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Yue Qing walked for a while before returning.

"Your Highness, the empress dowager's birthday is in another few days. The birthday present has already been prepared, so I hope that Your Highness can have some time to count it."

"If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten." Only now did Duan Chengrui remember that after the Spring Festival, the Imperial Palace was already busy with matters regarding the Empress Dowager's birthday. After the Empress Dowager's birthday, there would be elections for Navy Tide, and at the end of spring, there was also the Spring Hunt, not to mention practicing all sorts of martial arts on Spring Day.

Yue Qing smiled helplessly. "It's all because of the too many things that have happened in the recent days. Your Highness has no time to think about it."

"What did the other princes do?" Duan Chengrui put down the document in his hand and pinched the center of his brows.

"For the time being, we haven't done anything, it's just that Prince Jing and the Sixth Prince are ambitious, the Second Prince is still low-key, the rest of the young princes are already fighting in the imperial harem, the Eighth Prince was poisoned earlier, the Emperor was furious and wanted to investigate this matter. The Twelfth Prince was almost framed, but we don't know who did it." Yue Qing's expression darkened.

Duan Chengrui frowned.

The twelfth prince was the youngest prince, but he was only two years old.

This young man had become the victim. He had never seen his brothers fight and could only instruct Yue Qing, "Go and inform Fourth Brother about this matter. Her mother is an imperial concubine and is of high status in the palace. She should be able to manage this matter."

"Why doesn't Your Highness care? If you do so, won't you be able to rope in those young princes …"

"Prince, how can there be any true brothers? I just can't stand watching them act against children. In the future, when my brothers grow up, if they really do commit evil deeds, I will kill them too, but they are still young and can still keep them safe." Duan Chengrui would probably have to do many evil deeds in his lifetime, and now he could only leave some kindness to these underage brothers.

Yue Qing nodded her head and bowed. After receiving her answer, she instructed someone to look for the fourth prince.

Before Chang Yiqin caused any trouble, Yue Qing had already personally come to explain things to His Highness.

"Only you would protect His Highness like this." Chang Yi Qin slapped the back of Yue Qing's hand and hurriedly made her way to Duan Chenrui's bedroom. "How can a woman from the martial arts world be placed in a bedroom? It might be Princess Jing …"

"Madam, please do not say too much." Yue Qing hurriedly pulled her back.

Although Chang Yiqin had indeed kept silent for some time after learning of Duan Chenrui's method, she was, after all, an impatient person. If she were to bring up this matter again and again, it was likely that her Highness would blame her.

"Don't you doubt it?" Chang Yiqin angrily turned her head away. "Princess Jing never leaves her house. Before, she even went to the Hall of Healing to give medical services. Has she come out today?"

After staring at each other for a long time, even Yue Qing was unable to calm down.

Could it really be Crown Princess Jing?

She finally managed to coax Chang Yiqin to calm down a little. When the moonlight was dark and the wind was high, Yue Qing changed into night clothes and snuck into the medicine house, only to see that the medicine house was brightly lit. A little girl dressed in green was currently counting the herbs.

She landed firmly on the ground, giving the young lady a fright.

Yue Qing hurriedly pulled down her veil. "I am Yue Qing from the Third Prince's estate. I have come today only to seek an audience with Crown Princess Jing."

"You're not considered a guest, coming uninvited." Gu Moyan suddenly raised her head and looked out the window at Yue Qing. She put down the things in her hands helplessly and said, "Qing Dai, you should go and rest. I'll wait for another four hours."

Qing Dai packed the rest of the items and left.

Yue Qing walked into the room. At the end of the room, there was only a bamboo bed with all kinds of jade vases and jars on the shelves. At the other side of the room, there were all kinds of herbs.

"Yue Qing has come to apologize to Princess Jing." Yue Lao knelt on the ground and cupped her hands in greeting.

"Apologies are useless. It's best to return early in the middle of the night now. Don't let the third prince suspect you." Gu Danyan carefully weighed the herbs before wrapping them up and grinding them together. From start to finish, he didn't even raise his head.

Yue Qing sized up Gu Danyan's plain clothes with a pale expression and couldn't help but ask, "Yue Qing had just returned to the prince's mansion a few days ago and has already suffered a lot. Do you have any instructions for coming here today?"

Hearing this, Gu Daiyan helplessly raised her head, feeling that this Yue Qing was a little strange.

Normally, even when Yue Qing was with Chang Yiqin, she would not reveal herself. Furthermore, she would not speak like a subordinate. After hesitating for a moment, she leaned against the table and asked, "Just what are you doing here?"

"Yue Qing wishes to ask, has Princess Jing ever been to the third prince's estate?"

Gu Pingyan raised his eyebrows. He patted the table and helplessly looked at the herbs: "No, after Mr. He left, many of the children in the Sky Flame had caught a cold in the early spring and have yet to recover. I have been working on it for a long time these past few days, and finally got some results."

As she spoke, she took out the densely packed prescriptions from the drawer and looked at Yue Qing helplessly. "What's more, how could I have the guts to go to the Third Prince's Mansion?"

Looking at those prescriptions, it was indeed not a one-day chill.

"But what happened at the Manor?" Gu Daiyan, on the other hand, asked with interest.

"Nothing happened. It's just that a lady from the martial arts world came to the manor. Madam suspected you, so she asked me to come and investigate." With that, Yue Qing turned and left.

Yue Qing's silhouette blended into the moonlight. Gu Mingyan's face darkened as she continued with what she was doing.

After another sleepless night, two days later, she came to the Hall of Reparations and informed them of the prescriptions they had prepared. The doctors here knew more about her abortion and took good care of her.

It was always hard for her to sleep, so she might as well study the herbs.

Today, she was wearing a veil to take a pulse, so at noon, she looked at the distant market. Duan Chengxuan was currently riding on a black horse, and behind him was the carriage belonging to the Assistant Minister of Revenue.

When did Duan Chengxuan get involved with the Minister of Revenue of the Guangs? That Guangxian from before was already half crippled, and because of him, he should have hated the Residence of Crown Prince and Prime Minister.

Duan Chengxuan naturally saw her, and their gazes met. Gu Danyan could only lower his head in advance to continue checking his pulse.

As for the Assistant Minister of Revenue, his carriage came to a stable stop. Duan Chengxuan got off his horse and followed him to Gu Daiyan's stall. "Let's go to the Assistant Minister of Revenue's residence."

"What happened?" Gu Daiyan pretended not to know and was curious about what Duan Cheng Xuan was thinking.