Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Jia Ling's Double Rebirth, Creates a Great Success

Ruyi thought of her mother.

She remembered that there were many precious medicinal herbs in the mansion. At worst, her mother could help her buy them outside the palace.

Ruyi thought that if she asked her mother to buy the herbs from outside the palace, no one would know about it. Han Xiang would drink it voluntarily and would be grateful for her help.

It's really perfect.

After writing the note, Ruyi knocked on the table with her blue enamel and red agate armor, then turned to Dongmei and said:

"Dongmei, take some silver to Nara's house, give this note to my mother, and ask her to bring in some medicinal herbs."

Dongmei blinked her eyes and said innocently, "Master, there is no money!"

Ruyi propped up her drooping eyelids, and the layers of wrinkles were tightly together.

"How come there is no silver? Where did the silver go?"

Dongmei counted the numbers on her fingers very seriously.

"Master, this month's allowance was used to buy new armor, the one you are wearing, white silk to wipe your body, and a new set of silver plates to prevent them from being broken. Your allowance has already been used up!"

Ruyi was full of contempt for Dongmei. Even if her monthly allowance was used up, wasn't there still hers? As her maid, shouldn't she share the joys and sorrows with her?

Ruyi thought that her usual tolerance did not bring about equal return, which made her feel disheartened.

She sighed imperceptibly and comforted herself that her brother Neri was dead, there was no room for money to be squandered in the family, and her mother should still be able to save some money.

We are all family, why should we calculate so much? Why not let my mother pay for it?

And if they were to investigate, she could also say that it was the medicine her mother sent to replenish her body, and she thought it was good, so she let Han Xiangjian try it.

Ruyi asked Dongmei to secretly go to Nara's mansion on the days when she could go to Shenwu Gate to buy groceries every month.

Dongmei turned around and went to the main hall.

At Nara's house.

The house was dilapidated, with half-rotten window frames. The withered old grass in the yard was shaded by new weed sprouts, and green moss was growing in the cracks between the bricks under the eaves.

At this time, Lady Nara was sitting on a small stool leaning against a tree in the yard, making a bowl of extremely bitter medicine for herself.

She had been ill for a long time. As she was short of money and the population in her house was dwindling, she dismissed all the servants in her house and stayed in charge of the yard by herself.

Now her only wish is to wait for her second daughter Qingtang to return to Beijing so that she can see her again.

In the past few years, she has been surviving on the money sent by her second daughter Qingtang and the help from a lady in the palace.

At first, she thought it was sent by her daughter, Concubine Xian, but the palace servant said it was sent by the newly appointed Concubine of Yikun Palace.

Lady Nara thought, that's right, Ruyi can hardly protect herself, how can she give her money?

But yesterday, a letter arrived at home, and the person who wrote it clearly said that this was a note from Concubine Xian, hoping that Lady Nara would reply soon.

Amid the smoke, Lady Nara covered her chest and coughed violently a few times, causing pain in her internal organs.

She slowly opened the note, which said that Ruyi was ill, and the palace treated her harshly and refused to allow the imperial physician to treat her.

Now she is in urgent need of some medicinal herbs and hopes her mother will buy them and send them to her.

In order to show her intelligence, Ruyi also deliberately wrote down a few other medicinal herbs, mixing real and fake ones.

Thinking about how difficult her eldest daughter's life was in the palace, even though Lady Nara was angry with her, she couldn't help but feel a little distressed, so she forced herself to go to the pharmacy to get some medicine.

When she returned to the mansion panting, the palace servant who delivered the letter was waiting at the door and took the herbs from her.

Lady Nara stammered, "Didn't Lady Xian mention me? Didn't she ask how I was?"

The palace maid shook her head. Concubine Xian only asked her to go and come back quickly, and did not let her ask anything.

Lady Nara leaned against the door frame in disappointment, looking back at the desolate courtyard. She always remembered that many years ago, there were several children laughing and playing in the courtyard, and her husband was making tea in the hall.

At the edge of the dark black sky, a red sunset glow turned into a dull blood color. Lady Nara squinted her eyes and saw a familiar figure around the corner.

That was her second daughter, Qingtang, whom she missed day and night.

