Chapter 692: Chapter 692 Unaware Chapter 692: Chapter 692 Unaware The maids bowed and all withdrew from the room.
Xuexue picked up the spoon, scooped up some medicine, held it to her lips, and gently blew on it. Her eyes softly swept over the area and saw that Mo Xiaoqiang was still standing in the same spot.
“Father, you should go back first. I will take good care of mother,” she said.
“No need, I have nothing else to do,” Mo Xiaoqiang responded with a smile.
“Just go back, when mother wakes up, she will need you to keep her company for a chat.”
Upon hearing this, Mo Xiaoqiang quickly replied, “Xuexue is right. I will go back to rest now and come over later tonight to stay with your mother.”
Mo Xiaoqiang turned and left.
Xuexue put down the medicine in her hand, stood up, walked to the door, and bolted it.
The General’s Mansion was completely quiet, everyone had retired for the night.
Suddenly, a figure swiftly flashed into the Couple’s Courtyard in the darkness.
Lady Tang, dressed in her undergarments, sat in the room as if waiting for something. A noise came from outside the door.
She quickly stood up and opened the door, a figure swiftly flashed inside.
“Madam, this humble one is late,” the figure immediately apologized upon entry.
In the dim candlelight, it was clear that this person was the same doctor who had treated Madam Xie during the day.
“It is not your fault. You had to wait until everyone in the mansion was asleep before you could come, didn’t you?”
“Madam understands; this humble one is immensely grateful.”
“How did today’s matter proceed?”
“Madam, you can trust my medical skills,” the doctor said with a hint of pride.
Lady Tang nodded, “That’s true. Even that little cheap person before was dealt with on your advice, and now this country girl is less insightful and easier to eliminate. However, making it unsuspected still presents some challenges.”
It turned out that the doctor was a confidant of Prince Pu, not only versed in medical skill but also very cunning with many tricky ideas.
Prince Pu, deeply loving his daughter, had specifically sent him to help Lady Tang in the General’s Mansion, to devise strategies for her and to fortify her position within the mansion.
“Hmm,” the doctor nodded, paused for a moment, and then added, “Madam should not be careless. The prescription I made today aroused some suspicions from the young lady, fortunately, I remained calm and managed to bluff my way through.”
Lady Tang was momentarily stunned and asked incredulously, “She’s just a country girl, she can’t possibly know how to read, can she?”
It was no wonder Lady Tang was skeptical. In Moli Country, it was commonly accepted that a woman’s ignorance was virtue. Even among the nobility, many well-bred ladies were illiterate.
Suddenly hearing the doctor suggest that Xuexue, a country girl, might be literate was indeed surprising.
“That is hard to say,” the doctor was also uncertain, without any solid evidence yet! After all, Xuexue hadn’t read out any characters from the prescription.
“You must be feeling guilty as a thief, overestimating that dead girl,” she exclaimed.
“Perhaps,” Lady Tang said, which made the doctor doubt his own judgment too.
Lady Tang sat in a Noble Consort Chair, her expression very gloomy, “We originally poisoned the clothes, thinking that the dead girl, seeing such beautiful garments, would definitely try them on first. Unexpectedly, she still managed to escape that fate.”
“Madam need not worry, the poison on the clothes can last for several days! As soon as she wears them, she will eventually be poisoned.”
“That’s no use, by then she will have already attended the Empress Dowager’s banquet, and Qinger will have no chance to enter the Imperial Palace. All our efforts would be in vain.”