"After we parted, the maids and I had already eaten."
Seeing that they didn't move, Ning Xi'er explained.
The Duchess of Huguo was a cheerful and straightforward woman. Seeing that it was Ning Xi'er's good intention, she no longer refused.
He personally tore the half-roasted chicken in half, handing one piece to the Duke of Huguo and another to his two daughters-in-law.
The First Madam and the Second Madam were delivered to Xie Zhun and Zheng Ye respectively.
Since it was a gift from their elders, Xie Zhun and Zheng Ye felt it inappropriate to refuse, so they accepted it.
The remaining portion was distributed among the family members by the old lady, the first lady, and the second lady.
Despite the harsh conditions, everyone's faces were beaming with smiles they hadn't seen in a long time.
"Your Highness, tell me, who poisoned the water?"
Zheng Ye asked Xie Zhun while biting into the roast chicken.
While both were eating roast chicken, Zheng Ye ate it with a boisterous and uncouth manner, while Xie Zhun ate it with poetic grace, which made Ning Xi'er take a second look.
Suddenly, Xie Zhun looked up, and Ning Xi'er, as if caught red-handed, looked away.
But its ears are pointed and erect.
Xie Zhun smiled faintly, glancing in Ning Xi'er's direction, "I've made too many enemies; I truly didn't know. It's only been half a day; the days to come are sure to be quite exciting!"
“Miss Ning…”
Ning Xi'er was suddenly called out.
Out of politeness, the people from the Prince's Mansion and the Duke of Protectorate still addressed Ning Xi'er as Princess Consort, but Xie Zhun addressed her as Miss Ning.
Ning Xi'er quickly turned her head.
"Do you regret following us on this journey?"
Ning Xi'er straightened up. "On the contrary, with you, the danger is always in the open."
The dangers are ever-present, whether one is alone outside or returning to the Marquis's residence, and are even more alarming.
Xie Zhun smiled faintly and said nothing more.
When the guards returned from hunting, Ning Xi'er, along with Haitang and other maids, searched for some herbs and wild vegetables in the fields.
Zheng Chengguang and Zheng Ye frequently marched through the wilderness, so they naturally knew how to prepare wild game by hand.
The guards cleaned the pheasants and rabbits they had hunted, washed them with clean water, skewered them on branches, and roasted them over a fire.
Ning Xi'er crushed the herbs and, accompanied by angelica and licorice, examined the wounds of the previously injured guards.
Depending on the severity of their injuries, Ning Xi'er unwrapped their bandages and applied medicine. She took medicinal powder from her spatial storage and placed it on the wounds, then covered the outer layer with dandelion and other anti-inflammatory dregs...
Such a deception eliminates the need to repeatedly explain where the medicinal powder used to treat these wounded patients came from.
All materials are drawn from nature and sourced locally...
Ning Xi'er helped apply the medicine, while Bai Zhi and Gan Cao helped re-bandage the wound.
After all the wounded had been examined, the roasted meat at the guards' place was ready.
Following Ning Xi'er's instructions, Haitang and Aoxue used cleaned stones they found on the ground as a cooking station to roast some wild vegetables over a fire, avoiding eating meat all the time, which would be greasy and cause internal heat.
As the guards distributed meat to everyone as instructed by their masters, Ning Xi'er received three chicken legs and two rabbit legs.
Ning Xi'er nodded in satisfaction and generously asked Haitang and Aoxue to share half of the roasted wild vegetables with Eunuch Xu and Zheng Ye, letting them distribute them as they saw fit.
Ning Xi'er allowed the four maids to choose freely according to their own preferences.
As a result, the four maids divided the spoils among themselves: two chicken legs and one rabbit leg, leaving Ning Xi'er with one chicken leg and one rabbit leg.
Seeing this, Ning Xi'er tapped each of the four on the head and said, "From now on, we'll be together every day, and we'll be doing this back and forth every day. Aren't you tired?"
Crabapple, angelica, and others remained silent.
"Before leaving, I asked my second brother to find your sales documents at home and destroy them all."
The crabapple and angelica trees looked up in surprise.
"That means, from now on, you are no longer servants of the Shi Hou residence, and you are free."
"From now on, we are sisters, we are family! We will share happiness and hardship together!"
"Miss!"
Haitang was moved to tears and hugged Ning Xier's neck tightly.
"oily!"
Ning Xi'er screamed in fright, afraid that Haitang would rub her oily hands on her face.
Ao Xue's eyes were also red, and she picked up Ning Xi'er and Haitang.
Angelica dahurica and licorice have calm personalities, but there is clearly envy in their eyes.
Ning Xi'er used her free hands to pull the two men's collars, and the five of them stumbled together and hugged each other tightly.
"What a pity!"
The old woman looked at the five girls, who were laughing and playing like flowers, and sighed.
The First Madam smiled and nodded, her eyes full of tenderness.
"What's a pity?"
The second wife was completely baffled.
"Sister-in-law, what Grandma is saying is, it's such a pity for our Prince, how could he let go of such a good girl..."
The First Madam explained with regret.
The second wife suddenly realized what had happened, recalling that morning when, in front of everyone, His Highness Prince Cheng had presented Ning Xi'er with a "letter of divorce"...
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