Chapter 033 Let’s Settle the Account
Chu Zhenxuan simply changed his clothes and woke up Xia Lu. Since he didn't bring any servants with him, there were only Xia Lu and Fu Yuqing here. Chu Zhenxuan gave a few instructions and went to find the imperial physician himself.
Xia Lu was quite efficient and quickly cleaned up the vomit on the edge of the bed and on the floor.
Xia Xue felt much better after vomiting, but she still had a burning pain in her stomach.
Xia Lu poured a cup of hot water.
Xia Xue drank.
Wow
Another place.
Xia Lu continued to clean up.
Chu Zhenxuan quickly brought the imperial physician.
The imperial physician felt the patient's pulse and said a lot of things like spleen and stomach qi deficiency, qi stagnation and blood stasis, implying that the patient had eaten something bad. Fu Yuqing used a more fashionable term, acute gastroenteritis.
The imperial physician prescribed some medicine and Xia Lu went to boil it.
Xia Xue fell asleep in a daze.
The next morning.
Xia Xue opened her eyes hazily.
In front of me was an enlarged face of a man.
Chu Zhenxuan!
Xia Xue was about to speak when she found herself resting her head on Chu Zhenxuan's arm, with faint stains of medicine on the corners of Chu Zhenxuan's mouth.
Xia Xue licked her lips, smelling a strong smell of medicine.
Suddenly she thought of the erotic dream she had last night. She dreamed that her idol gave her the most gentle kiss.
kiss!!!
Like a madman, Xia Xue licked the medicine stains on the corner of Chu Zhenxuan's lips.
Tsk tsk, it really is her medicine.
It seems that the dream is real.
How come the male idol in my dream turned into Chu Zhenxuan?
"Why are you disappointed when I give you medicine?"
The sudden sound startled Xia Xue. She dodged backwards, but was held in Chu Zhenxuan's arms.
The next second, warm lips covered it.
"Sister, Concubine Ying is here. Sister..."
As Xia Lu entered the room, she was stunned.
Turned around quickly.
"That" Xia Lu blushed and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Go and tell Concubine Ying that your sister needs to rest and will not see guests for the time being."
"How can that be!" Xia Xue hit Chu Zhenxuan. "I finally made a friend with a concubine, how can you act like a big shot?"
"Xia Lu, please say hello first and tell them I'll be right there."
Xia Lu nodded and ran out as if she had a special power.
After Xia Xue finished packing and put on her veil, she went to the front hall with Chu Zhenxuan.
Stunned.
It wasn't just Concubine Ying who came here. All the Buddha statues on Qingliang Mountain, except the big Buddha statue of the Emperor and the one belonging to Prince Lu, had come.
Chu Zhenxuan's face darkened and a hint of impatience flashed in his eyes.
Concubine Ying came up and held Xia Xue's hand.
"What's wrong, Madam Chu?"
Concubine Ying's maid quickly followed up and said, "Your Majesty heard last night that the imperial physician was invited here, and she didn't sleep well the whole night, so she came early this morning."
"You're too talkative."
Concubine Ying gave her a sharp look and asked, "Madam, how are you feeling now?"
"I'm much better now, thank you, Madam."
"I have already told the Ministry of Internal Affairs to add a few more people to your garden. You only have sisters or maids to take care of. You don't even have anyone to run errands."
"Thank you, madam."
Concubine Ying exchanged pleasantries for a while, and the others followed suit and pretended to show concern for her. By the time everyone left, it was already noon.
After lunch, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent in two young eunuchs.
Chu Zhenxuan waved his hand and asked them to go and guard the outer garden.
At night, Xia Lu asked Fu Yuqing if she had seen any remaining ice silk material.
Fu Yuqing said she didn’t see it.
Xia Lu asked Xia Xue again.
Xia Xue didn't see it either.
"Anyway, they have all been cut and are waste materials. It doesn't matter if you can't find them. Maybe they will come out by themselves someday." Fu Yuqing said.
