A woman in a red fighting suit walked into the room and bowed to the left prime minister sitting at the upper seat. "My lord prime minister."
The left prime minister waved her over. She walked forward, knelt at his feet, and rested her head on his leg.
The left prime minister played with her hair. "You heard what she said just now, didn't you?"
She turned her face and took the prime minister's finger into her mouth, then nodded.
"You'll go back to the general's mansion with her and secretly search for the whereabouts of that key."
The red - clad woman looked up at the left prime minister's face and gestured in sign language.
"Humph. At the critical moment, kill her directly!" He made a throat - slitting gesture.
"However, remember, after killing someone, leave the city and hide. Don't return to the left prime minister's mansion. I'll send someone to pick you up when the heat dies down."
Saying so, he stuffed a pass into her hand.
The red - clad woman got up, nodded, and walked out. The left prime minister rose and walked into the yard. He looked up at the sky.
"A storm is coming. Who can stop it!"
...
At the general's mansion, Dan'er came back from outside with the medicine chest customized by Mo Qinghuan.
Mo Qinghuan took out some common medicines from the small medical space and put them in the interlayer of the medicine chest.
It had been a long time since she last entered the space. So, today she decided to go in and check how the poisonous herbs were growing.
"Dan'er, guard outside. Don't let anyone in. Remember, no one!"
Dan'er nodded and stood still at the door.
Mo Qinghuan bolted the door from the inside, sat down beside the bed, and silently recited in her mind, "Xiaoyi, activate the space."
"The space has been activated."
"I want to enter the medical and poisonous herb space."
"Entering... Please wait..."
She closed her eyes. When the scene in front of her changed, she had entered the space.
Rows of Chinese azalea, bayadera, mongolian thyme, sal ammoniac, kudzuvine flower, thorn apple, and Chinese forget - me - not were there.
She was about to pick them when Xiaoyi reminded her, "Do you want to convert them?"
Mo Qinghuan frowned slightly. "How to convert?"
"Automatically convert them into injections or powder. Please choose."
"Automatically convert the mature medicines into injections and the poisonous herbs into powder."
"Okay. Conversion is in progress. Please wait."
"Conversion is successful. Do you want to automatically store them in the medicine warehouse?"
"Can I set everything to be automatic?"
"Okay. Setting... Setting is successful."
After everything was ready, she shifted her mind. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in her room.
Everything seemed like a dream.
Just then, Dan'er gently knocked on the door.
"Miss, it's time for dinner. Are you hungry? I'll go and prepare dinner."
She opened the door. "Dan'er, I'm not hungry. I'm going out."
Dan'er went into the room, took a cloak, and followed behind.
Not long after they left the general's mansion, it suddenly started to drizzle. Soon, Mo Qinghuan's cloak was wet.
She and Dan'er had to take shelter in a clothing store.
The people inside saw the guests and quickly greeted them warmly.
"Are you here to order clothes or just browsing, miss?"
Mo Qinghuan patted the water droplets off her body and looked up. "Hualing Pavilion."
Dan'er took off her cloak and hung it on her arm. "Miss, your wedding is in ten days. I don't think the Lan family will prepare a wedding dress for you. Since we're here today, why not order one?"
Mo Qinghuan smiled. She knew Dan'er meant well, but Dan'er surely didn't know that ordering a wedding dress in Hualing Pavilion would cost enough to support an ordinary family of three for five years.
She'd better not be so extravagant.
Dan'er carefully looked at the hanging clothes. Mo Qinghuan sat there waiting for her. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ning Yao walking in a hurry towards the general's mansion with an umbrella.
She stretched her head to look. Dan'er noticed Mo Qinghuan's movement, put down the clothes in her hand, and came to Mo Qinghuan.
"What's wrong, miss?"
Mo Qinghuan shook her head. "The rain is getting heavier. It seems we'll have to stay here for a while."
Dan'er smiled happily. "Then miss, please sit for a while. I'll look around some more."
"Okay."
The shopkeeper's wife brought Mo Qinghuan a cup of hot tea.
"Which family's young lady are you? I think I've never seen you before..." The shopkeeper's wife sat beside Mo Qinghuan and started chatting with her.
Mo Qinghuan just smiled politely and didn't say anything.
The shopkeeper's wife smiled awkwardly and walked away.
After a while, the rain eased. Mo Qinghuan planned to leave.
She saw Ning Yao walking in a hurry towards the regent's mansion again.
"Dan'er, wait for me here. Shopkeeper's wife, could you lend me an umbrella?"
She quietly followed Ning Yao.
Sure enough, he arrived at the gate of the regent's mansion.
She used the umbrella to cover herself. However, it was still raining, and the distance was a bit far. She couldn't hear what Ning Yao was saying to the gatekeeper.
She only saw Lu Zixiu walking out with a white paper umbrella and standing inside the threshold.
Ning Yao stood outside the threshold.
"I want to see the regent. Who are you?" Ning Yao threw away the umbrella in his hand and stepped forward to grab the gatekeeper's collar, but the gatekeeper grabbed his wrist in a reverse hold and pushed him forward.
"Get out! How dare you cause trouble at the regent's mansion gate? You've had enough of living!"
Lu Zixiu waved his hand. "The regent is not at home. You can tell me what you want to say."
Seeing that even the gatekeeper of the regent's mansion was not to be trifled with, Ning Yao walked up to Lu Zixiu dejectedly.
Seeing this, Lu Zixiu took a few steps back gently. "Speak up if you have something to say."
"I'm here to tell you regent's people that he can't marry the legitimate daughter of the general's mansion!"
Mo Qinghuan saw Lu Zixiu smile. "Why?"
Ning Yao looked smug. "Because she's already my woman. So, even the regent shouldn't try to steal her away."
Lu Zixiu frowned slightly. The bright face and the unrestrained smile of Mo Qinghuan flashed through his eyes.
He looked at Ning Yao coldly. "I advise you, you can eat whatever you want, but don't talk nonsense!"
Hearing that Lu Zixiu didn't believe him, Ning Yao got unhappy. "I can't reason with you. I want to see the regent."
Lu Zixiu sneered and raised his handsome eyebrows. "You should be lucky that I'm the one who heard these words. If it were the regent, your tongue would have been fed to the dogs by now!"
"So, you don't believe me!" Ning Yao glared at Lu Zixiu angrily.
Lu Zixiu glanced at him sideways as if looking at an ant. "It's not about believing or not. It's absolutely impossible!"
Ning Yao was extremely angry. He raised his finger and pointed at Lu Zixiu. "Fine! You're really something."
The gatekeeper stepped forward and pinched the finger that Ning Yao had pointed out with two fingers. Ning Yao felt as if his hand was being tortured by finger - squeezing. The pain made him break into a sweat immediately.
The gatekeeper gave him a cold look. "Get out quickly!"
Ning Yao glared at Lu Zixiu hatefully, but the latter didn't even give him a glance.
Mo Qinghuan looked at the direction where Ning Yao left and then at Lu Zixiu.
"People related to the regent really can't be judged by their appearance."
Although she knew Lu Zixiu was powerful, most of the time she saw him with a smiling face, gentle like a gentle breeze.
Not like this cold - faced and contemptuous look now.