"Yuhen, we absolutely cannot let the master find out anything, otherwise we will all die without a burial place." Yehe interrupted Yuhen and said coldly.
“Princess, we need to get rid of those medicines quickly. As for what happened outside, I got the information from my mother. She would never harm me. As long as we deny everything and we can’t find any evidence here, Master probably won’t be able to convict you,” Yuhen calmly analyzed.
"Well, after that medicine is gone, will the master gradually stop being so infatuated with me?" Yehe was extremely unwilling to lose the favor she was currently enjoying, and was still somewhat conflicted.
"Princess, let's avoid this hurdle for now. There are plenty of ways to win favor. Once this matter is over, you can make other plans later," Yuhen said anxiously when she saw that Yehe was still hesitating.
Yehe sighed and said, "Alright, go and deal with those things. We'll think of another way after this is over."
Yuhen immediately retreated. Yulu stood guard outside and didn't hear their conversation inside.
"Princess is thirsty, go in and pour her some tea," Yuhen said to Yulu as she came out. After saying that, she moved towards her side room.
Yu Lu was taken aback, thinking to herself: Weren't you inside just now? Why didn't you come down? Why did you have to come out and give me orders? Recently, Yu Lu had become resentful of Ye He's trust in Yu Hen far more than in herself, so she was not very comfortable. However, she dared not disobey, so she reluctantly walked into Ye He's room.
Yuhen returned to her side room and immediately closed the door behind her. She walked to the cabinet where she kept her clothes, casually opened the door, and began rummaging through the contents.
It turned out that she had hidden the aphrodisiac in her wardrobe. Peach Blossom searched Yehe's room several times, but couldn't find it.
She pulled a black paper package from the pile of clothes; inside was the very thing her mother had given her—the kind of harmful substance. When Yuhen returned to that place, she felt a sense of rebirth. Her mother, Chunni, was called Chunniang in the brothel. Yuhen was grateful to Chunniang for selling her into the Yehe Mansion; otherwise, she would have ended up like them, living a life of prostitution, spending her days selling smiles in that filthy place. Yuhen and Chunniang didn't usually interact, so her sudden visit surprised Chunniang. When Yuhen explained her purpose, Chunniang couldn't believe that even a noble lady from a marquis's household would resort to such methods.
Yuhen thought of her middle-aged mother and, without hesitation, put the paper packet into her bosom. She secretly left the side room and walked out of the outer door of Yehe's house. She originally wanted to just scatter the powder on the ground, but to be on the safe side, she decided to take the aphrodisiac out and throw it away.
Yuhen didn't carry a lantern; instead, she used a lantern by the roadside to slowly make her way to the outer gate of the North Courtyard. Outside was a small garden. When the Fourth Prince planned the Fourth Prince's residence, he had designed a small garden in front of each woman's courtyard for people to rest and enjoy.
She walked into the pitch-black garden and came to a clump of white wax trees. She took out the paper packet from her pocket and was about to shake out the powder when she suddenly heard a cat meow.
The cat's meow was unusually eerie and sinister, so frightening that her hand trembled and the entire paper package slipped from her grasp into the ash bushes.
Yuhen was immediately thrown into a panic. She hurriedly parted the branches and leaves of the ash tree to search for the package, but the pitch-black night was like a black curtain, blocking out all light. She searched several times but still couldn't find it. At that moment, the sound of a cat's meow entered her ears like a ghost. Even as calm as Yuhen was, she was still quite frightened by the cat's meow from the black-clad figure. She thought that since no one knew, she would come back to look for it tomorrow.
After Yuhen hurriedly turned and left, a figure suddenly stood up from where the cat had been meowing. The night was too dark, and this person stepped out of their hiding place.
With a soft "poof," the light from the tinderbox illuminated her face, revealing it to be covered in peach blossoms.
It turned out that she had been observing Yehe Shi all along. When she saw Yuhen leave in a hurry, she secretly followed her until she saw Yuhen's conversation with Zhao Quan.
Then, she returned to the North Courtyard first, because Yehe Shi had not allowed her to enter the house to serve, so she was actually more free than Yulu.
After Yuhen returned, she waited in the corner outside the house, enduring the biting cold wind, until she finally saw Yuhen's figure hurriedly disappear into the night. This was because she hadn't found anything in Yehe's room, so she had no choice but to keep an eye on Yuhen.
Only when she saw Yuhen preparing to do something in the small garden did she imitate a cat's meow to scare her a few times. Sure enough, Peach Blossom's luck was truly good; the thing in Yuhen's hand fell into the white wax.
Although Peach Blossom couldn't see, she heard the sound of something slipping and falling into the bushes. She felt that perhaps the thing Yuhen was sneaking out to discard in the middle of the night was what she was looking for, so she imitated a cat's meow a few times to scare Yuhen away.
Peach Blossom searched through the ash bushes by the light of a tinderbox. She didn't know what she was looking for, but she heard a sound of something slipping. Her pale face looked somewhat frightening in the tinderbox's glow. Peach Blossom had made a deal with Nian Shi: if she could uncover the secret of Yehe Shi's favor, Nian Shi would take her in, arrange a good marriage for her, and she would marry in grand style. In reality, this was just wishful thinking on her part. Nian Shi was cunning; she might even betray her after using her.
Peach Blossom crouched in the ash bushes, searching for a long time, before finally spotting a suspicious black paper package. She carefully picked it up from the branch, her heart pounding. She had finally gotten her hands on it.
Peach Blossom held the paper package for a moment, then headed towards the main courtyard. She didn't even plan to go back to Yehe's place; she just wanted to get this package to Nian's so she could leave. Every day, she did extremely strenuous physical labor, which was very difficult for a maid like her who only served her mistress closely. Those were the tasks of rough-working women, yet Yehe was using her like a beast of burden in her revenge. The more Peach Blossom thought about it, the angrier she became, and her pace quickened.
"Hmph, your good days are over." Peach Blossom thought to herself, a smile unconsciously creeping onto her lips.
Arriving at the courtyard where Nian lived, Taohua was overjoyed, as if she were seeing her maternal home. She walked up the steps and began to knock on the door. But it was already late at night, and the old woman guarding the door was probably already in bed. Suddenly hearing the loud noise at the door, she was filled with annoyance.
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