Chapter 378 A minor illness and a little bit of poison
Lin Fufei returned to Fangcongyuan and Hongzhu was stewing lotus seed soup on the porch.
Lin Fufei smiled and stepped forward, squatted down, took the cattail leaf fan from Hongzhu's hand and said: "Look at the sweat on your head, let me do it!"
"Isn't Xiang Huo hot at this time?" Hongzhu raised his hand to wipe his sweat and smiled, "I'll do it, it won't be long anyway."
"I'll come from behind. Sister Yuhe is looking for you. Go quickly! It will be ready in a while, and I will serve the princess to eat." Lin Fufei said.
Yuhe is a maid in another palace, and she is from the same hometown as Hongzhu.
"Then I'll help you," Hong Zhu stood up and beat her legs a few times while holding on to the pillar, "I've been squatting for a long time and my legs are numb."
Before leaving, he did not forget to tell Lin Fufei: "Don't add any more fuel to the fire. After the fire is finished, simmer half a stick of incense and it's done."
Lin Fufei stewed the lotus seed soup, poured it out, and brought it inside to cool down.
The tenth princess was lying on the couch in the back room playing with the cat, because the cat was extremely ferocious and would stretch out its claws to scratch anyone who was around.
Even if it doesn't really do anything to the person, you can't let it explode at every turn. It would be terrible if it hurts the tenth princess.
Across a bead curtain, Lin Fufei turned her back and sprinkled a small packet of medicinal powder into the lotus seed soup.
Her hands were shaking a little, and some of the medicine powder spilled outside, so she quickly wiped it with a handkerchief.
I looked outside and saw no one, so I breathed a sigh of relief and stirred the powder evenly with a spoon.
As soon as she turned around, Hong Zhu came in.
Said: "Is the soup cold? The talent said that even though the weather is hot now, this soup should be eaten warm. The lotus seed soup is cooler, and the princess has a weak spleen and stomach."
"Yes," Lin Fufei said, "It's just that it's still a little hot right now, let's wait a little longer!"
The next day, although the tenth princess got up, she felt a little sleepy.
Ma Cairen came over to take a look and was a little worried: "Everything is fine these days, what's going on?"
"It's not necessarily that she is sick," Hongzhu said. "The princess played in the Royal Garden for most of the day yesterday, so she may be a little tired."
"Go and ask an imperial doctor to come over!" Ma Cairen didn't dare to take it lightly, "Let's see if it's okay."
"My slave, go right away." Lin Fufei responded.
When the imperial doctor came to check her pulse, she said, "It seems that the princess's pulse is a little stagnant, but it doesn't matter. She has been eating lightly and softly these past few days, and she should be fine if she doesn't touch cold things."
"Don't you need to make a prescription?" Ma Cairen asked.
The imperial doctor smiled: "No, no, no, it's just three parts of the medicine being poisonous. The princess just needs to take good care of herself for a few days and she'll be fine."
Ma Cairen was very happy to hear this and thanked the imperial doctor.
The imperial doctor kept saying that he didn't dare to take it, so he packed up his medicine bag and went out.
Ma Cairen then ordered the waiter: "Everything that enters the princess's mouth these days must pass through me, and she is not allowed to eat it. Don't open the window at night, and carefully push her quilt."
It's almost the beginning of autumn, and the cool air at night is no joke. It rained again yesterday, and the moisture can't get into it."
He also asked someone to make rice porridge, which has always been used to digest food and warm the stomach.
Seeing the tenth princess eating, she seemed to be more energetic than before, and Ma Cairen felt a little at ease.
"I'm afraid I was so disturbed at night that I didn't sleep well. Let's catch up on some sleep now!" Ma Cairen looked at her daughter with pity and said, "It will be fine when she wakes up."
Lin Fufei and Hongzhu were waiting in front of her, helping the princess to the bed and lowering the gauze curtain.
The tenth princess slept for more than an hour, and when she woke up she felt much better.
"Sure enough, the folk recipe of glutinous rice porridge is effective," Ma Cairen said happily, "Eat it like this for two days first, and then switch to something else!"
Lin Fufei served the tenth princess with food and water. In the evening, while Hongzhu went to get something from Ma Cai's house, he secretly sprinkled some powdered medicine into the tenth princess's tea bowl.
For two days like this, the tenth princess became more and more tired. Although she had no obvious symptoms, she always fell asleep.
Ma Cairen didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that it was because of the imbalance between his spleen and stomach that he was tired and sleepy.
Later, I felt that something was wrong, so I asked the imperial doctor to come. He checked his pulse and said that it was nothing serious, and that he would just be fine with a few days of food and drink.
It was almost noon that day, and the tenth princess finally woke up. Ma Cairen was afraid that she would fall ill if she stayed in the house, so he asked her to sit on the porch or under the shade of a tree in the yard to watch the sun and blow the wind.
The tenth princess is sitting on the chair. She is also fifteen years old this year. Pingting is dignified and more beautiful than Ma Cairen.
Lin Fufei came in from outside, carefully carrying a tureen.
Hongzhu asked her: "What is that in your hand?"
Lin Fufei walked over excitedly and said: "I just passed by the small kitchen. They just made it and they insisted on giving me a bowl. Does the princess have an appetite? This thing is also easy to digest, and
Not cold."
When the tenth princess heard what she said, she became somewhat interested and took off the lid of the bowl.
The bowl was seven-quarters full of curd cheese, with a layer of chopped almonds sprinkled on top.
This was originally a very common food, but when the tenth princess saw it, she felt like she was being burned. She dropped the bowl lid to the ground with a shake of her hand.
It hit the bluestone ground and cracked into pieces.
Hongzhu hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the tenth princess to look up and down: "Don't let the broken porcelain burst out."
Lin Fufei also said: "It's not good that they are all slaves."
"It's okay if the princess is not hurt," Hong Zhu said, "Bring a broom and collect the broken porcelain!
Another thing, don’t forget that the princess doesn’t eat almonds, we are never allowed to put them in the food here.”
"Yes, I really have no memory, I actually forgot." Lin Fufei blushed, "I just wanted to let the princess eat something."
"I don't blame you." Hong Zhu didn't take this as a big deal. "We have made it a rule here. We don't mention it at all on weekdays. I don't blame you for not remembering it."
After the two men cleaned up, they brought the matter to light.
But Hongzhu didn't notice that the tenth princess's hands were shaking unconsciously.
At dinner, Lin Fufei served the porridge to the tenth princess and added a little medicinal powder to it when no one was prepared.
It's Yangjinghua that can make people feel confused. It won't work if used too much, but if it's just a small amount, it will only make people confused. It'll be fine if you stop taking the medicine.
In the past two days, because the tenth princess was not well, Hong Zhu and Lin Fufei stayed with her at night.
The tenth princess seemed a little irritable before going to bed that day, so Hongzhu and Lin Fufei gave her a massage.
After finally falling asleep, Hongzhu was so tired that she yawned: "Let's sleep too! Don't lean too close to the window, or the wind will come in and blow."
Lin Fufei agreed, spread her luggage on the couch, and lay down.
Hongzhu was also sleeping on the couch on the other side, and soon started snoring.
Lin Fufei did not dare to sleep. She quietly listened to Hongzhu sleeping soundly, and then she got up quietly.
He came to the bedside, opened the curtain, and whispered in the ear of the tenth princess: "Here is a bowl of almond cheese for the eighth prince to eat!"
I said it several times in a row.
The tenth princess, who was sleeping peacefully at first, gradually showed a look of resistance.
She frowned unconsciously and curled up her hands.