Volume 1 Floating Life Chapter 21 Mandarin Lotus (3)

She bowed her head and said sullenly: "At that time, my father wronged me and refused to listen to my explanation, what is the use of my defense... And at that time, I was also annoyed with my father, thinking that he didn't believe me, and my heart was cold for a while..."I pouted, and said: "Now that I think about it, I regret that I didn't defend myself at that time, maybe I said that my father would feel sorry for me a little..."

She thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized a problem and asked, "How did the gentleman know that I went to bury wine?" ”

He picked up the book, flipped through it, and said, "The princess has the smell of pear blossoms mixed with wine, and I think she has been contaminated by hugging all the way." And the lotus flower is there every day, if the princess really likes to fold it early in the morning, there is no need to fold it today, the princess's words today are just angry with the poor monk. ”

Jing Tan scratched her head and said with some embarrassment: "I was reckless today." ”

Chu Yu was about to say something, but suddenly the hull of the boat was tilted, Jing Tan didn't sit still for a while, and stumbled forward...

It turned out that the wind had risen in the pond at night, and the small canopy boat was pushed left and right by the night wind.

"Princess, be carefulβ€”" Before the words fell, she pounced on Chu Silence without dying...

Her face was so undying that she was under the waist of Chu Lonely... Jing Tan raised her head in shock, and then looked at the eyes of the first silence, which was finally no longer compassion, but replaced by shock and a little unclear... The surrounding sandalwood is getting stronger and stronger...

"Male... Princess... Please sit tight...."Chu Silence reacted, turned his face away, and stumbled.

Jing Tan got up in a hurry, grabbed a few cases with her hands, didn't dare to look at him, and said embarrassedly: "Sir, I'm sorry..."

At first he was silent, he got up in a panic and said sullenly: "The poor monk goes to rock the oars..." and then hurried out.

Jing Tan recalled that she had just looked at his face, and for the first time she saw red clouds on his fair and handsome face....not to mention him, she also died of shame...

Because of what happened just now, the two were silent for a long time, the first silence was rocking the oars in the bow of the boat, the canopy boat was slightly shaking, and Jingtan was in the boat, and they felt that the sandalwood did not disperse for a long time, causing people to be slightly stuffy, and they did not dare to go out, and fell asleep in an instant on the desk.

Beichen Palace, this night the emperor summoned Chen Niangzi to sleep, Chen was led to bathe before Gao Cheng sent a decoction to the emperor.

"It's hard for Grandpa Gao to deliver medicine at this hour." Chen stood in the screen and took off his coat and spoke lightly.

Gao Cheng didn't dare to raise his head, and said with a smile: "The emperor's orders, the servants dare not delay." ”

She walked out, drank the bowl of disfigurement decoction, and said with a sneer: "Did the emperor say that without the mandarin lotus, what will I drink on the night of the full moon tomorrow?" ”

He smiled again: "This emperor will find a way, and the mother can only raise it with peace of mind." ”

"Even if there is no mandarin lotus, this palace can't die...."As she spoke, she let the maid scrub her body when she lost her mind, and she didn't even know when Gao Cheng would retire.

When Gao Cheng returned to Beichen Hall to serve, the emperor was wiping the Qingyang sword, which was the heirloom of the queen's Xiangwu family, and was married as the queen's companion back then.

Gao Chengyu reported: "Yirong soup has been given to Mrs. Chen to drink. ”

The emperor let out a faint 'um', and when he saw that he wanted to speak, he asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

"Drinking too much Yirong soup is not good for your body, Your Majesty..."

Gao Cheng saw that his face was gradually getting colder, so he immediately shut up and sighed: "It's the slave who lost his words." ”

"She figured out that coming out of the cold palace is a good thing, and it also saves a trouble in the future, she knows that there will be such a day when she comes out, this is her choice." The emperor wiped the hilt of his sword and spoke coldly.

The Emperor paused, then asked, "Last month, she... But still have seizures? ”

"Listening to Xiao Jiangzi's report, I don't cough up blood like before, but on the sixteenth of every month, I will still lock myself in the room and not let people serve me, but I often cover my heart, thinking that the angina has not healed."

Gao Cheng looked at the emperor who was wiping the sword body, and didn't see him open for a long time, so he hesitated: "There is only one mandarin lotus root left in the ice cellar, and the night after the sun and the moon will ......be full."

"Take it to her."

Gao Cheng wiped a cold sweat and said, "The slave is stupid, I don't know what the emperor is referring to?" ”

"Nature is for the really sick."

"Yes."

……

I don't know how long the canopy boat has rowed, but when Jing Tan woke up, they were already in the middle of the lotus pond.

Jing Tan walked out of the small canopy, and the ambiguous atmosphere in the boat had long disappeared.

Jing Tan sat on the bow of the boat, picked up a lotus plant, and sighed: "On weekdays, I just look here from the broken shadow platform, and I think there is nothing to look at, but now I am here, but it is not interesting, if the lotus flower is still alive, the color must be better......"

The lotus was black, and even some rancid and sour smell permeated, and she exclaimed: "Look at the color of this lotus, the poisoning is not shallow." ”

Chu Lin nodded, pointed to another place, and said to her: "Yesterday, I felt that the color was wrong, and I wanted to check it carefully, but the emperor was too anxious to listen to people, and the poor monk had to tell the emperor that there was a way to save him before he could appear here." ”

She looked over and saw a small piece of lotus root, thinking that this was the mandarin lotus.

