Volume 1 Floating Life Chapter 23 Mandarin Lotus (5)

Jing Tan probed from behind the curtain, "Is Mr. detoxifying the mandarin lotus?" ”

Seeing her sneaking out again, Wan Er smiled: "The princess came out of that dog hole again?" ”

She walked in and sat down nearby, pouting, "The big woman can bend and stretch." Thinking of the thatch on the top of his head that day, he subconsciously flicked it on his head, and said: "Today I wrote a letter of forgiveness to my father, but my father ignored it, it seems that the mandarin lotus root is really important to my father... I didn't have time to ask that day, what is the poison in Mrs. Chen that Mr. said? ”

"If it is like the illness that the poor monk understands, it should be a kind of Hu people's Gu poison - Yuesui, but this poison is very weird, and the poor monk is puzzled why the lady in the palace is such a Gu..."

Jing Tan was puzzled: "So what kind of poison is this?" ”

Speaking of this, Chu Silence suddenly paused, and his eyes drifted away, "... Because this is a ruthless Gu..."

Ruthless Gu! Jing Tan was shocked, she couldn't be emotional when she was hit by the Desperate Gu, so how did she stay by her father's side for so many years? She is just a palace concubine, how could she fall into such a Gu?

Just when she was puzzled, he listened to him again: "But this kind of Gu with mandarin root and moon incense can ensure that there is nothing to do for a lifetime, although the host can be transferred, but if the host is transferred, the original host will not live for twenty years." "As long as you don't feel emotional... The last sentence was not said at first, it was originally an inconsequential sentence, and he didn't know why he didn't tell her.

Jing Tantan said: "No wonder my father is so angry. She looked at the mandarin lotus root that was gradually coming to life, and said: "If Chen Niangzi is the real host, then her identity is not ordinary." I sneaked out tonight to go to the cold palace, and I guess he will hide in the cold palace, so I want to go and investigate. ”

Chu Shi frowned and said: "It won't be a woman who can poison the middle of the lotus pond, isn't the princess afraid of danger if she goes alone?" ”

Jing Tan confidently took out something from his sleeve and put it in front of him, and said proudly: "I'm not good at making a fuss, but I'm still good at self-protection!" ”

Chu Shi looked at the little thing in front of him, and said with a smile: "What if the other party is a master?" Are you sure the princess's Hidden Arrow can handle it? ”

Jing Tan rolled his eyes: "If you think about the benefits, when the noise is loud, the guards will definitely come..."

She paused, and said with a narrow smile: "Besides, Mr. is here, will Sir rest assured that I will go to the cold palace where no one is a ghost or a ghost?" She just saw that he was compassionate, otherwise she would not have waded into this muddy water.

He laughed and said, "It turns out that the princess is waiting for the poor monk here. ”

He put the medicine back in his sleeve, looked at her and chuckled, "Actually, it won't take a moment for the princess to know if she is hiding in the cold palace." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound in the pool outside the boat, which seemed to be the sound of someone falling into the water. Jingtan was about to go out when she heard the sound, but Chu Silence pulled her sleeve, signaled her not to go out yet, and made a silent gesture to her.

She looked at his white and slender fingers, was stunned for a moment, and swallowed her saliva uncontrollably.

When the noise outside gradually became quieter, he let go of her sleeves, and the two of them got out of the canopy boat, and saw a man in a night robe crawling out of the lotus pond and running in the direction of the cold palace. Jing Tan threw out a hidden arrow, and the man stumbled again.

Jing Tan smiled: "It turns out that Mr. is waiting for the rabbit." "First of all, I said to the outside world that I could save the mandarin lotus, and then the person who poisoned it must be impatient to come and check, so that the person who poisoned it can be found. The gentleman is a merciful person, and if she were to be her, she would have laid a trap for others to cast in.

So as she expected, Chu Lonely followed her to the cold palace.

Jing Tan followed him along the way, remembered his medicine, and asked, "Sir, is it the evening primrose that just fell into the mandarin root?" The smell is slightly similar to the peculiar sandalwood on the gentleman's body. ”

Chu Silence chuckled, and his voice was warm: "Isn't the sandalwood princess on the poor monk unaccustomed to smelling?" ”

Jing Tan immediately explained: "How can it be, I like the sandalwood on my husband!" ”

Regarding whether it was evening primrose, he didn't want to answer, so Jing Tan didn't ask much.

"Inside is the cold palace, and the mage is afraid that it will be inconvenient to go." It is said that when the two arrived at the cold palace, they were stopped by the eunuch at the door.

"The mage was ordered by the emperor to save the mandarin lotus, and now he needs to take a few taels of epiphany at night, if it is too late, how can you bear it!" Jing Tan stepped forward to intimidate the eunuch who was guarding the door, secretly glad that no one saw her clearly when she came last time, and she had seen the epiphany planted in Chen Niangzi's yard, otherwise she didn't know how to reply to him.

"Epiphany is planted in its own hospital, so why bother to go far."

"You don't understand, what the mage wants is a wild epiphany. I haven't seen you so faithful on weekdays, so why don't you go anywhere today to raise the corpse and come here to stop the mage? ”

The eunuch was speechless, so he let them in with a black face.

