Liu Ku looked at Hu Nayin very seriously. "Even though His Highness has been back to life, but your determination to avenge their evil deeds towards His Highness doesn't yet fade out, does it?"
Hu Nayin did not answer immediately. Her closed lips trembled, and so did her grips.
"They are a group of cruel humans, extremely dangerous." Liu Ku continued. "And they will stop at nothing until they reach their goal, that is, the death of His Highness. So now they know that His Highness doesn't die. They will send another disease for sure, or other evil methods to kill His Highness. Do you want it to happen? Of course not, right?"
Hu Nayin's hands trembled more violently. "But... His Highness dislikes this kind of activity very much! Not only our artificial disease attacks those evildoers, it may spread to the surrounding environment as well. Its risk to transmit to innocent people is very high! So..."
Liu Ku sighed. He had expected that Hu Nayin's spirit to fight the enemies by using violence was starting to fade. "Wang Fei! Where is your determination in the past?! You know, I appreciate you so much, I am so sure that you have become a competent leader even though you are a woman, but why are you so shrinking right now?! Remember, we are in war. The fight to suppress rebellion! You know it very clearly, right? In any war, in any fight, there will be victims for certain. The general of our country will kill enemy soldiers at the greatest number. Is that a cruel act? But when the general win the war, he will be respected by the whole country as a hero!" He sighed again, but his voice was softened and it sounded calmer now. "This is all, for the sake of His Highness. You must remember how cruel they are towards His Highness. Moreover, it turns out that Rumilie is behind all of this. His sins towards His Highness are over the top. All of this, is worth for him to receive!"
Hu Nayin got startled. She recalled all of the cruelty Rumilie ever did towards Zhu Su. The more she recalled it, the more her blood boiled. Her hands were clenched, very tight. Her mind was completely overpowered by anger.
"Alright! I'll keep doing it, whatever it takes!"
***
The medicine Hu Nayin concocted was surprisingly effective. Zhu Su had been able to get out of bed and walk out of the room within a very fast duration. Li Heng and other royal physicians still doubted Zhu Su's health and checked him repeatedly, but in the end, they must agree that Zhu Su had totally recovered almost to normal, he just should restore his body energy which had been drained by The Maggot's poison and that was an easy matter to do. Everyone soon flocked around Hu Nayin and questioned her as they were amazed at her great power and the way how she could obtain those medicinal plants while even the senior physicians like Li Heng could not do it.
"At that time, I heard a strange conversation telling that the cause of His Highness' illness is The Southern Maggot," Hu Nayin explained.
"Who might do the conversation, Wang Fei?" Xue Mei asked curiously.
"I don't have the faintest idea about it. I don't even understand how I can hear their conversation. It seems like a very fast conversation, as fast as an eye twinkles."
Everyone looked at each other, amazed.
"Maybe Wang Fei has heard fairies' conversation," Lin expressed her opinion.
This time all of them blinked in confusion, whether they should believe in Lin's theory or not.
"But I thank Heaven so much." Hu Nayin put her palms together at her heart. "Heaven helped me by letting me listen to this magical conversation, and thus could save His Highness' life."
"Yes. It must be the hunch from Heaven. Look! We see the plants every day in the botanical garden, but we don't even know that those plants can actually diminish The Maggot which is the cause of disease." Li Heng picked up the medicinal plants that Hu Nayin had found from the basket.
Their praise made Hu Nayin even more proud, and more confident in her ability. She became more enthusiastic in completing her very important task - which was also very reclusive. She did it without telling anyone except Liu Ku. They did this project in a very isolated basement, nobody even knew about its whereabout. They also carried it out in the late evening since working at daytime would incite suspicion from others. Hu Nayin was quite easy to get this opportunity since Zhu Su was an apathetic person and often got absorbed in his activities, at that time he would be unsocial and cared nothing with other people.
The jars that once gave off the offensive smell had been removed and were no longer of concern to everyone.
"Yesterday the Jun Zhus' court ladies kept observing these jars. They were always watching me, as if they were eager to ask me many questions, but felt uncomfortable to do it."
"Wang Fei. Please be cautious of those Jun Zhus. They are still young, everything they do is only based on their own emotions. And you, are not their real mother. So they will more or less dislike you, moreover, there are still their court ladies who keep provoking them." Liu Ku commented while stirring the concoction. The only ones who knew about this secret were the members of the Team of Wellbeing. But after Zhu Su gained consciousness, all of them thought that Hu Nayin was no longer pursuing her project.
"Yes, I know. But they don't dare to offend me frontally because I am Wang Fei."
"You are wrong. They did not dare to offend you because Zhou Wang loves you so much."
Hu Nayin smiled widely. How delightful she was as she heard Liu Ku's statement.
"So you must keep maintaining that favor. Even more, you must make yourself as the woman he loves most, don't let him put you as number two and make them as the number one. Otherwise, you will be ended."