slave like jade

Chapter 152
Entering autumn, it was supposed to be a season with little rain, but unexpectedly, the southern part of Daliang had a continuous month of heavy rain. The sudden continuous rainstorm flooded a quarter of the territory in the southern part of Daliang.

Although the autumn harvest season has passed, the food that had just been harvested was washed away along with the houses by the rapid and heavy flood. Immediately, a quarter of the territory of Daliang was reduced to a flood area, and countless people overnight Homeless, reduced to disaster victims.

The flood passed, leaving nothing for the people to eat and clothe, and within a few days, the disaster area was already full of dead bodies.Countless drowned, starved, and frozen to death...

When the news came, the government and the public were shocked. Liang Wang led his officials and officials to lock up in the Palace of Qinzheng for a day and a night, discussing ways to relieve the disaster.

Seeing the sky brighten up again, and looking at the exhausted courtiers, King Liang had no choice but to let everyone go back to rest first, and discuss the disaster relief later.

Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao walked out of the hall with tired faces. Xiaodao thought of Yu Ruyan, hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help calling Mu Lingzhi to stop, and asked with concern: "Sister... sister was frightened yesterday? Are you okay?" ?”

Mu Lingzhi was so exhausted that he collapsed, and said weakly: "Don't worry, she's fine, but she's just got a little cold, I've asked Dr. Wu to show her, and she's taken the medicine to dispel the cold, don't worry, I Will take good care of her."

After listening to his words, Xiaodao felt relieved, the two were about to break up in front of the hall, but when Xiaoru came running out of breath, she ran too fast and her feet were unsteady, and she bumped into Xiaodao's arms.

Xiaodao's face was sullen, and he reprimanded: "You didn't stay in the harem so early in the morning, what did you come here for? Do you have a long memory..."

"Xiaodao, something happened to your sister. I saw her come out of your mother's concubine's bedroom with blood on her face. She looked very ugly..."

Before Xiaoru finished speaking, Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao were already shocked.

In the next second, Mu Lingzhi rushed to Xiaoru and asked anxiously, "You can see clearly, she entered the palace last night? Where is she now?"

Scared by his appearance, Xiao Ru took two steps back, pouted her lips, and pointed in the direction of the palace gate: "Yes, she has entered the palace, but she has left the palace now!"

Hearing this, Mu Lingzhi rushed towards the gate of the palace impatiently. Xiaodao originally wanted to chase him out of the palace to see Yu Ruyan, but when he remembered what he was warned by his father when he returned to the palace yesterday morning, he couldn't help gritting his teeth. Stamping and running towards Yaohua...

Mu Lingzhi rushed to the gate of the palace, and immediately asked Tong Qian to drive back. Seeing his anxious eyes burning, Tong Qian didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he quickly jumped on the pole, raised his whip and ran towards the palace.

However, before the carriage took two steps, it stopped suddenly, and Mu Lingzhi in the carriage couldn't help urging: "Hurry up!"

There was no sound outside, Mu Lingzhi was anxious, and was about to lift the curtain to take a look, but just as his fingers touched the curtain, the curtain was lifted from the outside, and a person got into the compartment, but it was Mu Ziyue.

Seeing her for the first time, Mu Lingzhi was slightly startled——

He always thought that she was still seeking medical treatment in Camellia Town, but now she suddenly appeared in front of him, at this hour, which surprised him a little.

However, seeing her appearing here at this time, Mu Lingzhi's eyes seemed to have thought of something, and his deep eyes were stained with frost.

Reunited after goodbye, without a word of greeting, he said in a cold tone, "Why are you here?"

His indifference caused Mu Ziyue's joy to stagnate slightly. After being separated for such a long time, she missed him day and night. Knowing that he hadn't left the palace yet, she purposely waited here for one night because she couldn't wait to see him, but when they met, His cold attitude made her feel chills for no reason!

Suppressing the soreness in her heart, Mu Ziyue smiled brightly at him as usual: "I just came back from Camellia Town, and after hearing that the imperial concubine has been conferred, I wanted to go to the palace to celebrate and pay her respects, and... By the way, I brought her some good news, you will be happy to hear it..."

