Lu Yinxi woke up on the third day. The familiar pain in her chest was gone, but the experience had already been engraved in her body and was impossible to forget.
"Xier, how do you feel? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
Madam Lu had been guarding by her daughter's bedside. When she saw her wake up, the first thing that came out of her mouth was a barrage of caring inquiries.
"You really scared me to death. Why did you suddenly faint in the forest?"
Faint?
The young girl was slightly stunned, then showed a faint smile. This was probably the excuse Shang Luoshu had come up with for her sudden collapse.
So, he should have guessed it too, right? About the after - effects of the speech spirit.
However, this wasn't the time to worry about such things.
"Mother, during the days I've been in a coma, do you know how Miss Feng is?"
The joy on her face diminished a bit. Madam Lu sighed silently. "She attempted to kidnap and kill the young son of the Kong family. Now she's being detained in the Heavenly Prison."
Saying this, she seemed to remember something, and her expression immediately turned serious. "Speaking of which, Xier, do you know about this?"
Otherwise, why was the first thing her daughter asked after waking up from a coma about Miss Feng of the Feng family?
"Also, Xier, are you and the King of Jing..."
"No!"
The young girl's mouth moved faster than her mind, immediately denying her mother's second question.
Looking at her daughter whose face suddenly flushed, Madam Lu looked skeptical. "Really?"
She hadn't forgotten how obvious the panic and helplessness were in the King of Jing's words and actions when he was holding the comatose Xier.
After they returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, he quickly sent someone to the palace to fetch the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital. Then he stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion until it got dark and only reluctantly left due to etiquette.
"Just..."
Lu Yinxi opened her mouth but didn't deny it in the end. To be honest, she herself wasn't sure how she felt about Shang Luoshu.
To say she hated him, when she first came to this world, she did hate him. Because he was the only one immune to her speech spirit, and she wasn't his match.
But as they got along later, they had a common goal. The young girl didn't find him annoying anymore. Moreover, he had saved her life.
But to say she liked him, Lu Yinxi thought she hadn't reached that stage yet. A racing heart and blushing were just physiological reactions forced out by the other's charming ways. It wasn't love!
Goodwill! Yes, at most it was just goodwill!
That's right!
As if to affirm her answer, Lu Yinxi nodded heavily.
Seeing that her daughter didn't answer her question and was immersed in her own world, Madam Lu didn't intend to press further. She just gently stroked her head and said, "Anyway, as long as Xier likes, mother will always be on your side."
"Thank you, mother!"
Lu Yinxi affectionately hugged Madam Lu. At this moment, she felt full of happiness in her heart.
"Don't forget your father. After he heard you were in a coma, he came here several times."
"Okay."
After seeing her father in the afternoon, Lu Yinxi heard the whole story of Feng Wan's incident from Hongmei. She guessed that this was what Shang Luoshu wanted to tell her.
According to Hongmei, after she fainted, Shang Luoshu took the initiative. Under the pretext that Minister Kong intended to kill the third Miss Feng, he sent everyone on the scene to the Supreme Court to blur the focus of the case and buy time to find out if Feng Wan was seduced by someone when she kidnapped Kong Jiao.
But Shang Mozheng reacted quickly and immediately took counter - measures. He pointed out that Kong Ren's actions were excusable for the sake of his young son, and the people he sent to help find the third young master of the Kong family could testify.
His words were reasonable, but Kong Ren still wasn't released because the current Minister of the Supreme Court was Lin Zihan.
After the previous Minister of the Supreme Court resigned, the Regent King wanted to promote another vice - minister of the Supreme Court. But unexpectedly, Shang Luoshu intercepted halfway. He cooperated with the current emperor and directly gave the position to Lin Zihan.
Since the Fang Qinhu case, or even earlier, Shang Luoshu had noticed Lin Zihan. He was a young man full of ideals.
Unlike ordinary scholars who only had grand aspirations but no actions and were soon dazzled by the officialdom after entering the court, he was a true patriot who was struggling for his ideals.
He wanted political clarity and to protect the common people. So after entering the officialdom, Lin Zihan worked diligently. After becoming the vice - minister of the Supreme Court, he would definitely investigate every case thoroughly.
He wanted to restore the legitimate line, so he fought against the Regent King in his own way, even though it was like an egg hitting a rock.
Such a person was exactly what Shang Luoshu and the whole Great Qi needed.
In this Feng Wan incident, it was because of him that Kong Ren could still be detained in the cell.
"What about that Kong Jiao? How is he?"
Lu Yinxi stuffed a pastry into her mouth and then asked.
If she wasn't mistaken, when she rushed to the scene, there seemed to be a person lying there. But it was too far away for her to be sure it was Kong Jiao.
"Not very good," Hongmei's expression was a bit solemn. "He's still in a coma due to excessive blood loss."
That was also why the eldest son of the Minister of Rites frequently impeached Lin Zihan, saying that he was useless and wronged a court official.
The young girl nodded. With his father in jail and his younger brother's life or death uncertain, it was understandable for Kong Fang to do this.
After thinking for a while, she asked again, "How about the Feng family?"
Actually, even without asking, Lu Yinxi could imagine the situation of the Feng family. But she still asked, perhaps hoping that the development of things would be different from what she thought.
"General Feng's situation is unclear, but his wife has been crying every day for the past few days."
Losing an eldest daughter and just barely getting out of the pain, and now the second daughter was in trouble. The Feng family was really...
Lu Yinxi let go of the pastry with her fingertips and leaned back half - reclined on the chair. She was hesitating whether to use the speech spirit one more time.
From their meeting that day, she could tell that her mother really liked Lady Mei. They were childhood playmates.
Moreover, Lu Yinxi herself, while feeling sorry for Feng Wan, also admired her very much.
How many women in this dynasty had the courage to personally kill their enemies?
If it really came to that, she would help. It would just mean suffering for a few more days.
The young girl thought like this. But she wasn't sure if it was just her illusion, but she always felt that the duration of the pain this time seemed to have been prolonged.
Seeing that the young lady didn't ask about the Feng family anymore, Hongmei rubbed the note in her sleeve and said, "Miss, the king also said he wants to see you."
The teasing from her mother that morning was still fresh in her memory. The young girl turned her head and said bravely, "Does he think I'll go just because he wants to see me? Don't I have any face?"
"I'm not going!"
Saying this, Lu Yinxi got up and went into the inner room, picking up the embroidery frame on the table. After several months of practice, her embroidery skills were finally presentable. She wanted to embroider a sachet for her mother first.
As for Hongmei, looking at the young lady's departing back, she passed on the exact words to her master.
Seeing the words on the note, Shang Luoshu could almost imagine the young girl's expression when she said these words. A slight smile finally appeared on his face which hadn't shown any expression for a long time.
"That's right. Xier also has her pride."
Since that was the case...
"Someone, prepare the horse. I'm going to the Prime Minister Lu's Mansion."