Chapter 51: Aphrodisiac No wonder he is so energetic every time he has an affair...
Zhou Yitong panicked when he heard this.
How can Concubine Yan deliver this medicine?
The king had previously instructed that Concubine Yan must not be informed of the matter of the sterilization medicine.
Zhou Tong then pretended to be calm and continued to smile at Yan Shu, saying, "My lady is very thoughtful. However, since my lady has brought some snacks for His Majesty, I will bring this tonic soup to His Majesty later."
After Zhou Tong finished speaking, he turned around and hurried away with the tray.
When Yan Shu saw Zhou Tong's expression, she became even more suspicious and immediately called him back.
"Minister Zhou, there's no need to go to such trouble. I'll just take them in together. The king won't blame me."
The girl in front of him smiled gently, but it made Zhou Tong break out in a cold sweat.
If he really asked Lady Yan to deliver the medicine, he would probably lose his head.
But if he forcibly took the medicine away at this moment, it would indeed make him look suspicious and would make Lady Yan even more suspicious.
So Zhou Tong thought about it over and over again, and finally had to reply with gritted teeth.
"How can I trouble you, my lady? I'd better go in with you."
Upon hearing this, Yan Shu became even more suspicious of the medicine.
She thought that once she entered the inner hall, she would ask Xiao Yu what kind of tonic he drank and why it smelled so pungent.
When Xiao Yu saw Yan Shu enter the hall, followed by Zhou Tong holding medicine, his dark pupils suddenly shrank.
Yan Shu didn't notice. After she finished her greetings, she came forward with the food box and said with a smile, "I thought Your Majesty hadn't had breakfast yet, so I brought some snacks. Your Majesty must try them."
When Zhou Tong placed the medicine on the small table beside him and was about to leave quietly, he suddenly heard Lady Yan raise her voice and ask:
"Your Majesty, Minister Zhou just said this was the tonic you drank. What kind of tonic is it?"
"This medicine looks dark and smells bitter. It doesn't taste like a tonic at all. Is the king ill?"
When Yan Shu said this, Zhou Tong who was present was shocked and his face turned pale with fear.
Xiao Yu lowered his eyelashes, but his expression was unusually calm.
"Zhou Tong is right. It's just an ordinary tonic. Shushu doesn't need to worry."
Zhou Tong trembled with fear when he heard this, but after receiving Xiao Yu's look, he immediately felt relieved and quietly left the hall.
But Yan Shu still felt suspicious when she looked at the bowl of medicine.
"Since it is a tonic, Your Majesty, please let me try it. I have never tasted such a tonic before."
After the girl finished speaking, she was about to pick up the medicine as if she wanted to taste it. Xiao Yu's pupils trembled when he saw this, and he immediately raised his arm, hooked it around Yan Shu's slender waist and pulled her back.
So Yan Shu fell straight into his arms before she even touched the medicine bowl, and was immediately hugged tightly by him.
Yan Shu was stunned, then turned around to look at him, as if she was surprised that Xiao Yu's reaction was so big, so she became even more suspicious of the medicine.
"Your Majesty, why didn't you let me have a taste of this tonic?" Yan Shu tilted her head to look at him, raised her eyes, and said with a delicate voice, "I only had a taste, how could Your Majesty be so stingy to me?"
Of course Yan Shu did it on purpose.
She naturally didn't think that Xiao Yu was stingy, but rather that there must be something seriously wrong with the bowl of medicine that caused Xiao Yu to lose his composure like that.
When Xiao Yu heard this, he was silent for a long time.
He couldn't say that he used the medicine for sterilization, and he couldn't let Yan Shu drink the medicine.
Because he would never take the risk of hurting her body.
But now the girl looked like she would not give up until she got to the bottom of the matter, so he had no choice but to give an explanation.
Seeing that Xiao Yu didn't answer, Yan Shu's dark eyes seemed to contain a hint of impatience, and she immediately had a bad guess in her heart.
