The Legend of the Loved One

Chapter 15

Although there are four female family members in the palace, since returning to Yanzhou, Song Chen no longer stays elsewhere, and comes to Wantang Garden every night.

Of course, Danweiyuan's tonic soup was also delivered on time every day, she no longer refused, and drank it directly in front of the visitor every time, and then turned around, involuntarily vomiting it all up again.

For seven days in a row, Yan Ling looked distressed, but was helpless.Knowing that you put something harmful, no one can drink it if you change it to someone else.

But also thanks to this discovery, the three masters and servants are more wary. Since medicine can be added to the soup, it is difficult to guarantee the safety of other diets.Song Chen has been busy with the Tongji Canal recently, and he usually leaves early in the morning and only comes when it is about to go to bed, so Chu Xue eats three meals a day in her yard, and Ruyue takes care of her food safety, As long as it is not made by herself, Ruyue will check it carefully before she enters it.

So today, I found something.

The tofu in Yanzhou is good, and Chu Xue likes to eat it, but Ruyue didn't let her move her chopsticks for the vegetarian tofu brought by the dining room for lunch this day.

"Is there anything wrong?"

After closing the door, she looked at Kisaragi.

"The maidservant's smell is not normal." Ruyue put down her chopsticks before, tasted the tofu carefully, still frowned, but she couldn't be sure, so she shook her head.

Yanling on the side burst out laughing, "Yue'er, you are not greedy, do you want to eat?"

Kisaragi glanced at her, and said to herself, "I always feel that something is not right..."

Suddenly she squinted her eyes, dipped her chopsticks in the gorgon juice, tasted it carefully, and finally her eyes lit up, she said with certainty: "It's peach blossoms, there are peach blossoms in this gorgon juice."

Both Chu Xue and Yanling were shocked, and Chu Xue asked, "Peach blossom? Are you sure? Why can't I smell peach blossom?"

Kisaragi nodded, "Sure, they have dried the peach blossoms to a colorless, odorless and powdered form, of course they can't smell it. If you don't taste it carefully, it's hard for ordinary people to detect it."

Chu Xue has been dissatisfied with peach blossoms since she was a child, and she was ignorant when she was young. When the peach blossoms bloom in spring, she often breaks off a few branches for fun, but once she touches them, a red rash will appear within a few hours, which is painful and itchy , Once I played too seriously, rashes appeared all over my body, and I had a fever for three days.Later, she developed a memory, so she didn't dare to touch it. Since then, she has become very sensitive to the smell of peach blossoms.

But this time she didn't notice it, but Ruyue has the unique sense of smell and taste of a doctor, and knows her lesion, so it's not surprising that she didn't notice it.

Since Kisaragi was so sure, Chu Xue immediately believed it.

At the family banquet that day when she just came back, she told the outside world that she couldn't touch the peach blossoms. Song Chen also specially told the kitchen to pay attention, so what's the purpose of this dish now?
Do you have to use peach pollen to thicken it?
And who is it that wants to harm her like this?
She frowned slightly.

Xu Jinhe?
At present, I only know that she has evil intentions, but since she has already given the sterilized soup every day, why is she doing so much?
Or was it Xia Wanyin who was most directly robbed of favor?
In the three years from Xia Wanyin's entry into the mansion to the time before Song Chen went to the capital, only she served the most times among the three female relatives in the mansion, but since Chu Xue came, Song Chen never lingered elsewhere. For Xia Wanyin, it was natural is the hardest hit.

Even... Li Jiaoyun, who has the same status as me, will it?

Who can instruct the dining room to use such a secret and direct method to harm himself?
She wasn't sure for a moment.

As the last female relative to enter the mansion, her mother's family in the capital is thousands of miles away, and there are only Yanling and Ruyue who still need to hide herself, she is really fragile.

Chu Xue sighed deeply, but saw Yan Ling was about to go out with the plate of vegetarian tofu.

"What are you doing?" She stopped quickly.

"Since it's poisonous, and you can't complain to the prince clearly, you can only throw it away. Do you want to watch you poisoned, Miss?" Yan Ling frowned and said angrily.

Yanling's words made her pause at first, but then she smiled, "Who said you can't sue?" She motioned Yanling to put the food back on the table, and then asked Ruyue, "How about the amount? How serious will it be if I eat it?"

Ruyue scooped up a spoonful of the gorgon juice mixed with peach pollen with a spoon, looked carefully and put it in his mouth to taste it, before replying: "According to your appetite, miss, except for the red rash all over the body and high fever, there may be more You'll get asthma...it's going to take a lot of pain."

Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes. If she really hated her so much, if she suffers from asthma, she will never be able to cure it for the rest of her life...

After a while, she also picked up the spoon and took a spoonful into her mouth, "Since someone wants to make me unhappy, let them get their wish once..."

"Miss..." Yanling and Ruyue exclaimed in unison, trying to stop her, but she had already swallowed it.

