This queen is not too curly

Chapter 65 What is the skin that can be eaten?

The slender girl lying on the bed should be a graceful picture, but it is not at all charming, just because there are countless wounds on her back and body.

Chen Niang's breathing paused, and she quietly took a deep breath.

This was the first time she really saw Yan Yuan's wound clearly.

The previous two times were when she was taking a bath, most of Yan Yuan's body was submerged in the water, and the heat was lingering around her body, she couldn't see it very clearly, unlike this time, she really saw clearly what was on her body... ... messy.

Yan Yuan's back was covered with large and small wounds, some of those wounds had faded to the point of being invisible, while some still had red marks.

They are criss-crossed and look shocking.

These traces should not appear on the body of the daughter of the Hou family.

Chen Niang's hands trembled slightly, and her fingertips landed on the wound.

"Most of these injuries were from branches, and only one or two were from weapons."

Yan Yuan hugged the quilt and put it under her arms, seemingly casually trying to explain to Chen Niang.

Chen Niang pressed gently along the scar with her fingertips, hesitated for a moment, and asked slowly: "But why do you have so many..."

She is clearly the noble daughter of the Marquis Mansion, but she is suffering from an intractable cold and scars all over her body. What has such a person experienced?
This is a question she has been afraid to ask for a long time.

Yan Yuan thought for a while, then said softly: "When I was young, I ran away from home and went to a place of bitter cold."

Where Chen Niang touched with her fingertips, the wound felt warm for a while.

Yan Yuan felt comfortable, narrowed her eyes involuntarily, buried her head in the quilt, and then a muffled voice came out from under the quilt:

"People in that place are not having a good day."

"The men are all dead, leaving only the elderly and children, and they are often harassed by gangsters."

"There is no grass growing in that place in winter, but there are snow lotus, so I stayed and helped them pick snow lotus for more than half a year."

"But that thing grows on the cliff, it's too ugly." Yan Yuan sighed under the quilt, "Once, I accidentally stepped on the air and fell off the cliff."

This is the origin of her messy injuries.

At that time, she was not afraid of the cold, and she wore light clothes even in the ice and snow for the sake of flexibility in her hands and feet. As a result, she accidentally fell off the cliff.

The cliff was not high, but there were too many dead branches on the cliff. When she woke up, her body was already covered with wounds.

"And then?" Chen Niang asked nervously.

"Almost died of pain." Yan Yuan replied with a sigh.

"..."

Yan Yuan lay on the quilt and squinted her eyes.

In fact, she never cared about these small wounds.

Her father taught her to ride horses and shoot and hunt since she was a child, and she suffered a lot of injuries when she was young.

She still remembers the first time she left a scar on her leg when she was a child, her mother was so distressed that she burst into tears.

Daddy comforted her: "Since the doctor said it's all right, why cry?"

Mother sobbed and choked: "But Yuan'er is a girl, and the girl has scars, how can she marry in the future? It's all you, you insist on teaching horse riding and archery, what's wrong with being a boudoir daughter and learning some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting?" ?”

Daddy laughed and said, "So what about the scars? Yuan'er is not a thing. Could it be that more scars will affect the market price?"

She was young then.

I just remembered what my father said ignorantly.

Daddy said: "Yuan'er can do whatever she wants, she can do whatever she wants when she is young, and she will have no regrets when she grows old."

So she did many absurd things afterwards, but she never felt that a wound all over her body was something serious.

It's just that I never expected that these scars have now become unspeakable.

Yan Yuan lay on the quilt and sighed.

Chen Niang took out a medicine bottle from the medicine incense, touched a little ointment with her fingertips, and gently applied it to Yan Yuan's wound.

This body injury, pain is inevitable.

There was a light of pity in Chen Niang's eyes, and she paused when her fingertips landed on several obvious knife wounds. She asked, "Are these knife wounds encountered by gangsters who harassed the village?"

Yan Yuan said, "That's right."

Chen Niang's fingers paused, and lightly touched the wound that ran through her shoulder: "Then here..."

Yan Yuan's body suddenly shrank: "...it hurts."

Chen Niang was startled: "Still in pain?"

Yan Yuan nodded.

Chen Niang no longer had the time to investigate the source of the wound. She turned Yan Yuan around and pierced her shoulder with a silver needle. Sure enough, the silver needle touched something unusual, like the base of the wound. What a hard inner layer.

But that's not the point of her trip.

She skimmed over the big wound on her shoulder, and pierced several needles all over Yan Yuan's body, and then those dark red wounds gradually turned into skin color, which was hardly noticeable at first glance, just Even the leaf-shaped veins on the shoulders disappeared.

