The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

Back at Changqiu Palace, the court doctor bandaged the wound on Nan Wangyu's back and prescribed medicine. He also told Sun Fulu, the general manager of the Crown Prince's Palace, to send someone to the palace to ask for leave, so that he could not attend the morning court today.

Sun Fulu: "If the palace asks you why you were absent from the morning court, how should I respond?"

Nan Wangyu endured the pain from applying medicine on his back and said, "Just answer truthfully."

Sun Fulu took the order and went down.

Nan Wangyu treated his wounds in the main hall, while Lu Lingxi bathed and changed clothes in the side hall. After everything was ready, the two of them had breakfast together.

After a busy night last night, the two of them hardly got any rest. After breakfast, Lu Lingxi felt a little sleepy.

Nan Wangyu suggested considerately, "I didn't get enough rest last night, and there's nothing important to do today, Lingxi, go to the couch and catch up on some sleep."

Lu Lingxi was thinking the same thing, so he said "hmm" and walked towards the inner room.

After Lu Lingxi got on the bed, Nan Wangyu naturally took out the bedding that he had used for the floor, spread it on the floor and planned to lie down on it.

Lu Lingxi looked at him blankly: "What are you doing?"

Nan Wangyu said as a matter of course: "Same as you, catching up on sleep. We didn't get enough rest last night."

"You still have an injury on your back. Sleeping on the damp floor won't help your wound heal. You can go out to the study and sleep."

Nan Wangyu said pitifully, "But I don't want to sleep alone in the study. It's too lonely and will make me depressed. The palace doctor said it's not good for my wounds to heal."

When one is in a depressed mood, the body's resistance and various functions will indeed deteriorate, which is indeed not conducive to recovery. Lu Lingxi knows this.

After thinking for a moment, he compromised and moved inside to make room. He said, "You...you can come up and sleep. The boundary is still...the center line. You can't cross the line."

Lu Lingxi didn't know what he was so nervous about and his words were stuttering.

Nan Wangyu was so happy, he knew Lingxi would always be soft-hearted towards him. But he was not too happy, he took his own blanket with him when he went to bed.

Sleeping in the same bed with different quilts made Lu Lingxi feel more at ease.

However, after Nan Wangyu got into bed, he didn't close his eyes and go to sleep immediately. Instead, he kept looking at him with a smile on his face, which made Lu Lingxi feel a little uneasy.

After a while, Nan Wangyu still didn't lie down to sleep, but was still looking at him. Lu Lingxi tidied up her hair unnaturally, then turned to ask him: "Why are you looking at me instead of lying down to sleep?"

"Lingxi, I have an injury on the left side of my back. If I sleep lying down, it will press on the wound. If I turn to the left, it will also press on the wound. I can only turn to the right. I don't mean to keep staring at you."

"Oh...oh, that's...that's true." Lu Lingxi turned his head and closed his eyes. He regretted letting Nan Wangyu sleep on his bed. He roared in his heart: "But, big brother, you stare at me like this. The sleepy bug is scared by you and runs away. I can't sleep."

Lu Lingxi rubbed his hands nervously in front of his chest, thinking that he might as well turn around, sideways to the right, with his back to him, so that out of sight, out of mind.

Nan Wangyu grabbed her right hand and asked nervously, "Lingxi, what's wrong with your hand? Why is your palm so red and swollen?"

Lu Lingxi opened his eyes, looked at the palm of his right hand, and said nonchalantly: "It's nothing, it's probably because I used too much force when grabbing the arrow and it got rubbed, it's not a big problem, the skin is not broken."

Nan Wangyu refused. He looked at Lu Lingxi's two hands put together. The white and tender left hand made the redness and swelling of the right hand more glaring. He ignored Lu Lingxi's objection and called Chunhong to help her treat the injury of her right hand.

Chunhong was no less tired than them last night. Maybe she had just fallen asleep and was woken up again. Her eyes were all black and blue, and she had to apply ice to her own swollen palms.

