Chapter 258: Paying A Visit
But thinking of the imperial physician’s words, she always felt uneasy in her heart.
She also knew what she would face. For her child and her own future, she thought for a long time before coming to find Jiang Ruanxi.
Jiang Ruanxi looked at her with a half-smile.
“I’ve changed my mind now.”
Jiang Ruanxi placed the cup on the table and poured herself another cup of tea.
“You…”
Wan Qing was very angry.
“What’s wrong with me? Your delayed answer means those conditions will increase a bit.” Jiang Ruanxi finished her tea and said casually.
Wan Qing was so angry her face turned dark.
After a long while, she gritted her teeth and said, “What exactly do you want?”
“You’re the empress’s person, right?”
“What? I don’t understand what you mean.”
A flash of panic crossed Wan Qing’s eyes, but it quickly disappeared.
Jiang Ruanxi stopped beating around the bush and said directly, “I can save your child, but you have to tell me everything the empress has done, and I will ensure your child is born safely.”
Wan Qing looked at her suspiciously.
“What method do you have? The imperial physician said my child might not be savable.”
“Do you think I would promise you without being certain?”
Wan Qing thought about it and realized that if her child couldn’t be saved, Jiang Ruanxi also knew her temper.
What she wanted most now was for her own child to survive.
Wan Qing was silent for a few seconds before saying, “How can I believe your words?”
Jiang Ruanxi stood up, took a box from the drawer on the side, and handed it to Wan Qing. “I bought this from a doctor who specializes in researching pregnant women. As long as you take it for half a month, the child in your belly will stabilize.”
Wan Qing looked at the box in front of her but did not take it immediately.
“If you don’t believe me, then forget it.”
Jiang Ruanxi placed the box on the table without forcing her.
“The imperial physicians have no way, but you do? Ling Lin, I didn’t expect that to trick me into talking, you’d even use these crooked and unorthodox methods. Do you think I’m a fool?”
“You think you’re important. This palace is only saving you and your child for the sake of your child’s father. If you don’t accept it, then don’t.” Jiang Ruanxi sat down and said indifferently.
Jiang Ruanxi remembered that the scholar in Wan Manor became the top scholar in the imperial examination the following year, and later seemed to become the grand secretary, but he never married in his lifetime and lived alone.
When Yushui found out about Wan Qing and the scholar’s lingering affection, and connected it to Wan Qing’s matters, Jiang Ruanxi finally understood that the grand secretary above tens of thousands of people in her previous life had always harbored Wan Qing, who had been by his side in his destitute times.
And all this time, although Wan Qing was arrogant and domineering, verbally attacking her, she had never truly harmed her. For long-term plans and to have the future grand secretary owe her a favor, she could only help his woman.
And not long ago when she went to see Wan Qing, she had also given the imperial physician a look, making the imperial physician deceive her.
Actually, her child had no major issues, just slightly affected. As long as she rested well, it would be fine in half a month.
Hearing this, Wan Qing’s eyes were full of panic. Her voice rose several times, “Ling Lin, what nonsense are you spouting? My child’s father is the crown prince. If you slander me, I won’t let you go.”
“It’s really the crown prince’s?” Jiang Ruanxi asked rhetorically.
Wan Qing’s heart trembled, but she stubbornly said, “Of course it is.”
Jiang Ruanxi looked at her for a few seconds, then suddenly said somewhat dejectedly, “It’s really not worth it for Lord Wu. In the two months since you entered the Crown Prince’s Manor, he who was originally tall and mighty has now become skin and bones, while your heart holds another man.”
Hearing this, Wan Qing immediately sat down on the stool like a deflated balloon.
She hung her head low, not knowing what she was thinking.
After a long time, her voice was as fine as a gossamer, “He, is he okay?”
Jiang Ruanxi knew Wan Qing was asking about Lord Wu and told her everything she had investigated.
“Because you married into the Crown Prince’s Manor, he is now very depressed, drinking every day and not reading books anymore. He has already moved out of your Wan Manor and is renting a room at an inn outside.”
Wan Qing suddenly raised her head, “What? Is what you say true?”
“Do I have any reason to deceive you? If you don’t believe me, go to Laifu Inn to see. It’s not too late to give me your answer then. But my patience is limited, only two days. If it exceeds two days, everything is void.”
Wan Qing neither agreed nor said anything, stood up directly, and walked out.
But if looked at closely, her back was trembling a bit.
Jiang Ruanxi didn’t care about her rudeness.
Soon, Grand Tutor Ling sent over various dirty deeds the empress had done over the past twenty years, all clearly recorded.
As Jiang Ruanxi flipped through them, her face grew colder.
Finally, after closing it, Jiang Ruanxi was full of chill.
She didn’t expect the empress to have done so many bad things over the years; those lives seemed worthless as grass in her eyes.
“Yushui, find someone to give these to Consort Yan, and let her stir up the waters in the palace to make them as muddy as possible.”
Jiang Ruanxi took out a portion and handed it to Yushui.
Yushui took it, glanced at the records of how the empress caused the death of a formerly favored consort, and her brows immediately furrowed.
Jiang Ruanxi remembered something and gave her the jade bamboo shoot Bian Du had given her as well. “Give her this, and she’ll know what’s going on. Go personally; I don’t trust others.”
Yushui also knew this matter was no small thing and nodded.
**
Laifu Inn.
“Master, we’re here.”
A carriage stopped in front of the inn.
The passing people wouldn’t notice this ordinary carriage.
A pair of slender, fair hands lifted the curtain, and out came a woman wearing a scarf, her brows tightly furrowed, as if she had many worries.
After getting off the carriage, she went directly into the inn.
“Go find out where he lives.”
“Yes.”
Wan Qing looked at the bustling crowd; the environment wasn’t great, and those people were speaking rudely. Her brows furrowed involuntarily.
Soon the maidservant came back with the information.
They headed directly toward the target.
Just as she was about to open the door, a loud shout came from inside, “Waiter, waiter, bring me wine. I haven’t had enough yet.”
Wan Qing’s motion to push the door stopped, her eyes full of sadness.
After taking a deep breath, she still pushed open the door.
“You wait here.”
Wan Qing left these words, went in directly, and closed the door.
“Waiter, you finally brought the wine. I told you I have money, I won’t fail to pay…”
The man stopped midway through his words.
He stared blankly at the person in front of him.
Thinking it was an illusion, he blinked and looked again, but found it wasn’t a dream.