As soon as he heard that she went to see his mother and concubine, Mu Lingzhi knew without thinking that Yu Ruyan's accident in Yaohua Palace was definitely related to her, so his face turned cold, and before she finished speaking, his tone was cold and cold Said: "Go down, I want to rush back to the mansion to see Yanyan!"

"Ling Zhi, I know you haven't eaten all night, I've ordered your favorite food for you at the Shuyu Restaurant..."

"Go down!"

"Ling Zhi, you... don't you even wonder what good news I brought back?"

"I don't want to hear it."

"I...I've been waiting for you here all night, can you send me back?"

Mu Ziyue trembled in her heart. Looking at the unfeeling expression on Mu Lingzhi's face, she was extremely flustered, and suddenly thought of something, she stepped forward and took Mu Ling's hand to touch her hair, and said in a trembling voice: "Look, look , my hair has been cured. For you, I have suffered a lot to cure my hair. Look, I am the same as before..."

Mu Lingzhi shook off her hand, opened the curtain of the car, and shouted to the outside, the copper coin immediately bowed in, and urged Mu Ziyue, who was sitting aside with a sad face, with a look of embarrassment: "Miss Mu, You go down, if you have anything to do, you can talk to His Highness later, His Highness is really in a hurry to go back to the residence, and he has no time to see you off!"

Of course Mu Ziyue knew that Mu Lingzhi was worried about Yu Ruyan when she was in a hurry to return home, she felt sad, hated and unwilling, she was still thinking about what to say, Mu Lingzhi's voice was cold and piercing: "There are people coming and going at the gate of this palace. You don't care about your own reputation, you also have to take care of this palace's reputation, so let's go!"

Speaking of this, no matter how thick-skinned Mu Ziyue was, she couldn't stay any longer, she was driven out of the car by Mu Lingzhi with a pale face.

In the next second, the carriage left without any regrets...

Watching the carriage leave, Mu Ziyue's heart ached, she staggered and almost fell, but Die Xiang quickly held her up!
"Why? Dioxin, he treated me like a treasure before, as long as it was what I liked and what I wanted, he would pick it for me even if it was the stars and moons in the sky, but now, he treats me like a treasure for that bitch. I'm like dung..."

"Die Xiang, I'm not reconciled, how can I not compare to her, obviously I am my childhood friend with him, obviously I am the most suitable man and woman with him... I have paid so much for him, for him, I have gone through all kinds of troubles to heal my scalp, just to make him not dislike me...why why!"

Blood mixed with tears fell into the dust on the ground, Mu Ziyue's pointed nails dug deep into the flesh, her palms were bloody and bloody due to the pinching of iron, but she didn't feel any pain at all, her face was covered with tears Majestic...

Seeing her hurting herself like this, Die Xiang hurriedly pulled her hand away, looked at the people coming and going, and quickly helped her into the carriage beside her, and said distressedly: "Master, don't be sad, didn't the empress say, As long as His Highness doesn't marry you for a day, she won't allow him to marry Yu Ruyan, so don't be sad, master."

"With the support of the imperial concubine, His Highness is filial, and will definitely marry you. As long as you enter the palace, are you afraid that you will not have the opportunity to get closer to His Highness? Between men and women, the relationship can only be good if they get along with each other. That bitch is Because of sticking to His Highness every day, His Highness now regards her seriously, and the friendship between Master and His Highness for many years is no worse than her."

Die Xiang's persuasion not only did not make Mu Ziyue feel more at ease, but made her even more sad, she said sadly with tears: "I don't want Ling Zhi to marry me as a last resort, I want him to welcome me into the house willingly... But now he is instigated by that bitch to hate me so much, even if I enter the palace in the future, but with that bitch's current status, I am no match for her, if I don't even have Ling Zhi's favor, I am not It is even more impossible to gain a foothold in the palace—”

Seeing her getting more and more sad as she talked, Die Xiang couldn't help saying: "Could it be that the master has retreated and doesn't want to marry the Third Highness?"

