“Marquis Zhongyuan has ordered his people to keep it a dead secret . When the couple went to the west hunting ground with their son today, I slipped into Marquis Mansion and found the prescript . Then I copied it and showed it to four doctors . All of them said that this prescript was made for heart disease . And according to the dosage, they supposed that the young prince should have suffered the disease long before . Fortunately, he lives a good life in Marquis Mansion, so his illness doesn’t get worse . But the prince was born with the disease so there is little chance of his recovery and it will be hard for him to live a long life . ”

“All right . I will leave everything else to Du Heng . You pay all your attention to Zhongyuan Marquis Mansion . ”

Du Heng was also a personal guard of Lu Zhishan . Compared with Xie Lun, Du Heng was not that much clever but he was much more steady and was pretty good at counting and managing money matters . That was why he was in charge of managing the estates of Marquess Mansion .

“Yes, my lord . I will bear this in mind . ”

“Well, you can go now . ”

The marriage between the son of Zhongyuan Marquis and Heshuo Princess’s daughter seemed to be a really suitable match . But it was different if the young prince was in bad health . Obviously, all people of Zhongyuan Marquis Mansion tried to hide the truth about their young prince’s disease . So the marriage could also be regarded as a trick and the emperor was cheated too .

What confused Lu Zhishan was the reason why Zhongyuan Marquis would hide his son’s disease so hard . Even if emperor didn’t a.s.sign the marriage, his son could still choose his wife among almost all n.o.ble girls . Why did he prefer to the a.s.signed marriage?

Maybe there was something he wanted to get from the little girl .

It was the sixth day of October in the seventeenth year of Jiasheng .

And it was also the sixty-sixth birthday of empress dowager Xu Shumin .

Lu Zhishan had been back for one year but he had never walked out of the gate . So his leg was much better than before . Though he couldn’t walk as well as before, he didn’t need anyone to hold him by his arm now . However, as autumn came, his knee got painful again . Those royal doctors had ever come to treat but they only gave several pot of salves more and told him to have a good rest instead of walking again . No matter how painful he was, Lu Zhishan couldn’t miss empress dowager’s birthday .

Lu zhishan had already asked Song Fu to prepare a gift . Knowing that Xu Shumin was fond of luxury things, Lu Zhishan prepared a superb rosewood screen for her . It consisted eight parts and exquisite carving was specially designed on them, which meant good luck, great wealth as well as longevity . On the right side was decorated with embroidery . Sichuan figured satin and Suzhou embroidery brought out the best in each other, making a gorgeous picture of phoenix flying through peonies . The word longevity was embroidered with golden wire on its back in sixty kinds of styles . It looked high-quality and pretty sumptuous no matter whether people looked it in a short distance or not . Though it was still a bit tacky, it suited Lu Zhishan’s character as a soldier who had ever fought on the battlefield for twelve years .

As Lu Zhishan woke up in the early morning, he felt that his knee was more painful than yesterday . He then gritted his teeth and tried hard to stand up by holding the bed . He stumbled to the outer court with pinp.r.i.c.ks of sweat on his forehead .

Song Fu feel great pain in his heart when he saw this, intending to walked forward to help him . But before that he was pushed away by Lu Zhishan . He was going to enter the palace to send his regards to empress dowager . So he could only walked on his own . He’d better practice walking now .

“Marquess, I can come to the palace to report to emperor that your leg disease is getting worse . Then you won’t have to attend the banquet . ” Song Fu got quite nervous seeing that . “Marquess, you are so weak now . I’m afraid that you couldn’t even get out the gate of our mansion . How could you entered the palace?”

No carriage was allowed to entered the gate of the palace . It would take about a quarter to walk to Shoukang Palace from the nearest gate . It was really not a good choice for Lu Zhishan to get there with a sedan chair in such a condition . Furthermore, he couldn’t do that as he was going to send his regards . Otherwise he would be cursed for being unfilial .

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