Chapter 16: The Warmth of Family

Prince Ping didn’t want to trouble those around him, and still wanted some dignity.

“Your Highness, drink some,” Mosheng said, “It can stop diarrhea…”

Although he didn’t know if it would work, as Jian Lai said, the situation couldn’t get any worse.

“Did you find a doctor?” Prince Ping asked.

“No, no… It’s a folk remedy given by Zhi Zi from the Princess Consort’s side, try it, Zhi Zi is very good.”

“Okay.”

Mosheng had prepared a lot of words of persuasion, but after hearing this word, he swallowed them all back.

Prince Ping couldn’t get up at all, and it was difficult to drink water.

Mosheng slowly fed him spoonful by spoonful with a spoon.

“Your Highness, is it hard to drink?”

“It’s okay.”

He had drunk countless bitter medicines; there were also various folk remedies, he had tried everything to recover, but the results had disappointed him.

Mosheng finished feeding the water, pulled the quilt for him, and whispered: “The Princess Consort is planting vegetables with Zhi Zi and Douchou in the flower bed next door.”

“Hmm.” Prince Ping didn’t react much, his eyes were calm.

Mosheng silently said in his heart, as expected of the Prince.

He couldn’t do it, when he first heard the Princess Consort say she was going to plant vegetables, he almost suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.

He had been following the Prince since he was a child, and had never done that kind of work; the Princess Consort, as a girl from the Duke’s Mansion, was so down-to-earth.

Prince Ping said that he had already been shocked.

The movement in the yard was so loud that even if he didn’t intend to listen, he heard a lot of it.

His Princess Consort was adaptable to circumstances.

It was a pity that she was going to be confined here, accompanying him, a dying person.

“Let Jian Lai take care of her,” Prince Ping instructed again, “She has offended Wang Jingrong, he is a villain, and he will definitely come to make trouble.”

“Yes, Your Highness,” Mosheng happily agreed, “Your Highness, since the Princess Consort entered the door, you have been much better, and you will definitely get better and better.”

He was much better?

Prince Ping, who had almost collapsed from diarrhea, didn’t feel this, but only felt embarrassed.

Under the same roof, nothing could be hidden, and his Princess Consort should obviously already know his situation.

She must be suffering in her heart.

It was a pity that he was unable to save himself, let alone save her.

Mosheng felt that Prince Ping was talking more, in the past he only made a few sounds all day, how could he be like now, and still have time to care about the Princess Consort.

It was so good, the Princess Consort was really a lucky star sent from heaven.

Jiang Li: If you knew why your prince had diarrhea, you wouldn’t say that.

I don’t know if it was because the diarrhea healed itself, or if the pomegranate peel boiled in water really worked, Prince Ping didn’t lose control again.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Li finished planting the vegetables, watered them, and was about to rest for a while to prepare to cook, when a little maid ran in from outside.

The little maid looked about ten years old, with a naive face, holding something tightly in her hand, and without any etiquette, she saw Jiang Li and quickly said: “Princess Consort, your family is waiting for you outside.”

Family waiting for her?

Jiang Li only hesitated for a moment, and the little maid stomped her feet anxiously, “Hurry up! If I’m late, I’ll be discovered, and I won’t get my silver peanut.”

Jiang Li was a little speechless, but she still took Zhi Zi and Douchou and followed the little maid to the back door.

The little maid said to the people outside through the crack in the door: “Here, where’s the promised silver peanut?”

The voice was crisp and loud, and she was very brave.

“Eldest Miss?” Yuan San’s familiar voice came from outside, but at this moment the voice trembled slightly, obviously excited and nervous.

“It’s me, Uncle Yuan, why are you here? I’ll talk on the wall,” Jiang Li said cheerfully.

No matter how she was living,

Whether she was doing well or not, she had to put on a brave face in front of her truly caring family.

What’s more, she felt that she was actually doing okay.

“Peanut, the silver peanut you promised me!”

A silver peanut was stuffed in from the crack in the door, the little maid reached out and grabbed it, satisfied, turned around and ran away.

Jiang Li couldn’t help but laugh when she saw this.

It seemed that Wang Jingrong had warned everyone not to get close to her; but there was still the good thing of money, which could make the devil push the millstone.

Jiang Li stepped on the dirt pile under the wall, revealing a smiling face on the wall, and waved to the father and son who were looking up at her expectantly under the outer wall: “Uncle Yuan, you’re here. Yuan Zhao is here too, did you miss your sister?”

When Yuan Zhao saw her, he pursed his lips and was about to cry, but Yuan San pinched him secretly.

Yuan Zhao looked at Yuan San aggrievedly, meeting his threatening eyes, which clearly said, dare to cry, I’ll serve you with the soles of my shoes when we get back.

So the child held back two bags of big tears, looking at his sister pitifully, not daring to make a sound, for fear that the sound would shake the tears down.

“You child, your sister is talking to you!” Yuan San said.

He was fierce to his son, but very good to Jiang Li.

He rubbed his hands, and said a little nervously: “Eldest Miss, your mother is worried that you won’t eat well here, so she asked me to bring you food.”

Jiang Li had just seen the two big food boxes at his feet, and now she understood that Yuan San was here to deliver food.

“The prince has been ill for so long, and the people inside haven’t been disciplined, it must be very chaotic.” Yuan San’s voice was very low, “Eldest Miss, you are a capable person, but to sort it out, it’s not a matter of a day or two…”

Jiang Li understood.

Although Yuan San was originally just an honest blacksmith, he was still very transparent in his heart.

He actually guessed the situation inside almost perfectly.

“We can’t help Eldest Miss much, just come to deliver food to you every day, if you need to buy anything, you tell me, I’ll bring it to you tomorrow. This kid, he’s always clamoring to find his sister, let him come to see you every day, let him understand who his sister is being locked up inside for, so that he can be more promising in the future, help you, don’t become estranged from you, and live up to the hard work of Eldest Miss bringing him up.”

Yuan San was honest and usually taciturn, and rarely had so many words.

Jiang Li listened with tears in her eyes.

Yuan San knew everything.

The ghost story she told about pretending to marry and treating the prince could only deceive the simple-minded Yu Shi.

But Yuan San knew that she was forced, and she had no choice or retreat.

“Uncle Yuan, I’m fine, I’m very comfortable inside,” she forced back her tears, trying to pretend to be indifferent, “You don’t have to come to deliver food to me every day, how much silver does it take to manage this back and forth.”

She saw that the guards who were originally guarding outside had gathered together in twos and threes, drinking and eating meat.

The things were obviously also brought by Yuan San.

Thinking of Yuan San nodding and bowing, smiling at people, sending wine and meat, just to be able to deliver food to her, Jiang Li was reluctant.

Although Yuan San was not her biological father, he loved her and did it.

“Silver is not important, what’s important is that Eldest Miss is doing well, I’ll bring Yuan Zhao here at this time every day in the future.”

“Uncle Yuan, no need, no need…”

But no matter what Jiang Li said, Yuan San wouldn’t listen to her persuasion.

Yuan San knew clearly that if it weren’t for them holding her back, Jiang Li could have flown away.

A capable person, regardless of gender, can eat, and can eat well, no matter where they are.

People can’t forget their roots.

Yuan Zhao also insisted on giving his favorite yellow fat doll to Jiang Li, and Jiang Li couldn’t refuse.

Finally, Jiang Li carried two big food boxes, and Zhi Zi and Douchou each took a package of things, and went back together.