In the Immortal Lotus Courtyard.
Leng Mei hurriedly walked in and asked hurriedly, "How was it?" Any clues? Do you know the exact location of the earrings? "
"…" Leng Mei shook her head with a serious expression.
Lian Ruyue's heart felt as if a stone had been lifted.
However, as far as I know, she went to the Nine Flower Temple two days ago to pray for her blessings, but her maidservant Chen Xiu somehow offended the third princess, so the third miss did not worship, and hurried down the mountain. I asked the monk at the temple about it, but they said they did not know the exact details, and only knew that the maidservant took something she should not have taken to anger the third princess.
When Lian Ruyue heard this, she fell into deep thought.
"Miss, I'm afraid that someone is starting to suspect something. Why don't you hurry and arrange for A Yue to leave the shop and go to a safe place?" Leng Mei said.
"No." Lian Ruyue shook her head, "I didn't say anything to her. There is no truly safe place. Moreover, if there really is a doubt, there must be someone secretly waiting for us to send her away. Then we can catch them all in one fell swoop."
"But what should we do now? There's no way we can stay there forever. " Leng Mei said.
Lian Ruyue raised her hand and rubbed her temple, saying, "Let me think, let me think."
"Eldest Miss, the old master has invited you." At this moment, the voice of the head guard sounded from outside the door.
Lian Ru Yue nodded to Leng Mei, who then opened the door and walked out. She said expressionlessly, "Eldest Miss understands. First Miss, please change your clothes and go over to report to the Prime Minister."
Lian Tian's gaze swept across Leng Mei's face and said, "Understood. With that, he turned and left.
She walked over with the basket in her hands and said with some suspicion, "We could have just sent a message on behalf of the master. Since when did it become a matter of the chief nurse? Leng Mei, do you think that the chief nurse has come to our Immortal Lotus Courtyard more often than before?"
However, there was still no expression on Leng Mei's face. "I don't know, I didn't notice."
"Tsk tsk." "You, ah, you only know how to kill people. You don't know anything else, don't pay attention."
After a while, Lian Lu Yue changed into a new set of clothes and went to Lian Yan Qing's study room. Yan Qing was sitting behind his study desk with a grave expression and a frown, as if he was considering something.
Originally, no woman was allowed to come to this occasion. However, Lian Yanqing was now extremely trusting of Lian Rubing; he wanted to hear his opinion on everything.
"Father …" Lian Ru Yue walked over and asked, "Father, is there anything troubling you?"
Lian Yanqing raised his head and said:
"Today, His Highness has truly regained the favor of the emperor. I thought that the empress's funeral, the throne, the both of them will belong to the eighth prince and the ninth prince, but now, the situation is going to become even more complicated and confusing. The fourth prince cannot be underestimated.
Even the Second Master sighed deeply. "I really didn't expect that the Fourth Prince would leave such a trump card in his hands. Today, the Emperor has a whole new level of respect for him. Today, he's left alone at Rongyuan Palace to speak." "Sigh, the way these princes are fighting for the favor is really more brilliant than the other. What I'm looking at now is completely drenched in sweat."
"Father, second uncle, did something happen in the court?" Lian Ruyue asked.
Lian Yan Qing said, "Indeed, one thing happened, something that caught the other princes off guard."
Today, the emperor's body wasn't feeling well. In the early morning assembly, he actually fainted on top of the throne room. The ministers turned pale with fright as they hastily called for the imperial physician. Jiang Keji and the rest carried him back to the palace.
The princes and princesses arrived and knelt in front of the Dragon Couch, doing their best to serve their son. No one left, but the Sixth Prince had disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only the traces of the Fourth Prince. The Sixth Prince had said a few words about the Fourth Prince's wrongdoings, which angered the Emperor, who then scolded him for being unfilial.
Today, in a fit of rage, the Emperor ordered someone to immediately send a message to the Fourth Prince. In the end, the guards had carried the fourth prince out of the palace. Upon entering, one could see that his entire face was pale and his lips were bloodless. He looked like someone who had been ill for a long time, even kneeling on the ground to pay respects to the emperor was on the verge of collapse.
Only after the emperor asked for a bit more did everyone realize that, as the imperial physician had previously said, this illness was due to the deficiency of blood.
His Highness the fourth prince secretly scouted all over for treatment and even discussed with the imperial physicians of the imperial hospital how to curb the emperor's illness.
In the end, he found out that there was a way to improve the Emperor's blood deficiency disease. He sent people to the mountain day after day to endure the cold and hunger, and caught a rare golden toad.
This golden toad had to be nurtured with human blood for forty-nine days before it was crushed and added to the medicine for the emperor to consume.
The reason why Fourth Prince was unable to come and pay his respects and was absent from the morning assembly was because he was using his own blood to feed the Golden Toad for forty-nine days. As a result, his body became very weak and was unable to leave.
When His Highness was carried in, he was still holding the jar containing the Golden Toad in his arms, offering it to the emperor. When the Imperial Physician saw it, he was very happy, and shouted out that it really was a good thing in time, he had spent a lot of effort to find a blood-sucking Golden Toad, but he couldn't find it, so he immediately crushed the Golden Toad Ointment and let the emperor consume it.
Lian Yanqing continued, "However, at this time, His Highness the Fourth passed out in front of the emperor, lying straight on the ground. The Imperial Physician said that the weakness of the Fourth Prince's body was caused by the loss of blood from seven to four consecutive days of bleeding.
At this time, Xiao Zhenhai kneeled in front of the emperor and said in tears, he repeatedly advised the fourth prince to take care of the body and let the fourth prince take other people's blood to raise the toad, but the fourth prince refused. He said that only those close friends could raise the toad, so he insisted on using his own blood.
The Emperor didn't know that the Fourth Prince had been feeding the toad blood for him for more than a month. He was greatly touched, but then recalled how she had just chided him and felt guilty for doing so, so he asked the imperial physician to help him recuperate at Hall of Rongyuan.
"It seems that it has been a long time since the Emperor had been so concerned about a prince. It seems that the Emperor has once again put down his grudge with the fourth prince, and now, he is finally able to trust the prince."