Shengjing Noble

Chapter 381 Not in vain

You can tell at a glance that she is good at Chinese medicine.

Today is a palace banquet, and everyone must be careful with their words and actions, and Su Lanyin is someone who will not make mistakes.

So, she wouldn't drug herself.

However, Su Lanyin is a disciple of a miracle doctor, so how could she be inexplicably poisoned by someone else?

This is so strange!

So he wanted to ask, and also wanted to help her analyze.

Su Lanyin thought for a moment and said, "It was Su Lanxin who harmed me... and..."

She hesitated to speak and looked at him worriedly, not knowing whether she should say it or not.

Fu Mingchuan seemed to have seen her concerns, so he said, "Don't worry, I am just a short-lived idle prince. I will not participate in any collusion or struggle inside or outside the court. You can rest assured."

After hearing this, she also felt that it made sense.

Who would try to win over an idle prince who is about to die?

So he nodded: "It's the Crown Prince Fu Mingheng and the Fifth Prince Fu Mingli."

"What do they want to do?" Fu Mingchuan wondered.

He has been devoted to medical practice these years, so he doesn't care about worldly affairs and doesn't want to know about the power struggles between them.

After all, his life is limited and short, and he is unwilling to focus his energy on such unimportant and boring things.

Su Lanyin patiently explained: "Because Fu Mingheng had ill intentions and wanted to take the Lu family's property for his own use, he had someone drug me and wanted to force me to marry Fu Mingli."

"Once something happens between me and Fu Mingli and we are caught in public, they can force me to marry into the Fifth Prince's Mansion with a generous dowry, and then gradually erode the wealth of my Lu family."

After hearing this, Fu Mingchuan understood the reason.

He said disdainfully: "My eldest brother really does everything he can."

"Unfortunately, they planned everything, but they didn't expect that I had seen through their tricks long ago. Not only did I escape, but I also left them a great gift!"

Seeing Su Lanyin's evil smile, Fu Mingchuan was curious: "What gift?"

"Your Highness will know in a moment. By the way, how do you cure the medicine in my body?"

Without the antidote, there must be a man, but she is intact now, it must be Fu Mingchuan who fed her the medicine.

But how could he have the antidote?

It’s no wonder Su Lanyin is suspicious. After being reborn, she trusts almost no one except her mother and brothers.

Fu Mingchuan took out a purse from his sleeve and placed it on the table: "Is this yours?"

"Eh? This thing was detained when entering the palace. How come it is here with the prince?" She was full of surprise.

"I thought that since you are a disciple of the Divine Doctor, you must have various preventive medicines on you, so I sent someone to give the guard some money and asked him to take it out secretly."

"Then how can Your Majesty tell which one is the antidote?"

"I am weak and sickly. If I didn't have a few good doctors around me, I would have died long ago."

"That's true. Thank you so much this time, Your Highness. You not only saved my life, but also my innocence!" She was grateful from the bottom of her heart.

This was the second time he saved my life.

Fu Mingchuan chuckled: "This prince didn't save you in vain."

"Ah? So that's what you want?"

Sure enough, anyone who is nice to you has a purpose!

Su Lanyin curled her lips in disappointment.

Fu Mingchuan said seriously, "Do you remember what you said to me before you fainted?"

"what?"

She looked confused, obviously not remembering.

He had no choice but to remind her: "You said you wanted to tell me something about my mother."

"Ah, you mean Lady Lin."

Fu Mingchuan's mother was a little palace maid in the Palace of Tranquil Longevity. One night, while serving the drunk emperor, she was pulled onto the dragon bed.

The emperor was very upset after this incident, but he also conferred the title of Lin Cairen on her, thinking that they would never meet again.

Who knew that not long after that, Lin Cairen became pregnant!

At that time, the Queen was pregnant with the Fifth Prince Fu Mingli. The Imperial Preceptor said that Concubine Lin's child would definitely conflict with the Queen's child.

Therefore, the emperor immediately issued an order to banish Lin Cairen to the cold palace and gave her a bowl of safflower to force-feed.

Everyone thought that Lin Cairen would just abort the baby and let it die, but who knew that she didn't miscarry the baby. Instead, she gave birth to the child in the cold palace when no one was paying attention.

Perhaps because of his congenital deficiency and the fact that he was almost conceived as a child, Fu Mingli was weak from birth.

There were several times when he almost died, and it was Lin Cairen who tried his best to save him.

Later, her motherly love moved the Queen Mother, who named her a noble lady and granted her the Suiyun Pavilion on the grounds that she had given birth to a royal heir.

The Queen did not dare to refute out of consideration for the Empress Dowager's face. In addition, the imperial physician asserted that Fu Mingheng would not live past the age of twenty, so she turned a blind eye and stopped objecting.

But not long after the mother and son recovered, Concubine Lin suddenly suffered a heart attack and died in Suiyunxuan. From then on, Fu Mingchuan lived here alone, with a palace maid by his side to take care of him.

I heard that the palace maid bullied and abused him all day long until he was ten years old, when she was discovered. Later, the palace maid was executed. The empress dowager felt sorry for him and sent her own nanny to take care of him herself.

Otherwise, Fu Mingchuan might have died long ago and would not have lived to this day.

In her previous life, Su Lanyin accidentally overheard the conversation between Su Lanxin and Crown Prince Fu Mingheng before she died, and only then did she realize that the truth of the matter was not what she thought.

Su Lanyin hesitated and asked, "This matter may overturn the prince's cognition. Do you really want to know?"

Fu Mingchuan nodded, his eyes firm: "As long as it's about my mother, I must know."

"Well, actually... outsiders say that Concubine Lin is not favored at all. Even the title of Concubine was given posthumously by the Empress Dowager. In fact, it is not true. She is the one the Emperor loves the most!"

"What did you say?"

Fu Mingchuan thought he had heard it wrong and couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

"I once overheard the prince say that your mother was banished to the cold palace not because of you, but because the queen discovered that the emperor had been secretly doting on your mother."

"Did you hear wrongly?"

"No."

Su Lanyin was very determined. What she heard with her own ears could not be wrong.

"Back then, your grandfather was also a famous scholar in Shengjing. He was dissatisfied with the Wei family, so he wrote an article, in which every word criticized the Wei family for controlling the government and appointing corrupt officials."

"The book caused a sensation, and he completely offended the Wei family. Not long after, he was accused of a trumped-up crime, his property was confiscated, and he was executed."

"Because your mother was a female member of the family, she was punished to be a slave in the palace. By chance, she mistook your father for a eunuch, and the two gradually became familiar with each other."

"Later, your mother was transferred to the Yangxin Palace for duty, and only then did she discover your father's true identity. Because he was afraid of the Wei family, the emperor did not give your mother a title."

"Until he discovered that your mother was pregnant, he could no longer conceal the fact, so the emperor announced to the public that he had favored your mother while drunk."