Chapter Seven Death
Early the next morning, Lan Qingruo, who was sitting in front of the dressing table, heard the sound of a wet nurse outside the wooden window.
"I don't know where the wind came from this early in the morning, but it brought you to this courtyard." The nanny's eyes were full of spring, and she came to greet people one after another.
The person who came was the nanny who was following the old princess. Seeing that the nanny was interested, the nanny felt happy, her head was slightly raised, and she also put on the air. She stroked her bun with one hand, and before she could speak, she
I felt the coldness coming from my sleeve. It was probably a skewer of jadeite. When I touched it, I knew it was not a cheap item.
Mammy lowered her eyes and looked at the wet nurse. When she saw the look in her eyes that made her accept it secretly, she knew that this thing was something that this family paid filial piety to her. For this, she smiled even more satisfied.
"Where is your master?" asked grandma.
"I just got up, now I'm getting dressed inside." After the wet nurse finished speaking, the thick cotton curtain in front of the door was opened.
Lan Qingruo was dressed in an emerald green coat with a fur collar around her neck. She was generous and graceful, and her manners were elegant. She bowed slightly, and her aristocratic temperament instantly emerged from her body.
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Mammy nodded and held out the wooden plate in her hand, "The old princess liked the medicinal food that my wife made yesterday very much. Today I specially asked my slave to bring this pair of rosary beads to my wife."
Lan Qingruo ignored the Buddha and didn't know the value of the rosary. But the wet nurse understood. When the servant took the tray and lifted the red cloth, the wet nurse immediately shouted, "Hey! These beads seem to be the old princess's personal belongings."
What a wonderful thing! Madam is overjoyed!"
It is indeed a happy event to be able to take the personal belongings given by the old princess. Grandma nodded, and before she could speak, she saw Lan Qingruo lifting up her skirt and taking a step down the stairs, "Such a precious thing, I should be treated as such."
I should go and thank the old princess in person for her kindness."
"Forget it in person. In the past, the old princess would go up to the mountain to worship Buddha for several days every fifteenth year. Now that she goes there, I'm afraid she won't be able to meet her." Nanny said, looking at Lan Qingruo with regretful eyes, "Madam, you don't have to think about that.
"It's a lot. I really want to thank you, so I'll wait until the day when the old princess returns home and put some thought into making some food to coax her."
What she said can be regarded as a word of encouragement.
"Thank you, grandma, for your teaching."
Before Lan Qingruo got up, she waved her hand and said, "Okay, the things have been delivered, and I have returned first. Madam, please have a good rest."
As she said this, the nanny turned around and was about to leave. The wet nurse saw Lan Qingruo's eyes and hurriedly took two steps after her, "If you have nothing else to do, please stay and have a cup of hot tea before leaving."
Before the nanny could finish her words, the nanny paused in her steps and then fell to the ground with a bang. This scared everyone in the yard.
Seeing that everyone was surrounding him, Lan Qingruo also hurriedly ran up, "Doctor! Get the doctor quickly!!!"
The servant in the courtyard listened, turned around and ran out. Later, several people carried grandma to Lan Qingruo's bed. The doctor couldn't wait for a long time, but grandma's lips gradually turned purple.
No, people cannot die in their own rooms.
She thought and tugged on the wet nurse's sleeve. The wet nurse would immediately understand what her master meant. By the time she was sending the servants away, Lan Qingruo had already started to help her to feel her pulse and apply acupuncture.
This scene frightened grandma. She ran forward and said anxiously: "Madam, you have forgotten what your family told you. You must not let outsiders know about your medical skills.
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"Shut up!" Before the nanny could finish her words, Lan Qingruo scolded her, "If I don't take action, do I really want to wait for this old woman to die in this yard?"
It was strange. Logically speaking, there was no problem with her acupuncture, but grandma's pulse didn't seem to improve at all. She retracted her hand, thought for a long time, and suddenly turned around, clasping the nanny's hand with both hands, "Okay.
Nanny, help me, it’s hard for the old princess to trust me now. If her personal nun dies in my room, then all the previous efforts will be in vain."
"But you are just a generation of women. According to the rules, women have no right to seek medical treatment or buy medicine. You..." The wet nurse was so anxious that she didn't know what to say.
"Weren't there some herbs left from last time? You can go find some Midnight Tablets and Angelica sinensis, and then boil them for an hour to cure her!"
The wet nurse didn't want to go, but who else could help Lan Qingruo except her? Thinking like this, she gritted her teeth and turned around and rushed out of the room.
Exactly an hour later, she carefully brought the medicine back to the room. When one of them was supporting the grandmother and the other was feeding the medicine, several people suddenly broke in.
Lan Qingruo threw the bowl in his hand with an unexpected sound.
"Shen Xinyue!" She was angry and annoyed when she saw the person who repeatedly ruined her good things.
Shen Xinyue put her hands around her chest. She didn't say anything immediately, but just asked: "Where are you giving me the medicine?"
"None of your business!"
"Unexpectedly, it turns out that girls from the Lan family also know how to practice medicine." Her words faded into the breeze.
But these words pierced her heart word for word as if they could kill Lan Qingruo. You know, she knew this side of medical skills, but she took great pains to hide it.
Lan Qingruo's expression suddenly changed, and that fierceness was a side she had never shown since she came to this mansion. She walked up to Shen Xinyue and threatened, "I advise you not to meddle in other people's business, otherwise.
