Ask the Nine Ministers

Chapter 72: The third update is not over yet
Since Xue Ji entered the mansion, the old lady has only summoned her once.

That was the second day after she entered the mansion. She still remembers the dissatisfaction and disgust in the old lady's eyes.

After hearing the news, she was extremely nervous. She kept straightening her clothes, fearing that there would be even a wrinkle. She also repeatedly touched her face and asked very carefully...

"Excuse me, Auntie, why did the old lady come to see me?"

Jinshu smiled happily, but didn't want to let her know that this matter was arranged by Xue Liu. She made it sound as if the Xue family really valued it and it was the old lady's grace.

"It's a good thing that my lady is relieved. Just come with me."

Xue Sui gave Xue Ji an encouraging look.

"Mom, go ahead. Maybe the old lady has some reward for you?"

Xue Ji followed Jin Shu nervously. Xue Sui then went to the inner room to see Tian Shu and told Xiao Zhao to wait outside.
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Huayi Palace.

The spring insects are chirping, and the night seems to be frozen.

It was late at night, and Princess Pingle was lying on her bed, feeling extremely weak from all the tossing and turning.

Her current condition was much more serious than Li Zhao's two casual words...

This pampered body was far from being as healthy as Xue Sui had thought, especially after giving birth to two children. Her qi and blood were deficient, and her physical condition was much worse than before. Her resistance was already weak, so once the poison invaded her body, her whole body collapsed quickly.

The itching is unbearable...

I took countless medicines, but to no avail.

The next day, red spots appeared all over her body, which could only disappear after she harmonized her yin and yang with the man. After taking some medicine and resting for a while, she began to have nightmares in a daze. She was half asleep and half awake, as if her soul was wandering outside her body...

Then repeatedly...

Densely packed red spots of various shapes continue to grow.

Continue to take the medicine and continue to sleep...

But it can only alleviate, not completely eliminate...

The itch seemed to be engraved in the bone marrow, and every moment of my heart moving, it felt like thousands of tiny bugs were gnawing at me.

And the irrepressible desire made her feel extremely ashamed.

She wanted a man more than ever before...

The desire is almost painful.

She woke up in the middle of the night, screaming and staring blankly at the lights.

"Doctor Hu, you can't cure me anymore, right?"

Doctor Hu immediately knelt on the ground, shaking like a sieve.

"Your Highness, please forgive me. It is my incompetence..."

Pingle hated him.

I wish I could cut him into pieces right away.

But now she had to rely on him, so she could only suppress her anger, signaled the eldest maid Hong Xing to hold her hand, sat up softly, and looked at the son-in-law Duwei Lu Youan who was sitting beside her.

"My husband, go check on Tongtong. She has not been sleeping well lately and likes to kick the quilt. The nurse is careless and might have dozed off at night and let Tongtong catch a cold..."

On the day of the Spring Flower Banquet, the wet nurse kept giving unclear accounts of why she fell into the lotus pond. Sometimes she said someone seemed to push her from behind, and sometimes she said she kicked a rock. In every case, she was trying to shirk responsibility.

Pingle is currently unable to take care of himself, and the little princess has relied on this wet nurse since she was a child and cannot leave her, so it would be difficult to kill her.

Lu Youan was also worried. He nodded and tucked the corner of the quilt for Pingle.

"I'll come as soon as I go."

He looked at Doctor Hu again.

"Don't make it difficult for the imperial physician. We will slowly think of a solution. There will always be a prescription to cure this strange disease."

Pingle forced a smile.

After Lu Youan left, her face changed instantly, and she threw the bowl on the table at Doctor Hu. Unfortunately, she was too weak and the bowl didn't hit him. It rolled on the pedal for several times and didn't break.

Pingle became even angrier when he saw it.

"What is going on? I don't want to listen to your perfunctory excuses anymore. Tell me, is there something wrong with Xue Liu's blood? What the hell are those medicines you gave me? Do you want to harm me?"

Doctor Hu's back was soaked with cold sweat, which rolled down his cheeks.

"Your Highness, I have no intention of deceiving or neglecting anything. The princess' pulse is disordered and weak. It is probably because the mixture of the love thread and the sleeping drug has caused other symptoms. In addition, the princess' body is already deficient in Qi and blood..."

He didn't dare to say directly that the princess was cruel and that the dosage of the medicine was too strong.

He only said: "Disease comes like a mountain falling, and goes like a thread being pulled out. Princess, you need to calm down and be calm now. You must not worry or get angry, so as not to disturb your qi and blood, causing the disease to recur and become difficult to cure. My prescription can relieve the symptoms for now. Please give me some more time, I will definitely find a way to detoxify..."

