If not abolished

Chapter 36

When He Yunyue received Hu Shanxiang's reply, she thought things at home had improved. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Hu's condition not only did not improve but worsened, which made her worried. Seeing that she was interested in finding out the identity of His Royal Highness, she shouldn't tell him about it, as it would disrupt His Royal Highness's plan... But on the other hand, she was the younger sister of the Hu family whom she regarded as her own sister.

He Yunyue was entangled for a day, and only started to write back to Hu Shanxiang the next day. After thinking it over, she still felt that she had to tell her. After all, she would know when His Highness came back. Knowing it earlier would allow her to be mentally prepared. After all, Shanxiang was unwilling to enter the palace. If she knew the truth at that time, she was really afraid that she would not be able to bear it. As for His Highness blaming me...

He Yunyue never imagined that it was her action that led to a series of events afterwards, but she naturally didn't know it now.

Hu Shanxiang didn't expect He Yunyue to reply so quickly. Thinking that her doubts might be solved, her hand holding the paper cutter was shaking with excitement. She carefully opened the envelope and slowly took out the piece of paper inside, her heart in her throat.

After pulling it out completely and opening it, the first part was full of words of concern for her grandmother. Hu Shanxiang quickly browsed to the part she was eager to know, "This matter should have been told to you by that person himself, but since you asked me this, I am also very conflicted about whether I should let you know. I really treat you as my own sister, so I am finally going to tell you. The person you have always wanted to know is none other than the eldest son of the current Crown Prince, the future Crown Prince."

Hu Shanxiang felt like a bolt from the blue. She was afraid that she was dazzled, so she rubbed her eyes and read it again word by word, staring at the sentence "The future His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Unable to believe it, she slumped in her chair and the letter in her hand fell to the ground.

How could this happen, how could he be... She now recalled the scenes of their meetings, the chance encounter in the Imperial City Temple. It was indeed not a coincidence, it was all planned. No wonder the second brother did not obstruct their meetings and even frequently leaked information. The second brother sometimes made things so obvious that the eldest sister and eldest brother were probably aware of it. It was more likely that the second brother was just placed next to her on purpose.

Now I understand. I originally wanted to enter the palace as a female official to avoid disaster, but why was it suddenly cancelled with such a far-fetched reason? I'm afraid someone was behind it. My elder sister must have heard the rumor that I was valued in the palace at that time. Comparing the two, the imperial concubine was more attractive, so she advised me not to enter the palace as a female official, saying that her family didn't need her to enter the palace as long as she could marry into a good family in the future. Ha, now thinking about it, it's such a joke. I foolishly thought that I had a chance to change my destiny. Everyone knew it and they were making a fool of me.

Probably everyone thinks that this is the blessing she earned in her previous life, to be personally chosen by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Really, this blessing should be given to others, she doesn't want it.

I don't know what roles the people around her play. In this conspiracy against her, it is really a big deal. Family members in the palace and friends around her are all involved. When did the current emperor's favorite grandson, the future Crown Prince, and the future Prince, do things so cautiously? He spent so much time and effort on a little girl like her. If he really wanted to do something, she would be forced to do it with an imperial edict. Why bother giving her hope and teasing her like this?

Hu Shanxiang finally understood why her grandmother was bedridden. It was because of her, all because of her. If she hadn't said those words to her grandmother, now her grandmother would be worried and distressed for nothing. It was all her fault.

Suddenly she saw some letters to that person on the table on the other side. She had carefully treasured them before, but now they all seemed like a joke. She grabbed them and put them on the candle flame and burned them. The flames immediately burned up, and the words on the white paper were completely devoured. She burned the letters one by one like a madman, and some of the fire cores fell to the ground without her noticing.

By the time she came to her senses, the room was already on fire. She stared blankly at the door. The fire was not very big and she could have escaped, but she didn't. She just sat there with the fire reflected in her eyes. She thought that if she died in the fire, it would be a relief. If she died, everything would be over, over.

The people outside discovered that there was water leaking in the third girl's room and hurriedly shouted for help to put out the fire. When they heard that the third girl was still inside, they were even more frightened and rushed in to save her.

When the servant found her, she had fainted from inhaling too much smoke.

Hu Shanxiang was half asleep when she heard many voices, the noise of people putting out the fire, the sound of something burning, and someone shouting, "Girl, girl, wake up."

"My dear, my dear..."

Whose voice it was, her mother's or her grandmother's, she couldn't tell for a moment.

Afterwards she became drowsy and talked nonsense.

"No...no...I don't want to go..."

"Wake up, wake up, wake up."

Who is talking? Hu Shanxiang opened her heavy eyelids and saw her grandmother sitting beside the bed in a trance. "Grandma, I don't want to go in..." After saying this, she fell asleep again.

"Doctor, doctor, you just woke up, but now you're asleep again?"

The doctor came over and took her pulse. "The poison in the young lady's body has been expelled temporarily, but she still feels a little hot. She will be fine once it subsides."

When Hu Shanxiang woke up again, she saw Lingzhi pouring water on her lips. When Lingzhi saw that she was awake, tears came out immediately and she choked with joy and said, "Girl, the girl is awake." She also ran outside and shouted, "The girl is awake, the girl is awake."

Soon, the room was full of people. Grandmother, mother, and even older sister came and sat around her bed. Father and brother couldn't come in, so they were anxiously greeting her from outside the screen.

Hu Shanxiang was helped to sit up. She still felt a little weak and hungry, and someone happened to bring her food.

His mother fed him herself and finished eating. "Slow down. It's not good to eat too fast. You haven't eaten in the past few days. Eat something that's easy to digest for now."

After eating, Hu Shanxiang pulled the quilt with both hands, not knowing what to say.

It was the old lady who broke the silence, "When you get better after a few more days of recuperation, I will take you back to Jining."

"Go... go back to Jining?" Hu Shanxiang was surprised to hear that she was going back to Jining. She looked around and saw no one raised any objections. She thought that it was probably because she had been unconscious for the past few days and a lot of things had happened at home. She didn't know how her grandmother got her father to agree to this result, but given the current situation, it would be good to go back to Jining.

"That's right, let's go back to Jining. During this period, both our grandfather and grandson had accidents. I'm afraid this year is not a good year for us. It would be good for us to go back to Jining and recuperate." Mrs. Hu continued.