Chapter 168: It's Man-Made
"That's it! It is difficult to conclude the rights and wrongs of the court, other people's affairs are other people's affairs after all, you are a prince, why bother to put yourself in it! Zhu Qiming's voice fell, and Lu Xiyu resolutely responded.
But after seeing the starry eyes and a touching gaze, a faint red glow floated on Lu Xiyu's clean face, Yuan Dai stretched, smiling like a flower, that charming and gorgeous like a glow, but it was shorter than electric light.
Suddenly, the figure flickered, and the light blue floated to the window, slowly flowing between the piano case and the chess case.
Zhu Qiming hurriedly stepped forward, "Sister, let's play, shall we?" ”
"No, my father is still waiting for me to reply at home." Lu Xiyu walked to the door and turned back slightly, "I'll come to the other courtyard when I'm free." ”
"Sister ······"
Zhu Qiming turned around and picked up the umbrella, but when he looked back, he saw that Lu Xiyu's figure was far away. He put down his umbrella and sat down silently, recalling Lu Xiyu's expression before leaving for a long time, and there seemed to be a light smile left in his mind!
So, he grinned, his eyes moved to the side of the qin case, and he had a strong urge to play the qin and sing, but he caught a glimpse of Mama Cui walking in, and Yin'er and Qu Qing stayed outside the door.
The three of them obviously planned to clean up the study again, and Zhu Qiming wanted to avoid the main hall, but just looking at the solemnity on Cui's face, he immediately realized that trouble was coming to the door again!
"Your Royal Highness, Princess Shunde entered the palace and went to the Queen Mother, but before she said a few words, the Queen Mother shouted that she had a headache, and Princess Shunde had to say goodbye to the Queen Mother and went to the East Pavilion, it seems that she is waiting for Her Highness." Mama Cui's voice is extremely low, but the weight of the meaning is extremely heavy!
"Princess Shunde!" Zhu Qiming exclaimed, got up and ran out of the door, and when he reached the door, he stopped his feet, collected the smile on his face, and slowly returned to the bookcase and sat down.
"How is Immortal Master Jingci's condition?"
"I heard that I have heat poison, most of it is fire poison, and if I don't get it early in the summer, I'm afraid it will be ······." Mama Cui couldn't say the following words, so she had to change the topic: "Alas, Jingci Immortal Master is grounded, there is only one palace maid by his side, and the master and servant are not allowed to go out of the gate for half a step, how is this good?" ”
"Why is there only one palace maid by the side of Jingci Immortal Master?"
Mama Cui looked out of the door, leaned over to Zhu Qiming's ear, and lowered her voice, "It's good to have a young palace maid to follow!" Originally, I was going to send an elderly grandmother to go, but later a palace maid named Juan'er by the side of Jingci Immortal Master followed her in search of death and life, and was beaten by the chamberlain. That Juan'er has followed Jingci Immortal Master since she entered the palace, but she is loyal. ”
Yanbi Cui Mama stood up straight, walked to the side of the piano case, sighed, and then aggravated her tone: "It is said that there are large weeds and mosquitoes and flies growing in that dilapidated place before and after leaving the hospital. ”
Yin'er, who was outside the door, heard Mama Cui's complaint and complained: "Don't talk about other places, just say that our courtyard is also overgrown with weeds!" ”
Mama Cui turned her head to look out of the door, glanced at Yin'er, as if she wanted to reprimand her for talking too much, but suddenly her eyes lit up, but what came out of her mouth was another word: "We are not all weeds here, let's take the ground under your feet, there are burdock seeds and bone grass, which are excellent medicinal materials!" He immediately turned around and sighed, "Your Highness, the other courtyard is indispensable for internal servants, and without internal attendants, this courtyard will be unattended." ”
Zhu Qiming followed Mama Cui's gaze to the ground at Yin'er's feet, his heart moved, and his tightly knit brows immediately relaxed.
After a moment, his face turned pale. The only person that Princess Shunde can count on is probably him, the king of Yue, at this moment, she is looking forward to going to meet her, how strong the anxiety and eagerness should be!
Thinking of the various misfortunes of Jingci Immortal Master for more than ten years, and thinking of the gentle and pure-hearted Princess Shunde, he couldn't help but grit his teeth secretly, feeling that if he couldn't save Jingci Immortal Master's life, it would be he, the king of Yue, who was incompetent!
"The Book of Chu says, 'Chu has no treasure, but only goodness is treasure', if good people have no place to stand, how can there be any heavenly reason in this world!"
Mama Cui was confused when she heard this, and shook her head blankly.
