The maid's road to success

Spring is the time when the most banquets are held. Usually at this time, the Grand Princess would always order a lot of custom-made dresses and jewelry. The owner of the embroidery workshop would stand in the flower hall of the Grand Princess's mansion, bringing the finest satin and small handkerchiefs with embroidered patterns for the Grand Princess to choose from.

Just as he was happily recording on paper the colour and pattern of the cloth chosen by the Grand Princess, an elderly nanny suddenly hurried in from outside.

After whispering in the ear of the Grand Princess for a while, the shopkeeper heard the words "Zhuangzi" and "Doctor". When he was hesitating whether to leave for a while, the Grand Princess suddenly stood up with a gloomy face.

The shopkeeper is a very perceptive man. I'm afraid the business has been in trouble until today.

Then a maid beside the Grand Princess waved her hand and asked them to pack up and leave.

"I can't take care of it today. Just make what I just said and send it over. I'll call you if I need you."

The owner of the embroidery shop nodded hurriedly and left with his servant. Their biggest customer was the Grand Princess. The flowers embroidered by their two embroiderers were the Grand Princess's favorite. He had wanted to take advantage of the spring to let the Grand Princess choose more and get more money.

This time he specially bought a batch of golden brocade, which must be the type that the Grand Princess likes. However, he was interrupted halfway through his selection. However, he still managed to select more than a dozen pieces, so it was not a loss as he had made up his mind.

The eldest princess had no time to care about the shopkeeper's affairs. After the nanny came over and said something, she immediately packed up her things and went towards the villa.

"Don't be angry, Grand Princess. You should at least take care of yourself. Narcissus is just guessing. Don't worry."

The eldest princess took the tea from the maid and drank it to calm herself down.

The maids breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the eldest princess's complexion had improved a little. They sat in the corner and dared not say anything more.

I was happily accompanying the Grand Princess today to choose clothes for the flower show and horse show, but someone came from the villa and said that something happened to Princess Baozhu.

It was no secret that Princess Baozhu's temperament became very unstable later on, but the people who came to report from the villa reported that Princess Baozhu's condition was getting worse and worse, so Narcissus had no choice but to use calming incense on her.

This is as it should be. When the master is too irritable, the servants have to consider the situation and use some medicine to help the master sleep and calm down.

But just when Narcissus was burning calming incense for Princess Baozhu, her hand that touched the incense accidentally touched the beads that Princess Baozhu had been wearing. The beads were broken when Princess Baozhu punished a servant a few days ago, so she took them off and strung them together again, but she had not had time to give them to Princess Baozhu to wear again.

When Narcissus saw that the beads were strung together, she planned to give them to Princess Baozhu. However, before she reached Princess Baozhu's room, the beads suddenly took on a strange green color.

The beads were all lavender in color, but they showed a green luster under the sun. Narcissus was a worldly-wise woman, but had never seen anything like this before. She realized that the beads had been tampered with and immediately called the wet nurse.

The wet nurse used to be a maid of the Grand Princess. After she got married, she worked as a wet nurse for Princess Baozhu. She immediately noticed something strange and summoned all the servants to interrogate them one by one, but no one was suspicious or had the ability to tamper with Princess Baozhu's pearls.

She called the female doctor who was accompanying her, and the female doctor guessed that the beads might contain drugs that conflicted with the tranquilizing incense.

The wet nurse calculated carefully that the medicine that could conflict with the tranquilizing incense was most likely a medicine that had the opposite effect to the tranquilizing incense. Combined with Princess Baozhu's recent abnormality, she thought that Princess Baozhu's abnormal personality might not be due to her own fault but was caused by someone else.

Princess Baozhu is domineering, but she is nice to the people around her. Most of the maids have served her for many years and have a certain understanding of Princess Baozhu's temper. It is impossible for them to make Princess Baozhu angry for no reason, and they all have some skills that can make Princess Baozhu calm down.

How come it is getting harder and harder to control, to the point where she has to use calming incense during the day? This happened after Princess Baozhu had a miscarriage. Everyone thought that this was because the scandal at the chrysanthemum viewing banquet was discovered, and Princess Baozhu's temperament changed drastically as she was imprisoned in the villa and had a miscarriage.

Besides, the people serving around her were all old people or servants from the princess's mansion, and they had all been screened in the mansion. They would not be the kind of people who would murder their master, so no one associated it with such a thing. Now it seems that someone is clearly taking advantage of Princess Baozhu again.

However, Princess Baozhu was given the title of princess only because of the eldest princess. Her fiefdom was a remote and barren place, she had no real power, and the empress dowager did not favor her.

Anyone who wants to deal with her must be someone who has a grudge against Princess Baozhu, which would have happened if Princess Baozhu had a lover and used tough means to deal with her. Most of them are ordinary people who don't have that ability.

Or the real target is the eldest princess behind her. After all, it is known in Kyoto that the eldest princess loves her two children. The eldest young master has just been injured, and the eldest princess is very sad. However, as the head of the family, she must cheer up.

If something happened to Princess Baozhu at this time, who could have predicted what would become of the Grand Princess.

