"The prince wants me to be the outer chamber? When the prince said these words, did he ever think about the fate of those inner and outer chambers of high-end families?"
Su Luo only thought it was ridiculous.
"If I become the crown prince's concubine, my brother and I will be ruined for the rest of our lives. Why, it's not enough that my parents are dead, but my brother and I's reputation and lives are also required?"
Su Luo's words were deadly and life-threatening. Chen Heng couldn't refute even one word of such serious words.
It was like there was a cut in his heart. The knife that cut his heart was very blunt, and it was still cutting one by one.
After a while, he loosened his grip on the cup and tried to pull Su Luo's wrist, but Su Luo was a little far away and he couldn't reach it, so he just curled up weakly. It was difficult and difficult.
He said: "What is it that makes you willing to go back with me?"
Su Luo looked at him calmly.
After Chen Heng finished speaking, he stood up slowly and approached Su Luo.
Chen Heng took a step forward, and Su Luo said: "It's not how I can go back with the prince, but how the prince can let me live upright."
Chen Heng stretched out his hand to hold Su Luo's hand, but just stayed there.
Xu Xing's questioning at Mrs. Gu's house rang in his ears.
Xu Xing said: She is only fifteen. What is a little girl doing here with a five-year-old child? Is she running away to suffer? Did she run away because she likes to endure hardship? Why not become the wife of the prince?
Do you like it?
Chen Heng looked at Su Luo, feeling extremely tight in his chest. He opened his mouth a few times before making a sound, "You...don't like me?"
Su Luo seemed not to hear what he said and looked at the table of food.
Chen Heng looked over with her cold and cold eyes, and his eyes fell on the bowl of milk steamed eggs. Chen Heng's eyebrows suddenly jumped.
"Does the prince like me? If the prince likes me, can the prince stop embarrassing me?" Su Luo changed her previous indifference, and now her tone became more pleading, "Even if I like the prince,
I should be worthy of my parents’ souls in heaven, and I should also consider my younger brother. Prince, please let me go, okay?”
She asked him to let her go.
Chen Heng had never been hurt in his life, but at this moment, it felt like someone had stabbed him in the heart from the front.
He stumbled half a step back and fell into a chair.
Su Luo looked at Chen Heng, paused, bowed, and turned to leave.
She was betting on Chen Heng's affection for her and Chen Heng's conscience, if he had one.
She is too weak now, and she can't fight with Chen Heng forcefully. Once Chen Heng wants to use force, he will deal with her like a dock coolie, and she will have no power to fight back.
She needs to slowly work her way around and find a way to survive in the cracks.
Even if the means are a bit despicable... Presumably, with her words today, Zhenninghou Mansion will have a difficult time after Chen Heng returns to Beijing.
Su Luo was afraid that Chen Heng would catch up again, so she came out of the restaurant, took the mule cart in the backyard, and left quickly.
Chen Heng said before that he could not stay here for too long as he had important matters to return to Beijing.
He does have something important to do.
The incident at the wharf caused so much trouble that in order to protect him from the emperor's imprisonment and physical torture, the Zhenninghou Mansion made concessions and agreed to support the emperor in starting water transportation.
But the premise is that the Zhenninghou Mansion must fully participate in the supervision of water transportation.
He had to rush back to deal with these things.
It was clear that Chen Heng was in a desperate situation, but he was sitting in Zhending's restaurant with no intention of leaving.
Jinbao stood on Chen Heng's side. He had never seen such a lonely look on Chen Heng's face.
"Sir, Kyoto is still waiting for us to go back." Chen Heng didn't want to leave, but Jin Bao had to urge him.
Chen Heng looked out the window and suddenly asked Jinbao: "Do you know she can't eat milk?"
Jin Bao took a deep breath, carefully looked at Chen Heng's face, considered it, and finally told the truth, "I know."
Chen Heng's gloomy eyes turned to Jin Bao from the window and looked at him.
Jin Bao hurriedly lowered his head and said, "It was the first time for Miss Su to eat steamed eggs with milk. After returning home, she had unbearable abdominal pain. She asked Madam to call a doctor. Madam said that Miss Su had too many things to do, so she refused."
That night, Miss Su didn't bring a late-night snack to the prince. The prince asked Beizhi why he didn't bring it, and Beizhi said that Miss Su didn't feel well after eating steamed eggs with milk."
Jinbao responded clearly.
Chen Heng frowned and vaguely remembered that there was such a thing. He was probably busy with the promotion of prescriptions and drug prices at the time. He heard it but ignored it.
He didn't take it seriously.
At the subsequent family dinner, whenever he and Su Luo were next to each other, he would still serve her steamed eggs with milk, and Su Luo would eat every bite. But after eating...how long would she feel uncomfortable?
This realization made Chen Heng feel like there was a lump in his throat, and he felt a strange, sour, swollen, and raw pain in his heart.
"Are there many similar things?"
Jinbao thought for a while, took out a prescription from his body and sent it to Chen Heng, "This is the prescription that the doctor in the mansion prescribed to Zimu when Zimu was sick."
Chen Heng took it and looked at it. He had been dealing with Taiyuan Hospital for many years and could understand some prescriptions. He glanced at it and found nothing wrong. He raised his eyebrows.
Jin Bao said: "Zimu has an ordinary cold. It stands to reason that he should be cured after taking medicine for three or two days. There is no reason for it to get worse. However, the Citrus aurantium and Ephedra in this prescription is something that a child as young as Zimu cannot bear."
When Jin Bao said this, Chen Heng still didn't understand.
The doctors in the mansion are all very skilled in medicine, so they can't even cure a cold.
The reason why it can't be cured is because someone ordered it.
Chen Heng had previously thought that his mother disliked Su Luo's low status and did not want her to be the crown prince's wife, but she did not expect that she had murderous intentions.
"Where did this recipe come from?"
"At that time, because I found out that Miss Su had taken Zimu to Yuchuntang, I went to Yuchuntang to ask. The doctor who treated Zimu gave it to me. It was not the original prescription, but he remembered it.
I wrote a new copy of the medicine."
Chen Heng's eyes were filled with anger, "Since I knew this before, why did I say it today!"
Jinbao wanted to speak but stopped.
Chen Heng slammed the table angrily, "Say!"
Jin Bao lowered his head, "The Crown Prince is about to get married to Miss Gu. I am humble enough to say this to make things difficult for the Crown Prince. How will I be able to get along with Miss Gu in the future? After they get married, she will be the Crown Prince's wife."
Chen Heng frowned slightly, paused for a moment, and his eyes were filled with shock, "You mean, this recipe was ordered by Yao'er?"
Jinbao nodded.
Chen Heng clenched his fists instantly.
For a moment, the private room of this Zhending restaurant was completely silent.
After a long time, Chen Heng's clenched fist hit the table hard.