"Sister, I..." Consort Zhen's words were on the tip of her tongue but she couldn't say them.
Pearl came in carrying a bowl of medicine: "Consort Zhen, the Imperial Hospital has already prepared the medicine again. Please drink it while it's hot."
"I feel a little nauseous right now. You can leave it there for now, I'll drink it in a bit." Consort Zhen said weakly, "Go to the storeroom and get that pair of jade ruyi scepters. I want to give them to the Seventh Princess as a hundred-day gift."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Pearl has just left the room.
Consort Shu placed Mu Qianqian on Consort Zhen's bed, picked up the medicine bowl, and walked to a pot of lilies in Consort Shu's room.
She poured every last drop of the medicine from the bowl into the flowerpot.
Originally, it emitted a faint fragrance and had petals that opened like trumpets.
The moment the medicinal soup completely seeped into the soil.
The lily petals wilted quickly.
The snow-white petals began to turn yellow, and even the necks turned dark green, before drooping limply.
Consort Zhen's pupils contracted rapidly as she looked at the scene before her. Her chest heaved as she gasped for breath.
It felt like someone was choking me, making it hard to breathe.
“Sister, there’s no need to panic. If you live in this palace for a long time, you’ll find that this kind of thing happens every day.” Consort Shu put the bowl back in its original place and wiped her hands with a handkerchief. “Think about it, almost every palace in the harem has a concubine, but the emperor only has a few princes.”
If it weren't for her maternal family's illustrious military achievements...
My father was also a founding hero of the Yuan Dynasty.
I'm afraid she was already murdered when she became pregnant with Mu Junhan.
Even so, she still faced many difficulties in the imperial harem.
"Why? Why did this happen?" Consort Zhen was unable to accept it for a moment.
She found it hard to accept that the person who had grown up with her since childhood would betray her and even try to kill her.
Consort Shu patted her shoulder reassuringly: "It may not necessarily be pearls. After all, this medicine has also passed through the hands of people from the Imperial Hospital. For now, let's focus on getting better. We can talk about other things later."
Consort Zhen nodded silently.
But she still couldn't accept it from the bottom of her heart.
"Your Majesty, this servant has not found the jade ruyi you mentioned." Pearl hurriedly walked in from outside.
"No?" Consort Zhen frowned. "Then I might have misremembered. Please put the medicine bowl away."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Pearl slowly left the room.
"When the medicine is delivered tonight, find some excuse to throw it away. Don't alert them," Consort Shu instructed. "There is a Physician Xie in the Imperial Hospital who was once indebted to my father. She is a trustworthy person. I will have someone pass on a message to her later."
"Sister, I understand." Consort Zhen's eyes were filled with tears. "Thank you, sister."
Consort Shu sat for a while longer, chatted with Consort Zhen for a few words, and then left.
It was evening.
Pearl then brought over the herbal medicine sent by the Imperial Hospital: "Your Majesty, the medicine for tonight has arrived. Please drink it while it's hot."
"I understand, just put it there," Consort Zhen said listlessly, half-lying on the bed.
"Your Highness, would you like me to feed you?" Pearl carried the medicine to Consort Zhen's bedside. "The imperial physician said that this medicine will lose its effectiveness if it gets cold. You should drink it while it's still hot."
Consort Zhen reached out and knocked the medicine bowl out of Pearl's hand: "I said I won't drink it, why do you keep making me drink it? Drink, drink, drink! Drinking so much bitter medicine every day, it has no effect at all, what's the point of drinking it..."
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