Chapter 124
King Jing would often call out to Li Yu in his heart, but this time, he actually made a sound. Clearly, he did not quite believe it himself and stood rooted to the ground.
Li Yu rushed over and cried tears of joy. “Tianchi, you’re awake! You … spoke, didn’t you? ”
Even though he had deduced from the system’s silence a few days ago, a deduction was still a deduction after all. King Jing would definitely recover. This thought had always supported him. Even though King Jing did not wake up after taking the medicine, his heart was still filled with hope.
Moreover, he really did hear King Jing speak just now, because …
Li Yu pinched his thigh hard because his thigh really hurt.
King Jing himself did not know the reason for this. Although he had not been able to wake up for the past few days, he could clearly hear the sounds of the outside world. He also heard Xiaoyu talking in his ear all the time.
Every time Xiaoyu spoke to him, he would reply in his heart, but Xiaoyu had no way of knowing. In order not to worry Xiaoyu, he used all his strength to wake up. When he finally opened his eyes, his mouth followed his heart and he unconsciously called out Xiaoyu’s name.
The sudden strange sound was hoarse and broken, like the tip of a sword grinding on gravel. King Jing himself did not expect this to be … him?
Why was he suddenly able to make a sound?
His throat was very itchy and painful. During the past few days when he could not wake up, it was like a burning fire.
King Jing himself could not believe it. His body stiffened as he tried to sound her out. “Xiao …”
He suddenly stopped talking. The sound really did come from his chest.
This was him.
King Jing was stunned.
Li Yu was also stunned for a moment. When she came back to her senses, she hugged him tightly. Her face and eyes were full of tears, but she still shouted happily, “Tianchi, Tianchi!”
King Jing hugged Li Yu back tightly. He wanted to say something, but he did not have the strength. He realized that he could speak, but it was not easy to express his inner thoughts. He suddenly did not know how to say many words that he had heard countless times.
All he could do was hug Xiaoyu as he rested his chin on Xiaoyu’s shoulder intimately.
Now that King Jing could speak, Li Yu was overjoyed and informed Wang Xi first. Wang Xi was even more exaggerated than Li Yu. She knelt on the ground with a plop and walked over on her knees, looking up at King Jing.
“Your Highness?” Wang Xi stammered.
King Jing closed his eyes. “King …”
Wang Xi. Of course, he knew who it was, but he was still not used to speaking. However, just this one word made Wang Xi burst into tears.
“Your Highness is a blessed man. This old servant has no regrets in this life!” Wang Xi cried and laughed at the same time.
The old imperial physician was urgently invited to King Jing’s residence. After hearing King Jing’s intermittent words with his own ears, the old imperial physician was extremely shocked. He felt King Jing’s pulse and repeatedly said that this was an unexpected surprise.
“Your Highness’s poison has been cured, but I didn’t expect that your muteness would also …”
Because it was said that King Jing’s muteness was innate, the old imperial physician did not even think about it.
However, his muteness had also disappeared with the detoxification. This meant that King Jing’s muteness was actually due to poisoning and not innate.
The old imperial physician had been in the Imperial Hospital for decades and knew that King Jing could not speak from the moment he was born. However, if it was due to poisoning, then King Jing had been poisoned not long after he was born.
Only a handful of people could do this.
The old imperial physician was only concerned with treating the illness. Now that the poison had been cured and his muteness had been unexpectedly cured, he was overjoyed and did not think about the implications.
“Imperial physician, now that His Highness’s poison has been cured and he can speak, does this mean that his muteness and poison will not be passed on to his children in the future?” Li Yu thought of something and asked the imperial physician loudly. She also gave the old imperial physician a look.
In reality, the old imperial physician did not quite understand the princess consort’s meaning, but he followed Li Yu’s words and replied, “Since the muteness was caused by poisoning, now that the poison has been cured, the children will naturally not be infected. Princess consort and His Highness, please rest assured.”
Li Yu smiled especially brightly and blinked her eyes as she looked at King Jing. King Jing’s heart trembled. He understood Xiao Yu’s meaning. Now that the poison had been cured and his muteness had been cured, there would be no need to use contraception in the future.
Alright, I promise you.
King Jing nodded silently.
He was actually the same as Xiao Yu. He also wanted a daughter.
