It was late at night, it was quiet in the Qin Mansion, and the whole capital was quiet, which was the norm since the death of the queen.

During the state funeral, all kinds of banquets and entertainment activities are prohibited, and naturally no one dares to touch the royal mold at this time, even if they want to have fun, they all hide in the deep courtyard to avoid people's eyes.

Qin Zhongguang interrogated He Lan in such a small corner.

He Lan is the eldest son of Mrs. Qin's most important companion housekeeper, He is not serving in the mansion, but is responsible for taking care of the shop business outside the mansion, and he also wears gold and silver on weekdays, and looks like a rich son.

At this moment, he was tied hand and foot, and he could only curl up on the ground, his clothes were torn, and his face and body were bleeding. If there is an old acquaintance, the other party must not recognize He Lan, he is really embarrassed.

But He Lan didn't dare to show a little resentment, because the person in front of him was Grandpa Guo.

Qin Zhongguang put away the jet-black whip in his hand, a bloodthirsty color flashed in his eyes, and he quickly turned into disdain.

The fact that he longs to make a big splash on the battlefield and whip at a live target is boring!

"How? I just asked you, do you remember the answer? ”

The dirty handkerchief stuffed in He Lan's mouth was pulled out, and she whimpered busily: "The little one remembers, the little one will say ......."

He didn't have his father's loyalty to Mrs. Qin, and he was used to living a good life, so he was really afraid of being beaten again, so he not only honestly told him what he was going to find the big hand of Yongxing Casino, but he directly sold Mrs. Qin.

When he learned that Mrs. Qin was collecting Su Dazhuang's gambling debts outside and was about to use them to deal with Aunt Su, Qin Zhongguang was a little stunned, and his eyes showed deep disgust.

But when he heard Madam Qin's latest plan, his expression became solemn.

"Who the hell is living in that house?"

The Song family's courtyard is located in the big banyan alley in the civilian area in the west of the city, far away from the mixed area of the three religions and nine streams, and the people living nearby are ordinary people. Mrs. Qin suddenly changed her mind, and instead of using Su Dazhuang to deal with Aunt Su, she pinched the handle to force Su Dazhuang to harm the small jasper in an ordinary house, this logic really made Qin Zhongguang incomprehensible.

But He Lan didn't know the details of the mission goal, "Madame didn't say it, she only said that the family was not a local in the capital." The girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and I heard that she was born with a beautiful appearance. Recently, the cousin girl and the third girl in the house are discussing marriage, and the small guess may be related to this matter, so I didn't dare to ask......"

Qin Zhongguang whipped him a few more times impatiently, but he still cried and begged for mercy and said that he didn't know, and weakly summoned another thing.

"That Su Dazhuang is too bold, the people in the gambling house have been urging for several days and refused to really do it, and the lady is impatient, so she asked people to find Huang Sangongzi in the south of the city, ready to do something on the maid of that girl. It's just that I don't know how small the plan is, and Madame didn't go through my ......."

Qin Zhongguang vaguely felt that something was not quite right, and immediately sent a confidant to go out and inquire about who lived in the small courtyard overnight.

He and his wife He have been married for 20 years, although they have been together less and more in the past few years, and they also know a little about her style of acting, and they know that He will never work in vain. Now that the queen has not died long ago, the situation in the palace is uncertain, the second prince is isolated, and the He family is all focused on this matter, how can he take the initiative to find trouble for the relatives of the cousin girl and the third girl?

Moreover, most of the people who can afford to use maids are not ordinary poor ladies, and I don't know if it is the daughter of a foreign family, and for what reason she offended the He family.

Now that the Qin family is in turmoil, Qin Zhongguang does not want to offend the forces that should not be offended because of the difference in the He family's thoughts, and he will be trapped in the capital for a few more years.

"Go, let a few people stare at the main courtyard, especially the two girls beside Madame. If there's something wrong, let me know right away! ”

When Qin Zhongguang's instructions began to be executed, Chunmei was walking in the vast night, carrying an unlit lantern in her hand.

