Did the Seventh Prince attend court today?

After not seeing Emperor Wulong for a day, by the time Youlu remembered to ask, the sun had already set.

In late spring and early summer, there are often showers. Thunder rumbles, and before long, large raindrops begin to fall.

Eunuch Kang braved the rain to run to the side hall, dusted his sleeves with a whisk and straightened his hat, and only after confirming that he had not heard any suspicious flute music did he cross the threshold and enter the outer room of the side hall.

He walked over to Youlu, who was having his meal, and bowed: "Greetings to Your Highness. His Majesty sent me to deliver a message that he will not be returning to Yixin Palace today. He wishes you to rest early, as he has to attend the morning court tomorrow."

You Lu's face instantly contorted into a grimace. He knew that after the period of facing the wall, he would be dragged to the morning court session again.

The already bland food on the table tasted even worse. He put down his chopsticks, propped his chin up, and sighed.

After delivering the message, Eunuch Kang did not leave in a hurry. He took out a palm-sized wooden box from his sleeve, placed it on the table, and said, "These are newly delivered poisonous insects, they just died and are still fresh."

Youlu opened it and took a look. There were two spiders and a scorpion. They weren't very big, but they were enough for Xiaogua to eat tonight.

"Thank you for your trouble, sir." He said his thanks.

Eunuch Kang smiled and said, "From now on, the secret guards will deliver it to you twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. It will still be this small box, placed on the east windowsill. Your Highness can go and pick it up on time."

Youlu nodded, and seeing that he had no further instructions, Eunuch Kang took his leave, as he still had to go back to serve Emperor Wulong.

After seeing off Eunuch Kang, Youlu asked Xiaodongzi to take the dishes off the table and share them with the others as a reward for their help grinding the herbs that afternoon.

The Pixiu stayed put for two days, but now it's gone out to play again. I don't know when it will come back. Since there were deer around, I didn't leave it any food, since it won't go hungry anyway.

He got up and went back to the inner room, where Youlu took out the box containing the little melon. When he opened it, he saw the little melon sleeping in the bowl with its eyes half-closed. He didn't wake it up, but planned to throw a poisonous spider in and let it eat it when it woke up.

Just as he picked up the spider with the bamboo strips, Xiao Gua, who had been sleeping, suddenly kicked his legs and jumped up, sticking out his tongue to roll the spider into his mouth.

Youlu: "..."

Is it that greedy?

Unfortunately, Xiaogua was too small to swallow the whole spider whole. He could only puff out his cheeks and half-hold it in his mouth, slowly grinding it with his upper jaw teeth, eating it in two bites.

After feeding, Youlu took out the powdered medicine she had ground in the afternoon, mixed it with half a teacup of water to make a medicinal soup, and said to Xiaogua, "Good baby, it's time to take a bath after you finish eating."

Little Melon tilted its head, seemingly understanding but not quite. "Quack?"

You Lu recalled Meng Tianhong's secret recipe for refining poisonous insects, which seemed to involve dripping blood after each feeding of the insects before finally soaking them in medicine.

Ah this...

As someone who's extremely afraid of pain, I'm scared.

After much hesitation, he broke a teacup, cut his fingertip with a shard, and squeezed a few drops of blood onto Xiaogua.

"It hurts so much! It hurts so much!"

A deer was jumping around while holding a finger.

If Emperor Wulong were present, he would surely laugh at him for reacting so strongly to a wound that was only half an inch long.

He didn't want to, but for some reason, this body was particularly sensitive. His cut finger felt like it was being pricked by needles, and a constant stream of fine, dense pain was being transmitted to his brain.

He was already psychologically afraid of pain, and now his body couldn't handle it either, causing the pain to be doubled.

Despite his impressive skills, he was initially unwilling to learn martial arts. It was only after the God of Destiny told him that if he didn't practice martial arts, he wouldn't be able to defeat others, and if he couldn't defeat others, he would be beaten. He became afraid and started practicing martial arts diligently.

He is genuinely afraid of pain.

Little Gua didn't understand its new owner's pain. Seeing him jumping around, it thought he was one of its own kind playing with it, so it jumped around in the box too.

As the little melon moved, the blood that had just dripped onto it slowly seeped into its skin and quickly disappeared.

