If not abolished

These days, Hu Shanxiang woke up more often, but she felt tasteless in her mouth after taking all those bitter medicines every day.

"Girl, drink the medicine quickly." When Hu Shanxiang saw Lingzhi bringing the medicine again, she immediately said, "It's very hot."

Lingzhi thought, young lady, you haven't even touched the medicine bowl yet and you're already lying with your eyes open. "I know you're afraid of heat, so I left it out for a long time before bringing it to you. Look, it's almost gone. You should drink it quickly, or the old lady will come and scold you again."

Hu Shanxiang saw that there was indeed no smoke coming out of the bowl of medicine, and she knew that this excuse would not work. She picked up the bowl of medicine with a fearless look on her face. As soon as it reached her lips, she felt like vomiting when she smelled the Chinese medicine. She gritted her teeth and held her breath, and swallowed it in one gulp. She did drink it, but the bitter taste in her mouth immediately made her frown.

She picked up the teacup and drank several cups. Lingzhi then quickly gave her some candied fruit, which Hu Shanxiang quickly put into her mouth, and only then did she feel a little better.

After a while, Old Madam Hu came to talk to her. Strangely enough, since that day, no one else appeared in front of her. Every day, only her grandmother came to talk to her. Maybe the fire scared the family so much that they didn't dare to leave her alone.

"You look much better today." The old lady said, holding her hand as she sat down.

"You all go down." The old lady asked everyone to leave. She must have something to say to her.

"Some time ago, I saw that you were not well enough, so I didn't ask you too many questions. Now that I see that you have recovered well, there are some things that grandma wants to ask you. At the same time, I will explain some things to you." The old lady spoke only after seeing that all the servants had gone outside.

Hu Shanxiang nodded. There was no way to escape the past. She had to face it. She had already died in a fire once. Since God had saved her life again, she would just live well.

"Now you know the identity of that person, right?" Old Madam Hu asked this question in a tone of affirmation. At first everyone thought that the fire in her room was an accident, but the old lady felt something was wrong and asked someone to check the cause of the fire. Sure enough, the people who checked said that the fire started in the room and spread from the granddaughter's desk, but there was no sign of the candlestick on the table falling. The people who put out the fire also said that the third girl fainted next to the desk at that time. All signs showed that this was not an accident, but arson, and it was very likely that the granddaughter set the fire herself. There was only one thing that could make Hu Shanxiang commit suicide, that is, she knew the truth. She was so depressed that she almost died here. The old lady is scared when she thinks about it now. If it had not been discovered in time, her granddaughter would have died.

Hu Shanxiang was about to speak when her voice choked up. "I... I guessed that grandma got sick because of me, so I wanted to know what happened," she sniffed as she spoke. "I was going to ask my second brother, but he didn't tell me, so I wrote to ask Sister He, and Sister He wrote back to tell me, and I..."

"Then you did stupid things. How could you be so stupid? Don't you think about how sad your family would be if something really happened to you? Not to mention others, just think of me, an old woman. You want to watch me send your son away? If you really did that, I would have gone with you." After hearing what she said, the old lady was angry and distressed, and she hit her cruelly a few times.

Hu Shanxiang explained: "No, I just felt bad at first and thought that my family had kept it a secret from me. I didn't want to... do anything stupid. Later, when I was burning the letters, the fire accidentally caught fire. When I saw the fire, I couldn't think straight. I thought if I died like this, everything might be over."

When the old lady heard her say it herself, she couldn't help crying. Hu Shanxiang felt very guilty when she saw her grandmother like this.

"Grandma, it's all my fault. I made you so worried and sad."

"Since you know it will make me sad, then promise me that from now on no matter what happens, you will never have such thoughts again. Nothing is impossible and everything will be fine."

"Yeah, never again. I felt so miserable that I wanted to die, but now I don't want to die at all. I think it's better to be alive. Only when I'm alive there is hope. If I die, there will be nothing."

"I'm glad you think so." Seeing that she had let it go, the old lady didn't say anything.

"I was originally thinking about how to tell you that the man was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and I never thought about you... Alas,"

"This is all fate. The thing I desperately wanted to escape from not only happened, but it also happened earlier than the last time. This shows that this is a doomed calamity that I can't escape."

"But I don't understand, why would His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have set his eyes on our family so early? According to your description, shouldn't the one he has his eyes on be Sun, whom the wife of the Earl of Pengcheng brought back to the capital?" The old lady raised her question.

When the old lady asked this, Hu Shanxiang was also confused: "I don't know either. It shouldn't be like this. It was at this time in the last life that the Sun family was chosen, and I was stuffed in fifteen years later." She was confused about the current situation.

"Anyway, the current situation is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has taken a fancy to you, but there has been no movement from the wife of the Marquis of Pengcheng."

"After all, the Lady of the Marquis of Pengcheng is the maternal family of the Crown Princess. Besides, His Royal Highness the Crown Grand has not yet been officially canonized. Once everything is settled, the Sun family will be recommended to the palace. Even His Majesty agrees." Hu Shanxiang said the historical description of this incident.

"Then don't worry about it. Anyway, we will go to Jining in a while, and everything will depend on subsequent developments."

"How did grandma convince my father to return to Jining?"

"Even though your father is greedy and wants a daughter to be an imperial concubine, he cannot disregard your life. After weighing the pros and cons, they naturally agreed. Moreover, they believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will summon you to the palace soon. They think that you will only be gone for a while, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will call you back when he returns to the capital."

Hu Shanxiang suddenly stood up and knelt down. The old lady hurriedly tried to pull her up: "What are you doing? If you have something to say, just say it directly. Why are you kneeling?"

"Grandma, please listen to me first. No matter what happens this time, I still don't want to enter the palace so early. If, if the palace wants me to go, I want to delay time by taking care of my grandmother. I don't know about this."

"Why not? Of course you can. When we return to Jining, it will just be the two of us, grandparents and grandchildren. If you enter the palace, there will be no one to accompany me. I also don't want to go back to Beijing so soon. I'll put it off as long as possible."

"Thank you, grandma." Hu Shanxiang said with a smile.

"Grandma has promised you, please get up quickly."