Chapter 316: Self-Knowledge
Emperor Tianduo asked, "Since the cause is in Mu Lin, should we start diagnosis and treatment now?" ”
"Don't worry, since the prince vomits after eating, and now it's lunch time, it's better to invite the prince to eat first, and the courtiers will diagnose and treat the prince according to the symptoms of vomiting after eating."
As soon as Su Jiudong's words fell, Li Deqin, the chief attendant and eunuch of the East Palace, walked into the hall, holding a letter in his hand, which was tightly packed and sealed with wax paint.
Yun Mulin's face suddenly changed when he saw the letter in Li Deqin's hand, it was very ugly, and after Li Deqin said goodbye to Emperor Tianduo and the empress, he stepped forward and whispered a few words to Yun Mulin.
After that, Yun Mulin immediately said goodbye to Emperor Tianduo: "Father, the sons and daughters have private matters that need to be dealt with in the back study, and the father and queen mother and the Su family will have dinner first, and then return to accompany the father and queen mother to eat after about a quarter of an hour." ”
Yun Mulin winked at Li Deqin, and before Emperor Tianduo could give permission, the two of them hurriedly left the Wude Hall and went to the backyard study.
The queen immediately grabbed Emperor Tianduo's arm, seemingly carelessly, but in fact carefully saved a few words for Yun Mulin.
"Mu Lin has been suffering from illness these days, and everyone is tired, and today he forgot to wait for the approval of the saint and left first, what a rude! However, the Holy One has a fatherly heart, and he will definitely understand Mu Lin's faux pas......"
The queen's words have come to such a point, and Emperor Tianduo is not good at Yun Mulin's faux pas, so he immediately sat back on the main seat and invited Su Jiudong to dine together.
Su Jiudong immediately bent his knees and refused: "If it is said that this lunch is a reward banquet for the courtiers to cure the prince's illness, the courtiers will definitely not refuse, but now that the prince's illness has not been treated, the courtiers dare not eat at the same table with the saint and the queen's mother, which breaks the rules." ”
Emperor Tianduo's eyes showed his appreciation for Su Jiudong's knowledge of etiquette and general knowledge, but Empress Fu Wenping thought that Su Jiudong was acting coyly and pretending to be knowledgeable in order to win Emperor Tianduo's favor.
Su Jiudong rejected the invitation to dine with Emperor Tianduo and the Empress, just as he didn't look at the Queen's glaring eyes, and calmly sat down in the main hall to sip tea, while waiting for Yun Mulin to return to accompany Emperor Tianduo and the Empress to lunch.
Su Jiudong beckoned to Liu Defeng, and only when Liu Defeng approached did he lower his voice and said: "Bother Father-in-law Liu to prepare a small pen and a small piece of paper for his courtiers in private, so as not to be noticed by the saint and the queen's mother......"
Liu Defeng didn't know what Su Jiudong's intention was to ask for private preparations, so he asked: "Dare to ask Miss Su, preparing paper and pen can be prepared generously, why do you need to let the miscellaneous family prepare secretly?" ”
Su Jiudong skimmed in the direction of Emperor Tianduo and the Empress Mother in the side hall, pretending to be mysterious.
"When the courtiers met with the prince just now, they accidentally found a small action of the prince, which seemed to be related to the disease, and now I want to write it down first, and then confirm it when I diagnose and treat it later, only because it is about the prince's privacy, the courtiers are not willing to make too much noise."
Liu Defeng was skeptical, but in the end he would still prepare paper for Su Jiudong, just when Liu Defeng turned around and wanted to leave, Su Jiudong grabbed Liu Defeng again and whispered:
"The Holy Lord and the Empress Mother know that the courtiers will invite you to have a secret talk, and they will definitely ask you about the content of our conversation later. When the time comes, you can just say that the courtiers are thirsty and let you prepare honey tea. ”
"Father-in-law, you can also prepare honey tea as a cover to prepare paper and pencils, and then quietly bring the paper and pencils to the courtiers on the opportunity to send honey tea." Su Jiudong even thought of a reason for Liu Defeng, and Liu Defeng could only do it even if he didn't want to.
Even though Liu Defeng was not very convinced by the reason Su Jiudong said, he finally nodded and returned to the side hall.
Emperor Tianduo really asked Liu Defeng about the reason why Su Jiudong called Liu Defeng over, and Su Jiudong, who was sitting in the main hall, quietly turned his head sideways, peeking at the situation in the side hall through his spare eyes, and his ears were also pricked up to listen.
Liu Defeng really responded to Emperor Tianduo's inquiry according to the reason Su Jiudong said for preparing honey water, and then walked out of the hall and followed Su Jiudong's instructions to prepare a small brush, small paper and honey water.
Emperor Tianduo disagreed with Su Jiudong's request to drink honey tea when he was thirsty, but the queen was dissatisfied: "A girl from the mountains is so precious and squeamish? I don't drink that good Maofeng tea, but I want to drink that troublesome honey tea..."
Emperor Tianduo glanced at Empress Qi, and his tone was slightly cold: "Don't you also drink the dew of the moon season on weekdays?" The palace maids in the entire Qiankun Palace get up early in the morning to collect the dew on the moon flowers for you, isn't it much more difficult than preparing honey tea? ”
The queen didn't seem to expect Emperor Tianduo to talk back to her, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Emperor Tianduo saw that the queen was stunned, so he softened his tone, but the wording was still the same as just now: "Don't say this kind of fifty steps and laughing a hundred steps in the future." ”
Su Jiudong, who was sitting in the main hall, didn't care about the conversation between Emperor Tianduo and the queen in the side hall, and didn't know why Emperor Tianduo spoke for her to reply to the queen, just looked at the gate of the palace and waited, and after a while, Liu Defeng really stepped into the main hall with a teacup.
