Chapter 788 A Strong Sll of dicine
Hearing the delicate girl’s words, Chu Liuxin really couldn’t refuse her. He could only watch Shao Wanru leave. In fact, he didn’t want to hear First Miss Shao’s words at all. He just wanted to hear Fifth Miss Shao’s words, but he had no choice but to hear.
Helplessly, he sat down again and said as if he had lost strength, “First Miss, if there’s anything, please tell .”
If she had sothing to tell him, she should just say it. After that, he could go out for a walk.
Thinking of this, he felt a little better and smiled.
Shao Wanru lifted up the door curtain and walked out. Dressed in a lot of clothes, she felt comfortable when the cold air outside rushed over. She stood still in the corridor and then walked toward the small room beside the side hall. “In this case, let add fuel to the fire lest that Shao Yanru co up with other tricks.”
A palace maid was boiling herbs inside. When she saw Shao Wanru coming over, she hurriedly put down the cattail leaf fan and bowed to Shao Wanru.
“Not done yet?” Shao Wanru pointed at the dicine pot on the stove and said.
“Soon, Fifth Miss. Wait a minute!” The palace maid nodded and said.
“The dicine brought here just now has been added?” Shao Wanru asked as she looked at the steaming dicine pot.
That the herbs were boiled did not an that the dicine was ready. Instead, they had to be decocted second by second so that the liquids of the herbal residues were extracted. This process should be slow, or the dicine’s efficacy would not be so good.
“Yes, it has. Next, I’ll stew the herbs with a small fire,” the palace maid nodded and said. The painkiller was not a big deal. She just needed to add it to the dicine powder and boil them together.
“Ignore . Just stew it carefully,” Shao Wanru nodded and said.
“Yes.” The palace maid did not dare to stay too far from it. She squatted attentively next to the stove, picked up the cattail leaf fan, and continued to fan the fire.
Shao Wanru walked into the room and saw so sheets of paper scattered on the table that was on the right. They were basically the paper used to hold the herbs before the decoction began.
The sll of dicine was quite strong. Those few paper bags that she had brought from the Imperial Institute of dicine were also among them.
Shao Wanru sat down on the round stool at the table, supported her head with her hand, and flipped through the sheets of paper scattered on the table in boredom. Suddenly, she slled sothing strange and narrowed her eyes.
She picked up a dium-sized paper bag from the ssy paper and sniffed it, realizing that she had guessed it. Shao Yanru had been prepared a long ti earlier.
Having found what she was looking for, she checked the ti for decocting the dicine and found that it would be ready soti later, so she stood up and walked out with Yujie.
In the past, she would occasionally co to see the decocted dicine for Shao Yanru, so the palace maid boiling the herbs did not care about it.
Out of the room, she walked out of the corridor slowly. When she saw Han Dan hurriedly coming over, she signaled to Yujie with her eyes. Yujie stepped forward and stopped her.
“Go and get a basin of water. Fifth Miss wants to wash her hands!” Yujie ordered.
Han Dan had to stop and went to another small room. She poured a basin of water and put it at the end of the corridor in front of the room door. Shao Wanru ca over and washed her hands.
In fact, she didn’t have to wash her hands. She had just touched the bags gently for a short ti, and her hands didn’t have a strong sll.
“Where have you been earlier, Han Dan? Why didn’t I see you serve First Miss here?” Yujie took the chance to ask Han Dan.
Han Dan didn’t dare to hide anything from Shao Wanru. She said, “Earlier, First Miss said that if Prince Xin ca over, I should go to the general steward of the Phoenix Palace.”
Shao Wanru took the handkerchief from Yujie and dried her hands, asking, “What did she say?”
“First Miss asked to invite the general steward to co over, saying that she wants to discuss sothing with him and then ask him to report it to the empress.”
It was hard for Shao Yanru to et the empress directly. Even if she had sothing important to report, she had to tell the general steward of the Phoenix Palace first.
In fact, she could not et with the general steward of the empress as imdiately as she wished. Instead, she could only say that she wanted him to co over in a while.
“Did the general steward agree to co over in a while?” Shao Wanru asked calmly. So things gradually ford a clue. Slowly combining it with a few things in her mory, she found that she could see the truth more clearly.
“The general steward said that he would co over shortly. The emperor is now in the empress’ place, so he can’t leave for the ti being!” Han Dan said. “First Miss didn’t think that the general steward would imdiately co. The general steward is the general keeper of the Phoenix Palace. He always has all kinds of things to deal with, and he also has to serve the empress. First Miss said that I didn’t have to mind it even if I heard such words.”
Han Dan stole a glance at Shao Wanru with mixed feelings. Actually, she thought that First Miss Shao was great because she had guessed the reaction of the general steward. But Fifth Miss Shao was even greater. Now she regretted being a double agent for the two ladies. She just wanted to have one mistress, but now she seed to have two mistresses.
And the two mistresses seed to be sharply opposed to each other.
Ignoring the hesitation in Han Dan’s eyes, Shao Wanru sharpened the look in her eyes. Shao Yanru’s calculation was so careful that she had even predicted the reaction of the empress.
As the confidant of the empress, the general steward certainly knew what the empress thought. Currently, the empress didn’t like Shao Yanru. Even if there was sothing, she would delay it on purpose, punishing Shao Yanru from an empress’s stance.