"Hmph!" Mu Ziyue snorted coldly, wiped the tears off her face, and gritted her teeth: "I am destined to marry Mu Lingzhi in this life. What a ghost. And now, I have no way out!"

Die Xiang immediately echoed the words: "Yes, master, don't be afraid of her, even if she is a princess, but she is far away in a foreign country, she is no more powerful than your prime minister's house in Daliang, as you have seen, even Concubine Xie has one heart She wants to win over our Mufu, so you don't have to worry about being bullied by her."

Thinking of Concubine Xie's words, Mu Ziyue's confidence suddenly lifted, her fighting spirit regained her heart, and she said coldly, "Go back to the manor!"

Mu Lingzhi returned to Yunsong Courtyard as soon as he returned home. When he entered the room, Doctor Wu had already arrived and was helping Yu Ruyan to clean up the wound on her forehead, while Brother An and Dongcao stood by and cried. Mu Lingzhi finally came back, Brother An couldn't help but said sadly: "Your Highness, you can come back, the princess..."

He came to the bed in three steps at a time. Mu Lingzhi looked at Yu Ruyan, who was pale and scarred on the forehead, and his heart was trembling. He asked Doctor Wu in a hoarse voice: "What's wrong with the princess? Where is the injury? "

Dr. Wu frowned and said: "The trauma on Wangfei's forehead is not a problem, wrap it up and take care of it carefully, and I will give her the ointment to remove the scars and it won't leave scars, but..."

"Princess was invaded by the cold wind. She was only suffering from a cold before, but now she has a fever. The alternation of cold and heat is very troublesome. Even the medicine is difficult to prescribe, and now she has passed out, but the situation is not very good... "

Mu Lingzhi's whole body froze. He looked at Yu Ruyan who was dazed on the bed in disbelief. He stepped forward to caress her forehead with one hand, and took her hand with the other. But the tentacles are cold, and the face is also pale, the description is very scary!

"Doctor Wu, I beg you, no matter what method you use, you must make the princess get better..." Mu Lingzhi's voice was trembling, and his words were incoherent.

Dr. Wu was startled when he heard the words, and quickly knelt down and said, "Your Highness is serious, I will try my best to cure the concubine's illness."

After working continuously for two days and two nights, Mu Lingzhi's eyes were already black and blue, and his eyes were bloodshot, describing him as abnormally haggard. Now seeing Yu Ruyan falling ill, he was so anxious that he couldn't speak.

Seeing his appearance, Dr. Wu was really distressed, so he couldn't help persuading him: "Don't worry, Your Highness, although the cold and fever are troublesome, I must find a way to make the princess get better, but the cold and fever can't be cured so quickly, and it is useless for your Highness to worry." , let’s go to rest first, as long as there is an old man guarding here.”

"Don't watch her wake up, don't watch her, I'm not going anywhere!" Mu Lingzhi flatly rejected Dr. Wu's words, caressing Yu Ruyan's pale face pitifully, and said firmly: "She She is so sick, with me staying here, she must be at ease, and I can be at ease too! You don't need to worry about me, go and prescribe her medicine."

Doctor Wu couldn't help it, so he prescribed the medicine and spent copper money to get the medicine.

But Mu Lingzhi called Brother An and Dongcao to the front, and said coldly, "What's going on? Wasn't she fine when I left? Why did she become like this after not seeing her for a day?"

Brother An and Dongcao were taken aback by his appearance, and Brother An hurriedly told him what happened in the Tiantian mansion while trembling.

Hearing that Dongcao followed Yu Ruyan into the palace, Mu Lingzhi turned his eyes to her and asked her to tell the whole story about the palace. I don't know, and Yu Ruyan didn't say a word to her after she came out, so how could she say it clearly.

Mu Lingzhi's eyes sank, he opened the door and walked out, and with a wave of his hand, a ghostly figure flew in front of him. He gave some instructions to the hidden guard, and after the dark guard got the order, he turned around and left...

In less than an hour, the hidden guard came back and reported to Mu Lingzhi everything that happened in Yaohua Palace.

Hearing this, Mu Lingzhi's eyes lit up with murderous aura, he clenched his hands into fists, and slapped a bowl-sized pine tree in the yard, and the pine tree fell down with a 'crack' under his fury...

