The Empress Arrives: Rebirth of Concubine Hua

Chapter 86 Special Fragrance
It was already 9 o'clock when Nian Shilan woke up, and she had a severe headache.

Aren't all the wines in this palace fine wines? How can they make people drink like this?

She vaguely remembered that she met the fairy Chang'e last night.

Grain in Ear woke up Songzhi who was taking a nap beside Nian Shilan's bed. Songzhi rubbed her eyes and almost burst into tears when she saw Nian Shilan wake up.

Auntie, you're finally awake!
Nian Shilan sat on the bed, holding her forehead with her hand, and asked Songzhi.

"What time did I come back last night?"

Songzhi had a sad face.

"Master, it doesn't matter when you came back. There are more important things right now."

Nian Shilan was helped out of bed by Mangzhong. She sat at the table waiting for someone to help her wash and dress.

"What's the important matter? Go get me a bowl of hangover soup first."

Hanlu quickly served the hangover soup that had been prepared earlier.

Songzhi watched Nian Shilan drink the soup before telling her everything that happened on Mid-Autumn Festival night.

When Nian Shilan heard that the fairy Chang'e she saw was Shu Gege, she laughed at herself.

Being drunk can lead to mistakes.

Songzhi looked at Nian Shilan and smiled and became anxious.

"Master, you are still laughing! I was so scared last night! How could you call yourself that? I really have no choice but to give you a bunch of nonsense explanations! I don't know if you will believe it or not! This morning I asked Xiao Linzi to secretly go out to find the storybook! What if? I was thinking, what if the master wants to settle accounts with you in the future! I will have an explanation!"

"What are you afraid of? It's just drunken nonsense. What did Fu Jin say?"

Nian Shilan rested his arms on the table and raised his hands to gently support his temples. His head still hurt. He missed the chance to pay his respects today again.

Songzhi sighed helplessly.

"The master told Eunuch Su to go to Xingfu Courtyard this morning. I don't think the mistress will say anything."

Ulanara stared at the purse in her hand, which was the one she had placed next to Duan's pillow a few days ago.

Qiu Mei said carefully.

"Master, this purse. I remember it was the one that Shu Gege gave to Miss Duan as a pillow, right?"

Ulanara nodded silently, put the purse back on the tray in Qiumei's hand, and spoke expressionlessly.

"I never realized that this Shu family was such a cruel person."

Because Duan was pregnant and had a sensitive sense of smell, she kept complaining about a strange smell in the room. Qiang Wu checked all the things that could produce a smell before finding the purse in the cupboard that she had put away a few days ago.

Duan covered her nose and said that the purse was too irritating, so she asked Qiang Wu to take it away and throw it away.

Qiang Wu sent a little maid to throw away the purse, but Qiu Mei saw the little maid holding the purse in the yard.

Qiu Mei smiled and asked the little girl what she was going to do with the purse, and the little girl told the truth.

Qiu Mei felt very puzzled. How could such a good purse, made of fine fabrics and filled with flowers and plants that were said to be calming, be thrown away?

She asked the little maid for a purse, brought it to Ulanara, and still felt sorry for the purse.

Ulanara was a person who never used spices, but she knew a little about how to make spices.

So when she smelled this scent and carefully identified it, she smelled a special fragrance that was masked by other strong scents.

Qiu Mei didn't know what was in the purse that would make her master say that Shu was a cruel person, but she had been with Ulanara for a long time and had some guesses in her mind.

"Go and put this purse away carefully. Make sure it is well hidden and its smell cannot escape."

Ulanara instructed Qiumei and saw that she wanted to say something else.

"Why? If you have something to say, just say it."

Qiu Mei spoke.

"Yes, I will definitely keep it. What about Shu Gege?" Ulanara chuckled, lowered her head, folded her hands together and placed them on her knees. When she looked up again, her face was calm.

"Let her go for a while. I must save Duan's baby."

Qiu Mei sighed.

"After all, the wife is kind and benevolent, and Miss Duan is really lucky to have caught your eye. If she can give birth to a little prince in the future, it will also be a blessing."

Ulanara said nothing, watched Qiu Mei retreat, and called Jiang Fuhai who was at the door to come in.

"Is the kitchen doing its best to provide meals to Duan every day?"

Jiang Fuhai bowed his body.

"My Lord, I am very dedicated. Every day, the food sent to Miss Duan by the kitchen is what she personally specifies. Even if some of the food is incompatible with her, the kitchen manager He will try his best to replace it with something similar in taste and not incompatible with her. Miss Duan is very satisfied and thinks about the benefits of Fu Jin's care every day."

"Duan is almost three months pregnant. Once the baby is firmly seated and she stops vomiting, things will get better."

Ulanara smiled gently, looking like a kind-hearted lady.

"Yes. Master, there is no other mistress as generous as you, even in the whole capital."

Jiang Fuhai was praising him, but he also had a doubt in his mind.

This lady is truly kind and benevolent.

Fortunately, I’m the only one who knows about the cheese and plantain dish.

Xiao Linzi hurried back from outside the mansion. Today he took the secret road behind the stable again. When he came back, he brought meat buns for Zhou Anhai.

He returned to Cheng'en Garden and took out a few storybooks from his arms. The storybooks still exuded the aroma of meat buns.

He scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Master, it's not that I'm greedy, it's that every time I go out I bring back meat buns for Master, Master loves to eat them. Hehe."

Nian Shilan was already drunk, and when she smelled the odor, she felt even more dizzy. She quickly waved her hand and asked Xiao Linzi to take the notebook away.

Xiao Linzi took the storybook out again and told the maid in the corridor to dry the storybook in the sun while the sun was shining.

He ran back to the servants' room, rummaged through his clothes for a while, found a clean set to change into, turned around on the ground a few times to make sure there was no bad smell on his body, and then ran back to Nian Shilan's main house.

No one knew where Songzhi was doing and she was no longer serving Nian Shilan.

In the house, the tea water is being changed during Grain in Ear season.

Xiao Linzi walked in, looked at Nian Shilan and said with a grin.

"Master, I just changed my clothes. Let me help you sit in the courtyard. The air there is fresh."

Nian Shilan knew that Xiao Linzi had something to say, but was afraid that the person serving her at the moment was not Song Zhi.

"Look, you are really becoming more and more like a monkey."

Nian Shilan stretched out her hand, Xiao Linzi hurriedly took two steps forward, put his arm around her, and helped Nian Shilan to sit down in the corridor.

The white-feathered parrot was jumping around in the cage under the corridor, but a thin gold chain was tied to its feet, tying it to the cage, so it could only look at Nian Shilan sadly.

"Grain in Ear, go peel some sunflower seeds and feed this little thing."

Nian Shilan sent Mangzhong away, and the other servants in the yard were all busy with their own things.

"Okay, tell me, is there anything going on today?"

Nian Shilan glanced at Xiao Linzi.

Xiao Linzi chuckled, moved closer to Nian Shilan, and spoke in a low voice.

"Master, there's some movement from Hu Gege. Shopkeeper Wu has found out where that jade hairpin came from."

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