"Sir has nothing to do with this matter, you can avoid it here..."She paused, and then asked carefully, "Is Sir trying to save me?" ”

He turned around and picked a mandarin lotus root and said, "Naturally not, the poor monk just wants to take this opportunity to see what is so magical about the mandarin lotus." ”

As a result, Jing Tan had expected him to say this, and it was not surprising. But if she can find out what kind of poison it is, it will be easy to find out who is behind the scenes, and she is still willing to believe that he is trying to save herself, which means that he believes in herself. If you think so, maybe you can be a little happier.

Chu Silence sniffed the mandarin lotus root closely, thinking back to yesterday's investigation, and there was already a little bottom in his heart.

"Do you know who is using mandarin root in the palace to take medicine?"

"Mrs. Chen." Saying that he was about to touch the lotus root, Chu Silence blocked it with his hand and said: "The poison is on the mandarin lotus, and then spreads to the entire lotus pond, but I am afraid that there is still residual poison on it, and the princess can't touch it." ”

So Jing Tan trembled and withdrew her hand, "Lady Chen, who did you offend with such a heavy hand..."

Chu Lonely smiled and said, "It seems that the victim of this matter is the princess." ”

"It can not only wronged me but also hurt Mrs. Chen, this killing two birds with one stone is really ......" Jingtan wondered in her heart, someone deliberately lured her out that day, and she was afraid that she would be led to do it

Chu Lin rowed the boat away from the mandarin lotus, and asked, "Chen Niangzi's illness is an angina attack?" ”

"Yes, but..." she was a little skeptical about the claim. If Mrs. Chen is really angina, can she really last all these years in the cold palace, without anyone to take care of her and without medicine?

"But what?" Hatsu Silence asked.

"I always feel that Mrs. Chen's illness is not simple, if it is angina, I didn't see her attack that day, but I saw that she was mentally abnormal." Jing Tan thought for a while, and said: "By the way, every sixteenth month, Mrs. Chen can't avoid guests, and she doesn't come out after locking the palace gate." ”

"It's strange, if the poor monk knows about the disease, she shouldn't have mental problems."

Jing Tan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, pulled his sleeve and said: "That mandarin lotus root is a precious thing, the Tai Hospital will not have no archives, taking advantage of the lack of imperial doctors on duty at this moment, it is better for us to go through the archives now." ”

The Tai Hospital is connected to the Dian Xiang Courtyard, the front hall is the Tai Hospital, and the apse is the Dian Xiang Courtyard, at this hour, there are only two Tai Doctors on duty in the Tai Hospital, and Zhengxiang, who is sleeping in the lobby at the moment, Jing Tan pulled the early silence and went around the archives.

As soon as the two entered, they saw a forest of bookshelves and countless case files.

Chu Shi said in confusion: "There are so many files, dare to ask how the princess wants to find them?" ”

Jing Tan smiled, led him inside, and whispered: "Father and Emperor attach so much importance to Mrs. Chen, like this unknown hidden disease, the file will definitely not be too conspicuous, I estimate, what cabinet will Xu hide in, maybe there will be some dark room organs......"

'Flutter~' She was saying, leaning over to look for the mechanism, when suddenly a chuckle from behind her came from him.

Jing Tan turned around in confusion, and saw Chu Lonely looking at her with a smile, holding something in her hand.

"Princess, look what it is."

She took it in confusion, and the words 'Chen Niangzi File' were clearly written on it.

"This...."Jing Tan couldn't help but have a painful face, and took the file under his gaze and turned his back to look at him.

I saw that the dossier wrote: "In the forty years of the Celestial Empire, the talented Chen family suffered from cough disease, coughing up blood for several days in a month, because the cause could not be found, the Tai Hospital could only use angelica, rehmannia rehmannia, white peony, ejiao, He Shou Wu, longan meat, etc., in a medicinal diet to alleviate the condition ......"

"Cough disease..."Doubts rose in Jing Tan's heart, the concubine's cough seemed to have been there since she was sensible, the imperial doctor was vague about the cause, and she had never seen the mother concubine anxious about it, she asked about her father, but the father just avoided this topic, because she didn't know the cause and couldn't be cured, she had seen her mother's medical case, and this cough was almost the same as Chen Cairen! Because she has been taking medicine, her condition is getting better day by day, and she has no doubts...

She then looked down: "In the forty-third year of the Southern Dynasty, the talented Chen family suffered from a strange disease, and the angina pectoris attack occurred on the sixteenth of the month, and the Tai Hospital could not cure it, and the emperor used mandarin root as an introduction, accompanied by a white fragrance of Jiao'e..."

After seeing the silence, doubts also rose in his heart, and he asked softly: "The strange use of Jiao'e floating white incense, the poor monk doesn't know much about incense, and asked the princess to teach this Jiao'e floating white incense recipe?" ”

"Jiao'e floating white incense is a treasure of the incense garden, and only the Kangning Hall is used in the whole palace, I remember that Mr. Yan taught it the incense recipe in his class..."Jing Tan tried to recall, and said: "Agarwood, amber, frankincense, jujube nectar... Close the red sticky powder and the epiphany... There is also a blind thing that I have never heard before, it seems to be called ......"

"There's also a blind call for evening primrose." ,

While Jing Tan was thinking about it, a young male voice came from the door, which didn't sound like a hospital.

Sure enough, a young man came to them on the candle they had just lit, wearing a pine and cypress green brocade robe, and his hair was tied high by a crown of jasper jade lotus flowers, and saluted them with a smile.

"Lord Huang doesn't sleep late at night?" This is the judgment of the incense temple.

"I was asleep, but Weichen suddenly wanted to see if the epiphany in the yard had bloomed, who knew that he actually ran into the princess, I don't know if the princess was suddenly lifted from the grounding late at night?"

Jing Tan hid the file behind him and said, "Lord Huang's news is really well-informed, it is a matter of time before the ban is lifted, and it is not the same if you come out early and come out late..."