SFS Chapter 356 With bad intentions
Chapter 356 With bad intentions
The tears that gushed out of his eyes blurred his vision and swallowed up all his senses.
Yu Ying'er heard suppressed crying coming from behind the curtain and stopped walking towards the door.
She closed the door softly, turned around and whispered instructions.
"I'm a little tired. Please prepare some water for me to wash up."
Yu Ying'er lingered in the main hall for almost half an hour before she tiptoed into the inner room again.
The flushed-faced man on the bed had fallen asleep with a frown on his face, but his occasional twitching eyebrows showed that he was not sleeping very soundly.
Almost all of the nourishing ginseng soup prepared by Imperial Physician Zhang went into Yu Ying'er's stomach. The Fourth Prince, who was in pain all over and had no strength, naturally couldn't bear it after tossing and turning for a while.
Originally, Yu Ying'er had no intention of seizing the Fourth Prince's ginseng soup, but the talking he said in his sleep late at night when he was carried back from the thatched cottage revealed his plan for her.
The Fourth Prince had no intention of keeping her by his side. In order not to upset his future wife, he planned to match her with an older guard.
Palace maids were allowed to leave the palace and marry freely when they reached the age of 25, but they spent their best years in the palace.
Going out to be someone's second wife is one of the most helpless choices.
Yu Ying'er once heard the maid in the garden say that few of the palace maids who were released from the palace to become second wives had a good life.
Most palace maids not only had to spend the money they had saved for more than ten years to make a living, but also had to endure the disdain and abuse of their husband's family.
The very few palace maids who lived well did so because of the favor of the palace masters. Their husbands' families had to rely on the palace maids' masters for their livelihood, so naturally they would not dare to look down on them.
Concubine Shu gave her a purse when she stayed in the garden, and most of the silver in it was used by Yu Ying'er to dress up to attract the attention of the Fourth Prince.
The emperor verbally gave her to the Fourth Prince as a concubine, but to put it bluntly, she was still a slave.
As long as the Fourth Prince was unhappy, he could easily send her away.
Even though she was pregnant with the Fourth Prince's only child in his life, Yu Ying'er did not dare to gamble on the Fourth Prince's almost non-existent soft-heartedness.
When she realized that the Fourth Prince might wake up, she deliberately found various excuses to let Li Yu rest.
As expected, the mentally exhausted Li Yu revealed what Doctor Zhang asked them to keep secret.
Yu Ying'er was afraid that the Fourth Prince couldn't hear her, so she repeated it again.
She glanced at the person lying in the brocade quilt with a complicated expression, and without hesitation took out a purple incense stick from the long box on the table. She covered her nose with a handkerchief, lit it on the charcoal basin, and inserted it steadily into the incense burner placed beside the bed.
This calming incense was left by Imperial Physician Zhang, who said that if the Fourth Prince overreacted after waking up, it should be lit to put him back to sleep.
First use the Fourth Prince's physical defects to capture his mind, and then use the calming incense left by Imperial Physician Zhang to make him fall into a deep sleep. This is better than opening his eyes and going crazy.
Yu Ying'er had someone place a chaise longue next to the door outside the inner room, so she could hear everything going on inside the room while lying on it.
About three incense sticks later, she stood up from the chaise longue with clear eyes and covered her nose with a handkerchief before opening the door.
The calming incense had burned out, and the person on the bed didn't move at all.
Yu Ying'er bravely lifted the thick quilt covering the Fourth Prince, exposing his entire body to the air.
Then he opened the tightly closed window to two imperceptible gaps, and the cold wind rushed through them, slowly driving away the heat from the room.
Yu Ying'er, who was pregnant, was afraid of the cold, so she moved a charcoal brazier from the inner room and placed it in the main hall.
Before dawn the next day, Yu Ying'er restored everything to its original state.
She touched the Fourth Prince's forehead and opened Li Yu's door anxiously.
"The master has a high fever again. Please go and ask the imperial physician to come and take a look."
When new charcoal is added to the charcoal basin, the heat inside will increase in a short time, making it less likely for the secret to be exposed.
In this way, the imperial physician came to see the Fourth Prince during the day, and Yu Ying'er took the opportunity to do some small actions at night, causing the Fourth Prince to have recurring high fever and never open his eyes in front of others.
After watching Yu Ying'er torturing the Fourth Prince for several days, An Lingrong summoned Baoque to her side.
"Today, I saw the Emperor glance several times at the place where the Fourth Prince usually kneels. Please have our people subtly remind Yu Ying'er not to upset the Fourth Prince."
After the emperor cleaned up the Imperial Household Department, his control over the palace was greatly enhanced.
Besides, he still had the dreaded "Blood Guillotine" in his hand. As long as he wanted to dig deeper, it would be easy to find out what Yu Ying'er had done.
As a bystander, An Lingrong thought that Yu Ying'er's methods of tormenting people were not very clever, but most people would not have thought that the Fourth Prince's woman would do this.
If she keeps doing this for a long time, she will be discovered sooner or later.
"I will do it as soon as possible."
Baoque handed a cup of honey water to An Lingrong and asked softly.
"My Lady, what should we do with the little gadgets that Prince Guo sent?"
"Bring the boxes in. I want to check them."
Prince Guo was afraid that Longyue would feel bored while recuperating, so he collected some small toys that children in Beijing liked.
This was not only due to the help of the long moon, but also because the children from Yongshou Palace, Yiku Palace and Xianfu Palace all had a share.
The boxes and crates were sent into the harem with great fanfare by the young eunuch who served in Ajin's thatched cottage, and An Lingrong could not refuse.
Naturally, she needs to check these gadgets personally before giving them to children.
After Baoque left, An Lingrong carefully checked the contents of the box, and three palm-sized booklets caught her attention.
This is similar to the "Reunion of Hundred Children" painted by Jiao, the director of the Imperial Observatory during the reign of the late emperor. It vividly depicts the seasonal games of children throughout the year: bamboo horse play, flying kites, catching butterflies, whipping tops, kicking shuttlecocks, throwing pots, swinging on swings, hitting coins, kicking balls, and touching blind fish.
Based on An Lingrong's many years of experience in embroidery, the paintings in these three booklets are colorful and elegant, which can easily attract children's attention.
She was always wary of Prince Guo and asked Baoge to invite Hongzhan.
"This is a gift sent by your Seventeenth Uncle. Come and take a look."
An Lingrong wanted to train Hongzhan, so she pointed to the box on the ground and asked him to check it.
"Mother, I will go check it out right away."
Hongzhan put aside the small gadgets with sharp edges that could hurt people, and finally handed the booklet he had glanced over to An Lingrong.
"Mother, there's something very wrong with these three brightly colored pamphlets. They're clearly trying to lure us out to play."
"Uncle Seventeen has no good intentions."
He said this in a low voice.
Hongzhan put the booklet in his arms and explained with a smile.
"Mother, I cannot let Uncle Seventeen's kindness go to waste. Tomorrow..."