Gu Jiao played chess with the old beggar for a while and left, of course, she didn't forget to take away the gold ingots and "part-time pay" she earned.

But she also had a little conscience, and the copper plates and broken silver were left for the old man.

It was still early, Gu Jiao went to the Hanlin Academy, she originally planned to wait for Xiao Liulang to get off duty, but after asking Confucius of the Hanlin Academy, she learned that Xiao Liulang had gone to the countryside again.

But this time I didn't go far away, just in the capital, and I could come back at night.

"Thank you." Gu Jiao thanked politely, turned around and left the Hanlin Academy.

Today, Xiao Jingkong is going to Xu Zhouzhou's house to play, and she said hello in the morning, she doesn't have to go to Guozijian to pick him up, and the Xu family will send him back to the hospital in the evening.

Gu Jiao decided to go directly to the hospital.

It's just that even Gu Jiao didn't expect that on the way back to the medical hall, she encountered a gangster.

Gu Jiao sighed suspiciously, it's still far from the New Year, did you come out for business so early?

There are a total of six gangsters, and they look like grass outcasts from their clothes, but a few of them are sturdy, and they look a little bit like they hold knives and swords, so they should indeed have some martial arts foundation.

Several people covered their faces with cloth towels and stared at her fiercely.

Gu Jiao thought for a moment and asked, "Robbing money?" ”

Her current honor, it's not a robbery, right? But it's hard to say, some men won't care so much if they don't open meat for a long time.

Alas.

Gu Jiao was not interested.

Gu Jiao turned around and left, not bothering to fight.

"Stop!"

The thugs at the head drank hard.

The result of Gu Jiao's standing was that several gangsters were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, crying and calling for their mothers.

Gu Jiao didn't bother to report to the official, and with their current tragic situation, it was estimated that it would not be long before they would alarm the nearby officials, and she didn't have to do anything.

Gu Jiao dusted off her wide sleeves and walked back to the medical hall.

The reason why she chose to walk was not that she was very idle, nor was she distressed about the money for hiring a carriage, but purely to observe the shops along the street.

On the way back to the hospital, I didn't encounter any minor troubles.

"Xiao Gu! It's back! ”

It's the second in charge.

The business of the medical hall has improved a lot, and the number of orders from the pharmaceutical factory has also increased, and in addition to making its own brand of gold sore medicine, Huichun Tang has also made some pills that nourish qi and replenish blood.

The second owner was so busy that he was bald, and it was rare to meet Gu Jiao.

"Uncle Hu." Gu Jiao greeted him, "What's the happy event today?" ”

The second owner smiled mysteriously: "Show you something!" ”

"What?" Gu Jiao asked.

"This!" The second owner took out a golden post from his arms, "This is something I finally won over, originally our Rejuvenation Hall has only been open for a short time, and I don't have the qualifications to participate in this kind of party, but who made me so powerful!" ”

Gu Jiao still didn't quite understand.

The second owner then popularized science with her, and Gu Jiao finally understood, this is actually an exchange meeting organized by the chamber of commerce in the capital, although the Huichun Hall is a medical hall, it is not a welfare institution of the imperial court, and it is also eligible to join the chamber of commerce.

In the Chamber of Commerce, you can seek more development opportunities and partners, and there are full members and informal members.

It took a lot of effort for the second proprietor to get the invitation from the Chamber of Commerce, and the date is next month.

He didn't expect to become a full member of the Chamber of Commerce all of a sudden, after all, the Rejuvenation Hall had also been there for several years to join the ranks of the Chamber of Commerce.

"One is born, two is ripe, this time we are mainly going to have a long experience, what do you think?" The second owner asked.

"Okay." Gu Jiao has no opinion, she trusts the second owner wholeheartedly in business.

I have to say that this feeling of being trusted is very good.

The second owner smiled: "Then I'll arrange it, you remember to vacate these days!" ”

"Hmm." Gu Jiao nodded in response.

"Okay, you go get busy, oops!" The second owner suddenly looked at Gu Jiao's cuffs and shouted, "You are injured!" ”

His shout was so loud that the entire lobby heard it, and Grandpa Wei, who had just gotten out of the carriage, also heard it.