Zhu Qiming stood up, "It is inconvenient for this king to meet with Princess Shunde, you go and tell her, good people have their own blessings!" Also, if you go to Feng Duo in Qingning Palace, you will say that the Empress Dowager always complains that she has a headache, and she has to ask a doctor to take a look. ”
"Yes."
After Mama Cui left, Zhu Qiming called Yin'er and Qu Qing in, "Don't be busy cleaning up the study, the wind is beautiful today, let's go to the high platform to fly kites!" ”
"Your Highness, now is not the season to fly kites, besides, the wind is too strong today······" Yin'er, who has always been bold, opened her mouth first, and when she caught a glimpse of Zhu Qiming's fierce gaze, she immediately changed her words: "Your Highness, there are no kites in the courtyard." ”
"Let's tie it ourselves!"
"Ahh Yin'er over there looked embarrassed, Qu Qing hesitated for a long time, and said timidly: "The slave and maid can tie kites, if Your Highness doesn't dislike it, the slave and maid will try to tie one." ”
"Nope! Not one, but many! ”
Seeing that Yin'er and Qu Qing were busy, Zhu Qiming returned to the bookcase to read the historical books, but three pairs of eyes flashed in his mind from time to time, which made it difficult for him to calm down.
He could understand the deep meaning of the eyes of Qingning Palace. Sitting back and watching the suffering of others is precisely for them to suffer less in the future, the Empress Dowager is already in her last years, and she can't protect others for a few days, and she can protect it for a while, but it will leave a deeper grudge, once she drives the crane to the west, the people who are protected by her will be liquidated by others, after all, it is a good intention to help! Therefore, each man's life must be controlled by each man.
He is also as clear as a mirror to the eyes of Xianxi Palace, so how are the eyes of Qianqing Palace looking at all this?
Just like this, I don't know how long it took, when I woke up and looked up, I saw that Yin'er and Quqing had already tied a thick stack of kites, Zhu Qiming got up excitedly and looked forward, but saw that those kites were all crooked, and the paper was very rough, giving people as awkward as they looked!
"These kites are very ······" The word ugly came to his lips, and Zhu Qiming temporarily changed the word: "Good-looking!" ”
Qu Qing smiled proudly, and Yin'er on the side opened her mouth wide in surprise, but she didn't dare to say the word "丒" against the prince.
"Let's go, let's fly a kite."
Yin'er and Qu Qing are young after all, so they naturally won't refuse the opportunity to play, and the two of them didn't say that now is not the season to fly kites, they each took a kite and hurriedly tied a rope, and rushed to the high platform before Zhu Qiming.
When Zhu Qiming climbed the high platform, Yin'er's kite was already floating in the air, but the wind was indeed a little strong, and the kite spun around and fell to the ground.
Yin'er pursed her lips in annoyance, and Qu Qing shouted happily: "Your Highness, look, the slave's kite is up!" ”
Zhu Qiming turned his head to look, and saw that the kite was flying higher and higher, and suddenly saw the kite in the air, and then floated into the distance.
"It's disconnected!" Qu Qing said in frustration.
Seeing the kite sweep across the roof of the courtyard and float outside the Forbidden City, Zhu Qiming couldn't help but shake his head.
"Your Highness, look, the slave's kite flies so high!" Yin'er shouted excitedly, and before Zhu Qiming raised her eyes to watch, she heard her sigh: "Alas, the line is broken again!" ”
"Your Highness, it's windy today, so you have to change to a thick line." Qu Qing reminded.
"Don't change it, we have kites, it's fun to fly them, and if you lose them, you can tie them again. Then let it go, and the king will go and return. ”
Zhu Qiming got off the high platform, hurriedly walked out of the courtyard, and traveled north along the palace road.
The wind is blowing north. Along the way, he saw several kites with broken strings passing overhead, and he had some hope that it would be nice for a kite to fall into the hospital! Sadly, they all drifted far outside the Forbidden City.
Turning into the potholed dirt road, I saw Mao Gui trotting over, "The little one is seeing His Royal Highness King Yue." Your Highness, why did you end up in this place today? ”
"The king's kite has fallen here, so come and see. That's all treasures! ”
"Hey, Your Highness is looking for kites, the little ones have seen several of them, and they all flew out of the Forbidden City. Forgive me, which kites ······" Poor Mao Gui is afraid that he will turn over the words ugly and ugly in his heart, but when he speaks, he doesn't dare to tell the truth after all, "Some chic, hee, some chic." ”
When I came to the gate of the courtyard, I suddenly saw a figure flickering, and several guards appeared from the corner of the wall, all of them stretched out their right hands to the hilt of the knife, looked at Zhu Qiming in a daze, bowed slightly, and retreated to the corner of the wall.