Could it be that Xiao Yu drank that kind of medicine? That's why he was so secretive and sneaky.
The more Yan Shu thought about it, the more suspicious she felt. If it was really that medicine, then everything would make sense.
After thinking about it, the girl lowered her eyes slightly, and for a moment she didn't know whether she should continue asking.
No wonder he is always so energetic when things go well, while she seems to be drained of energy.
It turned out that it was all because of drinking this aphrodisiac soup.
But I'm afraid that drinking this medicine for a long time will harm your body. It's not worth it to drink it just for temporary pleasure.
Moreover, Yan Shu had read in a medical book that a man's lifetime essence is limited. Xiao Yu was so indulgent even with the help of drugs. Wasn't he afraid that his body would be drained?
After thinking about it, Yan Shu looked at the medicine and hesitated to speak. She wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it.
After all, this matter concerns a man's dignity. If she exposes it like this, what if Xiao Yu gets angry and embarrassed?
So Yan Shu had to hint at it, her expression quite euphemistic: "Your Majesty, all medicines are poisonous. Even if it is a tonic, you can't drink it every day." After saying this, she lowered her head as if embarrassed and shy, her face slightly red, and said, "Besides, I think Your Majesty is already powerful enough, and there is no need to drink these things... to cheer you up."
Yan Shu stopped there, thinking she had been subtle enough.
Instead of letting Xiao Yu drink this medicinal soup all day long and tormenting her energetically again and again, he might as well let her drink less and let her rest more at night.
And Xiao Yu also had a hunch that Yan Shu had misunderstood something.
His eyelashes drooped, covering the dark color under his eyes, and his thin lips were slightly pursed, but he did not explain.
Rather than being discovered by Shushu that he was drinking sterilization medicine, Xiao Yu would rather she think that the bowl of soup he was drinking was an aphrodisiac.
Although he didn't need that thing, Yan Shu's misunderstanding made him feel a lot more at ease.
So Xiao Yu agreed naturally, and the hand that was wrapped around the girl's waist also tightened: "Shushu is right, I won't drink from now on."
From now on, he would naturally drink more carefully and never let Shushu see him again.
After all, as long as you persist for two years, you will have no worries in the future.
When Yan Shu saw that Xiao Yu agreed so readily, she became even more suspicious.
I thought that I should be more careful in the future. I can't let Xiao Yu continue to drink these things and then have the energy to torment her.
He wasn't afraid of kidney deficiency, but she was.
So Yan Shu didn't feel relieved until she saw Xiao Yu pour out the bowl of medicine.
Then she sat there and accompanied him to eat milk and snacks for a while. While he was reviewing memorials, the girl's eyelids began to droop and she felt sleepy again.
Yan Shu had no idea when Xiao Yu carried her to the couch to rest.
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The two of them spent almost a month in such sweet and relaxing harmony, and the relationship between her and Xiao Yu was also unusually harmonious. Although Yan Shu still couldn't guess Xiao Yu's thoughts, she had noticed his special tenderness towards her over the past few days.
Yan Shu was actually confused.
In her previous life, Xiao Yu later locked her up in Baohua Palace and imprisoned her. She could understand that Xiao Yu hated her.
He hated her for pushing him into the snake den and almost killing him.
But in this life, after she drugged him again and tried to escape from the palace secretly, Xiao Yu did not retaliate against her like he did in the previous life.
It was obvious that she had committed one more crime than in her previous life, so why didn't Xiao Yu retaliate against her at all?
Even the golden chain that Xiao Yu used to lock her up for a year in the previous life only locked her up for one day in this life.
Although Yan Shu always felt that Xiao Yu might just be still attached to her body, so he would temporarily spare her life, but when Yan Shu was alone and thought about it carefully, she realized that even if Xiao Yu was still attached to her body, there was no need for him to act so caringly.
He could just lock her up in the palace like he did in his previous life, and come and favor her whenever he wanted.
