“Marquis Zhongyuan has ordered his people to keep it a dead secret. When the couple went to the west hunting ground with their son today, I slipped into Marquis Mansion and found the prescript. Then I copied it and showed it to four doctors. All of them said that this prescript was made for heart disease. And according to the dosage, they supposed that the young prince should have suffered the disease long before. Fortunately, he lives a good life in Marquis Mansion, so his illness doesn’t get worse. But the prince was born with the disease so there is little chance of his recovery and it will be hard for him to live a long life.”
“All right. I will leave everything else to Du Heng. You pay all your attention to Zhongyuan Marquis Mansion.”
Du Heng was also a personal guard of Lu Zhishan. Compared with Xie Lun, Du Heng was not that much clever but he was much more steady and was pretty good at counting and managing money matters. That was why he was in charge of managing the estates of Marquess Mansion.
“Yes, my lord. I will bear this in mind.”
“Well, you can go now.”
The marriage between the son of Zhongyuan Marquis and Heshuo Princess’s daughter seemed to be a really suitable match. But it was different if the young prince was in bad health. Obviously, all people of Zhongyuan Marquis Mansion tried to hide the truth about their young prince’s disease. So the marriage could also be regarded as a trick and the emperor was cheated too.
What confused Lu Zhishan was the reason why Zhongyuan Marquis would hide his son’s disease so hard. Even if emperor didn’t assign the marriage, his son could still choose his wife among almost all noble girls. Why did he prefer to the assigned marriage?
Maybe there was something he wanted to get from the little girl.
...
It was the sixth day of October in the seventeenth year of Jiasheng.
And it was also the sixty-sixth birthday of empress dowager Xu Shumin.
Lu Zhishan had been back for one year but he had never walked out of the gate. So his leg was much better than before. Though he couldn’t walk as well as before, he didn’t need anyone to hold him by his arm now. However, as autumn came, his knee got painful again. Those royal doctors had ever come to treat but they only gave several pot of salves more and told him to have a good rest instead of walking again. No matter how painful he was, Lu Zhishan couldn’t miss empress dowager’s birthday.
Lu zhishan had already asked Song Fu to prepare a gift. Knowing that Xu Shumin was fond of luxury things, Lu Zhishan prepared a superb rosewood screen for her. It consisted eight parts and exquisite carving was specially designed on them, which meant good luck, great wealth as well as longevity. On the right side was decorated with embroidery. Sichuan figured satin and Suzhou embroidery brought out the best in each other, making a gorgeous picture of phoenix flying through peonies. The word longevity was embroidered with golden wire on its back in sixty kinds of styles. It looked high-quality and pretty sumptuous no matter whether people looked it in a short distance or not. Though it was still a bit tacky, it suited Lu Zhishan’s character as a soldier who had ever fought on the battlefield for twelve years.
As Lu Zhishan woke up in the early morning, he felt that his knee was more painful than yesterday. He then gritted his teeth and tried hard to stand up by holding the bed. He stumbled to the outer court with pinpricks of sweat on his forehead.
Song Fu feel great pain in his heart when he saw this, intending to walked forward to help him. But before that he was pushed away by Lu Zhishan. He was going to enter the palace to send his regards to empress dowager. So he could only walked on his own. He’d better practice walking now.
“Marquess, I can come to the palace to report to emperor that your leg disease is getting worse. Then you won’t have to attend the banquet.” Song Fu got quite nervous seeing that. “Marquess, you are so weak now. I’m afraid that you couldn’t even get out the gate of our mansion. How could you entered the palace?”
No carriage was allowed to entered the gate of the palace. It would take about a quarter to walk to Shoukang Palace from the nearest gate. It was really not a good choice for Lu Zhishan to get there with a sedan chair in such a condition. Furthermore, he couldn’t do that as he was going to send his regards. Otherwise he would be cursed for being unfilial.
“Marquis Zhongyuan has ordered his people to keep it a dead secret. When the couple went to the west hunting ground with their son today, I slipped into Marquis Mansion and found the prescript. Then I copied it and showed it to four doctors. All of them said that this prescript was made for heart disease. And according to the dosage, they supposed that the young prince should have suffered the disease long before. Fortunately, he lives a good life in Marquis Mansion, so his illness doesn’t get worse. But the prince was born with the disease so there is little chance of his recovery and it will be hard for him to live a long life.”
“All right. I will leave everything else to Du Heng. You pay all your attention to Zhongyuan Marquis Mansion.”
Du Heng was also a personal guard of Lu Zhishan. Compared with Xie Lun, Du Heng was not that much clever but he was much more steady and was pretty good at counting and managing money matters. That was why he was in charge of managing the estates of Marquess Mansion.
“Yes, my lord. I will bear this in mind.”
“Well, you can go now.”
The marriage between the son of Zhongyuan Marquis and Heshuo Princess’s daughter seemed to be a really suitable match. But it was different if the young prince was in bad health. Obviously, all people of Zhongyuan Marquis Mansion tried to hide the truth about their young prince’s disease. So the marriage could also be regarded as a trick and the emperor was cheated too.
What confused Lu Zhishan was the reason why Zhongyuan Marquis would hide his son’s disease so hard. Even if emperor didn’t assign the marriage, his son could still choose his wife among almost all noble girls. Why did he prefer to the assigned marriage?
Maybe there was something he wanted to get from the little girl.
...
It was the sixth day of October in the seventeenth year of Jiasheng.
And it was also the sixty-sixth birthday of empress dowager Xu Shumin.
Lu Zhishan had been back for one year but he had never walked out of the gate. So his leg was much better than before. Though he couldn’t walk as well as before, he didn’t need anyone to hold him by his arm now. However, as autumn came, his knee got painful again. Those royal doctors had ever come to treat but they only gave several pot of salves more and told him to have a good rest instead of walking again. No matter how painful he was, Lu Zhishan couldn’t miss empress dowager’s birthday.
Lu zhishan had already asked Song Fu to prepare a gift. Knowing that Xu Shumin was fond of luxury things, Lu Zhishan prepared a superb rosewood screen for her. It consisted eight parts and exquisite carving was specially designed on them, which meant good luck, great wealth as well as longevity. On the right side was decorated with embroidery. Sichuan figured satin and Suzhou embroidery brought out the best in each other, making a gorgeous picture of phoenix flying through peonies. The word longevity was embroidered with golden wire on its back in sixty kinds of styles. It looked high-quality and pretty sumptuous no matter whether people looked it in a short distance or not. Though it was still a bit tacky, it suited Lu Zhishan’s character as a soldier who had ever fought on the battlefield for twelve years.
As Lu Zhishan woke up in the early morning, he felt that his knee was more painful than yesterday. He then gritted his teeth and tried hard to stand up by holding the bed. He stumbled to the outer court with pinpricks of sweat on his forehead.
Song Fu feel great pain in his heart when he saw this, intending to walked forward to help him. But before that he was pushed away by Lu Zhishan. He was going to enter the palace to send his regards to empress dowager. So he could only walked on his own. He’d better practice walking now.
“Marquess, I can come to the palace to report to emperor that your leg disease is getting worse. Then you won’t have to attend the banquet.” Song Fu got quite nervous seeing that. “Marquess, you are so weak now. I’m afraid that you couldn’t even get out the gate of our mansion. How could you entered the palace?”
No carriage was allowed to entered the gate of the palace. It would take about a quarter to walk to Shoukang Palace from the nearest gate. It was really not a good choice for Lu Zhishan to get there with a sedan chair in such a condition. Furthermore, he couldn’t do that as he was going to send his regards. Otherwise he would be cursed for being unfilial.
