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Chapter 45 - Witchcraft




Chapter 45 – Witchcraft
Rong Xi felt ecstatic and curious when she heard this. She couldn’t stop herself from asking, “Where will Husband take this concubine?”
Mu Huai saw her limpid eyes light up, and his worries from earlier faded away.
He slightly lowered his eyes, staring down at the petite woman who barely reached his shoulders. Deliberating teasing her, he said, “Take a guess, I won’t tell you.”
Rong Xi’s lips were slightly pursed. She looked as if she was pouting a little as she sighed, “…This concubine can’t guess.”
Just as her words fell, the man suddenly carefully picked her up, walking towards the hall.
Mu Huai looked down at the woman in his arms, “I already had the servants prepare a carriage, we’ll change into ordinary clothes before leaving the palace.”
Rong Xi nodded.
Because they were in the palace, even if there weren’t any banquets, Rong Xi’s and Mu Huai’s usual clothes were already very extravagant. If they were to go to the commoner’s realm to vacation, it would be inconvenient.
Not long after, Rong Xi changed into a simple yet finely crafted peach-colored . Di Shihua felt as if her heart was full of bubbles. Mu Tao had a gentle temperament, not at all like the cruel and aggressive Mu Huai.
Mu Tao’s birth mother, Consort De, also came from a good background. Di Shihua didn’t have the ambition to become the Crown Princess Consort, but if she could be the principle consort of a ranked prince, then it would be the sort of luck and happiness that so many noble misses in the capital could only look upon in envy.
At the very least, it was a hundred times better than her elder sister’s marriage.
After all, none of the noble young masters in Bianjing wanted to marry her.
Not only did Di Shihua not feel any sympathy towards her elder sister, she even felt that because of Di Shiyin’s shameful actions, her [DSH] own reputation as a daughter of the Di clan had been ruined, delaying her future.
Thankfully, Consort De’s attitude towards her could still be considered quite cordial.
If she could really successfully marry Mu Tao, then she would be able to win back some honor and dignity for her parents.
Di Shihua felt as if she was floating on clouds every day, enjoying the service and flattery that was more meticulous than before. Thus, she put even more effort into serving the Empress.
Today, she had brought her maidservant to Ninghui Hall’s personal kitchen to pick up food for the Empress.
When she saw the palace maid that served Rong liangdi, Dan Xiang, Di Shihua stopped and quickly found a boulder to hide behind. She ordered her maidservant to keep quiet, and carefully eavesdropped on Dan Xiang’s conversation with the kitchen hand.
She could only hear Dan Xiang’s tone was quite serious as she said, “Liangdi hasn’t had much appetite recently. The Crown Prince ordered me to retrieve some nourishing foods for her to supplement her body.”
The kitchen hand immediately answered respectfully, “Lass, don’t worry, this little one will definitely bring over the best ingredients.”
Soon after, the kitchen hand brought out an ebony food box and handed it to Dan Xiang.
After Dan Xiang received the box, she spoke a few more words with the kitchen hand before returning back to the Eastern Palace.
Di Shihua wasn’t able to obtain any useful information, only discovering that the pregnant Rong liangdi‘s body was uncomfortable.
She shook her head helplessly. Just as she was about to walk out from behind the boulder, she heard one of the kitchen hands saying, “I heard that Rong liangdi‘s body suddenly took a turn for the worse and the Crown Prince threw a fit because of it. But the imperial physician couldn’t find anything wrong, it’s so strange.”
Another kitchen hand spat and shook their head, “What’s so strange about it, since they can’t find anything, then there’s only one possibility.”
“What possibility?”
Di Shihua continued to hide behind the boulder, also asking this question inside.
That’s right, since the imperial physicians couldn’t find anything wrong with that Rong liangdi, then what’s the reason behind her poor condition?
—“What other reason could there be. That Rong liangdi has an arrogant personality and offended many people, someone definitely has a grudge against her and must’ve cursed her. Now, not only is she pregnant, she’s also been cursed. Don’t look down on witchcraft, the history books have it all recorded. In the previous dynasty, the witchcraft even harmed a whole nation…”