Fortunately, the small restaurants she visited later also had plenty of gossip.

The story goes that the single widow at the entrance of Lijia Village got together with Widow Wang at the entrance of the village.

The Nian family's backyard chickens were stolen. After the Nian family caught the thief, they stripped him naked and paraded him through the village for three days. When the government finally arrived, the thief was still crying out for help from the righteous official.

Another story involves a man who fell into the water and was rescued by a girl. Now he's constantly chasing after her, insisting on marrying her, which has made it so that no one wants to propose to her anymore.

Su Wanyan was both angry and speechless. He had saved her life, yet he still dared to mess with her. Ugh.

Su Wanyan spent almost the entire afternoon listening to gossip.

Before leaving, she heard some news about Su Muqing. She heard that on the day of the Lower Yuan Festival, Su Muqing had a high fever after returning to the mansion and kept shouting that evil spirits were coming to take her life.

It's unclear which maid or servant in the Marquis's mansion let slip this, but now the people who heard the rumor are all talking about whether Su Muqing is possessed by a ghost.

Otherwise, why would someone suddenly develop a high fever and start shouting incoherently?

Some commoners raised different opinions, saying that Su Muqing cried out "Your Highness, spare my life," which meant that Yu Nanqing must have done something to Su Muqing.

Su Wanyan listened intently.

"When did Miss Su and Prince Gong meet? How could Prince Gong possibly do anything to Miss Su? She must be possessed by a ghost!"

"That's not necessarily true. The Emperor's marriage was originally intended for Miss Su and Prince Gong. Perhaps the two still have feelings for each other, or perhaps Prince Gong harbors resentment and did something to Miss Su that frightened her into talking nonsense like this."

"Don't talk nonsense. Prince Gong is paralyzed. How could he lay a hand on Miss Su? If he still has feelings for her, why would he marry off his concubine's daughter to her? In my opinion, he must be possessed by a ghost."

"So what if he's paralyzed? I've heard that Prince Gong came out to see the sky lanterns on the Lantern Festival."

"What? Really? Who told you that?"

"That's what everyone says. Many people saw it. The Prince was in a wheelchair, and Princess Gong was pushing him. I also heard that the Prince is handsome and has a gentle and refined appearance. He's a first-rate handsome man! I don't know how many young girls he's attracted to steal glances at him."

"Nonsense, where did you hear that from?"

"It doesn't matter where I heard it from, I just heard it from someone else. If you don't believe me, go listen to more people yourself!"

Su Wanyan didn't know what to say for a moment. Putting aside what came before, Yu Nanqing... was handsome?

Handsome?

Handsome...beautiful?

Thinking of his pale, thin, bloodless face, was he handsome?

He's not handsome at all.

With a body as thin as a paper doll, it's as if a gust of wind could blow him away. How did this rumor even start?

As expected, you can only believe half of these rumors.

Su Wanyan got up, gave the money, and headed home.

When Su Wanyan returned to the main courtyard, Yu Nanqing was sleeping.

Hearing the door open, he slowly opened his eyes.

Seeing that Su Wanyan's hands were empty, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Didn't you buy anything today?"

He assumed that since she had been gone for so long, she must have bought a lot of unusual things.

"I'm not just a spendthrift." It's only been two days since the Lower Yuan Festival, and she bought so much for it; she needs some time to process it.

Yu Nanqing smiled and struggled to get up. Su Wanyan quickly helped him up, and then he asked, "What did you say to Su He?"

"It's nothing, he just asked me to drug the princess."

Yu Nanqing frowned: "Drug the Princess?"

That's not easy.

As far as he knew, the food served to the princess was inspected by special personnel, and even the close maids were searched every once in a while.

"It's not taken orally, just a little bit will do. I don't expect this to cause much harm to the princess, but once this medicine takes effect, it's hard to cure her."

It's not that it can't get better; the effects of the medication will eventually wear off. However, the process of removing it is very long, and if there is too much contact, the skin may develop rashes, ulcers, blisters, or even shock.

However, if the quantity is too large, it will definitely attract the attention of the body-searching nanny, and if anything unusual is found, those male concubines will no longer be able to serve the emperor.

That's why Su Wanyan said that it wouldn't matter if the medicine was handled by a second or third person; the main purpose was to keep the princess suffering from the effects of the medicine for a long time.

Moreover, if the eldest princess has health problems, then there will definitely be an investigation, and none of her male favorites will escape.

The eldest princess was too busy taking care of herself to have any time to deal with Prince Gong's mansion.

Speaking of which, Master Wang hasn't reported Su Muqing's marriage yet. Is it because he can't find out?

However, Su Muqing has been running a high fever recently, and the Marquis's mansion is very busy, so she doesn't need to rush.

"..." Although Su Wanyan spoke lightly, drugging the princess was a very dangerous thing for Yu Nanqing.

Once the eldest princess finds out it was Su Wanyan's idea...

Is Su He... really trustworthy?

"It's all my fault for being useless." Yu Nanqing remained silent for a long time before finally managing to utter this sentence.

"Alright, I'm too tired today to comfort you."

"..."

Seeing him like this, Su Wanyan added, "Then I also want you to get better soon. Why do you think I'm so worried? It's because I want to hand over a good Prince Gong's Mansion to you when you get better, so that it won't be in vain for the kindness you showed me when we first met."

"..." Is this something that can't be let go of?

Yu Nanqing pursed her lips: "I didn't mean to kill you..."

It was just a test...

"Ha, do you believe that?"

"..." Yu Nanqing was speechless.

He did have murderous thoughts, but after realizing that Su Wanyan had no martial arts skills or intentions, he abandoned those thoughts.

After a long silence, he finally uttered, "Luckily... I didn't do it."

This is the best thing he has ever done.

Su Wanyan pouted and reached out to pull down his pants: "Acupuncture."

Yu Nanqing's heart tightened, and he subconsciously reached out to grab his belt, but before he could reach out, he stopped himself, frowning: "Could you... give me some time to prepare myself?"

Ever since his back wound healed, Su Wanyan's gentleness seemed to have run out.

They would just start pulling off the needles without saying a word when they were giving him acupuncture.

Sometimes, before he'd even woken up from his afternoon nap, she'd already come over and pulled down his pants, leaving him completely bewildered.

However, she had been administering acupuncture to him for a long time, and it would seem strange if he didn't cooperate at this moment. He tried to hide his embarrassment while not daring to think too much about it. Whenever this happened, he wished someone could knock him unconscious.

What he was most grateful for was that he needed to have breakfast every morning before receiving acupuncture, otherwise...

Yu Nanqing didn't even dare to think about it.

"Aren't you prepared for what I'm about to do?" Su Wanyan looked up at him. "You should have known what I was going to do the moment I walked in."