Chapter 23 You Old Witch
"You can't stay here for too long. I'm just telling you that you can't save that man, no matter how handsome he is."
"Okay, remember my words, get out of here!"
The woman walked over and kicked Bu Ruo in the abdomen, sending him flying again. However, this time he flew a little far and disappeared from sight.
The moment Bu Ruo disappeared, he became angrier and angrier. He looked at the woman and cursed, "How dare you kick me! You old witch, don't let me see you again, or I'll never let you go!"
Tao Ran: ...
After Bu Ruo disappeared, a handsome man in white, who looked like a banished immortal, appeared in the sea of flowers and took the woman who was stamping her feet in anger into his arms.
"Ran'er, don't be angry~"
The woman grabbed the man's hair so hard that even the bun was pulled off.
"Did you hear that? What did that unfilial girl just call me? Old witch! It's okay to call me a witch, but she's also an old witch! How am I old? Tell me! How am I old?!"
"I wasted half my cultivation to save her and let her reincarnate, and she treated me like this. Is she worthy of me?"
The man was being pinched and gasped: "Ran'er~Ran'er~hiss~"
"Ruo'er just doesn't remember. She didn't really mean to contradict you. If you're still angry, I'll go and vent it for you. I'll beat her up for messing with my wife."
The woman didn't let go, but pulled harder: "That's my precious disciple, what right do you have to hit her! If you dare to touch her, I will make you pay!"
"Okay, okay, whatever the madam says is what it is~"
The man begged for mercy, picked up the woman and walked away. His constant coaxing voice could be heard from far away.
"You're just a tough-mouthed person with a soft heart. You're clearly mad at her, yet you still come running to her defense. Don't you know the character of the child you raised? She's a rebellious person, how could she possibly listen to you?"
"Do you know something you haven't told me? I'm telling you, you'd better not hide anything from me. I only have this one precious disciple like her. If anything happens to her..."
"Hey, hey, hey? Don't pull, don't pull, I'm hiding nothing from you, I really didn't..."
"Then swear..."
"I can't even produce a single hair. My ears are about to be pulled off..."
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When Bu Ruo opened her eyes, she found herself half leaning in Xiao Yulan's arms, and Jin Congcong was holding a bowl of black stuff and was about to feed it to her.
"Jin Congcong! You're trying to murder me! Take it away! Take it away now!"
Jin Congcong's hand shook and the medicine bowl slipped. Fortunately, Cen Nan was quick to catch it, so he didn't pour the bowl of medicine on Bu Ruo's face.
Looking at Bu Ruo who was glaring at him, Jin Congcong patted his chest and said, "You suddenly fainted and scared me, and when you woke up and screamed, you scared me again, so... you can't blame me, I didn't really hit you in the face."
Bu Ruo recovered and looked at Xiao Yulan who was still holding her and asked, "I think I saw you standing up before I fainted. Are you okay?"
Just as Cen Nan was about to say something, he heard Xiao Yulan's calm voice: "The King is fine. Just go back and recuperate."
"How are you? Why did you suddenly faint? Are you feeling unwell?"
Bu Ruo thought of the woman he had just seen in his dream and said bitterly, "It's okay, I just dreamed of a crazy woman."
Tao Ran was standing in the clouds when she heard Bu Ruo calling her a crazy woman. She was so angry that she almost rushed down. In the end, the man next to her forcibly carried her away.
"I just checked the poison in your body. It can be cured, but it's a bit troublesome and may take a long time."
"I originally thought your poison would be cured in two to three months at most, but from what I just examined, even though you've been forcibly suppressing the poison in your legs for so many years, some of it still remains in your body at the beginning of the poisoning. Over time, it has now invaded your heart."
"So it won't take two or three months. It will probably take a year or two to completely expel the poison from the body. This process can't be rushed. I hope Your Highness will be patient."
Xiao Yulan's face showed no expression, but Cen Nan was extremely excited. He took two steps back and knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times to Bu Ruo.
"Princess, from now on you are my ancestor. As long as it can save the prince, I will do whatever you ask me to do. If you need any precious medicinal herbs, just tell me. No matter how hard it takes, I will find them for you."
"As long as the prince can live, it doesn't matter if we all die."
Bu Ruo was startled and quickly asked Jin Congcong to help the man up: "It doesn't require any precious medicinal herbs, but... it requires a lot of flowers."
"What kind of flowers? Princess, please tell me and I will send someone to find them right away."
Seeing Cen Nan's nervous expression, Bu Ruo smiled and said, "Relax, there are no special requirements for flowers. Any variety will do, as long as it's a flower. But the number must be large. Plant more in Prince Zhan's mansion. The most important thing is that they are easy to grow."
In fact, it’s not that Bu Ruo can’t bloom on its own, but that would be too tiring.
Cen Nan wrote down every word Bu Ruo said and repeated it several times, leaving the others speechless.
It was already dinner time, and Bu Ruo was the only master in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, so she didn't care about rules at all. She insisted on keeping Xiao Yulan in the mansion to have dinner before letting him leave.
Bu Ruo said that he was worthy of being the man who almost became the emperor. He was just having a meal, but every move he made was pleasing to the eye.
Xiao Yulan was also shocked when she saw Bu Ruo's dining etiquette. She had thought that this carefree little girl was careless, but after a meal, she found that her etiquette was no worse than that of a royal princess, and was even more elegant and dignified.
Bu Ruo: I learned etiquette from my second senior brother. His etiquette is three points better than Xiao Yulan's.
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Three days later, Bu Ruo calculated the money for supporting the Bu family army and asked Cui Ji to submit a memorial and tell the emperor that if the emperor disagreed or bargained, the Bu family army would be withdrawn.
After Cui Ji came back, he told Bu Ruo that the emperor agreed, but as soon as he walked out of the imperial study, he heard the emperor smashing a lot of things inside and calling the prince a fool.
After hearing this, Bu Ruo cursed inwardly that it was what she deserved, and gave the token to Cui Ji. After all, she was a girl in the boudoir and could not really go to the border to train troops.
However, she said that she would give Cui Ji an extra monthly salary, and in addition to the money she used to cheat the emperor, she would also give a portion of the money to the Bu family army every month so that they could eat and drink well and train well.
This move made the other generals envious, but they could only envy him. After all, they did not have permanent military power, nor did they have the courage to negotiate prices with the emperor.
Bu Ruo also tactfully told Cui Ji that he didn't need to look for the bodies of her parents and brothers anymore.
Cui Ji thought Bu Ruo had given up. Come to think of it, he hadn't found it in two years, so he should have given up long ago.
Prince's Mansion
After being scolded by the emperor, Xiao Jingrui locked himself in the study and did not even see the Crown Princess, whom he had loved dearly for many years.
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