Chapter 66: A Chance Encounter with the Dead
In the afternoon, the parrot's heat still did not fade, Suzaku and Baojuan took turns to take care of it, the rain was a little smaller, but the disaster in the suburbs of Beijing was not small, and even the nearby counties and counties frequently had disaster excerpts handed over, Mu Yuanan was so busy that he naturally had no intention of caring about the affairs of Xiuyingge and Yuchun Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Mu Chenghuang originally wanted to send someone out of the palace to invite a doctor from outside, but he heard that in the evening, there would be hail, and the palace gate was also forbidden, unless there was a warrant from the emperor, he was not allowed to enter and leave the palace at will.
It's just that Mu Chenghuang heard that Prince Su specially sent quails into the palace to ask the queen mother's body, the queen mother has rheumatism, and she will get sick every rainy day, Mu Chenghuang also went to visit in the morning, although the queen mother was in bed, but the spirit looked good, Mu Chenghuang accompanied the queen mother to talk for a while, asked for peace, and went back.
Prince Su has the token given by the Queen Mother to enter and exit the palace gate, and he can also find some doctors with superb medical skills to come over, Mu Chenghuang's eyes lit up at first, but he stopped this thought.
Although at the banquet that day, the palindromic poems made by himself and Prince Su were expressly forbidden by Prince Su, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, Mu Chenghuang knew that Mu Yuan knew the rumors, and if he was too friendly with Prince Su at this time, I was afraid that it would not be beneficial to both of them.
Mu Chenghuang frowned, the parrot had a serious fever, if it was not treated for a long time, she was in a dilemma, Baojuan suddenly came over and said that the parrot had fainted.
Mu Chenghuang saw Wen Zhi suddenly turn his head very unnaturally, just confused, Baojuan really asked Wen Zhi and said: "Doesn't Wen Zhi have a good relationship with the Imperial Doctor in the Tai Hospital? β
Mu Chenghuang immediately asked, "Since you just joined the company today, Wen Zhi, why do you know you well?"
Wen Zhi hung his head, and he couldn't see his face, he only listened to her voice and said in a sullen voice: "Imperial Doctor Zhang and the slave maid are fellow villagers, and before the slave maid entered the palace, he was acquainted. β
Wen Zhi entered the palace at the age of eight, and has been in the palace for ten years, if it is not a childhood sweetheart, how can there be a relationship that can still be acquainted after so many years, Mu Chenghuang looked at Wen Zhi's face is a little embarrassed, most of them know that the relationship between the two is by no means ordinary, Mu Chenghuang does not dare to speculate, this palace is mixed, and there are a lot of tongues, just said: "In this case, you look at it, if it is convenient, invite him over, if it is inconvenient, and only say, I will find a way, it is really not possible, it is okay to trouble the eldest sister or the queen mother." β
Recently, the Queen Mother has changed a lot of views on Mu Chenghuang, not only because Mu Chenghuang sent some novelty pastries over from time to time, but before, the Queen Mother Pei was not so in contact with Mu Chenghuang, and she didn't know so much, she just thought that Mu Chenghuang was an ordinary princess with average academics, average temperament, and average conduct, but she didn't know that Mu Chenghuang had such an insight into raising flowers and cooking, knowing that the Queen Mother liked to drink tea and make tea, and Mu Chenghuang went to learn the tea ceremony, although it had not been shown in front of the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother Pei was very pleased to hear that Mu Chenghuang had such a proper and exquisite mindγ
Therefore, recently, whenever there is time, Mu Chenghuang will go to Shoukang Palace to accompany the Queen Mother, sometimes the eldest princess has to take her with her, if sometimes there is really no leisure, when the eldest princess accompanies the Queen Mother to talk, the Queen Mother can't help but ask, why didn't Chenghuang come today.
The eldest princess smiled sweetly when she talked about this matter, and said that the queen mother gave Mu Chenghuang a nice nickname, called Xiao Wu, just because the emperor had a very intimate prince before and added a prince's ranking after the small characters, it sounds like ordinary people call the treasure of their hearts, which shows that the Empress Dowager Pei is now blessed by Mu Chenghuang.
But Mu Chenghuang didn't get this favor long after, so he went to ask for this somewhat unruly thing, afraid that his previous flattery and efforts would be in vain, Wen Zhi gritted his teeth, bowed his head and said, "The slave maid went to find a way to invite him." β
Mu Chenghuang said lightly: "Well, it's the best." β
Wen Zhi went not long ago, the eldest princess's side Zhihua came in the rain, she was wet, but she still couldn't take a breath, let Baojuan lead in, then Mu Chenghuang returned to the dormitory, changed into a clean goose yellow soft gauze robe, and saw that Zhihua seemed to have something to say, that is, the palace maids outside the dormitory were branched.
Zhihua said in a deep voice: "My father-in-law wants to invite the fifth princess over." β
If there was nothing fatal, with the temperament of the eldest princess, she would definitely not let Mu Chenghuang go when it was raining so heavily.
"Is your princess okay?" asked Mu Chenghuang.
Zhihua said in a low voice: "My princess is good, but this heavy rain has washed out all the soil of the flower bed in the east corner of the sleeping hall of Mingxi Palace, and my princess has found a terrible thing in it. β
Mu Chenghuang frowned, Mingxi Palace used to be the place where Duan Guifei lived, and what could make the eldest princess, who had always been calm and steady, so flustered, thought about it, there were only things related to Duan Guifei.
