The rural doctor bought a husband who was very treacherous

Chapter 241 Prince Li Returns to the Capital

"Second brother, come in. I'll take your pulse." Su Tang walked towards the second prince into the flower hall.

"I just went back to Dahe Village a few days ago. The environment in the mountains is good this year, and there are no hunters going up to hunt. There are simply too many wild animals in the mountains. When I went back, I asked the people in the valley to help hunt some. They were all brought back alive. I'll see if there are any that are not suitable for them. We can keep them first and have them cooked when Second Brother is well again."

"Then please help me take a look. When I go back, I can talk to Aunt Zhao about it, so that she won't always forbid me to eat this or that." The second prince smiled and walked to the table in the flower hall and sat down. He raised his arm and placed it on the table, waiting for Su Tang to take his pulse.

Su Tang smiled and walked to the cabinet beside her, took out a pulse pillow from it, and then walked to the table again.

"You even put a pulse pillow in your flower hall." The second prince joked.

"Yes, it will be more convenient to take Qi Lingheng's pulse on weekdays." Su Tang said, placing the pulse pillow under the second prince's slightly raised hand.

In fact, she had just taken this pulse pillow out of her space. In order to prevent the Second Prince from noticing her space, she turned around and went to the cabinet beside her, pretending to take it out of the cabinet.

Putting her hand on the Second Prince's wrist, Su Tang carefully examined his pulse.

The Second Prince also looked at Su Tang's face at this time. Her face was exactly like his mother's, which made him occasionally feel as if the person sitting in front of him was the person he had almost forgotten.

Fortunately, the Second Prince's pulse was not serious, and his health was much better than when she first met the Second Prince.

The Second Prince must have been exercising regularly after recovering from his illness, and his pulse is now steady and strong, just like that of an ordinary person.

Taking her hand back, Su Tang smiled and said to the Second Prince, "Second Prince's health is much better than that of ordinary people. It seems that Second Prince can satisfy his craving today."

Su Tang gave a few instructions to Xia Mei who was beside her. Xia Mei responded and retreated to instruct the kitchen to prepare dinner.

"You just said that Lingheng was not in good health, but I see he looks good. Could he be injured somewhere?" The second prince withdrew his hand and looked at Qi Lingheng who was sitting next to him.

"I'm fine, but Tang'er sometimes wants to practice and insists on asking me to take her pulse." After Qi Lingheng finished speaking, he glanced at Su Tang, his eyes full of doting.

The Second Prince laughed out loud upon seeing this, "So it was Ling Heng who was playing with the Imperial Sister."

"Listen to your powerful voice. Why doesn't Aunt Zhao let you eat meat? You can't lack meat. You still have to eat some on weekdays." Su Tang replied with a smile.

"Later, when my second brother returns, I will also bring some food for Madam Zhao, and you can take it back with you."

"Okay, Madam Zhao will eat your food and she won't nag me anymore this time."

For a moment, the entire flower hall was bustling with cheerful laughter emanating from time to time.

The second prince came today, bringing only a few eunuchs who usually accompanied him. Madam Zhao, who was too strict with him, did not come with him.

At dinner, Su Tang asked people to prepare a large table of dishes, and Chunmei and Xiamei helped the masters to set the table.

"This is pheasant meat. It is indeed chewier than domestic chicken." The second prince praised the game he had just eaten as he ate.

Most of the dishes on the table were game. Of course, there were also some vegetarian dishes, but they were all wild vegetables from the mountains. They were indeed very different from the dishes that the Second Prince usually ate.

During the meal, the second prince put down his chopsticks when he was 70% full.

In fact, this is already much more than he usually eats.

But when he put down his chopsticks, Su Tang was still eating.

Su Tang saw that the Second Prince put down his chopsticks and did not pick them up again for a long time. She wiped her mouth and asked, "Why don't you eat, Second Prince?"

"I'm full. I ate a lot today. I can't eat too much all of a sudden."

"Yes, that's true." Seeing this, Su Tang had to quickly finish the food in the bowl and stopped eating.

After dinner, Su Tang and the others strolled in the garden with the Second Prince for a while before going to Qi Lingheng’s study.

"I invited Second Prince to come here today because I have something to tell him." Seeing Qi Feng closing the study door, there were only Su Tang, Qi Lingheng and the Second Prince in the room.

"Yeah." The second prince nodded and responded softly, motioning Su Tang to continue.

"After returning from Dahe Village, my father called Qi Lingheng and I into the palace. We talked for a while, and my father said that a spring banquet would be held in the palace in a few days."