As soon as I stepped in, a cold night breeze hit, and the palace people lived in the backyard, but fortunately, Jingtan remembered the way in the backyard, and took out the fire fold from his arms to guide the way.

There was only one room in the backyard with candles lit, and a medicinal fragrance was diffusing it, and just as the two of them wanted to go up and check, the eunuch at the door came up to stop them and said, "There is nothing the mage wants here, and the epiphany grows in the front yard." ”

Chu Shi made a namaste to him and said, "I think there are people injured inside, and the poor monk knows a little about medicine, so he can check it out." ”

The eunuch retorted: "Don't dare to bother with the mage, the place is unknown, so please ask the mage..."

Jing Tan took advantage of the two of them to speak, pushed open the door, and saw a lot of precious gold creation pills on the table, a man was bare back drugged, and on his shoulder was the scar of two sleeve arrows! The gatekeeper tried to stop it, but it was too late.

She exclaimed, "It's you! You were the one who poisoned the mandarin lotus that day! ”

The man turned back in horror, quickly pulled his clothes, knelt on the ground, bowed his head and said, "What the third princess said, the slave doesn't understand." ”

The eunuch guarding the door stared at her, "Isn't the third princess grounded?" ”

Jing Tan ignored him and questioned the man: "If it weren't for you, you would have been in the cold palace all the year round, and even the father-in-law at the door didn't know my identity, how would you know that I was the third princess?" If it weren't for you, where did the two Hidden Arrow wounds on your shoulders come from? ”

The man was speechless, the father-in-law who was guarding the door looked puzzled, thinking back to Fang Cai, and he didn't know when Agui went out, and came back in black after a while, and told him not to let anyone in, he thought that he was afraid of provoking someone, and he didn't want to ask too much, who knew that it was the mage and the third princess who came to the door.

The father-in-law who guarded the door smiled and said, "The mage and the princess are not mistaken, Agui has been in the room all the time..."

She sneered: "Is my father-in-law trying to excuse him, does my father-in-law know what to do with shielding and conniving at my father?" ”

The eunuch who guarded the door was frightened, and when he heard this, he said no more.

Jing Tan saw that Agui still refused to admit it, so he frightened him and said: "The sleeve arrow is poisoned, if you still refuse to tell the truth, I dare not guarantee that you will survive tomorrow." She thought to herself why a eunuch in a cold palace would do such a dangerous thing, it was nothing more than to obey people's orders for the sake of life and wealth, and if he threatened his life, he might commit it.

Sure enough, Agui trembled, and said tremblingly: "It's the poison of the slaves, as for the people behind the scenes, it's quite secretive, please ask the princess to come closer." ”

She thought that he shouldn't have any tricks, so she bent down and listened closer, who knew that Agui took out a dagger out of nowhere, and when everyone didn't react, he immediately grabbed her, and said in her ear: "If the slave dies, the princess will never know who is behind the scenes, and please ask the princess to get acquainted with each other and give the slave an antidote!" ”

Jing Tan couldn't move, his eyes stared at Chu Silence, and said, "The antidote is on the mage..."

Chu Silence received her eyes, and really took out a box of small things from his arms, and slowly approached them.

If it weren't for the dagger around her neck, Jing Tan would have laughed out loud when she looked at the box of Xi and ointment.

Ah Gui believed it, his attention was attracted by the 'antidote', and he relaxed his vigilance, Chu Silence pulled Jing Tan over, Ah Gui reacted, waved his knife to stop it, and seeing that the knife body was about to fall on her, Chu Silence turned around to protect her and dodged his attack.

"Sir!" Unexpectedly, he would block the knife for her, and she didn't react for a while.

Chu Shi smiled at her, and his voice was warm: "The poor monk is fine, the princess doesn't have to worry." ”

Before she could check behind him, a few guards rushed in and suppressed Agui, the eunuch who guarded the door was clever, and he didn't know when to move the rescuers.

Jing Tan lowered her head, and several guards didn't recognize her, so she saluted Chu Lonely, "Did the thief hurt the mage?" ”

He shielded her behind him and smiled at them, "I've bothered a few thieves late at night, and the poor monks have nothing to do." ”

A few people arrested Agui back, and Jing Tan couldn't go anywhere else, so she had to follow Chu Silence back to the canopy boat first.

"Yikes! Sir's clothes are torn! She took advantage of the lights in the boat to see his back clearly, thinking that it was just scratched by Agui, looking at the tears of the clothes, I don't know if there is any injury inside...

Jing Tan thought for a while, and hesitated to speak: "Sir, it's convenient for me to see, if you are injured, you should take medicine earlier." ”

Chu Silence turned around and chuckled: "The poor monk is fine, the princess doesn't have to worry." Looking at her neck, he saw that there was a crimson mark, and the red mark on her face had not faded, and he frowned and said, "Before this matter is over, the princess should not come out at night." Then he took out the box of Xi and ointment and put it on the table.

Seeing that his face was flat, she thought that what she should say to him was fine, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Isn't there a gentleman?" ”

"The princess is older, so she knows how to avoid suspicion"