Gu Shaoyu saw that her cheeks were burning red and she looked like a small furnace.

He was so anxious that he smashed the ice, wrapped it in a cloth, and put ice packs on his forehead, armpits, and sides of his body.

The high fever refused to subside and he kept mumbling something.

He put his ear close to her but couldn't understand what she said.

Call Manman over: "Manman, listen to what she is saying?"

Manman came over and listened attentively for a while, then suddenly burst into tears: "Madam is having a nightmare. She dreamed of being punished."

"What did she say?"

"Mother, Zhao Zhao is cold..." Manman cried, "When she was a child, Madam Xie often punished her by making her kneel in the snow. If she didn't behave, she would be locked in a small dark room..."

"Does my father-in-law know?"

“Mrs. Xie said that this was to learn the rules and it was for the good of the lady. She is the lady’s aunt, and no one thinks that what she did was wrong.

The lady cried several times, and then she became strict with herself, saying that if the rules were so good that no one could find fault with them, no one would be able to punish her.

"Is there no one taking care of these things?" Gu Shaoyu had been immersed in the court for a long time and his emotions were invisible on his face.

"Madam was kneeling in the ice and snow. I was afraid that Madam's knees would be frozen, so I went to complain to the master, and the master transferred Madam to live with the old lady."

The old lady was old, and Xie Anfeng was afraid that she would be tired, so he begged Concubine Xi, and Xie Zhaozhao was raised by Concubine Xi's side.

Gu Shaoyu understood and said to Manman: "Go out, I understand."

Xie Zhaozhao slept restlessly. Gu Shaoyu was about to pick her up when he suddenly heard her say softly, "Gu Guifei, kneel down..."

Concubine Gu? Where did Concubine Gu come from?

Also called Zhao Zhao kneeling?

He put the ice packs all over her body again. She seemed to feel cold and shivered, mumbling, "Brother, father..."

Suddenly he sobbed and tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

Gu Shaoyu didn’t know what she was dreaming about. How could this happen?

He picked her up regardless, brushed her hair aside, and said in a low voice: "Little darling, from now on, no one of us will kneel. I will ask His Majesty for grace and give you a gold medal that exempts you from kneeling. No one will kneel!"

"Whoever makes you kneel for a moment, I will make her kneel until she dies."

"No one can bully you. Your brother, your father, and your grandmother will protect you together."

He whispered a lot to her.

Manman was waiting at the door. She vaguely heard what Lord Gu said, and remembered that she, Yuanyuan and Xie Zhaozhao were punished by Xu Yingrong (stepmother Xu) when they were young. She couldn't help sobbing softly.

Gu Shaoyu ignored her and just hugged Xie Zhaozhao, patting her back again and again.

Everyone says that the eldest daughter of the Xie family is the most noble lady in Daqian. She is well-mannered, beautiful, talented, and has a good family background.

Perhaps because there are too many "good" things, some bad things will come with it, such as losing his mother at a young age, and these bad things are so heartbreaking.

"Zhao Zhao, we are the same..." He said in an almost inaudible voice, "From now on, we will make up for each other's shortcomings."

Gu Shaoyu fed her water with a spoon, and she shook her head in a daze.

"Be good, drink some water, the fever will go down after drinking it."

He held her in his arms and clumsily fed her water.

I fed the baby as much as I could, coaxing him and calling him, saying "good boy" in a low voice over and over again, while he stood at the door with tears streaming down his face.

Gu Shaoyu fed him persistently, giving him half a bowl of warm water.

But unexpectedly, he vomited out all the water he had just drunk with a "wow".

Manman and Aunt Cui hurried in, cleaned the floor, and changed the bed sheets and clothes.

"Headache," Xie Zhaozhao muttered softly, and started vomiting again.

Seeing that she was vomiting uncontrollably, Gu Shaoyu asked Manman to watch her while he rode out of the house again to ask for the imperial physician.

The doctor also said on the way: "The high fever will come and go, don't worry, it will definitely get better in one or two days at the least, or three or five days at the most."

Gu Shaoyu said: "She also vomited."

"It's easy to vomit when you have a fever." The imperial physician wanted to say that vomiting was not a big deal, but because Gu Shaoyu was too anxious, he shut up.

The third wife was ill, so the elder went to invite the imperial physician in person. Zhang Qing had woken up early and informed Mrs. Tu.

The old lady was alarmed.

Gu Shaoyu always asked people to keep them outside.

It would be great if we had an imperial physician. Too many people would just cause more trouble.

The imperial physician felt Xie Zhaozhao's pulse and asked in surprise, "What did you feed Madam?"

Having problems with eating?

Gu Shaoyu then recalled with Manman what they had eaten.

The imperial physician heard that he had eaten a stone frog, and then he also heard that he had drunk tea and eaten tea leaves.

He sighed and said, "Stone frogs cannot be consumed with tea. The two foods conflict with each other. Even a healthy person would feel dizzy, have a headache, or even faint if they eat them. My wife is sick and weak, so her condition has worsened."

After the imperial physician gave Xie Zhaozhao acupuncture, he also gave him emetics. Xie Zhaozhao became dazed and lay on the edge of the bed vomiting violently, vomiting out all the food in his stomach, including the stone frog.

The imperial physician gave her some other pills, and Gu Shaoyu coaxed her to drink half a bowl of millet porridge, and only then did Xie Zhaozhao fall asleep again.

Gu Shaoyu called the imperial physician over and handed the remaining stone frog to him: "Take a look, is there anything wrong with this stone frog?"

The doctor looked at it, smelled it, poked it with a silver needle, and shook his head: "It should be non-toxic."

That is the incompatibility of foods.

The more aristocratic a family is, the more rules they have. In the Xie Mansion, a cup of tea is served before meals, and after meals, a cup of formal tea is served after the mouthwash tea. Only then is the meal considered complete.

Even if Xie Zhaozhao came to the Marquis' Mansion, this habit she had developed since childhood would not change.

Xie Xiangxiang was fully aware of this habit.

However, it is not known whether she is aware that stone frogs and tea are incompatible.

I can only suffer in silence this time. It's all my own carelessness.

Gu Shaoyu did not make it public, and said to Aunt Cui: "No matter who sends you something in the future, you should keep it separately, and don't let Madam eat anything you eat. For other people's things, give them away or reward them, or find a time to return them to the original owner."

Aunt Cui was very regretful because she was the one who stewed the stone frog. She really didn't expect that the wife of the prince would actually do something to her own sister.

This time her illness was serious, and Concubine Xi had heard about it. She was unable to leave the palace, so she sent her senior palace maid Liuli to visit her.

Liuli brought a lot of nourishing products and words of comfort. Xie Zhaozhao said a few words to her through the curtain: "Go back and tell the Imperial Concubine that I will come to the palace to thank her when I am well again."

Just after Liuli left, someone else came to the Xie Mansion. Grandmother and Second Madam Xie came in person.

Xie Zhaozhao was afraid that her grandmother was too old and could not bear the illness, so she thanked her through the curtain and said that she would send someone to report back to the mansion as soon as she recovered.

Many people who could not enter the marquis's mansion sent their supplements to the courtyard.

Because of an illness, all the important people in Kyoto came to send gifts.

Xie Xiangxiang was so angry that she smashed things in Fanghua Garden.

"Pah, isn't it just a minor illness? I'm going to die, so what?" He gritted his teeth in hatred, "So many precious stone frogs are wasted..."

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