Chapter 545 Spoiled and Willful Wife VS Cowardly and Fearful Husband 37
Jiang Zhiyi already had a plan in mind.
She quickly asked, "Do you have seaweed and blood clam meat here?"
The old shopkeeper shook his head, then nodded, and took out a delicate little box from under the counter and placed it on the counter.
He opened the box, which contained some dried herbs that looked like top-quality goods.
"This is seaweed harvested last year. There's only one box of it. I wouldn't have sold it if it weren't for your sincerity... These are all top-quality herbs. It's best to take them directly with water for the best effect."
Looking at the seaweed in the box, Jiang Zhiyi finally felt half relieved.
She quickly asked, "How much silver do you need?"
The old shopkeeper held up three fingers. "Sea Spirit Grass is rare, it costs three hundred taels. Miss, this price is already very reasonable. You can't buy such good quality goods anywhere else."
“Okay.” Jiang Zhiyi immediately paid the money.
The old shopkeeper accepted the money and continued to instruct, "But you must remember to take one piece of seaweed every day with warm water for three to five days, and then eat blood clam meat. You can stew the blood clam meat in soup or medicine, and a small bowl at a time is enough. Do not eat too much, otherwise it will cause too much damage to your body."
Jiang Zhiyi nodded, then told him not to tell anyone before quickly leaving the pharmacy with the box in her pocket.
When she returned, Junyu had not yet come back, so she quickly prepared to hide her things.
However, after thinking it over and over, I still couldn't figure out where to hide the things.
Junyu would have someone clean her bedroom every day, and sometimes he would do it himself, for fear that she might come into contact with something dirty, so there was absolutely no place to hide in the bedroom.
She thought about it for a long time and finally came up with a suitable place.
Junyu was very careful, but there were exceptions—his study contained many important accounts, which were generally not open to outsiders. However, now that he was with her, he would bring the accounts he needed to deal with to the bedroom and rarely went into the study.
The saying goes, "the darkest place is under the lamp," meaning that if she hides the things in the study, they won't be discovered for a while.
About half an hour later, Junyu returned.
Jiang Zhiyi was sitting at the table flipping through medical books.
"Why are you only coming back now? You've been gone for so long today. I was so bored in the house by myself, I didn't know what to do. I was just about to send someone to urge you back."
Junyu smiled and said, "It's my fault for making you wait so long. I saw a shop selling beaded flowers on the way here, and I thought they were quite pretty, so I picked some out for a while and came back a little late."
As he spoke, he took out a beaded flower that he had prepared beforehand and handed it to Jiang Zhiyi.
"Look, isn't this beaded flower pretty? Do you like it?"
Jiang Zhiyi took the beaded flower, looked at it carefully, and said, "It's alright, anyway, I look good in anything."
She said this without any humility.
Junyu was used to her arrogant demeanor, yet he also loved it. He reached out and pulled her over to sit next to him.
"You're so smug, but the child in your belly will probably end up just like you..."
Jiang Zhiyi turned her head away, too lazy to pay attention to his teasing.
She coughed lightly a few times.
Seeing this, Junyu handed over a glass of warm water, saying, "Have a sip to soothe your throat."
Jiang Zhiyi took the teacup, sipped it slowly, and her gaze unconsciously fell on the medical book beside her.
She had just casually flipped through the book and found that the pages were full of Jun Yu's annotations.
My worries intensified.
She had thought Junyu was just glancing around casually, but she hadn't expected him to look at it so closely.
He's been reading so many medical books lately. What if he finds out I'm secretly taking medicine?
But now that things have come to this, she has no other choice but to be even more careful.
Even if he's incredibly skilled, he probably wouldn't easily notice anything amiss.
Jiang Zhiyi thought to herself, trying to calm herself down.
While Junyu was taking a bath,
She took out the prepared seaweed, picked up the water from the table, chewed a few times, and quickly swallowed the herb with water.
The seaweed had a slightly bitter taste that spread across her tongue, causing her to frown slightly.
The moment she swallowed it, she felt a little flustered, as if she had done something wrong.
Her child...
She instinctively covered her stomach.
Ultimately, this child and she were not meant to be...
She sighed and forced herself to calm down.
In the following days, Jiang Zhiyi would secretly take the Sea Spirit Grass every day when Jun Yu was not around.
To avoid being discovered by Junyu, she would drink something else after taking the medicine to mask the smell.