"What's wrong, what's wrong? Who was hurt? Is Miss Gu injured? Grandpa Wei was so anxious that he trotted all the way inside and came to Gu Jiao's side.

Gu Jiao lifted the cuff that was looked at by the second owner, there were indeed a few drops of blood on it, but she was not injured, it should have been that she accidentally rubbed the other party's blood on her clothes when she was cleaning up the gangsters.

"Not mine." Gu Jiao said.

"And what's the matter with this blood?" Grandpa Wei pointed to her sleeve and asked worriedly.

Gu Jiao sighed: "I just met a few gangsters and taught me a lesson." ”

Father-in-law Wei was not at ease, so he pulled Gu Jiao's wrist, blocked the sight of the rest with his body, rolled up her sleeve, and carefully examined it.

After confirming that there were no wounds and no bruises, Gonggong Wei let out a long sigh of relief.

He pulled up Gu Jiao's sleeves, he was a eunuch, and there were not too many men and women to defend him, but in public, he still didn't want Gu Jiao's arm to be looked at by others.

"Grandpa Wei, why are you here?" Gu Jiao asked.

Wei Gonggong said: "It was Your Majesty who asked the slave to come over, His Majesty was not in a good mood in the palace before, and he didn't pay attention to Miss Gu, but afterwards His Majesty relieved himself, and he didn't want to go, and ordered the imperial dining room to make a few snacks that Miss Gu loved to eat." ”

It's about the morning.

The emperor misunderstood that Concubine Jing pushed Gonggong Wei, his heart was angry, his mood was complicated, and he turned around and entered the study.

After being hit by the black medicine, only the memory of that person will slowly only have a bad side, but the memory of others will not change much, Gu Jiao is still the emperor's important little miracle doctor.

Gu Jiao accepted the snacks, and Gonggong Wei returned to the palace to resume his life, and by the way, he told the emperor about Gu Jiao's attack: "...... It was a few gangsters, and Miss Gu was not injured. ”

There is a high probability that a gangster of this level should be a ruffian hooligan in the capital, and it is unlikely that it is a black hand sent by a big man to assassinate Gu Jiao.

After all, it's too vegetable, and it won't do any harm to Gu Jiao at all.

However, the emperor didn't know why, and suddenly a figure lingered in his mind.

A terrible thought came to his mind, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

Reason told him it was impossible, but the more he thought about it, the more the thought magnified in his heart.

In the end, as if he were stunned, he was convinced of this speculation.

He put the fold in his hand on the table, and went to the nunnery with a cold face.

At this time, it was evening, the major palaces began to eat, and it was time for dinner in the nunnery, and the chimney of the small kitchen wafted out of the green smoke, which added a bit of folk fireworks to the pavilions.

As the sun sets, it should be a very warm scene.

But the emperor's heart was cold.

"Your Majesty?" Hui An, the little nun who was sweeping in the courtyard, saw the emperor, her eyes became shining, and she put down her broom and went forward to salute.

The emperor didn't look at her, and went to Concubine Jing's small Buddha hall with a cold expression.

Concubine Jing is not in the Buddha hall, but in the meditation room next door.

She sat on the polished wooden floor, in front of a small desk with a few bottles and cans and a few fresh ingredients.

She was holding a pestle and holding something in a small jar in her arms, and she had a circle of white gauze wrapped around the thumb of her left hand, and fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, and she could see that she was working very hard to do it.

Mama Cai stayed by her side and gave her a hand.

Suddenly, a dull footstep came, and Mama Cai was struggling with taro, and she glanced at Concubine Jing beside her.

Concubine Jing lowered her head and squeezed the taro paste, as if she hadn't heard the movement outside.

Mama Cai gently put the knife and taro on the desk, intending to go over to see what was going on, but as soon as she stood up, the emperor had already entered the room.

He left his shoes outside the door.

Mama Cai bowed and bowed: "Your Majesty." ”

Concubine Jing seemed to finally know that someone was coming, she raised her head calmly, her eyes were gentle, but there was also a hint of melancholy.

