xymnovel Chapter 15 Zheng Dache died of illness, is this enough to be considered a crime?
Chapter 15 Zheng Dache died of illness, is this enough to be considered a crime?
Upon hearing this, Lou Zhaojun understood his predicament and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Consider Gao Huan, who rose from humble beginnings and conquered the north after a hundred battles—what a heroic spirit he possessed!
Now that he holds a high position of power, he is constantly hampered. Even when dealing with a concubine, he has to be cautious and hesitant. How helpless and miserable he is!
But she didn't dare to make the decision for him.
After all, the Eastern Wei of today is no longer the Huai Shuo Town of yesteryear, and the overall situation here cannot be decided by a single woman.
After pondering for a long time, she could only nod slightly in agreement: "As Your Majesty wishes."
Upon hearing this, Gao Huan nodded and said nothing more.
The two remained silent for a while, and Lou Zhaojun stopped bringing up the unpleasant topic. She said gently, "Your Majesty, it is late. I have already ordered someone to prepare a bath. Your Majesty is tired from the battle, so please wash away the dust first."
After saying this, he called over the maid outside the door and led Gao Huan to the bathroom.
Gao Huan did not refuse and followed the maid into the bathroom, opening his arms to let the maid undress and prepare for a bath.
A maid stepped forward and carefully loosened his robes. Just then, a piece of mutton-fat jade suddenly fell out of his inner pocket and landed on the bluestone floor with a clatter.
It was the same clan decree from the Zheng family of Xingyang that Gao Cheng had presented during the day.
When the maid saw the jade pendant fall to the ground, she was so frightened that she fell to her knees with a thud and kowtowed repeatedly to beg for forgiveness.
Gao Huan ignored the maid and stared blankly at the jade pendant.
Immediately, he bent down to pick it up, his fingertips tracing the engraved character "郑" (Zheng) and the unique clan emblem of the Zheng family of Xingyang.
After staring at him for a long time, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, as if he had finally thought of something important.
He immediately looked up and called out in a deep voice towards the door, "Lulecha, come in."
Lulecha, a trusted servant and bodyguard of Gao Huan, immediately entered upon hearing the voice and knelt on one knee: "What are your orders, Your Majesty?"
Gao Huan bent down and whispered a few words in his ear.
Lulecha's expression changed drastically, filled with astonishment. But seeing the unyielding chill in Gao Huan's eyes, he dared not ask any further questions, and only kowtowed heavily: "Yes!"
After saying this, he got up and left quickly, without delay.
Less than half an hour after Lulecha left, a series of panicked cries suddenly rang out in a small courtyard in the southwest corner of the Prince's Mansion.
It was forcibly suppressed again, and there was a deathly silence.
However, Zheng Dache, a concubine in the Prince's mansion, suddenly fell ill and died before the mansion's physician could arrive.
All the maids and servants in the courtyard were beaten to death for failing to protect their master. Their bodies were dragged out of the palace overnight and burned.
.......
Gao Cheng was unaware of Zheng Dache's "death from illness".
Because at this moment, he had already finished washing up and lay down on the large bed in the prince's courtyard, ready to sleep soundly until the end of time.
There was no way around it; he was just too exhausted these past few days.
First, he experienced that shocking scandal, then he drafted a strategy for governing the country overnight, and now he faces Gao Huan's thunderous power with trepidation.
He was so stressed that he didn't get a single night of rest.
Now that the trouble has been temporarily resolved, the position of the heir apparent is secure, and he has been given the order to oversee Ye City, his tense body suddenly relaxes, and drowsiness surges in like a tide.
However, his sleep was not very restful.
First, he dreamt of Zheng Dache's snow-white body, voluptuous figure, and seductive eyes, which made him restless.
It felt like a stone was pressing on his chest, making it hard for him to breathe.
However, I was so tired that even when I felt unwell in my drowsy state, I just assumed it was a nightmare, turned over, and fell into a deep sleep again.
This directly led to him being completely dumbfounded when he woke up the next day and saw a little girl suddenly appearing in his arms.
Yes, when he woke up, there was a little girl in his arms.
And this young girl was none other than his wife, Princess Fengyi, Yuan Zhonghua.
