“Why are you yelling? Where is the ghost?”
Cui Shaoze scratched his face and neck while putting on his coat and scolded the maid impatiently.
“No, my Lord, this is on your face…what’s wrong with you?!”
When the maid realized from Cui Shaoze’s voice that the person in front of her was not a ghost but their prince, the expression on her face suddenly became even more terrified.
“On my face?”
Cui Shaoze, who had not yet realized what was going on, frowned in confusion. When the maid brought a bronze mirror to him and he saw the face covered in bloodstains in the mirror, his face suddenly changed color.
“What’s going on? What happened to my face?!”
The originally handsome face was now not only covered with bloodstains, but was also red and swollen, almost like a pig’s head.
And it wasn’t just his face, but also his neck, his hands, his feet, and even his whole body. The situation was the same as his face.
Looking more closely, the areas with the most bloodstains were clearly where he had scratched hard just now!
Cui Shaoze panicked, “What are you still doing here? Go get me a doctor!”
Half an hour later, the doctor, who was woken up from his sleep in the middle of the night, finally arrived at the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.
After examining Cui Shaoze, the doctor frowned and said, “Prince Cui may have been poisoned by some kind of poison, which is why he has become like this.”
“What kind of poison?”
Cui Shaoze asked anxiously: “Is it serious? Can it be cured now?”
The doctor shook his head and said he was powerless. “If you want to detoxify, you need to know what poison you have been poisoned with so that you can prescribe the right medicine. Unfortunately, I am not good at detoxification. I can only try to prescribe some medicine to relieve the symptoms for you. As for the rest of you, I am afraid you can only ask for help from others.”
Cui Shaoze had no choice but to send someone out to invite other doctors to see him.
As a result, he invited three or four people, but none of them could detoxify his body.
In the end, the noise in Cui Shaoze’s yard alarmed the couple, Marquis Zhongyong and his wife.
After Marquis Zhongyong learned of the situation, he immediately sent someone with his badge to the palace to invite the imperial physician, who finally cured Cui Shaoze of the poison.
“Fortunately, the poison in the prince’s body was not serious. Now the poison has been eliminated. He just needs to rest for a while and he will be fine.”
Marquis Zhongyong: “Thank you, Doctor Li, for taking the trouble to make this trip tonight.”
“You are too polite, sir.”
After Doctor Li finished writing the prescription, he stood up and began to pack his medicine box.
Cui Shaoze, who was still lying in bed, asked hurriedly: “Doctor Li, you said the poison has been resolved, but when will the bloodstains on my body disappear? And my face is now so swollen, when will it be fully healed?”
“When the poison took effect, Prince Cui scratched deeply. It will probably take ten days or half a month for these bloodstains to disappear. The same goes for the redness and swelling on the face. However, if your family has Yu Ru Snow Cream, applying it for a few days may help to recover sooner.”
Cui Shaoze paused after hearing this.
Wen Yali, who did not feel strange about her son, said happily, “Really? That’s great. The Queen Mother just gave me three bottles of Yu Ru Snow Cream a few days ago.”
Marquis Zhongyong nodded and said, “Well, you can give some to Shaoze. I will go and send Doctor Li first.”
After the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery sent Doctor Li out, Wen Yali immediately said to her son, “Shao Ze, wait a minute. I’ll ask someone to go to the storehouse and get you the Yu Ru Snow Cream.”
She was about to give orders to the servants, but Cui Shaoze quickly stopped her, “Wait! Mother, why don’t we just forget it.”
A guilty look flashed across his face. “It’s just some bloodstains anyway. Don’t waste your Jade Cream.”
This jade-like snow cream is an item used exclusively by the royal family in the palace, and just a small bottle of it is worth a fortune.
Ordinary officials’ families and common people could not use it. Only the officials’ families and maids under the empresses were qualified to enjoy it if it was bestowed by the empresses.
Because Wen Yali benefited from her elder brother’s influence and her husband was the powerful Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, the Empress Dowager would occasionally summon her to the palace for a chat, and she would naturally receive many rewards such as jade cream.
These three bottles were the good things that the Empress Dowager gave her as rewards when she entered the palace last time.
Even Wen Yali herself was reluctant to use them, so she put the three bottles of vanishing cream into the warehouse.
But what she could not have imagined was that the three bottles of Yu Ru Snow Cream were put into the warehouse in the morning, and were sent to the Duke Zhenguo Mansion by her son in the afternoon, and appeared on Wen Yue’s dressing table.
Cui Shaoze also knew how much his mother treasured the three bottles of Yuru Snow Cream, but he had no choice.
It was his fault for saying the wrong thing at the Duke Zhenguo’s Mansion that day, causing his cousin Yue’er to be angry for several days and no matter how hard he tried to appease her, it wouldn’t work.
It just so happened that at that time he heard his mother talking about the Yu Ru Snow Cream that women loved the most, so he thought of taking a bottle to try it out, and he didn’t expect it to really work.
Not only did he make Wen Yue happy, but with just a few words from Wen Yue, he gave away the remaining two bottles as well.
When Cui Shaoze later found out how precious the Yu Ru Snow Cream was, it was too late for him to regret.
I could only keep it a secret from Wen Yali until today.
“Child, what’s so wasteful about you? Look at the bloodstains all over your face. The more I see, the more distressed I am.”
Wen Yali touched her son’s face carefully and said distressedly, “It’s okay, it’s okay. It just so happens that the Queen Mother gave you a lot of money. I’ll give you two bottles and I’ll keep one bottle for you.”
But now there is not a single bottle left!
Cui Shaoze didn’t dare to tell the truth at all.
Because he knew that his mother loved and spoiled him on a normal day, but once she was really angry, she would be even more terrifying than his father.
But before he could come up with any solution, Wen Yali quickly sent the maid beside her to the warehouse.
Cui Shaoze didn’t have time to stop it.
Soon, as he expected, Wen Yali’s personal maid came back in a panic.
“Oh no, ma’am, something’s wrong!”
“How disgraceful it is to shout and yell.”
Wen Yali, who had not yet realized the seriousness of the situation, sat beside her son’s bed, fanning herself with a round fan in one hand, frowning unhappily, “I’m fine, what nonsense are you talking about here?”
The head maid said anxiously, “No, madam, that’s not what I meant. It was the storehouse! You said the Yu Ru Snow Cream in the storehouse is gone!”
“What? What did you say is gone?!”
Wen Yali turned around suddenly and her voice instantly rose.
“Madam, the Jade Cream is gone!”
The head maid repeated it with a sad face.
“How many bottles are missing?”
“All three bottles are gone!”
Hearing this, Wen Yali’s eyes rolled back and she fell backwards.
“mother!”
“lady!”
Cui Shaoze quickly stood up and caught his mother, “Mom, wake up, please don’t scare your son!”
He knew Wen Yali would definitely be angry, but he didn’t expect his mother’s reaction to be so big.
Cui Shaoze was so frightened that he dared not hide it anymore and quickly told the truth: “Actually…”
“It must be that little bitch Wen Si!”
Unexpectedly, he had just said two words when Wen Yali suddenly opened her eyes, sat up abruptly, and then cursed with gnashing teeth –
“She and her old nun were the only ones who came to our Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery Mansion these past two days. They must have been the ones who stole my Jade-like Snow Cream!”
Cui Shaoze was stunned when he heard this.
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