After all, he was the King of Xiao. How could she, a princess who had no one to rely on and was only a beauty, resist him?
Yan Shu had expressed her feelings of gratitude and confusion to Qingtao these past few days, but Qingtao not only did not find it strange, but she even firmly believed that Xiao Yu was acting this way because he had feelings for Yan Shu.
"In my opinion, it is precisely because the king likes the princess and has feelings for her that he cannot let go that he is willing to forgive her." Qingtao looked at Yan Shu, who was lying on the couch in a daze, and said with full affirmation.
Yan Shu blinked her eyelashes when she heard that, her eyes were moist and her heart seemed to be wavering, but when she thought of the cup of poisoned wine in her previous life, she still didn't dare to believe that Xiao Yu had feelings for her.
"If Xiao Yu really liked me, then why did he confer the title of beauty on Yan Qingwan in my previous life and even give me a cup of poisoned wine to kill me?"
This is a question that has always existed in Yan Shu's mind.
The better Xiao Yu treats her now, the deeper this question becomes in her mind.
Qing Tao frowned slightly upon hearing this. After thinking for a while, she looked at her confused princess and couldn't help but ask, "In your previous life, did the princess hear from her own mouth that the king was going to give you poisoned wine?"
Yan Shu was slightly stunned. "That was what Yan Qingwan said herself. It was Xiao Yu who was about to make her a beauty and asked her to deliver the wine. Besides, the palace servants were all saying that Yan Qingwan was favored by the king..."
The girl's voice became lower and lower, as if she felt embarrassed.
But Qingtao was quick to notice something and immediately said, "Then Princess, what you're saying is that you didn't actually hear the king say he was going to give you poisoned wine. So, all this was just Wanji's lies in front of you?"
Qingtao's words made Yan Shu stunned.
There was a look of surprise and disbelief in her eyes. She looked up at Qingtao and said, "Are you saying that I was most likely deceived by Yan Qingwan?"
Qing Tao nodded, her expression serious. "Although I'm not entirely sure, I feel that the princess's death in her previous life might not have been the king's will."
"Since the princess said that Yan Qingwan was favored by the king at the time, how could the king send a concubine he cherished so deeply to kill someone? Wasn't he afraid of dirtying his concubine's hands? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask a palace maid or a guard to do this?"
"And if the king truly hated the princess so deeply, why would he simply lock her up in Baohua Palace without imposing any other punishment? Ordinary people would treat their enemies with lavish clothing and food, even if they meant to humiliate them physically."
"Furthermore, Princess, you can see that the King has never taken Wan Ji seriously from the beginning to the end. He even refused all the dancers offered by the Queen Mother. How could he have been so fond of Wan Ji in his previous life?"
Yan Shu's eyelashes trembled slightly.
Qingtao was indeed right. In her previous life, Xiao Yu locked her up in Baohua Palace for a year. Not only did she lose her freedom, but her food, clothing and other expenses remained extravagant.
All the palace maids who had treated her harshly at the beginning were also dealt with by Xiao Yu.
It really doesn't make sense to provide for the person you hate.
Moreover, in this life, Xiao Yu really doesn't care about Yan Qingwan.
Could it be that her death in her previous life really had nothing to do with Xiao Yu?
Yan Shu pondered over it but couldn't figure it out. Even when she made love with Xiao Yu a few nights later, she wanted to ask him what he was thinking.
But Yan Shu held back.
After all, Xiao Yu in this life is not the Xiao Yu in the previous life, and she has no way of knowing what happened in the previous life.
The only thing that was certain now was that she had to be on guard against Yan Qingwan, who was now in the Queen Mother's favor.
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The author has something to say: Shushu: He must have taken aphrodisiacs to be so sneaky [question mark]
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Shushu will find out later that it is not an aphrodisiac, but a sterilization drug, and she will also know that Xiao Yu is lying to her [Please]
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