You cause trouble and I collect your body, the little emperor’s aunt abuses the scumbag again

The physician, Wang, came to check my pulse this morning and said that I should get better after taking the medicine for two more days.

Everything seemed to be back on track, but Meng Siya felt inexplicably uneasy.

She always felt that something bad was going to happen, a feeling that had no reason whatsoever.

"Ho...ho..."

My mute cousin, who was chopping wood in the yard, suddenly stopped.

He stood up, walked to the courtyard gate, listened intently, and then sniffed the ground.

He strode into the pharmacy and made a few hand gestures to Meng Siya.

With a serious expression, he drew lines in the air with his finger, and finally pointed outside, making a snake-spitting-snout gesture.

Meng Siya understood; he said there were a few more unclean tails outside.

It was a spy; Meng Siya's heart sank.

Whether she's on Ji Yongyan's or Shangguan Yun'er's side, it's not a good thing for her no matter which side she's on.

She put down the medicine grinder in her hand and went into the inner room. Looking at the sleeping Sui Sui, her eyes became firm.

Anyone who wants to harm her child will have to step over her dead body.

In the afternoon, the store gradually became more and more crowded.

Wearing a veil, Meng Siya was instructing the shop assistant at the counter.

"Ring-ling——"

The wind chimes at the door rang.

A man wearing a long silk robe walked in.

It's him again.

Ji Yongyan.

He seemed to be in a good mood today, with even a faint smile on his lips.

Just as the waiter was about to step forward to greet him, Ji Yongyan waved his hand and walked straight toward Meng Siya.

"Boss Meng."

"Sir," Meng Siya's voice remained distant.

Ji Yongyan didn't mind. He took out a palm-sized brocade box from his sleeve and placed it on the counter.

"What is this?" Meng Siya asked.

"For the child." Ji Yongyan opened the brocade box.

Inside the brocade box lay a longevity lock made of pure gold.

The lock is exquisitely designed, with the words "May you live a long and healthy life" engraved on it, and a small golden bell hanging from it, gleaming brightly in the sunlight.

It looks very valuable.

Meng Siya's breath hitched.

She recognized, of course, that this style of longevity lock was a design reserved for members of the royal family.

"I cannot accept this gift without having done anything right. This gift is too much for me." Without thinking, Meng Siya closed the box and pushed it back.

"It's not for you." Ji Yongyan pushed the box back, his force leaving no room for refusal.

His fingers inadvertently touched the back of Meng Siya's hand.

The warm touch made them both freeze for a moment.

Meng Siya quickly withdrew her hand, as if she had been burned.

Ji Yongyan's Adam's apple bobbed, and he cleared his throat to cover up his lapse in composure.

"I... just felt a connection with that child."

As he said this, his eyes remained fixed on Meng Siya.

He wanted to see something in those eyes.

But in those eyes, there was nothing but wariness and aloofness.

Meng Siya's heart was beating very fast.

They clicked?

Why would a crown prince take a liking to a "merchant's son" he's never met?

Even if you told that to a ghost, it wouldn't believe you.

He was clearly testing him!

“I appreciate Your Highness’s kindness,” Meng Siya said firmly, “but my child is still young and cannot accept such a valuable gift. Please take it back, Your Highness.”

“I never take back what I’ve given away.” Ji Yongyan’s patience seemed to have run out, and his tone became firm. “If you don’t accept it, I will come every day until you do.”

This is absolutely outrageous!

Meng Siya was so angry she couldn't speak.

The surrounding customers and staff were all secretly watching and whispering among themselves.

Meng Siya didn't want to make a big fuss, so she could only grit her teeth and put the brocade box under the counter.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness." She squeezed out these words through gritted teeth, and only then did Ji Yongyan smile with satisfaction.

He looked at her and suddenly asked another question.

Is the child's name Sui Sui?

Meng Siya's heart clenched suddenly.

"Yes."

May you have peace and safety every year.

Ji Yongyan murmured the four words, "A good name."

After saying that, he didn't linger any longer and turned to leave Huayan Pavilion.

Meng Siya watched his retreating figure and then glanced at the brocade box under the counter, her mind in turmoil.

What exactly does this man want to do?

The Eastern Palace, a secret chamber.

Shangguan Yun'er sat upright in the main seat, looking at the man in black kneeling below.

"Is everything arranged?"

"Reporting to Master, everything has been arranged."

The man in black said in a hoarse voice, "Our men have already scouted the area around the courtyard and are just waiting for nightfall to make their move."

"Remember to make it an accident."

Shangguan Yun'er tapped the table with her nail clippers, "For example, a fire, or falling into a well."

"Understood."

Where is that woman?

"What does Master mean..."

"Spare her life."

Shangguan Yun'er's lips curled into a smile, "It would be interesting to let her watch her child die and then spend the rest of her life in pain."

The man in black lowered his head.

"Yes."

"Go down."

The man in black silently withdrew from the secret room.

Shangguan Yun'er was left alone in the secret room.

She picked up a chess piece from the table and crushed it to pieces on the chessboard.

She stroked her nail caps, her eyes filled with malice.

She sneered at the air.

"Ji Yongyan, since you like that bastard so much, then go to the underworld and be a real father and son."

The sun was setting in the west, and the scenery in the courtyard was just right.

The air after the rain smelled of earth and herbs. Meng Siya, dressed in linen clothes with her sleeves rolled up, was drying medicinal herbs on a bamboo tray.

She moves quickly and attentively, only revealing her maternal tenderness when she sees the little clothes drying in the sun.

This gentleness is very similar to Ya Ya's back then.

Ji Yongyan stood outside the courtyard gate, unable to move his feet.

He came here under the pretext of checking the efficacy of the prescription given by Imperial Physician Wang. Despite being the Crown Prince, he had postponed the afternoon's political meeting for the sake of a widow's child and come to this alley.

Li Dequan was left at the alley entrance; he just wanted to see him alone for a moment.

"Who?"

Meng Siya was very alert and straightened up when she heard the rubbing sound at the door.

When she saw the man at the door, she froze, and the licorice in her hand spilled back into the bamboo tray.

It's him again.

Why is this man so persistent?

"Your Highness?"

Meng Siya adjusted her expression, lowered her sleeve to cover her arm, and said in a distant tone, "I was unaware of Your Highness's arrival. I apologize for not welcoming you properly."

Ji Yongyan came to his senses and walked into the courtyard.

"I've come to see the child."

He put his hands behind his back, his gaze sweeping over the furnishings in the courtyard before finally settling on Meng Siya's veiled face.

Has the fever subsided?

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I took the medicine prescribed by Physician Wang and the symptoms subsided this morning. I'm sleeping in my room now." Meng Siya lowered her head, eager to get rid of this troublesome person as soon as possible. "My humble abode is simple, without even a decent cup of tea. I'm afraid it might offend Your Highness's palate. If Your Highness has nothing else to say..."

"Who said I wanted tea?" Ji Yongyan interrupted her order to leave, walking straight to the bamboo chairs. "I'm tired from walking, can't I sit for a while?"