Ice compress wouldn't heal the condition in a short time. When Lu Lingxi saw Chunhong yawning a few times, he told her to go downstairs and rest first, and she could just apply the ice compress herself.

As soon as Chunhong left, Lu Lingxi said to Nan Wangyu in dissatisfaction: "Look at you, your injury is not serious, it doesn't hurt, everyone is tired, can't we wait until we have enough sleep before dealing with it?"

Nan Wangyu carefully took Lu Lingxi's hand, helped her gently press the ice pack, and blew on it carefully: "How can it not hurt? It's so swollen."

Seeing Nan Wangyu's distressed look, Lu Lingxi couldn't blame him any more. To be honest, it felt good to be loved by others.

Just sitting there and watching Nan Wangyu applying ice to him and blowing on him from time to time, Lu Lingxi gradually let down his guard, felt sleepy, slowly lay down and fell asleep.

The sleepiness was passed on to Nan Wangyu, who fell asleep while holding Lu Lingxi's hand lightly.

Everyone in the Prince's Mansion fell into a peaceful dream.

But there was unrest in the court.

When the Emperor of the Southern Expedition learned that the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess had been assassinated while traveling, and that the Crown Prince had been injured, he was furious and immediately ordered the Minister of Justice to take charge of the investigation, and the Chief Censor and the Minister of the Supreme Court to assist in the investigation. The deadline was half a month, and if no results were found, all of them would be investigated for dereliction of duty.

After the Southern Expedition Emperor gave his orders, he glanced at the calm Prince of Qi and prayed in his heart: I hope this rebellious son didn't do this.

The King of Qi was not at all timid, and was determined not to leave any evidence that could trace him.

Lord Liu, the Minister of Justice, Lord Li, the Chief Censor, and Lord Yu, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, received an urgent order and gathered together after the court session to discuss the matter. Finally, Lord Liu, who was in charge, was elected to go to the Prince's residence to inquire about the details of the assassination. Lord Li and Lord Yu were responsible for investigating the personnel movements and weapon usage in the capital.

When Lord Liu arrived at the Prince's Mansion in the afternoon, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess were still asleep, so he was received by Sun Fulu, the Mansion's General Manager.

Sun Fulu repeated the assassination process to Lord Liu according to the prince's instructions, and also took out an arrow, saying it was the one that stabbed the prince. There was still blood on the arrowhead, but the arrow tip and the arrow shaft had clear marks, so it was easy to trace where it came from. He also handed Lord Liu a black package, saying that the items inside were all collected from the assassin, hoping to provide clues for Lord Liu to track down the person behind the scenes.

As soon as Lord Liu got the clue, he shared it with Lord Li and Lord Yu. The three of them worked together to investigate and made rapid progress.

Within three days, the result came out, and it turned out to be the work of Lu Qian, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Personnel.

If you don't check, you wouldn't know that a mere sixth-rank official actually has secret guards and spends extravagantly on daily expenses, and lives a more comfortable life than princes and kings.

When he found out about Lu Qian, Emperor Nan Zheng remembered that the crown prince had been injured by him and nearly died. He did not waste any time and settled all the new and old grudges and directly put him in jail.

At first, Lu Qian refused to admit his guilt, saying that no matter how daring he was, he would never dare to assassinate the crown prince. However, after a few punishments, he confessed his guilt, saying that he hated the crown prince for forcibly seizing his beloved. He also made up some absurd stories about childhood sweethearts, mutual affection, and secret affairs. In the end, he dragged Yu, the minister of the crown prince's mansion, to be buried with him before he let the matter go.

What a coincidence that Yu Shi, the minister of imperial counsel, was the person that Nan Wangyu and Lu Lingxi met in the garden when they returned home on the day of the assassination. It seemed that she was waiting there on purpose to check on the prince's injuries.