Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 684

"Alright, alright." Granny Ma put the dress away. "Don't worry, Miss Xue, just go back and wait."

Xue Kui returned to the East Palace with a mixture of trepidation and anticipation.

Unexpectedly, she waited for several days without receiving any news of Shen Lingjun's illness.

Occasionally, I would sneak a glimpse of Shen Lingjun in the East Palace, and he was perfectly fine, showing no signs of being unwell.

Xue Kui then realized that she had been deceived by Granny Ma!

The other party probably doesn't have any real skills at all. He just talked a lot and made it sound so serious, just to swindle her out of that hundred taels of silver!

Xue Kui couldn't swallow her anger, so she found another time to go to the Taoist temple that Ma Daopo had mentioned. When she asked, she was told that Ma Daopo had disappeared a few days ago and no one knew where she had gone.

Xue Kui guessed that Ma Daopo had absconded with the money. She was both angry and regretful, but given her status and abilities, she could not possibly search for Ma Daopo, much less report it to the authorities. She could only swallow her anger and accept her bad luck, and pawned the one hundred taels of silver.

Two days later, Xue Qian came to tell her that she could set off for Luzhou.

Xue Kui was extremely unwilling, but had no choice but to reluctantly set off with Xue Qian and leave Ancheng.

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After Xue Qian left, the Eastern Palace announced that Consort Xue had died unexpectedly, and her younger sister escorted her sister's coffin back to their ancestral home of Luzhou.

Because Xue Qian came from the palace and had no maternal family, and the two sisters had no other relatives, naturally no one cared about them, and whatever the Crown Prince said went.

This leaves two concubine positions vacant. However, fortunately, the Crown Prince now has a son and a daughter, and even the Crown Prince has been established. The most compelling reason that the ministers used to urge the Crown Prince to take concubines to continue the imperial line is no longer as effective, so the pressure is less.

That day, Shen Lingjun was in the garden with Dou Niang, harvesting several rare medicinal herbs she had planted in her herb garden, when she suddenly heard a soft rustling sound behind her, as if something had darted past.

Shen Lingjun turned around and saw nothing, but then a small shadow appeared in front of her, looking like a little mouse, which quickly flashed past her feet.

She felt a slight pain in her ankle, as if she had been bitten.

Shen Lingjun quickly squatted down to look at her ankle. Sure enough, there was a small hole in her sock, with a little blood seeping out.

The damselfly was ahead. When she turned around and saw Shen Lingjun, she quickly dropped her hoe and came over to help her.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Shen Lingjun looked around, but the little mouse had long since disappeared.

"I was bitten by a rat."

"Rats?" Dou Niang was surprised at first, then annoyed. "What are the servants in this mansion doing? Don't they ever deal with rats? The Crown Prince's palace is infested with rats! I'll have them check it out right away!"

As she spoke, Dou Niang helped Shen Lingjun take off her socks to check them.

The bite wound on Shen Lingjun's ankle was only the size of a grain of rice, and it stung a little. The blood that flowed out was a normal bright red.

She seemed to be fine; she moved her feet and there was nothing unusual.

Shen Lingjun didn't take it to heart at first, and only had Dou Niang help her back to her room and apply some medicine specifically for mosquito and rodent bites.

As a result, by the second day, I gradually started to feel that something was wrong.