The beautiful night started with Zian’s initiative.
She has been very proactive and positive lately.
"That soup is really useful. It's bigger than before." Murong Jie studied it carefully.
Zian clapped his hands, "It's not the soup's effect."
She lay down, feeling a little tired.
"What is that for? Is it my hand?"
"When a girl grows from a girl into a woman, her figure will also change. And when I was with you, strictly speaking, I was not yet an adult, so I could still grow naturally." Zi'an felt a little shameless when he said this.
To a girl of sixteen or seventeen, she is already an old lady.
"Really? Then how old can you be?" Murong Jie came up and asked.
Zi'an chuckled, his eyes bright and his teeth white, "Twenty."
Murong Jie turned over and pressed her down, "You said you loved me yesterday."
"Yes." Zi'an looked at her with a dazed look in his eyes.
"Why not like it?" Murong Jie propped up his hands.
"Then I'll change my words. I like you." Zi'an said with a blushing face.
Murong Jie kissed her lips and whispered in her ear, "Do you feel sorry for me? Do you think I've been poisoned by the same fate poison and will soon die, so you say you love me?"
Zi'an pushed him away and said sternly, "What do you mean you're dying? Spit first!"
"Isn't that what you think?" Murong Jie sat up, his hair disheveled. His domineering look was gone, but instead he looked a bit wild and unruly.
Zian wanted to slap him in the face, "I don't want to talk to you."
Murong Jie stretched out his hand and lifted her chin. Seeing her body tremble slightly and tears in her eyes, his heart softened, "Silly girl, I won't die before you."
Zi'an looked at him and said with a heavy nasal voice: "You must keep your word."
"I'm like you, my word is my bond!" Murong Jie teased her chin, "Okay, it doesn't hurt anymore, I'm fine."
The two of them lay down, Zi'an leaned on his chest, listening to his heartbeat, feeling mixed emotions.
Since traveling through time, I have never expected to gain anything, I just wanted to live a good life. Now crises are still everywhere, but I have people I care about in my heart, and I can no longer be reckless like before.
"Murong, no matter what happens, I hope you can regard me as your best partner and don't hide anything from me, okay?" Zi'an said softly.
"Okay!" His voice sounded particularly cool in the night.
She was not sleepy at all, so when he got up the next day, she got up too.
"Princess, where are you going?" Xiaosun asked hurriedly when he saw her coming out neatly dressed early in the morning.
"Xiaosun, I'm going to go out with Xiaodao. You and Mammy go to the Marquis' Mansion to check on Liuliu's condition, and then go to Prince Liang's Mansion and tell them that I will be there to give you acupuncture in the evening."
"Okay." Xiaosun replied, "Don't rush out yet. Madam got up early this morning to make breakfast. Eat first before you go."
"No... okay." Zi'an thought that he might not have time to eat today, so he could eat something first. Besides, Nanny got up early in the morning to make it, so he couldn't waste her hard work.
After breakfast, Zi'an took Boss Dao out.
Instead of taking a carriage, the two of them went out on horseback. After they went out, Zi'an told Boss Dao where they were going.
After hearing Zi'an's destination, Boss Dao's eyes widened. "Digging graves? Isn't that bad?"
"I have no choice." Zi'an sighed softly.
"Okay, then don't do it later, I'll do it!" Boss Dao said that digging graves is a very immoral thing, so Boss Dao contracted it independently.
Zi'an smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I'm not afraid of the so-called retribution."
Han Qingqiu was poisoned to death by a Gu worm. If she wanted to develop the poison, she had to extract living Gu worms.
Han Qingqiu was originally going to be buried in the Xiao family's ancestral tomb, but after the divorce letter came out, the Xiao family naturally could no longer allow her to be buried in the ancestral tomb. Instead, they found another place to bury her. After the charges were settled, even the tombstone was taken away.
Boss Dao believed that digging graves was immoral, so he insisted that Zi'an not do it, and dug the new grave alone, sweating profusely.
Zi'an had already prepared a mask soaked in ginger water. After the coffin was dug out, Boss Dao opened it. A strong stench wafted over. Even with masks on, the two men were almost nauseated by the smell.
The corpse was swollen and water-oozing, and the face was severely swollen. The coffin was covered with insects. Some were as thick as the tail of a chopstick and as long as half a finger. Most of them were like this, but there were also some thinner ones, the size of rice grains.
"It's too scary." Boss Dao said, covering his nose.
Zi'an took out the small clay pot he brought with him, put the insect in with tweezers, and sealed it.
She took out a knife, opened Han Qingqiu's clothes, and began the autopsy.
Boss Dao looked at the internal organs that had been eaten by insects and the corpse fluid oozing out. It was such a disgusting sight that he finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed forward to vomit.
Zi'an squatted there, carefully examining it, moving from the intestines, stomach, and heart all the way up, and finally splitting open the skull, where he discovered the poisonous worm as well.
Zi'an needs to know which organ the poisonous insect is most active in and which organ it starts to eat away.
Han Qingqiu's poison takes effect immediately, so after the insect enters the body, it will bite directly. The activity level of the insect can be judged from the degree of decay of the internal organs.
After doing all this, Zi'an asked Boss Dao to cover the coffin, seal the ground, and ride back on horseback.
After returning to the palace, she hid in the kitchen and worked for a while, then took a bath and changed her clothes. She gave her clothes to Xiaosun and asked her to bury them in the soil. Even Dao Lao Da's clothes were thrown away.
Boss Dao was very reluctant, but he had to obey Zi'an's order.
After bathing, she dried her hair and asked the nanny, "Where does Prince Nan Huai live?"
"Just live in Qingning Pavilion." said the nanny.
"Does Fang'er also live in Qingning Pavilion?" Zi'an asked.
"Yes, I have seen it."
"Okay, tell her that I want to see Fang'er and ask her to come over." Zi'an tied up his hair, neatly.
"What are you going to do with her?" The nanny meant not to provoke those people.
Zi'an smiled, "Talk, two women, of course you can sit down and have a good talk."
Mammy looked at her worriedly, "Princess, you shouldn't be too aggressive when dealing with them."
"Mammy, if you don't take initiative, you will be passive. Fang'er will come to me sooner or later. I might as well go to her first." The noble concubine had already told her about the life-threatening Gu, and Fang'er would not hold back.
Seeing that she was determined to do so, the nanny said, "Well, I will go there now."
Xiaosun asked, "Princess, will Miss Fang'er come over? She may not be willing to listen to you."
Xiaosun's worries are not unreasonable, because he has the support of the noble concubine.
"She will come." Zi'an said firmly.
Although she had never met Sun Fanger, she knew that this person had secretly placed the same fate Gu underground, and had deliberately shown it off before Han Qingqiu's death. She was trying to make her presence felt.
She was kicked out of the house, and this time she came back, she wanted to regain her dignity, so she would not be content to hide behind the scenes.
Sure enough, the nanny came back and told Zi'an, "She said she'll be here soon."
"Okay, prepare tea and wait." Zi'an said.
Xiaosun said indignantly: "I still have to prepare tea for her. How shameless."
The nanny laughed meaningfully and said, "She is still a guest after she gets married. You can't do this."
The son looked at the nanny and smiled knowingly.
The nanny was a smart person. She knew what Zi'an wanted to do. She hadn't thought of it just now, but she thought of it when she was on her way to find Sun Fang'er.
(End of this chapter)