Chapter 140 Bastard
He didn't kiss her just now, and he didn't touch her hand when he kissed Yangmei, so there is no reason for her to have a rash.
Xie Guimo's eyes fell on the bayberry in the peony-colored porcelain plate on the small table, and said, "Now I can conclude that it was the bayberry that caused my rash."
Chen Tang, "......???"
Can’t eat bayberry?
Chen Tang stared at Xie Guimo blankly.
Xie Guimo said, "Someone added bayberry juice into those boxes of rouge you had."
Chen Qi did not let Xie Guimo try the rouge taken from Chen Tang. Although the rash could be cured by taking medicine, what if it hurt her body? The prince couldn't control himself and wanted to kiss the second lady Shen, and he couldn't stop him. But there was no need to try the rouge to prevent the rash from appearing, so he asked the secret guards to check it directly. As a result, they found out that Chen Tang's rouge had more bayberry than the normal rouge in Rouge Pavilion, and Xie Guimo couldn't be sure.
But there were already bayberries in the palace at that time, so Xie Guimo asked for a plate from the palace under the guise of Prince Duan. He wanted to interview Chen Tang in front of him, but when he arrived, Chen Tang had already eaten it.
It was just adding a little bayberry juice to the rouge. He kissed Shen Tang's face and got so many rashes. He didn't dare to eat a whole one, so he just kissed it once. But just that one kiss made him feel itchy and he couldn't stand it. Shen Tang hurriedly brought him medicine.
Chen Tang had never thought that there were people in the world who could not eat bayberry. Xie Guimo didn't even call it eating it, just a kiss was enough. If he ate a whole bayberry, he would probably die on the spot. It was more effective than arsenic.
Xie Guimo looked at Chen Tang, "Did you eat bayberry when we consummated our marriage in the previous life?"
Chen Tang said without thinking, "Empress Ye knew that I liked to eat bayberries, so she asked the palace to send them to me almost every day. Before consummating my marriage, I ate bayberries for at least half a month, one plate a day..."
Concubine Ye!
The tribute bayberry is 90% sweet and 10% sour, and it cannot be bought outside the palace even if you have money. After she married Xie Guimo, whenever it was bayberry season and there were bayberries in the palace, Concubine Ye would give them to her. This was the case for Xie Guimo during his three years in Kyoto. She thought Concubine Ye was treating her well, but she didn't expect that she wanted to use her to kill Xie Guimo.
Send her bayberries every day, just in case Xie Guimo gets the urge to try one one day. He can't even touch bayberries because of his constitution. Even if one bayberry doesn't kill him, it can at least save half of his life.
But Xie Guimo didn't like eating fruits, not just bayberries, he didn't like eating any fruits at all, and he didn't even try them. But she ate so much. When they consummated their marriage, he was afraid that she was like a whole pill of poison to him. If the imperial physician hadn't been in the mansion that day and treated her in time, she would have died.
Thinking back to the situation on that day, Chen Tang still felt a lingering fear and a chill down his spine.
Concubine Ye used a small bayberry to make her and Xie Guimo miss out on a lifetime, because Xie Guimo beat up the son of Marquis Changping, and he is going to repeat the same trick in this life!
Chen Tang's eyes were red, and his body was shaking with anger.
Xie Guimo reached out and touched Chen Tang's face. His heavily calloused fingertips rubbed it, causing a slight sting. He said, "She won't succeed."
If Concubine Ye succeeds, she will never accept it even if she dies.
Xie Guimo asked, "Didn't your father-in-law ask you anything?"
Chen Tang looked at Xie Guimo blankly, "What did my father ask me?"
Xie Guimo touched his nose and said, "When I left your place yesterday and climbed over the wall to leave, I was caught by my father-in-law's secret guards."
Chen Tang, "......!!!"
Shen Tang's face exploded red.
She did not forget that Xie Guimo had a face full of red rashes when he left yesterday.
The news that he had a rash on his face because he kissed a girl was widely spread in Kyoto. Yesterday, he climbed over the wall with a rash on his face and was caught by his father's people. Wasn't it telling his father that he came to meet her secretly, and even...
