"Under my careful care, you'll surely recover faster. Moreover, this medicine is from the prince's mansion. It's made of precious herbs, so its efficacy is doubled. Why worry about the coming day?"
Cheng Xiran carefully fed her the medicine. After the bowl of decoction was finished, Zhuque said faintly, "Actually, Young Master Gu was also there on the day I was beaten. These days my mind has been so muddled that I always forget some important things to tell you. This is one of them. I think, miss, you should also be on guard against that Young Master Gu."
However, Cheng Xiran remained calm. "I'm well aware of this. I even suspect that the recent affairs of the newspaper office are related to him. But this matter is still under investigation, and there's no conclusion for the time being."
Hearing this, Zhuque became even more nervous and began to analyze the current situation in the mansion with her. Cheng Xiran listened patiently and comforted her one by one. After all, they couldn't be in a panic, right?
Shortly before dinner, Yun'er walked in carrying a food box.
"The prime minister said that since there will be a banquet in the mansion all day tomorrow, we should just have something simple tonight."
With that, she took out several small dishes from the food box. Seeing that Yun'er seemed angry, Cheng Xiran casually asked, "What's wrong? Did someone bully you when you went to help this afternoon?"
"It's nothing. I just feel it's not worth it for you, miss..." Yun'er didn't hold back at all and said straightforwardly, "Once Lady Liu's position is officially recognized, Second Miss will be on an equal footing with you in the future."
Cheng Xiran couldn't help but find it a bit ridiculous. "Yun'er, there's no need to take them to heart. Even if she can be on an equal footing with me in the future, her former status as a concubine's daughter will follow her for a lifetime. There will be things that will annoy her in the future."
Yun'er was about to say something else when Zhuque frantically winked at her.
Cheng Xiran pretended not to see. In fact, she really wanted to tell them that they didn't need to worry about her feelings at all, because she wasn't originally from the Cheng Mansion. Moreover, she was well aware of the human relationships and warmth here. Her heart had already been full of scars. No matter how others tried to do bad things to her, her heart would remain unmoved.
Moreover, she was even worried that they wouldn't fight against her. If that were the case, her days would be so smooth and uneventful. Wouldn't it be even more boring?
"However, there's one thing that bothers me..."
Hearing her say this, Zhuque and Yun'er both looked at her seriously. Then they heard her complain, "There's no meat, and there are no tasty dishes to go with the rice..."
The three of them, the mistress and her maids, looked at each other and then burst out laughing.
The prime minister's mansion didn't stop bustling with activity even as night fell. After all, Prime Minister Cheng was the left prime minister, a person of noble status. And all the guests coming tomorrow would be high-ranking officials and noble lords. As the hosts, they naturally had to entertain them well and couldn't afford to be careless at all.
This didn't affect Cheng Xiran's rest. But in her dream at night, she shared some of the original owner's memories again. Only then did she know that when the original owner's mother married Prime Minister Cheng, everything was not even a fraction of what it was now. It really made people sigh.
She didn't sleep well that night. Memories of the past flooded into her mind one after another. She didn't want to accept them, but she had to.
So she felt the original owner's memories and endured the pain in her heart. It wasn't until the second half of the night that it gradually subsided.
As a result, when she woke up early the next day, she was listless. Yun'er thought she was worried about today's affairs, so she comforted her a few words and specially dressed her up carefully. She even wanted to adorn her hair bun with all kinds of pearls, emeralds, and silk flowers.
Cheng Xiran said that she just wanted to take a nap.