"Well, my father also sent Eunuch Fu to tell me that I heard that the Queen Mother missed the princes and wanted to see her grandchildren as she was getting old."

"Yes, Father said that Prince Li and his family were also summoned back to Kyoto."

The Second Prince raised his eyebrows after hearing this and said with a smile: "I haven't seen Prince Li for a long time."

"Is Prince Li easy to get along with?" Su Tang asked as she poured a cup of tea for the Second Prince.

"I was young at that time, and I only remember that Prince Li had a very good relationship with my father and the Queen Mother. After he was assigned a residence outside the palace, he often went to the palace to see the Queen Mother."

"Oh." Su Tang asked with a smile, "If he can talk to the Queen Mother, he must be very good at pleasing others."

The second prince smiled after hearing this. The Queen Mother had summoned Su Tang to the palace before, and it seemed that there were some unpleasantness between her and Su Tang every time. It seemed that the Queen Mother always wanted to find fault with Su Tang. After all, she did not grow up under her nose, and the Queen Mother disliked Su Tang very much.

"The Queen Mother is indeed not easy to please, and she doesn't like me very much either." The second prince replied.

He had been frail and sickly since childhood and rarely went out. He was definitely not as favored by the empress dowager as those people who often surrounded her and talked to her.

"Maybe the Queen Mother simply doesn't like our mother's branch." Su Tang said, fiddling with the teacup in her hand.

The second prince suddenly seemed to remember something, the smile on his face disappeared, and he glanced at Qi Lingheng who had stood up and was reading at the desk.

"I remember one time, the Queen Mother did lose her temper with my mother, but my mother said that it was only when she went to pay her respects to the Queen Mother that she bumped into Concubine Li who had just entered the palace, and that's why the Queen Mother lost her temper."

"Is Concubine Li also a relative of the Queen Mother?" Su Tang asked puzzledly.

In her impression, the Queen Mother seemed to only like people who were related to her family.

"Yes, Concubine Li is the legitimate daughter of the Empress Dowager's mother's family, the Liu family."

Su Tang...isn't this a cousin relationship with Emperor Jing? A child born from such close relatives will definitely be a fool.

However, Su Tang, the third prince, had met him once and he didn't look stupid.

No, the third prince is the child of Prince Li and Concubine Li. They are not closely related, so the child is not stupid.

Seeing Su Tang start to daydream again, the second prince tapped Su Tang on the forehead. Perhaps because Su Tang grew up outside the palace, she had a lively personality and it was very easy to talk to her.

"You called me here today, but what does Prince Li want?"

The second prince knew that Su Tang definitely didn’t invite him here just to have a meal.

Of course, he could never have imagined the relationship between Prince Li, Concubine Li and the Third Prince.

So when he heard Su Tang's question just now, he only thought whether something had happened to Prince Li.

"Didn't we go to Jiangnan some time ago?"

"Well, I know that."

"Qi Lingheng and I went to the Nanshan Mountain to hang out, and accidentally discovered that someone was privately mining iron ore and forging weapons and heavy armor."

"It's Prince Li's man." asked the second prince.

"Ah."

The Second Prince finally understood. No wonder Su Tang suddenly asked about the situation of Prince Li and Concubine Li.

The Governor of Jiangnan was Concubine Li's brother, and all the officials in the court knew about it.

But why would Concubine Li's brother help Prince Li to do such a rebellious thing?

Now, Concubine Li’s man is the emperor. What is Concubine Li’s brother thinking about pushing a man who has no relationship with their family to the throne?

"Isn't he going to marry his daughter to Prince Li?" This was all the Second Prince could think of.

"I don't know about this either. I feel like the whole family of Concubine Li has problems with their brains." Su Tang shook her head. The matter between Concubine Li and Prince Li that Qi Lingheng told her should be told by someone else.

However, the information Su Tang revealed to the Second Prince today is enough for the Second Prince to go back and think about deployment.

The Second Prince had no intention of staying in Prince Qi's Mansion for long at this moment, so he sat for a while and then went back.

"Hey, it's quite late. Let's go to bed early." After seeing off the second prince, Su Tang yawned and pulled Qi Lingheng to the bedroom in the backyard.

"Now that we're back, let's go take a hot spring bath." After entering the house, Qi Lingheng said to Su Tang.

"Okay, let me relax." Su Tang stretched lazily. Today was quite busy.

a few days later.

Prince Li entered Kyoto with his family.