Chen Tang didn't even dare to think about how her father would look at her. She even wanted to beat Xie Guimo to death.
She stared at Xie Guimo with eyes burning with flames, suspecting that the rash he got because he asked to marry a girl in the Imperial Hospital that day was not only to test Chen Xi and the Second Madam, but also to prepare for the marriage proposal. If she spread such rumors, when he came to propose marriage later, his father would have no choice but to agree. People outside the mansion would definitely spread gossip and speculate whether the girl who gave him the rash was her!
By then, if her father didn't marry her to him, no one else would come to ask for her hand in marriage.
This bastard!
After his little trick was exposed, a certain gentleman was calm and even confident, "Who else do you want to marry besides me?"
She had never thought of marrying someone else, but she also didn't want to be criticized for having physical contact before they got married, and who knows what people would think of them.
Chen Tang kept glaring at Xie Guimo. At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Ginkgo came in and said, "Miss, the Third Madam is here."
Why did the third wife come to see her?
Intuition told Shen Tang that it was related to Butler Quan.
Chen Tang looked at Xie Guimo. He had originally wanted to wait until the rash on Xie Guimo's face disappeared before letting him go, but now he had no choice but to leave. Xie Guimo did not stay any longer and got up to leave.
Jumping out of the window, Chen Qi handed over a mask. Xie Guimo took it and put it on.
Watching Xie Guimo jump out of the window, Chen Tang got down from the small couch, stood up to greet the Third Madam, and said, "How come Third Madam has time to come and sit with me?"
The Third Madam not only came, but also brought things, and her daughter Shen Luo followed behind her.
Unless Chen Tang was sick, the Third Madam would come to visit him. Normally, she would not come to Qingyi Garden more than twice a year. She would only come when she had something important to do.
After greeting each other outside the door, Chen Tang invited the Third Madam and Shen Luo to come into the house to talk. When they entered the house, they smelled a strong smell of medicine. Shen Luo asked, "Where does this smell of medicine come from?"
Chen Tang said, "The medicine for menstrual pain needs to be taken for three months."
Chen Luo just asked. She knew that Chen Tang had the same problem as Princess Roujia, who suffered from menstrual pain. When the horse was frightened that time, Chen Tang was going to get medicine.
Shen Luo entered the room and saw bayberries on the small table. She asked, "There are bayberries now?"
Several girls in the mansion like to eat bayberries, and Shen Luo is no exception. She didn't bother to be polite with Shen Tang, and sat down and took one to eat.
Chen Tang likes to eat bayberry, but he just found out that his life was ruined by this little bayberry and Xie Guimo couldn't even touch it, so his joy for bayberry was mostly gone.
It was sweet and sour, and Shen Luo loved it very much. "Why is it that only Second Sister has bayberry here?"
Chen Tang said, "The maid went out to buy it. But Third Aunt came to see me for something?"
Chen Luo was easy to fool, but the Third Madam was not so easy to fool. Such big bayberries could not be bought on the street. However, the Third Madam did not expose her, but just smiled and said, "I got a new hairpin and thought it would suit the Second Miss, so I sent it to her."
As she spoke, the maid brought the brocade box over, and the Third Madam took it and opened it for Chen Tang to see.
The hairpin is nice, made of jade and emerald bamboo, with clear color and very valuable.
For a person like Third Madam who would not give away a precious hairpin until she saw the rabbit, she must have some ulterior motive. Chen Tang smiled and said, "Fourth sister will definitely like this hairpin, why did Third Aunt give it to me?"
The Third Madam smiled as she picked up the hairpin and inserted it into Chen Tang's bun, saying with a smile, "Yesterday the Second Miss slapped the First Miss, and the Marquis also punished her to kneel in the ancestral hall. What did the First Miss do wrong?"
Everyone in the mansion must be curious about this, but Chen Tang didn't believe that the Third Madam would give her a jade hairpin just to find out such a small thing. Chen Tang said, "Father has issued a gag order on this matter. I'm sorry I can't tell Third Aunt."
The Third Madam smiled and said, "I'm just asking casually. It's better not to know some things. It's just that your Fourth Aunt has a hard time managing such a large mansion. Third Aunt has always been free, so she can help share some of the burden."
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