Back at the house, Brother An happened to come in with the boiled medicine. Mu Lingzhi took the medicine bowl from her hand and fed Yu Ruyan the medicine with his own hands.

Yu Ruyan was shivering in fear of the cold all the time. Brother An and the others brought two quilts to cover her body but it was still useless. When Mu Lingzhi saw this, he took off his clothes and went to bed and hugged her tightly in his arms. Body temperature warms her bed...

Although he was exhausted to the extreme, and his body sank as soon as he touched the eyelids of the bed, he didn't feel sleepy at all. He was afraid that it would be bad if he didn't pay attention to Yu Ruyan, so he kept his eyes open and watched intently. in her arms...

After drinking the medicine, and with Mu Lingzhi using her body as a warming stove, Yu Ruyan's cold body finally gradually warmed up. In the afternoon, she was sweating profusely, and she slowly woke up.

Yu Ruyan woke up slowly from the coma, her head was still dazed, she smelled the familiar ambergris on Mu Lingzhi's body, she was startled, raised her head with difficulty, and met Mu Lingzhi's eyes full of concern, she couldn't help but startled She was stunned, suddenly didn't know where she was, her mind was so confused that she only thought that she was still in Concubine Xie's Yaohua Palace.

Thinking of Concubine Xie Guifei and Mu Ziyue uniting to force her to accept Mu Ziyue into the mansion, Yu Ruyan couldn't help but feel colic in her heart, and when she was about to speak, she found her throat was burning with pain.

Mu Lingzhi, who had been staring at her without moving his eyes, finally let go of his hanging heart when he saw her wake up, and said happily, "You finally woke up, but do you feel uncomfortable there? Have a headache? Are you still cold? "

After all, he told Brother An and the others to invite Doctor Wu to come in.After Dr. Wu showed it to her, he breathed a sigh of relief and sighed, "The cold air on Wangfei's body has dissipated a lot, but the fever has not completely subsided, so we need to be more careful!"

Hearing Dr. Wu's words, Mu Lingzhi felt relieved for a while, then fed her medicine and stayed by the bed, unwilling to leave.

Yu Ruyan looked weakly at his tired face and the red blood in his eyes, the stubble had grown out, and his eyes were black and blue, knowing that he must be worried that he hadn't rested for a moment, couldn't help heartache, opened his mouth to persuade him Said: "I'm fine, you go and have a rest."

The copper coin was also impatient, so he couldn't help but interjected: "Yes, the princess has woken up now, it's good that we are here to guard, Your Highness should go to have a good rest, I haven't closed my eyes for a few nights, and I have to go to the court to discuss matters tomorrow morning... ..."

"Speak up!" Mu Lingzhi glared at him, waved him back, looked back at the worry on Yu Ruyan's face, and persuaded him gently: "Don't worry about me, I've been marching all year round, so I don't sleep for a few days like this It's normal for me, you should be good, rest well, be obedient, don't think about anything, everything depends on me!"

Mu Lingzhi's gentle palm gently caressed her pale face, and his voice was as gentle as the spring breeze in March.After hearing his words, Yu Ruyan felt sore, she couldn't help thinking of Concubine Xie Gui and Mu Ziyue's hard work for her, her eyes turned red, although she couldn't cry, her voice was choked.

Before in Yaohua Palace, she gritted her teeth while she was sick and persisted in confronting Concubine Xie Gui and Mu Ziyue. In fact, at that moment, her heart was extremely helpless and painful.

At that time, she almost fell down several times, but she didn't want them to see her cowardice and helplessness, she gritted her teeth and persisted, and she couldn't hold herself down until she went out of the palace...

Now thinking of the words that Concubine Xie Guifei scolded her, she suddenly understood that when she came to Daliang far away from her homeland, Mu Lingzhi was her only support. scold.

Endless sadness and grievances filled Yu Ruyan's heart...

Now that she heard Mu Lingzhi's words, the grievances in her heart suddenly flooded, and she couldn't help but sit up and tell him about Mu Ziyue.

