Chapter 159 - Fire!

Yuan Xuepei’s conversation with Su Shaoge was very harmonious—Su Shaoge and Prince of Zhao had planned to move to a place recently, so as to shun Princess Yushan.

So after a day or two days, Su Shaoge and Prince of Zhao pretended to “visit friends”, packed up their clothes, and quietly left the Lunong Building.

They actually moved to the Cuizhu Court, which was a dozen li away from the Yaohua Venue, but everyone said to Princess Yushan, “It was Master Su’s friend in Qingzhou who came to the capital. He should receive the guests. His Highness Prince of Zhao also companied with him to have a look.”

Princess Yushan asked surprisedly and angrily, “When will they come back?”

“It’s not sure to say this.” Because Nie Wuying’s medicine finally didn’t need herbs for calming the nerves, Song Yixiao and Yuan Xue’e came to the Yaohua Venue to chat with her. They looked at each other and spoke in unison, “After all, the New Year is approaching, maybe Master Su will not come back?”

Watching Princess Yushan walking out angrily, Yuan Xue’e whispered a little worriedly, “Shouldn’t she guess the truth?”

Otherwise, looking at the angry expression from this noble princess, if she knew that everyone was joining together to lie to her, no one could forecast how chaotic the situation would become!

Song Yixiao cunningly said, “She still has Sister Jiang over there. Sister Jiang will definitely persuade her to go back to the palace before making plans!”

After returning to the palace, Jiang Muting told Virtuous Consort the matter, and then no matter how things developed afterwards, they had nothing to do with them.

Yuan Xue’e thought it was right, so she stopped thinking about it anymore and chatting with Nie Wuying again.

Half a day later, there was news that Jiang Muting had persuaded Princess Yushan to return to the palace.

After hearing the news, everyone was relieved.

The next morning, everyone got up before dawn. After grooming and wearing, they saw off Princess Yushan with great enthusiasm. The little princess had no experience of life. She had thought they hated to part with her so the depression that she couldn’t find Su Shaoge was reduced.

After Princess Yushan and Jiang Muting left, the previously noisy Zhanchun Venue was restored to calm.

After another day or two, Nie Wuying almost recovered. Doctor Duanmu said that she could move and so she moved back to the Buyue Villa.

She was getting better day by day here, but the worries of Commandery Princess Qingjiang were increasing day by day. First of all, as for the legs of Doctor Han, after a few days of treatment, Doctor Zhai and Doctor Xu agreed that the situation was serious and needed to be sent back to the imperial capital for long-term recuperation; then it was Zhuo Ping’an’s disease, because his ache was getting more frequent, and more serious.

Even on two evenings, both Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying were awakened by the noise from the Jianliu Building.

In this regard, Doctor Zhai and Doctor Xu were at a loss. Both of them said that they didn’t have mature skills and they could not do anything except writing prescriptions for calming the mind.

“I know their thoughts!” Commandery Princess Qingjiang was very angry privately, “They are afraid that if Ping’an improved, I would leave them to replace Doctor Han! Otherwise, how could the royal doctor be such a waste!”

But there was an example of Doctor Han almost being killed. Although this matter had not been rumored, Doctor Han was also cured by the Imperial Academy of Medicine. Other people might don’t know. How could the doctors not know the truth?

Now Doctor Zhai and Doctor Xu made up their minds and refused to cure Ping’an. Despite Commandery Princess Qingjiang’s combination of the stick and the carrot, they said, “I’m incompetent, please punish me!”

After all they were imperial physicians who had been chosen out of thousands, and were qualified officials of the court, Commandery Princess Qingjiang couldn’t kill them. What’s more, since they made it clear that they would not cooperate, they obviously considered not being afraid of derogation.

Commandery Princess Qingjiang could do nothing about them, so she was extremely depressed and unhappy.

At this time, Nie Wuying’s body had almost recovered, and Song Yixiao smiled and suggested that it was better to go back to the imperial capital, “There are many doctors in the imperial capital, and the medicine is complete. Moreover, the New Year is approaching. We must leave in a few days. Now we have a few more days to go back, and don’t have to be in a hurry.”

Commandery Princess Qingjiang thought about it and decided to leave the next day and return to the imperial capital.

When the news came, Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying hurried to the Caixia Villa to say goodbye before packing up. The brothers and sisters of the Yuan Family planned to return on New Year’s Eve because of Yuan Xuepei’s condition.

When they first came here, they only wanted to stay for a few days, so they didn’t bring many packages. In the evening of that day, they almost packed it up.

But what they didn’t expect was that when the dinner was just put on, the door of the flower hall was suddenly opened, and the two servants rushed in. They even forgot to salute, “Your Highness! Bad off! Master Ping’an suddenly thought of playing with fire, and the people around him couldn’t stop him, now the Jianliu Building is on fire!”

Commandery Princess Qingjiang was taken aback, and asked anxiously, “Is Ping’an safe?”

“Someone has already gone in to save Master Ping’an,” The servant spoke quickly, “but I’m afraid the Jianliu Building can’t be protected!”

How could they three still serve dinner? Quickly they ran out to see Zhuo Ping’an. When they just walked out of the door of the Buyue Villa, they saw a servant carrying Zhuo Ping’an stepping toward them. Not far away, the Jianliu Building was blowing billowing smoke against the snow. Although there were many servants around to desperately rescue the building, visually there was no hope protecting the building.

However, Commandery Princess Qingjiang and others had no time to care for a good pavilion, they all surrounded Zhuo Ping’an to care for him. Commandery Princess Qingjiang touched her son from the head to the feet in the face of everyone, and confirmed that he was unscathed before she was relieved. She was afraid sudden outbreak of his disease would hurt others, and he was asked to take to his room to rest.

