Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 179: The Storm in Each Prefecture
The next morning, the imperial decree that the crown prince was confined to his room for a month had spread throughout the Eastern Palace.

The Crown Prince, along with the Crown Princess, two concubines and a group of maids had just received the imperial edict when Wen Mingzhu fainted again.

The prince anxiously carried her back to his bedroom. After the imperial physician's rescue, Wen Mingzhu slowly opened her eyes.

The prince excitedly sat down at the head of the bed and personally helped her up, "Don't worry, my dear, I will solve it as soon as possible."

"Your Highness~ The baby feels sad~" Wen Mingzhu's tears were streaming down her face, but she tried hard not to let them flow out, which made the prince's heart break into thousands of pieces.

The sunlight filtered through the curtains onto the bedside, shining on Wen Mingzhu's slightly drooped eyelids, outlining her gloomy expression.

The eunuch read out the imperial decree confining the prince, which was like an arrow piercing her heart. She couldn't help but feel suffocated and powerless.

The prince was under house arrest for a month, which meant that she could not leave the Eastern Palace to meet Xie Shaoqing at the Dali Temple for a month.

The news that she would never see his handsome face and charming smile again was an unbearable blow to her.

She leaned on the prince's shoulder, clasped her hands tightly, her lips trembling slightly, tears welling up in her eyes but she was stubborn enough not to let them fall.

The prince thought she was worried about him and wanted to reach out to wipe the tears from her eyelashes, but he stopped in mid-air for fear of hurting her.

At this time, Wen Mingzhu had not yet thought about what the prince's house arrest meant. She was just crying because she lost the opportunity to meet Xie Shaoqing.

The prince's voice was filled with great heartache: "Zhu Zhubao, why are you holding back your tears? You are making my heart ache."

At this moment, he secretly swore in his heart that he would love her twice as much in the future and make her never shed tears again.

The prince was swearing in his heart when he saw Wen Mingzhu raise her head with tears in her eyes.

She said with great regret: "Your Highness~ I was thinking of going to the Dali Temple to rescue my brother today. Now that you are under house arrest, can I still go out?"

"........."

The prince's heart had been broken into thousands of pieces before, and when he heard Wen Mingzhu's words, he felt like it was being brutally ravaged and felt very uncomfortable.

His enthusiasm was suddenly dampened, and the air in the bedroom seemed to freeze.

At this moment, the prince was so confused as if he was trapped in an endless darkness, unable to find a way out.

He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down, but the pain in his heart would not go away.

"Oh!" Suddenly, a low sigh broke the silence.

Wen Mingzhu raised her tearful face and saw deep pain and helplessness in the prince's eyes.

"Zhu'er, you fainted in despair just now because you were afraid that you couldn't go out to see your elder brother?"

Wen Mingzhu was so sad that she didn't notice that the prince's name was changed from Zhubaobao to Zhuer.

She said coquettishly, "Yes! Baby is really worried about Big Brother, Your Highness~ Can you think of a way to let Baby go to the Dali Temple to see Big Brother?"

The prince suppressed all his emotions, gently wiped away the tears on her face, and said gently: "Zhu'er, I thought you fainted because you were greatly shocked by my confinement!"

"The baby fainted because his highness was confined to his room and got so angry that his head became congested."

"Zhu Er must have fainted because she was so angry that she couldn't leave the East Palace and see your elder brother!"

"Yes, if His Highness had not been under house arrest..." The prince interrupted Wen Mingzhu for the first time.

"Don't worry, give me two days and I will definitely let you meet Master Wen."

"No, Bao Bao wants to go to the Dali Temple to see Big Brother." Wen Mingzhu said anxiously. She was afraid that the prince would find a way to bring Wen Yanting into the East Palace to meet her, and she believed he had the ability to do so.

But she only wanted to see Xie Shaoqing!

She didn't really want to meet that idiot Wen Yanting.

The disappointed prince didn't think much about it. He thought his concubine was just too worried about her elder brother.

In her heart, her elder brother is more important than his position as crown prince!
But he felt relieved in his heart. His daughter, Bao Bao, was a kind person. "After breakfast, I will have someone take you to the Dali Temple."

"Trojan Horse~ Your Highness is so good to the baby, thank you Your Highness~" Wen Mingzhu kissed the prince excitedly.

She smiled slightly, and the light flickered in her tear-blurred eyes like a star shining in the darkness.

The prince felt mixed emotions. He reached out and held her hand, saying gently, "It's a pity that I can't go with you."

"It's okay~ Baby can do it alone." Wen Mingzhu held the prince's hand and acted coquettishly.

Hearing this, the prince's face became even gloomier, as if covered with a layer of frost. She actually doesn't care about the palace confinement at all!
Unfortunately, Wen Mingzhu was too conceited and arrogant. She thought that since she had a favor card, the prince must love her deeply. So she did not see that the prince was angry and disappointed...

Zhenxihou Mansion.

Because Miss Seventeen was kicked to death by the eldest son of the Wen family at the flower-viewing banquet in the East Palace, the entire mansion fell into a desolate atmosphere.

Because Miss Seventeen died outside, the Fan family did not allow her body into the Fan Mansion.

The Fan family set up a mourning hall at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion and bought a fine mahogany coffin to bury Fan Yurou's body.

Fan Yurou's favorite flowers were quietly placed in the mourning hall. No matter how beautiful the flowers were, no one appreciated them. After all, the person was gone...

Seeing that their masters all had gloomy faces, the servants lowered their heads and tried to reduce their presence as much as possible.

People passing by thought that the servants of the Fan Mansion were grieving over the tragic fate of Miss Fan Shiqi.

In fact, the servants were just afraid of angering the master of the Marquis' Mansion. Mrs. Fan San sat on the futon and cried loudly.

Every cry was like a knife tearing everyone's heart, she was really heartbroken.

She gave birth to four children in total. The first three sons went to outer courtyards to study and practice martial arts when they were five or six years old. When they grew up, they followed their father to the border to fight the enemy.

Only her daughter accompanied her the longest. She had planned a lot for her since she was very young, but in the end, it was all in vain.

When General Fan and his son saw their wife (mother) crying heart-wrenchingly, they became extremely angry.

General Fan Si's eyes were red and his fingers were trembling, as if he wanted to go to the prison and beat Wen Yanting up again.

Inside the Zhenxi Marquis Mansion, every corner was filled with the atmosphere of sadness and anger.

Suddenly, a shrill scream was heard in the courtyard of the sixteenth lady of the second branch of the Marquis's Mansion.

Everyone in the mansion rushed towards the direction where the sound came from, only to see Miss Sixteen with a ferocious look in her eyes, stabbing her maid madly with a pair of scissors in her hand.

The other maids were so frightened that they stepped back one after another, and the scene became chaotic for a while.

Seeing this, the old lady of the Fan family was furious. "Hurry up and hold her back with me. Sixteen, are you crazy?"

"Grandma, my granddaughter will not live any longer." Fan Shiliu was forced by several strong women to kneel in front of the old lady.

"If you don't want to live anymore, why don't you stab yourself in the neck? I don't see you and Seventeen getting along very well."