Qin Yao was silent and pursed his lips.

His pupils were as dark as ink, without the usual lively look, and his whole body revealed a hint of unspeakable desolation and sadness.

Chu Qianchen instructed Doctor Miao: "This silver needle can relieve pain and stop bleeding. Wait half an hour before removing it."

"If the wound still hurts, give him some Ma Fei San."

"Add two spoonfuls of aged mustard greens marinade each time and continue taking it."

"He can't leave his bed or move for the time being, so he needs to be taken good care of!"

Chu Qianchen wrote a new prescription for Qin Yao, saying, "If he feels unwell, send someone to find me."

After Chu Qianchen explained everything, Gu Jue still hadn't come back. Chu Qianchen stayed for a while longer, until he removed the silver needle from Qin Yao, and then he left dejectedly with his head down.

This time, Qin Yao, who was preoccupied with his thoughts, had no intention of making fun of her.

Chu Qianchen left, and before leaving he took away a jar of aged mustard greens marinade.

After returning to Wanyan Courtyard, Chu Qianchen took a nap.

She was not worried at all about Gu Jue entering the palace, and fell asleep almost the moment she closed her eyes.

She hadn't slept for two nights and was exhausted. When she woke up, the cock had already crowed the next day and it was not yet fully light. Because she slept soundly the day before, Hubo didn't disturb her, and in the evening she went to Rongfu Hall to ask for leave for her.

After sleeping for nearly a day and a night, Chu Qianchen was completely slept and told Amber to prepare the meal.

However, just as she took a bite of the delicious crab roe dumplings, Nanny Chen came in hurriedly.

"Second Miss, please go to the main courtyard." Nanny Chen said worriedly, the wrinkles between her brows could almost pinch a fly to death.

Chu Qianchen's heart skipped a beat, and he asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"

Nanny Chen said, "The fourth young master has a fever. We invited a doctor to come to the mansion yesterday to see the fourth young master. The doctor prescribed antipyretic medicine. After the fourth young master took it, the fever went away, but he had a fever again at night, and it kept coming back..."

Chu Yunmu's fever went down after taking the medicine, but it came back again after the effect of the medicine wore off. This happened several times, and Shen became worried, thinking that it was not an ordinary children's fever, so she asked Nanny Chen to find Chu Qianchen.

Chu Qianchen had no appetite for food and immediately followed Nanny Chen to the main courtyard.

Shen was still in Chu Yunmu's room. She hadn't slept since midnight yesterday. She looked much more haggard, with dark shadows under her eyes.

When Shen saw Chu Qianchen coming, she quickly stepped aside and frowned, saying, "Sister Chen, go check on Brother Mu. He's still running a fever."

Chu Yunmu was still asleep, his whole body was in a daze, his hair on his forehead was soaked with sweat, he looked a little disheveled and fragile.

Chu Qianchen sat down beside the couch. Before she took his pulse, she realized something was wrong.

Chu Qianchen frowned slightly, scraped some ointment from the edge of the wound with his fingertips, smelled it, and his expression changed.

Sure enough! This is not the perfect ointment.

"Go get a basin of cooled boiled water and wash the ointment off the fourth young master's face." Chu Qianchen instructed the maid in the room, and asked Amber to get a bowl of aged mustard greens sauce.

Chu Qianchen was glad that she had brought back a jar of old mustard greens marinade, which could come in handy now.

Chu Qianchen was not idle either. He wrote a prescription as quickly as possible and asked Nanny Chen to get the medicine. Then he asked Shen, "Mother, where is the bottle of Shiquan ointment?"

At a glance from Shen, the head maid brought over a small porcelain jar with a white background and blue flowers.

Chu Qianchen took a look at the transparent paste in the porcelain jar. This time, even if she didn't smell it, she could be sure of one thing.

"This is not the perfect cream," she said seriously, "it's just an ordinary face cream."

Someone replaced the Perfect Cream with an ordinary facial cream. Although Chu Yunmu's wound was not big, it was very deep. After applying this cream, the wound became red and swollen. Instead of healing, it became worse, which caused him to have a high fever.

