Chapter 27 Heartache
Dragon's blood grass, ten plants.

Just as the ceremonial officer finished reading, an innocent child's voice rang out, "Wow, Sister Ruoyan took so long to grow one dragon blood grass, and Sister Princess gave ten at once. Was Sister Princess preparing for this surprise during her time in Anping Palace?"

When Ye Jinshu heard the voice, he knew it was coming.

This time it is the seventh prince, Chu Qi.

At the same time and place on the Queen's birthday, Ye Jinshu failed three times and was implicated twice.

Every time she was reborn, even if she didn't take the initiative to cause trouble for Ye Ruoyan, Ye Ruoyan would still get into trouble, and this trouble would always spread from Ye Ruoyan to herself.

In the end, she and her half-sister would have a big unpleasantness at the Queen's birthday party because of this fire.

After this unpleasant incident, Ye Ruoyan's men will start to make trouble for her one by one.

The trouble-making men who can pose a threat to Ye Jinshu are always the same ones in the palace, but the one who starts the fire is different every time.

The person who lit the fire at the banquet in this life was the seventh prince.

Ye Jinshu's evaluation of him is: a bad-hearted kid who always stands on Ye Ruoyan's side and goes against him.

Even though this kid is only 5 years old this year, as the child of Concubine Xian, the Seventh Prince was taught to be very smart.

When Ye Jinshu was reborn, the Seventh Prince plotted against him several times.

The Seventh Prince always relied on his young age to act harmless and speak innocently, but in fact, he did this to make the adults believe him and think that he would not lie. He then used this inherent impression to make up lies that could not be verified, and finally, achieved his goal.

Just like what Chu Qi said now, although Ye Jinshu didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and couldn't quite guess what Chu Qi wanted to do, she could also feel that this was not a good thing to say.

Between thinking hard on his own and asking others for help, Ye Jinshu chose to ask others for help without hesitation.

Isn’t Sister Jiang, the omnipotent woman in her mind, sitting next to her?

So Ye Jinshu picked up the untouched jujube paste cake in front of him and placed it in front of Jiang Sisi. He leaned closer to Jiang Sisi and asked humbly, "What does the Seventh Prince mean by saying this? I feel like it doesn't sound good."

Jiang Sisi originally saw Ye Jinshu stealthily handing her the date paste cake and was wondering if the princess had not woken up yet, but she didn't expect that she would ask such a surprising question.

This princess doesn't seem to be very smart, but she is quite discerning.

After confirming this, Jiang Sisi took the jujube paste cake handed over by Ye Jinshu without leaving any trace, and whispered to Ye Jinshu with her sleeve covering her mouth: "He is asking you, where did these dragon blood grass come from? Did you grow them? Bought them? Or did you use your power to oppress the people to get them?"

Dragon's blood grass is a very special grass that needs blood to nourish its roots.

But the mere requirement for human blood doesn't make dragon's blood grass any less special.

The growth cycle of dragon blood grass is forty-nine days, and it must be fed blood every day during these forty-nine days.

Not much blood is needed, five or six drops are enough, but fresh blood must be drawn for forty-nine consecutive days, which means that new wounds will appear on the body of the person whose blood is drawn every day.

Even if you use a needle to draw blood from your fingertips, it will make 49 holes, which is still a less harmful way to draw blood.

In the earliest medical texts, people did not know how much blood to use and could only rely on their senses.

In order to reduce the number of wounds, some people constantly draw blood from the same wound. In the process of repeated blood drawing from the wound, some people develop scars that will never disappear throughout their lives, while others develop wounds that fester and spread from one wound to the entire body, eventually leading to death.

More than one person died who fed the dragon's blood grass with blood.

Otherwise, the ancient books would not have concluded that if the person whose blood was taken had resentment in his heart and polluted his blood, the dragon blood grass would not grow. Similarly, the saying that the person whose blood was taken needed to water the grass with a pious heart was also a life-threatening experience.

However, as a princess, Ye Jinshu was different from Ye Ruoyan. She had enough money to buy mature dragon blood grass from the market without having to cultivate it herself. But what still shocked everyone was the quantity that Ye Jinshu took out.

It takes forty-nine days for dragon blood grass to mature. Once mature, it must be picked immediately and stored in a jade box for three months. After three months, the dragon blood grass will melt into blood and lose all its medicinal effects.

Therefore, the dragon blood grass sold on the market is all pre-ordered and very expensive.

Due to the difficulty in cultivating dragon blood grass and taking into account the failure rate, the only store at the foot of the imperial city that can cultivate dragon blood grass can only cultivate one plant a month at most. The success rate of cultivating dragon blood grass based on the desire for money is still too low. Of course, there is also the saying that rare things are valuable.

It was impossible for Ye Jinshu to buy ten dragon blood grasses at one time in the imperial city. There was definitely no dragon blood grass in remote places. In addition, the effectiveness of dragon blood grass was short, so it was very difficult to collect ten at a time.

Unless Ye Jinshu was not looking for herbs from the beginning, but used other methods to force a large number of common people to cultivate dragon blood grass for him, it would be possible for him to come up with ten plants at the same time.

After the Seventh Prince said this, not only Jiang Sisi thought of it, but all the officials present, including the Emperor and Empress, thought of it.

Ye Jinshu didn't understand at first, but after Jiang Sisi's explanation, he half understood it.

The Seventh Prince just asked her where the dragon blood grass came from, so she just had to tell him the truth.

Ye Jinshu said calmly under the gaze of everyone: "I planted the dragon blood grass myself."

As soon as the words were spoken, many people began to gloat over the other's misfortune.

The princess could just make up any lie.

If the princess had used her own blood to water ten dragon blood grasses at the same time for forty-nine days, she should not be at the queen's birthday banquet now, but lying in bed calling for the imperial physician.

The princess told a lie that no one believed, but no one would say that they didn't believe it.

Including the seventh prince.

Although the Seventh Prince would not directly say that he did not believe it, he would be sarcastic.

"Sister Princess used her own blood to grow ten dragon blood grasses? That's amazing!"

The queen frowned upon seeing this, and was about to open her mouth to help Ye Jinshu out, when she heard Ye Jinshu say something in an extremely calm tone that was enough to shock everyone.

"Ah? It's not that great. I didn't raise it with my own blood."

In one word, all the opportunities the Queen wanted to give Ye Jinshu were blocked.

"Did the princess use someone else's blood?"

"Lao Qi."

Seeing that things were almost beyond redemption and the emperor and empress were taking no action, Chu Yi could only speak up and tell the Seventh Prince to shut up.

She just called the Seventh Prince and said nothing else, and the Seventh Prince retreated back to the side of Concubine Xian.

The Queen also glanced at Concubine Xian and was about to speak, but Ye Jinshu opened her mouth first.

In her extremely calm tone, she said as a matter of course: "I didn't use human blood, I used rat blood, the blood of rats' hearts."

(End of this chapter)