Chapter 314 Returning Home Seriously Injured
Shen Jingxuan turned her head and saw Ling Feng's serious expression, and hurried towards Xie Lingxiao's study.
As soon as she arrived at Lingxu Courtyard, she saw Xie Lingxiao pacing back and forth in front of the study door.
Shen Jingxuan hurried forward and asked, "Ah Xiao, what happened?"
When Xie Lingxiao heard Shen Jingxuan's voice, he hurried over. He pulled Shen Jingxuan up and walked quickly out of the mansion.
"The eldest prince's wife sent a message saying that Zi'an was seriously injured and kept calling your name before he passed out."
He didn't know why Xie Zian was like this, but he knew that taking Shen Jingxuan with him was the best way.
At least with Shen Jingxuan here, maybe Xie Zian's life could be saved.
Shen Jingxuan and Xie Lingxiao came to the eldest prince's mansion.
Xie Zian was lying unconscious on the bed, the eldest prince's wife was sitting beside him, crying silently.
"Aunt, please look at the eldest prince. He keeps repeating your name."
The eldest prince's wife didn't know that Shen Jingxuan knew medical skills, but still gave her position to her.
Only when he saw Shen Jingxuan raising her hand to check Xie Zian's pulse did he figure out what had happened.
She thought the eldest prince had something to say to Shen Jingxuan, but she didn't expect that he wanted Shen Jingxuan to treat him.
After a long silence, Shen Jingxuan walked to the desk next to her, picked up a pen and wrote a prescription, and handed it to the eldest prince's wife: "Have someone prepare the medicine according to the prescription, and bring it over when it's ready."
After the eldest prince's wife left in response, Shen Jingxuan wanted to go forward to check on the eldest prince's injuries, but was stopped by Xie Lingxiao, who said, "I'll do it."
After all, Shen Jingxuan is a woman and his princess consort. Even though Xie Zian is his nephew, Xie Lingxiao still doesn't want to let Shen Jingxuan touch her.
Xie Lingxiao checked for a while: "Xuan'er, although the injury is serious, it is not fatal. Why is he unconscious?"
Shen Jingxuan handed him a bottle of medicine: "I was scared, and I was too tired to handle it."
She thought that the serious injury Xie Lingxiao described was very serious, but until she repeatedly took his pulse to confirm, she still couldn't believe it.
Shen Jingxuan didn't know what the eldest prince saw or what he experienced.
She didn't expect that Xie Zian fainted due to excessive nervousness and fright.
"Useless." Xie Lingxiao said indifferently.
He never knew that among the emperor's several adult princes, not a single one could accomplish anything.
"Uncle..." Xie Zian said.
The first sentence he heard when he woke up was that Xie Lingxiao said he was useless. Although he felt uncomfortable, he felt that what Xie Lingxiao said made sense.
He didn't expect that he would be frightened into a coma just because of an assassination attempt.
Thinking of what he had experienced, he became even more furious and couldn't help but curse the person who had murdered him countless times.
Xie Lingxiao asked: "What happened?"
Xie Zian was angry: "Uncle, it's not that I'm useless, it's that those people are too cruel, they almost killed everyone around me."
"If those people hadn't sacrificed their lives to escort me away, I wouldn't have been able to meet my uncle."
He took this route back to the city countless times every year, but something like this had never happened before.
I didn't have time to think along the way, and I couldn't figure out why this happened.
Xie Lingxiao glanced at him: "You are being hunted? Do you know who the enemy is?"
Now, the capital city has only been peaceful for a few days, but Xie Zian is being hunted down. I wonder if those people did it?
The only people that Xie Lingxiao could think of who would hunt down Xie Zian at all costs were the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Queen.
"I don't know." Xie Zian said.
He had been doing business peacefully and had not offended anyone, so he didn't understand why this happened.
Xie Lingxiao advised: "Just rest and recover, don't leave the house in the near future, I will check it out."
Shen Jingxuan watched Xie Zian drink the medicine and took his pulse again.
After she told the eldest prince's wife all the precautions, she returned to the Regent's Palace with Xie Lingxiao.
The two had just arrived at the study when Xie Lingxiao called Ling Feng over: "Go check and see who is chasing the eldest prince today."
As Xie Zian thought, he didn't believe that this would happen for no reason.
Shen Jingxuan leaned on the couch, sitting there quietly in a daze.
"Xuan'er..." Xie Lingxiao sat next to her.
He had called Shen Jingxuan several times, but Shen Jingxuan was still looking out the window without answering.
Seeing this, Xie Lingxiao gently held Shen Jingxuan's hand: "Xuan'er? What are you thinking about?"
Shen Jingxuan felt someone holding her hand tightly, and she turned her head to look at Xie Lingxiao.
"Ah Xiao, who do you think did this?"
As Xie Zian said, it was his guards who risked their lives to escort him out, which shows that those people were chasing him and didn't want him to leave alive.
Shen Jingxuan couldn't understand why she didn't want Xie Zian to live, but let him escape.
Xie Lingxiao looked at Xie Zian's injuries. Although some of them were serious, they would not kill him.
"As the eldest prince, he can influence few people. I just don't know why he chose to take action at this time."
Shen Jingxuan said: "Since they have decided to hunt him down, there is no possibility of letting him live, but if the eldest prince comes back alive, aren't they afraid of exposing themselves?"
She didn't know what that person was thinking with such a result.
"Maybe they didn't know that the eldest prince would bring so many people, so they didn't make proper arrangements." Xie Lingxiao said.
If not, he didn't know why.
Xie Lingxiao knew that if he made the arrangements himself, he would not want that person to live, so he would definitely investigate in advance and make sufficient arrangements, and would never fail.
Shen Jingxuan looked out the window: "Do you think it was them? Did they start it in advance?"
"Don't be anxious, you will know the answer when Ling Feng comes back." Xie Lingxiao said.
The two of them sat in the study, quietly waiting for Ling Feng to return home, but this wait lasted for an hour.
When Ling Feng came back, it was already dark.
When Shen Jingxuan saw him coming into the study, she gradually sat up straight from the couch.
"Your Highness, we have found some clues, but we cannot confirm who it is now." Ling Feng said breathlessly.
In order to come back and report as soon as possible, he did not even dare to rest along the way, for fear that Shen Jingxuan, Xie Lingxiao and others would be anxious.
Xie Lingxiao glared at him: "Keep talking, what are you doing dithering?"
In the past, Ling Feng was steady and prudent in his work, so sending him to investigate things would speed things up a lot.
Now he is no longer as fast as before, and even talking is not as smooth as before.
Ling Feng took a breath and said, "The people who were chasing the eldest prince have not found out their identities. We only know that the guards around the prince took a few people out of the city today."
He had already asked people to investigate where those people had gone, but the time was too short and they hadn't found out clearly yet.
Xie Lingxiao said: "Send someone to the Prince's Mansion to see if those people have returned home, and then check if they are injured."
If it was really as Ling Feng said, there was no way those people would come back unscathed after fighting with Xie Zian's men.
Ling Feng responded and walked out of the study. When he reached the door, he stopped again.
He looked at Shen Jingxuan and said, "Princess, I met Li Luo on the way back home. He said that Xie Zihan went to the Prime Minister's Mansion yesterday. Not long after he left, the Queen also left."