door."
Huo Jing pointed at Shen Qionghua and was about to say something, but when he looked up, he saw that Shen Qionghua's expression had returned to normal.
Luo Xiyao stepped forward and took Shen Qionghua's arm, saying, "Have you finished talking?"
Shen Qionghua glanced at her sideways. Luo Xiyao touched her nose and continued, "Now that we're done talking, let's go."
"Mr. Huo, Qionghua and I will leave first."
Because of what she just heard, Luo Xiyao's attitude towards Huo Jing is now extremely good.
Shen Qionghua bowed slightly and said, "Master Huo, I'm leaving."
Huo Jing quickly bowed in return and watched the two of them leave.
Shen Qionghua and Luo Xiyao left the restaurant together. Luo Xiyao could not hide her excitement at this moment.
She was holding Shen Qionghua's arm and was about to say something, but when she met the other's somewhat dazed eyes, it was as if a basin of cold water was poured on her, chilling her from head to toe.
Yes, what’s the point of her being so excited now? She doesn’t even know if her cousin can come back alive.
What's the difference between her mentioning this kind of thing now and rubbing salt into Qionghua's wounds?
Let’s wait until my cousin returns safely from the border.
Luo Xiyao made up her mind, swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth, cheered herself up, pretended to be very interested, and pulled Shen Qionghua to look around.
When the sunset glow dyed half the clouds red, the two of them got on the departing carriage. Shen Qionghua's mood had visibly improved.
Luo Xiyao finally felt relieved and returned to the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion.
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In the next few days, life went on as usual.
There was no military report from the border, and when the emperor inquired about Xie Nanyuan, he only got the answer that he was still being searched for.
In response to this result, the emperor could only angrily denounce the border guards for their incompetence, and there was nothing else he could do.
Shen Qionghua couldn't sleep all night because of the waiting at the beginning. As time went by, she gradually became numb. Sometimes she would sit in the house and stare at a pot of flowers for two or three hours.
She had almost given up hope.
How could he still be alive in such a harsh environment with no news for more than ten days?
But there is a glimmer of hope deep in my heart.
She told herself that as long as she didn't see the corpse, she would not be considered truly dead.
While Shen Qionghua was comforting herself, she forced herself to eat on time out of consideration for Lin Wanru and Shen Yi, but she was still losing weight at a visible rate.
The chin is pointed and it feels uncomfortable.
Luo Xiyao sometimes came to the Shen Mansion to see her, and was very worried when she saw her like this.
I wanted to comfort and advise her, but Shen Qionghua refused to admit that she was sad and worried, and insisted that she felt she had become more mellow before and had been restraining herself recently.
The mouth is harder than stone.
Luo Xiyao was very angry.
But there was nothing he could do about Shen Qionghua.
I can only spare more time to accompany Shen Qionghua.
But Shen Qionghua didn't appreciate her kindness, saying that she was delaying her from handling the accounts of the Shen family shop, and often drove her away after sitting for a while.
Luo Xiyao was quite helpless about this.
Luo Xiyao herself has not been feeling well recently and still runs to the palace at dawn every day.
She has taken root in the Queen's Fengyi Palace and spent more time there than Princess Yongle.
I am looking forward to the day when there will be news about Xie Nanyuan so that I can be the first to know.
But I always come back disappointed.
On his way out of the palace every day, he would meet Princess Anle and make fun of her.
She tried her best to endure it, as if the other person was farting.
Occasionally she would meet the Fifth Prince, who had the same sad face as her, and his expression became uglier each time.
At first, Luo Xiyao laughed at the other person's face for looking like a ghost, but gradually she couldn't laugh anymore.
Later, Luo Xiyao didn't see the fifth prince for several days, and was secretly wondering in her heart.
Until one day, there was a rumor in the palace that the fifth prince was ill.
Out of concern for the child, Luo Xiyao took a detour to visit the Fifth Prince in his bedroom on her way out of the palace.
The fifth prince was already close to Xie Nanyuan and had frequent interactions with Luo Xiyao.
The eunuchs around him all knew Luo Xiyao. In the past, whenever Luo Xiyao wanted to see the Fifth Prince, he would just let her in as long as he informed her.
But today was different. He was stopped when he was still some distance away from the bedroom. There were many more guards around. Some of them looked familiar, and they sounded like they were the emperor's men.
Could it be that the emperor is in there?
Luo Xiyao was thinking.
A man's angry voice was heard from inside the house.
Because of the distance, Luo Xiyao couldn't hear what was said, but she could vaguely tell the man's identity from his voice. It was the current emperor.
Luo Xiyao frowned, feeling a little worried.
Xie Xiaowu is sick, so even if he did something wrong, the emperor shouldn't scold him like that.
What if Xie Xiaowu becomes even more ill because of sadness and fear?
But Luo Xiyao could only think about it in her heart and could not do anything.
Although the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion is powerful, if they even interfere in how the emperor disciplines the princes, they are truly courting death.
The emperor is inside, so it is obviously impossible to visit.
Luo Xiyao was just wondering whether to wait here for the emperor to leave and then go in to visit him, or go back home and come back tomorrow, when she saw the door of the bedroom open and a young eunuch dressed as a palace maid brought out an imperial physician.
The imperial physician was hunched over, sweating profusely, and staggering as he walked. He looked obviously terrified.
Luo Xiyao frowned, realizing that things were not simple.
Could it be that the emperor just scolded the imperial physician?
If this is true, then Xie Xiaowu's illness...
The young eunuch was about to turn around and close the door when he caught a glimpse of Luo Xiyao who was stopped.
He paused, closed the door gently, and then walked towards Luo Xiyao.
Luo Xiyao knew this young eunuch. This young eunuch had always been by Xie Xiaowu's side, serving him personally. Luo Xiyao had seen him many times.
Seeing him approaching, she was about to ask something when the young eunuch interrupted her, "Princess Pingning, why are you here? Are you here to see our Highness? Our Highness is busy right now, please come back another day."
As he said this, he winked meaningfully.
Luo Xiyao immediately understood and said, "Oh, okay, in that case, I'll come visit the Fifth Prince another day. It's time for me to leave the palace."
After saying that, he left.
It was unknown how long it had been, until Luo Xiyao's legs were numb from standing, before she saw the emperor's procession slowly leaving.
Luo Xiyao paused for a while before walking back towards the fifth prince's bedroom.
This time, she was not stopped.
When she saw the Fifth Prince for the first time, she couldn't help but exclaimed: "Xie Xiaowu, what have you done!"
"It's only been a few days since we last met, how come you're so sick?"