newbobooks Chapter 31 031 Rumors and Gossip
Chapter 31 031 Rumors and Gossip
Chapter 31 031 Rumors
Not long after Aunt Song left, Ye Pianran brought some pastries she had made to Gongsun Yuan's room. Today she made osmanthus honey dates. The osmanthus flowers were picked from the osmanthus tree she had planted in the spiritual realm yesterday. She also added a little spiritual spring water. The finished pastries smelled wonderful and tasted very sweet, not cloying at all.
Gongsun Yuan guessed that the poisonous blood she vomited last night was related to the pastries her daughter had brought, and without any suspicion, she picked them up and put them in her mouth.
When Ye Yankang saw this, he insisted on eating too, but Ye Pianran pulled him onto her lap and said with a stern face, "Kang'er, your older sister will ask you a few questions. If you can answer them, your older sister will let you eat."
Ye Yankang chuckled at Ye Pianran, wiping his drool-covered chubby hand on her face: "Sister, eat, eat..."
"Sister doesn't want to eat your hand." Ye Pianran quickly blocked his hand, looking helpless, but in her heart she thought: Kang'er also ate things made with spiritual spring water, so why is he still so stupid? Could it be that he didn't get enough spiritual spring water?
Gongsun Yuan laughed so hard she trembled, and had Xu Mama bring Ye Yankang back, giving him a few candied dates. Ye Yankang was overjoyed, snuggling in Gongsun Yuan's arms and happily munching on them.
This heartwarming scene brought Ye Pianran a sense of peace. She put aside her doubts and said with a smile, "Mother, I will bring you snacks every day from now on. If you continue to take them for a while, the residual toxins in your body will surely be completely eliminated, and your body will recover."
Gongsun Yuan hesitated for a moment before asking, "Among these snacks..."
"Add antidotes to everything," Ye Pianran said. "It's not just the pastries; the orchids from my mother's house also have great benefits."
Setting down the candied dates in her hand, Gongsun Yuan asked, "Was all of this the idea of that miracle doctor at the clinic?"
Ye Pianran paused for a moment, then laughed: "That's right." This was indeed a good reason to cover up the strange space that had appeared on her body.
"If I have the chance in the future, I will definitely visit this divine doctor in person to express my gratitude for saving my life," Gongsun Yuan said.
Ye Pianran suddenly looked away and stammered, "Mother, I've become that divine physician's apprentice, and I'll be learning medicine from her in the future..."
Gongsun Yuan looked at her in shock. Ye Pianran, afraid of being scolded, quickly said, "Mother, please rest assured, this divine doctor is a female doctor, there will be no inconvenience."
“Mother is not worried about this. Ran’er, you will eventually marry into the Ouyang family. Studying medicine will ultimately be useless to you.” Gongsun Yuan sighed softly. “The Ouyang family has been officials for generations. They will not allow you to practice medicine outside.”
Ye Pianran stretched out her slender, white fingers and gently stroked Ye Yankang's face, eliciting a clear, silly laugh from him. She said:
“Mother, I once swore to protect my loved ones and never let you lose your lives for no reason again. At my age now, it is absolutely impossible for me to learn martial arts, so the only path left is to study medicine. Perhaps I will not be able to bring the dead back to life in the future, but if I can detoxify you like I am now, cure Kang’er’s mental disability, and let our family live peacefully to a hundred years old, I will die without regrets.”
These words warmed Gongsun Yuan's heart, and her nose tingled with emotion. She looked down at Ye Yankang, who was grinning foolishly, and almost burst into tears.
Peace, longevity, and the blessing of both sons and daughters—isn't that what she longed for?
In the following days, Ye Pianran tried adding more spiritual spring water from her space to the pastries she made for Ye Yankang. Although Ye Yankang's constitution gradually improved, he remained as mentally challenged as ever. Ye Pianran had no choice but to focus on detoxifying and recuperating Gongsun Yuan.
The poison that Gongsun Yuan had inflicted had penetrated deep into her internal organs. Whenever she ate the pastries made by Ye Pianran, she would first suffer excruciating pain before finally vomiting a mouthful of black blood laced with poison. However, as the toxins were slowly expelled, her complexion improved, and she gradually regained her radiance, as if she had returned to the appearance she had when she first married into the Marquis's mansion.
It wasn't just Gongsun Yuan who changed; Ye Pianran also unintentionally acquired that strange space.
Since Ye Pianran broke off some flower branches and planted them in the space, the space has completely shed its initial desolation and become full of life.
The green grass carpeted the ground, and peach, apricot and crabapple trees intertwined their roots, their branches covered with abundant and bright red petals. On the other side, osmanthus and peony were planted. The view was as beautiful as a brocade, a sight to behold.
Although she didn't know how she acquired this precious spatial realm, Ye Pianran cherished it dearly and even named it "Langhuan Spiritual Realm." Every day, after finishing all her tasks, she would secretly enter the spiritual realm with her medical books and sit under the peach tree to read them.
Sometimes, when she got tired of reading, she would lie down among the flowers to rest, letting herself be surrounded by falling petals. Whenever this happened, the two rabbits she had raised to detoxify Gongsun Yuan would jump onto her and curl up in her arms, dozing off. Gently stroking their smooth fur, she couldn't help but think—
When she starts studying medicine in the future, she might try planting some herbs in the spiritual realm. Those herbs might come in very useful in the future. Oh, and she could also raise some small animals, fish, birds, chickens, ducks, geese, and so on. When they get hungry, she could just catch them from the spiritual realm and slaughter them to eat. The taste would definitely be exceptionally delicious.
Thinking of this, Ye Pianran clutched her stomach and laughed uncontrollably.
She no longer resembles a young lady from a noble family; she's more like a shrewd and calculating peasant woman.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet drew ever closer, Ye Pianran was leisurely enjoying her idyllic life in Lanxin Courtyard, when suddenly a great deal of gossip about her began to circulate in the streets outside.
The initial rumors were that the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Anshi had an extremely ugly scar on her face and lived with her face covered by a veil every day. She was afraid that she would not be able to get married, so she sought medical treatment everywhere in the capital, but no one could cure the scar on her face.
This version started to change its meaning within two days of being circulated.
She became the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Anshi's mansion, possessed by an evil spirit, and went mad, biting anyone she saw. In the end, she accidentally scratched her own face and was locked in the woodshed by the Marquis of Anshi, never to come out again.
In the end, someone added fuel to the fire, and rumors spread that the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Anshi was promiscuous by nature. Although she was engaged to the Ouyang family, she was not content with her life and had affairs with several servants in the Marquis's mansion. In the end, she became pregnant unexpectedly and had to go to the clinic to have a doctor perform an abortion.
The most outrageous rumors always spread the most widely. When the Ouyang family heard the last rumor and came to Marquis Anshi in a rage to demand an explanation, Marquis Anshi was so angry that he almost fainted.