Zhu Qiming turned to look at the gate of the hospital, only to see that the gate was closed, and there was a square hole in the door, which was worthy of a human face. Looking through the square hole, it is really overgrown with weeds, like a wild place.
Xu heard the footsteps outside the door, and a woman dressed as a palace maid hurriedly ran out of the hall, and in a blink of an eye, a face was attached to the square hole.
She should be Juan'er.
Look at her age, she should be about the same age as Hongli, with a sadness on her face that can't be concealed, and her eyes are wide open at this moment, looking at Zhu Qiming like a savior.
Zhu Qiming couldn't bear to look directly into her eyes, so he turned his head slightly, "Did a kite fall into the hospital?" ”
Juan'er shook her head.
I think that the only fun for the master and servant of the two people who left the hospital at this time is to watch the kite flying overhead, whether the kite fell into the hospital, Juan'er must know it clearly, so she shook her head so decisively!
Suddenly, strings of tears dripped from the corners of Juan'er's eyes, "The slave knows that you are His Royal Highness King Yue, Your Highness, save Jingci Immortal, Jingci Immortal Master was infected with erysipelas, and he relapsed repeatedly, and the high fever did not stop, and he couldn't afford to delay it any longer, Your Highness!" ”
Erysipelas? Zhu Qiming suddenly realized that his trip was in vain, and finally knew the exact illness of Jingci Immortal Master!
Glancing lightly at Mao Gui beside him, when he looked straight ahead, he only dared to look at the door frame, "Keep your eyes open and look carefully, this king's kite is very extraordinary, and it is extremely useful to find it." ”
Dropping these words, Zhu Qiming turned around and left, and Mao Gui followed upside down.
"Your Highness, most of those kites flew over the courtyard, but the small ones were really visible, as if no kites had fallen into the courtyard!"
"It's all treasures, and it's good to look carefully." After finishing speaking, he left Mao Gui, who was confused, walked a few steps, left the dirt road, and stepped on the flat palace road paved with white marble.
When I returned to the courtyard, I saw Mama Cui on the road.
"Your Highness, the doctor has entered Qingning Palace."
"Mama go and tell Yin'er and Quqing to let them tie more kites."
Zhu Qiming gave an order, turned around and hurried towards Qingning Palace.
When he came to Qingning Palace, he saw a female doctor in her early thirties giving the Empress Dowager a pulse, Zhu Qiming asked the Empress Dowager to say goodbye, and instructed Feng Duo to keep the doctor's wife to see the illness for herself.
The Empress Dowager seemed to hear something, and casually ordered: "You are not too young, act carefully, these days you and the grandmother and palace maids around you are not out of the Forbidden City." ”
Beware? Don't get out of the Forbidden City? Zhu Qiming pondered the meaning of the Empress Dowager's words, left the main hall, and entered the East Pavilion. Feeling that there seemed to be the breath of Princess Shunde in the pavilion, he chose a chair to sit down and silently thought about his thoughts.
After a while, the female doctor entered the East Pavilion, "I heard that His Royal Highness King Yue is not in good health, and the concubine has come to ask for a pulse." ”
Zhu Qiming smiled and invited the female doctor to take a seat, "Everything is fine with this king, but the weather is hot in summer and there are many mosquitoes, this king wants to ask you to prescribe some prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of common diseases in summer, in case of emergency." ”
The female doctor didn't dare to sit down, bowed down and said: "Your Highness looks down on the concubine, this is the honor of the concubine, Your Highness is young and healthy, everything is fine, presumably Your Highness wants the concubine to open the way to prevent mosquito bites, this is not difficult." ”
"What if someone gets erysipelas?"
"Erysipelas?" The female doctor was shocked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Please let your highness spare the concubine!" Someone has already warned the concubine, but the concubine really doesn't dare to do much! ”
"You're thinking too much! The healer is benevolent, not to mention that today it is this king who is looking for you to find a prescription, in case this king himself needs it from time to time, why should you panic? Hurry up, please! ”
The female doctor was stunned for a moment after getting up, and said carefully: "Since His Highness said so, the concubine has the courage to read a common recipe to His Highness." Distilled with honeysuckle, red peony, rehmannia, scrophularia, peony bark, and lulutong······"
"No way!" Zhu Qiming interrupted the female doctor's words, "You just heard it, the Empress Dowager ordered this king not to leave the Forbidden City, but according to the recipe you read, this king has to send someone out to get medicine, so this prescription is not available!" The place where this king lives is full of weeds, so it is better to take local materials and use them as medicine. ”
The female doctor's expression suddenly softened, "This is easy to do!" The concubine remembered an ancient recipe, only one medicine is used, as long as the grass grows, it is not difficult to find this kind of medicinal material, and it is not only to cure erysipelas, it can also cure many diseases! ”
After all, the female doctor didn't dare to leave her handwriting, so Zhu Qiming had to write the prescription by hand, and only let her leave after the female doctor saw it.
