Chapter 7 Grapes "Your Majesty will help me, right?"
A sudden mocking sound rang out in her ears, and Yan Shu suddenly came back to her senses, encountering Xiao Yu's eyes filled with suspicion. Then she remembered that she still had something important to say, and hurriedly tried to find an excuse: "I am guilty. I offended the king last night because I was poisoned by the Hehuan Gu. It was not intentional..."
"Hehuan Gu?" Xiao Yu frowned, seemingly puzzled.
Upon seeing this, Yan Shu immediately confessed everything about how Queen Yan had put a curse on her.
"So you only borrowed my help to cure the poison last night, not because you were attracted to me."
Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows, his tone cold and lazy, it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.
Yan Shu panicked when she heard this and quickly denied it: "Of course not!"
"I have long admired Your Majesty, but due to my status, I didn't dare to express my feelings before." Yan Shu lied with a guilty look on her face.
"Oh?" Xiao Yu smiled, his narrow eyes curved, "Has Lady Yan seen me before?"
Yan Shu's heart skipped a beat, and she was suddenly at a loss. How could she have forgotten that in her previous life, before the palace coup, she had never met Xiao Yu.
"Could it be at the previous Imperial Spring Banquet?" Xiao Yu reminded vaguely.
Yan Shu's memories of this period had long since stopped three years ago, and she couldn't recall the Imperial Spring Banquet of her previous life. She only vaguely remembered that a banquet had indeed been held when her group of concubines entered the Xiao Palace. Hearing Xiao Yu's mention of it, she immediately nodded and said, "Yes, it was at that Imperial Spring Banquet that I was captivated by the King's beauty and grace."
After hearing this, Xiao Yu narrowed his narrow eyes and smiled.
Yan Shu thought she had gotten away with it and continued, "I have to thank the king for saving my life last night, otherwise I would have been tortured to death by the poison."
What Yan Shu said was not entirely false. If it were not for Xiao Yu last night, she would have had to give herself to the old, ugly and lustful King Xiao Wei.
At the time, she only wanted to survive and didn't care about so many things. Looking back now, if she woke up with that fat pig-like man lying next to her, Yan Shu would probably think it would be better to die.
After all, no matter how scary Xiao Yu was, he was still handsome and had a tall and straight figure. As long as she slept with him, she wouldn't be at a disadvantage.
The most urgent thing at the moment is to ask Xiao Yu to help her get rid of the poison.
"The poison last night was really powerful. If it happens every fifteenth day of every month, I'm afraid I really can't bear it. I hope Your Majesty can find someone to save me." The girl raised her eyes and looked at the person in front of her. Her beautiful eyes were sad and she looked extremely pitiful.
"Didn't Yanyan see the doctor today? Why didn't she ask him about the poison?"
There was a playful look in Xiao Yu's eyes as he gently twisted his long fingers around the girl's loose black hair, entwining them around each other as if they were close lovers.
Yan Shu's heart tightened at his words, and she didn't even notice the "Yan Yan" Xiao Yu mentioned. She thought to herself that Xiao Yu was watching her every move. Fortunately, she had been careful not to ask the doctor directly if the poison would affect her fertility, otherwise Xiao Yu would have heard about it by now.
"Although I am afraid, I still think it is more appropriate to tell His Majesty first." Yan Shu said softly and coquettishly, her jade-like hand gently resting on Xiao Yu's chest. She looked up, her fair face still flushed with the previous emotion, "Your Majesty will help me, right?"
The girl's eyes were full of sparkle, and she acted like a coquettish cat. Xiao Yu lowered his eyes and looked at the person in front of him, with an unclear expression in his eyes.
Yan Shu was naturally taking a gamble this time.
Since Xiao Yu wanted her to experience the bittersweetness of rising high and falling hard, then he would surely continue to pamper her with the same utmost care as he had in his previous life over the next two years. If so, she would use this "favor" to resolve her current troubles.
Just as Yan Shu thought, after Xiao Yu squeezed her hand that was on his chest, a faint smile appeared in his eyes, and then he asked the palace servants to call a group of medical officers to come and treat Yan Shu.
But this Hehuan Gu is not an ordinary disease after all, even the doctors of Xiao Palace are helpless.
Seeing the medical officers shaking their heads in distress, Yan Shu suddenly became anxious.
"Is there no way to cure this poison?"
The leading doctor, Doctor Fang, sighed and replied, "My lady, this Gu is extremely rare. We have never seen it before, so we have no idea how to treat it."
"Then, will I die?" Yan Shu's voice trembled, fearing that this Gu would cause harm to her body.
"Don't worry, Lady Yan. Although this poison is difficult to cure, I just examined you and found your pulse is steady and your Qi and blood are flowing smoothly. This shows that this poison is not harmful to your body."
Yan Shu finally felt relieved upon hearing this, and thought calmly. As for her past life, she hadn't treated the poison for three years, and aside from the 15th of each month, she hadn't experienced any other discomfort. And from what the medical officer had just said, it seemed the Hehuan Gu wouldn't affect her fertility...
It's really too troublesome to have to find a man to remove the poison on the 15th of every month.
But now Yan Shu thought about it, it was really a coincidence in her past life. Xiao Yu would appear by her side on the 15th of every month. Even though she was later imprisoned in the bedroom by Xiao Yu, he would still come to her on the 15th of every month to force her to have sex. It just happened to be a chance to help her get rid of the poison.
