Chapter 12 Beg him, let him do as he pleases

The moon is bright and the stars are few; the shadows of the trees sway gently.

On the way back to Linfeng Hall, Ye Mingzhu kept glancing at Sheng Yunche, who was diagonally in front of her, her heart pounding.

The man's eyes had looked a little off just now. Could he still be holding a grudge and was going to drag her into something to verify later? She couldn't think of anything else besides that.

He couldn't possibly make things difficult for her about returning home.

Upon entering the inner room, Ye Mingzhu spoke first, "Husband, I'm going to take a bath now."

Sheng Yunche glanced at her indifferently and nodded reservedly: "Alright."

After taking a bath, Ye Mingzhu also came up with a solution.

After helping Sheng Yunche undress and watching him go to the bathing room, she immediately instructed Baozan, "Go and boil a pot of herbal water; I need to boil needles."

Baozan asked curiously, "Miss, are you going to perform acupuncture on the Duke?"

"yes."

"Leave the needle-making to me too."

"Okay." Ye Mingzhu nodded with a smile.

In her previous life, Sheng Huai'an and Jia Shi disliked her studying medicine, thinking that female doctors were a gossipy profession. They threw away her gold needles in front of her, and she was heartbroken for a long time.

In this life, she will help Sheng Yunche improve his health. Her dedication to medical research is something the Eastern Mansion will certainly welcome and will not stop her from doing.

She had already planned what would happen next.

Thinking of this, Ye Mingzhu's mood brightened even more.

Sheng Yunche took a quick shower.

Before long, he sat down on the other side of the soft couch, still damp from the hot water, his deep phoenix eyes gazing at her, as if trying to see what she was thinking.

Ye Mingzhu picked up a soft white cloth and walked behind him, wiping his dripping black hair as she softly asked, "Lord Duke, would you mind if I performed acupuncture to detoxify you tonight?"

"..." Sheng Yunche turned his head to look at her, and placed his hand on the pulse pillow indifferently, "Come on."

Ye Mingzhu coughed lightly and lowered her eyes to take his pulse.

Gradually, her expression became serious.

In her past life, she watched helplessly as Sheng Huai'an poisoned her younger sister. While she hated him intensely, she also frantically wondered how she could save her sister if she were still alive.

"Huang Quan Ji" may seem mild, but those poisoned will only become increasingly weak, their bodies will deteriorate, and they will eventually die from suffocation. In reality, it is very potent and difficult to deal with.

When she was a ghost, she spent decades devising several feasible methods, but she had no way to verify them. After discussing it with her parents today, she decided to first use gold needles to detoxify.

She performed acupuncture on Sheng Yunche.

Sheng Yunche let her do as she pleased, his gaze constantly scanning her, seemingly observing something.

He's always like this; she's almost gotten used to it.

It wasn't until he coughed up a mouthful of black blood under the stimulation of the golden needles that he finally looked at her with a hint of emotion, perhaps because he felt much better and the effect was obvious.

"You really know medicine?" he asked, wiping the blood from his lips.

Ye Mingzhu was puzzled: "Of course."

Wasn't it because she was a doctor and had precious medicinal herbs that could cure his illness and prolong his life that he agreed to marry her?

Sheng Yunche chuckled softly: "Hmm..."

Ye Mingzhu glanced at the water clock in the bronze pot; it was already past 11:45 PM.

She put away the gold needles and said, "Lord Duke, please rest."

"Hmm." Sheng Yunche got up and walked to the bedside.

Ye Mingzhu was extremely sleepy, but she forced herself to stay awake until Sheng Yunche had fallen asleep for quite a while, estimating that he should be sound asleep, before she went to bed.

No sooner had she covered herself with the brocade quilt than Sheng Yunche, who was "sound asleep," suddenly rolled over and covered her with his body, his large hands gripping her shoulders.

In the dim candlelight, he looked down at her, his phoenix eyes bright and domineering, showing no sign of sleepiness whatsoever.

Ye Mingzhu stared wide-eyed, not daring to move.

Her intuition told her that it was best not to make any rash moves at this moment.

otherwise……

"Surprised?" Sheng Yunche chuckled, pinching her earlobe with interest as he asked coolly, "I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to hold grudges overnight. You didn't think I'd forgotten?"

He then asked, "Do you need to verify?"

Ye Mingzhu blinked, and her ears slowly turned red.

Even if she were reborn, she had never seen anything like this before...

No, in her past life, Sheng Huai'an had also asked her to "examine" him. At that time, she only felt disgusted and resistant. But now she wanted to hit Sheng Yunche a few times to make him stop teasing her.

With another soft chuckle, Sheng Yunche asked leisurely, "You were so resourceful before, why are you so timid now, not even daring to speak?"

Ye Mingzhu: "..."

This person really holds a grudge!

Sheng Yunche: "If you don't speak up now, you'll have plenty of times to beg me in the future."

Ye Mingzhu didn't understand.

What did she ask of him?

Wasn't it him who begged her to treat his illness?

