Facts proved that Yu Zizhen's suspicion and caution were not unnecessary. Wearing the sachet for a long time would indeed make one's limbs weak, the mind drowsy, and make one perform actions beyond one's control.
Coincidentally, they don’t have classes tomorrow, so she, Chen Hushan, and Fang Huaiying will all celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with the royal family.
If Yu Zizhen had not discovered something was wrong in time, then next, she would most likely do something rude and disrespectful, or even put herself in danger, because of her weak limbs and drowsiness while watching the dragon boat race outside the palace, while feasting and enjoying singing and dancing in the palace, or while traveling back and forth.
If she was unlucky, or someone deliberately played tricks on her, it was possible that she would be trampled by the horse's hooves when getting on or off the carriage.
It's either to ruin her reputation or to kill her. The person behind this has malicious intentions and deserves to be punished.
With a turn of his eyes, Yu Zizhen quickly swapped his sachet with Wan Jingrong's.
Anyway, all of their sachets looked similar, and with Wan Jingrong's careless personality, he definitely couldn't tell whether the smell of the sachet was different from before.
As expected, Wan Jingrong was completely unaware of Yu Zizhen's little actions.
After returning to the eldest prince's bedroom, Yu Zizhen took advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention and carefully checked the eldest prince's sachet.
Not finding anything that shouldn't be inside, Yu Zizhen returned the sachet.
As for Fang Huaiying, Yang Shixian and others, before the music theory class started in the afternoon, Yu Zizhen curiously asked for their respective sachets and "observed" them carefully.
Her apparent explanation was that she was interested in the skills of the palace embroiderers and wanted to see if there was anything unique about them, and whether she needed to exchange some and send them back to the north so that her beloved concubine sisters could learn from them.
Everyone had heard about the Dragon Boat Festival gifts that Yu Zizhen gave to his younger brothers and sisters, and without exception, all of them were things they needed to learn. When they heard what Yu Zizhen said, they were speechless and didn't feel surprised at all.
She ignored Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong, whose sachets she had swapped, and checked everyone else's sachets.
The results of the examination surprised and unsurprising her. She thought to the system, "It seems someone is deliberately targeting me."
After a pause, she added, "He should be one of Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong's relatives."
Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong were originally relatives, but in this palace, their relatives were not just the aunt and niece pair of Big Lu and Little Lu.
Under pressure from the previous dynasty, two years ago, the elder Lu forced the younger Lu to select several concubines of good family backgrounds for the emperor, among whom was Wan Jingrong's aunt Wan.
Yu Zizhen had never met Mrs. Wan. She only knew that, given Mrs. Lu's magnanimity and generosity, she would certainly not resort to such despicable means against such a valuable "hostage." This meant that the suspects could be narrowed down to Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Wan. This was one of the reasons why Yu Zizhen immediately gave the sachet to Wan Jingrong.
As for the second reason, Wan Jingrong was closer to her than Lu Heng at the time. If she had to choose between the two, she would definitely choose the one that was easier to attack.
Of course, she had no intention of taking this opportunity to kill Wan Jingrong.
Look, the next day when everyone was celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival together, Yu Zizhen's attention to Wan Jingrong even exceeded that of the eldest prince who had always been her favorite.
After watching the dragon boat race, everyone gathered at the carriage parking area, ready to take the carriage back to the palace to attend the banquet. However, Wan Jingrong rolled off the footstool because his limbs were weak and he was drowsy, and his leg was almost broken by his own horse. Yu Zizhen, who had been prepared, immediately "came to his rescue".
She rushed over, snatched the whip from the Wan family's coachman, and then accurately and quickly wrapped the whip around Wan Jingrong's arm, narrowly dragging him out from under the horse's hooves.
Wan Jingrong was still in a daze until he was dragged out by Yu Zizhen.
He didn't know what was wrong with him. He seemed to be feeling unwell since this morning. As time went by, he couldn't even muster the energy to watch the dragon boat race.
He was just thinking about asking the servants to take his father's name card and ask a doctor to treat him when he got home. However, before he even got home, he almost got into trouble due to his poor health.
What he least expected was that Yu Zizhen was the first one to rush over to save him.
He was a little unable to react and just stared at Yu Zizhen blankly.
Seeing this, Yu Zizhen couldn't help but smile. She said, "No need to thank me, just remember to give me the money. After all, for a fool like me, the love of money is ingrained in my bones."
Wan Jingrong, who often talked behind Yu Zizhen's back: ...
Others present:... Sure enough, Yu Zizhen is still the same Yu Zizhen, and he didn't take the wrong medicine as they thought.
"By the way, remember to thoroughly investigate what exactly is going on. After all, Master Wan, you come from a wealthy family and are not some empty-headed fool with nothing but good looks. If there wasn't some reason, you wouldn't have such trouble even getting on the carriage."
Wan Jingrong agreed with this, but since the person who said this was Yu Zizhen, whom he always disliked, Wan Jingrong was not willing to express his agreement frankly.
He said, "I just feel unwell."
Yu Zizhen shrugged. As always, she didn't care about the other person's reaction.
After doing what she wanted to do, the matter was over for her. She didn't care at all whether the other party was happy or depressed, agreed or disagreed.
"Since you're feeling unwell, go home early and ask the imperial physician to come and see you." The emperor spoke gently, but in his heart he was criticizing Wan Jingrong for not judging the seriousness of the matter: "Why are you coming to watch a dragon boat race when you're feeling unwell? Wouldn't it be better to just lie back at home and relax?"
The emperor didn't know at this time that Wan Jingrong would soon be told by the imperial physician that the reason he was like this was because he was wearing the wrong Dragon Boat Festival sachet.
Wan Jingrong, who was used to being domineering, would certainly not tolerate this evil, so after he felt a little better, he angrily ordered people to prepare a car, and he wanted to go to the palace to seek justice for himself.
Fortunately, although his father was not at home, his mother was smart and stopped her eldest son who was not very troublesome. His mother secretly sent her trusted nanny to find her sister-in-law to inquire about the situation.
Thanks to the fact that they and Lu were real relatives, Wan Jingrong's mother had a sign that allowed her to enter the palace to seek an audience at any time.
The nanny took the sign given to her by Wan Jingrong's mother and, under the pretext of paying respects to the Empress in the palace and delivering some gifts, finally met Wan Jingrong's aunt after some twists and turns.
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