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Chapter 173 No.90 Eight Doubts
Xiaodong guessed right.Not only did Shi Xiu want to go back to Suizhou with them, even King An even sent someone over.

Zhang Ziqian.

Xiaodong was very surprised, and invited Zhang Ziqian to come in and sit down, and served tea.They used to share weal and woe, so they didn't have to hesitate to speak: "Why do you want to go to Suizhou?"

Zhang Ziqian also spoke frankly: "I have long wanted to go out for a walk and take a look. Although the prince took me in, I am short-sighted and can't help. It happens that I will go on the road with you this time, so I have to trouble you to take care of me. "

Xiaodong said: "Where is this, please don't be so ignorant. It is also the first time for me to travel far, and this time we will take care of each other."

Xiaodong also asked An Wang, and she felt that what Zhang Ziqian said was reasonable, but it should not be the whole reason.But what Wang An said was the same as Zhang Ziqian.

Zhang Ziqian only brought a thin small bundle and a long follower.In contrast, Xiaodong was ashamed.Looking at her own big and small luggage, it's like moving house, and then looking at other people's houses, it looks like she's going out, with light clothes and a breeze in her sleeves.

But if she wanted to be like Zhang Ziqian, she definitely couldn't do it.Among other things, the clothes alone are several big burdens.They are also people who have never traveled far, the gap is really too big.

Zhang Ziqian's arrival didn't bother Xiaodong at all.On the contrary, Zhang Ziqian is more or less her natal family, with him around, Xiaodong still feels at ease.

The other is indeed troublesome.

Thinking of Shi Xiu, Xiaodong couldn't relax.

Of course Xiaodong didn't want her to stay in Beijing, but on the way back, it was inevitable that she would look up and look down—knowing that others always miss the things in her home, even if she couldn't steal them, it would be uncomfortable to keep thinking about them. Comfortable.It's like eating a mouthful of cold raw rice, just choking in the throat, unable to swallow, unable to spit out, so stuffy.

Fortunately, by sending her back to Suizhou to her family, this matter can finally come to an end.

Also, Xiaodong thought, they might be able to meet Zhao Zhi when they passed by Pingzhou.

Are the jewelry sold that Yanzi mentioned belonged to Zhao Zhi?At that time, Princess Jingjun gave her such a generous dowry. The gold and silver in the box alone was enough to eat and wear. How could it be so difficult to sell jewelry?Is she doing well?Did someone from her husband's family bully her?
Maybe, it's all my own worrying.That jewelry may not belong to Zhao Zhi, or others may have spread rumors, trying to raise the price under the banner of internal manufacturing.

Xiaodong went to the palace to pay his respects, and also bid farewell by the way.The Empress Dowager Shengci's illness has gradually recovered, and her spirit is much better.When she heard that Xiaodong was going to Suizhou, she was in a daze for a while.

"Didn't you say that you won't go this year?"

"It happened suddenly," Xiaodong explained, "It won't be too long, and I will come back before it snows in winter."

"Well, let's go. Going out is no better than staying at home. You have to be careful about everything. Don't catch a cold, don't be greedy for food, and don't add or remove clothes willfully. You must not go to places that are not peaceful."

"Yes, I made a note, Empress Dowager."

"Actually, if I can, I would also like to go out for a walk." The Empress Dowager Shengci said, "I have entered the palace since I was a teenager, and the farthest I have been to the hot spring palace in these few years."

Xiaodong held her hand with a smile and said: "Then, I will draw some beautiful scenery I saw on the road and bring them back for you to see."

"Okay." The Empress Dowager Shengci ordered Caigu to fetch something, and when she came back after a while, it was all kinds of commonly used pills.What pain-dispelling pills, Bazhen pills, Sangxing powder, and even ointments and wine for external use, and a big pack of medicines for motion sickness and seasickness.Xiaodong hurriedly said, "I have prepared all these too."

"Bring more, and be prepared. I'd rather be trivial now than not have it when it's time to use it. These are too hospital-made and better than those bought outside."

While talking, the fourth prince came.He probably rushed over just after he came back from Jixian Hall, his forehead was sweating, and his little face was flushed with heat.

"Pray for the empress dowager."

"Look at you, why are you leaving in such a hurry?" The Empress Dowager Shengci commanded, "Bring him a bowl of the tremella pear soup with rock sugar."

The fourth prince whispered: "That sweet... Empress Dowager, I still want to drink the iced sour plum soup from last time."

"That won't work, it's too cold, and the imperial doctor said that you have weak spleen and stomach, so you can't eat cold food like that. I also told the people around you not to give you cold food."

It seems that the Fourth Prince is very much in love with the Empress Dowager Shengci.

In the past, apart from Xiaodong herself, I have never seen any princess who can make the Empress Dowager Shengci so concerned and nagging.

But, thinking about it, the fourth prince doesn't have a biological mother, and even though the queen is looking after him, Xiaodong also knows the way the queen treats the second prince with blatant assassination.Empress Dowager Shengci is not close to other grandsons and granddaughters, that is because Empress Dowager Shengde was among them in the early stage.Now when he came to the fourth prince, there was no hindrance. The fourth prince came frequently, and the Holy Empress Dowager treated him kindly.

"Sister Xiaodong," the fourth prince walked up to her: "I heard that you are going on a long trip?"

