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Chapter 463 Two Defeats (3)
Just as he took off Mrs. Lu's hairpin and was about to untie her hair, the old man suddenly came in with a gloomy face. As soon as he came in, he ordered Mrs. Lu in a deep voice: "Let someone take my court clothes. Get it, help me change my clothes, and take two hundred-year-old wild ginseng, some medicinal herbs for clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and I will take it to the palace immediately!"

Lu Mingxuan and Nanny Zhang hurriedly bowed their knees to salute the old man, while the old lady Lu said in amazement: "It's not a year or a festival, why does the old man suddenly want to go to the palace, and even bring supplements and medicinal materials into the palace? Is the nobleman sick?" Even if a concubine is really sick, it is logical that she or the eldest daughter-in-law should come forward, so why should he go in person?
The old man said in a deep voice: "It's not that some nobleman in the palace is sick, it's... the second prince is sick, and now the emperor has ordered him to be taken to Chen Concubine's palace. The imperial doctor said that the eyes are the most damaged. I may not be able to see anymore, even though I am already old, I still have the title of Prince Shaobao, now I have to go to the palace for a formality."

In the old days, when the old prince passed away, the emperor thought of his merits and decreed to confer the rank of the prince's junior teacher. Although it was only a vain job, he should be a subordinate official of the prince, but because there is no prince yet, the old prince Ye is regarded as the nominal master of all the princes, that's why he said this.

"The second prince's eyes are gone?" Mrs. Lu was startled and confused, "What kind of disease is so serious that it will damage the eyes like this? It stands to reason that the second prince is now confined in the mansion, and he can't touch him all day long." How could a few people suffer from such a serious illness for no reason?"

The old man snorted coldly, and said angrily: "I'm even ashamed to talk about him, he wasn't sick at all, but got into a jealous fight with other people in that unclean place, making it like this ..."

Before he could say a word, he suddenly remembered that Lu Mingxuan was still there, and hurriedly waved her hand to make her retreat, before continuing to talk to Mrs. Lu: "Didn't he be banned by the emperor's decree and never go out? You don't know what kind of nasty hobbies he has." I know that if it wasn't for this habit, he wouldn't have ended up where he is today. Even so, he still doesn't know how to repent. Since the beginning of the first month, because there have been no new people in his house for him to play with for a long time, he has given up his mind. When I got outside, I sneaked out and went to Bada Hutong to hang out. After going back and forth, I fell in love with one of the fans named Mo Nanyan. In the past more than a month, I spent more than half of the month there. night."

"There is such a thing, he is the prince, and he is too... self-loving!" Mrs. Lu was so tongue-tied that she was almost speechless, but she felt quite happy in her heart.

The old man laughed and said: "He hasn't forgotten that he is a prince. Although he gave that fan a lot of good things, he never told that fan his true identity, but he didn't know , that fantou went to He Zhixing of Duke Chang's mansion again. He Zhixing also stayed there for half a night a few days ago. He couldn't help but call people to beat up He Zhixing. Is He Zhixing the one who suffered a loss? He also called the subordinates to fight with his people. When did the subordinates see the dignified second prince? One of them wanted to capture the thief first. , they went away with more people, and only beat him, and after he was beaten half to death, He Zhixing accidentally discovered that the other party was actually the Second Prince."

"He Zhixing immediately apologized to him. Seeing that He Zhixing was hurt a lot, the second prince also thought that it would be even more disadvantageous for him if such a incident broke out, so he accepted He Zhixing's apology and compensated 1 yuan. Two silver coins, both parties agreed to turn the big thing into a small thing. Originally, the matter came to an end here, and it wouldn’t make such a big fuss. out of sight!"

"The servant went back to the second concubine. Although the second concubine was annoyed that he was about to give birth, she still sneaked out to have fun. It is really hateful. After all, this matter is too big to be negligent, so I hurriedly sent a reliable person out to find Doctor, after the doctor came to see him, he checked the pulse and prescribed a prescription. Who knew that after taking it for two days, he did not see any improvement. Now the husband and wife are panicking, and they don't care that the emperor knows that the second prince sneaked out to have fun. What consequences will there be? Immediately send people into the palace to face the saint, and beg the emperor to send an imperial physician to take a look."

"The emperor was furious after hearing the report. He didn't want to send the imperial doctor to see the second prince. He said that it would be better if he was blinded, so as to save him from doing more embarrassing things. He would treat himself as raising a useless person for nothing. But the news was brought to the Empress Dowager by Concubine Chen. The Empress Dowager felt sorry for her grandson, so she called the emperor to go up and said that she would take the second prince into the palace and take him in together with the second concubine, so as not to be in the mansion If there is no one to take care of me, what should I do if there is something good or bad? The empress dowager spoke, and Concubine Chen was crying on the sidelines again. If the emperor gets angry again, he can only agree to take the second prince and his wife into the palace. Naturally, why is he I can’t hide the eye injury, let’s not talk about it now, at least there are respectable and well-connected noble families in the prince’s mansions and counties, I’m afraid everyone knows what they need to know!”

After the old man finished speaking, he sneered and said, "I felt guilty towards him before, but now I know that he is just a piece of mud that can't support the wall, and he doesn't deserve my guilt at all!"

Mrs. Lu said: "This is the old saying, 'It's no wonder that the country and nature are hard to change'. Even if there is no such thing as before, his bad things will happen sooner or later, so what does that have to do with us? It's He Zhixing who has nothing but superficiality, What's going on now? The second prince doesn't like the emperor anymore. He is also the emperor's own son. Now that he is blind, how can the emperor not feel sorry for him, and how can he not vent his anger on him? I want to see, in the future How can he use his face to tease this and that in the capital, if it weren't for him, the fourth girl might not have married far away, and the youngest couple might not have come to where they are today!"

As he spoke, he still couldn’t understand his hatred, and spit again: “At the beginning, I wanted to marry girl Xuan as the second wife, but I rejected my sister at the beginning, and then wanted to marry my sister. What kind of place is our Dingguo mansion? , If he wants to pick eggplants, he can pick eggplants, and if he wants to pick cucumbers, he can pick cucumbers?"

"Okay!" The old man interrupted her with a frown: "It's all in the past, why are you still talking about it?"

After a pause, he said again: "It's hard to say how the emperor will send He Zhixing. I only know that the Ministry of Rites has suppressed his Lao Tzu's request for him to be crowned son, and the Prince's Mansion of Changping County has also sent people to send him to Yi'an County. The Lord took it back, but after all, it was the second prince who made the move first, and He Zhixing didn't know his real identity beforehand. If the emperor punished him blindly, he might be a joke. Not in a hurry, but his reputation and future will undoubtedly be ruined after this incident."

Mrs. Lu heard the words, and instinctively wanted to say that He Zhixing deserved it, but seeing the old man's expression was unkind, she held back and said: "This matter is also a lesson for us. In the future, Brother Yu Ting Brothers and juniors should be disciplined more strictly, and they must not be taught to be like the one named He, who looks like gold and jade, but loses them!"

(End of this chapter)