SFS Chapter 163: Your Majesty is late, is there something important?
Chapter 163: Your Majesty is late, is there something important?
This matter caused too much of a stir, and the empress dowager also heard about it, so Su Muxi naturally knew about it. In fact, everyone who should know about her going to the northwest knew it, but in the eyes of the public, she was still recuperating in the palace.
In the past few days since she came back, she has been getting better. The ladies in the various palaces have seen her when they paid their respects to the empress dowager. At this time, the empress dowager was going to Yuhua Palace, and Su Muxi followed her.
When she arrived with the empress dowager, the empress also arrived. The second prince and the sixth prince came with the emperor. It can be said that all the most important people in the palace were present.
Su Muxi had seen many versions of Xiao Yunjin, but she had never seen him like this before. He looked desolate and lonely. He stood there covered in blood, his eyes staring at the door of the delivery room, but they were out of focus and he could not blend in with everyone else.
Su Muxi couldn't understand why the man who had sent her mother to the cold palace in her previous life looked like this now.
Everyone waited from day till night, and there was no sound in the delivery room. Then a servant from Prince Jin's mansion came with news, saying that Prince Jin's wife had gone into labor and asked Prince Jin to return home quickly.
When Xiao Yunjin heard the message, he finally moved. He turned his head coldly and looked at His Majesty the Emperor, "Please ask Father to send a few doctors to the palace. I am worried about my mother and cannot go back for the time being."
With the mother on one side and the wife on the other, it was indeed a dilemma. Everyone wanted to persuade him but didn't know how. Fortunately, the emperor gave an edict directly. Not only did he send the imperial physician over, he also passed the order to the eldest princess, asking her to go to Prince Jin's Mansion to act on his behalf. This was originally arranged in advance.
After the eunuch who announced the decree left, the palace returned to peace. Some seats were placed in the side hall outside the delivery room. The empress dowager, the queen, and some high-ranking concubines were waiting inside. Su Muxi followed beside the empress dowager.
The door to the side hall was always open, and Su Muxi could just see Xiao Yunjin's lonely figure from the door, standing from day to night, and from night to dawn. When the sun came down, there was finally movement in the delivery room, and a weak baby cry came from the delivery room.
The provincial mother-in-law reported the child to the emperor and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty. Congratulations, Your Majesty. It's a prince."
"Reward." The emperor finally relaxed his expression. He took the young baby, his eyes showing love. "How is Concubine Lan?"
"Your Majesty, the baby is weak and Concubine Lan had a difficult delivery. She is now exhausted and has fainted."
At this time, the Queen Mother also came to see the child. The Emperor handed the child to her and said, "Mother, please help take care of the child. I will go to see Concubine Lan."
Hearing the baby's crying, Xiao Yunjin finally came to his senses. He glanced at the little prince who was surrounded by the crowd, then turned and left.
Su Muxi had been keeping an eye on him, and when she saw him leaving, she followed his gaze. Xiao Yunjin seemed to have sensed something and looked back at Su Muxi. There was a deep look in his dark eyes. Su Muxi didn't understand, but he felt inexplicably depressed in his heart.
Xiao Yunjin left after receiving the punishment. He rode his horse towards Prince Jin's mansion unconsciously, and the blood stains on his robe dyed the saddle red.
When he returned to Prince Jin's Mansion, he heard another faint cry, followed by the voice of the eldest princess rewarding everyone.
Xiao Yunjin smiled. After a day and a night, his face finally had a hint of human expression. "Thank you, Auntie."
The princess hadn't seen the baby for a long time, so she was happy. "How is Concubine Lan? Is she healthy? Is she a prince or a princess?"
The eldest princess spoke with joy, as if she knew that Concubine Lan must be fine. She put the child in Xiao Yunjin's arms and said, "You just heard it, it's a boy. Go and see your eldest son."
Xiao Yunjin looked at the baby in his arms. He was only the size of a palm and seemed even weaker than a kitten. His mother and the princess gave birth to him at the same time, but neither of the two children had anything to do with him.
"Father has given birth to another prince, and mother is fine. Aunt, you have worked hard all night, go to bed early!"
"I still need to go to the palace to enjoy the festive atmosphere. You can't even hold a child. You should leave it to the nanny!" The eldest princess patted his shoulder and said, "Go change your clothes and see your princess!"
Xiao Yunjin handed the child to the nanny and got up to see the eldest princess off.
After escorting her all the way to the gate, the princess patted Xiao Yunjin's hand and said, "Don't worry, Concubine Lan has an imperial physician following her, nothing will happen."
The eldest princess had never even been to the palace, but she seemed to know everything that happened there.
After sending the princess off, Xiao Yunjin did not go to see Jiang Wanning, but returned to his room. After taking a bath, Cang Shu helped him apply medicine while telling him what happened when he was not at home.
Even Cang Shu, who is as calm as he is, was indignant when talking about the affair between He Yuncheng and Jiang Wanning. However, Xiao Yunjin didn't care at all. He was a little distracted. He had intended to go to Yuhua Palace and meet Su Muxi by chance, but he didn't expect so many things to happen.
He saw Su Muxi, but she was too far away for him to reach. Lan Fei took advantage of him again and stabbed an arrow into his chest in a way that would mean both sides would perish together.
All people and all things have nothing to do with him, yet they are all related to him.
After Cang Shu left, he locked himself in the room for the whole day. At dawn the next day, he changed into the prince's formal clothes and walked out of the room.
His expression was still calm, as if nothing had changed as usual. Xiao Yunjin pushed open Jiang Wanning's door. When the maids and nannies saw him, they knelt down to greet them. Xiao Yunjin didn't even bother to look at them, but simply waved his hand and told the maids and servants to leave.
Jiang Wanning was already awake, half leaning on the pillow, eating. Seeing this, he put down the bowl in his hand and asked, "Your Majesty, you are so late. Is there something important?"
"You and your mother gave birth at the same time, and the third-month-old celebrations conflicted, so the palace won't hold it. I asked the Imperial Observatory to check the date, and the full-moon celebration will be held grandly in a month. This is the invitation letter I wrote. Please send a message to the King of Huaiyang, asking your father-in-law to attend on time."
Xiao Yunjin was actually plotting against her father at this time. She gave birth to a child suddenly, and her father could not make it in three days. However, there was plenty of time for the full moon banquet, and her father had to come.
Huaiyang was originally a vassal state, and the emperor had always wanted to reduce the power of the vassal states. He had repeatedly invited my father to come to the capital, but was always rejected by my father. My father gave Xiao Yunjin 150,000 elite soldiers, and she gave birth to a son for Xiao Yunjin, but Xiao Yunjin still turned his back on her.
Jiang Wanning felt resentful. She had gone through a lot of hardships to give birth to a child last night, but Xiao Yun refused to come no matter how she was invited. After giving birth, she took a look at the child and left again. She had hesitated during the pain of childbirth as her passion had faded. She still admired Xiao Yunjin, but now her heart was as hard as a rock.
"Why is your Highness so reserved? It doesn't matter if you or I write the letter. I'm not feeling well, so please write it for me!"
Xiao Yunjin came to inform him that even if Jiang Wanning disagreed, he still had a way to get Prince Huaiyang to come to Beijing. "That's fine. Since we have a celebration banquet today, I may be back late. You should have a good rest."