The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 923 The Smell of Decay

In Huachun Palace, Consort Shi was preparing to retire for the night when a palace maid suddenly rushed in: "Your Highness!"

"What's the matter that you're in such a hurry?" Consort Shi turned around and sat down on the edge of the couch.

The palace maid reported, "Your Majesty! Consort Xu Hui just vomited a large amount of blood again and has now fainted!"

Consort Shi immediately stood up: "Spitting blood? Again? When did she spit blood?"

"just."

"I'm talking about the earliest time!"

The palace maid thought for a moment and said, "It should be in the early morning. Because when Xu Huiren said she wasn't feeling well this morning, she wouldn't let me get close to her, so I don't know the exact time she first vomited blood."

"Quickly, fetch the imperial physician!" Consort Shi ordered.

The palace maid replied, "Yes!"

The palace maid had just turned around and taken two steps when Consort Shi called out to stop her from leaving: "Wait!"

"Your Majesty?" The palace maid turned around.

Consort Shi was unaware of Xu Huiren's specific situation, and she felt that she should wait until she was satisfied with her before making a decision: "Let's go and see her first."

Consort Shi led the way, followed by two palace maids, and the three of them headed straight for Consort Xu Hui's bedroom.

Xu Huiren vomited blood once this morning. She knew perfectly well why she vomited blood. So when her maids wanted to report it to Consort Shi De, she refused. She went back to her room to meditate and dealt with the two demons who were working outside the palace.

To avoid revealing her identity and causing trouble for the Empress.

She had thought the backlash from the Bloodfire Talisman and the Eye-Opening Talisman wouldn't be too great and that she could withstand it. However, she was surprised to experience severe chest pain when it first happened, and the pain returned after nightfall, causing her to vomit blood twice today.

Xu Huiren had already cleaned up the blood she vomited earlier that morning. Now, as she lay weakly on the bed, she hadn't had time to clean up the blood she had just vomited.

When Consort Shi and two palace maids pushed open the door to Consort Xu Hui's bedroom and entered the inner room, this was the scene they saw.

"Your Majesty?" Xu Huiren sat up abruptly. "Why have you come? This place is filthy..."

"Why is your blood black?" Consort Shi stared at the bloodstains on the footstool of Xu Huiren's bed and asked incredulously, "Are you poisoned?"

Seeing that Xu Huiren did not want to get off the bed and pay her respects, she stopped her, saying, "Alright, you can lie down."

Xu Huiren did not struggle to get off the bed, nor did she lie down again. Instead, she sat on the bed and replied, "This servant was not poisoned, but..."

She didn't continue explaining, but instead glanced at the two palace maids behind Consort Shi.

Consort Shi understood and said to the two palace maids, "Go down and guard the gate. No one is allowed to enter without my permission."

"Yes, ma'am." The two palace maids retreated to stand guard outside the door.

Consort Shi turned around: "Tell me, what exactly happened?"

Xu Huiren then recounted the general situation.

Upon hearing this, Consort Shi's face turned extremely ugly: "You mean, you've been discovered?"

"No..." Xu Huiren scrambled off the bed, not caring about the bloodstains on her trousers from the footstool. She knelt down and buried her face in her hands, "This servant hasn't been discovered yet!"

The two palace maids outside the door heard the commotion inside the room. Although they couldn't quite make out what had happened, they could roughly guess that Xu Huiren had gotten out of bed.

As they guessed, they lowered their heads even further and took two more steps away.

The farther away they are, the safer they are.

Some things, if you don't know, you can live longer. "Not yet? Then that means... it'll be soon?" Consort Shi's voice was slightly cold, carrying a faint sense of pressure.

Xu Huiren immediately broke out in a cold sweat, her voice trembling as she assured him, "This servant will not be discovered."

Unfortunately, what Consort Shi wanted was not a guarantee, but absolute certainty: "What if it's discovered?"

Xu Huiren's whole body was trembling at this moment. In her fear, she tried her best to remain rational: "If I am still discovered, then I will... I will die. I will never implicate Your Highness."

"Very good." Consort Shi nodded in satisfaction. "Don't worry, when that time comes, I will take good care of your family outside the palace."

"This servant thanks Your Highness." Upon hearing this, Xu Huiren's face darkened further. She understood that Her Highness was using her family to threaten her.

If she hadn't died when she was supposed to, her final fate would have been to die with her family outside the palace!

After Consort Shi left Xu Huiren's room, she ordered her attendants to fetch the imperial physician for Xu Huiren.

As long as Xu Huiren's identity remains hidden, she is still useful to Xu Huiren.

Unfortunately, Xu Huiren's master died young; otherwise, Wang Huiren would have been much more capable than Xu Huiren.

Let alone diverting and dealing with a few people outside the palace, Wang Huiren could also do a very good job with those inside the palace.

Except for her last mishap, falling into the well in the side hall of Wenhua Hall, Wang Huiren had never disappointed her.

Even the spirit in the well in the Taiyong Hall of the Eastern Palace was a seed left behind by Wang Huiren.

In the master-disciple transmission of skills, she did not achieve the goal of surpassing her master in Wang Huiren and Xu Huiren; instead, she saw that Xu Huiren's skills were not up to par.

Even so, Xu Huiren was the only sorcerer in the imperial palace, and her trump card after Wang Huiren.

Since she's an ace player, she'll protect her until the very last moment.

Xu Huiren was a female official in Huachun Palace. She was a physician whom Consort Shi ordered her to be invited by the palace maids. Even though she was just an ordinary physician on duty, she took Xu Huiren's pulse and treated her diligently.

The medical records and prescriptions he wrote all contained herbs that were used to regulate the deficiency of both qi and blood.

The young palace maid who served Xu Huiren prepared the medicine, held the bowl and served it to Xu Huiren. After Xu Huiren lay down and closed her eyes to rest, she left the room and gently closed the door behind her.

Then they left.

Xu Huiren only slowly opened her eyes when there was no sound outside.

Her master was also a female official in Huachun Palace, serving the Empress. After her master died, she took over her master's position and gradually learned the truth about her master's death in Huachun Palace.

She didn't want to end up like her master, but unknowingly, she seemed to be following in his footsteps.

She didn't want to die, so she absolutely couldn't let Miss Meng follow the clues to Huachun Palace.

To achieve this, she would have to find a way to shift the blame elsewhere.

Once the time has passed, the palace gates are locked, and all the palace gates inside are also locked.

As midnight approached, Yu Minglu was picking up medicinal herbs in the Imperial Hospital's duty room, wondering what Li Shou wanted to do by summoning him to the East Palace the following afternoon.

He was busy with his hands and his mind, completely unaware that two figures using invisibility spells hurriedly passed through his duty room.

"Why can't I smell it anymore?" Ma Ji sniffed the surroundings outside the duty room.

Lan Zhijin wasn't a demon; he had been following Ma Ji around the palace the whole time: "Could we have gone in the wrong direction?"

“No.” Ma Ji was very certain that he wouldn’t have gone to the wrong place. “The blood had a musty smell, and the owner of the blood must have been seriously injured.”