Xue Ling irritably ruffled his messy hair and recounted the events.
In the end, his voice turned grim: "It's likely the tea is the problem."
Mentioning the tea in the Pavilion, Huo Mingyan and Guan Songyuan exchanged a furtive glance, their bodies uncomfortably weakening.
Shen Yinning laughed in exasperation: "The Imperial Palace, a place of utmost security, and yet someone dares to blatantly use a drug like this in the tea under broad daylight! Today it's an aphrodisiac, tomorrow it will be poison. The Empress oversees the palace, is she incapable of even disciplining her attendants?!"
Huo Mingyan reduced the palace staff by half.
Every palace was short-handed; palace maids and eunuchs, still receiving the same monthly stipend as before, found themselves with double the workload. Naturally, many areas were neglected.
