Chapter 1: The Strange Palace Maiden
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"May I ask my lord, what kind of disease is our sister Scarlet Feather had?" The two palace maids who took care of Scarlet Feather had just asked the medical officer who had finished Scarlet Feather's pulse.
This medical officer looks like he is in his early fifties, although he is not an imperial doctor who specializes in diagnosing the emperor and **, but he can enter the Tai Hospital to serve is definitely a one-in-a-million role. His brows were furrowed at the moment, one hand touched his beardless chin, and the other hand was tightly clenched into a fist, looking puzzled.
"The girl with the scarlet feather had a relapse of fever and sweated like beads, as if she were infected with typhoid fever; However, sometimes the pulse is not yin or yang, sometimes yin and yang are intertwined, disordered, and not typhoid fever...... This kind of symptom is really unheard of...... "The medical officer is embarrassed," if this is not the case, the official returned to the Tai Hospital and reported the symptoms of the Scarlet Feather girl to his colleagues, so that capable people could come to treat the Scarlet Feather girl again. ”
The two palace maids were just about to thank the medical officer when Scarlet Feather's weak voice came from the bed: "No...... Need not...... Please, please, sisters...... Let Scarlet Feather be alone...... Just stay...... ...... of you."
The two palace maids were embarrassed and did not dare to be reluctant, so they hesitated and had to send the medical officer away, and then instructed the dining room to prepare some nourishing soup and gruel to replenish the scarlet feathers.
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When Scarlet Feather's condition after diagnosing the pulse was reported to Zuo Ying, Zuo Ying had already had breakfast, leaving the inseparable chamberlain and palace maid in the distance, standing alone on the edge of the jade lake in the imperial garden and looking at the calm lake like a mirror. The first time she opened her eyes to see the world, it was in this lake. Although it has only been a few short days, so many earth-shattering events have happened here, and she has almost died again several times, only the water in front of her is still calm, as if it has remained unchanged for eternity.
This reminded her of Taishi Helan Chu's indifferent expression that was always covered with severe frost on his unfazed face, and there was no trace of his joy and anger from the outside, let alone the conspiracy in his stomach; However, his mind was not smaller than the shallowness of the lake, but the treacherous and turbulent waves of the sea, as if at any moment she was about to crush her lonely boat on the sea, and then mercilessly swept to the bottom of the sea.
But Zuo Ying didn't feel the slightest fear, as she had always thought, no one could take anything from a weapon merchant, because they had already stepped one foot into the ghost gate since they entered this industry, and one day they would either die in the war or die under the snatch of the killer, and every day they lived was a surplus of life. In the face of gore and carnage, she could even smile expectantly surprised.
It's just that the calmness in her heart at the moment seems to be less. The person who rescued her from the lake in the first place also made her feel that she could also gain support and trust in this world, but now her physical condition is worrying.
"Got it." Zuo Ying didn't look back at the palace maid who told Scarlet Feather about her condition, "You go back and continue to take good care of her." The scarlet feather is healed, and I will be rewarded. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The palace maid's voice was filled with joy.
Zuo Ying heard the footsteps of the palace maid retreating, and looked at the lake and fell into thought. But after a moment, there were footsteps behind him.
"Anything else?" Zuo Ying turned her head strangely and saw that the person who came behind her was not the palace maid just now, or even the palace maid in her palace.
"Your Majesty! Slaves and maids should be damned! The palace maid flinched, looked panicked, and when she saw Zuo Ying turn her head, she quickly knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.
Zuo Ying turned around and looked at this strange palace maid. She was in her early twenties, of medium stature, and wore clothes and hair in a uniform shape that was not recognizable; But those tightly locked thick eyebrows, big eyes full of fear, and a round face flushed with nervousness, if not good-looking, are not possessed by the common face.
Zuo Ying had never seen this palace maid in her memory, and seeing her panicked and looking back from time to time, there seemed to be something hidden.
"You're not a palace maid here." Zuo Ying watched her every move vigilantly.
According to the rules of the palace, different palace rooms have absolute barriers for ordinary palace people, not to mention that different palace rooms can not move around at will, and there are strict regulations on where to serve in a palace, and the palace where the emperor is located is particularly demanding. Once they trespass, they will be considered rude and sent to death row, or at worst regarded as a major crime of the Assassins of the Nine Clans.
"Your Majesty! The slave maid Youmei is the palace maid of Ganlu Palace, and she was not qualified to step into the Yishen Temple, but today she dared to die to see Your Majesty, in order to report to Your Majesty. If Your Majesty condemns the crime, the slave and maid will be willing to die, but please Your Majesty must believe in the slave and maid. The palace maid Youmei said with an expression that was about to cry, as if she had felt that the swords raised by the guards had been placed on her neck.
I know I'm going to die, but I still have to do it? No one has done this since Dong Cunrui was beaten.
Seeing that Zuo Ying didn't call anyone, Youmei swallowed her saliva and continued: "Your Majesty, my brother Wei Chi Nan is a jailer in the Heavenly Prison, he wants to meet His Majesty, and he has something important to tell His Majesty. ”
"What's the big deal?" Zuo Ying raised her eyebrows.
Youmei lowered her head with a bitter expression, "My brother is reluctant to tell the slave maid, he said that he must meet His Majesty in person, and he must not pass through the mouth of a third person." The brother also said that this matter is a hundred times more important than the lives of the slave and maid brothers and sisters, so even if the lives of the slave and maid brothers and sisters are compensated, you must let Your Majesty know about this important matter. ”
Zuo Ying's eyebrows furrowed slightly. What far-reaching things can a small jailer master? But seeing that this palace maid speaks clearly and earnestly, neither like a madman nor a liar, one can't help but wonder what is going on behind this.
Youmei saw that Zuo Ying didn't reprimand her for making a big fuss, let alone driving her away, it seemed that she was going to believe her, and her raised eyes showed a trace of gratitude.
"Someone!" Zuo Ying suddenly drank with her hands behind her back, "Quickly drag this slave who trespassed on the forbidden land down and lock him up!" ”
Hearing Zuo Ying's greeting, the palace maids who were waiting in the distance hurriedly ran over, and when they saw a palace maid kneeling in front of Zuo Ying who shouldn't have appeared here, their faces were not much better than the shocked Youmei.
"Damn it! Slave negligence! Damn the minions! The minion was negligent...... "While they pleaded guilty, they dragged Youmei away.
Youmei didn't struggle, but let the two attendants push and shove away with a miserable expression.
Zuo Ying allowed the palace maids and attendants to kowtow for a while, and then said slowly: "Go to Ganlu Palace and bring all the living people in the palace for questioning." ”
Zuo Ying remembered that this Ganlu Palace was the palace room where Concubine Hui who died for the martyrdom of the "imperial brother" that day was located.
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