As the king and princess consort exchanged glances, the old imperial physician felt that the surrounding atmosphere had inexplicably heated up. He coughed lightly and said, “Although His Highness’s poison has been cured, his body is still weak and will need to continue taking medicine for a period of time. This old official thinks that the princess consort’s prescription for health is very good. This old official will also give His Highness some medicine that will help him swallow and moisten his throat. I hope that it will help His Highness recover as soon as possible … ”
The old imperial physician was in high spirits and talked a lot. He even wanted to explain the medical theory in detail to them. Li Yu and King Jing looked at each other and held each other’s hands tightly. Their hearts were drowned in great joy and they could barely listen to anything else.
Wang Xi brought the old imperial physician into the palace to report the good news to the emperor. When the emperor received the news, he immediately dressed casually and rushed to King Jing’s residence. When King Jing knelt down with the help of Li Yu and tried his best to call him ‘Imperial Father’, the emperor’s heart was extremely complicated.
He felt fortunate and happy that he had regained what he had lost, but he also felt angry and annoyed that he had been deceived by the scoundrel.
It was inappropriate for the emperor to say anything more. He ordered King Jing to stand up and patted King Jing’s shoulder. No matter how many feelings he had, they all turned into a long sigh, “Tianchi, recover quickly. Zhen still has many things for you to do.”
The emperor stared at King Jing for a long time. There were also tears in his eyes.
King Jing could only speak. At present, other than a few words, he could barely speak. The emperor was already very satisfied. However, King Jing’s muteness had been cured, but it could not be spread out and let outsiders know. Because even his’ innate muteness’ was fake, what else could be real?
Pu Liu had been investigated and confirmed to be dead. The dead told no tales. However, there was still the midwife who had delivered King Jing for Empress Xiaohui and the imperial physician who had diagnosed King Jing. When King Jing was born, the emperor did not hear any crying. There must be something else going on.
King Jing was not born mute. This belated fact was like a sharp stone that shattered the false peace of the imperial harem for more than ten years.
Luo Ruisheng and the imperial bodyguards were already following up. They were also investigating the cause of Pu Liu’s death. Before they found out the truth, the emperor still needed King Jing to pretend to be mute. They must not act rashly and alert the enemy.
King Jing and Li Yu could both guess the emperor’s plan and agreed.
The children had been studying in the palace for the past few days. When the emperor learned that King Jing’s poison had been cured, he brought the children back with him when he visited King Jing.
Previously, Li Yu had only told them that their father, Jing Wang, was not feeling well and could not see them for the time being. The children did not understand the danger involved, but their father did not allow them to see him. This had already caused the children to feel depressed for a few days. The Emperor ordered them to study in the imperial study partly because the children were indeed very smart, and partly because he wanted to help divert the children’s attention.
Now that they heard that King Jing’s father was about to recover (had recovered), the children were overjoyed. They rushed into the room one by one and clung to King Jing’s trousers.
King Jing smiled and hugged them one by one. Li Yu was worried that King Jing’s body would not be able to take it, but King Jing shook his head at him.
During these days when he was unconscious, King Jing missed his children very much.
Being hugged by him, the eyes of the four children, who had not been hugged for a long time, turned red.
“Si Bao, I miss Dad so much.”
Si Bao lay on his father’s chest and spoke in a soft voice about how much he missed King Jing’s father.
King Jing touched the top of his soft head. He could not say Si Bao’s four words, so he could only say vaguely, “… Bao, Dad, I miss you.”
King Jing’s father suddenly spoke!
Da Bao, Er Bao, and San Bao all pricked up their ears.
The fish cubs were already used to King Jing’s inability to speak. Their father did not teach them what a disability was. Instead, when they were still little fish, he kindly told them that King Jing’s father was sick and could not speak.
Their father did not want the children to categorize King Jing as a disabled person. He had always tried to make the children feel that King Jing was no different from him. He did not expect that his words would come true. When King Jing was “sick”, he would naturally recover!
“Dad has recovered from his illness!” Da Bao suddenly realized.
Before the children jumped up, Li Yu quickly told them that King Jing’s father had not fully recovered and could not go around telling others. This was a little secret between the fathers and the children. Li Yu hooked his little finger at them one by one, asking them to keep it a secret.
Da Bao, Er Bao, San Bao, and Si Bao all liked to keep secrets for their father and fought to hook their fingers with him.
