King's Regrets
The Eps 75
The next day they arrived at the royal palace of the Ming state.
With a limp body, Xia Lian An got off the carriage assisted by Xiao Wei.
"Be careful, miss." Xiao Wei.
Xia Lian An managed to get off the carriage, but her limp body from the drunkenness of the carriage made her almost fall and hit the small body of Xiao Wei.
"Lian!" Crown Prince Zhang exclaimed without him noticing, if he called Xia Lian An by her small name out of surprise.
Crown Prince Zhang immediately ran up to Xia Lian An, then hugged her from the side.
"You okay?" Crown Prince Zhang touched Xia Lian An's forehead.
Without thinking of anything else, crown prince Zhang lifted Xia Lian An's body and brought her to the eastern palace.
"What's wrong with Miss Xia, the crown prince?" Said the queen who saw her son holding Xia Lian An.
"She's sick queen mother, it seems she's not used to traveling long distances by train."
"Hurry, take him to rest. I'll ask the guards to call the palace healer over there."
"Okay, thank you queen mother."
Crown Prince Zhang then continued walking to the eastern palace, while Min'er and Xiao Wei caught up with them after tidying up their belongings on the carriage.
In the eastern palace, crown prince Zhang laid Xia Lian An on the bed carefully.
"I'm sorry, I'm troubling you once I get here again." Xia Lian An said slowly.
"It's okay, soon the healer will arrive. You rest."
Xia Lian An nodded slowly.
Crown Prince Zhang was so worried about Xia Lian An's current condition.
"Your highness, how's brother?" Said Min'er as he arrived at the eastern palace room.
"I don't know, the palace healer hasn't come to check on him yet."
Min'er saw her brother lying on the bed, his face looking very unkind.
"Your Majesty, my servant has come." Said the palace healer while saluting.
"Hurry in and check it out." Crown Prince Zhang said to the court physician.
The palace physician then went inside and checked Xia Lian An's condition.
"What happened to her?" Crown prince Zhang.
"This lady is only a noble fatigue, this is a medicine to recover her body. Your Majesty can give it to you after you wake up, now let this lady rest."
"Good."
"If that's the case I beg you, your honor."
"Yes." Yeah."
After the palace physician left, crown prince Zhang ordered the loyal servant beside him to make some food and soup. So that if Xia Lian An woke up all was ripe.
"You also rest, and next to another room." Crown Prince Zhang said to Min'er.
"I'm fine."
Crown Prince Zhang nodded.
Not long after, the emperor and queen came to the eastern palace to see Xia Lian An's condition.
"Crown prince, how is Miss Xia?" Said the queen after they reached the eastern palace room.
"He's just tired of the queen mother, the healer's already checked it out."
"That's great."
"Greetings to the glorious emperor and the noble queen." Said Min'er while saluting.
"Are you Miss Xia's sister?" Ask emperor.
"Right, your highness, the servant sister of Xia Lian An."
Emperor nodded.
The Emperor and Min'er saw the queen sitting by the bed, and looked at Xia Lian An anxiously.
"It seems, the queen's majesty is so fond of the servant's brother."
"Right, it's been a long time since we've been waiting for the crown prince to be interested in someone. Therefore, when he saw if his son liked a woman, he was very happy. We hope that Miss Xia and the crown prince can always be together."
"Thank you for the kindness of the glorious emperor and the noble queen to my servant brother."
"It doesn't need to be that way, it's precisely us who should be thanking Miss Xia, for making the crown prince attract her attention."
Min'er was happy, because it turned out that the attitude of the emperor and queen to her brother was so kind and open.
"Dad emperor, mother queen. Tomorrow after Miss Xia's condition has improved, I will tell the people that I have found a future empress, and will introduce Miss Xia to all of them as my future empress."
"If so, that means Miss Xia already...."
Crown Prince Zhang nodded "True queen mother, she is already willing to become my empress. But like what I told you a few days ago by letter, if we were going to stay in the city of Yu in the state of Qin. And will be to the palace occasionally to visit you."
"That's no problem."
"The queen's mother and the emperor's father don't mind?"
"No, we're so happy to know that you're finally going to be with the woman you love."
"Your mother is right, after all you can still take care of this kingdom for another 20-30 years."
"Your majesty, you still look so healthy and fresh. You can lead this country over 20-30 years." Min'er.
"Hahaha alright, so I can see my grandkids getting married."
"Yes your honor."
Everyone in the room laughed.
"Alright, let Miss Xia rest. Your mother and father will be back again after Miss Xia is much better." Queen's speech.
"Well queen mother, thank you."
The queen nodded her head, she and the emperor then walked out of the eastern palace room.
"Your highness the crown prince is also more now resting, I am worried if my brother wakes up later that noble one is exhausted."
"All right then."
Crown Prince Zhang looked at Xia Lian An before he walked out of the room.
Xiao Wei who had already cleaned up Xia Lian An's belongings entered.
"Young master, you better rest now. Let me accompany the lady here." Xiao Wei.
"Alright, if anything happens to brother, you should tell me quickly."
The exhausted Min'er went to the side room to rest. While Xiao Wei sat on the chair that was inside the room to accompany Xia Lian An.
