The Virtuous Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 110 Royal Cat (2)

Hearing this, Fu Lu shrugged his shoulders, turned around and picked up the food box from the table, and handed it to Jiao Rong, "Well, now that you are the master, it's really hard to see you, so take care."

It was really rare for Fu Lu to look so serious, Jiao Rong raised the corners of his eyebrows, and said "OK" casually, and left the imperial dining room with the food box.The moment Jiao Rong just turned his head, these people in the imperial dining room collectively said: "Send off, little master Wu Ya."

When Jiao Rong was a court lady, she was used to working alone, so she acted very quickly in the palace. Now she came out suddenly, and the maids who usually followed her couldn't keep up.

But the clothes and jewelry that Jiaorong is wearing now are different from before. Carrying the food box alone, she walked from the imperial dining room to the corridor of Chengqian Palace. Many palace people looked at her and whispered to her, and some felt strange. Some also said that she was born in slavery and had no status.

Jiaorong has always turned a blind eye to the gossip in the palace, she is still as vigorous and resolute as ever, walking quickly with a cold face, looking very unhuman.

Just when Jiaorong was walking on the corridor of Chengqian Palace, and was about to go back to the palace to deliver hot soup to Concubine Yi, a gray shadow suddenly appeared around the corner, rushing towards Jiaorong at a speed that ordinary people could not react to. body.

Because the soup had to be drunk while it was hot, Jiaorong walked very quickly, not paying attention to her feet at all. Being thrown like this, her pupils trembled slightly, and she lost her balance instantly.In the next second, Jiaorong fell to the floor of the corridor, and the food box in her hand fell out.

Jiao Rong felt bad, ignored the pain in her leg, and hurriedly got up, wanting to pick up the food box.At this time, the lid of the wooden food box had already flown out. Fortunately, the food box itself was not poured, and the soup was not spilled.

Just as Jiaorong was about to go over to cover the food box and pick it up, the gray shadow came over again, and now Jiaorong could see clearly that it was a cat with gray hair and golden eyes, and it was the culprit who threw her down just now culprit.

But before Jiao Rong could react, the cat jumped to the food box again.Jiaorong thought it was going to eat the food inside, so she got up quickly to stop it, but who knew that this cat was very rebellious, kicked the food box down again without saying a word, and now the hot soup inside was completely spilled out .

Seeing this, Jiaorong let out a "hiss" and stood there for a second, hesitating for a second, not packing up the food box for the time being, but looking at the fluffy gray cat.

Jiaorong stared at the gray cat's golden eyes, raised her eyebrows and said lightly: "Hey, who are you, you are so angry? This is soup for our concubine Yi. If you want to drink it, you can drink it. How did it get knocked over?"

There are very few wild cats in the palace, most of them are pets kept by the masters of the palace, or cats raised by the House of Internal Affairs to catch mice.That's why the cat wasn't afraid at all when it looked at Jiaorong, it just sat down in front of Jiaorong and watched her wagging its tail quietly, looking very unworthy of a beating.

Jiaorong looked at it, and just about to say something, at this moment, a familiar male voice suddenly came from not far away: "Eh? Miss Jiaorong?"

Hearing this, Jiaorong looked towards the source of the sound, and found that the person who came was the imperial physician Sun who she had invited to ask Concubine Yi for a safe pulse.As soon as Doctor Sun called out Jiaorong's name, he realized something was wrong, quickly patted his mouth, and changed his words: "I said it wrong, I said it wrong, it's really presumptuous to greet the young master Wuya, I hope the young master doesn't mind .”

"It's okay." After the past two days, Jiaorong was too lazy to say those polite words, her expression did not change, and she said softly: "At first, Concubine Yi felt that her body was fine, so she didn't plan to see it again, but I was still not at ease. I will trouble Dr. Sun."

Imperial Physician Sun walked a few steps towards Jiaorong, and said "Hey", "My lord, you don't have to be polite, this is what a humble official should do."

At the end of the sentence, Sun Taiyi looked at the embarrassed appearance on the ground in front of Jiaorong, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly, and said suspiciously: "Young Master Wuya, you are..."

Jiao Rong followed the doctor Sun's line of sight to look at the spilled food and soup, sighed deeply, then turned to look at the old cat in front of him, and said helplessly: "I originally asked the imperial dining room to give the young The Lord cooks meals to nourish the body, but unexpectedly, a cat came across on the road, and it insisted on kicking over the food box in my hand, and I don’t know when I provoked it.”

Hearing the sound, Imperial Physician Sun approached a few steps curiously, squatted down slowly, reached out to pick up the soup bowl that fell on the ground, looked at the remaining soup and vegetable powder inside, and took it to the tip of his nose to smell it.

Soon, Imperial Physician Sun frowned, and said with an uneasy expression: "Don't be angry, my lord, this cat may not be trying to annoy you on purpose. Weichen smelled the soup, and the mushrooms in it seemed to have been spoiled for too long It tastes sour, if the young master and the concubine Yi really drink it, it may cause poisoning."

Hearing this, Jiao Rong froze in place, her face turned ugly, and she said in disbelief, "What?"

Seeing Jiaorong's suddenly cold face, Sun Taiyi pursed his lips slightly, and comforted him: "Don't worry, my lord, this probably wasn't the intentional poisoning of the imperial dining room, it might just be fresh mushrooms and bad mushrooms taken by mistake. Fortunately, there was no danger, you and Concubine Yi didn't drink it down."

In this regard, Jiao Rong's eyelashes flicked slightly, thinking for a few seconds.She, Mafa, made the soup herself, and it was almost impossible for something to go wrong. When Mafa was cooking, she was not used to having other royal chefs around her, so she just asked Fulu to help.

Wait a minute, Fu Lu...

Soon, Jiaorong's cheeks trembled, and she basically deduced the situation.Fulu is the only one who can make such a low-level mistake, right?I hope that when Ersen cooks imperial dishes for the emperor in the future, Fulu will stop picking up the wrong things.

However, if the soup was really poisonous, wouldn't the gray cat who deliberately kicked over the soup just now saved her and Concubine Yi?
Thinking of this, Jiaorong looked at the gray cat inexplicably in a daze.At this time, Imperial Physician Sun also saw the cat, and soon he suddenly realized: "Which cat in the palace do I think is as disobedient as the young master said, so it is Zhuohua."

Hearing this, Jiao Rong was taken aback for a moment, and asked without knowing why, "Zhuohua?"

"It's the one in front of you." Imperial Physician Sun smiled gently and explained to Jiaorong: "The name Zhuohua was chosen by the emperor himself. It is said that when the emperor was admiring peach blossoms in the imperial garden in spring, it suddenly He ran out of the garden and handed a petal to the emperor, and since then Zhuohua has become a royal cat specially raised in the Qianqing Palace, the most spiritual cat in the Forbidden City."

As he said that, Doctor Sun hooked his lips and smiled: "This little guy will run out of Qianqing Palace to play every three to five times, and he will go back after playing enough. These two days, Zhuohua ran out, and Eunuch Liang is looking for him."

(End of this chapter)