Prince Li and his entourage brought a large number of followers and soldiers with them. The long team blocked the entire road leading into the capital from the South Gate.

On the surface, they said that the journey was too long and they were afraid of meeting someone without good eyesight on the road who would disrupt their journey to Beijing. In fact, they were probably afraid that someone would attack them.

After all, he knew very well what Prince Li had done before.

Fortunately, there was no ambush along the way as he had expected, and the group arrived in Kyoto safely.

"Your Highness Prince Li, His Majesty has ordered that no more than fifty guards can enter Kyoto." Eunuch Fu, who came to greet Prince Li at the city gate of Kyoto, replied with a smile.

"Which mansion doesn't have a lot of guards? My house in Kyoto has been empty for a long time since I moved in. I brought 300 guards with me, but why can't I bring them in?"

Prince Li was sitting on a tall warhorse, holding a whip. Although he was over forty years old, he was not as bloated as some other members of the royal family.

His tall and straight figure looks rather sturdy, and he looks full of energy sitting on the tall horse.

At first glance, I thought she was only about 26 or 27 years old.

I wonder how many young women will look at me with admiration after I enter Kyoto.

"Hehe, Prince Li, this is also the rule of Kyoto. Don't worry, Kyoto is very safe now, the people in the city are very well behaved, and the city defense has not had any trouble for more than ten years. No one will disturb you." Eunuch Fu replied with a smile.

"But I have brought all these people here. I can't just send them back. When I return to my fiefdom in a few days, I will need someone to escort me." Prince Li's face darkened, and he waved the hand holding the whip at the people following him.

"You don't have to worry about that. The guards can be arranged to stay temporarily in the camp outside the capital."

The warhorse under Prince Li seemed to sense his master's unhappiness and kept stomping on the ground with its four hooves.

After a long while, Prince Li smiled and replied, "Hahaha, then I will bring fifty guards into the city. We can't make things difficult for Eunuch Fu, right?"

"Alas, Prince Li still loves me, an old servant. So you can decide which people you want to bring into the city. As for the rest, I will let the people from the camp outside the capital take them there." Eunuch Fu replied with a smile while half bowing.

Prince Li stretched out his hand to grab the reins, turned his horse's head and walked towards the team behind him.

After a while, Prince Li returned again, and most of the long team of guards behind him also retreated.

It seems that those people are going to the camp outside Beijing.

Finally, Eunuch Fu also got on the carriage. His carriage led the way, followed by Prince Li and his family.

In the end, only fifty guards were brought into the city.

But Prince Li brought his family with him to the capital this time, so he also brought a lot of slaves, maids, and old women.

The long and mighty procession stretched as long as an entire street.

Eunuch Fu took Prince Li and his entourage to Prince Li's residence in Kyoto first.

The mansion had been empty all this time, and on weekdays only some old servants left behind by Prince Li cleaned the mansion.

The news that Prince Li was returning to the capital had already been received, and Prince Li's mansion had been cleaned. At this time, the vermilion main gate was wide open, and several old servants stood at the door to welcome Prince Li and his entourage.

Prince Li arranged for the servants and guards to return to the mansion first, while he himself, along with his family, accompanied Eunuch Fu to the palace to meet Emperor Jing.

When they arrived outside the palace, seven or eight carriages finally stopped at the palace gate.

Several female relatives got out of the carriage one after another.

The woman in the lead exuded a dazzling glow all over her body, as if she was covered in jewels.

Her black hair fell like a waterfall, gently brushing against her snow-white skin, making her look even more charming and beautiful.

Behind her were three men and one woman, all dressed very luxuriously, as if they were wearing all the jewels they could possibly wear.

Gives people a feeling of nouveau riche.

"Mother, this palace is indeed tall and majestic, and is not much different from our Chenyang Palace."

"Of course. Your father has lived here since he was a child. He is used to it. He will have trouble sleeping if the living environment is changed." Princess Li, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, patted her daughter's hand with some pride, not realizing that there was anything wrong with what she said to her daughter.

Eunuch Fu and his companions, who came back with Prince Li, had gloomy expressions on their faces, but they were all eunuchs and imperial guards in the palace, and they definitely had no right to lecture Prince Li on his words and deeds.

However, no one dared to respond to Princess Li's words. They all stood aside silently with their heads lowered.

Prince Li had taken in the expressions of the people around him at this time. He raised a mocking smile, then changed his expression to a kind one, and said to Eunuch Fu: "Don't keep my brother and mother waiting for too long, take us to the palace as soon as possible."