Seeing Hongzhu's sympathetic look, Chu Jihan glared at Hongzhu angrily, "Going out to make medicine, what is it like to make medicine in the concubine's room?"
"But, the Crown Princess..." Hongzhu was frightened by Chu Jihan's eyes and answered timidly. Su Ningxin took over the words halfway through,
"I asked her to stay here to brew the medicine. The fragrance of the medicine also has a certain medicinal power. Let the mother-in-law bathe in the fragrance of the medicine, which is good for her body."
Chu Jihan wondered, "The scent of medicine can also nourish the body?"
"Yes." Su Ningxin said confidently.
[Anyway, I have never heard that medicinal fragrance can cure diseases, but I just said it casually, otherwise I would have no excuse to leave the red candle in the room.]
[What if the red candle is the secret chess left by those people, and poisons people while they are not paying attention? I would also like to change to another person, but those people's disguises are difficult for even me to distinguish, let alone other people. It's better to keep the medicine under your nose.]
Chu Jihan: "..." Although he lamented that Su Ningxin was thoughtful and dedicated to his mother and concubine, the fragrance of the medicine was nothing but lies.
"Ning'er, are you unhappy?" Chu Jihan asked suddenly. In fact, his intention was to guide Su Ningxin's thoughts and let her come up with a solution on her own.
"No." Su Ningxin raised her head and said with doubtful eyes.
[What are you asking? Now that my maid is missing and my mother-in-law is sick, if you make me smile like a flower, what will others think of me? My reputation as unfilial and cold-blooded will probably never go away.]
Ignoring Su Ningxin's duplicity, Chu Jihan breathed a sigh of relief. Su Ningxin's meaning had little to do with his inquiry about her medical skills.
"Then why don't you have dinner? How can you stand being hungry all the time?" Chu Jihan asked next.
"I've experienced too many things today, and I don't have much appetite."
This sentence was directly filtered by Chu Jihan. He didn't want to hear these perfunctory words, he wanted to hear his true thoughts.
[Do you think I'm not hungry? I was so hungry that my chest pressed against my back, but those Miao people had poison in their hands that I couldn’t smell. How could I dare to eat anything!]
[Now I just want to prepare the medicine quickly and give it to my concubine, and then let you take care of her here. I will go back to the room to eat some snacks, and then open Xiao An’s blind box to take a look. Curiosity really killed the cat, and I You have to be unable to hold on.]
Chu Jihan didn't understand much about the second half of what Su Ningxin said, but he could understand Su Ningxin's desire to go back to her room.
So Chu Jihan said, "Well, Ning'er, you've been tired for the whole day. Go back to your room and rest for a while. I'll keep an eye on you, concubine."
While speaking, Chu Jihan glanced at the medicine pot to show that he understood Su Ningxin's intention.
[Unexpectedly, he was quite smart and understood my intention immediately. Since he was so considerate and let me rest, I will go back first. After all, she is his mother, so he should not make any mistakes.]
"Thank you for your hard work, husband. I'll come back later." Su Ning said gracefully.
Chu Jihan hurriedly said yes, feeling lucky that he had the ability to read minds, otherwise he wouldn't even know how to please his wife.
Su Ningxin told Hongzhu a few words, and then went back to her room. There were snacks prepared by Shuangbai earlier in the room, so she could rest her belly.
After closing the door, Su Ningxin immediately lost her ladylike image and directly took a piece of snacks on the table and stuffed it into her mouth. She took out the brocade box and put it on the table. After swallowing the snacks, she stuffed another piece into her mouth. , then took a silk hairpin from the dressing table, and removed a piece of gold wire from it.
Xiao An's brocade box is obviously not a folk thing, and the lock's craftsmanship is much more refined. Su Ningxin inserted the gold wire into the keyhole, and listened to the sound while turning it. After a while, she heard a "click" sound, and the lock opened. .
Seeing that the lock was successfully opened, Su Ningxin continued to chew the snacks in her mouth.
Opening the lock and opening the brocade box, Su Ningxin instantly forgot to chew anything. She was so frightened that she held her breath. She saw a golden hairpin lying in the brocade box, in the style of a flying phoenix holding a pearl. She knew that only high-ranking concubines in the palace could use it, at least when she was the concubine Chen, she couldn't use such a thing.
It is estimated that only the empress and the concubines who co-administered the Sixth Palace can be used. Su Ningxin guessed that after all, the current emperor did not have concubines in the harem, and she did not know the specific regulations.
However, Su Ningxin had seen strong winds and waves, so naturally she would not be frightened by a palace hairpin. What made her unbelievable was that the thing under the gold hairpin was a broken imperial edict.
Su Ningxin opened the fragment of the imperial edict with trembling hands and looked at it. Then she swallowed and couldn't calm down for a long time.
[The Zhong family was exiled three thousand miles by the emperor, which was not unjust! ] Su Ning sighed with emotion, and then felt that how to deal with these things has become a problem again.
Su Ning thought for a moment, rummaged around in the house, and found two copies of the marriage decree. One was given to Chu Jihan by the emperor, and the other was given to herself.
After looking at Chu Jihan's imperial edict, which said that he could not take concubines or take concubines, and her own imperial edicts were just fancy words with no practical meaning, Su Ningxin decisively chose to take action against her own edict, took the scissors and shone through it. Cut off a piece of the imperial edict the same size as the fragment and put it back in the brocade box.
The imperial edict represents the emperor, so naturally it cannot be damaged in the slightest, but the emperor in Su Ningxin's hand could only ask for her favor when he saw it, so who would care about a meaningless edict.
Even so, Su Ningxin still rolled up the two imperial edicts. From the outside, nothing could be seen. No one would notice if they were put back to their original places.
After carefully putting away the fragment of the imperial edict, Su Ningxin went out and put the brocade box back into Xiao An's room. At the same time, she rummaged through Xiao An's baggage again and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that there was indeed no key. It was probably the elders in the family who had put it away. After giving the brocade box to Xiao An, she kept it carefully and didn't know what was inside.
Until she returned to her room, Su Ningxin still felt like she couldn't recover. After sitting quietly in front of the table for a long time, Su Ningxin finally understood all the relationships involved in this fragment of the imperial edict.
In an instant, Su Ning felt a sense of heroic spirit. This is a life-saving talisman with iron coupons and alchemy books, okay
With it, she would not be afraid of stealing the queen, disobeying the emperor, or being sentenced to death by the emperor's petty mind.
[Hahahahaha~] Su Ning laughed wildly in her heart.
Just as I was getting carried away, there was a knock on the door, "The Crown Princess?"
Hearing that the voice seemed to be that of Ah Jiu, Su Ningxin quickly touched her face with her hand and breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that she had no expression. Fortunately, she didn't really laugh out loud.
(End of chapter)