"Time and time, three days have passed, and I am still not feeling better. What use do I have to you? What use do I have to you? Idiot!"

Pingle was very angry, but he was so restless that he didn't even have the energy to curse. He was out of breath when he spoke.

Doctor Hu didn't dare to say a word.

He was actually more scared than Pingle.

He was afraid that someone in the Imperial Hospital would add fuel to the fire and drag him out.

Because the sleeping potion was a "miracle recipe" he developed himself. He had mentioned it to his colleagues to brag about it, so it was not unknown to others. As for the "Love Thread", he asked a middleman to buy it from the ghost market in the old mausoleum. He only bought that bottle for twenty taels of gold, so it was very precious.

He also didn't expect Pingle to be so ruthless, putting the entire bottle of medicine in Li Zhao and Xue Sui's drinks...

So after the two men had detoxified, he and Pingle both suspected that something was going on between them.

Pingle was so angry that he almost went crazy.

There is no other way.

Doctor Hu was able to become the chief judge of the Imperial Medical Bureau not only because he could flatter her, but also because he had some real skills and knew a lot about her. She could only rely on him and could not easily turn against him.

Pingle hooked his finger weakly at Hongxing.

"Tomorrow morning, go find your brother and tell him that I have something important to discuss with you. Xue Liu is an unclean woman and you cannot marry her..."

Hong Xing obeyed the order.

The next morning, I went to Prince Duan's Mansion early.

When he came back, he was hesitant and spoke nervously.

"Your Highness has left the capital for some important business and is not at home. I don't know when he will return. Princess Duan sent some nourishing herbs and told Your Highness to take good care of himself. She said that when Prince Duan returns, they will come to visit together..."

Princess Pingle was furious, but had no place to vent her anger, so she could only bury her face in the pillow, her shoulders shaking constantly.

"Prince Consort, Prince Consort Xuan..."
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at night.

The spies from the Eastern Palace were turning over and over on the roof of the Xue Mansion.

"Go and report to His Highness that the lights in Lixiangyuan have not been turned off since the third watch."

The next night.

The spy was so tired on the roof that his back and waist ached.

"Go and report to His Highness that the lights in Lixiangyuan have not been turned off since the third watch."

On the third night.

One spy asked another spy.

"What on earth does your highness want us to see? We've been watching for so long, but we haven't seen anything strange about Miss Xue Liu."

The spy shook his head, "The lights in the prince's bedroom have not been turned off until three o'clock recently."

Both spies shook their heads, puzzled.

If it was because he was concerned about Miss Xue Liu's injury, then every time the Crown Prince mentioned Miss Xue Liu, he would grit his teeth, as if he had a grudge against her for murdering his father and wanted to kill her.

The prince didn't care, but he had to keep an eye on the Xue Mansion for twelve hours, report every move, and especially not let anyone harm her life. To put it bluntly, he didn't even care so much for his own mother.

At this moment, the East Palace is filled with dark night.

Eunuch Lai Fu walked into the inner hall with a lamp in hand, and looked at the prince who was staying up late to write, with the same confusion in his heart.

"Your Highness, it's late at night, it's time to rest."

Li Zhao was wearing a black brocade robe with dark dragons embroidered on it that looked dormant under the light. His stern face looked calm as water, yet unpredictable.

"Your Highness..."

Lai Fu felt distressed and hesitated to speak.

Li Zhao glanced at him and continued writing.

"I will write for a while longer."

Lai Fu leaned over to take a look.

The paper was filled with names.

Countless names.

I don't know where I learned this strange habit...

His Highness has been acting very strangely since that day at the Spring Flower Banquet.

Sometimes he was in a trance, sometimes he gritted his teeth. Lai Fu and Guan Ya even discussed privately whether His Highness had been possessed by a flower demon and whether they should find a Taoist priest to exorcise the evil spirit.

As a result, when he mentioned it tactfully in front of the prince, Li Zhao asked him coldly.

"Taoist Lingxu?"

Lai Fu was so scared that he slapped himself and dared not say anything more.

The prince still behaved abnormally, especially in his bedroom. Now even Lai Fu, his personal attendant, was not allowed to enter or leave at will and had to report before entering.

Then I drank Zhang Huaicheng's soup three times a day to "calm the mind, help sleep, and regulate qi and blood", but I still couldn't sleep well, and I felt hot and impatient...

This made Lai Fu wonder.

Could it be that the prince is... thinking about love?

Otherwise, why would he write those words "The wind is wild beside the flowers, and my spring thoughts are chaotic; medicine is of no use to my wild and crazy nature" to Miss Xue Liu?

I just don’t know whether the sixth girl understands it or not?

Three more chapters are here. Thank you sisters for your support~ Heart...