She looked at the two servant girls and continued: "But it doesn't need to be too much, just think about it, Yue'er, you go and prepare some medicine for the rash first. Yanling, go and see where the prince is in the afternoon, I will get sick later Alright, let's go get someone."

Seeing them standing still, she smiled and explained: "Isn't it just worrying about drinking that tonic soup every day? This plain roasted tofu came at just the right time."

The two paused for a moment, then immediately understood, and went to work separately.

Sure enough, about an hour later, a rash appeared on Chu Xue's body, accompanied by a low-grade fever.

Kisaragi felt her pulse, and she was relieved after making sure that it would not be serious.

On the other side of Yanling, she had already rushed to the study in the front yard of the palace.

The front yard of Hengwang Mansion.

Lu Fang was patrolling outside the study when he saw a girl in a light yellow shirt running over in a hurry.

"Who?"

The young guard spoke coldly.

"Lord Lu, I'm Yanling from Wantang Garden. Our wife is ill, she's sick...it's a little serious, I'm here on purpose, and I'm here to ask the prince to take a look..."

Yanling panted heavily while replying.

Lu Fang fixed his eyes and recognized that the beautiful girl with pear dimples at the corner of her mouth was indeed from Wantangyuan, so she replied, "The girl is waiting here, I will go pass it on."

After speaking, he went up the stone steps and entered the study.

After a while, Song Chen quickly walked out of the study and came to Yanling.

"What's wrong with Xue'er?" He frowned.

"Go back to the lord, Miss, she felt unwell after taking a nap, she said she had a rash on her body, now she covers herself in the quilt, keeps the slaves from getting close, and refuses to invite the doctor, the slaves are in a hurry, so I have to ask you Go and have a look..."

Yan Ling didn't finish her sentence, she just felt a cool breeze in front of her, and when she looked again, Song Chen had already left herself behind and walked forward quickly.

Wantang Court.

When Song Chen arrived, the servants in the outer room knelt down on the ground, but the bed curtains in the inner room were put down, and Ruyue was standing on the side, looking anxious.Seeing Song Chen come in, all the maidservants in the room obeyed in unison: "My lord..."

"Miss, the prince is here!"

Yanling followed Song Chen into the room and called out to the bed curtain.

"My lord?" Chu Xue's voice came from behind the tent.

"What's wrong with you, Xue'er?" Song Chen came to the bed with an anxious expression on his face.

"My lord? Why is my lord here? Yanling, didn't you say that you can't disturb my lord? Why..."

The beauty behind the bed curtain seemed to be crying.

"Why aren't you allowed to disturb me? What's wrong with you? Let me see." Song Chen said as he wanted to lift the bed curtain.

But the bed curtain was held tightly by the beauty inside, and she said anxiously: "No, my lord, don't look at it, the concubine's body is nothing, you can go to work quickly, don't worry about the concubine's body."

But how could Song Chen think that she was fine, the more she said that, the more worried he became, and he hurriedly pulled the bed curtain, "Be obedient, let me see, hurry up."

However, Chu Xue was surprisingly stubborn today. She grabbed the bed curtain and refused to open it for him, and began to sob softly, "My lord, I'm fine. I really don't want you to see me. Now... I'm so ugly. I don't want to see you." show you……"

This was the first time I heard her crying, Song Chen immediately softened his heart, but he was really worried, so he had to calm down and coax: "How can Xue'er be ugly? Hey, let me see, how can you be so bored... I'm really worried!"

Seeing that he called himself "I" in front of the servants, the beauty in the tent sobbed for a while, Fang said: "Then the prince will ask them to go out first... I will only show you the body of the concubine."

"Okay, okay." Song Chen immediately waved behind him.

The maids kneeling on the ground and Ruyue Yanling retreated one after another, and in the blink of an eye, there were only the two of them left in the room.

"Xue'er, they are all gone, open the curtain and let me see." Song Chen called her softly.

I saw that the bed curtain, which had been pulled tightly just now, relaxed, and opened a mouth now.

Song Chen gently opened it, and saw the beauty in her pajamas sitting on her knees on the bed. The beauty's long hair hung down like a black cloak to wrap her frail body. Misty black eyes were looking at him with aggrieved eyes, which made people feel distressed.

"What's the matter, isn't this still beautiful, how ugly is it?" Song Chen sat down by the bed, wanting to shake her hand.

But she suddenly retracted, "No, it hasn't reached the face yet, it's all on the body now."

Tears kept falling while shaking his head.

"Then show me." He looked directly into her black eyes, with an irresistible majesty in his tone.

She sobbed twice more, and then slowly stretched out one arm, revealing a snow-white forearm, but saw many red rashes scattered like stars on the originally smooth and flawless skin.

Song Chen frowned, she quickly withdrew her hand, and pulled the quilt to cover herself.

"Does it hurt?" He asked distressedly.

"Yeah." She sobbed and nodded, "It's like when I was a child, when I touched peach blossoms, that's it..."

