Chapter 254 I guess she is having a peach blossom craze

[Ding! Host, congratulations! You are going to be an aunt! ]

Thousands of miles away, Xue Youran had just finished taking her pulse and confirmed her pregnancy, and Shen Chaoyan received the news from the Heavenly Book.

Shen Chaoyan: [Great! It happens to be my second brother’s birthday at the end of the month. The emperor allowed me to return to the Shen Mansion to celebrate my second brother’s birthday. By then, maybe this news will have been passed back to Beijing from Lingnan! I feel happy just thinking about it! ]

A line of red words suddenly lit up on the Heavenly Book: [However! There is a little maid in the Yongchuan Marquis Mansion who has a crush on your eldest brother. When she learned that Xue Youran was pregnant, she was indignant and was preparing to find an opportunity to attack the child in your eldest sister-in-law’s belly! ]

Shen Chaoyan suddenly became anxious: [That won’t work! Is there any way to notify them as soon as possible! 】

At that time, there were no cell phones or telephones, so if you wanted to contact them, you had to either send a letter or send a letter by pigeon.

But both were too slow.

She knew that Daxia's 800-li express was very fast, and was generally used to deliver military intelligence on the battlefield.

It could almost travel a thousand miles a day.

The Heavenly Book was in tune with her thoughts, and immediately displayed a reply on the page: [In the Daxia Dynasty, the fastest is the 800-li express.]

Shen Chaoyan frowned: [How do you think I should tell Sikong Yan about the 800-li express?]

It didn't seem to make sense for her to ask Sikong Yan to send an 800-li express letter to Lingnan for no reason?

Heavenly Book: [Host, this Heavenly Book has two suggestions here. Either you reveal your cards to the tyrant, or you lie to the tyrant and say that you have something very important to discuss with your eldest brother and need to rush it within 800 miles. 】

Shen Chaoyan was worried after reading the suggestions in the heavenly book: [Your second suggestion is totally untenable, just PASS! However, if I reveal my cards, will the tyrant think I am a weirdo? She has the heavenly book and can find out anyone's background at any time and anywhere. In front of her, no one has any secrets. 】

For the emperor, such a person should be a terrible existence, right?

But if the maid is ruthless and her eldest brother and sister-in-law are not prepared, it is very likely that someone will die.

Forget it!

Human life is at stake, she can't care so much!

Just reveal your cards!

Shen Chaoyan is ready to risk it for Xue Youran and the child in her belly.

However, just as she stood up from her seat, there was a report from outside the palace.

"The emperor has arrived--"

Shen Chaoyan was just about to look for him, and now that he was here, it saved her a lot of trouble.

She looked up at the handsome man walking towards her, and immediately bowed, "Greetings to the emperor."

Sikong Yan reached out and helped her up, and before she could speak, he spoke first, "Empress, there have been bandits causing chaos at the border of Luocheng and Lingnan recently. I plan to send an 800-mile express letter to your elder brother, and let him and the prefect of Luocheng suppress the bandits together. The letter will leave the palace in a quarter of an hour. If you have a letter to send to your elder brother, I can have someone send it together."

Shen Chaoyan was just worrying about how to mention the 800-mile express to Sikong Yan, but the man took the initiative to ask her if she had any letters to send.

She hurriedly said, "Yes! I'll write it right away!"

Shen Chaoyan wrote a letter to Xue Youran, saying that she had a nightmare in which someone dressed as a maid in the Marquis' Mansion poisoned Xue Youran's food.

In the letter, she repeatedly reminded Xue Youran to pay attention to the maids around her, and not to be careless about the food she had recently eaten, and must check it carefully.

Shen Chaoyan wrote the letter very quickly. After saying the key points, she folded the rice paper and put it in an envelope, "Your Majesty, this is a letter to my sister-in-law. Please send it along."

"Okay."

Sikong Yan took her letter and handed it to Li Heguang, asking him to send it out of the palace together.

In fact, with Shen Yushu's ability, the bandits were not worth mentioning at all.

However, the bandits appeared at the border between Luocheng and Lingnan, so it is indeed necessary to let the responsible persons of the two places know about this matter and communicate with each other.

Only by working together can both sides achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Sikong Yan deliberately mentioned the matter of the 800-mile expedited delivery in front of Shen Chaoyan, and also wanted to send her family letter to Lingnan at the same time.

The 800-mile expedited delivery is indeed very fast. Two days after the letter was sent out of the palace, Xue Youran, who was far away in Lingnan, received the family letter from the capital.

Although Shen Chaoyan told the facts she learned from the heavenly book in the form of a nightmare, it still attracted Xue Youran's high attention.

Xue Youran was good friends with Shen Chaoyan in the palace. When Shen Chaoyan shared gossip with Xue Youran before, she also used nightmares as an excuse.

Therefore, Xue Youran knew that her dreams were always very accurate.

Adhering to the principle of believing something is true rather than not, Xue Youran strictly screened the food he ate.

Sure enough, he found a clue.

Xue Youran directly called the maid Xia He to the front hall and pointed to the Cordyceps and Pigeon Soup she brought.

"Is this the soup you brought?"

Xia He had tampered with the pigeon soup. After all, it was her first time to do such a thing. When she heard Xue Youran ask this, she was so scared that her legs went weak on the spot.

She glanced at Xue Youran and replied cautiously, "Yes, it's me."

Xue Youran's eyes sank, and when he asked the question, there was a strong sense of oppression, "Then why are there so many red flowers in it?"

Xia He was frightened by her aura, her legs went weak and she knelt on the spot.

"No...I didn't..."

Before she could even try to argue, Xue Youran threw a paper bag at her feet, "No? I found this bag from under your bed, what else do you have to say?"

Xia He was jealous to begin with, and she rushed to buy safflower.

She was a little maid with no education and no background, and she had heard someone mention that safflower could cause miscarriage.

A few days ago, her mother was sick, and she was hiding in the backyard crying when she was spotted by Shen Yushu.

Shen Yushu asked the housekeeper to give her money to pay for her mother's medical treatment, so she thought Shen Yushu had a crush on her.

Shen Chaoyan learned about this from the Book of Heaven a few days ago, and complained that Xia He was probably having a peach blossom madness.

Other people's kind acts could trigger her delusions, what a weirdo!

And it was the first time for Xia He to do such a thing. Compared with those concubines in the harem, her methods were not good enough at all.

Xue Youran frightened her with just a few words, "Madam! I was possessed by a ghost for a moment. Please forgive my fault!"

Xue Youran was not a master who would make things difficult for her servants, but she was not a bad person either. "If I hadn't discovered the problem in time today, there might have been two deaths. You want to escape punishment just by saying 'I was possessed by a ghost'. If everyone follows your example, won't I have to live in fear every day?"

At this point, she turned around and ordered the people outside, "Call the housekeeper and sell Xia He directly!"

Xia He's face turned pale when she heard this, and she cried and begged for mercy.

Unfortunately, Xue Youran ignored her and waved her hand to have Xia He dragged away.

After this incident, the servants of the Marquis's Mansion knew the Marquis's wife's temper, so they naturally dared not have any other crooked thoughts and just did their own work.

Xue Youran wrote back to Shen Chaoyan, and Shen Chaoyan finally breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that she had settled the matter.

Next, she just had to wait for her little nephew to be born safely!