Chapter 421 Very Curious
Jinxia was stunned. She never expected that the other party would make such a choice. The others who came to help the empress cure her illness chose the second option after hearing the two options she proposed.
The entire Xuanyue Kingdom knows that the empress has a violent temper and is always decisive.
If the person who comes for treatment chooses the first option and the disease is not cured in the end, there will only be one outcome, and that is death!
So those people chose the second option without hesitation.
"Miss, are you sure you want to choose the first option? Once you choose it, there will be no turning back. Unless you can cure the empress, you will die." Jinxia had to remind her again.
I hope she can make a careful choice and not be so ignorant as to think that she can do it.
"First, I want to see the patient." Jiang Yunxi said firmly.
"you……"
“There’s no disease I can’t cure.”
"Interesting, let her in." The empress's voice was filled with laughter. It was the first time she had seen someone so ignorant of the world. She wanted to see what kind of person she was.
"Yes." Jinxia said and motioned Jiang Yunxi to go in.
Jiang Yunxi was not afraid at all. She walked behind the screen. There was a large and exquisite mahogany carved bed. The bed curtains were drawn, and the person inside could not be seen at all.
Covered so tightly?
"Greetings, Empress. My name is Jiang Yunxi. Could you please lift the bed curtain so I can see you?" Jiang Yunxi spoke first. If she didn't show her face, she wouldn't know her symptoms and there would be no cure.
"After I contracted a strange disease, my skin became extremely ugly, like tree bark. Are you sure you want to see it?" The empress did not directly lift the bed curtain.
"I'm here to cure illnesses. I can't cure them without seeing the patient. Although I've heard that the empress's strange disease is that her skin becomes like bark, I still want to see it with my own eyes." Jiang Yunxi insisted.
The empress was silent for a moment, "Jinxia."
"I'm here." Jinxia stepped forward quickly.
"Draw up the bed curtains."
"Master, do you really want her to see you like this?"
"Why not? If she can cure my strange disease, it doesn't matter if she sees me. But if she can't cure it, she will die. There is no big deal if she sees me." The empress said indifferently.
This woman is very brave, and she also wants to meet him.
"I understand." Jinxia said and walked forward to pull up the bed curtain.
Sitting on the gorgeous bed was a woman with an exquisite and impeccable face. Her skin was as white as jade and delicate, without any pores or wrinkles.
She looked very young, perhaps twenty-four or twenty-five, but her distinctive silver eyes seemed to have seen a lot, as if she had lived for many years.
"The empress should be over a hundred years old. I didn't expect that she could still look so young." Jiang Yunxi said word by word. She could not sense any special aura from the other person.
She is not a demon, a ghost, or a monster.
Jinxia looked at Jiang Yunxi in surprise. She could tell at a glance that the empress was over a hundred years old. This made her look up to her. No wonder she dared to choose the first option.
It seems that he really has some skills.
At this moment, she stood with her back straight, her expression neither humble nor arrogant, and her eyes met the empress's without any avoidance.
This woman is really not an ordinary person.
"Oh, you figured it out?" The empress looked at her with a smile.
"Yes." Jiang Yunxi wanted to see through the other person, but found that she could not see anything. What was even more strange was that when she arrived at the gate of the palace, she sensed the scent of a dismembered body.
But when she got here, she couldn't sense anything.
The empress's red lips curled up in an intriguing arc, and she smiled and said, "Did you see the beautifully blossoming peach tree after you arrived at my palace?"
"I see. Could it be that the empress relies on that peach tree to maintain her beauty?" Jiang Yunxi saw it as soon as she entered her palace. The peach tree was a bit strange.
The light fragrance they smelled when they entered the capital was emitted by the peach tree.
It's just one tree, but its fragrance fills the entire capital city.
"That's not an ordinary peach tree. Every few days I feed it with human blood. It blooms all year round. The flowers it blooms are different from other peach trees. I use it to maintain my youthful appearance."
The empress openly shared her beauty regimen without hiding anything.
"Using the blood of a living person?" Jiang Yunxi frowned. She didn't expect that someone would use such a perverted method to feed the peach tree.
"That's right. Do you think I'm cruel? I'm a bloodthirsty person. I will kill anyone who disobeys me, is an eyesore, or has evil intentions." The empress acted domineeringly.
Jiang Yunxi's face remained calm after hearing this. This was probably what an emperor should be like. "I want to see the symptoms of the empress. The skin on your face is intact, so it must be the skin on your body."
The empress pulled up her left sleeve, revealing her left arm, and saw that her originally fair skin had turned into skin like tree bark, full of pits and pits, which was scary.
Unlike the bark skin on Wuming's body, which had lines on it, the empress's skin was like bark that looked like fish scales.
"Can I touch it?" Jiang Yunxi asked.
"Aren't you afraid?"
"No."
"You can touch it." The empress raised her left hand and stretched it towards her, without any change in her expression because outsiders saw her ugly skin.
Jiang Yunxi reached out to touch her skin and sensed that she was not cursed.
"When did the Empress's skin begin to change like this?"
"About a month ago."
"Did you encounter anything strange a month ago?" Jiang Yunxi continued to ask. She showed no signs of poisoning.
The empress thought about it carefully and said, "I have been staying in the palace all the time and have never encountered anything strange."
"You are not cursed, nor are you poisoned. Could it be that you have been using peach blossoms to maintain your beauty and it has backfired?" Jiang Yunxi thought of a possibility, that the peach blossoms were fed with human blood.
It is actually an evil and unorthodox technique.
The Empress narrowed her eyes slightly, a dangerous expression on her face. "I have used this method for hundreds of years and have never experienced any backlash. It is impossible for it to backfire now."
"If we want to solve the problem of your skin becoming bark-like, we must first find out the reason for this so that we can prescribe the right remedy. It would be better for Empress to think carefully about what happened a month ago." Jiang Yunxi said meaningfully.
There must be something wrong!
No one's skin would suddenly change like this.
The Empress is hiding something.
"I have lived for hundreds of years. I need to take some time to think about it carefully. You go back first." The empress closed her eyes, rubbed her temples with her hands, and said slowly.
Jinxia was surprised that the empress actually gave her time.
"Okay, but there's something I want to ask the Empress." Jiang Yunxi smiled.
The Empress slowly opened her eyes, "What's the matter?"
"Is Nangong Qionghua your descendant?" Jiang Yunxi was extremely curious about this empress. She lived for over a hundred years, which meant she had been an empress for over a hundred years.
Is there no one in the royal family of Xuanyue Kingdom who speaks up?
"I am not married and have no blood relatives. She is a descendant of the royal family. Why are you asking her?" The empress was a little surprised that she would ask Nangong Qionghua.
"Does she have an older sister?" Jiang Yunxi asked.
The Empress had an intriguing smile on her lips. "It is true that Prince Jing's Mansion had a baby girl twenty-three years ago, but I... why are you interested in this?"
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