Thinking of these wet nurses, he immediately contacted the princess's mansion and asked the eldest princess to come and check and bring a doctor with good medical skills.

Narcissus sat in the room, feeling a little uneasy. The princess liked to hit people with her whisk recently, and it was no use for the wet nurse to persuade her. She and Shaoyao were close servants, and they had been beaten a lot in the past two days. The doctor had said before that the princess could be given some tranquilizers or medicated foods, but they had not been prepared and delivered to the princess's mansion yet.

So there was nothing available for the time being, and Shaoyao thought of the ones sent by An Zizhong.

Princess Baozhu hadn't had a good rest for several days. She wanted to lie down for a while at noon, but she was in a very irritable mood and couldn't fall asleep. Narcissus saw that she was about to lose her temper again, so she quickly took out the calming incense and lit it.

It was indeed a good thing. Her mood improved a lot after she smelled it. She was just about to say a few good words in front of the princess to show off her merits when she saw the beads that had been placed on the table not long ago.

That was Princess Baozhu's favorite, and she wore it almost every day. Unfortunately, it was broken two days ago and had just been repaired.

Narcissus picked up the two beads and held them in her hand, intending to present them to the princess, when she discovered that under the sunlight, the two beads she had just picked up with her right hand had a green luster. Narcissus panicked at the time and immediately went to find her wet nurse.

The nanny asked her to tell in detail what she had done, and Narcissus told her everything. The nanny asked her to take out the calming incense and wipe the other beads again, and sure enough, they all reacted.

He immediately asked someone to interrogate him, summoned a female doctor, and sent someone to find the Grand Princess.

"Why are you so scared? You have done a great deed by discovering the problem with the beads."

Peony sat in the room impatiently, watching Narcissus walking around the room muttering to herself, her eyes becoming dazzled.

"What do you know? I secretly used the incense sent by my son-in-law for the princess. If the eldest princess knew about this, how could I live with it?"

Shaoyao shut up and said nothing. This was indeed a serious matter. The Grand Princess had instructed that Princess Baozhu was now in the manor, so things sent by outsiders could not be used. Even if the things were sent by the brother-in-law or the young master, one had to be careful.

The doctor had said before that I could use something to calm my nerves, but the wet nurse said that I had to ask the Grand Princess’s mansion to prepare it and send it over before I could use it.

First, you can rest assured, and second, the stuff is definitely good.

However, the doctor in the Grand Princess's mansion had been taking care of the eldest young master recently and had no time to take care of him. The imperial physician did not dare to let anyone prescribe medicine casually, and Narcissus was afraid of being beaten again, so she couldn't help but use it.

As a result, such a big thing happened.

"If you ask me, the eldest princess and the princess are just overthinking. The son-in-law is so good to the princess, how could he harm her?"

Narcissus was smarter than Peony and stopped her immediately.

"I don't know what else to say, if the son-in-law is really devoted to the princess, why would he want to destroy our innocence?"

Peony was speechless and rolled her eyes at Narcissus.

"You are confused. On the wedding day, we drugged the son-in-law so that the princess and the fourth prince could have a tryst, and then we drugged him to make him horny because we were afraid that he couldn't sleep with the princess. If he was sober, there would be no chance for us."

Narcissus glared at Shaoyao awkwardly. She had forgotten about this matter. Before she could argue with Shaoyao again, the Grand Princess had arrived. Narcissus hurriedly put on her clothes and went to the main courtyard with Shaoyao.

There was already a crowd of servants standing inside, and Princess Baozhu was lazily sitting on a rattan chair drinking tea.

"You can sit still today."

The eldest princess felt mixed emotions when she saw Princess Baozhu's appearance. She asked the doctor to check her pulse first, and she sat aside and listened to the wet nurse tell her about what happened today.

"Narcissus, where did you get the calming incense?"

Narcissus's face turned pale. As expected, the Grand Princess would notice this matter as soon as she arrived. She immediately took it out of her purse and let the Grand Princess check it.

"The last time my brother-in-law and his wife came, the doctor said that we could give the princess some soothing medicine. Getting angry all the time would hurt the princess' body. There was some in the things my brother-in-law brought with him, so we used it. At first, we thought we should wait for the princess's mansion to prepare it and send it to us, so we kept it. But the princess's mansion has been unable to take care of it. The princess can't sleep well every day, so we used it ourselves. It's nothing serious, so we thought we would give the princess some medicine to help her sleep first."

The eldest princess did not say anything, but asked a doctor behind her to check the calming incense in her purse.

"It is indeed a top-grade calming incense, extremely rare. Lord An is very thoughtful."

Narcissus's words supplemented her words, not only to cover up her rash use of the things sent by An Zizhong, but also to present a better image of An Zizhong.

The eldest princess nodded, took the unusual string of beads, examined it carefully and smelled it. There was a faint fragrance, which was the scent of osmanthus that Baozhu usually liked.

"Grand Princess, the princess's health is indeed not right. Since the miscarriage, the princess has been deficient in Qi and blood. Normally, she should have a pale complexion due to insufficient Qi and blood. However, I took her pulse and found that the princess's Qi and blood were disordered, and her internal heat was strong. These are not the symptoms that should be seen after a miscarriage."