The maid was dumbfounded, she knelt down with a plop, and said hurriedly: "Madam, I don't have it."

Shen's pupils shrank slightly, and she asked solemnly: "Sister Chen, Brother Mu..."

"Don't worry, mother. It was discovered in time. It's okay." Chu Qianchen comforted Shen softly.

Ever since Chu Yunmu caught a fever, Shen had been like a taut bow, and only now did she relax.

Only then could she calmly think about what was going on and where the problem lay.

The day before yesterday afternoon, Chu Yunmu scratched her face in the martial arts arena. At that time, she asked Nanny Chen to come back and get the Shiquan ointment, which was also the medicine Chu Qianchen applied to Chu Yunmu personally.

In other words, at that time, Shiquan Paste was right.

Something went wrong with the Shiquan ointment after that and it was replaced.

Then who is so eager to get the Perfect Cream and has the ability to play a substitution trick on her?

It is obvious that Liu's mother and daughter do not have the ability to do anything in their own yard.

Shen suddenly thought of someone——

Chu Lingxiao.

At this moment, hatred erupted like a volcano, almost burning Shen's sanity.

Shen tightly grasped the handkerchief in her hand, and without hiding it from Chu Qianchen, she slowly said, "It's your father."

These four words squeezed out from between the teeth.

Chu Qianchen was stunned for a moment, then he understood and lowered his eyes.

After Chu Yunmu was injured the day before yesterday, she carefully checked the Jurchen bow and found that the bowstring was old and broke due to stress.

That Jurchen bow was an old bow. It had been in the martial arts arena for at least ten years. It was normal for the bowstring to break, just like a guitar string that would break if not properly maintained.

Anyone who has learned horseback archery will have encountered broken strings at least a few times, so everyone thought it was just a minor accident at the time.

In fact, the bow may have been artificially replaced with an aging bowstring.

Chu Lingxiao did this naturally for Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang's feet were scarred by burns from the copper tent hooks. Chu Lingxiao couldn't buy the perfect ointment, so he set his sights on the bottle in Shen's hand...

No, it's not just that!

It should be said that this situation was originally aimed at her.

Since Chu Lingxiao couldn't get the Ten-Herb Cream from the Shen family, he decided to find another way and start with the Jurchen bow.

The Jurchen bow in the martial arts field has been used by her recently. This is no secret in the Marquis' Mansion. Chu Yunmu even carved the word "Chen" on the bow with his own hands and showed it off to several of his brothers and sisters.

If Chu Yunmu had not had the sudden idea to use the Jurchen bow the day before yesterday, if he had continued to use it, the bowstring would have broken sooner or later, if not the day before yesterday, yesterday, or tomorrow.

If she hurt her face, her stepmother would naturally return the Shiquan ointment to her.

Then, Aunt Jiang can come to her in person to ask for the ointment.

Chu Lingxiao must have felt that she would not and could not refuse her own mother.

However, the person whose face was injured by the bowstring was not her, but Chu Yunmu, so Chu Lingxiao could not ask for the Ten-Heaven Ointment.

He had no choice but to resort to the worst option and secretly replace the bottle of Shiquan ointment.

Chu Qianchen thought so, and Shen had the same idea.

The room fell into silence except for Chu Yunmu's low mumbling.

The surroundings were eerily quiet. The head maid didn't move at all, feeling horrified.

It was not until Amber came back with the stewed mustard greens that Shen came to her senses and asked the maid to get up.

Chu Qianchen asked the maid to take ten spoonfuls, stew it in warm soup and drink it. He was thankful in his heart, because if it were not for the ability of Yongding Marquis Mansion, it would not be possible to find mustard greens that were more than ten years old so quickly.

But Chu Yunmu is young, and if he keeps having a high fever for too long, it will damage his brain.

Chu Qianchen felt her hand warm. Shen held her hand and said seriously, "Sister Chen, thank you."

Shen was telling Chu Qianchen that no matter who Chu Lingxiao was targeting, she would not vent her anger on Chu Qianchen. There is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand years if you have been a thief for a thousand years!

