The Regent Princess has run away again

"Yes, mother, you can ask Miss Xue to take a look. Miss Xue also cured my daughter-in-law's illness before."

The old lady looked at Madam Li and then at Xue Zhiyu, as if she had figured something out. She sighed and said, "In that case, I'll trouble Miss Xue."

Upon hearing this, Madam Li nodded to Xue Zhiyu and stood up to make room for her.

Fortunately, the sleeves were wide enough, otherwise people would be scared if they saw it. Xue Zhiyu took out a wooden stick used to check the throat from the space, "Old Madam, please open your mouth wider so that I can check it."

At first, the old lady was a little uncomfortable, but she slowly opened her mouth. Xue Zhiyu took a wooden stick and pressed down the old lady's tongue. The light from the window was very good and there was almost no need to use a flashlight. Xue Zhiyu took a look and then threw the wooden stick into the trash barrel on the side.

"Madam, you just have a common sore throat. It's nothing serious. Just take a few doses and you'll be fine."

Madam Li frowned and asked the question in her heart, "But the imperial physician prescribed medicine for mother, but she didn't get better after taking it several times, and her condition became worse. Why is that?"

Xue Zhiyu frowned, "Are there any more medicine residues?"

The old lady coughed a few times and called out to the door, "Chun Tao, bring the medicine residue from this morning to Miss Xue for her to see."

"Yes, I will get it now."

After a while, Chuntao came over with the entire pot of medicine, placed it on the table at the side, and said respectfully, "Madam, the dregs are all here."

"Well, you go down first."

Chuntao responded, bowed, turned around and quietly closed the door.

After Xue Zhiyu and others had left, they walked over and simply poured out the residue in the medicine jar, and began to check them one by one. The others were all normal herbs for clearing away heat and detoxifying, but there was one herb that shouldn't be there.

If she hadn't seen this kind of medicinal material in the space, she would have almost been deceived. Although this kind of medicinal material has never been seen or heard of in modern times, the cruelty of this medicine is that it will only exert its toxicity when it is boiled together with heat-clearing and detoxifying medicinal materials, but not with other herbs.

"Madam, who prepares the medicine every day?"

"Minlan is in charge of the daily medicine. Is there any problem?" The old lady supported herself with her hands and sat up.

"This is a big problem. Fortunately, we discovered it early. If this herb is taken for a long time, it will make people more and more sleepy, and eventually they will die in sleep."

Mrs. Li couldn't help but widen her eyes and refuted without thinking, "It's impossible. Minlan has always been gentle and kind, and she is very filial to her mother. She would never do such a thing."

Xue Zhiyu knew that she couldn't persuade him with just words, so she took out a vine-shaped herb from a pile of medicine residues and said, "This is Manzhi vine. As long as it is not used with heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine, it can play a role in calming the mind and soothing the heart. If Madam Li doesn't believe me, you can ask the doctor to come and see if what I said is correct."

A trace of pain flashed across the old lady's face. She opened her mouth several times before she slowly said, "Please ask Minlan and the doctor to come over."

"Yes, old lady," Chuntao responded outside the door.

Of the three people in the room, except Xue Zhiyu, Madam Li had a serious face. She exchanged glances with the old lady, also full of disappointment.

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"Mother, I heard from Chuntao that you came to see me, but you are not feeling well?"

A caring female voice came in, and a middle-aged woman in dark green clothes walked in slowly. She walked forward and squatted in front of the bed very naturally, holding the old lady's hand and looking her up and down.

The old lady snorted coldly, unceremoniously withdrew her hand, looked out the window and said faintly, "Minlan, am I treating you well?"

A trace of embarrassment flashed across the middle-aged woman's face. When she heard the old lady ask this, she nodded without thinking, not quite understanding why the old lady suddenly asked this.

"You have been in my house for six years, right? At the beginning, I thought your family had fallen into poverty. Your mother and I were close friends, so I let Ruihong marry you. Although you were not my principal wife, I promoted you to a co-wife in order not to wrong you. Do you still remember?"

The middle-aged woman lowered her head, as if reflecting. Where no one could see, a flash of resentment flashed across her eyes.

She raised her head and frowned in confusion, "Mother, Minlan remembers all this, why did you suddenly bring it up?"

"Hmph!! You still want to pretend in front of me? Look at what this is!" After saying that, the old lady threw the vine in her hand to the ground, her expression couldn't be uglier.

The middle-aged woman opened her mouth and said, "This... This, I really don't know this medicine, and it's impossible for me to harm you, mother. If it weren't for you, I would probably have ended up in that brothel. How could I possibly harm you?"

"Then how do you explain why there is this medicine in the residue of my medicine?"

"Mother, this must have been done by someone with ulterior motives. I can't possibly harm you like this."

Mrs. Li seemed to be persuaded as well. She walked over and was about to say something, but was stopped by a look from the old lady.

"Oh, then tell me who dared to harm you. If it's true, I will punish them severely. But if I find out that there's any falsehood, hmph! You'll just have to take care of yourself!"

