Appointing a General as a Concubine: Where Can General Xiao Escape?

Chapter 151 The Emperor Grants Them a Marriage

Back in the room, Xiao Mo put the imperial edict away, sat on the chair and picked up the teacup. Before she even touched her lips, Yuan Mu appeared at the door anxiously.

"General Xiao, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suddenly coughed up blood and couldn't stop it.

The palace doctors are helpless, so I have no choice but to come to you. Please be sure to accompany me to the Eastern Palace."

Xiao Mo put down the teacup, glanced at Shen Yun, stood up and walked to the door.

"Did you take medicine in the morning and at noon?"

"Drinked."

She turned around with a heavy look in her eyes: "Wait a moment, I'll change my clothes."

She retreated back to the room, Shen Yun closed the door neatly, took out clean clothes and helped her change skillfully.

After a while, the door was opened again.

"Let's go." Xiao Mo called Yuan Mu and passed by him like the wind.

In the Eastern Palace, Concubine Liang sat beside the bed with a worried look on her face, asking Qi Yue about his well-being.

Qi Yue didn't want to listen to her nagging, so he raised his eyebrows and looked at her lightly: "My son is fine, mother, please go back."

"Nothing's wrong, I'm coughing up blood!"

"Coughing up blood is not a big deal. Didn't the imperial physician say it's caused by lung disease? It will be cured after taking two doses of medicine."

Concubine Liang glared at him angrily: "If you keep coughing like this, it will hurt your wound."

Qi Yue paused for a moment as he covered his chest with his hand, then gently put it down: "Compared to the injuries I received on the battlefield, this little pain is nothing."

"You!" Concubine Liang gently tapped his forehead.

Outside the screen, a maid came in carrying a bowl of black medicine: "My Lady, the medicine is ready."

Qi Yue habitually wanted to call Yuan Mu, but suddenly remembered that he had gone to ask Xiao Mo, so he changed his mind and called a maid to bring the medicine to him.

His already bad expression became even uglier after he took the bowl of medicine.

The medicine prescribed by the imperial physician was not as good as Xiao Mo's. It was smelly and bitter and extremely difficult to swallow.

Qi Yue was halfway through drinking when he heard Xiao Mo's voice instructing Shen Yun at the door.

He quickly took away the medicine bowl, and the next second he couldn't help coughing violently.

Concubine Liang's face changed suddenly with fear. She stood up and walked to him, patting his back.

"What's going on? You just stopped coughing for a while, why are you coughing again?"

Qi Yue leaned half of his body on the bed and waved his hand.

When Xiao Mo walked in and saw this scene, she unconsciously quickened her pace.

Without asking, she walked to the stool beside the bed, sat down, and took Qi Yue's pulse.

Seeing her expression changing from bright to dark, Concubine Liang also became nervous.

"How is the prince? Is he seriously injured?"

Xiao Mo was silent for a while, then withdrew her hand, stood up and saluted Concubine Liang.

"Your Highness, your injury is not serious. The cough is due to a cold combined with an old illness. As for the external injuries, I will take another look."

After coughing, Qi Yue lay back down, looking a little weak.

He raised his eyes to look at Xiao Mo, and pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty: "Amo, you are here?"

Xiao Mo gave him a faint smile and bent down to help him: "Come, take off your shirt and let me see your injuries."

Concubine Liang lowered her eyes and took two steps back with a smile. She waved to everyone else to leave, and then she quietly left the room.

Outside the palace corridor, she couldn't suppress the curve of her lips and smiled with a smug look on her face.

"It seems that it was right to leave Xiao Mo in the East Palace last night."

The personal maid followed behind her, echoing her words: "In the long run, General Xiao will definitely like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"I really don't understand Xiao Mo's vision. My daughter Yue'er is so outstanding, but she chose Qi Minxiu, who is not as good as him."

Concubine Liang's slightly frown turned into disdain and she sneered.

The maid lowered her eyebrows and helped her down the stairs: "Maybe it's because of preconceived notions. I heard that General Xiao and His Royal Highness Prince Chen knew each other when they were young.

However, for someone as powerful as His Royal Highness, it's not impossible for General Xiao to fall in love with someone else if he has enough time."

Concubine Liang stared at the plum blossoms in the imperial garden. After a moment's silence, she asked in confusion, "How did they know each other, one in Qinshan and the other in the imperial city?"

"This, I don't know."

In the distance, a young eunuch hurried towards them with his head down.

Concubine Liang disliked his recklessness and looked at him with disdain, frowning: "Why are you so panicked? It's not proper."

The eunuch knelt and reported, "Your Majesty, just now, the Emperor decreed that General Xiao be married to His Royal Highness Prince Chen!"

"What?!" She sighed in disbelief, but quickly regained her composure. "Where is the Emperor?"

"Discussing state affairs with ministers in the Qinzheng Hall."

Concubine Liang gritted her teeth in anger, and the cold light in her eyes could freeze someone to death.

After Qi Minxiu received the imperial edict, he was so happy that he didn't know whether it was reality or a dream.

He thought carefully about the fact that the emperor left Xiao Mo alone to talk this morning.

Later, Xiao Mo came to Prince Chen's mansion to find him, looking very happy.

Could it be that she had requested this imperial decree granting the marriage from the Emperor?!

Thinking of this possibility, a layer of guilt slowly emerged in Qi Minxiu's eyes.

He felt extremely upset when he thought about how she had come to him in the morning with joy to share the good news, but he had been angry with her and said some unpleasant things.

"Prepare your horses and go to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

When Qi Minxiu arrived at the Eastern Palace, he happened to see Qi Yue putting on his clothes.

Xiao Mo faced the door and sorted the medicine box with her back to him.

Seeing him standing at the door panting, Xiao Mo just looked up and glanced at him.

He rested for a while and stepped into the house: "So you are here, Amo."

Xiao Mo packed her things nonchalantly: "Isn't this normal here?"

After Qi Yue put on his clothes, he stood up and coughed violently several times before he took a step. He had to break a sentence into several parts before he could finish it.

"Come here, ahem, come here, sit down quickly, ahem, someone come, ahem, serve tea."

Hearing the change in his coughing voice, Xiao Mo frowned, put down what she was holding, and walked towards him.

"You need to stay in bed and rest, what are you going to do when you get up?"

Every time Qi Yue coughed, the wound was pulled and it hurt. He frowned and staggered.

Xiao Mo quickly stepped forward and supported him: "Sit down."

She fiddled with the pillow: "If you don't want to sleep, just lean on it."

Qi Yue nodded, and neither of them even looked at Qi Minxiu.

Qi Minxiu walked to a table nearby and sat down, observing Qi Yue's actions.

After covering him with the quilt, Xiao Mo finally saw the bowl of black stuff beside the bed.

She picked it up and smelled it, and couldn't help frowning: "What is this?"

"This is the cough medicine prescribed by the imperial physician." Qi Yue covered his chest and looked very uncomfortable.

"This medicine doesn't work. The effect is too one-size-fits-all. I'll prescribe a few more. But you can finish this bowl. It's good for moistening your lungs."

Xiao Mo handed the bowl to him as she spoke. He leaned back with a look of resistance on his face.

"I don't drink."

"why?"

"It's too hard to drink and too strong."

"Heh." Xiao Mo chuckled, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is actually afraid of taking medicine?"

Qi Yue took the bowl and placed it on the stool beside the bed, crying out in pain as he pulled at the wound.

“Hiss~ah.”

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