Because of Zhu Wu's foot injury, Zhu Xu only took Zhu Min and Zhu Heng to hunt once in the next few days, and most of the time he accompanied his three sons to play chess, paint, play the piano, and throw pots in the palace.

The happiest thing is the old lady of the Queen Mother, whose sons and grandsons are all by her side, and it is rare to stay away from the grievances of the harem, just to simply enjoy this family fun.

During this period, Zeng Rong accompanied Zhu Heng to the village once, and the doctor he was looking for was a traveling doctor more than 50 miles away from here.

After nearly a month of treatment, after noticing the changes in Zhu Heng's legs, the traveling doctor said that if Zhu Heng could be treated in time after falling into the water, he would be able to stand up and return to a normal person.

It's a long time to say now, and at best, it's going to be able to get up, maybe a year or two or more, or at worst, staying the same.

It's not right to say that it remains the same, at least some of Zhu Heng's meridians have been opened, he has a slight perception ability, and the flesh on his legs is also plump, and it is no longer the dry layer of skin and bones before, which is very scary at first glance.

In any case, the words of the old doctor gave Zhu Heng hope, he has survived twelve years, and he is afraid of waiting for another two or three years?

On the way back to Beiyuan from Zhuangzi, Zeng Rong was silent, she was not as optimistic as Zhu Heng.

Just looking at the pain on Zhu Heng's face during acupuncture, the sweat on his head and the almost soaked clothes, she knew how much Zhu Heng would suffer from acupuncture now, and according to the old doctor, all this is just the beginning, the uncomfortable is still to come, the more painful and tormented the more you go to the back, and many people give up because they can't persevere.

"Don't worry, I'll stick to it." Zhu Heng guessed what she was worried about, and held her hand and comforted.

"I believe in you." Zeng Rong smiled back.

She wasn't worried that Zhu Heng would give up halfway, she felt sorry for his sin, and she was even more afraid that he would not get the due reward after suffering all the hardships.

"If you work hard, you won't regret it, as long as you're around." Zhu Heng understood the distress in Zeng Rong's eyes, smiled, and said.

He is not afraid of hardship, nor is he afraid of no return, he is afraid that the woman he loves will leave, and he is afraid that he will return to those dark times before.

"Yes." Zeng Rong responded to him clearly for the first time.

Although it was only a short word, Zhu Heng kept smirking until he entered Ning Yuan, and only relented a little under Zeng Rong's reminder.

Happy times are always fleeting, five days later, Zhu Xu is going back to the city, there are too many official duties piled up, and he can't blindly hide and be idle anymore.

On the way back to the city, Zeng Rong and Zheng Jiao took a carriage, Zhu Xu took Zhu Wu and Zhu Min a carriage, and Zhu Heng still stayed to accompany the Queen Mother.

This time he was willing to stay, and he also pointed to the old doctor to give him another month of acupuncture, and it was unlikely that he would come out when he entered the palace.

The carriage had just been traveling for an hour, Zeng Rong saw Zheng Jiao's pale face, nausea, and wanted to vomit, so he hurriedly supported her, "What's wrong?" The complexion is so bad, do you get motion sickness? ”

In fact, she wanted to ask more if she was pregnant, but because she was young and still a girl, she couldn't ask.

"Shhhhhh Zheng Jiao waved her hand.

She was pregnant once, and she felt a little bit, but she wasn't sure.

"Got it?" Zeng Rong dared to ask, but he didn't say anything, he just made a lip shape.

Zheng Jiao shook her head, leaned into her ear and said, "It's hard to say, if there is, you need to hide it for the first three months, and it's best to hide it for as long as you can." ”

Zeng Rong nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said: "I'm afraid that it won't be long before you hide it, you have been by the emperor's side during this time, and there will definitely be a doctor looking for you to take the pulse." If you talk to the emperor first, I don't think he is completely ruthless to you. ”

Zheng Jiao didn't squeak when she heard this, it wasn't that she didn't trust the emperor, it was that the previous purse incident hurt her too much, and what made her even more desperate was that after the slippery tire, the emperor only went to see her once, and she didn't reappear for half a year.

If Zeng Rong hadn't helped her with advice this time, she would never have been able to return to the emperor's side, so she would have to keep this child no matter what, which is her hope and reliance for the rest of her life.

Zeng Rong saw that Zheng Jiao was silent, and guessed a little bit of her thoughts, and said: "You are now friendly with Concubine Tian, she has been in the palace for a long time and has more experience than us, why don't you ask her what she thinks." ”

Zheng Jiao shook her head, "I don't believe anyone except you." ”

"But..." Zeng Rong opened his mouth and closed it again.

She doesn't know what to say, to put it mildly, Zheng Jiao's status is too low, not to mention the concubine position, even if she is promoted to a concubine, the treatment can be much better than now, at least she can move out and have her own independent courtyard.

Concubine Yu is an example, after giving birth to a son and concubine, she stayed in Yaohua Palace for three months, she moved to Jinghua Palace, and now she has become the master of a palace.

But the problem is that there is a fixed number of nine concubines in the harem, and now it is full, and it is unlikely that Zheng Jiao will be promoted to a concubine in the short term.

"You say, if the queen is pregnant, will I be able to escape this catastrophe?" Zheng Jiao said suddenly.

Zeng Rong glanced at her, "It's difficult." ”

Zeng Rong's difficulty is not that it is difficult for Queen Wang to get pregnant, but that Zheng Jiao made a mistake, Tong Yao was not just worried about her competing for favor, but more because she had seen the medical cases of Empress Xian and Zhu Heng.

Thinking of this, Zeng Rong has never figured it out, since Tong Yao prevented Zeng Rong from checking the old medical records before, and specially transferred her away and replaced her with Zheng Jiao, but why did he kill Zheng Jiao later?

Zeng Rong asked, now is different from the past, since Zheng Jiao said that she only believed Zeng Rong, Zeng Rong did not need to hide it.

Zheng Jiao saw that Zeng Rong suddenly mentioned this, and smiled bitterly, "I thought you were going to be distracted from me all the time." ”

It turned out that at the beginning, Zheng Jiao accidentally turned to the medical case of the former queen when she was sorting out the old files normally, and Cui Yuanhua didn't care too much, in her opinion, if she wasn't interested in the former queen or Zhu Heng, ordinary people would not pay attention to these old files, because these old files have been modified many times on the surface without leaving any traces.

Of course, if someone is careful to scrutinize, some clues can still be analyzed.

And Zheng Jiao's mistake was that her careful memory was too good, and after careful deliberation in private, she informed Zeng Rong of this medical case.

That's it, if she continues to keep to herself, Cui Yuanhua will never notice what she has done.

The bad thing is that Zheng Jiao understood Zeng Rong's hint and wanted to help her call up Zhu Heng's medical case, but Zhu Heng's medical case was not within her range, so it was difficult for her not to alarm Cui Yuanhua.