Perhaps amused by her "cowardly" appearance, Sheng Yunche chuckled and said "no good," then mercifully released her and went back to bed.

Touching her earlobe, which had been pinched until it was burning hot, Ye Mingzhu breathed a sigh of relief.

The little incident surprised her, but it didn't affect her mindset too much, nor did it keep her up all night.

For some reason, she became increasingly composed in front of Sheng Yunche.

...

For five consecutive days, Ye Mingzhu performed acupuncture to detoxify Sheng Yunche every day.

With the help of the prescription given by Ye Chengji, his complexion improved significantly in just a few days.

On the seventh day, the two were supposed to go to the Ye residence to see Ye Chengji for a medical consultation. Early in the morning, Ye Mingzhu was making preparations for the trip.

However, Sheng Yunche seemed indifferent to the matter, staying in his study all morning and showing no intention of going out.

Ye Mingzhu finally understood what this person meant when he said, "There will be plenty of times when you need to ask him for help."

She had to beg him to take him back to her parents' home for medical treatment!

No wonder Princess Ronghua said he didn't care about his health; he truly didn't.

Unfortunately, she wanted to return to her parents' home, so she had to go to the study to invite him.

After several attempts to persuade him failed, she vaguely understood something under his smug gaze. She took his hand and placed it to her ear, blushing as she let him play with her earlobe.

After a long pause, suppressing her embarrassment and anger, she asked, "Is that enough?"

Satisfied, Sheng Yunche pinched her again, his dark phoenix eyes smiling as he looked at her, and finally relented: "Alright, let's go."

Ye Mingzhu: "..."

Even the infamous Wei Ji might not be as wicked as him, right? Wei Ji kills people, but he destroys their spirit!

She gritted her teeth inwardly.

The two left the Duke of Wei's mansion and returned home from the Ye residence as dusk fell, carrying the new prescription.

Princess Ronghua was immediately concerned and was overjoyed to learn that Sheng Yunche's health had greatly improved.

Her way of expressing her affection for Ye Mingzhu was very simple: she would give her gifts.

Silk and satin, jewelry and ornaments.

I'll give whatever comes to mind.

On the day of the family banquet between the two households, Yaqin was ordered to deliver a wooden box: "Madam, the Princess asked me to send you a plum blossom hairpin made of mutton fat jade, saying that you can wear it and play with it."

It's an old item from the previous dynasty, quite valuable, so you're just wearing it for fun?

It's even more luxurious than the Ye family.

Ye Mingzhu was already used to her mother-in-law's generosity, so she smiled and thanked her. Then she asked Baozan to bring a box of bird's nest soup and asked Yaqin to give it to Princess Ronghua.

It's just her nature; if someone is kind to her, she wants to repay them tenfold.

Princess Ronghua was not only of noble status, but also very wealthy, and was certainly not lacking in worldly possessions.

She simply couldn't think of any other way to reciprocate kindness besides giving a return gift.

The opportunity came quickly.

...

A family banquet for the two families.

Sheng Yunche was on official business and went to the military camp temporarily, and did not return at noon.

Ye Mingzhu attended the event in full regalia and saw Liu Rumei holding her young child and Jia Shi with a sour face once again.

Liu Rumei still looked frail and delicate. In this life, she would no longer provide her with the Zi Gu (a type of venomous insect) for medicine. Her cough worsened, and when she coughed, faint traces of blood could be seen on her handkerchief.

Ye Mingzhu smiled slightly and sat down calmly.

Although it was a family dinner, men and women sat at separate tables.

The old ancestor went to the estate to escape the summer heat. Apart from talking with Princess Ronghua, Ye Mingzhu only exchanged a few words with Sheng Yunche's half-sister, Sheng Wan'er, and ignored Liu Rumei and Jia Shi.

She didn't see Sheng Huai'an, but given Liu Rumei's condition, she was certain that he would come to find her in the next few days and coax her to take out the Zi Gu to cure Liu Rumei's illness.

However, she didn't expect him to arrive so quickly.

After the family banquet, she was stopped by Sheng Huai'an on her way back to Linfeng Hall.

"Zhuzhu'er..." Sheng Huai pretended to be deeply in love, but the impatience and disdain in his eyes were impossible to hide and were very obvious.

Ye Mingzhu felt that she had been blind in her previous life, never having noticed this before.

She took a step back and said, "Young Master Sheng, please have some self-respect. I roughly know why you've come. If you want something from me, you don't need to put on airs. Just give me enough money."

Sheng Huai'an paused, his expression surprised: "Silver? Zhuzhu, you..." It wasn't like this before.

“Young Master Sheng, please stop calling me by my childhood name!” Ye Mingzhu interrupted him, deliberately saying, “If outsiders heard this, they would think you have some improper thoughts about your sister-in-law.”

Sister-in-law? An inappropriate thought?

Sheng Huai'an, feeling guilty, felt his heart skip a beat and stared at her in shock.

"What's wrong?" Ye Mingzhu asked, feigning surprise. "Isn't your sister-in-law from the next room a sister-in-law?"