Taxue repeatedly pushed away the hand extended by Yulan, like a bored cat playing with a mouse.

Haitang and Qiangwei were startled and quickly helped Yulan up. They said to Taxue, "What happened? Don't let her die before you finish your question."

Taxue put away his previous smile, looked at Yulan viciously and said: "You want to die, but it's not that easy."

Cheng Songan was slightly startled, then looked at the incense burner beside him and asked, "There's something wrong with this incense burner, what did you put in it?"

Taxue looked at her with a guilty conscience and lowered his head, scratching his hands. But he felt that he was not wrong, and said with a pout, "I had already noticed that something was wrong with her. I was afraid that the girl would be deceived, so I was on guard against her. As expected, she sneaked out last night, and when she came back, she was locked up in the ear room by Sister Haitang. I lit a pot of incense powder extracted from Bauhinia pollen in the room early in the morning."

Haitang asked quickly, "What is it? Is it serious if the girl smells it?"

Taxue took out a small jar from his sleeve, opened it and rubbed it under Yulan's nose. Only then did Yulan let out a long breath and slowly opened her eyes.

"It's fine for ordinary people to smell Bauhinia pollen, but not Magnolia." Taxue sneered, "Because she has wheezing, inhaling Bauhinia pollen will cause suffocation."

Haitang finally breathed a sigh of relief and said angrily, "You little girl, why didn't you even discuss this with me?"

Taxue pouted at her and burst into tears: "You didn't tell me either. You hid everything from me."

This made Haitang laugh and cry, and she pinched her face: "You idiot, you're crying again."

Cheng Songan saw that the jar in her hand was the lip balm he had given her before. He thought it must have been used up and she had put something else in it.

"Why are you crying? I didn't scold you. You did this for my own good, but you shouldn't have hidden it from others." Cheng Songan said gently.

Taxue felt more and more aggrieved: "I won't cry if the girl scolds me and hits me. What I'm crying about is...well, I won't say it."

Cheng Songan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He just felt that even if she was smart, she was still just a child after all.

Taxue wiped away her tears and showed a fierce expression to Yulan again: "I just taught you a little lesson just now. If you don't tell me the truth, I have plenty of ways to make you cry out to the sky and the earth for help but no one will answer."

Yulan had just experienced a life-or-death suffocation, and was still frightened. She collapsed and said, "I have never poisoned a girl..."

Cheng Songan sighed deeply: "The medicine you gave me was not poison, but a chronic medicine. It won't kill me, but it will just cause my qi stagnation and blood stasis, right?"

Yulan nodded in doubt. She didn't want Cheng Songan to die.

Qiangwei said angrily, "How is this different from poisoning? I have always handled the food the girl eats. How did you do it?"

Taxue rolled his eyes at her, then said fiercely, "Do you still want to experience a fate worse than death?"

Yulan pointed to Cheng Songan's dressing table with a shaking hand, closed her eyes, and answered desperately: "The lipstick that the girl uses every day contains cinnabar and musk..."

Cheng Songan felt a chill in her heart. No wonder Doctor Sun said she had taken the elixir by mistake. Cinnabar was a common ingredient in elixirs. It could calm people down, but it was also toxic. Musk was a blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing ingredient. Taking it with cinnabar would cause qi stagnation and blood stasis, and menstrual disorders. If these two ingredients were taken for a long time, one would die of exhaustion.

And lip balm applied on the lips, if the amount is not too much, it will not disappear immediately, and it must be used for many years before its effect will be seen.

Upon hearing this, Taxue slapped her in the face several times and said angrily, "What a cunning trick!"

Although she was small, she was strong and powerful. Yulan's face became swollen immediately after being hit by her.

Haitang quickly went to the dressing table and took all the lipstick, rouge and powder. She was so flustered that her voice trembled a little: "Anything else?"

Yulan shook her head.

Taxue raised his hand and slapped him again, then asked in a cold voice: "Cinnabar and musk must have a smell when mixed together. How did you mix them?"

Yulan spat out a mouthful of blood and gasped, "I don't know. The lip balm that the young lady usually uses is from Caiyunzhai. Every time she buys a new one, the second young lady buys the same one, mixes it, and asks me to change it."

Taxue's eyes were red with anger and she wanted to fight again. Cheng Songan stopped her and said, "Don't humiliate her."

"Are we going to let her go like this?" Taxue asked hatefully.

Cheng Songan chuckled: "If I let her go, I won't have to live in the future. Yulan is guilty, I won't forgive her, but I don't have to humiliate her either."

Yulan lay on the ground, covering her face and sobbing.

After a long while, Cheng Songan finally spoke again: "Yulan, do you know that if I continue to take these two medicines like this, within five years, my internal organs will collapse, and a small cold will kill me."

Yulan stared at her with her eyes wide open, seeming a little bit unconvinced, but knowing that what she said was true, she kowtowed heavily and said, "I am willing to die to atone for my sins."

Cheng Songan shook his head: "I don't want to get blood on my hands. Let's exchange our lives. Yulan, you must eat every box of lipstick that Cheng Wanxin sends you in the future. When you die depends on God's will. This is the first box..."

After saying that, she took the box of lipstick from Haitang's hand, threw it on the ground, and looked at her coldly.

Yulan picked up the lipstick with trembling hands. Eating the whole box of lipstick was completely different from applying it on her lips every day. Even if she didn't die, her body would definitely be ruined after eating it a few times. What hope would she have for the rest of her life? It would be better to die now. At least the people she saved without caring about their master would remember her kindness for the rest of their lives.

Thinking of this, Yulan stood up suddenly and rushed towards the pillar with all her strength.

Taxue was quick to pull her down, tied her hands behind her back, threw her to the ground, and spat, "Even if you want to die, you can't die in this room!"

Cheng Songan sighed, "Yulan, you are so stupid. The road I gave you still had a 50% chance of survival, but you insisted on getting killed. Wouldn't that man get away with it? He can use your money to marry someone else."

Yulan covered her ears and cried, "No, it's impossible! He will remember my feelings."

……

A little girl quietly walked in from the door. Not knowing what had happened, she walked cautiously to Cheng Songan and said, "The second young lady in front came to say goodbye to the young lady."

Cheng Songan waved his hand to indicate that she understood, and the little girl quickly retreated.

Haitang and Qiangwei looked at each other and were about to carry Yulan away, but Cheng Songan said, "No need."

Not long after, Cheng Wanxin walked in and did not notice the shivering Yulan.

Cheng Songan asked leisurely, "Why are you in such a hurry? Jin Ning is having a great time in Chunhui Garden, so it won't be too late to have lunch."

Cheng Wan thought, "It's inconvenient to stay with my sister, and my mother is worried about me at home, so I should go back early."

Cheng Songan did not stop him, and said slowly: "No hurry, second sister, please think about it for me first. Among my girls, Yulan is the most calm and cautious. I was just about to let her go to Jiangnan with your brother-in-law. What do you think?"

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