Not much to say, Mu Chenghuang put on a dark green cloak, took an oil-paper umbrella and was about to follow Zhihua out, Baojuan saw that his father-in-law was going out, and he was busy to persuade, but Mu Chenghuang was determined: "Baojuan, you go with me for a trip, keep the Vermilion Bird to take care of the parrot, and when Wenzhi comes with Imperial Doctor Zhang, he will let people into the ear room directly, and there is no need to inform me." β
The pouring rain washed the palace wall, and the hot weather became humid before, Mu Chenghuang walked against the palace wall, knowing that the painting was leading the way in front, Baojuan also carefully supported Mu Chenghuang, the road was slippery in the rain, for fear that she would fall.
There are very few people on the palace road, and most of them have been ordered, and they dare not and do not want to come out and move around at will, but between the rain curtains, you can vaguely see a soft sedan chair in the distance staggering towards this side, there is a person sitting on the soft sedan chair, the rain has wet all his clothes, but he still does not move, and the person carrying the sedan chair is also soaked, but he still walks steadily towards the front.
Mu Chenghuang just glanced up, and his steps couldn't help but slow down a little, and when the soft sedan was close, he slowly saluted: "Uncle Huang." β
The person sitting on this soft sedan chair is Mu Qinyi, Mu Qinyi's legs and feet are inconvenient, and there is nothing strange about sitting in a soft sedan chair on a rainy day, but with such a heavy rain, he still has to enter the palace, I don't know why.
Mu Qinyi caught a glimpse of Mu Chenghuang, who was mostly wet in clothes, and first said a soft "um", which can be regarded as a greeting, Mu Chenghuang saluted again and was about to leave, but Mu Qinyi took the initiative to ask: "Where are you going on such a rainy day?"
Mu Chenghuang lowered his head and said, "The eldest sister is afraid of thunder, so let me go over to accompany me." Mu Chenghuang naturally wouldn't directly say that the eldest princess had found something in the palace. Then he asked rhetorically: "Why did the imperial uncle enter the palace in the rain?"
Mu Qinyi's fingertips knocked on the armrest of the soft sedan chair and said, "There was a landslide in Liuhe Mountain, with countless casualties, and the imperial brother summoned me to the palace to discuss countermeasures. Mu Qinyi knew in his heart that it was called discussing countermeasures, but most of the time, he was just looking for him to ask the three thousand dragons and tigers to ride to save people, but now is the time of crisis, saving people is great, if he wants to borrow it, it is nothing, but he definitely can't borrow people and can't please him.
The two of them were like ordinary greetings, but Mu Chenghuang knew in his heart that his feelings towards this imperial uncle were becoming more and more unnatural.
Mu Chenghuang wanted to leave, but Mu Qinyi suddenly let the sedan chair man get off the sedan chair, took off the waterproof mink fur cloak on his body, and called Mu Chenghuang over, Mu Chenghuang hesitated, but suddenly found that these people carrying the sedan chair were not eunuchs in the palace, their posture was steady, their eyes were determined, even if Mu Chenghuang approached, they did not squint.
Mu Chenghuang understood, these people were Mu Qinyi's cronies, and it was precisely because these were close and trustworthy people that Mu Qinyi dared to let himself come forward on this uninhabited palace road.
Mu Qinyi's legs and feet are inconvenient, but his waist is still strong, he propped up his body, and reversed the mink mantle, which fell on Mu Chenghuang's shoulder, Mu Chenghuang only then found that although Mu Qinyi looked soaked all over, it was this cloak that made Mu Qinyi's clothes not drip.
"I am a strong martial artist, you are a weak little girl, I sit in a sedan chair, you walk, I am almost there, but the Mingxi Palace is still far away, so this cloak will be lent to you first. β
Mu Qinyi gave a number of reasons in one breath, which seemed to make Mu Chenghuang not know how to refute, she raised her bright eyes and looked at Mu Qinyi, who was scorching, just a glance, but she didn't dare to continue to look at Mu Qinyi, just moved her gaze to the golden hairpin inlaid with sapphire on Mu Qinyi's head, and thanked her.
Mu Qinyi didn't care about Mu Chenghuang's thanks, he just smiled slightly, didn't say much, just told the sedan chair man to start the sedan chair again.
The rain was still falling, but Mu Chenghuang felt warm on his body, and the mink fur cloak still carried the body temperature that Mu Qinyi had left, which made Mu Chenghuang's limbs and seven veins active.
The road is difficult to walk on rainy days, and the Mingxi Palace, which can be reached in a stick of incense on weekdays, but the three of them walked slowly for almost half an hour, Mu Chenghuang had nothing to do all the way, but he fell down once during the painting that led the way.
When he arrived at the Mingxi Palace, the slimy mud on Zhihua's body had been washed all over by the rain, Zhishu was guarding the door of the dormitory, and when he saw Zhihua bringing Mu Chenghuang over, he first greeted him: "Fifth princess, the eldest princess is waiting for you to go in." Fu glanced at Zhihua again and said, "Go and change your clothes, I'll wait here for the princess." β
Mu Chenghuang pushed open the door, and heard the eldest princess say eagerly: "Is Chenghuang here?"