"Is there really no way to cure this poison?" Yan Shu asked again.
Even though she knew the Hehuan Gu had no significant effect on her body, Yan Shu still wanted to get rid of it. After all, Xiao Yu didn't really dote on her, and if Na Yue didn't want to help her get rid of the Gu, wouldn't she still be doomed?
Doctor Fang hesitated when he heard this and said, "I have a distant cousin who was very good at making poisons in her early years. If she could come and take a look, perhaps she could find a way to cure this poison, my lady."
After hearing Doctor Fang's words, Yan Shu immediately looked at Xiao Yu beside her, pleading, "Your Majesty..."
Xiao Yu was sitting on a small couch nearby, resting his eyes with his forehead propped up. When he heard the girl's soft voice of "Your Majesty", he lazily opened his eyes.
Yan Shu's watery almond eyes looked at him eagerly, with pleading in her eyes.
Xiao Yu raised his eyelids slightly and looked at Doctor Fang beside him, his voice light.
"Find your cousin and heal the beauty."
"I obey your command." Doctor Fang nodded immediately, then hesitated and said, "But my cousin has been traveling all over the place, so I'm afraid it will take quite some time to find her."
"That's all right. I'll have someone arrange for the men and the carriages. Just go and look for them."
With Xiao Yu's words, Yan Shu felt relieved. As long as there was a way to remove the poison, it would not matter if she waited a little longer.
So after the medical officer left, Yan Shu immediately bowed to Xiao Yu to express her gratitude.
"I thank the king."
Yan Shu raised her eyes. The candlelight in the hall flickered, and the man's handsome face was sometimes bright and sometimes dark. His expression was not clear, which made it difficult for her to guess what he was thinking.
However, Xiao Yu seemed to have always been like this. In his previous life, when Yan Shu didn't know that he was Xiao Xun, even if he showed his affection for her, there was very little communication between her and him. Most of the time, the two of them spent time on the couch.
Later, during the time she was imprisoned, the two of them completely fell out. Although they were affectionate on the couch, Yan Shu knew in her heart that Xiao Yu hated her to death, so she would not say anything else.
Now that everything has to start from scratch, Yan Shu is really worried about how to get along with Xiao Yu. She can't just seduce him to bed every day.
"Has the king had dinner yet?" Yan Shu finally couldn't help but speak and broke the slightly strange silence.
Since I don't know what to say, I might as well eat. If my mouth is busy eating, I naturally don't need to talk.
Seeing Xiao Yu shaking his head, Yan Shu immediately said, "Then Your Majesty, please stay in Baohua Palace and have dinner with me today."
Before he could refuse, Yan Shu ordered someone to serve the meal.
The cooking skills of the Xiao Palace chef were still excellent. Knowing that Xiao Yu wanted to keep him for dinner, the evening dishes were more sumptuous than the lunch.
There are many dishes such as Bailongyao, sheepskin filigree, chicken stewed in milk, Xiaotiansu, roasted quail, Guomenxiang, etc.
Yan Shu always had a great appetite, and these dishes happened to be her favorites. If it were a normal day, she would have eaten heartily. But now that Xiao Yu was around, her appetite was almost gone.
Xiao Yu seemed to have no appetite at all. After picking up a few pieces of chopsticks, he stared at Yan Shu with his narrow eyes in boredom while she ate.
Sensing that burning gaze, Yan Shu suddenly felt uncomfortable, to the point that she felt the food in front of her had no fragrance anymore, and she picked up food with her chopsticks less and less often.
When Xiao Yu saw that Yan Shu was eating less and less, he looked at her with dark eyes.
"Are these dishes not to Yanyan's liking?"
Yan Shu felt uneasy when he looked at her. She quickly shook her head to deny it, took a few bites, and then put down her chopsticks.
"I am full."
After she finished speaking, she saw a trace of regret in the eyes of the person opposite her.
Yan Shu didn't think much of it, but only then did she notice that Xiao Yu no longer called her Lady Yan, but Yan Yan. In her previous life, when Xiao Yu first called her Yan Yan, Yan Shu had found it quite strange.
If you want to show intimacy, you should call her by the word "Shu", why call her by her surname?
Now Yan Shu finally understood that Xiao Yu had only been pretending to dote on her from the beginning, and that he didn't really want to be close to her. That's why he preferred to call her by her last name every day rather than by her given name.
Seeing that the two masters had finished their dinner, the palace servants removed the remaining dishes one by one, and then brought them tea and fruit plates to refresh their appetites.
It was the transition between spring and summer, the perfect time for watermelons and grapes, so after-meal fruit consisted primarily of these two. Yan Shu picked up a chilled grape, peeled it, and was about to put it in her mouth when she suddenly remembered that she had an ancestor beside her. She immediately and attentively passed the grape to Xiao Yu's lips.
"Your Majesty, please taste these grapes and see if they are sweet."
The girl has slender fingers, and her fingertips are twisting the crystal clear grapes with a few drops of transparent juice on them, which look even whiter, tenderer and more slender under the candlelight.
Xiao Yu's eyes dimmed slightly. He paused for a moment before opening his lips and lightly biting the girl's fingertips that were holding the grapes.
And his eyes were fixed on Yan Shu in front of him.
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