..I will make you not even know how you died here.”
She didn't know why Shen Xinyue wasn't afraid, and before she could figure it out, she saw Huo Weilou, who had arrived at an unknown time, suddenly come in from outside with an angry look on his face, and on the handkerchief in his hand lay a few pieces of medicine residue thrown away by the wet nurse.
He looked extremely vicious, as if he was coming to collect debts. Lan Qingruo was so frightened that she took a few steps back. In the blink of an eye, there were tears in her eyes. In exchange for that delicate look, if it weren't for the wet nurse,
He was supporting her on the side, fearing that she would be unable to stand long ago.
"Wei...Brother Weilou..."
"Do you know medicine?" Huo Weilou probably still missed his old friendship, his tone was gentle but also revealed a bit of anger.
Who would have thought that the woman with whom he usually had a "stronger love" would actually have a side that he had never seen before.
"No...it's not Brother Weilou like this." She stepped forward with a pitiful look, and before she could grab Huo Weilou's hands, Shen Xinyue said: "It's time to call me brother."
These words made Lan Qingruo freeze there, not knowing how to move forward or retreat. She had also thought that one day something would happen, but she also knew that it could not be now when she had not yet established a firm foothold in the house.
Thinking about it, she closed her eyes hard, and a teardrop as big as a bean fell directly to the floor.
"So...you really gave the aphrodisiac? Why?"
"It's not me!" she shouted, raising her head to the two of them with a look of being wronged, "I really don't know what you are talking about!"
"This is a big show." Shen Xinyue sneered. What she didn't expect was that now that both people had stolen the goods, the other party could still be tough. She took a deep breath and said, "The medicine dregs were poured by your wet nurse just now. Some of the contents are inside." , are all part of the aphrodisiac that the prince used, isn’t it madam, could it be that the wet nurse did it deliberately?"
The nanny was so frightened by these words that she knelt on the ground. This was a crime that would lead to her being kicked out, and she did not dare to bear it.
Before Shen Xinyue could finish her words, she found that Lan Qingruo had been staring at her with red eyes for a long time. Before she could speak, she slightly raised the corners of her lips and said, "It seems that the princess knows less than my sister, so why do you want to Want me to be your scapegoat?"
Shen Xinyue was shocked for a moment. She turned her head slightly and looked at the other party, "Sister, do you really want me to take you to go through the ledger of the medicine purchase in the mansion item by item?"
After saying this, Lan Qingruo couldn't get hard anymore. Why should she be so hard? These residues are medicinal materials that the mansion will never purchase...
"How about..." Shen Xinyue walked around Lan Qingruo and looked at the room, "Just search for it. If you can use this kind of medicinal material twice, it means that the one you kept is definitely not Amount of two servings, right?"
"Whose house are you going to search?" Just when everyone's attention was on Lan Qingruo, the old princess's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Soon the old princess entered the room with the support of Huo Ziyao. After entering the room, the old princess stared directly at Huo Weilou, "My old lady is not dead yet, is it your turn to be the goblin to take charge?"
Seeing the support coming, Lan Qingruo knelt directly at the feet of the old princess. She shouted with tears in her eyes, "The princess must make the decision for my wife~"
"Get up." After asking Lan Qingruo to stand up, the old princess never took her eyes off Huo Weilou.
"As for the concubine, all the clues pointed to Miss Lan now. Now all we have to do is search the house..." Before Shen Xinyue could finish speaking, there was only a snap. When she came to her senses again, the old The princess's slap had already fallen on Huo Weilou's face.
"You're just going to let this disrespectful thing mess up the mansion here?" The old princess shouted loudly, and everyone was silent. In the whole hall, only Lan Qingruo was still sobbing.
Shen Xinyue lowered her head slightly and remained silent. When she saw the old princess walking over, she instinctively took a breath and glanced at the old princess's hand uncontrollably. She was afraid that the slap would be directed at her again. .
"It's true that I underestimated your ability to confuse people." The old princess's words were filled with ridicule, "In just a few days, you actually managed to fool the Prince Regent into obeying your words."
Shen Xinyue didn't understand what she was thinking. Her eyes were filled with confusion. When she looked at Huo Weilou, she didn't know what to say, "What...what did you say?"
"What? Did I say something wrong? In order for the regent to clear your name, you did not hesitate to frame others to escape. You vixen is really good at calculating." Shen Xinyue saw her self-righteous look. He couldn't help but sneered.
Before she could speak, the old princess then said: "If I don't punish you today, it will be difficult to correct my Huo family's family tradition. Someone comes! Drag this woman out and kill her with a cane!"
Kill with a stick!? These two words crashed into Shen Xinyue's mind like thunder.
"Why do you have the right to kill me with your stick?" Before Shen Xinyue's voice fell, three or five young men responded and came from outside the door.
"It's because of your charming head!" The old princess's accusation seemed convenient.
"Everything in this world must be based on evidence. If the princess can't produce evidence, she will be silenced. Are you really not afraid of being criticized by outsiders?" She shouted outside the door, and the servants outside couldn't help but come to the door and window. Take a quick look beforehand.
The old princess had never been arrogant or domineering during her lifetime in the palace, but she had never been laughed at like this.
The moment these words came out of Shen Xinyue's mouth, she immediately became angry, "What are you all waiting for? It's because my words have no effect, or you also want to be dragged out and beaten with this woman!"
Chapter completed!