CH 91.1

Jin Wang stayed in Rongxi Courtyard just like this.

With his arrival, there were many more people and things added to Rongxi Courtyard.

There was a clear distinction between the main rooms. Jin Wang stayed in the east while Yaoniang lived in the west. Like this, the well water does not intrude on the river water 

Of course, this only referred to the masters. The servants bustled around and had a great time together.

Especially the little eunuchs of Zhaohui Hall. Their mouths were sweet, calling sister here and there. The people themselves were also diligent. Whenever something happened, Hong Chou and the others didn’t even need to move and the little eunuchs would get the matter done.

Even Yu Chan, who rarely smiled, was amused to laughter several times.

Did she like others calling her sister?

The puzzled An Shiyi finally couldn’t help himself. As he watched Yu Chan walk back to her room, he quietly appeared in front of her.

“Sister Yu Chan…” He called out expectantly, with anticipation in his eyes.

Yu Chan was still eating Xiao Shunzi’s filial sugar-fried chestnuts. This ‘Sister Yu Chan’ caused her to immediately spurt the chestnuts out of her mouth, spraying all over An Shiyi’s face.

Fortunately, An Shiyi wore a headscarf, covering his face all year round. Otherwise, he would’ve been embarrassed to death.

Yu Chan also realized that she had lost her temper, but before she could say anything, An Shiyi disappeared.

Yu Chan was left alone standing on the veranda in the cold wind, holding a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts in her hand.

Yaoniang stayed in the eastern side of the courtyard all day. Living under the same roof, it was impossible for her to not know what was happening.

Over the last two days, Doctor Liu came five times, while Fucheng sighed again and again.

She looked down at Xiaobao who was sitting in front of her, staring at her with his wide eyes.

“In the end, he is your father. If something goes wrong, no one can afford it. Mother has been a widow once, and it doesn’t matter if I’m a widow again, but I can’t let you lose your father.” Yaoniang’s voice was quiet and solemn. 

Xiaobao already rolled his eyes countless times in his heart.

He already knew that she couldn’t hold herself back and that the man’s tricks would surely succeed!

Xiaobao wasn’t sure what he was angry about. He only felt that if he let this matter drop, he would be wronging his mother of two lifetimes.

But –

In the end, he was only a baby who couldn’t talk or walk. He also couldn’t stop the adults from making their own choices. Just let her do whatever she wants, after all… 

He only wanted to vent his anger a little.

His anger could be vented at any time, but he couldn’t play his father’s life away.

To be honest, Yaoniang wasn’t talking to Xiaobao. She was talking to herself, trying to convince herself. It was obvious that this wasn’t the first time for Yaoniang to think about this over the past two days. She called Hong Chou over and gave Xiaobao to her.

“I won’t go over. You tell Fucheng that this is only for the overall good.” 

For the overall good, Xiaobao must donate blood to Jin Wang.

Doctor Liu had wanted to give Xiaobao some medicine that would make him sleepy, but Xiaobao refused to drink it. He had no choice but to start drawing his blood.

Human nature could be quite unscrupulous at times.

Take Fucheng as an example. When the little princess’s blood was taken before, whether because of his indifference to Side Consort Hu or his patriarchal mentality, he would at most wring his eyebrows. This time, now that it was Xiaobao, he yelped as if the knife was cutting his own hand.

Xiaobao was sitting in Yu Chan’s arms. His big toe was cut and drops of bright red blood dripped into the bowl held by Fucheng below.

Actually, it would’ve been better to cut his wrist or finger. Unfortunately, Xiaobao was at a young and ignorant age. If there was an injury on his hand or finger, he may pick at it or play with it, prolonging the healing process. This was why Doctor Lu made the cut on his foot. His foot wasn’t something that was easy to play with.

But blood dripped very slowly from this body part. Since the child was still young, he also didn’t dare to make a large cut. Fucheng could only watch the blood drip down, drop by drop. “Old man Liu, is it enough yet? Do you not feel bad simply because he isn’t your child?”

Doctor Liu was angered but the only thing he could do was pull on his beard and glare at the culprit. If he didn’t ignore him, there would be no end to this matter.

The child’s father was also looking at him. Doctor Liu’s face turned green then pale under the scrutiny but he still didn’t know what Jin Wang was thinking. If someone was familiar with Jin Wang’s temperament, they would be able to tell that he was having a headache over this matter

Seeing that it was pretty much enough, Doctor Liu said, “It’s good, it’s good.” As he was saying this, he took the bowl and poured the blood into a porcelain bottle, as if he’s done this countless times. Then he hurried away with the porcelain bottle in his hand.

Fucheng bandaged Xiaobao’s wound. Babies’ feet were already small, so his big toe was only the size of the tip of an adult’s pinky.

Fucheng was so clumsy that he still couldn’t finish bandaging the wound after a long time. Xiaobao felt that ever since his rebirth, his mental strength decreased along with his pain tolerance.

In his last life, he couldn’t tell the heat from the cold. Even if he was stabbed by someone, he wouldn’t feel much pain. But now, it was no longer like so. At first, he felt a bit numb, but once the numbness passed, all he could feel was pain. Because of the pain, he grew irritable, so he used his other little foot to kick Fucheng’s face.

Fucheng’s face was almost deformed by the kick, but he still insisted on bandaging him.

Jin Wang walked over and pushed Fucheng away, causing him to stagger. “Your Highness!”

Jin Wang squatted down. Fucheng could only give him the white cloth and wound medicine in his hand.

Xiaobao stared at him, considering whether to kick his face.

It was a pity that Jin Wang was already done by the time he finished thinking about it.

His speed was beyond expectations.

Fucheng carried Xiaobao out of the room and cursed, “That old man Liu ran so fast! This dead old fogey!” 

Xiao Shunzi said at the side, “Shunzi said Shunzi could do it. Godfather, you just had to…”

Before he could say anything else, Fucheng spat in his face and said, “You youngsters are so clumsy. What if you hurt him?”

You are the clumsy one! Xiao Shunzi didn’t dare to say this out loud though.

The two carried Xiaobao to the eastern side of the courtyard and handed him to Yaoniang. Yaoniang silently took Xiaobao over and touched the white cloth wrapped around his little feet.

Fucheng whispered, “His Highness felt distressed and bandaged the little master’s wounds himself. It’s because his face is cold and he doesn’t know how to sweet talk that he suffers a loss.” After speaking, he sighed and left, leaving Yaoniang holding Xiaobao for a long time without saying a word.

On the day of taking the antidote, both Mammy Mu and An Yi came. Doctor Liu was, of course, indispensable.

To be honest, this event wasn’t that serious of an affair. The antidote must be taken for an entire month before the poison is finally neutralized. Only because something went wrong last time that everyone became very concerned this time.

After taking one pill a day for five consecutive days, Jin Wang’s condition was finally improving, slowly but surely. He also didn’t have any more breakouts. After taking his pulse Doctor Liu announced that the poison wasn’t completely cleared so he had to continue taking the medicine.

Lunch was set up in the eastern side of the courtyard.

It was quite strange. Ever since that previous vomiting spell, Yaoniang suddenly stopped vomiting. Whatever she ate was delicious, causing Hong Chou to be very happy. The women in the small kitchen also played around with the dishes every day to make delicious food for Yaoniang. After these few days of eating, Yaoniang looked as if she was glowing.

On the other hand, Jin Wang was jealous.