eurekapd Chapter 108: Saving the Crazy Mistress in Sheep's Clothing
Chapter 108: Saving the Crazy Mistress in Sheep's Clothing
"Ayang, why are you so pale all of a sudden?" The concerned voice of the Empress Dowager Ling sounded beside her ear.
Wen Yang forced a smile and replied, "Mother, I am fine."
Seeing that the color on Wen Yang's face gradually returned, Queen Ling finally felt relieved.
"I heard that you dismissed all the favorites in your mansion yesterday? Why did you suddenly feel like doing that?" The Queen of the Mausoleum lowered her eyes and looked at Wen Yang, asking indifferently.
"Your Majesty, mother, is truly well-informed." Wen Yang smiled as he looked towards the Mausoleum Queen. "I just suddenly felt that those men were quite boring. If they stayed in the mansion, they would easily attract gossip from the ministers in the court. It's better to dismiss them now. This will also allow your father to read some of the memorials impeaching me."
Upon hearing this, the Empress covered her mouth and chuckled softly, "Your father will surely be very pleased to know about your kindness."
Wen Yang accompanied the Queen for a walk in the Imperial Garden, and then returned to Fengxi Palace with her.
Emperor Ling learned from the chief eunuch Rengui that Wen Yang was in Fengxi Palace, so he sent someone to tell him that he would come to Fengxi Palace to have dinner together later.
Before lunch, Wen Yang was leaning on the embroidered couch in Fengxi Palace, drinking tea and chatting with the Queen.
Suddenly, the eunuch's shrill and thin voice came from outside the door, "The Emperor has arrived————"
The voice arrives before the person arrives.
"Hahahaha, my Ayang finally remembered me today."
As Emperor Ling spoke, he walked into Fengxi Palace with steady steps.
The Queen and Wen Yang immediately stood up and bowed respectfully to greet him.
Emperor Ling immediately waved his hand to disregard the formalities, "When I heard you were entering the palace today, I thought I'd have lunch with you. No need to be so polite."
The Empress stood up and smiled gently, "Your Majesty is very busy with affairs of state. It is our blessing that he can come to Fengxi Palace to dine with us."
Wen Yang also bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. Earlier in the Imperial Garden, I told my mother that I wanted to have lunch with Your Majesty. I didn't expect that Your Majesty and I would be so close."
After finishing her reply, Wen Yang dared to look up and carefully assess her father.
Sure enough, after taking a closer look, she discovered the problem.
At this moment, the front of Ling Huang's neck was noticeably swollen, and his eyeballs seemed to be slightly bulging... This looked a bit like the symptoms of a thyroid patient...
Queen Ling did not notice anything unusual. She smiled and invited Emperor Ling to take a seat, then pulled Wen Yang to sit on the left and right sides of the table respectively, and then ordered the palace maids to serve the dishes.
After receiving the order, the palace maids immediately brought up the lunch prepared in the kitchen.
Because the emperor was dining with us this time, the dishes were naturally very rich.
The eunuch who tasted the food tested for poison and then stepped aside.
However, the more Wen Yang looked at the dishes on the table, the more he felt something was wrong, because there was a dish of black food on the table, which looked like kelp...
So she raised her hand, pointed at the dish on the table, and asked, "Mother, what is this?"
The Mausoleum Queen looked up at the dish Wen Yang was pointing at and said with a smile, "You didn't eat at the palace before, so you didn't know. That black thing on the dish is a local delicacy your second brother discovered when he went to the south to control the flood last month. He said it was a kind of aquatic plant caught from the sea, and he specially sent a lot back to the palace. Because it tastes crunchy, your father likes it very much and has ordered the kitchen to make it every day."
After hearing this, Wen Yang's expression became solemn for a moment.
She glanced at Emperor Ling and asked, "Father, have you been having trouble swallowing, experiencing chest tightness, excessive sweating, or insomnia lately?"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Ling showed a look of great surprise. "How did you know I've had these symptoms recently? The palace physician diagnosed it as autumn dryness and prescribed some heat-clearing and internal heat-removing prescriptions. I'm currently taking some treatment. I think it will be better soon."
After hearing this, Wen Yang was finally 100% certain of his guess.
Ling Huang's current symptom is hyperthyroidism!
She had previously thought that the sudden death of Emperor Ling might be due to his old age, which led to a heart attack or a stroke...