No matter whether there was anything or not, the general steward would never be on call. And he would even delay it for so ti. But this period of ti was enough for Shao Yanru. The dicine was now still being boiled over the fire, and it would take so ti.
“Go to the general steward again.” After thinking for a mont, Shao Wanru said, “Tell him that Prince Xin is also here. Ask him to co earlier!”
“Prince Xin is really innocent. I can’t let him fall in the hands of Shao Yanru! Go in a little earlier and ruin Shao Yanru’s plot. Attack her when she is off guard!”
Han Dan looked at Shao Wanru in surprise. She ant to force the general steward with the status of Prince Xin. Could this work? The general steward of the Phoenix Palace was the confidant of the empress. Even when he t him, Prince Xin had to call him “general steward” respectfully. It was completely useless to deter the general steward with the prince’s status.
She knew it even as a little palace maid. It was impossible that Fifth Miss Shao didn’t know it!
“Go and say that. If he asks you what Prince Xin is doing, you should answer vaguely!” Shao Wanru said. If he ca quickly, the plot could be ended, absolutely.
“Okay, I’m going right now!” Han Dan didn’t dare to say anything anymore. She replied and went there again.
When she arrived at the main hall of the Phoenix Palace, she saw the general steward standing at the roadside. Excitedly, she trotted over, ready to open her mouth when she saw a yellow brocade robe from the corner of her eye. Scared, she turned ashen and hurriedly dropped to her knees.
In the palace, only the emperor could wear a yellow robe.
She had trotted over. In fact, she had alerted the people present. The emperor ca here with a simple retinue. Apart from the general steward of the Phoenix Palace, there were even no other servants around him.
Of course, the guards who secretly followed him would not show up in public.
Startled, the general steward of the Phoenix Palace rebuked sternly, “What is it you want to see about, little maid? Do you know that if you disturb His Majesty, you will be sentenced to death?”
The emperor waved his hand and his chief eunuch went to fetch the file the emperor had left in the empress’ place.
“Your Majesty... I... I’m the maid of First Miss Shao of Duke Xing’s Mansion... I should be severely punished for having disturbed you!” Han Dan stamred. She had turned ashen in fear.
Although she wholeheartedly curried favor with Shao Yanru, hoping to get a chance to work her way up in the imperial palace, she had not realized the dream yet, nor had she ever really t the emperor.
The emperor naturally knew First Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion. He frowned and asked seriously, “What are you here for?”
Although his two sons had claid that the incident on that day was a misunderstanding and that it had nothing to do with First Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion, how could the emperor, who had rich life experience, not perceive the fishy operations of it? But if he continued the investigation, he himself would lose face, so he simply gave it up.
But this didn’t an that he had a good impression of Shao Yanru.
The woman had even provoked his two sons to fight each other. Even just from this point of view, the emperor was so dissatisfied with Shao Yanru. He thought that the woman would be unfaithful to her husband if she was married, so she could not marry a prince and be his princess. Fortunately, the final decision about the Consort Selection was not made yet. If she really married one of his sons but still kept a relationship with another, a more unimaginable scandal might happen then.
“Your Majesty, First Miss asked to invite the general steward. She said... said that Prince Cheng is also there... she asked the general steward to go... go... go over. She has sothing to tell... tell him!” Han Dan finally finished her words in stamrs. Now she was panicky and scared, so her words were incoherent.
But on the whole, she made it clear with her words.
The emperor’s face turned colder and colder. He was so angry that his eyes glistened with fierceness. Chu Liuyue and Chu Liuzhou had been involved earlier, and now Chu Liuxin was dragged in. The eldest daughter of Duke Xing’s Mansion was so unfaithful!
“Go! Take there!” The emperor said. He had planned to go back to the imperial study, but he was not in the mood now. He turned around coldly. He wanted to see what this woman would do. If she really had any improper behavior, he would kill her!
Seeing the emperor turn around, the general steward of the Phoenix Palace was slightly stunned. He didn’t know why the emperor was interested in such things, but he reacted quite fast. He called out to Han Dan and then hurriedly caught up to lead the way.
Han Dan hurriedly got up and followed the two people in a shiver, heading to the side hall.
Inside the side hall, the infusion had been brought over and put on the table, just in front of Chu Liuxin. The infusion was so hot that it could not be drunk at the mont. The sll of it was pungent, and it was in front of him. He sniffed it and thought that it slled bad. But this was dicine to heal injury, so he could not speak ill of it. More importantly, Shao Yanru’s words were interesting to him because they were all small matters about Shao Wanru.
She spoke of what had happened after Shao Wanru recognized her ancestors in the mansion and the inexplicable fire in her courtyard. She said that she had not been in the mansion at that ti. If she had been there, she would have protected Shao Wanru from being bullied.
Chu Liuxin nodded repeatedly and felt the regret. If he had known that he would like Shao Wanru, he should have been to Duke Xing’s Mansion to protect her back then. He would have never let her suffer such a great grievance. Maybe it was because he wore too many clothes, he suddenly felt hot.
Looking at Chu Liuxin slling the curling smoke from the bowl in front of him, Shao Yanru looked a little complacent. It would be done in a while...
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