Chapter 22: The Lotus

"The queen's mother, the old minister, the old minister, the old minister,"

"Okay, okay, this palace is nothing, you can just give the emperor a good look, retreat."

"Yes."

The imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital are actually their own people, and they have to get by no matter how they face, and the queen also knows that she has been angry in the past few days, but she really shouldn't be angry with the imperial doctors. The imperial doctors retreated cautiously, although they are now the queen's henchmen, but in view of the queen's temperament, no one can say that it is good, they still don't want to provoke her. After the imperial doctors carefully retreated, the queen threw the book in her hand to the ground in frustration.

The palace people are waiting carefully, Aunt Luping is not there, no one can figure out the queen's temperament, there are palace maids and eunuchs who are punished every day, and two of them are killed.

At this time, the door behind the queen was opened, and the great eunuch Chang Gui walked out from inside.

"Father-in-law Chang."

Chang Gui closed the door carefully, but heard the voice of the queen calling him behind him, he felt nauseous for a while, but he reluctantly closed the door, turned around, and nodded flatteringly to the queen.

"I didn't know that the queen mother was here, and the slave didn't hurry out to serve the mother, and the crime deserved death."

"Okay, okay, what is not ten thousand deaths. Aren't we all doing this for the emperor? The queen waved her hand and told Chang Gui to save this nonsense and come forward.

Chang Gui turned over and listened to the queen's instructions. The queen took the handkerchief, blocked her mouth, and asked in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, how is it?"

"Yes, Niangniang, the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor has a very good effect."

Chang Gui got a little closer,

"The emperor has been more and more fond of sleeping these days."

After Chang Gui finished speaking, he slowly stood upright. The queen looked at something blankly, as if she had suddenly thought of something, and then she smiled again, the corners of her mouth hooked, looked at the handkerchief in her hand, and gently put her hand down.

"The emperor is recuperating, he must rest well, and Chang Gui's father-in-law is waiting for him."

"Yes, sissy."

"Okay, I'll go back to the palace first, and I'll trouble Chang Gui's father-in-law to keep an eye on it."

"Whatever Niangniang is saying, it's what a slave should do."

The queen walked out of the palace gate of Zhengyang Palace, and Chang Gui straightened up. Looking back at the closed door, Chang Gui's heart is really not a taste.

In this palace, who doesn't know that the queen's power has spread to the emperor is the great eunuch Chang Gui next to the queen, who has sold his godfather Gong Zhu since that year, and he has become the head of the Northern Qi Palace, in charge of the affairs of the palace. The situation has been even worse in the last month, after the emperor fell ill, he was bedridden all day, and the queen became the only person in the palace who was the master, and her right-hand men were Aunt Luping and the Grand Duke Gong Zhu. Although everyone didn't say it, they all understood that when the sky changed, it would be expensive, but it would really be expensive.

But at this time, Chang Gui thought differently from them.

Grandpa Wei has had a bad feeling since he left, and sure enough, the people he sent out later could no longer deliver the letter, the hotel was gone, and now he himself didn't know where Gong Zhu and the others were, and he wasn't even sure if they were dead or alive, he was very panicked now, and there was no one to discuss.

"Grand Duke."

"What are you doing?"

Chang Gui turned around angrily, and the little palace maid was so frightened that she dropped the medicine bowl in her hand to the ground.

"Father-in-law spares his life, father-in-law spares his life."

The palace maid was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground, her hands were pierced, but as if nothing had happened, she only cared about kowtowing to Routine and begging him to spare his life.

Chang Gui looked at this frightened little palace maid, and he also felt a little reluctant in his heart. The queen replaced all the old people in Zhengyang Palace, leaving only herself and a few people who have always obeyed the queen's orders, the daughter of the newly added little eunuch Xiaogong, all of whom have just entered the palace for a few years, are new officials who have just been promoted, and they are okay to do some ordinary work, and they are still worse than serving the emperor, the important thing is that they have not gone through many big scenes, and their courage is worse.

"Okay, don't cry, it's time to rest with the emperor for a while."

The little palace maid immediately closed her mouth. Don't dare to speak out.

Chang Gui felt unbearable,

"Get up, it's not a big deal, just clean it up quickly, just go and bring a bowl of medicine, your aunt should have a spare, go."

The little palace maid raised her head and looked at Chang Gui in disbelief, not to mention how happy the expression on her face was, and suddenly remembered whether she was too presumptuous, so she immediately lowered her head in fear.

Chang Gui was amused by her move.

"Okay, okay, don't be afraid, get up quickly, where am I so scary."

The little palace maid was trembling and didn't dare to get up, turning her eyes left and right, thinking about what to do.

"Okay, I said I'd tell you to get up, don't hurry up."

Chang Gui deliberately made a little angry, and the little palace maid staggered to her feet, she must have broken her knee when she knelt down just now, and her hands were still bleeding.

"What's your name and how old are you?"

"Slave, slave Lotus, 17."

"Hmm."

17 years old, it's not easy, Chang Gui saw the tears in the corners of her eyes, so she couldn't bear it anymore. He looked left and right, and there was no daughter of Xiaogong, so he called a little eunuch to come over and tell him to clean up the ground and bring a bowl of medicine.

"Come in with me."

Chang Gui said to Lotus and turned back to Zhengyang Palace, Lotus was still standing in place, but the little eunuch reminded him to follow. Sometimes you have to admit that fate is really strange, obviously two unrelated people were caught together and started an unimaginable story.

"Where is your home?"

Lotus closed the door, and when she heard Chang Gui's question, she quickly turned around and answered.

"River, Henan."

Chang Gui took out the medicine box from the drawer, and when he heard Lotus's answer, he was happy. He turned around, sat down on a chair next to him, and beckoned to Lotus,

"Why are you still stammering, come here, stand here."

Lotus cautiously passed over, Chang Gui had already cut the gauze and picked out the medicinal powder.

"Why do you stand so far away, stand closer."

"Oh."

Lotus stood a little closer, but her hands were tightly clasped together and placed on her chest, not daring to move.

"Stretch out your hand, hold it like this, it must still be bleeding, and it will be scarred in a while."

"No, no, me."

"Stick out."

Lotus wanted to refuse, she just wanted to receive the punishment now, get out of here quickly, it didn't matter what her hands were, she didn't feel pain.

"Quick, reach out."

Chang Gui pretended to be angry, and as soon as his voice was slightly lower, Lianhua didn't dare to speak anymore, and obediently stretched out his hand.

Sure enough, there were still fragments caught in the meat. Chang Gui dipped a towel in water, first wiped the blood and medicine clean, pinched out the fragments, and then rinsed the wound with water, then sprinkled the medicine powder and wrapped it carefully with gauze. During the whole process, Lotus clenched her teeth tightly and didn't dare to make a sound, sweat broke out on her forehead, and it hurt so much that she couldn't do it. Chang Gui used scissors to cut off all the excess strips of cloth and tied them carefully.

"I'm also from Henan, but I don't remember much about it, I was entangled when I was a child, we had a famine there, my godfather gave me a piece of cake, I grabbed him and never let go, and then I came here."

Chang Gui said this while packing up his things, Lotus looked at his bandaged hands, looked at Chang Gui with a kind face, and felt that this was the warmest day since he entered the palace.