Xiao Dongzi, who was guarding outside, ran in when he heard the commotion. He had sharp eyes and immediately noticed that his master was injured. He immediately found some wound medicine and gauze to apply medicine and bandage Youlu.

After the medication was applied, the pain was somewhat relieved, and Youlu was finally able to sit down, but he was still gasping for breath.

Seeing the pain on his face, and worried that he might have some other ailment, Xiao Dongzi cautiously asked, "Should we summon the imperial physician to examine His Highness?"

"No need." Youlu shook his head. If the imperial physician were to treat such a minor injury, people would only say that he was spoiled and pampered. That's right, he was spoiled and pampered.

"What about the Emperor?" Xiao Dongzi asked hesitantly.

"No need to disturb Father, it's just a minor injury. Alright, you may all leave."

With all this commotion, several palace maids also rushed in.

The group exchanged glances, bowed, and withdrew.

After leaving the palace, Xiao Dongzi hesitated for a long time, but still decided to make a trip to Fengyi Palace.

When Eunuch Kang heard that the young prince of Yixin Palace was requesting an audience, he assumed that Lu had something to say and hurriedly went out to receive him. He knew how much Emperor Wulong valued the Seventh Prince and dared not be negligent in the slightest.

Upon meeting, they learned that a deer had been injured and that they were not allowed to call the imperial physician.

"How did Your Highness get injured? How serious is it?" Eunuch Kang asked in detail.

"Reporting to Your Excellency, His Highness has cut his finger. It doesn't look serious, but His Highness doesn't look well and seems to be in a lot of pain," Xiao Dongzi reported truthfully.

Eunuch Kang was at a loss for words. Should he report such a minor injury or not? After pondering for a moment, he waved his hand, signaling Xiao Dongzi to leave.

Inside the palace, Emperor Wulong and the Empress were having their meal when they saw Eunuch Kang rush out and then return with a serious expression. Emperor Wulong asked, "What's the matter with this commotion? Who is it?"

Eunuch Kang dared not hide the truth and said, "It was the person who serves the young prince who said that the young prince cut his finger and was in great pain but refused to call the imperial physician."

Emperor Wulong's lips twitched, then he thought that if it wasn't serious, his subordinates probably wouldn't dare to disturb him.

Besides, that child was already special.

He suddenly became restless and said to the Empress, "I'm a little worried. You eat first, I'll go check on things."

The queen pulled him back, "I'll go with you."

The two left Fengyi Palace hand in hand and headed towards Yixin Palace.

After Youlu chased Xiaodongzi and the others out, she poured the prepared medicine into the jade bowl in the box, which was where Xiaogua slept and was also the right size for taking a bath.

At first, Xiao Gua wasn't used to it and kept trying to jump out, but after You Lu pressed his head down a few times, he behaved.

Since it was the first time, a tonic prescription was used, and the medicine was diluted, so Xiaogua adapted quickly.

Once Xiaogua was completely obedient, Youlu threw the remaining two poisonous insects into the box, closed it, and placed the box by the bedside.

The box contains cold jade, so there's no need to worry about insects spoiling if you throw them in. He doesn't have the energy to take care of Little Melon tonight, so he can only let it have its own midnight snack.

After settling the little melon in, Youlu turned around, climbed onto the bed, and fell asleep immediately.

He gets especially sleepy whenever he's in pain.

Fengyi Palace is not far from Yixin Palace, but it takes almost a quarter of an hour to go there and back. When Emperor Wulong and the Empress arrived at Yixin Palace, Youlu was already asleep on the bed, with her fingers wrapped in gauze hanging over the edge of the bed.

Emperor Wulong tiptoed to the bedside and saw the child huddled under the covers, his half-exposed face pale, his brows furrowed even in his sleep, clearly very uncomfortable.

Just then, the imperial physician arrived, so Emperor Wulong gave up his seat to let the physician examine him, while he and the empress went to wait in the outer room.

The imperial physician quickly came out, cupped his hands, and said, "His Highness is fine. It's probably because of his special constitution that he is more sensitive to pain, so his reaction was a bit stronger."

The Queen asked, "Isn't there any way to improve this?"

The imperial physician shook his head.

The Empress waved for the imperial physicians to leave.

Emperor Wulong tiptoed into the inner room again, tucked the blanket around Youlu, and gently scolded, "Why are you so delicate?"

He was scolding her, but the worry in his eyes was almost overflowing.