A piece of Japanese incense

After Doctor Wang left, Yu Tuan immediately apologized to me: "Miss, I'm sorry~ I spoke nonsense again~"

Yutuan had a smile on her face and gently patted my arm.

"Why are you in such a hurry to go out? Are you going to meet your boyfriend?" I teased her out of curiosity.

"Girl~" Yu Tuan smiled shyly and quickly lowered her head.

Yuyi was thoughtful: "I wonder what happened to Miss Fang. Is she really sick?"

My eyes moved to the burning incense on the table, and the fragrance spread like a drizzle, like a dream bubble. I suddenly thought of the missing incense in the incense box.

"Yutuan, Yuyi, when Xiaohan came to our place that day, did he enter the inner hall?"

"No, we were just talking outside."

"It seems... not. I was just passing cakes to Guard Zhou at the time and didn't notice it. What's wrong, girl?"

(I felt sleepy when I entered the house that day, and fell asleep as soon as I returned to my room. Could it be that Xiaohan’s visit was not just for fun?)

"Let's go! Yuyi, come with me to Feihua Pavilion."

"Ah? Are you going to see Xiaohan?"

"Go check on Fang Juexia!"

Fang Juexia's skin seemed to have turned into a sea of ​​redness and swelling. Pimples popped up like mushrooms after a rain, densely covering his face, neck and back. Fang Juexia groaned in agony.

"How could this happen?!" Yu Yi couldn't help but exclaim.

Xiaohan didn't care at all and smiled contemptuously: "She doubted that the imperial physician Yun's medicine was ineffective, so she refused to take the medicine. It's no wonder that her old illness relapsed!"

"You clearly know!" I lowered my voice and said, "You clearly know that she has not been infected with the disease! How can she be like this now?"

Miss Zhi, please stop interfering in other people's affairs. My affairs have nothing to do with you anymore." Xiaohan turned around and was about to leave.

"Xiao Han! Why have you turned against me? Our girl has done so much for you, how come it doesn't matter to you anymore?" Yu Yi held Xiao Han's wrist.

"I hate people calling me Xiaohan. Don't be so self-righteous!" Xiaohan broke free from Yuyi.

"Little...Tiantian, don't do anything stupid." Yu Yi's eyes were full of anxiety and worry.

Xiaohan's voice was low and trembling: "Yuyi, what Jingke said is true, you are indeed a kind person."

Xiaohan sighed, as if he had made a great decision, and laughed dryly: "You guys go, I am no longer on the same road with you."

I held my breath, having a bad feeling: "What are you going to do? It was you who stole our incense, wasn't it? You should consider the consequences of anything you do. Think about your brothers and sisters, think about your elder sister..."

"My sister is dead!"

In the sudden silence of this moment, I seemed to hear the sound of my own heartbeat.

"Xiaohan, what are you talking about? How did you know..."

"I told her in person. I told her that she didn't have to linger on for us. We didn't need her to make unnecessary contributions and sacrifices. This would only make us more miserable! I told her to find an opportunity to end her life. Her survival would only bring disgrace to our Tian family's reputation! So, I let her die."

Xiaohan's words left me in disbelief. I simply couldn't believe what she said.

"Pa!" Yuyi slapped Xiaohan hard on the face: "You've gone too far! You tried every possible means to trick us into helping you meet your sister, and you actually want her to die?!"

Xiaohan was hit so hard that he could hardly stand and leaned helplessly against the pillar.

"Stop whitewashing yourself. You just want to leave the palace. If you really want to help me, then rescue my sister! When you enjoy delicious food every day, have you ever thought about me? And what about me? I am locked up with that vicious woman every day, threatened and bullied by her. Look at the scars on my body. Is this what you call help? "

Xiaohan showed us her arms, which were covered with bruises and wounds.

"I was not born to be a lowly slave. I have also been protected and loved by others. Why should I endure humiliation, abandon my self-esteem, and endure humiliation for no reason?"

"Are you crazy? Do you still want to kill Fang Juexia?"

"Yes! I want her life! The entire Wanning Marquisate deserves to die!"

My heart was beating like a raging sea, and every beat brought an unbearable pain. I knew that I had gotten into trouble again, and my grandfather's warning echoed in my ears: "Wanning Marquis' Mansion, you must stay away from it."

I grabbed Xiaohan's shoulders with all my strength and called out anxiously, "Yuyi, go search quickly and find all the incense! Don't let the gossip in their mansion get involved with us!"

"Oh...oh..." Yuyi seemed at a loss.

"What are you still standing there for? Go find him! I don't want to be dragged down by this lunatic!"

At this moment, Xiaohan suddenly laughed, and the laughter was like broken glass fragments across the blackboard, harsh and shocking.

"Miss Zhi, cloves and warm flowers are incompatible, improper consumption of food will cause internal heat, and earthworms are toxins. Didn't you tell me all this?"

Yuyi's movements suddenly stopped, and I let go of her shoulders. A sense of fear rose from the bottom of my heart, and my legs seemed to be nailed to the ground, and my body was cold and stiff.

"Xiao Han, you... our girl just wanted to tease Miss Fang and never thought about..."

"If you were doing it in secret, why would you tell me? You probably just want me to do it for you so that you don't dirty your hands!"

I tried to calm my thoughts and responded casually: "So what do you want to do now? Are you going to drag me down with you? I haven't done anything to let you down, have I?"

"Miss Zhi is very smart, and I am not a treacherous person. If I need your help in the future, please lend me a hand and help me."

"Tsk! Please do as you please! I don't know you! Yuyi, let's go!"

"Miss Zhi, don't you even care about that A-Ban anymore?"

"Who is he? I don't know him."

"Rumor has it that the Crown Princess didn't have twins, but three children, one boy and one girl connected at the back. There can't be two suns in the sky, and there can't be two kings on earth. The royal family is afraid of twins because it may cause disputes over the succession to the throne. Therefore, they usually choose to keep only the child with stronger vitality and drown the weaker child directly."

"What did you say?"

"That Aban is the child abandoned by the royal family, right?"

(I had previously asked Yu Nian about the meaning of "Yin alone cannot produce life, Yang alone cannot grow". He explained to me that this A-ban might be the substitute of the crown prince. Now according to Xiao Han's statement... I can't tell which one is the truth.)

I bit my lip and tore off the dead skin at the corners of my mouth with my hands.

"Miss Zhi, this Suiyuan, the secret passage, Aban, your homemade incense, the toon midge, and the plague, do you dare to say that they have nothing to do with you? Since you have already been involved, how can you easily extricate yourself?" Xiaohan said sarcastically.