Chapter 89

  "Big sister! ——" Murong Xue looked at Murong Xuan, Murong Xuan's face was expressionless, she walked out of the room step by step and refused to look back.

  "Chun Xi, what's going on with my third sister?! Tell me quickly! ---" Murong Xue was almost collapsing, her older sister had never been so grieved and accusatory towards her. What had happened to Murong Feng? Why hadn't she come back after leaving?

  "Third Miss, she...she's had an accident." Chun Xi's trembling voice was stuck in her throat, unsure of how to explain. "It's...it's Liu Fei who stabbed the horse, no...no...it's Second Prince who kidnapped Fourth Princess Consort, and then...and then that horse dragged Fourth Princess Consort away, nobody knows where they went, people have been sent to look for them already...Your Ladyship! Your Ladyship! Someone come quickly!"

  Murong Xue felt a lump in her chest, unable to express the suffocating feeling, unable to express the pain. Looking at Chun Xi, she wanted to ask clearly, but as soon as she opened her mouth, a mouthful of blood spurted onto Chun Xi's body and face. Her eyes closed, and she fainted.

  Three days later.

  Yan Yu brought in the rice, looked at Sima Rui, didn't dare to speak, and put the rice on the table. Sima Rui had been sitting like this for three days, just sitting there, staring blankly at the words on the paper.

  "Yan Yu, is there something else in the tea water?" Sima Rui asked coldly, his tone still calm.

  Yan Yu looked at Sima Rui with unease, the Empress Dowager and the Queen had instructed her to put "poison" in Sima Rui's tea. At first, Sima Rui was probably too immersed in grief to notice the changes in his body, but Lihui's medicine made him unable to stand or walk for a long time, he could only sit down. As time went on, he naturally discovered it.

  "Fourth prince, slave, slave——" Yan Yu muttered to herself, unsure of how to explain.

  Simarui let out a soft sigh, waved his hand and said wearily: "Forget it, go. You naturally don't have the guts for this. This medicine is so sinister, it should be from Wumeng country. Except for Empress Li, no one else has such sinister medicine. It's probably Grandma's idea. Go down."

  Simarui surprisingly did not resist, facing the rice in front of him mechanically eating, one mouthful after another hard to swallow, watching Xunyu's heart aching, had to run outside and cry.

  Since Murong Feng had an accident, Chun Liu hasn't spoken a word, just quietly shedding tears alone, hiding from everyone, repeatedly sweeping and cleaning Murong Feng's room until the floor shines like a mirror, the table seems to be covered with jade, and the bedding is folded with creases. Finally, having nothing else to do, she hides in an empty place, biting her lip and crying. She cries so much that Yan Yu dare not think about it or look at her, fearing that looking would make him cry too.

  The fourth prince sat there day after day, staring blankly at the things left behind by the fourth princess consort, motionless and speechless.

  Lihui came to see him once and cried once, ran to find the Empress Dowager, crying and saying: "Mother Empress, spare Lihui, Lihui really doesn't want to give medicine to the Fourth Prince again, he... seeing his appearance, Lihui's heart is really aching, you..."

  The Empress Dowager gritted her teeth and wept, saying: "Consort Li, no matter how difficult it is, we must use him. We cannot not use him. With Rui'er's temperament, if he were to gain his freedom, I fear we would never see him again. Now Feng'er has already disappeared without a trace, and I am even more reluctant to let Rui'er suffer the same fate."

  Lihui really wanted to tear Liu Fei apart. How could she be so cruel and poisonous, how could she end Murong Feng's life like this?

  The madly galloping horse, from the warm jade pavilion of the imperial palace, rushed out along the road, and wherever it went, it ran. The injured horse thus rushed out of the imperial palace all the way, coincidentally at this time the gate of the palace had a guard on night duty, so the gate had not yet been closed, and the horse rushed out all the way, rushing to the cliff outside the palace tens of miles away, then plunged down headfirst, falling into the turbulent river water, instantly disappearing without a trace.

  In such a situation, how can we be saved? Is there still any hope for survival? I'm afraid even death won't leave behind a corpse!

  The Empress Dowager immediately sealed off Nanyu Pavilion and sent Li Fei and Xue Fei to live in the palace vacated by Liu Fei in Heyang Palace.

  From now on, no one is allowed to set foot in this Warm Jade Pavilion again unless Murong Feng returns. Only leave one or two eunuchs to clean up and occasionally come to collect dust.

  The entire palace was plunged into an indescribable atmosphere of sorrow.

  The empress dowager was bedridden, too lazy to receive guests, but on this particular day, someone came to visit. Coincidentally, the emperor and empress also arrived to pay their respects to the empress dowager. The visitor, dressed in elegant attire, bore a resemblance to the emperor, except with an air of arrogance.

  "Good grief, what a big deal, isn't it just the death of a crown princess? Must you be so sorrowful? Come, Wanluo, meet Her Majesty the Empress Dowager, your aunt's good sister." The newcomer spoke bluntly, their tone extremely unpleasant to hear.

  A young woman, about twenty years old, with a pair of big apricot eyes, revealing a bit of wildness and disobedience, thick eyebrows, straight nose, red lips. She saluted the empress dowager and said in a gentle and soft tone: "Wanlu has seen Empress Dowager."

  The Empress Dowager lazily said: "Who is it?"

  "This is my youngest granddaughter, Meng Wanlu, now twenty years old." The visitor said with a smile, "Doesn't she look just like I did when I was young?"

  "There's some resemblance, especially in terms of expression." The empress said calmly, "But has she been allowed to?"

  "There isn't a suitable candidate yet." The newcomer said coldly, "I heard you're not feeling well, so I came over to take a look. How could my nephew be so incompetent? He's become so degenerate for the sake of a woman! I just went over to take a look and it's really infuriating!"

  The empress dowager said faintly, "Rui'er is already a grown man, what he wants to do, I have no control over him, let him be. As for Feng'er, whose life or death is still unknown, not only is he worried and distressed, but I also can't put my mind at ease. These past few days, both my emotions and body haven't been well. If there's nothing else, then withdraw for now. —— Imperial son, accompany your sister in conversation for a bit, I feel somewhat tired and want to rest. Everyone withdraw."

  The emperor smiled and said, "Sister, let's talk elsewhere. Mother is not feeling well, so we won't disturb her. Have you gone to see Rui'er? Did you have a conversation with him?"

  Someone came in, panting and said: "Speak? I just saw his shadow, he didn't even glance at me, the whole person was sitting there like an idiot, I was so angry that I wanted to slap him awake!"

  "Yes," the emperor led the way, leaving the Shangfu Palace, and turned back to see the impatience and disdain in his mother's eyes. This sister had never been welcomed in the imperial palace, originally a person who was not allowed to set foot in the palace again, but, no one could do anything about her, she came and went as she pleased, completely unchanged from before she left the palace, just like in the past, even his father couldn't control her, the most important thing was to take her away and stop disturbing the empress dowager.