After Minshu left, Jinshui walked over and helped Fu Yin up, saying helplessly, "Hey, don't be too angry. She scolded me a few days ago. She treats everyone like this."

Fu Yin used his sleeve to vigorously wipe the forehead that Min Shu had just stepped on, his eyes revealing a sinister look: "She is just the daughter of a sixth-rank official. Does she really think that she can be superior to everyone in our Meng Kingdom just by entering the Imperial Master's Mansion?"

Jin Shui: "You have also seen that my little sister is extremely talented. She has been able to refine pills and medicines by herself in just a few days, and her cultivation speed is advancing by leaps and bounds. Not to mention me, I am afraid that it will not be long before her cultivation level is even higher than that of the master."

Fu Yin: "Oh? Is she really so talented?"

Jin Shui took back his hand from him and said, "If you ask me, you'd better be patient. I don't know when my master will come back. Your only hope is really my little junior sister. You have to wait until you get the medicine and Marquis Wu'an wakes up before you bother her."

Fu Yin said in a deep voice: "The coral tree is in the hands of the Queen Mother. Who can ask for it? Even if my grandmother goes to ask for it, she may not be able to get it. On the contrary, my mansion will lose the favor of the Queen Mother."

Jin Shui: "Whether you lose the emperor's favor or not depends on how you want it. Wu'an Hou has been stationed at the border for decades. He has made great contributions, but he has also worked hard. Now he is unconscious, so naturally the whole family is worried. In a desperate situation, I have no choice but to disregard the status of the emperor, which shows my deep friendship and loyalty."

Fu Yin paused and looked at Jin Shui deeply: "Thank you, cousin."

The royal palace where Jinshui is located has a marriage relationship with the marquis' palace for three generations, so it is not surprising that he is called cousin.

Jin Shui smiled and said, "Go quickly."

As soon as Fu Yin returned to the Marquis' Mansion, he went straight to Ci'an Hall where the old lady of the Marquis' Mansion lived.

The old lady had been waiting at the door long ago. When she saw him, she was horrified and asked, "What's going on? I remember you just changed into a white suit when you came back. How come it's so dirty?"

Fu Yin lowered his eyes and told the old lady everything that happened in the Imperial Master's Mansion.

The old lady was furious: "This Su Qingshu is so arrogant and bullying!"

She clutched her chest, unable to breathe.

The maids handed her water and medicine, rubbed her shoulders and back, and it took a while for her to recover.

She put down the medicine bowl and said coldly, "Your cousin is right. My mansion has nowhere to go. If we go to the palace and cry, I'm sure the Queen Mother and the Emperor will forgive us. I want to see where Su Qingshu can put the coral tree that her mother took back."

"Grandma, are you planning to go directly to the Queen Mother...?"

"No, let's go to Concubine Shu first." The old lady's wrinkled peach blossom eyes revealed the same sinister look as Fu Yin's: "Since Su Qingshu doesn't know what's good for her and wants to make a big deal out of it, I'll let her see her own position clearly."

When Concubine Shu received the news that the old lady of Marquis Wu'an was coming to visit, the Fifth Prince was also here.

The fifth prince said happily, "I heard that Fu Yin is back. I wonder if he has also entered the palace. I haven't seen him for three years."

Concubine Shu smiled and said, "Then you can ask the old marquis' wife when you meet her later."

As the two were talking, the old lady of Marquis Wu'an was brought in by a palace maid.

Without waiting for her to salute, Concubine Shu started shouting.

However, the old lady of Wu'an Marquis still bowed firmly and said, "Madam Shufei, I came here today because I have nowhere else to go. I have no choice but to ask you for a favor."

Concubine Shu was startled, and asked her personal maid to help the old lady of Marquis Wu'an up, and then asked, "Why do you need such a great ceremony?"

The old lady of Wu'an Marquis wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and lowered her head, as if she was extremely ashamed: "I have sacrificed my old face to come to see the queen, but in fact, there is something I have to do. I have to apologize to the queen first."

Concubine Shu was even more puzzled: "What are you apologizing for?"

The old lady of Wu'an Marquis burst into tears again. While wiping her tears, she told the agreement between the Marquis' Mansion and Min Shu. When she talked about the coral tree, she knelt again: "I know that the coral tree has long been given to the Queen Mother by the Queen. But...but my son really can't wait any longer! The pain in the son's body is the pain in the mother's heart. If possible, even if I give up my life, as long as it can exchange for my son's safety, it doesn't matter!"

Before Concubine Shu opened her mouth, the Fifth Prince was already extremely angry.

"What a Su Qingshu! He is really going too far!"

Concubine Shu also frowned: "Does Su Qingshu know that her coral tree was given to me?"

The old lady of Marquis Wu'an said: "Your Highness originally thought that Su Qingshu didn't know where the coral tree was, so she asked for it. So he explained the situation to Su Qingshu. But she not only didn't give him any room for maneuver, but also beat my grandson! I, I..."

The old lady of Marquis Wu'an knelt on the ground, as if she was overwhelmed with grief. She no longer cared about her image and burst into tears.

The sound even reached outside the palace, attracting curious glances from many palace servants.

Concubine Shu slammed the table, breaking two of her armors. She said coldly, "What a despiser of the royal family, Su Qingshu, how dare she be so ignorant of the heaven and earth? I want to see what she is capable of, to dare to look down on me, the Empress Dowager, and the Emperor!"

"Tell! Go to the Imperial Master's Mansion and invite that distant Immortal Master to the palace for me!"

The word "please" is particularly important.

The palace servants left quickly, and the old lady of Wu'an Marquis did not stand up. She just raised her tearful face and said, "Madam, Su Qingshu does have some talent for alchemy. He was able to refine such a miraculous elixir in just three days. He must have a bright future..."

"A promising future?" A careless smile appeared on Concubine Shu's charming face. "She is just a little girl. No matter how promising she is, that will be in the future. Besides, it is precisely because she may have a promising future that we cannot allow such people who despise the royal family to exist."

As she spoke, Concubine Shu said to the Fifth Prince, "My son, didn't the Right Prime Minister give you the elixir that Su Qingshu sent you a few days ago? You can't use it for the time being, so why not give it to the old lady of Marquis Wu'an?"

The fifth prince had no objection: "Okay."

His guards went to get the medicine, and the old lady of Marquis Wu'an knelt down in gratitude. After seeking the opinion of Concubine Shu, she quickly delivered the medicine to Marquis Wu'an's mansion.

Just as Marquis Wu'an was slowly waking up after taking the medicine, someone from the palace knocked on the door of the Imperial Master's Mansion.

But at this time Min Shu was in the abandoned alchemy room, and no one dared to approach here on normal days.

When the Taoist boy delivered messages in the past, he would wait for Min Shu to come out, and he would never come near here.

So no matter what the eunuch from the palace said, the Taoist boy was unwilling to pass on the message.

By the time Min Shu found out that Concubine Shu asked her to enter the palace, three hours had passed and it was already dark.

She looked at the anxious eunuch, raised her eyes to look at the stars, and said calmly: "It is not suitable to enter the palace at this time. Please tell the concubine that I will go to see her after noon tomorrow."

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