The Herbal Scents of Farm Life

Chapter 3257 - 3258: Purchased at a High Price

"I..."

Madam Zui opened her mouth, but naturally didn’t dare say anything about Zui Yiming.

She hadn’t forgotten that just a careless comment by her precious daughter about Zui Yiming had resulted in twenty lashes. Surely, it was Zui Yiming who ordered it.

If she were to embarrass Zui Yiming here, with the head of the family absent, who knows if she herself might fall at Zui Yiming’s hands.

"Is Mother suggesting that I, of the palace, am ignoring my familial ties? Where Father wants to go is his affair. Could I, a daughter married away, have any say in it?"

"No, no, that’s not... I didn’t mean that."

Madam Zui shook her head repeatedly, afraid that Zui Yiming might actually make things difficult for her.

"It’s just that lately, your father... has been a bit confused, his eyesight worsening, and who knows who he’s keeping company with. He hasn’t visited Mother’s courtyard for quite some time..."

"Mother is getting old, and naturally Father no longer favors you."

Before she could finish, Zui Yiming interrupted bluntly, implying who would want to look at an old hag every day?

Especially when this old hag was so gossipy, daring to say anything, even corrupting her own daughter.

Would the head of the Zui Family really like Madam Zui? That would be surprising.

After all, the head of the Zui Family wasn’t poor. With so much money at his disposal, it was entirely normal for him to find a few young and beautiful women.

What right did she have to blame the head of the Zui Family? Ultimately, wasn’t it because she couldn’t keep her man’s heart?

"Mother, listen to me; just stay obediently in the Zui Family as Madam Zui. Don’t make any trouble, or Father will truly be angry."

She advised.

"You—"

Madam Zui was so choked with anger at her words that she couldn’t speak.

Is this how you talk? And this was her daughter in name, cursing her own mother here!

"Yes, Your Majesty, Mother understands."

Thinking of her daughter’s situation in Zui Yiming’s grasp, she dared not argue further. After responding, she prepared to leave.

She needed to find the head of the Zui Family to figure out what was really going on.

Her Chun’er, could she really be rescued? Surely, she couldn’t languish in Quan Palace forever?

Though she’d advised Chun’er to stay at peace in the palace, that Quan Palace was truly no place for anyone. At least not without finding a better environment, right?

...

In Sky City, before Zui Yifeng, a subordinate hurried in.

"Master, your subordinate has discovered something."

"What’s the matter?"

Zui Yifeng was entirely preoccupied with figuring out how to obtain the fragment of the corpse-suppressing talisman Lin Caisang held, caring little for anything else.

Seeing the subordinate approach, he wasn’t even attentive.

"Master, your subordinate has found that recently many medicinal herbs on the market have been bought at high prices. Moreover, our contacts in the Haibo Kingdom reported that some days ago, the king of Haibo Kingdom personally ordered people to go into the forest to collect some herbs.

Those herbs are the very ones needed for the antidote to the poison afflicting Sui Zimo."

The subordinate reported to Zui Yifeng.

"What?!"

Zui Yifeng was startled upon hearing this.

All along, he’d been complacent, thinking Lin Caisang had just gotten lucky, unexpectedly obtaining those few herbs from the Ding Family.

Now, hearing this report, he secretly cursed that things were not going well.