The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 880

Chapter 880: 406 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Meet (second watch)_2

After all, the Dragon Shadow Guards never speak, so they couldn’t possibly expose her on the spot.

Princess Xinyang’s gaze was fixed unblinkingly on Long Yi’s face. Naturally, she wouldn’t just take Gu Jiao’s word for it; she wanted to hear Long Yi’s answer.

But she also understood that Long Yi would not communicate with her.

The Dragon Shadow Guards were the master’s most trusted secret protectors, privy to all the master’s secrets. If they fell into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, the consequences would be unthinkable.

To prevent any risk, the late emperor had trained the Dragon Shadow Guards to be silent and uncommunicative, ice-cold tools.

However, Princess Xinyang did not believe that Long Yi had ever met with the daughter of the Marquis Residence of Ding’an. Long Yi had always been by her side; the only time he had left was to escort Yujin to the underground Martial Arts Arena to buy medicine.

A daughter of such a distinguished family would hardly visit such a place.

So, did Long Yi simply not want to give a gift to the Crown Princess but felt obliged to send something, so he handed it off to a random passerby?

Princess Xinyang was utterly baffled; she wasn’t bold enough to speculate whether Long Yi would dare to let a stranger into the palace to treat her and change her dressings.

Gu Jiao put the box back on the table.

Princess Xinyang stopped her, saying, "Since Long Yi wanted to give it to you, then you should keep it."

But she didn’t want to keep it. What if, after accepting it, he insisted she clean out all the charcoal pencils in the box...

"Then... thank you very much."

She would accept it for now, and then throw it away later. No way she was going to clean out any pencils!

"I shall take my leave now, you two have a nice chat," Gu Jiao hastened to make her escape, preventing the fellow named Long Yi from catching up with her to make her clean pencils!

Gu Jiao was there to pick up something from the palace, but now she didn’t bother with it and headed straight for the palace exit.

She quickly boarded her carriage, planning to see just how many charcoal pencils that guy had prepared for her. But when she opened the box, she found lying inside a supreme, millennia-old ginseng—

She had lived two lifetimes and had never seen such fine ginseng.

Gu Jiao was stunned.

Back at the Medical Hall, Gu Jiao handed the millennia-old ginseng to Shopkeeper Wang: "Sell this."

While the millennia-old ginseng was indeed valuable, no one in her family needed it, so it was better to sell it for a good price.

Gu Jiao would occasionally bring some rare and exotic medicines to Shopkeeper Wang to sell, so he was no longer surprised.