Yan Yuan's eyes widened: "How did you do it?"

Chen Niang lowered her head and said: "It's not cured, it's just that the color of the scar is also blood-colored. The servant girl covered some of the color with a plaster that is not afraid of water, and sealed a few blood vessels on the surface of the body with needles."

It's just a blindfold.

And don't let people get close.

What's more, sealing the blood vessels is dangerous after all, even if it's just a few insignificant blood vessels on the body surface, it can't last for too long after all.

Chen Niang frowned: "It can only last for half an hour."

Yan Yuan was stunned for a moment, and she took a breath of relief just now, and raised her chest again.

Hearing what Ruan Zhu said, he knew that the procedures for bathing in Rongyuan were complicated. Is half an hour really enough?
If halfway through the bath, the blood flowed freely, and the wound appeared in front of everyone, it would be too...

Yan Yuan raised her head and asked: "Chen Niang, do you think I can pretend to be sick?"

Chen Niang shook her head: "In that case, I'm afraid the imperial doctor will be recruited."

Yan Yuan immediately buried her head in the quilt and sighed deeply.

The Imperial Hospital has two officers and deputy in charge, one is Mu Liancheng who belongs to the Queen Mother, and the other Luo Ziqiu who belongs to Chen Lingchen. No matter which one comes, it is not a good thing.

She could barely find a reason for the scratches all over her body, but she couldn't find a reasonable explanation for the knife wound and the arrow wound on her shoulder.

This is really tricky.

Yan Yuan was silent.

Chen Niang's hesitant voice sounded beside her ear: "Niang Niang, there is another question."

Yan Yuan turned her head: "Huh?"

Chen Niang said: "Most of the medicines brought into the palace by the slaves are warming and tonic medicines. Right now, there is only a small bottle of medicine to cover the scars."

The wound on Yan Yuan's body required a large amount of medicine, how could this small bottle be enough?
Yan Yuan asked, "How long will it take to do it again?"

Chen Niang said: "It only takes half a day, but the servants didn't bring enough medicinal materials."

At this time, there are still three days before the time for bathing.

Time is not long, nor is it short.

Yan Yuan rubbed against the bedding with her eyes closed, and when she opened her eyes, her eyes were extremely clear.

If it's just a lack of medicine, this problem is not difficult to solve.

……

In the afternoon, Yan Yuan took Chen Niang out of the gate of Wangshu Palace.

With a hesitant look on Chen Niang's face, she asked Yan Yuan in a low voice as she walked, "Ma'am, will we prescribe too many prescriptions..."

Just now, Yan Yuan asked her to draw up a prescription for making a concealer plaster, but the people in the imperial hospital would have noticed that there were too few medicinal materials, so she added many useless medicinal materials to the prescription at the request of the empress.

Ginseng, deer antler, ganoderma lucidum, and cordyceps, you can add whatever is expensive, and the prescription has stretched very long without knowing it, so long that she feels a little... hard to say.

This is not like asking for medicine, it is simply robbery.

However, the instigator of the robbery still had an expression of ignorance. She might not know how precious the medicines on the medicine list are, so she didn't know the heights of heaven and earth.

Yan Yuan didn't change her face: "It's nothing, as long as the Royal Pharmacy has it, we can have it."

Chen Niang: "But..."

Yan Yuan said: "Don't worry, I'm here to open the mouth."

In terms of the thickness of her skin, she has always been fearless.

Originally, the exchange condition for her entry into the palace was medical treatment, not to mention that half of her injuries were obtained by the dog emperor, which was originally owed to her by the Chu family.

Yan Yuan took Chen Niang along the way, and passed many palace people along the way, no matter where she went, it was as if she had a sharp edge on her back, which was extremely uncomfortable.

Yan Yuan thought for a while, and took advantage of the opportunity to turn into a small path.

Chen Niang was stunned: "Niang Niang, this road is the one Ruan Zhu said..."

Yan Yuan raised her head and looked at the secluded path in the distance.

She has walked this path more than once, it is a shortcut to the Department of Internal Affairs, but since walking with Ruan Zhu last time, she is not allowed to take this shortcut again, just because Ruan Zhu said that this place is haunted.

Chen Niang said: "This morning, I heard Xiao Yu mentioning that the Holy Majesty has been out of the palace for a few days, and there are new rumors on this road, the empress still..."

Yan Yuan looked at Chen Niang's serious face, and at the palace people walking back and forth on the main road, finally smiled, grabbed Chen Niang's hand and led her into the small road.

It was really quiet on the trail.

The sun is warm and the wind is gentle.

