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Upon hearing Li Mama's voice, Zhou Ruo immediately sprang up, jumped to the ground, and her eyes slit open.

"Has Grandma woken up?"

From Li Mama's perspective, Zhou Ruo looked as if she hadn't opened her eyes.

"It's heartbreaking to see this child so concerned about the Empress Dowager."

"Young General, Miss, please come in since you're here. The Dowager Consort is up and preparing breakfast."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ruo pulled Zhao Jinzhong up, "Brother, let's go!"

The two headed straight for the Empress Dowager's main room, leaving Granny Li far behind.

"Grandma! Grandma!"

The Empress Dowager was taken aback. She had heard Zhou Ruo's voice so early in the morning. Could it be that she was hallucinating?

When Zhou Ruo and Zhao Jinzhong appeared before her, the Dowager was both surprised and pleased.

"Ruo'er, Jinzhong, why are you here so early?"

Zhou Ruo ran to the Dowager Consort, "Grandmother, why are you only getting up now? I've been waiting outside your courtyard for ages."

The Dowager Princess asked in surprise, "When did you arrive?"

Zhao Jinzhong stepped forward to pay his respects to the Dowager Consort before explaining, "We arrived at dawn. Ruoruo didn't sleep last night."

"Why aren't you asleep?" The Empress Dowager's heart tightened.

"Because I found the Vermilion Bird Grass for my grandmother!" Zhou Ruo's bright eyes were filled with hope.

The Empress Dowager felt a sense of relief, but her nose started to sting with tears.

Tears welled in her eyes, and the Dowager choked back sobs, "Have you...found them?"

"Found it!" Zhou Ruo pushed the Dowager Empress to sit down in a chair. "Grandmother, please sit down, I'll treat you right now!"

The Empress Dowager was deeply moved and looked at Zhou Ruo, letting her treat her.

But the next second, Zhou Ruo grabbed one of the Empress Dowager's legs and started to take off her shoes.

As she took them off, she said, "Grandma, let me see if your toes are black!"

Upon hearing Zhou Ruo's words, Zhao Jinzhong's hot sweat instantly turned into cold sweat.

Zhao Jinzhong hurriedly stopped her, saying, "Ruoruo, you mustn't take it off! Don't be rude!"

At the same time, Granny Li had just returned to the main room of the Dowager Consort.

When he saw Zhou Ruo about to take off the Empress Dowager's shoes, he was so shocked that he froze on the spot.

Unlike Zhao Jinzhong and Granny Li, the Dowager Consort looked at Zhou Ruo with a calm expression, showing no anger whatsoever.

You should know that in that era, a woman's feet were absolutely not allowed to be exposed, not even when wearing socks.

Moreover, the person Zhou Ruo was about to remove was a concubine of high status, so much so that one careless move could result in the offender being stabbed in the neck.

However, Zhou Ruo was unaware of this etiquette; she was only interested in knowing whether the Dowager Consort's toes were as black as charcoal as Qian Lai's.

This way she could find out whether the pill Qian Lai took was the same as the Imperial Preceptor's elixir.

After a moment of silence, the Dowager Consort slowly asked, "Ruo'er, why did you take off your grandmother's shoes? Were you just playing around?"

"I wasn't joking!" Zhou Ruo didn't understand; it was just taking off her shoes.

"I want to see if my grandmother's toes are as black as charcoal."

"As black as charcoal?" The Dowager found it strange. How could it be like that?

At this moment, Granny Li suddenly remembered something. She quickly went to the Dowager Consort's side and said, "Dowager Consort, this is indeed true!"

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten. When the Dowager Consort was unconscious, her toes were indeed unusually black."

But after you woke up, the darkness gradually faded. Now…”

Even Granny Li couldn't say for sure what it was like now.

The Empress Dowager never imagined that such a thing happened to her that she was unaware of.

"Ruo'er, get up first, don't kneel, let Granny Li undress you."

Zhao Jinzhong breathed a sigh of relief. The Dowager was truly merciful; she did not blame Zhou Ruo.