Elsewhere, the emperor and queen were inside their palace talking about something.
"My queen, as we already know if after getting married, they will stay in the Qin state. To get the approval of emperor Shun, I'll go there."
"Your highness, let the eunuchs go there to represent the noble. After all, you are an emperor. There will be plenty of danger waiting for the emperor out there."
".... Hmmm, you're right, then I'll have the eunuch head there with a letter and some gifts for emperor Shun."
"Yes, your honor."
Currently the family of the emperor's younger brother was trying to find a loophole to hurt the royal members especially the emperor, so even though the people saw the royal family was fine, it was fine, not so with one of the younger brothers of the emperor who could not get the throne just yet.
However this was a life with many disputes within the royal family, some could accept well if he could not inherit the throne, he said, there are also those who are not willing and want to take the throne from their own brother.
***
In the afternoon, Xia Lian An woke up with a much better body than before.
Xia Lian An flicked away the blanket that covered part of her body and sat down on the side of the bed. He looked back and forth, for there was no one in the room but him.
Kraaa
The door opened, and Xia Lian An saw Xiao Wei enter carrying a tray.
"Miss, miss is awake." Xiao Wei said happily.
"Yes, I slept really well and now I feel really good." Xia Lian An.
"Thank God if that is so, your highness, the crown prince and young master Qing are very worried about you. Even the emperor's majesty and the queen's highness also came to see the state of the missus."
"Yes... His highness the emperor and his highness the queen also came here?"
"Surely miss, they are also worried about miss. After all, the lady is a guest and also the future empress of the crown prince's majesty."
"Where is lord Jiang?"
"The crown prince's highness is asking his servant to reheat the soup they made for the lady."
Xia Lian An nodded.
"You're awake, how are you doing now?" Crown Prince Zhang said as he walked into the room.
"I'm better."
Crown Prince Zhang walked over, and touched Xia Lian An's forehead then nodded.
"Eat this medicine, after that we eat." Crown Prince Zhang gave Xia Lian An a brown pill.
Xia Lian An received the pill and looked at him "This is an ancient, enormous pill."
Crown Prince Zhang looked at Xia Lian An who kept staring at the pill.
"What's wrong, can't you swallow that pill?" Crown prince Zhang.
"No, it's not that. I'll eat it now."
Reckless and forced, Xia Lian An stuffed the pill into her mouth and swallowed it.
"Eh, this pill was instantly destroyed after it entered into the mouth. I'm like I'm eating candy, it's just that it's a little bit bitter and weird."
Seeing that Xia Lian An had already eaten the medicine, crown prince Zhang smiled.
"Alright, let's go to the side room. The palace servants have prepared the food."
"Okay, thank you."
Xia Lian An then stood up and walked out together with crown prince Zhang to the room beside his room.
"Sister, how's brother doing?" Min'er said as she watched her brother come out of the room.
"I'm better, sorry to worry you."
"It's okay, it's good that now you're as good as you were."
"Yes." Yeah."
Crown Prince Zhang, Xia Lian An and Min'er walked together to the room next to the eastern palace room, to enjoy the food that the palace servants had served there.
"Isn't this too much mister Jiang?" Said Xia Lian An after they arrived.
"You need to eat more, so that your body gets better quickly." Said crown prince Zhang while holding Xia Lian An's hand and sitting him on one of the chairs.
Xia Lian An looked at the dining table that was filled with food.
"Sister, your highness the crown prince is doing this also for your brother's health." Said Min'er sitting next to her brother.
"Yes, so you have to eat more."
"All right."
Crown Prince Zhang then coiled the meat and placed it on top of Xia Lian An's bowl.
"Thank you."
The three of them started enjoying the meal together.
After a while, they finished eating and walked together to a park.
"Tomorrow I will gather the people of Ming country, and tell them if you are their future empress."
"Tomorrow?"
"True, the father of the emperor had also ordered the eunuch chief to go to the emperor Shun to ask him for permission, so that I would be allowed to stay in Yu city with you after we get married later."
"You did it really fast."
"Of course."
"Then, we should expand the sister's room at home. And we also need to make two more rooms for my nieces later." Min'er.
"Min'er, why is there so much I think?" Xia Lian An.
"Didn't I tell you the truth? We can't make a new room when my sister's pregnant with my niece."
"What if you buy a new, bigger house?"
"I don't want to, I really like that house."
"Oh yeah, I heard that our neighbor is going to sell his house, how about we buy it. We can dismantle the walls of the confinement of our house and that house and then make some rooms and others."
"You mean the house right next to the wall of our house?"
"Right, they wanted to sell it because they were going to move on following their first child."
"That's great, I'll order my shadow bodyguards to buy the house immediately before anyone else buys it." Crown prince Zhang.
Xia Lian An saw that crown prince Zhang was really willing to leave the great palace, in order to live with him, even though he would later live in a much smaller and simpler house.
Whether this was a happiness, or the beginning of another unexpected event that she would experience by Xia Lian An later. But whatever would happen, he would no longer face it alone. For he had crown prince Zhang and his brother who would always protect him.