"Your Majesty, Aunt Zhou is asking to see you. She has been waiting outside for a long time. Do you want her to come in?" Cui Qiao said in a soft voice.
Li Fei had just woken up and was lying lazily on the black mother-of-pearl bed. She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, but she didn't speak.
Yinye brought delicious tea, and Cuiqiao also hurriedly brought a basin. After Li Fei rinsed her mouth, the waiter carefully wiped the water stains from her lips with a brocade handkerchief.
"Concubine Xian's people want to see me," Concubine Li pondered slightly, with a smile on her lips, "Then let her come in. No matter what, Concubine Xian still thinks we are on the same team!"
"Slave, please help me dress up!" Concubine Li took off her hairpin during her nap, so it was inconvenient to see people in such a state.
"Just ask her to reply through the curtain." Li Fei said, "I want to take a bath again later."
Immediately, a second-class palace maid walked out, called Aunt Zhou over and said, "Our queen has just woken up, so please answer her through the curtain."
Aunt Zhou was the one who passed the news between the two of them. She was not from Jiaolan Palace, but had been bribed by Concubine Xian.
"Old slave, please give your regards to Concubine Li." Aunt Zhou saluted through the curtain.
"That's all, if you have anything to do, just tell me." Li Fei said.
"The Concubine Xian asked this old slave to come and ask me for a favor. Can you please ask your Majesty for a favor, so that the Sixth Prince and his wife can come to Jiaolan Palace to meet each other during the Dragon Boat Festival." Grandma Zhou's rickety figure reflected in the image.
On the soft curtain with golden incense sticks, it looks like a dead tree.
"Did Concubine Xian say anything else?" Concubine Li asked, looking at the butterfly on the pillow.
"I don't have anything else to say, just this." Aunt Zhou said with a bow.
"It's done, you can go back! I know this." Li Fei agreed happily.
"Thank you, Concubine Li." Grandma Zhou bent her body downwards and then withdrew.
"Your Majesty, the Concubine Xian is confined to the palace now. She should not be able to make any trouble for a while." Yanda walked in and said, "I wonder what kind of medicine is being sold in the gourd this time?"
"I'm too lazy to worry about this. Anyway, no matter how hard she works, in the end it will be all in vain." Li Fei was extremely sure, "Let her just let her do it. The more she does it, the better it will be for us."
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor authorized the Sixth Prince and Yao Wanyi to visit the Concubine Xian in Jiaolan Palace.
In less than two months, Concubine Xian had lost a lot of weight.
Of course the Sixth Prince felt distressed after seeing this, but since Yao Wanyi was in front of him, he couldn't say anything else. He just asked: "Why is the concubine so thin? Is she sick?"
"I'm not sick. I don't have a good appetite when the weather is hot. It's normal to be thinner." Concubine Xian smiled softly, "I see you're a little darker too. Are you out a lot? Wanyi, how are you recovering these days?
?I have always been thinking about you, but now that you look good, I feel relieved."
"I have nothing to do now, mother and concubine, don't worry. You will look a little haggard when the time comes. Just relax, things will eventually pass." Yao Wanyi felt that the reason why Concubine Xian was like this must be related to the grounding, and she must be worried about it.
I lost the emperor's favor, and I was afraid that my mother's family would be implicated.
"That's good, that's good, I don't take these things to heart." Concubine Xian said with a smile, "Besides, seeing that you are all well, I will get better soon.
Please sit down, we haven't seen each other for a while, so we need to have a nice chat."
The tea and snacks on the table had been prepared long ago. Only two personal maids were left to serve, and the rest were sent out.
"Wanyi, I made the soup for you with my own hands. It should be ready." Concubine Xian looked at Yao Wanyi as if she were her own daughter, with unspeakable pity and love. "You must drink this soup."
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"What kind of soup is it?" Yao Wanyi asked with a smile, "It's really hard work, concubine."
"It's a nourishing soup. It's said to have miraculous effects on people who have had miscarriages." Concubine Xian said, "It's a recipe I found with great difficulty."
"My mother-in-law is so kind to me." Yao Wanyi's words were indeed sincere and not superficially polite.
Indeed, whether it was from outsiders' perspective or from her own personal experience, Concubine Xian was not at all considerate to her.
Sure enough, after a while, the maid in front of Concubine Xian came in with a small bowl of soup, put it on a tray and covered it with a lid.
"The soup is ready. Please use it slowly, Fifth Princess." The bowl of soup was respectfully placed in front of Yao Wanyi's table.
Then the lid on the soup bowl was opened, and a strange aroma floated out, with a faint medicinal smell.
The color of the soup is very light, like tea soup. There is nothing else in it. It is obvious that the ingredients for the soup have been grated out long ago.
"It shouldn't be hot," Concubine Xian said, "Take a bite slowly."
Yao Wanyi picked up the spoon and took a bite. Sure enough, it was just right in her mouth.
She noticed that Concubine Xian was looking at her very earnestly, so she drank the whole bowl of soup in several mouthfuls.
"Good boy, you drank this bowl of soup..." Concubine Xian didn't finish her sentence, she couldn't help but stretched out her hand to support her head, and fell forward.
Everyone was so panicked that they rushed to help him.
"Mother concubine! Mother concubine! What's wrong with you?"
"My queen, please wake up!"
The Sixth Prince held Concubine Xian in his arms and said, "Go and ask the imperial doctor quickly!"
"Be gentle, my wife's arm is bleeding." Shucong said, holding up Concubine Xian's arm.
"Oh, what's going on? Why is there blood here?" Yao Wanyi noticed that there was blood on Concubine Xian's sleeves.
"Your Highness, please carry my wife to the bed first. The servants will go and ask for the imperial doctor right away."
"How did the mother-in-law get injured?" At this time, the sixth prince had already pushed up the sleeves of the concubine Xian, and saw that her arm was wrapped in several layers of gauze, but the blood stains were still showing through.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the slaves have already given me the medicine."
"You bastard! What I'm asking is how did the mother-in-law get injured?!" The sixth prince became angry because he felt distressed. "This wound is not light."
"Your Highness, please calm down," Shu Shucong and others knelt down and choked, "The empress cut it with a knife."
"What?!" The Sixth Prince and Yao Wanyi were both shocked, "Why did the mother-in-law do this?"
"It's because...it's because our empress is worried about the health of the princess, so she has been fasting and chanting Buddha's prayers since the princess gave birth, and during the days when she was banned.
Later, I heard someone say that this miscarriage is the most harmful to the body. If you want to fully recover, you must cut off the flesh of the elder and stew it with the deer fetus and snow lotus to make a tonic soup."
"Ah, you mean the soup I drank just now..." Yao Wanyi immediately thought of the bowl of soup she drank just now.
"That's right, it's that bowl." Shucong cried and said, "The queen sent us all away yesterday, and she cut it with a knife in the house."