Liu Defeng deliberately chose an end plate with a high edge, placed a small brush and small paper on it, and then took a piece of cotton cloth to pad it, and put the honey water on the cotton cloth, so as not to accidentally spill the honey water and stain the paper. 600
Emperor Tianduo heard Liu Defeng approaching the movement in the hall, and saw that Liu Defeng really walked towards Su Jiudong in the main hall with a cup of honey tea, so he focused on the dishes on the table, and continued to eat while waiting for Yun Mulin to come back.
After Liu Defeng put the end plate on the side table in Su Jiudong's hand, he was called by Emperor Tianduo to urge Yun Mulin to come back for dinner quickly, and then accept Su Jiudong's treatment safely.
Su Jiudong saw that Liu Defeng had already been opened, so he quickly wrote down the names of the four cloth houses that he had just turned over on the purchase list, and then dried the ink on the paper while lowering his head and blowing the hot air of honey tea.
Su Jiudong's series of actions were as natural and careful as possible, not wanting to arouse the suspicion of the four maids guarding the corner in the main hall.
After the ink on the paper dried, Su Jiudong folded the small square paper, put it in his arms, and then stuffed the small brush into the carving on the side table.
After all the actions were completed in one go, Su Jiudong finally felt at ease, leaned back on the back of the chair and tasted tea slowly, and began to think about the letter that Li Deqin sent to Yun Mulin just now.
If it wasn't what she expected, that letter should have been an abusive letter sent by Wen Yiheng to the East Palace every day to anger Yun Mulin.
It's no wonder that Yun Mulin's face changed on the spot when he saw the letter, you can imagine how many unbearable swear words were written in the abusive letter Wen Yiheng sent before, as well as bold statements that threatened Yun Mulin with the ugly things he had done before.
However, Wen Yiheng also knew that sending these abusive letters was just to provoke Yun Mulin, not to really bring down Yun Mulin, so Wen Yiheng also sealed the letters with very "intimate" wax paint to prevent others from prying eyes.
Su Jiudong entered the palace before noon, and this insulting letter was sent to Wude Hall at noon, which can be seen that Wen Yiheng sent it to help Su Jiudong and stimulate Yun Mulin to vomit.
After a while, Yun Mulin was late, and saw him replace the dark brocade robe just now and put on a silver brocade robe again.
Yun Mulin's figure also inherited the tall and majestic shore of Emperor Tianduo, and a palm-wide belt tied his waist line into a thin and strong line.
Yun Mulin's handsome face coupled with his tall figure can indeed be called the image of the ideal husband in the minds of thousands of daughters, but Su Jiudong has already seen through the essence of Yun Mulin, so he is not interested in redressing Yun Mulin.
Now Yun Mulin's face is no longer as ugly as when he received the letter just now, but it is not so relaxed, he is still frowning and has a handsome face.
As soon as Yun Mulin entered the hall, he noticed Su Jiudong who was drinking tea on the side, and he choked directly at Su Jiudong in an unkind tone: "Miss Su is disgusted with the lunch of this king Wude Palace, isn't it delicious?" He was only willing to drink tea and refused to dine with his father and queen mother? ”
Su Jiudong obviously felt Yun Mulin's anger, and he was silent on the surface, but in his heart, he couldn't help but guess what Wen Yiheng had written in the letter to insult Yun Mulin, which made him so angry that he couldn't hold back his anger even before Emperor Tianduo.
Su Jiudong endured the surging smile in his heart with great difficulty, and said: "The car girl has already had breakfast before she came, and she has been learning the art of bigu recently, so she gradually reduced the number of meals and recuperated her body at one time. ”
As soon as Yun Mulin heard Su Jiudong talking about recuperating his body, his eyes immediately widened, and he snorted coldly: "Recuperate your body? It seems that Miss Su is sick? You can't cure your own sickness, so how can you be qualified to cure this king? ”
"The imperial doctors with superb medical skills in the Tai Hospital can't cure this king, Miss Su dares to say that your medical skills are better than theirs? Can you cure the king's illness? Thinking about it, Miss Su came from the mountains and read few books, so she shouldn't have learned the phrase 'people are valuable and self-aware'. ”
Yun Mulin was very repulsed by Emperor Tianduo's act of inviting Su Jiudong to treat him, and he was not afraid to show it in front of Emperor Tianduo at all.
Different from Yun Mulin's angry and corrupt mood, Su Jiudong responded unhurriedly: "Although the courtiers are born in the mountains, they usually read and learn characters by themselves, so they naturally know that self-knowledge comes from the book "Lao Tzu", 'Those who know people are wise, and those who know themselves are wise'. ”
Su Jiudong's sentence is the truth, and this sentence has been taught in modern Chinese textbooks.
"It is precisely because of her self-knowledge that the courtiers dare not rashly accept this invitation from the Holy God to heal."
Su Jiudong glanced at Emperor Tianduo, and then turned his gaze back to Yun Mulin: "But the king's order cannot be violated, and the courtiers can only accept it, and they should be invited to come to the Wude Hall to treat the prince's illness, and I hope that the prince will not hide his illness and avoid medical treatment, and accept the treatment of the courtiers." ”
Yun Mulin also knew that it was Emperor Tianduo's intention to invite Su Jiudong to come for treatment, even if he was unwilling, he still had to give in in the end, so he sat down on the round stool, rolled up his sleeves and handed his arm to Su Jiudong.
"Since Miss Su wants to treat this king, let's check the pulse."