Mrs. Lin has begun to raise the baby with peace of mind these days, and all matters in the house have been assigned to the stewards below, and she only needs to report to her every day. Zhilan doesn't fiddle with her herbs anymore, and accompanies her mother in Xiangyuan every day. Mrs. Lin was amused and heartwarming that her daughter was so attentive. The smile is that a little girl already thinks of herself as a doctor, no matter how smart she is, she is still a child in her own eyes; At the same time, my daughter knew that she felt sorry for her mother at a young age, and being a mother was naturally warm in her heart.

Lin Mubai also waited carefully in the house every day, for fear that his wife would be tired. After calming down from the good news that his wife was pregnant again, he recalled that Zhilan had learned to take the pulse without a teacher that day, and he was a little secretly frightened. He felt that he didn't know much about this little daughter anymore, and he still had to pay more attention to her growth in the future, and the prodigy always needed more attention.

Coincidentally, at this time, something happened in Shaanxi. It is said that hundreds of deserters stationed in the northwest frontier fled all the way from Xinjiang and Qinghai to Shaanxi, and turned out to be a gang of gangsters, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil. The local government sent officers and soldiers to suppress it, but they were killed and not left behind. Although this group of deserters is a little reluctant and timid on the battlefield, they have also seen the world in the frontier where the people are fierce, and now in the face of these shrimp soldiers and crab generals who are used to living a peaceful life, they have twelve points of courage. As soon as he saw the officers and soldiers coming up, he yelled a few times, putting on a posture of Lao Tzu being out of the way, and hundreds of people rushed forward in unison, and with a wave of the big sword, their heads fell to the ground, and their eyes did not blink. After a few victories, it boosted their confidence, and they simply settled here and became kings. After a few days, he went down the mountain and plundered, and when he saw that the woman was born beautifully, he took her captive up the mountain. The local people were miserable, and the government didn't dare to manage it, so they had to report to the court and send people.

Naturally, Lin Mubai, who had rich experience in this area, was sent to encircle and suppress the rogues. Although this rogue is no more than a rabble, it is not as good as the well-organized White Lotus Sect, eradicating these people is just a small task for Lin Mubai. However, the journey from Beijing to Shaanxi is far away, and there will be no way back in a few months. Although he is reluctant to give up his wife and children at home, the emperor's order is difficult to disobey. As soon as the holy decree came, Lin Mubai quickly packed up, brought a few servants and guards, and hurried to Shaanxi to take up his post.

Lin Mubai left, and the major affairs in the house all relied on Mrs. Lin's hands, but fortunately, Guanyun and Zhilan were a lot more sensible, and the people below were still down-to-earth and hardworking, which saved her a lot of heart. And just like that, three months passed peacefully.

When she was about to go to Xiangyuan for dinner in the evening, Zhilan suddenly remembered that the withered spirit grass she planted on the back mountain was almost past the picking season. Seeing that Shen'er and the others were still busy in the room, she didn't say hello, and hurriedly rushed to the back mountain with a small medicine basket.

Withered spirit grass is an extremely precious medicinal herb, which can solve dozens of common poisons, and can even bring the dead back to life. But this grass is extremely delicate and difficult to survive. Even if they do, they must be picked in the late summer evening, dried and ground to make powdered dry lingsan. Once the suitable time for picking is missed, the medicinal effect of the withered spirit grass will diminish or even disappear, and it is no wonder that Zhilan is in such a hurry.

Hurriedly rushed to the back mountain, Zhilan quickly picked off a few living dead spirit grasses and put them in the medicine basket. With a light exhale, she wiped her sweat, and her stomach began to growl. It's getting late, and it's time to go back to dinner. So Zhilan didn't stop and rushed directly to Xiangyuan. But in the past, she went back and forth from Orchid Garden to the back mountain, and she only wrote down this route when she got lost many times. There is a kind of person who is obviously a road idiot, but he is blindly confident in his intuition, and he is talking about people like Zhilan. Sure enough, she, who had never been directly from the back mountain to Xiangyuan, got lost again.

Around, turning, turning, and walking in a daze, he walked to the door of Meiyuan. Looking at the word "Mei Yuan", Zhilan breathed a sigh of relief. She had passed in front of this door a few times, and she was quite familiar with it, and she knew which direction to go from here.

When she was about to leave, she heard someone crying in the courtyard, so she turned her head to look inside, only to see that there was no one in the courtyard, and the door of Mingyue's room was closed, and the crying came out from there. Zhilan, who couldn't help but be curious, quietly went around the window to hear it.

"What? Have you forgotten how you swore when I rescued you from Hu San? Huh?! "This is the princess in majesty.

"Don't dare...... The slave did not dare to forget...... But Princess, I'm ...... I ......"

"Since you haven't forgotten, then do it!"

After a brief moment of silence, Mei Xiang began to cry. "O princess! Please! You can ask the slave to do anything! But slaves and maids don't dare to kill such things! ”

"Who said you killed someone? It's just for you to add a little bit of food to what she eats. You don't say, who knows? ”

"But, what if the master comes back and wants to find out?"

"No, it won't." Mingyue suddenly lowered her voice and said, "This poison seems to have died of heart palpitations when you eat it, and you can't detect the poison at all." Besides, she was pregnant, and it was normal for her body to have any condition. ”

"......"

"You just have to do it, I've got you covered!"

………

Zhilan sat at the dining table, but she didn't move any chopsticks to the sumptuous meal in front of her, just sat quietly in a daze. Until now, she was still in a daze in the aftershocks of that shocking news, and she didn't know how she finally left Meiyuan.

She always thought that a stupid woman like Mingyue would cry, make trouble, and hang herself, at most, she would have a spring or something, and she couldn't set off any strong winds and waves. But she didn't expect that she still had this kind of vicious scheming, and she didn't hesitate to poison and kill people in order to compete for favor, and killed two birds with one stone and two corpses. I used to watch TV "The Golden Branch" in which a group of women calculated each other, but because of the twists and turns of the plot, it was very fresh to watch, and when I didn't want to be in it, I just felt chills and creeps. Today's poison is Mrs. Lin, and I'm afraid the next one will be Guanyun and her.

Seeing that Zhilan was stunned, Mrs. Lin asked with concern, "What's wrong with Lan'er?" But this meal is not to your liking? ”

This call called Zhilan back, and hurriedly replied: "It's nothing, I'm a little tired just after coming back from the back mountain."

Mrs. Lin hurriedly put some vegetables into her bowl for her daughter and said, "You kid, you don't always bring someone to accompany you when you go to Houshan." Tired of looking, right? Eat more. Guanyun also touched Zhilan's head and said, "Call me next time, brother, I'll carry you up." ”

Zhilan looked at her mother's gentle face, listening to her brother's doting tone, only to feel that something in her heart quietly melted, warm and sweet. Almost instantly, Zhilan made a decision: for the sake of her family, she would stop Mingyue by all means.