She just looked at the emperor, didn't say a word, and then lowered her head to make taro paste again.

"You stand down first." The emperor said to Mama Cai in a cold voice.

Mama Cai turned her head and glanced at Concubine Jing, Concubine Jing didn't speak, she lowered her head and said, "Yes, the slave and maid are retired." ”

Mama Cai got up and walked out of the house.

The Emperor knew that she hadn't gone far, and might have been listening at the door, but he didn't care so much.

He sat down in front of Concubine Jing, looked at the face he had missed day and night, and said sadly: "Why did the concubine do this? ”

Concubine Jing stopped the action of making taro paste, holding the jar in her arms with one hand and the mortar with the other, her eyes full of doubts: "What did I do?" ”

The emperor looked at Concubine Jing for a moment, and the hand on his knee slowly clenched: "Mother concubine, stop pretending to be crazy and stupid, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the mother concubine knows what she has done." ”

"What did I do, I know what I know? Your Majesty, this is a crime that you want to add, and there is no excuse for it. Concubine Jing said lightly, throwing the pestle mortar into the jar with some anger, and then put the jar on the desk without being salty or light.

Her expression obviously did not have a trace of weakness, it stands to reason that she should have really not done it, but the suspicion in the emperor's heart was like mushrooms after a rain, and the road to her was a long one, and when he saw her, he jumped up again.

The emperor said: "Okay, if the mother wants to listen, then I will tell the mother to listen." The little miracle doctor was assassinated today, and she was almost injured, if it weren't for her cleverness and some skills, I am afraid that she would have been poisoned. ”

Concubine Jing was surprised: "So Your Majesty thinks that I instructed this matter?" ”

"Isn't it?" The emperor gritted his teeth and asked.

"Why did I do that?" Concubine Jing asked.

The emperor sneered: "Why? I also want to ask my mother why! Is it that as long as it is the person I love, the mother concubine will all be driven away from my side! In the past, she was the queen of Zhuang's mother, and now she is a little miracle doctor. In the heart of the mother, I can't get close to anyone except the mother! ”

Concubine Jing suddenly raised her voice: "I never thought about it like that!" ”

The emperor mockingly hooked the corners of his lips: "Really? Then why did the concubine prevent me from going to see the queen mother? ”

"When will I ......" Concubine Jing paused halfway through her words.

The emperor looked at her coldly: "Did you remember the concubine?" To be honest, I forgot about it, but just a few days ago, I suddenly remembered. I and Ning An secretly went to visit our mother in the cold palace, and the mother punished us to kneel in the snow for a night, and Ning An became seriously ill because of this. ”

Concubine Jing closed her eyes and explained patiently: "That's not because I don't want Liu Guifei to grab the handle!" The queen doesn't want you to visit her in the cold palace either! She doesn't want to bother you, so why shouldn't I? Hurt in the child's body, pain in the mother's heart, you kneel in the snow, isn't it uncomfortable for me to be a mother? ”

The emperor said lightly: "Really? I don't remember my mother being so uncomfortable. ”

Concubine Jing clenched her fingers.

Mama Cai outside the house was so anxious that she breathed a sigh of relief in her chest.

She knew the situation at that time, and while Concubine Jing was punishing His Majesty and Ning An, there were tears rolling in her eyes, and anyone could see that she couldn't bear it.

The emperor even said that he didn't remember.

The pill ...... It must be the pill......

"Your Majesty is what it is." Concubine Jing lowered her eyes, her expression and tone were hurt.

"Your Majesty!" Mama Cai couldn't help but walk in, knelt down and said, "The concubine won't do this!" Niang Niang is a person who can't even starve and trample to death! How could she send someone to assassinate Miss Gu! ”

The emperor's eyes suddenly flashed with endless sarcasm: "Ants are reluctant to step to death? Then who killed Fuqing beside me with a cane in the first place! ”

Concubine Jing's pupils shrank: "What did you say?" ”

The emperor said coldly: "I said that the mother concubine killed my Fuqing with a cane!" ”

The name Fuqing has been around for a long time, so far away that no one in the palace remembers his existence, and His Majesty was by his side when he was a teenager.