Chu Qianchen finally came back to his senses and said, "Mother, Nanny Chen will bring back the medicine later. Take one dose a day first, divided into three doses."

"I'm afraid it will take some time for me to make the perfect ointment again. Princess Hui'an still has some, so why not take some from her first? When I'm done making it, I'll give some to Princess Hui'an."

Shen was in a state of confusion and panic when she was reminded by Chu Qianchen. She came to her senses and quickly ordered her maid Dongmei to go to Prince Jing's mansion to borrow the Ten-Heart Cream.

At the beginning of the Xu month, Dongmei came back, and Princess Shen Wan of Jing County also came to the Marquis' Mansion with her.

When Shen learned that her sister had arrived, she went to the main hall to see her.

"Big sister," Shen Wan came alone this time, without Gu Zhiyan. She had a worried look on her face, and held Shen's hand with concern, "Is Mu brother okay? This is the Ten-Herb Ointment, you can let Mu brother use it first, it will be enough for Qi Niang's next follow-up visit."

"Also, the scars on Qi Niang's face are almost completely healed, so light that they are almost invisible!"

At that time, the little doctor said that my daughter's scar would disappear in a month. It turned out to be a month. The little doctor was really amazing.

Shen didn't bother to be polite with her sister. She accepted the small porcelain jar with a white background and blue flowers and asked Dongmei to give it to Chu Yunmu to apply.

"Brother Mu should be fine..." Shen said this with hatred surging up in her heart.

In front of her own sister, she had no intention of letting the family's disgrace remain public, and she did not hide her hatred at all.

"Brother Mu accidentally injured his face the day before yesterday. He had already applied medicine, the Perfect Ointment, but someone secretly replaced the Perfect Ointment he was using."

"I think that apart from Chu Lingxiao, no one else can do it."

Shen told her that Aunt Jiang had injured her foot before and Chu Lingxiao had come to her to ask for medicine for her.

“Bang!”

Shen Wan was almost mad with rage. She slammed the coffee table beside her so hard that the teacup jumped.

She has always had a bad temper. When she gets angry, even Prince Jing is afraid of her.

"For the sake of a concubine, the dignified Marquis Yongding actually treated his legitimate son like this. It's simply... simply..."

"Big sister, you shouldn't have agreed to this marriage in the first place."

Shen Wan's pretty face was filled with anger, and she angrily spoke up for the Shen family.

In her opinion, her elder sister was good in every way and could even marry a prince or a prince.

That year, the old marquis personally came to ask for a marriage for the prince. Duke Mu agreed because the old marquis of Yongding Marquisate had once saved his life, and married his eldest daughter to the marquisate.

Duke Mu and his wife also asked Shen's opinion at the beginning. Shen couldn't bear to make her father embarrassed and thought that she would get married eventually, so she agreed to the marriage.

Shen's eyes flickered.

She has never been one to dwell on the past. She's already married and has a pair of children. There's no point in regretting it.

Every family has its own problems. Even if she marries into another family, it doesn't mean that her life will be smooth.

Shen patted Shen Wan's hand and comforted her, "You are almost thirty years old, but you still have such a bad temper."

To be honest, Shen was happy in her heart. The fact that her sister could act as unrestrained as she did when she was at home meant that her brother-in-law treated her well. Although Qinnan's matter had become a thorn between them, as long as Qinnan could get better slowly, time would naturally heal the past pain.

"Big sister, I'm only twenty-seven years old!" Shen Wan emphasized unwillingly.

In front of Shen, she couldn't help but show some of her little girl's coquettishness.

Shen Wan calmed down and asked, "Big sister, what are you going to do?"

"Let's wait until Brother Mu gets better. I don't have the energy to care about anything else right now." Shen rubbed her brows.

Although her mind told her that Chu Yunmu would be fine as long as Chu Qianchen was around, as a mother, Shen couldn't help but be worried as long as he wasn't well.

For her now, these two children are the most important, and everything else can be put aside.

Shen Wan felt very distressed when she saw her sister like this. After hesitating for a while, she finally spoke out the thought that had been buried in her heart for a while: "Big sister, have you ever thought about divorce?"

(End of this chapter)