Although the Queen Mother was dissatisfied with Zeng Rong's lack of ideas, she also knew that Zeng Rong could not make the decision on this matter, so she did not embarrass her.

Coming out of the Queen Mother, Zeng Rong went to see Zhu Heng, and her gift to Zhu Heng was much simpler, a purse of a zodiac monkey.

What Zeng Rong didn't expect was that Zhu Heng also prepared a New Year's gift for her, a pair of red coral bracelets that were polished very evenly, Zeng Rong's wrists were thin and white, and this kind of bracelet was just right, Zhu Heng immediately put it on for her personally, and she couldn't allow her to refuse.

Originally, according to Zhu Heng's meaning, he wanted to sneak out of the street, saying that when he came back from the prayer hall, he saw dragon and lion dances on the side of the road, as well as temple fairs and markets, and there were people everywhere, but it was lively, but unfortunately the queen mother did not agree.

Seeing that he was quite disappointed in his words, Zeng Rong gave him acupuncture and massage, and then stayed to have dinner with him before leaving.

Because there are fewer things in the first month, most of them eat and drink, Zeng Rong and the others are also idle, in the morning she mostly stays in the house to sleep, and occasionally goes to the Shanggong Bureau to visit Qin Chuxue and Liu Chunmiao and the little sisters before, and sometimes she will play Go with Zheng Jiao to gossip or go to the Inner Court Bureau to find Li Ruolan and them to sort out the old files.

If she doesn't go to Cining Palace in the afternoon, she will stay in her room to read calligraphy and painting, and also practice acupuncture and pulse diagnosis.

It is much more difficult to diagnose the pulse, and it is difficult to tell the changes and similarities and differences of the pulse based on her own feelings, but she doesn't want to give up, so she can only practice with herself and Zhu Heng and Amei every day.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, because there were two hours in the afternoon to go out of the palace to enjoy the lanterns, Zeng Rong went to Li Ruolan to ask for leave, and I don't know how Liu Neizhi was gracious, and allowed her to stay outside the palace for one night.

After dinner, Zeng Rong planned to accompany his family to visit the lamp market, but before he went out, Xu Jing came, from Xu Jing's mouth, Zeng Rong learned that Lord Xu was back, it was cold in the north, and they were in a hurry, so they fell ill before they entered the house.

When Zeng Rong heard this, she had no intention of going to the market, and asked her brothers a few words, and she went to Xu's house alone.

Mrs. Xu didn't see her, it was still Mrs. Xu who came forward, and Mrs. Xu didn't say anything, only said that Mrs. Xu was unwell, and she closed the door when she came back yesterday, and the old lady didn't say a word about this inspection of the north.

However, Zeng Rong saw that the old man had been worried, but he also guessed that some things must not be optimistic, most of them were found out that there was some problem, the emperor was embarrassed, and Lord Xu was also embarrassed.

Because of something in his heart, early the next morning, Zeng Rong returned to the palace early, and when he entered the third institute, he saw Zheng Jiao limping in front, Zeng Rong hurriedly chased after her to support her, only to find that Zheng Jiao's hair was a little messy, the clothes on her body were not very neat, and her face was not very good, as if she had not returned overnight.

Didn't return overnight?

Zeng Rong was taken aback by his own thoughts.

"Sister Zheng, what's wrong?" Zeng Rong took out the key and opened the door first, and took Zheng Jiao back to his house.

Who knew that Zeng Rong didn't ask, but when he asked, Zheng Jiao suddenly covered her mouth and cried.

Zeng Rong didn't dare to say much, he wanted to pour her a glass of water to drink, but when she touched the teapot, it was cold, and she asked for leave to leave the palace yesterday, and Ali knew, so she didn't prepare hot tea for her.

There was no hot tea, Zeng Rong wet the silk handkerchief with cold water and dried it and sent it to Zheng Jiao, Zheng Jiao took the silk handkerchief and wiped it, after a long time, his mood was stable, and then he spoke.

It turned out that the day before yesterday, the emperor was in a very bad mood after seeing Lord Xu, and he didn't sleep well that night, but yesterday's Lantern Festival, there were more things, and the dinner was used in Cining Palace, and it was also a reunion banquet, and after dark, he took the princes to set off fireworks on the city wall, and enjoyed with all the people.

Coming down from the city wall, Zhu Xu felt bad, announced the imperial doctor, and asked the imperial doctor Zeng to help him with acupuncture for a while, and the pharmacopoeia bureau went to Zheng Jiao.

After the imperial physician left, the emperor left Zheng Jiao, saying that he would accompany him to play a game of chess, but who knew that as soon as the chess game was placed, Zhu Wu came, and he was ordered by the queen mother to send supper to his father.

It turns out that there are still routines in Cining Palace on the night of the Lantern Festival, these grandchildren and harem concubines make a lantern by themselves, write a lantern riddle on it, and hang it in Cining Palace.

If there is nothing special, the emperor will also join in the excitement and accompany the old man to be happy.

But this time, the Queen Mother waited for a long time and didn't see anyone, and heard that the emperor had announced the imperial doctor, and wanted to send someone to visit, but Zhu Wu took the initiative to take the errand.

Zhu Xu was unwell and didn't want to eat, so Zhu Wu scooped him a bowl of pigeon soup, and Zhu Xu saw that it was very bright, so he drank it.

Not long after drinking this bowl of pigeon soup, Zhu Xu felt hot all over, and understood that something must have been added to this soup, and he was calculated.

But this soup was sent by the son himself, and it was said that the queen mother prepared it for him, so even if he knew that he had been calculated, he could not say anything.

Fortunately, there was a lovely person by his side, so he didn't even hesitate for a moment, he directly carried Zheng Jiao back to his bedroom.

"But how do you know what's in that bowl of soup?" Zeng Rong asked.

She didn't think the emperor would be able to say this.

"I, I..." Zheng Jiao blushed.

How did she explain this to Zeng Rong?

In a flash of lightning, Zeng Rong also thought of something, and hurriedly changed the topic, "You said that this bowl of soup was sent by the Queen Mother, it makes no sense that the Queen Mother would harm her son, right?" Could it be that someone did something halfway through? But who is so bold? ”

Zheng Jiao couldn't answer this question.

"Could it be that this bowl of soup was not prepared for the emperor, and someone took it wrong?" Zeng Rong put forward another point.

Zheng Jiao still shook her head, and tears came out again.

"Okay, don't cry, it's not a good process, but isn't this exactly what you want? Don't worry, the emperor will definitely not treat you badly, if he doesn't mean anything to you, he will definitely not leave you to play chess with him. Zeng Rong had no choice but to appease the other party.

As far as she knows, Zheng Jiao has stayed in Qianning Palace many times to accompany the emperor to play chess and play the piano in this New Year, and sooner or later the two of them will have this day, but she didn't expect it to be in this way.

"You don't understand, it's different." Zheng Jiao whimpered again.

It's really different, and who would want to lose their most precious thing in such a humiliating way? If it is spread out, Zheng Jiao will become the laughing stock of others for the rest of her life, how can she gain a foothold in the harem?

"You say, is this man calculating you or calculating the emperor?" Zeng Rong thought of another question.

This time, without waiting for Zheng Jiao to shake her head, Amei's voice sounded outside the door.