After his death, the emperor had Gonggong Wei by his side.

But...... Fuqing was bribed by Concubine Liu to frame the emperor several times, and he was innocent at all, besides, it was not Concubine Jing who ordered him to be killed, it was Zhuang Jinse, the virtuous queen at that time!

"You have all shown this palace clearly, this is the end of betraying the lord and seeking glory!"

"Your Highness...... Your Highness, please save the minions...... The minion knows that he is wrong......"

"Queen Mother's ......"

"Execution!"

It was Zhuang Jinse's doing, why was it counted on her head!

Concubine Jing's hand was clenched into a fist little by little, and because she was too hard, her knuckles were faintly white.

Mama Cai choked up and said, "No, Your Majesty! It's not a concubine—"

The emperor didn't look at Mama Cai at all, and stared at Concubine Jing with his eyes like torches: "Okay, the little divine doctor's mother doesn't admit it, and the Fuqing concubine doesn't admit it, so Yue Rou's mother shouldn't be able to get out of it!" ”

Yue Rou, Concubine Rou, when the emperor was still a prince, he went down to the south of the Yangtze River with the first emperor, brought back a beauty, and made her a concubine after ascending the throne.

Concubine Rou died in childbirth.

The emperor gritted his teeth and said: "Just the day before Concubine Rou died, the mother concubine summoned her to the palace, what did the mother concubine say to Concubine Rou, and it made Concubine Rou scared into premature birth!" ”

The conscience of heaven and earth, Concubine Jing didn't summon Concubine Rou at all, it was Concubine Rou herself who came to ask Concubine Jing for peace, as for why she was born prematurely, she was also in poor health, and it had nothing to do with Concubine Jing!

Concubine Jing looked at the emperor in disbelief, her nails digging into her flesh.

If you are accustomed to a person's kindness to yourself, you will forget that the good actually comes from a medicine, and even have a kind of confidence and illusion, even if the effect of the medicine is gone, he will still be as good to himself as ever.

"Don't touch the little miracle doctor again, don't touch anyone around me again, don't consume the last bit of mother-son love between us!"

After the emperor finished speaking coldly, he stood up and walked away without looking back.

Concubine Jing was so angry that she brushed the jar on the table to the floor!

It was the taro paste she had been making all afternoon, and she had originally planned to make taro pastry for the emperor.

The emperor likes to eat the snacks she makes, such as jujube paste, taro paste, osmanthus cake, and mille-feuille cake.

"Niangniang......" Mama Cai was wronged for her, and in order to make taro paste, the concubine's hands were injured.

Concubine Jing looked at her thumb wrapped in gauze and muttered, "He didn't even notice that my hand was injured." ”

A person who is carefully held suddenly becomes a person who does not care, and the gap brought by it is huge.

Mama Cai said distressedly: "Niangniang...... The slave has already advised you, it's useless, you might as well do nothing......"

Concubine Jing's eyes were deep and said: "Zhuang Jinse didn't do anything back then, I often wonder, why didn't she do something?" Doesn't she want to redeem it? She didn't know that His Majesty was drugged, why was she so ruthless, and she was so proud? How could she just let it go! ”

After Zhuang Jinse found out that this son was no longer close to him, she didn't make any soft reservations, she was like a proud phoenix, flying away without hesitation!

Walked so decisively, walked so simply, as if he had never hurt this son!

Concubine Jing covered her heart like a sharp knife: "...... Isn't she sad? ”

Mama Cai sighed secretly: "How can you not be sad?" It's just that because of her temperament, she would rather be sad to death than humble and merciful to anyone, the same is true for the first emperor and the same for His Majesty. ”

How many sleepless nights should Zhuang Jinse have, only hiding in the dark and licking his wounds?

She may have been in pain, crying, and heartbreaking, but she will not let people see her weakness.

From the time she turned the harem of the first emperor into a leek in her own pot, she was no longer the Zhuang Jinse she used to be.

Concubine Jing returned to her meditation room and took out the holy decree.

Mama Cai's face changed: "Niangniang, what are you going to do!" Don't be impulsive! ”