Everyone in the courtyard had left, leaving only the oldest girl, fourteen years old. She was wearing a beige long dress, her hair was neatly combed and she wore a hairpin with flowers and a step-shake. She had a beautiful face and dignified manners, like a lady from a noble family.
"My name is Xiao Xun, and I'm the manager here. If you don't mind, you can call me Sister Xiao, or Manager Xiao. I received news from the Prime Minister a long time ago that two children would be coming, so I have already prepared accommodation for you. Your rooms are adjacent, and you are brother and sister, so you can take care of each other..." Xiao Xun said a lot of things in a row, and took Ji Xingzhi and Su Yang around for a long time before reaching their destination.
Unexpectedly, although the yard looks small from the outside, it is a different world inside.
Xiao Xun took Ji Xingzhi and Su Yang away and stopped at the door of two adjacent rooms. She ended her endless chatter with "If you need anything in the future, just come to me."
Ji Xingzhi and Su Yang thanked him politely and went into their rooms.
Ji Xingzhi pushed the door open and walked in. The room was not big, but not small either. It was fully furnished with tables, chairs, benches and other furniture. It looked like an ordinary guest room. As the saying goes: Small but complete.
At night.
Ji Xingzhi lay in bed, now understanding that once she entered this courtyard, the possibility of leaving was even lower. Uncle Qin had lifted the surveillance on them when he was in Dongping County, but they had been watched by Jin Xizi's men. Now that Jin Xizi's men were gone, the people from Prince Xun's Mansion were watching them again. Furthermore, the gate to this courtyard was guarded, and the walls were high. Even if she escaped the courtyard, she couldn't escape the palace, which seemed so huge... How could she, with her inability to tell east from west, escape...
Ji Xingzhi said, "I'm really tired..."
In the following days, Ji Xingzhi learned the rules of this courtyard. Prince Xun Hua Yihen handed over all the affairs in the courtyard to Xiao Xun. He had never entered this courtyard, so Xiao Xun was the boss in this courtyard.
The yard has a gate that opens at 11:00 AM every day and closes at 12:00 PM in the evening. When you leave the yard, you can only stroll around the garden not far away. You are not allowed to set foot anywhere else, otherwise you will be kicked out.
Every day at mealtime, a maid would deliver meals to the room, and every night a maid would fetch bath water into the room, but the maids were not private, they were only responsible for delivering things and fetching bath water.
Hmm...it feels like being in prison.
However, Ji Xingzhi was studying Uncle Qin's damn poison every night. Her head was about to explode and she had no intention of running away. Anyway, she couldn't run away.
Snake gall, ice lotus seeds, and bitter grass are cold and extremely bitter, while angelica dahurica sap and stewed incense are hot and sweet.
These are extremely precious and valuable medicinal herbs. They have excellent effects when taken alone, but when these herbs are combined together, they become extremely poisonous. Ji Xingzhi has never understood why just two of these herbs mixed together can kill a person instantly. Five of them combined together are even more poisonous. If the skin comes into contact with them, the flesh will fester and the person will die, let alone swallowing them.
But why didn't they die immediately after consuming such a poison? There must be something she hadn't noticed...
Ji Xingzhi thought about it for several days but had no clue. She simply stopped thinking about it. She was not the kind of person who liked to dwell on trivial matters, otherwise, she would have been driven to death by herself.
Ji Xingzhi studied the antidote at night and wandered around during the day when she had nothing to do, because Xiao Xun said that she could not set foot anywhere else, otherwise she would be thrown out. Well, although she really wanted to be thrown out.
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