Chapter Sixty: Misspeaking

  The water-like liquor was indeed smoothly drunk by the Second Prince, and Shun and Chousheng exchanged a glance.

  The tide was born to laugh, but it was hard to hold back.

  But even if you add water, wine is still wine, and drinking too much is still not good. The second prince was already lying on the table, speaking incoherently.

  "All these years... I've been cooped up like this, my heart is suffocating... He clearly knows how bad my leg is, he knows how my mother died, yet he still let that woman become the empress..."

  The tide was born almost lost his voice screaming.

  What's going on? Can't she just pretend she didn't hear anything and get out of here immediately?

  "Now even my marriage is being manipulated by her... Am I really his son? They say there are no parents in the world who are not biased towards their children... Is he not wrong? Is it all my fault then? What did I do wrong..."

  Terrible, the second prince is too loud.

  If it goes on like this, the people who know about it won't be just the Second Prince, Shun and her three people.

  The fourth prince made a gesture, and Xiao Shun immediately went over to close all the doors and windows, and then helped the fourth prince support the second prince into the inner room.

  The second prince's words were brief, but the information revealed was not small.

  The death of Liu Fei and his leg are all related to the current empress.

  Although Chao Sheng didn't know much about the imperial palace, she still had some basic common sense. The empress wasn't crowned as soon as she entered the palace; when she first entered the palace, her title was only "Meiren" (Beautiful Lady), and she fought her way to the top among many beauties, eventually succeeding in rising to power.

  This is a case where one's success comes at the cost of countless bones withering away, those beauties who were defeated by her... uh, and also the children of those beauties... suffered permanent damage.

  Chao Sheng had heard many people mention the Queen before, but he had never seen her.

  In Chao Sheng's imagination, the queen should be wrapped in layers of silk and satin, sitting upright behind heavy curtains, with long red fingernails, oh, and wearing gold-inlaid nail guards.

  Specifically whether it is so, remains to be verified.

  The pain of the second prince, Chao Sheng can understand.

  The enemy is the empress, you can't beat her, and even - you can't fight back.

  Because this is a society where etiquette is respected, the empress is nominally his mother.

  More importantly, she is the queen.

  Chao Sheng went to the kitchen and brought back a bowl of hangover soup, its sour taste making people feel like their tongues were secreting saliva uncontrollably.

  Xiao Shun quietly slipped out of the house and took over the hangover soup.

  "Has Your Highness rested?"

  "The master has gone to the study."

  Huh? Drinking too much wine and instead of going to sleep, you go read books?

  Of course, people's habits are all different. Some may want to sleep after drinking a lot, while others may become more spirited the more they drink, such as the Fourth Prince.

  Chao Sheng gently lifted a corner of the curtain and looked inside, where the fourth prince was sitting at his desk in a daze, neither reading nor writing.

  Chao Sheng didn't dare look again and gently put down the curtain.

  Chao Sheng went back to see Qiu Yan after sending the sobering soup.

  Qiu Yan had already taken a nap and rubbed his eyes, asking: "Has the Second Prince left yet?"

  "No, let's go inside, it seems we'll be spending the night here tonight."

  Qiu Yan shook his head: "It's really a mess... and I just caught a cold."

  "It's really cold this year." Chao Sheng also found it strange: "It's only October and it's already this cold, many people in the palace have fallen ill."

  "Hmm," Qiu Yan took the tea with a worried look and took a sip: "The medicine I'm taking doesn't seem to be working at all."

  "Dr. Meng's medical skills and ethics are impeccable, this illness came like a mountain and left like pulling out silk threads, it just takes some time. Hurry up and lie down, sleep is the best way to nourish your body."

  Qiu Yan's hand gently covered hers: "It's really strange to say, you're obviously younger than me, but sometimes I feel like you're older than me."

  Tide Sheng said your intuition is really accurate, adding up two lifetimes she's not even a bit bigger than Qiu Shan, right? Still just a little bit.

  "Go to sleep quickly."

  She picked up the medicine bowl and tea cup, lifted the lamp and was about to leave when Qiu Yan suddenly called out to her again: "Chao Sheng."

  "Huh?" She turned her head around.

  Qiu Yan hesitated for a moment, shook his head and lay down: "Nothing."

  She obviously wanted to say something, but Chao Sheng didn't ask further and quietly closed the door.

  Looking towards Zheng's house, the lights in the east wing were still on.

  Cháo shēng zài lǐ tàn kǒu qì.

  English Translation: Chao Sheng sighed in his heart.

  The boss isn't sleeping, so she can't sleep either.

  At night, the wind was cold, and the tide rose in front of the gate, under the corridor, where it stood still for a moment, looking up at it.

  The moon at the beginning of the month is thin and curved, like a piece of white paper cut out and pasted on the sky.

  Xiao Su walked over from the other end of the corridor, his footsteps were even lighter than a cat's, until the lamplight stretched out his shadow and cast it on the ground, then Chao Sheng noticed.

  "What's wrong with you standing there?"

  Chao Sheng was a bit spoiled and surprised, Xiao Su had always been stingy with words.

  "I see Your Highness is deep in thought, so I didn't dare go in and disturb you."

  Xiao Su said: "Just now someone came from Songtao Pavilion, I said that the second prince had already rested."

  If it were Xiao Shun, he would definitely not have spoken so briefly. He would have described in detail who the person was, what they said, how he responded, and what kind of expression the person had, and all that would have taken up enough time to finish a cup of tea.

  However, Chao Sheng knew that he couldn't ask for too much from Xiao Su. This child might be born this way, speaking little is not bad at all, making people feel honest and reliable - if he wasn't a eunuch, he would definitely be a reliable good husband candidate.

  A good family's child would never be sent into the palace to become a eunuch; it's not that they can't make a living, but rather they wouldn't choose this path even if they couldn't survive.

  Inside the palace, young palace maids and eunuchs shared their life stories, almost all of them having a handful of heartbreaking tears.

  The fourth prince suddenly ordered tea in the house.

  Chao Sheng hastily finished the tea and sent it in, and also considerately added two kinds of dim sum.

  The fourth prince came to our house earlier and accompanied the second brother to his death, drinking a bellyful of wine, but didn't eat much food.

  The fourth prince picked up a piece of walnut cake and didn't put it in his mouth.

  Chao Sheng stared at him, his expression a bit dazed, far from his usual calm and composed self.

  Chao Sheng's heart was also uneasy, the Second Prince had no door on his mouth, and he had just said such outrageous words, which were heard by them. I don't know if the Second Prince will wake up and think about this matter, will he be furious... or even want to silence him?

  Some people have no memory of what they did after getting drunk, but some are aware in their hearts and just can't control their behavior. It's hard to say which category the Second Prince belongs to.

  But if you want to destroy it, the fourth prince can also hear it.

  Chao Sheng decided not to scare himself after all.

  "Second brother... " The fourth prince paused for a moment: "He seems careless and heartless on the surface, but actually he's quite bitter inside."

  Nodding is not, responding is not, anyway the safest thing is to pretend to be a wooden puppet.

  Looking at the situation of the Second Prince, the Fourth Prince felt a lot of emotion.

  The second prince's today is probably his tomorrow.

  Chao Sheng said in a low voice: "Your Highness should rest early."

  "What's there to be afraid of?" The fourth prince smiled and said in a low voice: "Anyway, second brother has already asked for leave on my behalf."

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  Xiao Pang had a fever of 39.5 degrees and I accompanied him to get an IV drip.

  The second watch will be later