I couldn't afford to delay leaving the hospital, so Zhu Qiming hurriedly put the recipe into his sleeve, and hurriedly came to the dirt road again, and Mao Gui greeted him upside down.
"Your Highness, there are several kites flying over the top of the small head, it is really golden, there must be some treasure embedded in it, but unfortunately, they all flew outside the palace, and they were cheap for passers-by!"
As soon as he saw Mao Gui's distressed heartache that he couldn't wait to beat his chest, Zhu Qiming knew that what Mao Gui said was true, it seems that Mama Cui is much more sophisticated than those two headless little girls, and she knows that she has to put on a real appearance when she sets up a maze array!
It's a pity that none of the kites landed in the hospital!
At this time, Mao Gui said very earnestly: "There is only a kite that fell into the city against the palace wall, maybe the small one was dazzled, and it is unknown if it fell into the hospital, Your Highness, why don't you move over and take a look?" ”
Look? That's all it can be!
When I came to the gate of the courtyard, I looked through the square hole, and saw a figure in the courtyard flickering, Juan'er held a kite in her hand, and hurriedly handed it to the square hole, "His Royal Highness King Yue, is this it?" ”
Kite? No, it wasn't a kite at all, but something as strange as an embroidered frame covered with paper!
Mao Gui took a sip here, "What kind of person?" Dare to find something to please Your Highness! Xu realized that he had missed his mouth, and Mao Gui covered his mouth and hung his head.
What a thoughtful Juan'er! Here, Zhu Qiming felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart, stretched his right hand into the square hole, took the thing that looked like a kite, looked at it with his head against the square hole for a moment, and threw it casually, "Nonsense, what kind of kite is this!" ”
Inside the gate, there was a "pop", the pseudo-kite fell to the ground, and on top of the pseudo-kite, a note slowly swirled in the air, and finally landed on the ground.
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Three days later, there were many chamberlains and palace maids standing on the palace road leading to the Xuanwu Gate, and everyone didn't dare to stay too long and miss the business, so they walked one group of people and replaced another, all of them stretched their necks and looked at the sky, waiting for a strange kite to appear overhead.
However, the time between the appearance of kites is getting longer and longer, and sometimes not a single kite is seen in an hour. People suddenly find that it's easier to pass the time with small talk than with empty waiting.
"Yesterday I chased outside the Xuanwu Gate and grabbed a kite, guess what's on the kite? Five pearls! ”
"Alas, don't mention it, I also chased it out yesterday, but unfortunately the wind was too strong, and I saw the kites flying towards the imperial city wall, so far away, the kites probably fell outside the imperial city!"
"Don't talk about it, His Royal Highness King Yue has come down!"
Everyone saw Zhu Qiming walking quickly, and suddenly he immediately slipped away.
Zhu Qiming turned into the dirt road, and when he saw Mao Gui's expression was different, he stared at Mao Gui and said, "Have you ever picked up a kite?" ”
Mao Gui's head shook like a rattle, "No, there really isn't, how can a small one have such good luck!" ”
Zhu Qiming no longer bothered with Mao Gui, looked left and right, all the way to the front of the hospital, and inadvertently glanced at the square hole, but saw that the figure inside flashed, and after a while, the shouting and scolding of the Jingci Immortal Master came from afar.
"Okay, you idle King Yue! What kind of kite to fly? Caused a group of hateful people to shout nearby, I am a long-term sick person, but I will be killed before I die! ”
"I want to curse you, I curse you to be guarded by a good wife and beautiful concubine all your life, to be a heartless prince who forgets his worries and sorrows; I curse you to be a free and ignorant prince who does not taste the sufferings of the world! ”
What a strange swearing! Zhu Qiming only felt that his nose was sore, and tears almost burst out of his eyes.
Mao Gui on the side said in surprise: "Eh, Jingci Immortal Master scolded His Highness so fiercely, could it be that Jingci Immortal Master is not sick?" ”