Chapter 28 Next time you bully my concubine sister, tell her

"Rat blood?!"

Ye Jinshu's words caused a huge uproar.

It is well known that dragon blood grass is a rare herb that can only be grown with careful cultivation using human blood. But now Ye Jinshu said that she grew ten plants of the grass using mouse blood, which sounds unbelievable.

In a sense, the value of dragon blood grass is given by human blood. If dragon blood grass can grow without human blood, then this herb will have no special significance.

"Ye Jinshu, you are so bold that you dare to offer this filthy thing fed with rat blood to our mother!"

The third princess has been harboring resentment towards Ye Jinshu for a long time. Before, Ye Jinshu had been hiding in Anping Palace, making it impossible for the third princess to find trouble with Ye Jinshu. Now she finally got the chance.

Jiang Sisi was eating the jujube paste cake with her sleeve covering her mouth. After eating, she had her mouth free and was in the mood to comment to Ye Jinshu: "This third princess looks like she wants to bite you to death."

Ye Jinshu originally wanted to respond to the Third Princess’ words first, but Jiang Sisi came to talk to her, so Ye Jinshu chose to talk to Jiang Sisi first.

"It's okay. If she bites me, I will bite her back."

The third princess became even angrier when she saw that Ye Jinshu not only ignored her threatening words but also covered his mouth as if he was despising her.

She turned her head and said to Gao Chu, "Father, Emperor, and Mother! If Ye Jinshu dares to give you the dragon blood grass grown with rat blood today, she will dare to poison you tomorrow!"

Ye Jinshu had finished talking to Jiang Sisi, and then he began to explain, "Aunt, what I'm sending you today are some of the things that Anping Palace has grown recently. I didn't plan to give you dragon blood grass originally, but two months ago, I was just wondering if dragon blood grass could be grown with other blood, so I randomly planted some, and I didn't expect it to be successful."

"Inside the box with the dragon's blood grass is a letter I wrote to you, Aunt. It states that I feed them with rat blood. I didn't intend to eat it, but I thought it was interesting and gave it to you to take a look. Please understand."

Ye Jinshu's words seemed sincere on the surface, but she didn't care at all in her heart. Anyway, this was the situation, so it was up to her whether she believed it or not.

She has explained it, and the rest is not her problem.

When the queen heard Ye Jinshu say that there was a letter in the box, she became interested. She waved to the ceremonial officer to present the box containing the dragon blood grass. She then took out the long letter from it and began to read it.

But, rather than a letter, it was more like Ye Jinshu’s soliloquy.

[Aunt, the soul-nourishing grass that the imperial physician asked me to plant is so strange. It had clearly sprouted some time ago, but after hearing the voice of Imperial Physician Zhang, the sprouts disappeared again! Could it be that the soul-nourishing grass really doesn't like the voice of Imperial Physician Zhang? ]

[Today I tried to use fish blood to water the dragon blood grass, but when I took it, I accidentally fell and the blood spilled on my mouth. I licked it and it tasted very bad. Don’t eat it in the future.]

[Today I saw a very beautiful blood color, but when I thought it was earthworm blood, I felt it was not so beautiful. I don’t understand why there are such scary things as earthworms.]

[Today, when I was farming, I suddenly realized that people should be more humble, listen to other people's opinions, and then write them down carefully, so that I can know who has opinions about me. ]

Seeing this, the queen almost couldn't help but smile, and she was having a hard time holding back her smile.

The emperor and the empress have been married for so many years, so how could they not know what it looks like for the empress to hold back her laughter? He gave her a look and asked: What are you laughing at?
The Queen understood what she meant, and secretly handed Ye Jinshu's letter to the Emperor from below, and pointed out the humble part to the Emperor. Now, both of them began to hold back their laughter.

The third princess saw that the emperor and empress did not seem angry at all after Ye Jinshu's explanation, and she could only look at the prince and said, "Brother! Are you going to let Ye Jinshu do this?"

Chu Yi glanced at his father who was sitting high up, and understood the meaning from the eyes of this old father who was trying to hold back his laughter. He sighed in his heart and stood up resignedly.

"Send the imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital here."

After Chu Yi finished speaking, he looked at Ye Jinshu and saw that she still looked indifferent and didn't even look at him. For some reason, he felt uncomfortable.

They hadn't seen each other for many days, and Ye Jinshu really didn't miss him at all. In the past, if they hadn't seen each other for a month, she would rush to him and make a fuss, and he would always catch Ye Jinshu while asking her to calm down.

Ye Jinshu does look more stable now, but Chu Yi is not as happy as he once thought.

Chu Yi didn't expect Ye Jinshu to look at him suddenly. The moment their eyes met, he thought of running away for the first time.

It was his identity as the crown prince that held him down and prevented him from escaping, so he did not try to dodge.

After nodding slightly to Ye Jinshu, he withdrew his gaze from Ye Jinshu, looked at the ceremonial officer, and ordered: "Continue first."

The ceremonial officer received the order and continued to read out the list of gifts.

No one except the Crown Prince noticed that the letter from Ye Jinshu that had just been presented was still in the hands of the Emperor and Empress. The two of them looked at it again after a while, trying not to laugh, like children stealing candy in front of adults.

The others either didn't dare to look directly at the two people on the stage, or they didn't understand the true temperament of the emperor and empress.

There was one person who understood, Ye Jinshu, who was still busy chattering with the people around him. He was not worried about himself at all, nor did he care about others, let alone notice anything unusual about the Emperor and Empress.

Chu Yi followed Ye Jinshu's gaze and found that the person next to her was the prime minister's daughter, Jiang Sisi.

Jiang Sisi is an extremely powerful woman, outstanding in both talent and martial arts. If Ye Jinshu makes friends with Jiang Sisi, he will definitely be surpassed.

Jiang Sisi probably wouldn't tolerate Ye Jinshu's temper as easily as Ye Ruoyan.

But seeing that Ye Jinshu seemed to like Jiang Sisi very much, Chu Yi began to wonder whether he should ask his father to talk to the prime minister.

Chu Yi did not try to hide his gaze, but looked at Ye Jinshu openly.

However, when everyone thought that the prince was staring at Ye Jinshu because of the dragon blood grass, only Jiang Sisi noticed the affection in the prince's eyes.

Jiang Sisi once again used her sleeve to cover her mouth and whispered to Ye Jinshu: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is looking at you. He seems to be afraid that you will be bullied by me."

When Ye Jinshu heard this, he didn't believe it at all.

"You're wrong. He doesn't worry about me being bullied. He just lectures me all day long and tells me not to bully my sister."

Jiang Sisi immediately pricked up her gossipy ears when she heard this: "Do you often bully your sister?"

"I guess I don't bully him often, just occasionally." For example, when Ye Ruoyan insisted on coming forward to be bullied.

But Jiang Sisi didn't really believe it. She was very good at judging people. Based on her observations of the two sisters, Ye Ruoyan and Ye Jinshu, Jiang Sisi judged that Ye Jinshu was not capable of bullying Ye Ruoyan.

"How did you bully your concubine sister?"

Ye Jinshu did not hide anything from Jiang Sisi and picked out an incident that happened in his life and said, "Once I saw her giving the prince a gift, and I snatched her gift and threw it into the water. She cried miserably in front of the prince, so the prince told me not to bully her."

After saying this, Ye Jinshu felt someone touching his head.

She looked at Jiang Sisi in confusion, but Jiang Sisi only said to her: "Next time you want to bully her, you can call me into the palace, or send someone to the Prime Minister's Mansion to ask me."

　Great!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)