Chapter 319 Reward
After the incident with Zhao Wenyu, King Nanping originally planned to let Xie Lan stay for a few more days, firstly to cultivate the father-daughter relationship, and secondly to observe Xiao Jin’s character before letting her get married.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Jin gave all the spiritual energy he absorbed from the dragon snake to Xie Lan, and her morning sickness did not improve much.

The King of Nanping did not believe in evil, and secretly found two tight-lipped imperial doctors to treat Xie Lan. However, the two imperial doctors racked their brains and tried several methods, but still could not stop Xie Lan from vomiting.

The King of Nanping had no choice but to order his personal guards to find Xiao Jin and help Xie Lan stop vomiting.

Xie Lan had already accepted the bizarre morning sickness and was even mentally prepared to be inseparable from Xiao Jin.

But King Nanping was not a man who gave up easily.

In order to prevent outsiders from knowing that Xie Lan was pregnant before marriage, King Nanping first asked his personal guards to secretly buy a dozen smart maids and old women, and let them go around asking for folk prescriptions for stopping morning sickness.

On the other hand, he asked the housekeeper to buy a house in the name of a distant cousin, and then secretly sent Xie Lan there and invited a famous doctor to see her.

Xie Lan knew that what the King of Nanping did was for her own good, so she did not refuse and cooperated throughout the process. After all, if there was a way, she herself did not want to stay with Xiao Jin day and night just to stop morning sickness.

Most women experience morning sickness during the first three months of pregnancy, but after that period, they stop vomiting. But her morning sickness is so strange, who knows if it will continue.

When Xie Lan thought about the possibility that she would not stop vomiting until the day of delivery, and would have to go through this kind of pain of vomiting every other day for a full ten months and being unable to stop once she vomited, she felt a sense of despair and hopelessness in her heart.

In order to find an effective way to stop vomiting, Xie Lan saw countless doctors and tried countless folk remedies.

It’s a pity that, I don’t know if God is deliberately making things difficult for her, but apart from Xiao Jin, there is no way to help her stop morning sickness.

It’s not that all those imperial physicians and doctors were not good at medicine, but Xie Lan was concerned about the fetus in her belly. She was unwilling to try any method that required taking medicine or might have adverse effects on the fetus.

As for the folk remedies that the maids and old women had inquired about from the public, King Nanping also arranged for people to consult doctors for confirmation. Only those that had no adverse effects on Xie Lan and the fetus would be used for her.

As a result, the methods available to doctors are naturally very limited.

After half a month, there was no progress. In order to let Xie Lan suffer less, the King of Nanping finally nodded and agreed to let her get married.

Fortunately, although Xie Lan had seen many doctors, the King of Nanping did a great job of keeping it a secret. In order to protect her reputation, the King of Nanping never showed up, and Xie Lan had no direct contact with those doctors. Even the maids who served her were newly bought.

Every time a doctor came to take her pulse, the maid would let Xie Lan lie on the bed, not letting her show her face, and only let the doctor use the hanging thread method to take her pulse.

From then until the end, none of the doctors knew that the person he was diagnosing was the daughter of Prince Nanping.

In order to let Xie Lan suffer less, Prince Nanping went to the palace to discuss the wedding date with the emperor.

Although the two doctors invited by the Prince of Nanping kept their mouths shut and did not reveal the fact that Xie Lan was pregnant, the Emperor always attached great importance to the Prince of Nanping’s affairs. He knew that the palace had invited two doctors in succession and thought that there was something wrong with the Prince of Nanping’s health.

As soon as the imperial physician returned to the Imperial Hospital, he was summoned by the Emperor for questioning.

If someone else asked about this, the imperial physician would naturally not tell them, but since the emperor asked, they dared not hide it. Upon learning that Xie Lan was pregnant, the emperor’s face did not look good, and he immediately asked the eunuch to summon Xiao Jin to question him.

“Do you know that Princess Changning is pregnant?”

Xiao Jin was so perceptive that he guessed what was going on as soon as he saw the two imperial doctors with their heads lowered beside him.

“Father, I know about this. The reason why Xie Lan got pregnant was because I was being hunted by an assassin and accidentally got poisoned. If I hadn’t been saved by Xie Lan, I would have exploded and died.”

Upon learning that it was his own son who had bullied the daughter of Prince Nanping, the unhappiness on the emperor’s face instantly disappeared. When he thought of the child in Xie Lan’s belly, the emperor was both happy and excited.

Seeing Prince Nanping enter the palace, the emperor showed a rare guilty look on his face, “Thank you, my dear minister. I didn’t expect that Changfeng was so careless before and was poisoned by the assassin. Fortunately, your daughter saved him, otherwise I would have to bear the sorrow of sending a young man to his death.

My dear, do you think we should hurry up and arrange the marriage? Let the young couple be together soon, and let Changfeng take good care of Lan girl. “

The emperor had always felt guilty towards Xiao Jin, and was even more worried when he saw that he had not yet started a family. Now that he knew Xie Lan was pregnant, the emperor was more excited than his own son.

He wished that Xiao Jin and Xie Lan could get married today, and that he could hold the emperor’s eldest grandson tomorrow.

At first, Prince Nanping was a little confused when he saw the emperor’s guilt, but after hearing his words, he realized that it was Xiao Jin who said that it was his own daughter who saved Xie Lan.

Although there are reasons for the girl’s pregnancy before marriage, it is still harmful to her reputation. In order to protect Xie Lan, Xiao Jin did not hesitate to deceive the emperor and took all the blame on himself.

The last bit of dissatisfaction that King Nanping felt towards Xiao Jin also disappeared.

Seeing that Prince Nanping remained silent, the emperor thought that he was dissatisfied with Xiao Jin and blamed him for getting Xie Lan pregnant before they got married.

“I know that Changfeng was wrong in this matter, and Lan Yatou has been wronged. I will make the decision to give Lan Yatou the hot spring villa in the Plum Garden of Taihang Mountain. The weather will get cold in a few days, and after they get married, it will be a good opportunity for Changfeng to accompany Lan Yatou to live in the Plum Garden for a while.

Not only is it warm there, but there are also plenty of fruits and vegetables on the farm, which can help Lan change her taste.”

The emperor was afraid that Prince Nanping was still angry, so he not only rewarded Xie Lan with the Hot Spring Villa, but also gave him a large house with five entrances, ten shops, one thousand acres of fertile land, and thirty thousand taels of gold and silver.

He even promised that on the day Xie Lan got married, he would give her twenty sets of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, silks, satins, and head ornaments as dowry.

“On behalf of my daughter, I would like to thank the Emperor for his grace.”

The King of Nanping did not expect to have so many unexpected gains. He knew that the Emperor gave so many things to him, firstly because he was grateful to his daughter for saving Xiao Jin, and secondly because he wanted to compensate Xiao Jin. He would not be foolish enough to refuse, and accepted all of them.

The emperor understood that Prince Nanping agreed to let Xiao Jin and Xie Lan get married as soon as possible.

Perhaps fearing that the Prince of Nanping would go back on his word, the Emperor could not wait to have the eunuch summon the Director of the Imperial Observatory to the palace to select an auspicious day. He also ordered the Clothing Bureau to put aside all matters at hand and focus on making wedding gowns and crowns for Xiao Jin and Xie Lan.