But her trusted servant, Eunuch Chen, came up and reminded, “Your Highness, the Jianliu Building is only a few steps away from the Buyue Villa. In view of today’s wind direction, the Buyue Villa is not safe at present. In my view, it is safer to move to Ruyi Garden!”

When he spoke, the thick smoke had been blown by the north wind, and everyone choked. Commandery Princess Qingjiang hurriedly required everyone to go to the position of the upper air vent and said, “You don’t know yet? Although the Ruyi Garden is close, Aunt hates others touching her things. Otherwise why would she ask me to build this garden for her? That Ruyi Garden has never received other people since it was built, even I am not allowed in unless my aunt invites me!”

Therefore, “The Lunong Building and the Yaohua Venue have only accommodated people a few days ago, so we move there!”

In fact, she not only considered the cleanliness of Daiguo Grand Princess, but also considered that Zhuo Ping’an’s condition had become more serious recently. Although the Ruyi Garden was a big place, many people lived here. Once Ping’an broke out when the servants couldn’t stop him, and he hurt or scared her sister-in-law or sister, what can she do?

Besides, although Doctor Zhai and Doctor Xu refused to help them, they still lived in the Zhanchun Venue. They used to live with Zhuo Ping’an in the Jianliu Building. If they went to the Ruyi Garden, wouldn’t they have to live with Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying? This was obviously not good for two women of good age.

Therefore, it was still appropriate to go to the Lunong Building and the Yaohua Venue. Just according to the previous separation of men and women, let Zhuo Ping’an and the doctors live in the Lunong Building, and she would bring her sister-in-law and sister to the Yaohua Venue. The two places were also close to each other, making it easy to care for Ping’an.

It was just that they didn’t have dinner. They hurriedly took their luggage and arrived at the entrance of the Lunong Building by sedan chair. The servants who first went in to clean the rooms reported a message, “Something in the Lunong Building looks like things His Highness Prince of Zhao and Master Su did not take away. We did not dare to move. Now what should we do, Your Highness, please give orders!”

Commandery Princess Qingjiang was surprised, and went to take a look with Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying. Sure enough, Su Shaoge and Prince of Zhao left some things down. It was estimated that they were in a hurry at the time, and had to avoid people of Princess Yushan, so they had no time to take them all away. As it was in the Zhanchun Venue, and the things were not needed in a hurry, so they didn’t return to pick them up immediately after Princess Yushan left.

Then Commandery Princess Qingjiang was not willing to let her son live here anymore. After all, the house was hers, and whatever her son did, only if she didn’t care about it, no one could say anything; but if the guests’ things were broken, they needed to give the explanation.

She had to say, “Then I will send Ping’an to the Yaohua Venue. You can choose the house first! You must be tired after a busy day, just settle down respectively. Don’t need to wait for me!”

Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying sent Commandery Princess Qingjiang to the door and went back to the Lunong Building to discuss. They decided to clean up the study rooms of Su Shaoge and Prince of Zhao, where they need to live for one night. It was a place where the man had just slept, and the two sisters-in-law must avoid sleeping directly, but there was no time to change the bed stuff in a hurry. After all, the bedding and mattress were taken from the Yaohua Venue.

They sent another servant to clean up a vacant bedroom and left it to Commandery Princess Qingjiang.

After these things were done, they bathed and changed their clothes separately. When they left the bath room, it was already very late. Commandery Princess Qingjiang also turned back from the Yaohua Venue, and then they busted them to sleep.

Because of the bustling of the day, Song Yixiao didn’t want anyone to guard at night, so that maids could sleep peacefully, lest they would not have energy the next day.

Unexpectedly, when she slept in the middle of the night, she was awakened, “Madam Song? Madam Song!”

Song Yixiao answered in a confused voice, and only a moment later she was stunned and opened her eyes, and across the bed-curtain, the snow light reflected in the window, suddenly showed a tall figure, she was about to scream in fright, when the man said softly, “Madam Song, please don’t be panic, I’m Su Shaoge.”

“What…what do you want to do?” Although Song Yixiao had a good impression of him before, at midnight, this man touched her bed-curtain, so how could she not panic?

Su Shaoge knew her vigilance and suspicion and said a little helplessly, “I have a volume of books. I originally thought I didn’t need to use it during this time, so I didn’t bring it with me when I left. But I just know that there are some things and I need to use it right away. So I have to come and pick it up. I didn’t expect you to settle here, so I offended you!”

Song Yixiao couldn’t believe him and said, “Then you take it away, why you wake me up?”

“The book is in a secret box under your pillow.”

After a moment, Song Yixiao said, “Wait a moment!” She pushed away the jade pillow and reached for the secret box he was talking about.

“I’m afraid that Madam won’t open it,” Su Shaoge reminded.

During the speech, Song Yixiao had touched a machine, but just as he said, she played around for a while and didn’t know how to open it. When she was going to ask the method, she thought secretly, “Since he says I can’t open it and doesn’t tell me the method, it seems that he doesn’t want to tell me?”

Thinking of this, she said, “I need to wear my clothes.”

Su Shaoge hurriedly said, “I will turn back right now!”

After speaking, he walked to the window, jumped out of the window, and closed the window again.

Seeing this scene, Song Yixiao believed that he did come to get things, not deliberately frivolous.

She put on her dress as fast as possible, rushed to the dressing table again and took a long hairpin. She brushed her hair and sorted the hem before she whispered, “Master Su, you can come in and get things!”