Chapter 4: Poisoning

“Miss, it must be the second miss who poisoned you!”

After saying that, Dujian cautiously glanced at Tang Chuyao. Normally, when she mentioned the second miss, her young lady would scold her a couple of times.

This time, however, to her surprise, Tang Chuyao not only didn’t scold Dujian but nodded in acknowledgment.

“Dujian, my falling into the water this time was not an accident!”

As Tang Chuyao was about to say something, she suddenly heard footsteps outside the door. A young maid came in to clean the room.

The young maid was Mo Zhu!

Seeing Mo Zhu appear, Tang Chuyao almost bit her silver tooth in frustration!

It was this very Mo Zhu who had secretly given her personal scent pouch to Gu Huaifeng, allowing him to spread rumors about their private engagement throughout the capital!

In her previous life, she had met Gu Huaifeng several times. She thought Gu Huaifeng was refined, treated people well, and left her with a very good impression.

Moreover, Gu Huaifeng pretended to be righteous and moral, promising in front of the favored concubine that he would marry her and never take a concubine!

She had thought that her reputation was ruined because of the pouch incident, and at that time, Gu Huaifeng seemed like a hero saving her from danger, wanting to marry her and firmly refusing to take concubines!

She was genuinely moved!

The people in the capital praised Gu Huaifeng as a noble man, someone who not only didn’t dislike her appearance but treated her like a treasure…

Now, thinking back, if Gu Huaifeng truly were a person of high moral character, how could he promote baseless rumors so widely?

Even if he had picked up her scent pouch, he could have easily explained it away!

Perhaps this was all part of a scheme by Gu Huaifeng and Tang Chuying to get her married into the Xuanping Marquisate!

Their aim was likely one thing:

To win over her maternal family’s influence!

Dujian sensed the change in Tang Chuyao’s expression, and knowing more entanglements of loyalty and affection, she understood that Mo Zhu had issues!

Otherwise, the miss wouldn’t be looking at her that way!

Dujian calmly helped Tang Chuyao lie down and then heard Mo Zhu asking from behind,

“Why hasn’t the miss taken the medicine?”

Dujian turned to face Mo Zhu and said, “The miss is a bit fatigued right now; she’ll drink it later.”

“Mo Zhu, the miss needs to rest; let’s leave for now and not disturb her!”

After saying that, Dujian took Mo Zhu out and helped Tang Chuyao close the door properly.

Mo Zhu didn’t suspect anything; this situation occurred before.

Later, she could just come back in to take the empty medicine bowl out.

Once she heard the movement at the door cease, Tang Chuyao slowly opened her eyes.

“System, how is my body condition now?”

“Host, when you just rebirthed, I scanned your whole body!”

“The situation is quite serious!”

Tang Chuyao wasn’t too surprised; previously, during her five years married to Gu Huaifeng, she spent most of her time bedridden, so it was unusual for her body to be fine!

“Your body has accumulated a large amount of bone-eating poison. This type of slow-acting poison first invades the bone marrow, then spreads throughout the body, causing the patient unbearable pain. Once the poison enters the heart veins, the patient is undoubtedly doomed! The system also detected a facial discoloration poison, which will slowly invade the skin on a person’s face, forming stubborn spots.”

“What’s strange is that although you’ve been poisoned with bone-eating poison, you should logically not survive for two months. However, the detection shows that the channels in your body seem to have been intentionally sealed off.”

“Thus, these two types of chronic poisons haven’t spread to your heart veins.”

Tang Chuyao suddenly recalled something, which was also a detail she had forgotten after her memory loss in her previous life.

Her master had come to the residence last month to secretly check on her and found that the pulse in her body was strange, so he sealed several of her major meridians before leaving!

He also instructed her to go to a horse ranch in the eastern part of the city to find him by the end of this month.

In her previous life, she had forgotten about this matter, so she never went to the horse ranch.

If it weren’t for her rebirth, she might have almost forgotten about it!

Her master was the leader of the Xiaoyao Valley, a person with a laid-back personality, who handled matters with ease and especially doted on her.

She had to go see her master in the eastern part of the city!

In her previous life, she hadn’t seen her master since she got married!

Counting the years, plus these three years, she hadn’t seen her master for eight years!

She was sent to Xiaoyao Valley by the favored concubine when she was three years old, where she learned quite a few internal cultivation techniques. She was originally skilled in lightness skills and also knew some martial arts.

However, after being brought back to the capital at the age of thirteen, she was constantly indoctrinated with the idea that noble ladies in the capital should not learn martial arts!

Women should stay indoors, learning skills like music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and embroidery.

At that time, eager for her scummy father to accept her, she stopped practicing martial arts and picked up an embroidery needle to learn embroidery.

As for music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, she missed the best learning period due to her age and gave up.

She didn’t know who spread the word, but the entire capital knew that the legitimate daughter of the Wen Yongbo family was a good-for-nothing who didn’t learn anything!

Tang Chuyao’s reputation in the capital was very poor. Although she had the favored concubine as her backing, no noble lady was willing to proactively befriend her.

In contrast, Tang Chuying was not only proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting but also had a great personality. Every time Tang Chuyao went to the palace to see the favored concubine, she brought Tang Chuying along, which led to the noble ladies in the capital being eager to befriend her!

Moreover, not long after she returned to the capital, spots began to appear on her face, making her even less willing to go out. Everyone in the capital knew that the legitimate daughter of the Wen Yongbo family was not only a good-for-nothing but also an ugly duckling!

Even her half-sister was not worthy of carrying her shoes!

“System, can you detoxify me?”

“Host, although I understand pharmacology and medicine, I lack the medicinal materials and cannot detoxify you immediately.”

Tang Chuyao’s eyes lit up, “So if I have the medicinal materials, I can be detoxified?”

“Yes, host. The antidote for the bone-eating poison requires several very expensive medicinal materials. It is estimated that only the leader of the Hundred Flowers Valley has these materials.”

Hundred Flowers Valley leader, Hua Wanshu?

Tang Chuyao had seen her a few times when she was in Xiaoyao Valley; she was a sweet-looking young woman who was very kind to others.

“The antidote for the bone-eating poison requires a thousand-year snow lotus, snow ganoderma, Xuanming flower, purple ginseng, and dragon’s saliva.”

Although Tang Chuyao didn’t understand medicinal materials, just hearing the names of these materials made her realize they were all very rare.

However, for now, she should go see her master first.

Tang Chuyao got up from the table, poured the medicine on the table into the flower pot by the window, then held the empty bowl and went to the door, opening it.

Dujian had been waiting at the door. Seeing the miss come out, she hurriedly stepped forward to support her.

Tang Chuyao handed the empty bowl in her hand to Dujian. Dujian glanced at her young lady and immediately understood.

“Mo Zhu?”

Mo Zhu stepped forward to take the empty bowl from Dujian’s hands, a smile tugging at her lips, and then stepped back.

Dujian discreetly noted all of Mo Zhu’s expressions.

Tang Chuyao asked Dujian to help her get ready; she was going to the eastern part of the city!