Si Bao even hooked his finger at King Jing.
“Dad, Si Bao, same.” Si Bao had a new discovery. He smiled and pointed at King Jing, then at himself.
Among the children, Si Bao was not very good with words. King Jing had just recovered, so he was not very good with words either. In terms of not knowing how to speak, the two of them were about the same.
Little Si Bao was now a fish who had gone to school. He knew about teachers and quickly said, “Si Bao, teach daddy!”
King Jing smiled and was about to respond when Li Yu picked Si Bao up.
“That … let go of King Jing, daddy, let me do it!” Li Yu gestured at King Jing and smiled brightly at Si Bao.
Si Bao, who was suddenly shocked by his father’s smile, was speechless.
Si Bao could not understand. He had not done anything yet, so why was he eliminated by his father?
Li Yu really did teach him, because she had once taught the fish cubs how to speak. She taught King Jing how to speak with ease.
Teacher Yu quickly prepared the lesson. With a peach blossom pancake in his hand, he smiled and said, “Tianchi, you will only get to eat if you speak correctly.”
King Jing was speechless.
King Jing smiled and nodded. Was Xiaoyu going to enlighten him? It was good to have a reward.
Li Yu could not possibly teach King Jing how to recognize his father. King Jing had been out of touch for too long. He could actually recognize many words, but when he said them, he would stumble. This was because King Jing did not have any real reading experience. Li Yu planned to teach him from pinyin first. It was the same everywhere he had transmigrated to.
Teacher Yu wrote on a piece of paper, “Tianchi, do you know Bobo Mofo Te Yue?”
King Jing was speechless.
King Jing did not know. He smiled and begged for mercy, “Xiao … Yu.”
His hoarse voice was still unpleasant to the ears. The old doctor would be like this for a period of time, but every time he read Li Yu’s name, it would become extraordinarily magical. It would tug at his heartstrings and make his scalp tingle.
Teacher Yu was almost distracted. He blushed and knocked on the small blackboard, “Don’t interrupt. Read it with me!”
King Jing was instilled by Teacher Yu with the initial and final consonants.
As the first person in ancient times to learn pinyin, King Jing, who had no foundation in pinyin, did not find it difficult to learn. As he listened to Li Yu and had a good comprehension ability, he quickly realized that what Xiaoyu taught him was a kind of foundation. After he learned the initial and final consonants, Xiaoyu wrote pinyin for the commonly used words and taught him how to “spell” them to read.
King Jing stumbled as he learned to “spell”. Although he still made mistakes from time to time, Li Yu told him to take it slow. King Jing slowly learned to say a word, a short sentence, and began to get used to people’s names.
Perhaps it was really fate. Among everyone’s names, he knew how to call Xiaoyu from the beginning and never made any mistakes.
In order to make King Jing speak like a normal person, Li Yu also gave him a task to read aloud.
The time to read aloud was usually set in the morning. Li Yu said that people were most energetic in the morning and their learning state was the most stable. It was the best time to study, so it was called morning reading.
Morning reading was held every day. Teacher Yu asked King Jing to start from the simplest “human nature is good at birth” and then to various storybooks. She also often demonstrated and did spot checks.
“Tianchi, how do you read this?” Teacher Yu flipped to a page of a certain storybook and pointed at a certain title, pretending to casually check the results.
King Jing glanced at it and read it emotionlessly, “Husband.”
Teacher Yu was stimulated by his cold face and heart-scratching voice. She continued to point and ask, “What about this?”
King Jing: “Husband.”
Both her husband and husband were good. Teacher Yu was overjoyed. She thought that she was secretly taking advantage of her students.
In fact, King Jing knew how many times he had read it. In the future, he would try his best to get it back from Teacher Yu.
Student King Jing and student fish cubs were treated differently. Teacher Yu was stricter with King Jing. Even if the fish cubs spat out bubbles, they would still be able to eat peach blossom pancakes. King Jing’s mouth was dry after reading for the whole day. Teacher Yu was in a good mood and would only give him a peach blossom pancake.
King Jing did not complain. He smiled and ate the peach blossom pancake with Li Yu’s hand. As he ate, he would always eat Teacher Yu’s finger.
Teacher Yu really could not bear it anymore. There was no need to bear it anymore.
