Chapter 129 – Secret Ingredient
When Ye Zhen returned, she imdiately took a bottle of her concocted dicine and added a drop of her miraculous liquid to it. Then, she asked Dai i to take it to Lu Lingzhi.
“As soon as you see him.” was her solid instruction.
She now wished for Lu Lingzhi’s fast recovery, so that he’d be able to leave the capital the soonest. With him around, she always felt his vigilant eyes watching her and thus, had to guard herself against him.
As instructed, Lu Lingzhi received the dicine sent by Ye Zhen through Dai i. Looking at it, he shook his head and smiled lightly. It looked no different from what he had used before, but he thought it must still be different for his third sister to specially recomnd it.
The next day, to his surprise, Lu Lingzhi woke up and found that his injured leg was not only not painful anymore, but it looked much better than yesterday!
Yao Yao’s dicine actually has such a miraculous effect!
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It was a bright morning, a perfect ti for farrs to harvest their crops—and Ye Zhen decided to do the sa. She woke up early, intending to collect the silvers she won from the aggravating Princess Liu Hua.
When her plan reached the ears of Lu Xiangzhi and Lu Zan, the two quickly kept her from leaving the mansion. After a thorough discussion, they had agreed to fetch her silvers for her. Her showing up to the princess’ doorsteps might cause trouble, they said.
This arrangent was fine with Ye Zhen as she didn’t want to go out too much. She willingly handed the docunts bearing the princess’s signature, with the Little Prince Mo Rongyi as the pri witness.
Without delay, the n went out with the docunts.
Ye Zhen finished her exams and now she was left with nothing to do. Mister Shan has moved away thus, she didn’t have to pretend to study hard anymore. At the mont, she was surrounded by dical books from which she picked up one and opened.
She had never studied dicine before, but when she beca Lu Yaoyao, so knowledge of dical skills and knowledge on herbs ca into her mind inexplicably, and right away, she perceived that these were her sister’s mory.
What Lu Yaoyao learned before had naturally appeared in Ye Zhen’s mind.
It was also because of Lu Yaoyao’s mory that she knew they were twin sisters. Lu Xiangzhi always thought that Lu Yaoyao knew her life story only by eavesdropping on hushed conversations between Lu Shiming and Pei Shi. But in fact, this was not the case.
Lu Yaoyao knew it as early as a year ago. It was Old Madam Ye—Ye Zhen’s grandma, who secretly slipped a baby Lu Yaoyao to the Border town to protect her. In one of her visits before she died, she told Lu Yaoyao the truth—that she is a daughter of the Ye family and that she has a twin sister nad Ye Zhen in the capital.
The mont Ye Zhen woke up in her twin sister’s body, only then did she know that Lu Yaoyao was her twin sister. Her family fell to complete ruin and now she could only do revenge through her sister’s identity and knowledge.
“Third miss.”
Ye Zhen quickly tore her gaze from the dical book and looked up at the door, finding Dai i standing with her head bowed down. “The Second and Fourth Miss Lu are coming.”
With this, a finely painted brow instantly shot up. What are they doing here? Since she took four A’s from the college yesterday, her sisters have taken a different attitude towards her. More affectionate, you can say.
Ye Zhen felt no such thing as sisterhood towards them and naturally didn’t care about what they thought of her. “Please invite them to the tea hall.” Ye Zhen ordered casually as she does not allow others to co to her study—especially these misses.
There are many things she does not want them to know. Ye Zhen didn’t like the two sisters very much, but she still had to brace herself to deal with them.
“Third Sister, have you received the admission letter?” Lu Fang had just sat down in the tea hall when he saw Ye Zhen coming in from the outside. She showed a smile so bright it could montarily blind anyone in a heartbeat.
“Not yet.” she dutifully answered and finally sat opposite the two miss.
Right beside Lu Fang, Lu Jing bore a sour expression. She wouldn’t have co to Lu Yaoyao if her sister didn’t force her.
It irked her more seeing Ye Zhen accept them in the tea hall instead of in her study. She genuinely thought that their visit would flatter her.
“Third Sister, look at my face.” Lu Fang took Ye Zhen’s hand and raised her head to let her see her face clearly. “Look, I used the ointnt you gave us. Although my face turned white, sohow, red bumps appeared today and I feel pain pressing it!”
With calm in her voice, Ye Zhen looked for a mont then nodded head in understanding. “Is my second sister having her monthly visit soon and has been eating spicy foods recently?”
Lu Fang looked at Ye Zhen in bewildernt. “How did you know?”
“It doesn’t matter. It will disappear in a few days.” Ye Zhen said that she had read published dicine books of the one notable empress who built the Won’s College, Empress Duan Hui who was commonly known in her maiden na as Qi Yanling.
Her books contained treatnts to several diseases which were previously considered incurable.
Ever since she before she entered the college in her previous life, Ye Zhen already adored Qi Yanling very much. Now she reads her books and admires them in her heart. Her father once said that Qi Yanling ca from the sa place as him. However, Ye Zhen was very young at that ti and didn’t understand any of it.
Looking back now, she felt that her father knew the Empress Qi well.
“Yao Yao! Do you have any dicine that can make these things disappear imdiately?” Lu Fang didn’t feel relieved even after Ye Zhen’s assurance.
“Uhm...I have a dicine but unfortunately, it could only relieve the pain and itchiness. And as you are having your monthly visit, I wouldn’t advise it.” Ye Zhen knew what Lu Fang was talking about. The Second Miss Lu believed that she has an imdiate cure which was true—but the miraculous liquid, Ye Zhen decided to not use them anymore.
She just didn’t want to make people doubt the reason why she suddenly changed physically.
“Isn’t there sothing like those salves that...you sar on your face?” Cleverly, Lu Fang tried to trick Ye Zhen into admitting that she must have sothing that she applies to her face for her to have such remarkable change.
“I haven’t tried those salves but you can ask the eldest brother for it. There should be many of those inside the imperial palace. Maybe he knows!”
“Second sister.” Lu Jing called her sister in a venomous voice all of a sudden. “You are wasting your energy. Do you really think that third sister just wiped sothing on her face for her to beco like this? There must be so secret ingredient that she put on her face and body that we don’t know. Since, it’s a secret, why would she tell us?” she finished bitterly.
Yesterday, Lu Yaoyao has been in the college for only half a day, but she had already amazed the whole capital. Not only that, but she also caught the eyes of aristocrats. Her dancing made the little prince marvel at her and—Lu Jing felt a stab of pain and envy—Marquis Tang was also there watching her.
Lu Jing rembered Tang Zhen’s gaze at that ti—full of admiration which she had never seen in his eyes when he looked at her.
Why did this woman have to appear in our lives?! Lu Jing spat in her mind.
Originally, she thought she was the most talented person in the Lu family. Even if she could not compare with her Wang Fei sister, she was outstanding in the college and have even perford better than Lu Fang, her older sister.
Now, here cos Lu Yaoyao who seed to be taking everything away from her! How can she be content with this?
“Yao Yao, do you really have a secret ingredient?” Lu Fang looked at Ye Zhen with bright eyes.
“I don’t know whether it should be called a secret ingredient, but when I was in Zhuangzi, I always asked Dai i to help get so hot spring water and milk to pour into my bath, which whitened my skin.”
In a pleasant surprise, Lu Fang almost jumped from her seat. “I have heard that the forr Empress Xiao likes to wash her face with milk best. Maybe it is really effective!”
Her eyes squinted and her mouth lifted, Ye Zhen said with delight, “There’s no harm in trying it.”
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