"Mm, yes." Xiaodong straightened his hair for him.The fourth prince has not yet worn the crown, his hair is still tied into a boy's style, and he wears a long life lock in yellow and red gold inlaid with gemstones around his neck. The child's tiger-headed tiger-brained momentum is gone.

"I want to go too."

Xiaodong smiled, but before he could speak, the Empress Dowager Shengci said, "You're still young."

"However, those three children were not very old that day, they ran all the way from Suizhou to the capital..."

He hasn't forgotten the brothers and sisters of the Li family.Well, too.There were no children of his age in the palace, and when he went to study in Jixian Hall, his two companions were also older than him, very mature and calm.Coupled with the fact that the three brothers and sisters of the Li family were lively and vigorous, and their food was astonishing, it's no wonder he wasn't impressed.Compared with them, the people he usually sees are like wood.

"So this time we have to send them back, and they will definitely be punished heavily when they go back." Xiaodong said the consequences more seriously, lest the fourth prince would have any thoughts of running away from home for fun - that would be terrible.

The three brothers and sisters of the Li family and Shi Xiuneng came all the way from Suizhou to the capital, probably because they used to go out often, they were young when they were born, and they had already gone to Poyi country once with Li Changhe in a caravan.Their toughness is not at the same level as the fourth prince.

The Empress Dowager Shengci asked about the three brothers and sisters of the Li family, and Xiaodong said it was important. The Empress Dowager Shengci shook her head and smiled again: "Bold, ridiculous. They don't even think about it. If there is a mistake on the road, it will have to be let His uncle and aunt have been in his heart for a lifetime. Two boys are enough, how can he bring his sister along? The girl's family can't afford to suffer."

"That's right, Qin Lie also trained them like this. It's a pity that it doesn't hurt or itchy for you to discipline them. If you want to beat them, they are not your own children after all."

"That's right." The Empress Dowager Shengci said, "Hurry up and send it back to his own uncle, so you don't have to worry about it."

The fourth prince was a little unhappy, and he ate the tremella pear soup with rock sugar, mouthful like taking medicine.Caigu was very considerate in doing things, and brought a bowl to Xiaodong. Xiaodong smiled and said, "It's better to be sister Caigu, and don't forget about me. The queen mother only has her grandson in her heart now. I am married. The granddaughter has to stand aside."

The Empress Dowager Shengci was amused by her and said, "If you want to eat, you can take the whole pot back and eat slowly."

The pear soup is warm and sweet, and it feels smooth and moist on the lips and tongue, which is very comfortable.Sure enough, the Empress Dowager Shengci paid more attention to health preservation than before.It's cold in winter, but people's spleen and stomach are much hotter.It's hot in summer, but the spleen and stomach are always weak and cold.So when the imperial physicians talk about it, they talk about warming and nourishing in autumn and winter, but people like to eat spicy and hot food in winter, and like to eat cold food in summer.

Xiaodong and the fourth prince had lunch with the Empress Dowager Shengci, the fourth prince recited a section of Buddhist scriptures, and the two came out only after the Empress Dowager Shengci fell asleep.

Caigu said, "I'll see off the princess."

The fourth prince rushed to say, "I'll see off sister Xiaodong."

Of course Caigu would not argue with him, she smiled and said: "That's fine." Then she ordered people to pack and take away the things that the Empress Dowager Shengci gave to Xiaodong on the road.

The fourth prince reluctantly sent her all the way to the gate of the palace, he could no longer send her out, and he was still unwilling to let go.

Xiaodong smiled and said: "It's not that I won't come back after going. I will come back before it snows in winter and bring you some novelties. How about it? I heard that there are people making bows from buffalo horns over there. Do you like them?" ?"

"Um……"

Although he agreed, he still frowned a little.

"Okay, you can go back quickly."

The Fourth Prince suddenly asked: "Suizhou... is it close to Pingzhou?"

"It's quite close." Xiaodong was a little surprised: "Why did you think of saying this?"

"That sister Zhao Zhi married to Pingzhou, right? You don't want to see her, she's not good."

Xiaodong was extremely surprised: "What?"

The fourth prince still remembered that Zhao Zhi had made Xiaodong feel strange.When this child was pretending to be a girl, he was probably afraid that his secret would be leaked if he said something wrong, so he never opened his mouth and was very eccentric and withdrawn.And at that time, Xiaodong and Zhao Zhi hadn't dealt with him a few times.

"Before watching the lamp that time, I heard someone tell her not to be with you."

Xiaodong was startled in horror, the scorching sun shone on her body, but she felt a chill down her back and shivered from her heart.

She lowered her voice and asked, "What?"

"That time there was an assassin coming, she must have known in advance."

The fourth prince just said this, without saying anything else, turned around and ran away.The two little eunuchs and maids who followed her hurriedly followed.

Standing there, Xiaodong felt his lips and tongue were dry, his lips and teeth were stuck together, and his ears were buzzing, as if all the blood in his body had rushed to his head.

That time when I looked at the lanterns on the Lantern Festival, the figure that jumped out of the darkness——

She would often revisit that scene in her nightmares, death was so close...but usually she doesn't think about it.

What did the Fourth Prince say--

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Ahhh, I'm so nervous, I'll go out after posting this chapter. .Always feel like something is missing.But I can't think of what it is. . .

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