After drinking, Lian Hua took people away to attend to her affairs, not giving any importance to this episode.
Fortunately, Lian Hua did not drink the soup, brewed from a five-hundred-year-old mountain ginseng. A greatly nourishing concoction, its effects were extraordinary. Xiao Linzi and the others had never consumed something so replenishing. That night, they tossed and turned, unable to sleep, hooting hotly in their discomfort.
Poor Noble Consort, yet unknowing that the five-hundred-year-old mountain ginseng broth, simmered for several Shichen Chinese Times, was avoided by the Emperor as if shunning suspicion, then passed on to Canglan Court where it was scorned, and finally ended up in the bellies of several servants.
Speaking of the Emperor, he summoned Da Zhuang, who had followed with the soup, and asked about Lian Hua's reaction.
Da Zhuang said, "Master Lian acknowledged the information and then allowed this servant to return to report."