Fortunately, Junyu has been behaving well these days. Because he is worried about hurting the child, he has never been intimate with her, not even with a normal kiss, so he has not noticed anything wrong.
...
One day.
A maid carried a steaming bowl of medicine into the room.
The brown medicinal liquid emitted a rich medicinal aroma.
"Madam, as you instructed, the kitchen specially added the finest blood clam meat to today's bowl of medicine to prevent miscarriage."
Yesterday, Jiang Zhiyi casually mentioned to Jun Yu that the doctor said blood clam meat replenishes qi and blood and is good for the child, so Jun Yu quickly sent someone to buy a lot.
She's been consuming seaweed for several days now, and it's time to put it into practice.
Jiang Zhiyi looked at the bowl of steaming medicine and felt a sudden tightness in her chest; even her palms started to sweat.
"Give it to me." Junyu reached out and took it, preparing to feed her as usual.
He picked up a spoon, scooped up a spoonful of medicine, and held it to her lips.
Jiang Zhiyi's breathing became heavier, and she pushed his hand away, "I'll drink it myself."
He usually feeds her slowly and carefully, one spoonful at a time, but today she was irritable and just wanted to finish the medicine as soon as possible, so she didn't want him to feed her.
Junyu glanced at her a few times, but something felt off.
A strange sense of panic welled up inside me, as if I were about to lose something important.
Just as the medicine was about to touch Jiang Zhiyi's lips, Jun Yu suddenly stood up.
His hand trembled, and the bowl in Jiang Zhiyi's hand crashed to the ground with a loud bang.
The brown medicine was spilled all over the floor, and the porcelain bowl was shattered into several pieces.
Jiang Zhiyi looked at him in surprise, "You—"
Junyu frowned, his tone tinged with annoyance: "It's all my fault. I was thinking of getting you some honey to mask the bitterness of the medicine, and that's how I accidentally touched it... Did you get scared?"
He took her hand, hurriedly told the maid to tidy up, and said, "Go take a bath first, and I'll have the kitchen cook another bowl."
Jiang Zhiyi felt a little uneasy, but she didn't think much of it and just nodded, "Okay."
After Jiang Zhiyi left, Jun Yu got up, took the coat she had taken off, and then turned and went out the door.
He has a naturally keen sense of smell and can detect scents that ordinary people cannot.
These past few days, he could always smell a faint medicinal scent on her.
He examined it carefully and realized that it was not the medicine she usually took.
Especially today, the smell of medicine on her body was even stronger.
Jun Yu went straight to Doctor Li, who had been prescribing medicine to help Jiang Zhiyi prevent miscarriage, and asked urgently, "Doctor Li, can you smell if there are any medicinal herbs on this coat?"
Dr. Li leaned closer and smelled it, but found nothing unusual; it was just an ordinary, clean garment.
Just as Junyu was about to leave, the steward came over with a box in his hands.
Junyu had already planned to take Jiang Zhiyi back in the next two days, so he instructed people to start packing their luggage.
The steward found the box containing the medicinal herbs in the study just now and was quite puzzled.
He thought that the medicinal herbs looked precious, but they weren't kept in the pharmacy. Instead, they were just casually left in a corner of the study. He was worried that Jun Yu had forgotten about them, so he came over to ask about them.
Jun Yu took a sniff and found that it smelled exactly like the scent on Jiang Zhiyi's clothes.
His expression changed, and he asked Doctor Li to examine him again.
"Young master, this is dried seaweed. This herb is highly nourishing, but it contains components that clash with blood clam meat. If a pregnant woman drinks it, it may cause serious problems with the fetus, and in severe cases, it could even lead to miscarriage!"
Jun Yu was struck dumb, and staggered back a step.
My heart feels like it's being gripped by an invisible hand, the pain is so intense I can hardly breathe.
He recalled Jiang Zhiyi's recent unusual behavior.
Ever since she found out she was pregnant, she has been acting very strangely.
At first, he thought she was just newly pregnant and feeling uneasy, but no matter how he tried to comfort her, she remained sullen.
She wasn't particularly looking forward to the child, and even subtly showed signs of rejection towards him.
His study was almost never open to anyone except him, the steward, and Jiang Zhiyi...
Junyu was incredibly clever; in an instant, all the suspicious points were connected.
A terrible idea popped into his head.
She doesn't want this child?
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