In a trance, Lady Nara saw her second daughter Qingtang, dressed in green clothes, holding the hand of a cute little girl, kneeling in front of her.

"Mother, the unfilial daughter Qingtang is back. Are you okay?"

Lady Nara grabbed Qingtang's sleeve and looked left and right. She couldn't believe that her second daughter had actually come back.

The silver hair on her head trembled in the wind. She hunched over and approached Qingtang, hugging him with tears streaming down her face.

"My son..."

Ling'er, the little girl beside Qingtang, had clear eyes as she watched her mother and the old lady hugging and crying. She thought, this must be the Guo Luomama that her mother mentioned.

After Qingtang cried for a while, she thought about the letter she received from Axiao. It was Axiao who used her connections to let her return to the capital in the name of her husband's work report.

A Xiao said in the letter that if she didn't come back, the Nara clan might be exterminated, and Qingtang's family would be implicated.

Qingtang supported Madam Nara and stared at her closely, "Mother, I want to ask you, who was that person you just sent away?"

Lady Nara wiped the tears from her face and answered honestly:

"I am a servant in your sister's palace. You don't know that your sister is in a difficult situation now. When she was sick, the Queen Mother would not allow the Imperial Hospital to prescribe medicine for her, so she had no choice but to come out to ask for help from my mother."

Qingtang's eyes tightened. She instinctively felt that her sister was using their mother as a scapegoat again. She excitedly held Lady Nara's shoulders and asked for her sister's prescription.

Lady Nara looked hesitant, took out a note written in small calligraphy by Ruyi from her sleeve and handed it over.

When Qingtang saw the words clearly, his heart sank instantly.

"Safflower, Astragalus, Chinese Angelica, Musk, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Cyathula, Cinnabar."

Qingtang asked with a trembling voice: "Mother, you are not a virgin, don't you know that safflower, rhizoma achyranthis Bidentatae, and musk are all things that can invigorate blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis, and are extremely cold? What do you want these for, sister?"

Lady Nara only thought that Ruyi was ill and needed medicine, and had never carefully read the prescription. To this day, she still couldn't help but excuse Ruyi:

"Your sister said that she was depressed because of the emperor's neglect and her menstruation was not smooth. She needed this blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine."

Qingtang didn't know whether to say that her mother was deceiving herself or that she was old and confused. She looked down at her three-year-old daughter and asked Lady Nara in a stern voice,

"Mother, are you still going to lie to yourself? If my sister really has difficulty with her menstruation, a small amount of safflower will be enough. Why does she need so many cold things? Don't forget that she is in the palace. The dirtiest thing in the palace is to harm people and murder concubines and heirs. That is a crime of exterminating the clan."

Lady Nara covered her mouth to prevent her broken roar from escaping. She was both anxious and desperate at the moment. Could it be that Ruyi really wanted to harm someone?

"Qingtang, your sister won't do that. Although she is stubborn, she was raised by our mother, so she is not a bad person by nature."

Qingtang hated her mother's dreamy nature. She thought of her dead father and Nesuken, and pulled her daughter Ling'er to kneel in front of Lady Nara, shouting at the top of her lungs:

"My sister is kind. If she were kind, how could my aunt die in Jingren Palace? And how could she be indifferent to the death of my father and Nesuken?"

Qingtang's chest heaved with anger, she thought about how she and her husband had worked so hard over the years to build up their own small home, and her husband had also been promoted to the fourth rank, and they couldn't let it all be ruined in an instant.

"My daughter said it all those years ago, that my sister would kill our family sooner or later. Now there are only two of us left at home. Do you want to see that everyone in our family is extinct? Don't look at anything else, just look at your poor granddaughter. She is only three years old, how innocent she is."

Lady Nara was also heartbroken when she thought of her husband, son and grandson. She supported Qingtang and Ling'er on the ground, covering her chest with her hands, her eyes blurred with tears.

A breath of foul air in her chest blocked her throat. She suppressed the feeling of dizziness and bit her lips hard.

Lady Nara thought that she couldn't lose Qingtang again.

"Qingtang, get up quickly. Mother will listen to you. Mother will not harm you and Ling'er again."

Qingtang stood up slowly with a proud character and said firmly...