Xue Zhiyu, who had been silent the whole time, was just like a spectator, watching the drama in front of her. It was almost the same as when she watched a TV drama about house fighting, except that this time she was experiencing it personally, and the sensory impact was huge.

"Chun Tao, call over anyone who has come into contact with this medicine jar. I want to throw the rat shit out of the general's mansion," the old lady said this while keeping her eyes on the middle-aged woman and did not miss her expression.

The middle-aged woman gritted her teeth, suddenly stood up and said, "No need to check, I put the medicine in."

"Why...why are you doing this?!"

This question was asked by Madam Li, who could no longer maintain her usual gentleness. An expression of disbelief showed that she was shocked by her behavior.

"Oh, of course you don't understand. You are the legal wife, and the master only loves you. Every time he comes to me, he just goes through the motions. He doesn't love me at all, and he didn't even leave me a child!"

"I... I didn't know it would be like this, Minlan..." Madam Li was stunned. No wonder she hadn't heard any good news from her in the past six years. When she asked her husband, he hesitated and didn't explain clearly. So this is the case...

The middle-aged woman stared at her belly for a while, her face full of a hideous and twisted smile, "I heard that you are pregnant again. The master is so good to you, but I don't even have a child of my own...hahahaha...I am doing very well."

This smile frightened Madam Li so much that she subconsciously protected her stomach, but she still asked, "Then mother has done nothing wrong to you, why do you want to hurt her!"

"Yes, my mother didn't harm me, she saved my life. I really want to thank her."

The middle-aged woman Nan Nan muttered to herself for a few words, then slowly raised her head and looked at the old lady, "But... you know, it was because of your words that my Yuan Lang and I broke up. It was you who ruined my love! It was your self-righteousness!"

"Minlan, I didn't know it would be like this, what if......"

"That's enough!! Stop pretending! Since you know everything, just report me to the police. I have no ties in this world anyway."

After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she sat down on the ground like a deflated balloon. The determination and grief in her eyes made Xue Zhiyu on the side want to applaud her.

"Ahem...um, old lady, I prescribed some ordinary granules for clearing away heat and detoxifying. Please don't drink those medicines for now," Xue Zhiyu coughed lightly a few times to bring everyone back to their thoughts.

The old lady smiled and nodded to Xue Zhiyu in gratitude, "I'm really sorry to have embarrassed you, Miss Xue. I'll ask Chuntao to bring the silver to you."

After giving Chun Tao a few instructions, she saw Xue Zhiyu holding a bag of unknown things in her hand and asked, "Miss Xue, what are you holding in your hand? I have never seen it before."

"Ah, this is the powder I prescribed for you, old lady. Drink it three times a day. This is a week's course of treatment."

After Xue Zhiyu finished speaking, she put the powder in her hand back into the paper bag and took the paper in her hand over.

The old lady took it and looked at it. The admiration and excitement in her eyes were visible to the naked eye. She picked up one of the packets of powder and looked at it left and right. The packaging was very strange and she didn't know what material it was made of.

"Ms. Xue, the packaging of your powder is really unique. I have never seen it outside. No wonder Lingru keeps praising you. You are really an amazing woman."

From the time the old lady started talking to the time she finished, Xue Zhiyu held her breath, fearing that the old lady would ask her how this was made. She really didn't know. She should have changed the packaging earlier. How could she have forgotten that this was ancient times where people didn't even know what plastic was.

"Hahahaha... Madam, you're too kind. I only know a few basics. I'm not a remarkable woman."

The few of them chatted for a few more sentences, but as she had household affairs to attend to, Mrs. Li didn't want to keep the man, so she gave him some silver and asked the maid to send him out of the house.

Xiao Qiu followed behind and saw that the young lady looked thoughtful. She walked up and asked worriedly, "Miss, what happened?"

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about something."

"So are we going to Sixilou today?"

"Let's not go today. Let's go back home."

The two men walked out of the general's mansion, got on the carriage parked in front of the mansion, and slowly left the mansion.

Not long after the carriage left, a figure behind the tree quickly flashed into a private room of the teahouse, sat down on a chair, looked at the lazy man sitting opposite him and said angrily, "Nangong Ye, I'm helping you follow that girl, but you're so leisurely here, believe it or not, I'll quit at any time!"

Nangong Ye waved his folding fan, with a hint of smile in his peach blossom eyes, "How is the information I asked you to find out?"

"Hmph! Only I follow you. If it were someone else, they would have been unable to bear it long ago," Lu Tingxuan muttered a few words.

Nangong Ye sat up, picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea and pushed it over, "Meng Huixiang, have a cup and try it."

Lu Tingxuan curled his lips and didn't bother to be polite with him. He took a sip of tea and seemed to have thought of something. He put down the teacup and said, "I have never seen such a powder before, and there are some words on it. I don't know how they were put there. I can't understand this girl anymore."

"Really? Then I really can't wait to meet her," Nangong Ye folded his folding fan and looked at the teacup in front of him with his chin thoughtfully.

Thinking of that pink figure in his mind, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly. He was looking forward to meeting her tomorrow.