This girl, without anyone noticing, climbed into his bed last night.
She was nestled in his arms, one hand clutching his clothes, the other resting on his waist, her little head buried in his chest, her long eyelashes fluttering, her breathing even and steady, fast asleep.
He stared blankly, his face full of astonishment.
After a long while, he finally came to his senses and couldn't help but curse the original owner as a beast in his heart once again!
But then, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
No wonder I felt like I was being pressed down by a ghost last night. After all that, it turns out it was just this timid little ghost pressing down on me.
Despite his amusement, seeing that she was sleeping soundly, Gao Cheng had no intention of waking her. He simply moved gently, trying to pull his arm, which had gone numb from being pressed down.
But as soon as he moved, the person in his arms trembled, her dark eyes slowly opened, and she met his gaze in a daze.
In an instant, their eyes met, staring at each other.
Gao Cheng's hand froze in mid-air, unable to move forward or backward, so he could only stammer, "I'm sorry, I startled you awake."
Yuan Zhonghua was stunned for a moment, then blinked repeatedly, as if trying to confirm whether he was dreaming.
When she realized that she was indeed lying in Gao Cheng's arms, her pretty face instantly turned red from her cheeks to her ears, and even her neck turned crimson.
She immediately shrank back in a panic, clutching the corner of the blanket tightly with her small hands, and stammered, "Your Highness... Your Highness, I didn't mean to climb into your bed. It's just that last night... last night someone died in the manor again, and I was terrified, so... so..."
She finished recounting the whole story in fits and starts, her face as red as a ripe cherry, her head buried so low it was almost inside the blanket.
When Gao Cheng saw her timid and delicate appearance, his heart softened instantly.
He thought to himself, "No wonder so many people like lolis. With that kind of cuteness, who wouldn't be soft-hearted?"
But then, he couldn't help but curse himself in his heart, thinking he was inhuman and a beast.
"Gao Zihui, you are a highly educated person, born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze. How could you have such filthy thoughts?"
He quickly cleared his throat, suppressing the jumbled thoughts in his mind, and gently comforted her, "It's alright. You and I are husband and wife, one as one, what is there to regret?"
He paused, then added, "If you are afraid in the future, just come."
After Gao Cheng said this, Yuan Zhonghua finally breathed a sigh of relief, peeked out from under the covers and looked at him timidly. Seeing that he was not angry, she blushed and whispered, "Thank you... thank you, Your Highness."
Gao Cheng smiled, about to offer a few more words of comfort.
But as the words were about to come out, he suddenly realized that what the girl had just said seemed to be "another person died in the mansion last night".
What does "again" mean?
Moreover, someone died in the manor. How come he didn't hear a word about such a big thing as that?
Instantly, his heart tightened, and he immediately suppressed his smile, asking in a deep voice, "You said someone died last night, what happened? Who was the deceased?"
Seeing his serious expression, Yuan Zhonghua assumed that he had slept too soundly last night and was unaware of what was happening in the mansion.
He then replied in a low voice, "The deceased was Consort Zheng. Last night, for some unknown reason, Consort Zheng suddenly fell ill and died before the royal physician could treat her. The servants and maids in Consort Zheng's courtyard were also executed by the King for failing to protect their mistress."
After saying that, she added somewhat embarrassedly, "Last night, seeing so many dead and injured in the manor, I dared not sleep alone, so... that's why I came to the young master's room."
She chattered on and on, unaware that the moment she uttered the words "Aunt Zheng has passed away," Gao Cheng's face turned deathly pale, his eyes filled with shock.
"Zheng Dache...is he dead?"
Gao Cheng stared at her, asking incredulously, his voice trembling with a tension he himself was unaware of.
Yuan Zhonghua remained oblivious, simply nodding slightly: "Indeed, the Crown Prince went to bed early last night and may not know what happened."
Upon hearing this, Gao Cheng felt a thunderous roar in his mind, as if he had been struck by lightning.
Zheng Dache died suddenly from a serious illness, and passed away before the prefectural physician arrived.
How could this be?
In the original history, Zheng Dache died a natural death, so how could she have died, and how could she have died?
Is this how history unfolds?
Or perhaps, he has already changed history?