Chapter 228: Chapter 228
It’s really strange; when you normally don’t pay attention to these things, you absolutely won’t see them.
Today, just because I saw one in Cining Palace once, she has been talking about this matter continuously and paid a bit more attention. Then... then she keeps seeing mice...
Jun Ning was so frightened that she jumped into Qiong Hua’s arms, "Mother, pick me up quickly."
Qiong Hua picked Jun Ning up again, gently patting her back, and looked towards the place where Jun Ning said the mice were appearing, "There’s no mouse, ah. Are your eyes deceiving you?"
"No." Jun Ning said, "There is, really, there is, but it just scurried away."
Qiong Hua saw that Jun Ning’s voice was trembling with fear, and felt extremely distressed, "Then let’s quickly go back home; once we’re back, you won’t see anything."
"Go home, quickly go home," Jun Ning said.
Qiong Hua had no choice but to bid farewell to all the abandoned concubines and carried Jun Ning back to Weiyang Hall.
Jun Ning was truly frightened. In this winter chill, she actually broke into a cold sweat.
When Qiong Hua saw the sweat beads on her neck, she reached out and wiped them off. On her back, Qiong Hua picked out a handful of sweat.
Seems like it was cold sweat.
"Ning Ning, don’t be afraid, Mother is here," Qiong Hua comforted, "We won’t encounter mice again, and even if we do, Mother will help you chase them away," Qiong Hua promised.
Jun Ning wasn’t sure if she heard it or not; she didn’t respond to Qiong Hua.
Qiong Hua saw that Jun Ning had been lying still in her arms for a long time, thinking the little girl had fallen asleep, so she stopped talking to her.
She carried Jun Ning back to Weiyang Hall, placed Jun Ning on the bed, and then helped Jun Ning take off her clothes that were already soaked with cold sweat. But she suddenly found that the little girl had a fever.
Just when she touched the little girl’s clothes, she clearly only felt the sweat, and didn’t realize she had a fever! How did she suddenly catch a fever?
Over the years, Qiong Hua feared most when Jun Ning got sick.
This time, with Jun Ning falling ill, Qiong Hua really wasn’t sure if the little girl was frightened by the mice twice in a row, or if she broke into a sweat in the cold weather and caught a cold?
She hurriedly sent someone to invite the Imperial Physician over.
After the Imperial Physician examined her, he confirmed that the sudden fever in the little girl was caused by both reasons. However, the fright accounted for three parts, while the chill after sweating accounted for seven parts.
"Princess Consort Hua, the weather has been cold lately, so please ensure the princess stays warm," the Imperial Physician urged, "Her Highness’s health has a slight defect since birth, a shortcoming carried from the womb. So, if she can avoid getting sick, then she should avoid it as much as possible." Only then can she grow up well.
The later part of this message, the Imperial Physician didn’t say, nor did he dare to say it casually.
Now, Princess Anle is exceedingly favored. The Emperor spoils her, the Empress Dowager cherishes her, and her mother, no doubt, loves the princess unconditionally. However, because the Emperor and Empress Dowager are too enthusiastic with the princess, even Princess Consort Hua, being the mother, isn’t able to meet her daughter every day.
Also, it seems like the National Guardian General Mansion really needs Her Highness.
Everybody lines up to dote on a little girl.
So at times like these, the Imperial Physician doesn’t dare to speak carelessly about things that haven’t happened yet. Otherwise, with a slight mistake, his life could be at risk.
But he also doesn’t wish to say nothing.
Thus, he reminded Qiong Hua to try and keep the princess from getting sick in the future.
As Jun Ning’s mother, Qiong Hua knows the little girl’s health the best. Now with the Imperial Physician’s reminder, she understands even more, nodding said, "Thank you, Imperial Physician, for the reminder. From now on, I will certainly take good care of Princess Anle."
"That would be good!"
The Imperial Physician prescribed a medicine for Jun Ning and was about to leave.
Qiong Hua ordered someone to follow him to the Imperial Hospital to fetch the medicine, so she could hurry to brew it for Jun Ning.
After Jun Ning fell ill, she spent three whole days in a constant slumber, occasionally waking only to eat and relieve herself.
Besides, Emperor Yongning would come to Weiyang Hall daily to visit, the Empress Dowager also came often, and occasionally when mother and son met, they would shake their heads, showing a face full of pity for the little girl, hoping she would recover soon.
Other concubines from the harem also came to visit, particularly Liu Pin, who was really thoughtful.
She came with mung bean cakes she made herself, specifically the ones with coriander flower prints.
She heard that Jun Ning hasn’t had much of an appetite recently and doesn’t want to eat anything, so she carefully prepared these with the hope that when the little girl wakes up and sees them, she feels interested and eats a few more bites.
And indeed, the little girl actually found the coriander-printed mung bean cakes made by Liu Pin to be pretty, and when she saw them upon waking, she ate two pieces.
To understand that previously, she wasn’t willing to eat anything, every day she would only drink a little bit of porridge.
Seeing this, Qiong Hua was delighted.
To ensure that her daughter could eat a little more next, she asked Liu Pin for the coriander molds, and made many other flavored cakes with coriander prints for Jun Ning.
Today Jun Yang entered the palace again, and coincidentally Liu Pin went to visit Jun Ning and was not present, Yao Yao was happily alone, she could freely talk directly to Jun Yang.
Once Jun Yang arrived, seeing that there was really nothing interesting in this palace, she could only sit beside Yao Yao, bored and leaning against the table, talking to Yao Yao without much enthusiasm.
"Have you heard? Princess Anle seems to be ill!"
"If she’s ill, she’s ill; why are you so worried about her? Heh!" Yao Yao sneered disdainfully, and rudely said, "It’d be best if she simply died from illness, saving us the trouble of dealing with her."
Yao Yao truly hated Jun Ning to death, hence she spoke with such bitterness. Google seaʀᴄh 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦•𝘯𝘦𝘵
"But what if she doesn’t die from illness?" Jun Yang said, "By then, she might still be weakly lying in bed, unable to get up and walk, and thus she won’t be able to attend the New Year’s Eve banquet, thwarting our black-room plan."
"You don’t need to worry about that. There’s still more than ten days till New Year’s Eve; she will surely recover," Yao Yao said.
If an ordinary cold can’t be recovered within ten days, then Jun Ning is basically about to go seek enlightenment in the West, and they wouldn’t even need to take action.
Jun Yang sighed, "Hope so." After pausing, she suddenly remembered something, "Yao Yao, I’ve taken a liking to that bird’s nest in your palace, I want to go up and grab bird eggs, do you want to join?"
Yao Yao sneered disdainfully in her heart, secretly mocking this fool, so grown-up yet still thinking about grabbing bird eggs, how could they accomplish anything when grown up? Simply a useless person.
If Jun Yang knew what Yao Yao was thinking in her heart, she would definitely respond rather speechlessly, "I am only five years old this year, if you don’t let me climb trees to grab bird eggs, should I be concerned with state affairs? You should know, when even my father struggles with those matters, how could I possibly handle it?"
"Yao Yao, why are you not speaking, can it be done or not?"
"Oh..." Yao Yao was really not interested in the matter of Jun Yang wanting to grab bird eggs. Yet, she did not show it outwardly at all. With a smile, she said, "If you want to go, go, but be careful."