When news of what happened that day reached the palace, Concubine Lu slammed the table with anger, "The Shen family has gone too far to bully others!"
If you use too much force, your carefully maintained nails will break and your little finger will immediately bleed.
The sixth prince asked someone to come over and bandage the imperial concubine, and said, "Concubine, we cannot let the Shen family continue to be so arrogant. This is a slap in the Lu family's face in public."
The pain made Concubine Lu wake up, and her eyes flashed, "Huh, the Shen family insisted on sending it to their door themselves. Don't blame me for being cruel!"
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The weather is getting colder and colder, and while the divorce case is being discussed hotly outside, the Shen family who are the parties involved have fallen silent and become even more low-key.
Shen Mingzhu's memorial tablet and ashes were placed in the mourning hall, where the incense continued day and night. When the spring comes after the new year, the eldest wife will return to Jiangnan with her ashes.
Take her truly home.
Shen Xingwan's trips to and from the Zhennan Palace have become increasingly frequent, and there have been changes at the border recently.
Fu Jingchao did not shy away from her, but shared the information in his hands with her and allowed her to participate in discussions within the palace.
This kind of trust made Shen Xingwan feel at ease.
On this day, a discussion was finished and the night was already deep.
Shen Xingwan's carriage drove alone on the bluestone road with a lantern lit, and of course there were people protecting him both overtly and covertly.
Shen Ruoyan sat opposite her, with a rare hint of sadness on her face, "Is the world going to be in chaos?"
Shen Xingwan held the hot stove with a solemn expression, "It's hard to say."
Chaos or not is not their decision.
"Hey, they say they would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times." Shen Ruoyan sighed, "No matter what, I don't want to experience war."
The two were talking in low voices when the carriage suddenly stopped.
Shen Ruoyan touched the sword subconsciously.
Shen Xingwan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, he couldn't be so unlucky, would he do it again?
Dongqing, who was riding a horse, came over, opened the window, and reported in a low voice, "A woman is kneeling in front of the carriage."
Shen Xingwan and Shen Ruoyan looked at each other, and for a moment they didn't understand what the fuss was about.
Shen Xingwan, "Let's go out and have a look."
Shen Ruoyan went out first, drawing his sword and pointing it at the woman kneeling on the ground. The guards around him also drew their swords.
Shen Xingwan got off the carriage and looked at the woman kneeling on the ground. It was probably because it was already late winter and the weather was very cold. The woman was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, a cloak and a hat, which almost covered half of her face.
For a while, no one came out about Shen Xingwan.
"Who are you?" Shen Xingwan's confused voice sounded in the middle of the night.
The woman raised her head stiffly and lifted the curtain on her head.
It was a familiar yet unexpected face - Man Niang.
Shen Xingwan became more and more confused as to why Man Niang appeared in front of her late at night.
Man Niang knelt on the ground and moved towards her kneeling step by step.
Only then did Shen Xingwan see clearly that she was holding a child in her arms.
Perhaps because she was afraid that the child would be cold, she half-opened her cotton-padded coat, tied the child tightly in front of her, and used her own body temperature to warm him.
Man Niang stopped two steps away from Shen Xingwan and bowed deeply, "Please save Rainbow Dash, he is only one year old..."
Shen Xingwan looked at her warily and said nothing for a while.
Man Niang's identity is too sensitive. Shen Tang's concubine, the person Su Jingyi casually saved.
Man Niang's forehead quickly turned blue and red, but Shen Xingwan remained silent.
She looked at Shen Xingwan desperately, "Please, girl, I'm at the end of my rope."
Shen Xingwan narrowed his eyes, "If the child is sick, the girl may have laughed at the wrong person. She should go back to Shen's house and ask for help."
The child's breathing in her arms became weaker and weaker. Seeing that Shen Xingwan was unmoved, Man Niang became anxious.
Xin Yihen said loudly, "Yunbao's illness is not accidental, it was caused by family members."
"I have long ignored the Shen family's affairs." Shen Xingwan still refused indifferently.
"I suspect that it was Su Jingyi who did it, and she and her wife seem to be plotting something else recently." Manniang finally showed her trump card in order to save her son's chance of survival.
There were too many things going on recently, and she had no time to focus on Su Jingyi.
I thought she had settled down, but I didn't expect that she was still acting like a monster quietly.
Shen Xingwan finally relented, "Put the child in the car."
Man Niang stood up staggeringly and carried the child into Shen Xingwan's carriage.
Compared to the biting cold outside, it was very warm inside the carriage.
Man Niang carefully unwrapped the little quilt wrapped around the child, and called out quietly and anxiously, "Rainbow, Rainbow, can you hear Mom's voice?"
Shen Xingwan looked at the angry child in her arms and handed over the warm tea in her hand, "Give him some hot water."
Man Niang took the food and carefully fed it to the corner of the child's mouth. The child, with his eyes closed, began to swallow in small mouthfuls.
Man Niang cried with joy.
Shen Xingwan ordered the coachman to speed up the carriage, and the carriage was silent for a moment.
Only Man Niang was calling the child's name in a low voice repeatedly, expecting the child to respond.
The carriage quickly entered Shen Xingwan's yard through the side door, and Shen Xingwan said, "Get out of the car."
Then he ordered people to ask Chanyi to come over.
Fortunately, Chanyi was locked in her room again today, tinkering with her medicinal ingredients, so she immediately went to Shen Xing's night room before going to bed.
As soon as Shen Xingwan returned to his room, he took off his cloak.
There is a good charcoal fire in the room, which is very warm.
Man Niang held the child in her arms and said in a panic, "Please, lady, please ask the doctor to take a look at the child. We can't drag it on any longer..."
I was crying at the end.
Shen Xingwan pointed to the bed in front of the window, "You put the child on it first, I've already sent someone to call someone."
Chanyi came in carrying a box and saluted Shen Xingwan, "Who is sick, girl?"
Shen Xingwan pointed to the pale child on the couch, "Go and take a look."
Chanyi opened the child's eyelids to check and asked, "What symptoms does he have?"
"At first, I started crying and screaming loudly, and then I started to have trouble breathing and lost consciousness. I didn't respond no matter how I screamed." Manniang said with red eyes.
Shen Xingwan interrupted, "You are so seriously ill, why didn't you call a doctor earlier?"
Man Niang's eyes were full of hatred, "Master, he went out to Beijing with his friends the day before yesterday. He said he was going to buy some goods and it would take several days to get back. No matter how much I begged her, my wife didn't open the door and came out. She was always in the room."
Manniang didn't have much money saved, so she took the child to a nearby doctor. The doctor shook his head and asked her to be mentally prepared.
She had no choice but to find a better doctor in the huge city of Shengjing, and she found Shen Xingwan only when she was desperate.
It was no secret that Shen Xingwan often visited Zhennan Palace. She spent the last money she had and found out that Shen Xingwan's carriage had not left Zhennan Palace today.
So I held my child in my arms and waited on the path that Shen Xingwan's carriage must pass.
Over there, Chanyi took the child's pulse and said, "She must have been poisoned."
