41 Sprinkling Powder

Even though Huan Meirong speech was in care for him, Zhi'er took it too seriously, "Ah, no, no…"

'Ah, this little kid,' she thought before calling out his name, "Zhi'er."

"Aye?"

"Sleep." Due to the lack of strength on Zhi'ers voice, she was sure that the little kid hadn't slept at all, hence the order.

"Huh?" Zhi'er was confused.

Huan Meirong didn't explain herself immediately but she first extended her hand with the empty bowl of water.

Zhi'er took the empty bowl by reflex, and then heard, "It is night already, isn't it?" If the time Zhi'er said was right, it should be around ten in the night.

"Ah, aye, aye..." He felt ashamed, how he couldn't understand his miss meaning when it was so dark despite the candles' light. Nonetheless, it couldn't be helped, his miss had just awakened and he hadn't the mind to think about what hour it was.

"But... isn't the eldest miss hungry? Zhi'er can..."

"Nay, don't bother with it. I will also be back to sleep." It wasn't true, she was going to study the recipes again but she first wanted the child to sleep.

"Ahm… aye." At length, after a bit of hesitation, he nodded; it wouldn't be good to insist more or his miss might get angry. Therefore, he went to sleep after having turned off the candles.

Huan Meirong shook her head helplessly when the little kid fell asleep like a rock right after he lay on the bed, 'This kid.'

*Sigh* She pressed his sleeping acupuncture points and then, went into busy mode. Although she had refined the pills and liquids she needed in the past, she was worried as even the simplest of liquids of them were more difficult to refine than the one she had refined the other day.

'Why can't I jump the following four levels of martial cultivation and become a Martial Master to make things easier. Urghh…' She rubbed her temples. Whenever she read the step of forming the pill, her head would ache that despite having complained a lot the past times, she couldn't help from complaining about the same thing time and time again, but as usual, she will soon get back to where she had left, 'Haa-h, whatever, complaining won't help me either.'

Three days passed and she stabilized her routine to almost the one that she had made at first: she will wake up at noon and have the afternoon meal and dinner with Zhi'er; the only difference was that the time between meals was solely used in studying the recipes as even her dance at night had been reassumed.

This night, after midnight, she pressed Zhi'er sleeping acupuncture points and went to the most favoured concubines' backyards; the past three days she had randomly asked information about the concubines to Zhi'er so she knew the peculiarities where they lived and their tastes when it came to fragrances.

As she was in the north wing outer courtyards, she soon arrived at the north inner ones, which were the courtyards where the concubines stayed, and she spread her soul force; though her soul force hadn't completely recovered, it was enough for her to use without being discovered.

Because she knew where Lin Lian's courtyard was, she first went there; her courtyard was right beside Si Xuli's. Lin Lian was one of the two second-rank concubines of the City Lord as she bore a son of him. Even though her son was a dummy, her family was well-off so her rank didn't decrease and as she was a beauty who knew how to please the City Lord, she still had his favour.

She entered into her courtyard and only paid attention to the gardens without bothering with the elegant and fresh decoration of the building.

'A simple garden with bamboos,' she nodded as she was in the correct one. She went all the way to Lin Lian's main chamber and saw her sleeping. She pressed her sleeping acupuncture points and then, she took out from Lin Lian's upper underwear a large but thin small rectangular bag made of fine fabric with herbs inside that was used to warm the belly. She opened it and sprinkled inside the Three Warm Suns Powder. She closed it and returned it back to its place for the powder to make its work. Then, she looked for more of the medicated warm bags and did the same.

'One less, two more to go,' she thought as she put back in place the medicated warm bags.

She went out and localized the courtyards of the other two favoured concubines she had selected. She repeated her actions after arriving into her courtyards, she first verified she wasn't in the wrong courtyard and then went to their main chamber and sprinkled the powder on at least five medicated warm bags.

*Sigh* She went out of the last courtyard she had visited and climbed a tall tree.

'All done, the rest will depend on their luck; I can't bother to do more than this even if it is to trigger that Si Xuli,' she shrugged her shoulders as she oversaw the concubines' courtyards.

'Now, it is time to pay a visit to that "dear father" of mine…'