He consciously withdrew from the room, closed the door to the Empress Dowager's room, and waited outside.

Granny Li removed the Dowager's shoes and socks, revealing her toes.

Upon closer inspection, Zhou Ruo exclaimed, "It's gray!"

She could see that the Empress Dowager's toes had indeed been as black as Qian Lai had said, but now they had faded to gray.

It's possible that the black color faded due to interference from my own spiritual energy, combined with the effect of the fiery silver needles.

This is the effect of basalt: the extremely cold poison sinks down, directly to the toes, turning them charcoal black.

The Dowager lowered her head to look closely, but couldn't see it clearly at all. She felt that the color was not much different from the rest of her feet.

Even standing, Li Mama couldn't see the abnormality in color. Only after she squatted down and looked closely did she realize that it was indeed gray.

"Taifei, it really is gray!" It's different from the color of the soles of her feet.

It turned out that the Dowager Consort and Granny Li were old and their eyesight was not very good. Granny Li usually served the Dowager Consort when she washed up and changed clothes.

Neither of them noticed the unusual thing about their toes.

After Zhou Ruo confirmed it, she would begin to remove the spirit insects from the Dowager Consort.

"Grandma, I'm going to start eliminating the spirit insects for you... It's erysipelas~!"

"Alright, Ruo'er, slow down, don't rush." ​​The Empress Dowager was also very excited, but there was also a hint of worry in her heart.

She didn't know if Zhou Ruo would succeed this time.

Seeing Zhou Ruo come to treat her overnight with full confidence, she was afraid that if she failed again this time, Zhou Ruo would be really discouraged.

However, Zhou Ruo did not show any signs of tension or worry; she treated the most difficult disease with the most innocent attitude.

"Granny, prepare a basin, Grandmother will vomit in a while," Zhou Ru instructed Granny Li before inserting the silver needles.

Granny Li quickly brought over a foot-washing basin and placed it beside the Empress Dowager's feet.

Zhou Ruo began inserting the needles. The Vermilion Bird Grass energy, tempered by spiritual power, flowed through the silver needles into the Empress Dowager's acupoints.

It enters the meridians, blood vessels, and other parts of the body.

Then they went straight to every single spirit insect inside the Empress Dowager's body.

The heat from the tempered Vermilion Bird Grass will not burn the Empress Dowager in the slightest.

The Empress Dowager only felt a large, warm current flowing through every part of her body.

After being attacked by the Vermilion Bird Grass, the spirit insect immediately thrashed and convulsed violently as if it were being burned by a raging fire, until it could no longer move.

After all the spirit insects died, Zhou Ruo inserted two needles into the Empress Dowager's body and used her spiritual power to extract all the spirit insects from her body.

Suddenly, the Dowager felt a lot of foreign objects in her stomach being pushed towards her chest. A moment later, she began to vomit profusely.

Finally, he vomited half a basin full of the corpses of the spirit insects and poisonous blood.

Zhou Ruo removed the silver needles and put them away, exhaled, and smiled with satisfaction.

The Empress Dowager stared at the half-basin of vomit she had just expelled, her heart pounding with fear.

"Ruo'er, are these the poisons that have been in Grandma's body all along?"

Zhou Ruo: "Yes, Grandmother, these are all erysipelas in your body."

Granny Li was also horrified. "Heavens! This is terrifying! I've lived for so many years and this is the first time I've ever seen something like this."

Zhou Ruo looked at the Dowager Consort's toes again, "Grandmother, the gray on your toes is gone!"

The Empress Dowager and Granny Li also looked at the toes. Granny Li squatted down to examine them carefully again, "They're really gone!"

"Ruo'er, Grandmother is all better now?" The Empress Dowager's face showed a rare look of surprise and joy.

Zhou Ruo nodded vigorously and told her, "Grandma, you're all better! You'll definitely live to be a hundred!"

"Oh dear!" The Dowager Princess hugged Zhou Ruo tightly. "Good, Grandmother will live a long and healthy life! I'll stay by your side!"