The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 677

Chapter 677: 322 The Truth Revealed (two updates)

Within Renshou Palace, Empress Dowager Zhuang was addressing several backlogged official matters from the past few days.

Indeed, old age had caught up with her, and it had taken her a long time to fully recover from a severe illness. Only now did she deeply comprehend how difficult it had been to recuperate in the countryside.

Leprosy was no ordinary ailment, its infectious nature alone was enough to instill fear in all. It was a mystery how those two simple-minded individuals had dared to take her in.

Despite the fact that their living conditions were already tough and they themselves barely had enough to eat, they still took in a sick person.

Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed.

"Your Royal Highness, have you recalled your days in the country again?" Eunuch Qin asked with a smile.

"Yes." Empress Dowager Zhuang did not deny it, "Back then, they tricked me into believing that I had Tuberculosis, told me not to go out, for fear that I would spread the illness to the villagers."

Eunuch Qin was surprised, "Did you believe them?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed, "Could I not believe? I couldn’t remember anything at the time."

Eunuch Qin pondered, "Then... what happened next?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang recalled, "About ten or fifteen days later, they began eating at the same table as me."

"Ah..." Eunuch Qin was astonished, "Were you healed after half a month?"

"No." Empress Dowager Zhuang shook her head, "I was just no longer contagious. I continued taking the medicine for half a year."

Most people wouldn’t do this. Even if leprosy was cured, they would still avoid the person like the plague.

"Miss Gu and Xiao Xiuzhuan truly care about you, this humble servant is happy for you." Eunuch Qin sincerely expressed. He had met the Empress Dowager when she was exiled to the Cold Palace.

He was a junior eunuch in the Cold Palace when Empress Xianxian took a liking to him and summoned him to serve her side.

Later, when Empress Xianxian left the Cold Palace, she took him along, in the blink of an eye, he had accompanied the Empress Dowager through many ups and downs for decades.

Many people wanted to flatter the Empress Dowager, but those who genuinely cared for the Empress Dowager without expecting anything in return were rare as phoenix feathers or unicorn horns.

If the Empress Dowager were not the Empress Dowager, then they would not be themselves as perceived by the Empress Dowager.