After Zuo Qing finished dealing with the young doctor, a small, thin figure sneaked into Prince Qing's room. He pressed the sleeping points on Prince Qing, observed him for a few seconds, a wicked smile tugged at the corner of his lips, and he slipped away.
After the figure left, Prince Qing woke up in discomfort.
"Come, someone! This prince is truly in great pain," Prince Qing shouted loudly.
A guard standing by the door quickly pushed open the room door and rushed in.
"Go, quickly get me two women. I'm dying of pain!" Prince Qing said in despair.
Seeing Prince Qing in such pain, the guard, worried something might happen to him, actually went to find two women for Prince Qing and then unceremoniously threw them into Prince Qing's room.
Before the two women could react, the guard immediately left the room and locked Prince Qing's door. The two women were initially flustered by the sound of the door being locked. However, as they turned to get a clear view of the room, a man suddenly emerged, startling them into a scream.
"Be quiet! It's this prince."
Prince Qing felt annoyed by their shrill screams.
However, upon realizing it was Prince Qing, they instantly quieted down and felt a surge of delight. They had heard that their prince had recently been abstaining from worldly pleasures, not touching women or allowing them near for a long time. They hadn't expected to be alone with the prince today and both hoped to spark something with him.
As a result, things unfolded as they had wished...
As soon as Zuo Qing finished dealing with the young doctor, he intended to return to Prince Qing's courtyard immediately. On the way, he overheard servants in Prince Qing's mansion discussing how Prince Qing had ordered a guard to escort two concubines to his room.
Upon hearing this news, Zuo Qing's heart skipped a beat. He hurried back to Prince Qing's courtyard and heard the commotion from Prince Qing's room from afar. Without a doubt, he knew Prince Qing had already engaged in a "fierce battle" with the women.
He realized he knew too late and could no longer prevent Prince Qing's actions. All he could do was summon the guard who had brought women to Prince Qing and reprimand him severely.
Zuo Qing called the guard to him, slapped him on the spot, and kicked him twice.
"You damned scoundrel! The prince's current condition absolutely forbids him from touching women. If he touches a woman, he will be completely ruined. How could you be so thoughtless? Without even asking me, you dared to take the initiative to send women to the prince's room. Are you seeking death?" Zuo Qing scolded him furiously.
He hadn't expected that despite his close watch, someone had still found a loophole.
"Boss, what should we do? I'm not very clear about the prince's condition. Seeing that the prince was suffering from discomfort, I went to the back courtyard to find two women for him to vent his frustrations. If our prince becomes completely ruined because of the women I sent, he will hate me to death, and might even kill my family. Boss, what should we do? Why don't we rush in and stop the prince quickly?"
Hearing Zuo Qing's words, the guard immediately became frightened, his face filled with worry. They, as guards, knew their prince's temper best.
"Stop him? How do you propose we stop him now? The prince is already engaged in such activities with those two women. If we suddenly rush in and disturb them, the prince's vitality will be ruined even faster. Haven't you ever been with a woman? Don't you even know this?" Zuo Qing retorted with a chuckle.
And so, Zuo Qing and a group of guards stood outside Prince Qing's room, filled with apprehension, listening to sounds of pleasure for an entire afternoon.
Meanwhile, in Leng Ruoshuang's small courtyard.
Leng Ruoshuang was immersed in grief. The day she had caused a scene at Prince Leng's mansion, she learned of her mother's death, and her heart ached.
Especially after learning that her mother was casually buried in a mass grave on Shili Slope, her sorrow deepened. She took a group of people to Shili Slope to search for her mother's body, but after searching the entire hillside, she couldn't find her mother's remains.
Finally, next to a pile of bones, she found a jade bracelet. Leng Ruoshuang saw that only an uneaten hand remained among the pile of bones and immediately recognized it as Liu Ruyi's hand because she knew about the birthmark on Liu Ruyi's hand.
Leng Ruoshuang couldn't accept it and collapsed on the ground, completely distraught. She had no idea how she returned to Prince Qing's mansion afterward.
Although she sometimes thought Liu Ruyi was despicable, that woman was still her biological mother and had doted on her for over ten years. Her mother had passed away just like that, and she was truly heartbroken.
Just then, Xi'er ran in from outside in a hurry.
"Miss, no, it's bad!" Xi'er said, panting from her haste.
"What is it? Speak!"
Leng Ruoshuang glanced at Xing'er and asked sternly.
"Your maid just passed by the front courtyard and overheard two sisters discussing something. It's that, that, the Prince invited two concubines to his room to serve him," Xi'er stammered.
"What? The Prince's condition... his illness hasn't fully recovered yet, and he dares to have women serve him? Isn't he courting death?" Leng Ruoshuang frowned and muttered softly.
She had once inadvertently overheard Liu Ruyi and the Guigu Valley Master discussing the dangers of a man being poisoned with the "Jue Zi Dan" (barrenness inducing medicine). If a man couldn't control himself and touched a woman during treatment, his vitality would be completely ruined.
Hadn't the Guigu Valley Master warned Prince Qing?
"Let the Prince fuss about such matters. My mother has just passed away, and I have no mood to bother with these things," Leng Ruoshuang said with a cold tone.
"Yes, your maid understands," Xi'er replied obediently.
"Oh, Xi'er, you are no longer young. After this period, I plan to arrange a marriage for you. Prepare yourself," Leng Ruoshuang said indifferently.
Upon hearing Leng Ruoshuang's words, Xi'er's face turned pale.
"Miss, Xi'er doesn't want to get married yet. Please don't marry me off, okay?" Xi'er said tremblingly.
"When a man reaches adulthood, he should marry, and when a woman reaches adulthood, she should marry. You are a year older than me. If you don't get married soon, you'll become an old maid," Leng Ruoshuang used a casual excuse.
"But Miss, you, you don't have the right to arrange our affairs. I am a maid in the Prince's mansion. If you want to marry me off, you need the housekeeper's consent."
Xi'er, for her own happiness, boldly contradicted Leng Ruoshuang, because this woman, Leng Ruoshuang, was truly too wicked. If she didn't resist now, Leng Ruoshuang would casually marry her off to a man as a concubine.
"Yes, I, Concubine Leng, indeed do not have the right to arrange your whereabouts. But what if I tell you that the housekeeper has already agreed to let me marry you off?"
As soon as Leng Ruoshuang said this.
Xi'er fainted on the spot because she could imagine her fate.