She skillfully walked through the winding path, as if it had been shuttled countless times, and after half an hour she walked to the rockery in the corner of the garden, and cleared her throat very softly.

A dark shadow turned out of the rockery, "Sister Chunmei is here, and it's so hard to wait for Xiaosheng." ”

It's a slightly sweet male voice.

Chunmei was not surprised, and she didn't flirt with the other party, she only whispered a few words, and then turned around and left.

The black shadow grinned and whispered to stay, but was reprimanded by Chunmei before giving up.

The person who followed Chunmei and was hidden in the dark thought about it, and did not follow Chunmei back, but waited for Chunmei to walk out for more than a dozen steps before touching the back of the rockery and leaving with the black shadow.

The clouds in the sky are too thick, and the crescent moon on the eighth day of the first month is tightly obscured, and there is no light to see.

The alley of the big banyan tree is also very dark, especially when the sky is getting late, most of the people on both sides of the alley have turned off the lights and slept, and the people walking in it are carrying lanterns in their hands, but the light is crumbling under the cold wind blowing from time to time, and the place that can be illuminated is not in front of them.

It wasn't until they walked out of the alley and the lights on both sides of the street outside came into view that pedestrians breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tonight's hard work, Miss Zhou has taken this trip. If it works, we will thank you another day. ”

"The heart of the doctor's parents, although I can only be regarded as half a doctor, I also know that this is my duty. I have already received the remuneration for the visit, so I don't need to thank him. If not, the girl will come back to me tomorrow, or to my uncle. ”

Jiang Xue sent the female doctor surnamed Zhou away, and hurriedly returned to the Song family's courtyard, and without stopping, she entered the kitchen again.

She glanced at Jinxiu and Wenzhu, who were decocting the medicinal soup, her eyes flashed, and she didn't say anything, so she sent Wenzhu out.

Jiang Xue stepped forward to take Wenzhu's fire, and asked Jinxiu, who was stirring the long wooden spoon in the pot, in a low voice: "You didn't walk away just now, did you?" ”

Jinxiu said no, and she was completely relieved.

"Alright, you go back to the house, I'm all it takes. Can't you worry about me? ”

Jiang Xue smiled and bowed her head and went out.

After a while, Jinxiu came in with a steaming wooden basin, and Jiang Xue was busy waiting for Zhiwei to strip and wipe herself.

Jiang Xue said: "Miss Zhou said, this medicine is decocted into a medicinal soup and rubbed on the affected area, and then combined with the ointment prescribed by Dr. Zhou, if there is no accident, it can be cured in three to seven days." It's just that she can't be sure what is going on. Catch up with Ming'er, I asked someone to cut a corner of the clothes and take it out to check, there should be an echo. ”

Zhiwei was a little embarrassed, but it was hard to refuse, and she also wanted to know who was behind Xiaoling.

She couldn't see clearly, and she couldn't reach the affected area behind her, so she could only lie on her stomach and ask Jinxiu to help. Although it was warm on the kang, when I took off my underwear, my skin was still pricked by the cold, like a needle prick.

She was a spirit, and somehow, the god sent the ghost to say: "Strange, the girl's medicine box was not big that week, but she happened to bring out these many flavored medicinal materials." ”

Jiang Xue pinched the hand of the hot handkerchief for a moment, recalled, and hesitated and said: "I just looked, there are not many medicinal materials in the medicine box, Miss Zhou said that she heard the general situation from Dr. Zhou, and it was late, so she brought some medicine that might be symptomatic, so we didn't catch ......."

Jinxiu glanced at her and whispered, "She shouldn't be ...... Right? A few months ago, I inquired about Imperial Doctor Chen in the capital, and there was indeed such a person as Miss Zhou in the Aphrodisiac Hall. Moreover, if someone designed it, why not just buy Dr. Zhou and do it on the ointment? ”

Zhiwei was silent for a while, then took her underwear and put it on.