Xia Xue felt uncomfortable but didn't think too much about it. She drank some porridge, took some medicine, and went to sleep.
As a result, just three days after the material was lost, something went wrong.
The Ye Ting Bureau selected two works, saying that they were particularly good in creativity and embroidery, but the only bad thing was that the patterns of the two works were exactly the same.
As soon as the news came out, everyone immediately understood that someone had plagiarized other people's work.
This caused everyone to start talking about it, and they especially wanted to know which lady from a prominent family had done such a shameful thing.
Then, word spread that these two identical works were created by Xia Lu, the concubine's daughter of the third branch of the Xia family, and Qian Jiaojiao, the second daughter of Master Qian, who was known as the most talented woman in Ancheng.
After hearing this, everyone knew what was going on.
Is there any need to compare?
Although the Xia family was powerful, they were mostly from merchant families, and none of their daughters were particularly outstanding. Even Xia Xue, who married Chu Zhenxuan, was never described as a "talented woman".
As for Master Qian's second daughter, Qian Jiaojiao, she was famous since she was young. She could write poems at the age of three, compose verses at the age of four, had a breakthrough in music at the age of six, and became famous in Ancheng for her Colorful Skirt and Feathered Dress Dance at the age of ten.
From then on, people who came to the Qian family to propose marriage had a constant stream of people coming to the Qian family’s door.
The Qian family rejected all the royal nobles, saying that Qian Jiaojiao's only wish was to enter the palace.
Yes, if a fairy-like woman is not worthy of the emperor, who would dare to desecrate her?
Therefore, the Qian family was included in the list as an exception this time in Qingliang Mountain.
Just think about it, how ridiculous it is to put two people who are so different from each other on the same level. Everyone thinks that comparing Qian Jiaojiao to Xia Lu is a blasphemy to her.
Li Tingting, who had just returned to Concubine Rong's place, told Concubine Rong about this matter in an extremely disgusted tone.
After finishing her confinement, Concubine Rong's face was still very pale.
"You don't know how to restrain yourself after suffering a loss. This matter has nothing to do with our Li family. You should not get involved." Concubine Rong said in a deep voice.
She has fully experienced Li Tingting's intelligence. If she is stupid enough to cause trouble again, she will not protect her.
Li Tingting pouted and thought to herself, I'm already involved.
But she did it secretly, no one would know.
So, Li Tingting simply agreed perfunctorily.
Concubine Rong always felt that Li Tingting's expression was flickering, but she didn't have the energy to care too much now. The most important thing was to quickly think about how to turn the situation around when she returned to the palace.
This matter was passed around and became more and more unpleasant.
By the time Xia Xue heard about this, it had become that Xia Lu shamelessly plagiarized Qian Jiaojiao's work just to take advantage of her popularity.
It is said that the Xia family is going crazy in wanting to send a daughter to the palace. Before, Xia Xue was not sent in because she was too ugly, so she was given to Chu Zhenxuan. Now they finally have Xia Lu who is relatively good-looking, so they are using all means.
As soon as Fu Qingyu heard the rumor, she went crazy.
Xia Lu's work was clearly embroidered by Xia Lu stitch by stitch, bit by bit. It took Fu Yuqing several days to draw that picture. How could it be considered plagiarism?
What's even more infuriating is that Xia Lu's painting, which was embroidered with ice silk and embroidery thread soaked in dew, must be much more lifelike than normal embroidery. How come Qian Jiaojiao's is better?
Is it possible that everyone in this palace has problems with their vision?
Later, when they arrived at the Ye Ting Bureau, they found out that it wasn’t the people in the palace who had a problem with their vision, but that the Ye Ting Bureau shamelessly swapped the signatures of Xia Lu and Qian Jiaojiao’s works!!!
Of course, this is a later story.
After hearing the rumor, Xia Xue changed into dark clothes, tied her hair into a simple bun, put on some delicate makeup, and exchanged a jade pill with Bibi.
"Let's go and settle the bill!"