Kankan was about to sit up, but his eyes were dizzy again. Mu Lingzhi hurriedly hugged her and lay down again, as if guessing what she was going to do, he said word by word: "Don't worry, don't be sad, Yaohua I already know about the affairs in the palace, because of me, you have been wronged—"

Thinking of Mu Ziyue teaming up with his concubine mother to force her, Mu Lingzhi was filled with hatred and anger, and caressed her injured forehead with his hand. His heart ached so badly that he said in a deep voice, "I hereby assure you— — Mu Ziyue, I will never marry her in this life, and I don't even want to know her in the next life!"

"Don't worry, no matter who speaks, I won't marry her even if it's the emperor's imperial edict. As for the jade girl she said, I don't believe it, or I don't believe everything she says now." I don't believe it."

After hearing his words, Yu Ruyan's heart fell to the ground completely, and she said: "Before, I was afraid that Your Highness would blame me for rejecting Namu Ziyue's entry into the mansion so decisively, but now that I know His Highness's intentions, I feel relieved."

Mu Lingzhi smiled and said: "You are good at refusing. Remember, in Daliang, although you don't have the backing of your natal family, you have me. I am not only your husband, but also your married family. No one dares to bully you." You went."

Yu Ruyan's eyes turned hot, she stared blankly at the gentle and affectionate man in front of her, the warmth in her heart completely dispelled the previous haze, and finally she grinned comfortably at him.

She was touched and said: "With the support of my natal family, Your Highness, I am not afraid at all—really!"

Seeing that her mood finally eased, Mu Lingzhi was also relieved. He ordered the servants to prepare hot water. Yu Ruyan thought that he was finally willing to take a bath, change clothes and rest, so she couldn't help laughing and said, "Your Highness needs to take a good wash." Once washed, I haven't touched water for two or three days, although I don't dislike you, but if you go to court like this tomorrow, I'm afraid none of the civil and military officials will dare to stand with you."

Mu Lingzhi just smiled without making a sound.

After a while, everything in the bathing room was ready. Yu Ruyan was about to tell him to go to rest directly after bathing and not to come to her room again. Unexpectedly, before the words were spoken, Mu Lingzhi turned around and wrapped her in the quilt Li picked them up together and walked towards the bathroom.

He said as he walked, "Of course I can take a shower, but you must be uncomfortable if you sweat all over just now, so I'll wash it for you first and then wash it myself!"

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's face turned red immediately, although the two of them were already close by skin, but asking him to help her take a bath, this...

She huddled under the quilt blushingly and refused: "Your Highness, let Brother An and the others do these things, you are tired too, hurry up and rest..."

"I am not tired!"

"Your Highness, how can you, a prince, do such a thing? People will laugh at you..."

"My pleasure!"

"Your Highness..."

"Stop talking, no reason is useless. I am your husband. I take care of you when you are sick. Let others say whatever they like. I can do everything as long as I like it!"

No matter what Yu Ruyan said, she still couldn't persuade Mu Lingzhi.Entering the steamy bathing room, he carefully served her to bathe and change her clothes. Although her movements were a bit clumsy, she was considerate and thoughtful, and he took care of everything. Dry her off little by little.

From the beginning to the end, Yu Ruyan couldn't grab the cotton towel in his hand even if she wanted to do it herself, so she had no choice but to let him serve her with a red face...

As the sun set, Yu Ruyan felt much refreshed after taking a comfortable bath, drank a bowl of medicine, and soon fell asleep soundly.

When he saw that she was sleeping soundly, Mu Lingzhi went to wash up by himself in peace of mind. After washing up, he told Brother An and the others to guard Yu Ruyan carefully. Before he had time to rest, he went out again with the copper coins.

Tong Qian followed him with a puzzled face, seeing that it was almost evening, he couldn't help chasing him and asked: "Your Highness, why don't you take a good rest at the mansion, where are you going at this time?"

Mu Lingzhi walked out quickly without looking back, his face was tense, his expression was not gloomy, and he said coldly: "Because of me, Mu Ziyue hurt her face again and again. I don't want this kind of thing to happen again, so It's time to make a break with her—a complete break!"

(End of this chapter)