Unexpectedly, there is another hidden story behind this!
The culprit that caused all this was most likely the kelp sent back by her second brother Wen Fengye!
However, contemporary medicine hasn't thoroughly studied this type of endocrine disease, so they didn't suspect a dietary issue. Imperial physicians even diagnosed Emperor Ling's neck swelling, hoarseness, and insomnia as symptoms of autumn dryness.
It is estimated that Emperor Ling's death in the later period was also due to the lack of medication and the long-term consumption of kelp, which led to hyperthyroidism and severe heart failure or other complications...
Wen Yang was concentrating on pondering the relationship between the two when suddenly, the Ling Emperor asked, "Ayang, I heard from your mother that you dismissed many of your concubines yesterday?"
Wen Yang came back to his senses and nodded, "Yes, Father."
"But are you looking for a prince consort? If so, I have a good candidate here." Emperor Ling said with a smile.
Wen Yang raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Who?"
"This man is also a good friend of your second brother. He is the eldest son of the Song Taiwei family. His name is Song Yizhi. He is only twenty years old and is currently the youngest and most heroic young general in our Ling Kingdom."
When Wen Yang heard Song Yizi's name at this moment, his face turned pale and his heart sank two inches.
In the past, the original owner didn't care about state affairs, and her heart was only focused on having a lover and having fun, so she didn't even know that Song Yizhi had such a relationship with Wen Fengye...
Moreover, the original owner had not taken the initiative to dismiss his concubines, so he had never heard Emperor Ling mention this matter.
Later, during the autumn hunting, Song Yizi used his outstanding performance and thoughtfulness to lure the original owner into the trap. After that, the original owner dismissed her lover... and asked for an imperial decree to grant the marriage.
But in his memory, on the wedding day, when the veil of the original owner was lifted in the bridal chamber, there was clearly a flash of disgust on Song Yizi's face.
Song Yizi used tiredness as an excuse not to touch her, and refused to consummate the marriage for the next few months.
It was not until later when the original owner was imprisoned in a dark room that Song Yizi told the truth, because he thought it was dirty. That disgusted tone and look were deeply engraved in the original owner's memory.
But the original owner was a virgin, so how could she be considered dirty?
If you really think it's dirty, there's no need to bother seducing him. The original owner had never thought of marrying any man in the court.
Now that Wen Yang thought about it carefully, he found something strange everywhere.
Wen Fengye actually took the initiative to act as a matchmaker for her and wanted to introduce Song Yizi to her... What is An's intention?
Moreover, in the previous life, after Emperor Ling passed away, Wen Fengye ascended the throne as the new emperor, and treated the original owner without any regard for the relationship between brother and sister.
Song Yizhi even went to the dark room to tell her the news, saying that the current emperor had taken back her princess's mansion and property, stripped her of her fiefdom, and demoted her to a commoner...
When the original owner found out, he just felt that his reputation was ruined. He did not blame Wen Fengye for his treatment, but only blamed himself for it.
Thinking of this, Wen Yang sneered in his heart. Now it seems that the original owner must have been plotted against without knowing it.
In this case, she doesn't need to worry about this plastic brother-sister relationship.
Moreover, it now seems that the kelp sent back to the palace was also intentional... It was almost as if it was prepared specifically to murder the Ling Emperor...
Emperor Ling saw that Wen Yang hadn't replied for a long time and thought she was worried about Song Yizhi's appearance, so he said, "If you are worried that General Song's appearance is not to your liking, I will invite him into the palace at the next palace banquet so you can take a look at him."
Upon hearing this, Wen Yang immediately refused with a smile, "No need, Father. I don't like people who practice martial arts. I prefer those who are more gentle and frail."
After all, she had seen Song Yizi's hypocritical face enough in the dark room, so why did she need to look at it now?
The Empress Dowager, who was standing by, was afraid that the Emperor would be resentful of being rejected, so she quickly said something to Wen Yang with a smile, "Your Majesty, a military commander like General Song might not be suitable for our Ayang. As for the matter of a consort, we should consider it later. Let's eat quickly, the food is getting cold."
"Yeah." Ling Huang responded lightly.
Just as he was about to pick up the kelp with his chopsticks, he heard Wen Yang shouting, "Father, wait a minute. I just remembered something. This aquatic plant that Second Brother sent back is poisonous!"