The maid carried a bamboo basket into Mrs. Li's yard. Someone came up to meet her. She glanced at the small can in the bamboo basket, then reached over to catch it, turned around and entered the inner room. Mrs. Li was doing needlework in front of the window. The maid went in and said,

"Madam, your black chicken soup is here..."

Li smiled when he heard this, put down the needle and thread in his hand, moved his huge belly and put it under the bed. The two maids on the side quickly reached out to support him. One of them opened the lid of the can and sniffed it first, took out a small bowl and poured out some, took out a silver needle from his arms and tried it. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he said,

"Madam, please use it!"

Li nodded and brought the bowl of soup. The maids watched her finish drinking a bowl of soup and said with a smile.

"Madam, I have a good appetite..."

Li smiled,

"It's not that I have a good appetite, but the child in my stomach is getting older. He wants to eat it. He only used the meal, but he won't be hungry again after a while!"

The maid next to him hurriedly reminded,

"Madam, you are a little more relaxed. You are about to give birth. You are eating too much and you are afraid that you will not be able to give birth..."

Mrs. Li nodded,

"I know!"

She reached out and stroked her raised belly.

"I don't know when this child will be born?"

"I'm afraid there are still more than ten days left, but the lady still has to be careful this time and she can't start it in advance!"

"Um!"

Mrs. Li nodded, and while she was talking, someone reported it outside.

"Madam, Prince Yu is here!"

Li quickly got up to greet him when he came out. When he came out, he saw that King Yu had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard. When he saw her coming out, he waved his hand and said,

"No need to come out. You are now unable to move, so it's better to take care of yourself!"

Mrs. Li squatted down and saluted,

"Your Majesty, you must not be rude. I dare not overestimate..."

King Yu came over to help her and said,

"You... are so stubborn!"

The two entered the inner room, and King Yu sat down and looked at Mrs. Li's big belly.

"But it's been these days?"

"There are more than ten days left..."

"That's true, be careful..."

The two of them were talking nonsense and irritating here, and Shangguan Ting was asking Qianye Xiaomei,

"You put the medicine in her soup?"

Chiba Xiaomei nodded,

"Madam, I've put it in..."

Shangguan Ting was overjoyed when she heard this.

“Okay…”

She reached out and patted Chiba Xiaomei's smooth and fair face.

"Okay... you did a good job. As long as this is done, in the future... if we have a glorious day for our mother and son, we will not treat you badly!"

Qianye Xiaomei lowered her head and didn't dare to let Shangguan Ting see the guilt on her face.

"Thank you, Madam!"

Shangguan Ting had not been asleep all night that night. She was listening to the movements of Li's side with her ears, but she waited from dark to the east and turned white. She didn't hear anything unusual there. When she got up the next day, Shangguan Ting couldn't wait to ask for it, but the maid came back and reported,

"Madam, everything is as usual in the place where Mrs. Li is walking around in the yard!"

"What, was she not eating that?"

Shangguan Ting was very angry when she heard this, and turned around and said to Qianye Xiaomei.

"Go again today!"

Seeing this, Chiba Xiaomei said noddedly,

"Madam, how can you keep doing such a thing? Will... be discovered!"

Shangguan Ting said angrily,

"I don't care. If she doesn't die, I will never give up!"

Qianye Xiaomei went there again with no help. On the second day, Mrs. Li was still safe and sound. Shangguan Ting finally realized something was wrong and took out the pill and looked at it repeatedly.

"Is it... this medicine is not effective enough?"

After saying that, he turned his doubtful eyes to Chiba Xiaomei,

"Not...you changed the medicine, right?"

Chiba Xiaomei felt a cold sweat rising from her back, and hurriedly knelt down and replied,

"Madam, I dare not!"

Shangguan Ting snorted,

"I don't understand you have the courage!"

After saying that, he frowned and thought,

"What's wrong?"

This medicine is not done, so it cannot be used. I will go to find the medicine while there is still time. This time I will go in person!

