Zhao Junyao had directly issued a gag order regarding the Little Prince's condition. Any palace Servant who dared to discuss it was to be clubbed to death on the spot. But news like this, much like the wind slipping over walls, could never be truly suppressed.
Xia Ruqing learned the news before she even had her evening meal.
"A condition of five softnesses?"
The ancients indeed had a way with words, to describe cerebral palsy so delicately, Xia Ruqing thought.
Xiao Xizi continued, "They say he won't even take milk from the Wetnurse Nanny, nor does he cry. When Imperial Doctor Zhang tested him with a pellet drum, he didn't react to the sound at all!"
Zi Yue added, "I heard he didn't cry when he was born. At first, everyone thought he was just weak from being premature, but it turned out to be this illness..."
Xiao Xizi followed up, "When the Emperor heard, he only instructed that the Noble Consort be well cared for and gave no other orders..."