"That's it, I won't rub this medicine first, and it's not unbearable. Jiang Xue will send these two medicines and today's shirt out for inspection tomorrow. ”

Jinxiu was a little distressed, and waited for Jiangxue to go out before saying: "There seem to be some very shallow scars on the girl's waist, but she is ...... in the palace."

Zhi Wei lightly mentioned the incident of three years ago, and she was even more distressed when she heard it.

Jiang Xue listened to a few words outside the door, and only felt that her head was as big as a fight.

Your Majesty's own sins back then, are they now considered self-inflicted?

Early the next morning, before the news of the Song family's small courtyard could be officially spread, Jiang Xue learned that the person sent by His Majesty to investigate the whereabouts of the Su family had finally sent back the news.

"It's just that this news sounds a little bad, no wonder Your Majesty wants to hide it from the girl first."

Jiang Xue made up her mind not to tell Zhiwei first.

Xiao Ling didn't know her whereabouts, the strange red marks on the girl's body, and the doctor of the Zhou family was suspected of having strange ......

Even if His Majesty didn't speak, but this mess had not been unraveled, and she wanted to make the girl worry about Su's affairs, she couldn't do it.

However, I don't know if it's because of the discomfort on my body, Zhiwei almost didn't fall asleep last night, and today she was even more upset, thinking of her brother who was far away on the frontier and her missing mother, she couldn't help crying.

Jiang Xue had to harden her heart, pretending that she didn't know anything, and just hoped that the people who sent the message would be smart and not delay the girl's illness.

As a result, it was not until the second half of the morning that a young man dressed in cloth knocked on the wooden door of the small courtyard.

It was Yan Qiao who answered the door, and she was stunned: "Dare to ask the official......"

The young man hugged the medicine box at his side and politely explained, "The master asked me to come and see a doctor." As he spoke, he glanced at the sky in the distance to the east.

Jinxiu saw it in the courtyard, and when she looked at it, wasn't that young man the same Imperial Doctor Xiao Chen she had seen last time?

She hurriedly stepped forward, brought Imperial Physician Chen in, knocked on the side and asked, and confirmed under Jiang Xue's eyes that the other party was sent by His Majesty the Emperor to see her own girl.

Imperial Physician Chen and Zhi Wei are also old acquaintances, and when they see each other outside the palace at this time, they can't help but be a little stunned.

Imperial Physician Chen glanced at the room, raised his eyebrows slightly, didn't say nonsense, and took out a jade bottle directly from the medicine box.

"I have checked all the things that were sent over, thanks to your carefulness, otherwise the medicinal soup and ointment are mixed together, and even the elixir will not be able to save it. Just in case, I'm going to check the girl's pulse again. If it is okay, it will take medicine for a while. ”

Zhi Wei frowned, nodded at Imperial Physician Chen, and the two sat aside and began to check the pulse.

"What happens when the two drugs are mixed together? But it's toxic? ”

"It's not fatal, but it's itchy and unbearable, and if you don't tie your hands and feet, you're likely to scratch yourself until you're disfigured. Even if the wound heals, it will leave an indelible scar. Imperial Physician Chen explained lightly.

Jinxiu exclaimed, "Serial scheme? It's so vicious! Who did it? ”

Wen Zhu's face was angry, and he immediately rushed out of the Rejuvenation Medicine Hall to confront someone.

She suddenly looked at Yan Qiao with suspicious eyes: "Yesterday, you were the one who went to the medicine hall to invite people, could you be in the same group as them?" ”

Yan Qiao stammered in denial.

Jiang Xue frowned and reprimanded, "Shut up!" Let Imperial Doctor Chen concentrate on diagnosing the pulse, now is not the time to pursue this! ”

She looked eagerly at Imperial Physician Chen, and most of the rest of the people were the same, wanting to get some inside information from this "special envoy" who came out of the palace. But he only shook his head, then returned his attention to the warm pulse under his fingertips, and said nothing.

Zhi Wei lowered her eyes when she heard this, if it weren't for the faint sigh, she seemed to be not interested in it at all.