My Lord, your wife is spreading rumors about you again.

Chapter 88: Sitting Together
After hearing this, Shen Ke was in no mood to wait for Zhang Zhi any longer. He walked out in a trance.

"Mingli, you, are you crazy?"

Jiang Tong grabbed Mingli's arm and said anxiously, "Do you know what you are doing? I ask you not to challenge a prince's desire for the throne! Even if he is the crown prince, you know that His Majesty has been favoring the Second Prince for a long time. Although our crown prince looks gentle, he is the master of the East Palace after all, the crown prince of Daqi, and a member of the Shen royal family! He is definitely not a modest gentleman. For the throne, he can kill his father and brother!"

Mingli looked at Jiang Tong and curled his lips slightly: "Tongtong. Remember, don't say these words again in the future. Okay, I still need your help to enter the Medical Office, remember to keep it secret from Zhang Zhi."

At this time, there was a sound coming from the secret door. Mingli turned around and asked: "Have you finished your confession?"

"Yes." Zhang Zhi raised his confession and handed it to Mingli: "Where is His Highness? Why did he leave?"

"He said that something happened in the East Palace, so he left first."

Mingli lowered his head and answered without blushing or beating his heart. Jiang Tong, however, was restless and simply said goodbye to Zhang Zhi and ran away.

Zhang Zhi was puzzled and pointed in the direction where Jiang Tong left: "What happened to her?"

"Look, it's getting dark." Mingli looked out the window. "I guess her aunt is calling her home for dinner."

Zhang Zhi accepted this explanation calmly, and the two exchanged a few words before returning to their room. Shan Cha had already prepared a large table of food for them.

Shan Cha and Nanny Li welcomed them into the house with a smile. Zhang Zhi had a happy look on his face, but just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat first."

After Mingli finished speaking, she took the confession and walked to the desk. The desk and the floor beside it were piled with account books. She knelt down, took an abacus and a pen, and began to calculate the accounts.

Zhang Zhi chased after her and advised her, "You've been busy all day, and you only ate a little this morning. How can you not be hungry? There's no need to rush to move the second and fifth rooms in just one day."

"Why not?" Mingli said as he counted the bills, "I will be going to the medical office in a few days. If I don't solve your family's problems quickly, I won't be able to take care of both ends."

Seeing the two of them like this, Nanny Li hurried forward and said, "My Lord, my daughter has always been like this. She will feel uneasy if she doesn't finish the work at hand. Otherwise, you can eat first. We will keep her share."

Zhang Zhi stared at Mingli for a long time. Seeing that she had no intention of talking to him, he became deflated and left without eating.

Upon seeing this, Nanny Li stamped her feet, feeling really disappointed with the woman!

She ran over and snatched the account book from Mingli's hand. But after meeting Mingli's gaze, she became scared and timidly put it back into her hand.

"Miss, what are you doing? I have lived for more than fifty years, but I still can't figure out what you want to do. The prince treats you so well. Even if you don't like him, you should use some means to keep him by your side, even if it's just to be a shield to block the swords for you." Nanny Li shook her head repeatedly and sighed heavily, "Who is like you, pushing people further and further away?"

Mingli made another calculation, and suddenly, she felt a pain in her heart. She immediately looked up and winked at Shancha.

Shancha understood, and she went forward to pull Madam Li and said, "Madam, please stop arguing with the Second Young Lady. Leave her alone. By the way, I still haven't learned the embroidery method you taught me last time. It's early today, can you teach me again?"

"Ah? Embroidery method?" Nanny Li's attention was immediately drawn to it: "Oh, little girl, I wasn't serious when I was teaching you, and now you're anxious. Come on, come on, let me explain it again."

When the door was closed, Mingli quickly turned sideways and spat out a large mouthful of black blood. After spitting out the blood, she began to feel cold all over. The fire in the room could not warm her body. Her face was as pale as a dead person. After three breaths, her face felt like it was on fire again, and a layer of sweat appeared on her forehead and body.

The symptoms of the poison have changed and the intervals between them have become shorter. Today is six months since the last attack. If things go as expected, they will become more frequent in the future.

Mingli took his own pulse tremblingly, and sure enough, it was incredibly chaotic.

She took out a red porcelain bottle and wanted to take medicine, but her whole body was running a high fever. Her hand was unsteady and the porcelain bottle rolled away. She felt severe pain all over her body as if being pricked by needles. The fishy and sweet taste in her throat lingered for a long time. Even her hands and feet were drained of strength and were limp and powerless.

Just then, she heard the sound of the window frames in the back room opening and closing, and the sound of footsteps hurriedly approaching her.

Mingli tried his best to see, but his eyes were already blind and his hearing was gradually fading. Only his sense of touch was amplified more than a hundred times.

At the last moment before she could hear anything, she vaguely heard a loud shout: "Junior Sister!"

Junior sister?

The master only has her as his disciple, and there have always been only the two of them in Yaowang Mountain. Where did the third one come from? She couldn't possibly have any senior brothers.
When Mingli woke up, it was already dawn the next day. Her symptoms of poisoning had all disappeared, her hearing and vision had recovered, and she slept on the bed by herself.

"Second girl, are you awake?"

Shan Cha knelt beside the couch, tears evident on her face. Ming Li propped herself up and sat up, regaining consciousness instantly. She asked, "What happened last night?"

"After I dealt with Nanny Li, I came back and saw the young lady fainted in front of the table with a pool of black blood in front of her. I was terrified and just as I was about to call the prince over, I saw a note left on the table." Shan Cha took out a note from her bosom and handed it over: "Second young lady, the man jumped out of the window and left. I happened to see him when I came in. His figure looked familiar."

Although Mingli didn't see the person, she remembered the voice.

"Medical Office, Lu Chuyang."

Hearing this, Shan Cha raised her head suddenly: "Yes, it's him. In the past, the young lady suffered from an old illness, and she was even more uncomfortable after the miscarriage. Whenever she felt a little uncomfortable, the young lady would ask me to take a note to the Medical Officer's Office to find Lu Yuanpan. At first, I thought that he was the deputy of the Medical Officer's Office, who was dedicated to serving the nobles in the palace, and would not accept the diagnosis of the Earl's Mansion. Unexpectedly, as soon as Lu Yuanpan got the note, he followed me without saying a word."

The more she talked, the weirder it felt. "Later, the girl didn't even need to invite him. He would come whenever he had a day off. For this, Zhou Shu scolded the girl and ordered Lu Yuanpan to come again. But the girl refused to comply this time. She only dealt with him on the surface, but secretly met him at the back door."

Mingli was stunned for a while after hearing this: "You mean, between Lu Chuyang and my sister. They..."

"Well," Shancha frowned, "I can't say much. They always avoid me when they talk."

"boom--"

The door was kicked open, and sunlight poured in generously.

Lu Chuyang was thrown in tied up, and then Zhang Zhi came in with his hands clasped across his chest and a short whip in his hand, glancing at Mingli with resentment.

"I've brought the person here. If you have any questions, ask him in person." Zhang Zhi said coldly, "I didn't kill you for breaking into the Crown Prince's wife's room at night because of your father!"

(End of this chapter)