Shangguan Ting found an excuse to leave the house, and went out to find medicine in person. After thinking about it, she did not order Qianye Xiaomei, but called a bribe-buying woman to come in and hand the pills to her. Seeing this, Qianye Xiaomei knelt on the ground and begged,

"Madam, stop! Madam, please stop while the disaster has not yet occurred!"

"Stop!"

Shangguan Ting's face was covered in frost. When she looked at her, she seemed to be able to harden her poison. Finally, she suspected that she had become accustomed to her.

"Did you change the medicine in front of you?"

Qianye Xiaomei lowered her head and did not dare to look at her. Shangguan Ting was furious when she saw this, raised her feet and kicked her in the chest.

"Bang……"

Shangguan Ting looked slender, but she was a farm girl. She worked farm work all year round at home, and her hands and feet were full of strength. She kicked Qianye Xiaomei's heart so hard that she couldn't breathe. Her eyes turned pale and her body fell to the ground. Shangguan Ting couldn't relieve her hatred. She kicked her a few more times, but she only kicked her face.

"You are ungrateful and scammers, if it weren't for me... you and the Japanese pirates would have been beaten to death by the Jinyiwei people!"

Qianye Xiaomei's nose bone was kicked by her, and two tubes of blood immediately flowed out of her nostrils. When Shangguan Ting saw it, she looked down at her shoes, then kicked her to her lower abdomen, cursing,

"There is no conscience! It is indeed the Dongyi barbarians, the unfamiliar white-eyed wolf!"

Her kick was quick and fierce, causing severe pain in Chiba Xiaomei's abdomen.

"Wow……"

With a sound, he spit out a mouthful of filth. When Shangguan Ting saw it, he stopped with disgust and ordered the people around him to say,

"Train her to the woodshed!"

The maids on the side were all frightened to see it. Hearing this, he stepped forward and silently helped Qianye Xiaomei up. Shangguan Ting said angrily,

"Don't help me, I'll drag it away!"

The maids did not dare to disobey, so they had to drag Chiba Xiaomei's feet one left and one right, letting her head constantly hit the ground, dragging them all the way to the woodshed in the backyard.

Shangguan Ting heard the sound of Qianye Xiaomei's head knocking on the ground, then she showed a satisfied smile and said to everyone standing beside her.

"You see, whoever dares to disobey this lady is the end!"

The maids were so scared that they lowered their heads and kept their voices, and they didn't dare to breathe.

Since then, everyone in the palace has known that the Japanese woman beside Mrs. Shangguan is sick and has not come out to walk around for several days. Mrs. Li was surprised when she heard this.

"Then the Japanese woman is sick? Can you invite a doctor?"

The maids responded,

"I heard that the doctor was hired, but the doctor said he was very sick and could only keep him in the house..."

Mrs. Li nodded when she heard this. The most important thing she is to care about the children in her belly. However, she asked casually, and naturally she would not care about Shangguan Ting's people. A few days later, she heard that the Japanese woman was getting worse. Mrs. Shangguan said that the mansion was about to be added to the child. Some people were seriously ill, which was bad luck, so she moved Qianye Xiaomei to Meilin, the northernmost point.

It seemed to be natural for everyone in the royal palace to do this, but no one asked more questions. In the plum forest, Qianye Xiaomei, who was covered in bruises, grabbed the deaf and dumb old woman Lin tightly and said hoarsely,

"Please...please...help me...help me find someone, only...she...she can save me!"

How could the old woman understand her words, just shook her head, took a bowl of water beside her and fed her a sip of water, and gestured to her. Seeing this, Chiba Xiaomei forced herself up, reached out and grabbed the corner of her clothes, put it in her mouth and bite it with her teeth, pulled off a piece of cloth, wrote a few Japanese words on her head with her bloody fingers, and wrote the word "Pei" in Chinese.

"Go to find Mrs. Pei, only she can save me, please!"
To be continued...