"Peach Blossom?" He suddenly remembered the thing she said a few days ago about her dissatisfaction with Peach Blossom, "You touch Peach Blossom? But...it's late autumn now, where did Peach Blossom come from?"

"I haven't touched my body before..." She shook her head, crying again, "I was fine in the morning, but I felt a little uncomfortable after lunch. When I woke up, I had rashes all over my body. Now In this way, it's ugly..."

Suppressed sobbing accompanied by a hoarse voice, Song Chen's heart was tightly grasped. This was the first time I saw her cry. In the past, she always smiled brightly or gently at herself, but now, she is crying so sadly. , so wronged... He stretched out his hand and pulled her into his arms, trying to comfort her with his arms, but the moment she was in his arms, he felt an abnormal warmth.

She also has a fever!
He immediately called out the door: "Go and call the doctor!"

"Yes." Immediately a servant girl responded.

"Little fool, you are not allowed to call the doctor if you are sick. If Yanling didn't come to find me today, you would hold yourself back until night?"

He embraced the beauty in his arms, reproached her tenderly and distressedly, and when he spoke, he didn't forget to pull the quilt to wrap her up, for fear that she would catch the cold again.

"I don't want others to see such an ugly appearance, let alone the prince..." She lay obediently in his arms, stopped sobbing, and murmured softly.

"Where is it ugly, it's not ugly at all..."

Song Chen was comforting softly when he heard the message from the maid outside the door, "My lord, the doctor is here."

"Enter."

"Yes."

It was Liao Zhong, the doctor of the palace, who entered in response.

Seeing the government doctor come in, Song Chen got up to give up the seat in front of the bed, and Chu Xue lay down again, with only one bare hand exposed through the repeated bed curtains.

Liao Zhong concentrated on examining her pulse.

She was lying in the bed tent, waiting for the result of Liao Zhong's diagnosis, while thinking secretly.

She has been taking the anti-child medicine for several days, and with Liao Zhong's twenty years of medical skills, he should be able to diagnose it, so will he report it to Song Chen?

It is a good opportunity to test people.

Since I drank Xu Jinhe's tonic soup every day, it was only natural that there was an anti-child medicine in my body, and once Song Chen found out, he would definitely investigate, so could the tonic soup escape?

If Liao Zhong had reported the truth, he would not be Xu Jinhe's man.

On the other hand, if he is Xu Jinhe's person, he must know that there are brassica seeds in the tonic soup, then he will definitely not report it, but will... hide it.

After carefully examining her for half a cup of tea, Liao Zhong asked her some specific medical history and symptoms and finally got up, respectfully said to Song Chen: "My lord, Madam, this is probably... the disease comes from the mouth."

Song Chen was startled, "How to say?"

Liao Zhong explained, "Judging from the external symptoms of my wife, it is indeed ringworm caused by peach blossoms, but the low-grade fever inside is caused from the inside. It is not the time when peach blossoms are blooming, so naturally it cannot be caused by external triggers. It should be caused by eating something containing peach blossom ingredients by mistake."

Seeing Song Chen frowning, Yan Ling immediately pretended to question, "But miss, she didn't eat anything today except for two meals and the bowl of tonic soup? Besides, we never use anything with peach blossoms around us, how could we eat it by mistake? "

Song Chen frowned deeply.

"Could it be... that the dining room accidentally put the peach blossoms by mistake? It's not right. The dining room has long known that the young lady can't touch the peach blossoms, and the prince has specifically instructed them to do so. Will you taste it?"

Yan Ling pretended to be very puzzled and asked questions again and again.

While Yanling was wondering, Ruyue kept observing Liao Zhong's expression calmly, but there seemed to be nothing abnormal.

"Then how do we solve it now?" Song Chen asked Liao Zhong after listening to Yanling's words.

"The old slave prescribed some decoctions for the madam to clear the heat and relieve the exterior. The madam should take it on time and rest a lot. After two or three days, the madam should recover."

Liao Zhong's answer reassured Song Chen, he raised his hand and said, "Then go get ready."

"Yes."

"Sir, stay here..."

Liao Zhong was about to lift his feet, but was stopped by Chu Xue in the tent, "Dare to ask, sir, besides these, do I have any other questions?"

Liao Zhong paused, "Madam means..."

"Oh, it's nothing. It seems that I have taken the tonic soup for several days, why is my stomach still not moving? I'll ask while you're here."

Just now Liao Zhong didn't have any extra words, Chu Xue was not sure, so he tried it out himself.

"Uh... well, madam, don't rush it. It will take some time for the soup to enter the body and enter the scriptures. Madam just wait patiently. Your body is fine, please rest assured."

Chu Xue paused, "Okay, I understand, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"The old slave is going to prepare medicine for his wife first."

Liao Zhong left Wantang Garden.

The people in the tent already understood, but they were also deeply chilled.

(End of this chapter)