Chapter 264 - To Pay a Debt of Gratitude (2/2)

Xiaolian exclaimed in surprise, “Mother, I didn’t see Younger Sister when I came back in the evening. It wouldn’t be her, right?”

Madam Liu creased her brows and thought about it, and then said with slight anger, “It’s definitely that lass. I haven’t seen her since noon! That lass is getting too bold. She didn’t tell anyone and secretly followed them up the mountain!”

With the help of the moonlight, Yu Xiaocao saw Madam Liu and the two kids. She ran over happily and said, “Mother, we got a good harvest from hunting today! The young royal prince also caught a bear! It weighs more than four hundred catties!”

Madam Liu gently twisted her younger daughter’s ear and angrily said, “Who allowed you to follow them? It’s so dangerous on the mountains. If something happened to you, wouldn’t that be asking for Mother’s life?”

Feeling slightly guilty, Yu Xiaocao covered her ear and exclaimed, “Mother, I’m wrong. In the future, I won’t go up the mountain without telling you! Please don’t be angry. If you fall sick because of anger, Father and I will both be heartbroken!”

Zhu Junyang, whose arms were hanging on his sides, tried his best to endure the pain. When he saw the lass’s grinning face and flattering expression, he couldn’t help but raise the corners of his mouth. ‘This lass has such rich expressions!’

After dragging the game to the Yu Residence, Head Steward Liu, who was worried about his master’s injury, found an opportunity to call Yu Xiaocao and whispered, “Second Miss Yu, I heard that you cured tendons and veins on your father’s leg. Is it true?”

When facing this loyal, ruthless, and shrewish Head Steward Liu, Yu Xiaocao couldn’t help but be more vigilant. She shook her head decisively and said, “For my father’s leg, Doctor Sun of Tongren Medicine Hall had prescribed effective medication and my father originally had a rather healthy body. Finally, the herbal paste that I made also worked. All three aspects are indispensable. Why? Who got hurt?”

Yu Hai just happened to walk by and heard them, so he quickly said, “Cao’er, the royal prince got injured because he was saving me. If your herbal paste works, you must properly treat the royal prince’s injury. If it wasn’t for him, your father might have died or been seriously injured!”

Yu Xiaocao reproached the little divine stone in her heart again, and said, “Father, don’t worry! My herbal paste doesn’t have any side effects. It can clear the acupuncture points, improve blood circulation, and relieve pain. I’ll go make some right now. But, we still need to see if the royal prince wants to use it!”

He was a dignified royal prince and a relative of the emperor. He was usually treated by the imperial physicians, so would he want to use home remedies from the countryside?

From the small medicine box at home, Yu Xiaocao got some herbal medicine for promoting blood circulation and dissolving bruises. She crushed them into bits and boiled them into paste with highly concentrated mystic-stone water. The herbal paste had a murky black appearance and didn’t look very good, but it exuded a faint herbal fragrance that made people feel refreshed.

When Yu Xiaocao brought the self-made herbal paste to the royal prince, she hadn’t expected that he would choose to trust her without hesitation.

“Aren’t you afraid that I would put something in this herbal paste? Or that the herbal paste was randomly made?” Yu Xiaocao asked as she applied the herbal paste for the young royal prince.

Zhu Junyang said firmly, “You won’t!”

“Why are you so certain?” Zhu Junyang’s arms were smeared completely black by Yu Xiaocao, like a burnt wooden stake.

Zhu Junyang felt a cool sensation emanating from the herbal paste, and the pain in his arms was immediately relieved. He didn’t know whether it was an illusion, but he seemed to be able to feel his muscles, tendons, and veins swiftly recovering.

“Intuition! This prince’s intuition tells me that you won’t harm me. My intuition tells me that your herbal paste will definitely be effective to my injury!”

‘Intuition again? Could it be that the young royal prince has a very accurate sixth sense? He doesn’t have superpowers, does he?’ Yu Xiaocao’s imagination went wild.

Both of Zhu Junyang’s arms were covered with thick herbal paste. When it was time to eat, he could only wait for others to serve him. As for this important task, it somehow landed on Yu Xiaocao.

Yu Xiaocao felt very helpless in her heart ah! ‘Oh, Young Royal Prince ah! Don’t you have a head steward court eunuch, who serves you, with you? Why are you making things difficult for a nobody like me?’

“Eggplant!” Zhu Junyang sat in an unrestrained manner, looked at the sauteed eggplants with minced meat and unashamedly directed Xiaocao on what he wanted to eat.

Yu Xiaocao, who had accepted her fate, picked up a piece of eggplant and stuffed it into the young royal prince’s mouth, thinking, ‘I’ll just take it as helping my father pay a debt of gratitude!”