The Grand Princess handed the beads to him for inspection. There were three doctors in the Grand Princess's mansion, and she brought two of them today. They were once famous doctors in Kyoto.

"So that's it."

The Grand Princess waited for a long time, and when the servants below were already staggering and could hardly stand, the doctor finally found something wrong.

"There is only some slightly whitish powder in the hole of this bead. I tasted it and it should be something that can make animals crazy. It's a small amount, but if you wear it for a long time, it can penetrate into the body. And the princess will definitely be affected by wearing it every day."

"The effect of the tranquilizing incense is exactly the opposite of those things, so it will cause a reaction. The main place where the color changes is also in the holes, but it has not penetrated into the beads. I guess there must be something wrong with the string that strings the beads together."

The wet nurse immediately asked someone to find the broken rope. Fortunately, the servants had not had time to deal with it, so it was still found.

The doctor tightened the rope and scraped it from above, then soaked it in medicine before confirming it.

"It's the problem with the rope. There's still some powder on it, and it's the same color as the rope, so it's hard to spot."

The Grand Princess's eyes were filled with murderous intent. Both of her children had met with accidents recently. This must not be a coincidence. Looking at the group of servants trembling below, the Grand Princess wanted to find the culprit immediately and kill him to vent her anger.

"How is the princess doing?"

The eldest princess was very worried about Lord Baozhu's condition, but she felt very uncomfortable when she met the sarcastic look from Princess Baozhu. She had indeed misunderstood her and was holding a grudge against her because of the miscarriage.

"I wonder how long the princess has been wearing it?"

The wet nurse and Narcissus and Peony had been serving him personally all the time. They noticed something was wrong right away and hesitated whether to say it out loud.

"I have been carrying it with me since I moved to the villa. It is a treasure sent by the Fourth Prince, and the princess likes it very much and keeps it with her all the time."

Shaoyao spoke first. The wet nurse saw the eldest princess's face and immediately realized something was wrong. Princess Baozhu stood up and looked at the beads and scolded Shaoyao.

"What nonsense are you talking about? My fourth cousin wouldn't harm me. Someone must have added something to sow discord between me and my fourth cousin."

The eldest princess had different ideas from her. The Fourth Prince was not a good person. She had deeply experienced this in the past year. In order to make herself more devoted to him, he fought for power and deceived Princess Baozhu, and did not properly handle the problem after they had a child.

She always thought that he had few children, and she also felt that if she had a child with him and Baozhu, she, as a grandmother, would be more devoted.

After the incident, he became more worried about his reputation and future, and was anxious to abort the baby in Baozhu's belly.

At that time, I thought that the Fourth Prince was a selfish person. At least he would consider the help I had given him over the years. It was a pity that he was an ungrateful person.

This string of beads was most likely made by the Fourth Prince. Not everyone can do such vicious things. The medicines alone need to be handled by someone who understands pharmacology. She also later instructed Baozhu to check the things here carefully. These servants would not have delivered them unless they were trustworthy.

After all, I am in Kyoto, and anyone with a problem can be solved in time. Baozhu is outside Kyoto, and if the people around her are unreliable, it will be too late to regret if something happens.

But she didn't expect that the Fourth Prince would take action despite all her precautions. Baozhu had real feelings for the Fourth Prince, so naturally she wouldn't be so defensive against him.

The eldest princess thought carefully and had all the things sent by the fourth prince brought over for inspection. An Zizhong also did not completely relax and also brought them over for inspection.

Princess Baozhu was like a raging fire, she suddenly pushed away the servant who wanted to take her away and rushed to the Grand Princess, questioning her with red eyes.

"You really can't stand my relationship with my fourth cousin? So many people sent gifts to me, and the Grand Princess's Mansion also sent gifts every few days. Mother, you sent the most gifts. Why don't you say it was you who made it?"

The eldest princess was so angry that she held her chest and pointed at Princess Baozhu's face and cursed.

"You bastard, how much have I done for you, and you actually doubt me?"

Princess Baozhu snorted coldly and looked at the jade bracelet on her hand that was as red as blood.

"You are willing to let your own grandson die, so naturally you will not tolerate a daughter like me who brings shame to you."

Princess Baozhu felt extremely bored after she finished speaking, and let Narcissus and Peony help her into the house.

The eldest princess stood there in a daze, Baozhu actually knew everything.

"Baozhu, I'm sorry about the child, but your fourth cousin can't keep it. I've thought about giving birth to the child and raising him outside, but your fourth cousin doesn't want to take the risk."

Baozhu paused when she entered the room, then continued to walk inside, but there were some watermarks on the ground. The wet nurse saw it and felt heartbroken. Everyone said that Princess Baozhu was lucky to have a capable mother to protect her, so she could do whatever she wanted.

But you have no say in your marriage. If you watch the person you like marry someone else, you can only marry someone else.

When things got out of hand, even the child couldn't be saved, and was taken care of by his beloved cousin and mother.