It didn't take long to pass by those two abandoned old sites, Yan Yuan unknowingly slowed down her pace, and looked inside:

The gate of Kuiyuying is still locked, but the gate of the plum garden next door is open. At a glance, we can see that the weeds inside have grown taller than people.Now that Mid-Autumn Festival is over, when the wind blows, you can hear the rustling of the withered and yellow weeds.

Chen Niang urged in a low voice behind her: "Niang Niang, let's go quickly, after all, this place...is not a place to stay for a long time."

Yan Yuan turned her head and saw Chen Niang's nervous expression, she couldn't help laughing: "Chen Niang, as a doctor, you also believe in ghosts and gods?"

Chen Niang said softly: "Witch doctors don't separate families, slaves and maidservants naturally believe in ghosts and gods."

Yan Yuan: "..."

As if to verify Chen Niang's words, suddenly there was a gust of wind in the depths of the plum garden.The cold wind blows towards the face from the inside out with the peculiar stench of stagnant water, faintly, and there seems to be a slight sound in the wind.

What is that sound?
Yan Yuan stopped at the gate of the plum garden.

The withered grass in the yard moved slowly, the cold wind made Yan Yuan's body get goosebumps, and the strange sound gradually reached her ears.

The voice was broken and long, faintly mixed in the wind.

Some are like crying.

The cry of a baby.

Chen Niang's face changed: "Niang Niang..."

Yan Yuan looked back at Chen Niang: "Did you hear that too?"

Chen Niang nodded, her face pale.

That is not an illusion.

There were indeed cries of babies and children coming from the depths of the plum garden.

Yan Yuan moved her eyes back to the depths of the plum garden, and she raised her eyes to look at the sky. At this time, the sun was shining, and it was still very early in the evening, so she took a few steps closer to the plum garden.

Chen Niang didn't expect that Yan Yuan could go any further, she panicked immediately: "Mother, Empress!"

Yan Yuan said: "There is indeed a sound inside, I want to take a look."

Chen Niang's face was pale: "Your Majesty, you can't! Your Majesty's body is cold, if such a cold and gloomy place is contaminated with some extremely dark things..."

Yan Yuan said: "I don't believe in ghosts and gods."

In the final analysis, her cold illness was caused by trekking in the snow. If contamination with unclean things could make the body cold, then her father, who killed countless enemies, would have frozen into a popsicle long ago.

She smiled and told Chen Niang: "You just wait outside the door, I will come out later."

Not long ago, she had sneaked into the former site of Kuiyu Camp to check, but it was empty and there was nothing in it. The plum garden that was missed at that time just happened to make up for it now, and it can be regarded as a teacher.

Of course, she was also a little curious about the crying sound.

After Yan Yuan finished speaking, she lifted her skirt and stepped into the threshold of the plum garden.

In an instant, the wind stopped.

The cry also disappeared.

Yan Yuan stood at the gate of the plum garden, looking up.

It seemed that this place had been deserted for a long time. She barely walked forward for a short distance, but only saw grass everywhere.The vermilion lacquer had faded from the original carved railings and painted buildings, and the faint smell of the lake mixed with the smell of rotting creatures enveloped the entire manor.

Yan Yuan stood there hesitating for a while, brushed away the withered grass in front of her eyes, and slowly walked forward a dozen steps, and sure enough, she saw a large green lake with rippling green waves appearing in front of her under the sunlight.

There is really a big lake here.

In Ruan Zhu's story, this is the place where Concubine Mei of the previous dynasty poisoned the whole palace and finally committed suicide.

But now this big lake has not been taken care of for a long time, the lake is covered with green aquatic plants, and a rope is still faintly exposed among the aquatic plants.

This is……

Yan Yuan wanted to get closer.

Suddenly, a rustling sound sounded quietly from a distance.

The cool wind blew, and the withered grass rustled.

Yan Yuan walked a few steps forward calmly, followed the sound and approached it, trying not to touch the withered grass with her body.

That thing really didn't notice it, it seemed to be rummaging for something, and the sound of weeds falling to the ground continued to reach Yan Yuan's ears.

What could it be?

Just as Yan Yuan approached with bated breath, a big white bird flew over from nowhere.The big bird flapped its wings and flew across the lake, and a prey on its claws accidentally fell beside Yan Yuan with a plop.

The prey landed with a "plop".

Yan Yuan: "..."

The rustling sound really stopped.

Immediately afterwards, a man's cold and stern voice sounded: "Who's there!"

While speaking, the weeds turned wildly, and a man rushed to Yan Yuan with lightning speed, and the sword was unsheathed in an instant, and the blade pointed directly at Yan Yuan.

The blade was no more than half a finger away from her neck, only a tiny bit short of piercing her throat.

Yan Yuan: "..."

(End of this chapter)