Chaos in the Chu Palace

Chapter 78
Ouyang Ruo returned to Yunxiang Palace with a sneer, but her smile was so weird that even Wan Hui didn't dare to approach easily.She asked the maids to take off the outer smock, and half-lyed on the bed of the beauty, all the maids withdrew.She still stared blankly at the Yingying green color outside the window.

Dexuan came in to take a look worriedly, and was suddenly shocked. He rushed forward, broke her hand vigorously and said, "Your Majesty, you hurt yourself, let go!"

Ouyang Ruo just squeezed her hand tightly, the sharp armor was deeply embedded in her palm, and the bright red blood fell to the ground drop by drop, like the blood-stained red plums.

Wan Hui heard the sound and hurried in. Seeing that Ouyang Ruo's hands were dripping with blood, she couldn't help being shocked and broke them together.Ouyang Ruo was no match for the strength of the two of them, the armor was taken off, and a ball of cotton was quickly stuffed into his hand.

It was as if the pain had just reached her heart at this moment.She suddenly came to her senses, with sharp hatred shooting out of her eyes.

She suddenly didn't hate herself as much as she did at this time, the deep-seated hatred surged, almost suffocating her.

"Go to Imperial Physician Qin!" She paused every word.

After a while, Doctor Qin came over, and after careful diagnosis and treatment, he said: "Your Majesty, this is a skin trauma, just apply some medicine and it will be fine..."

He was about to leave when Ouyang Ruo suddenly grabbed his collar and stared at him.Qin Zhi had never seen her lose her composure like this, and hurriedly knelt down again.

Wan Hui also hurriedly pulled Ouyang Ruo, and couldn't help calling: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

Ouyang Ruo said to Wan Hui coldly, "Back off!"

Wan Hui was still waiting to speak, when Ouyang Ruo said angrily, "I told you to step back!" Her complexion was snowy and ferocious.Wan Hui had never seen her like this before, so she hurriedly retreated.Suddenly the room was silent.

Qin Zhi was only on the side, surprised and uncertain, but Ouyang Ruo calmed down, brushed the hair on his temples, and sat quietly in front of the couch.The afternoon sun shines on her face through the carved window lattice, Qin Zhi peeks, and sees that half of her face is in the sunlight and half is hidden in the darkness.Half of it looks beautiful and ethereal, but the other half looks extraordinarily beautiful under the shadows.

"Your Majesty... What are your orders..." Qin Zhi bowed his head.

Qin Zhi has always respected and feared this lady, although she is always so gentle that she is not like ordinary people.But he still felt the unfathomable city under her gentle surface.Ouyang Ruo didn't answer, just looked at him quietly, as if wanting to see his internal organs.

Ouyang Ruo stepped forward suddenly, helped him up with his own hands, and sat on the chair.Asked softly: "Does the doctor Qin know why I left you here?"

Qin Zhi wiped off his cold sweat, and quickly replied: "I don't know, I'm afraid."

Ouyang Ruo suddenly laughed coldly.She caressed her protruding belly: "How does Doctor Qin think I treat you?"

Qin Zhi quickly replied: "Rou Fangyi has shown kindness to this humble official again. There is really no way for this humble official to repay her."

Ouyang Ruo didn't look at him, but said softly: "Qin Yuyi seems to have a lot of affection for my servant Mingying, and I also want to match her with Qin Yuyi as a concubine. I hope Qin Yuyi will not treat her harshly in the future." yes."

Qin Zhi was overjoyed, but suddenly felt embarrassed: "My minister's wife is still ill, and I really can't bear to provoke her with this matter, in case she can't think about it..."

Ouyang Ruo finally raised his head and looked at him with a smile: "As far as I know, after you married your first wife, she suffered from serious illnesses. In fact, you don't have much relationship with her. Now you are going to fight for this friendship. He can also consider her feelings, he is really a good man. It is absolutely right for me to give Mingying to you."

She couldn't be the one to break up the couple's alliance, this decision was made after inquiring clearly.

Qin Zhi hastily knelt down and thanked: "Thank you Rou Fangyi for her completion."

Ouyang Ruo ordered him to get up, and sighed softly: "Qin Yuyi's heart is too serious. In this harem, if others give you a favor, they will make you pay a very high price. Qin Yuyi thanked Ben Gong for what? Maybe what Ben Gong and others told you to do is a disaster of ransacking your family and exterminating your family?"

With just this sentence, cold sweat dripped from Qin Zhi's forehead.

Ouyang Ruo looked at his appearance, and then said coldly: "Doctor Qin has a word for me now, should I help me or not? If I help, I will betroth Mingying to you, and I will marry you beautifully." The Qin family, you will be my confidant in the future. If you don’t help me, I will still betroth Mingying to you, but you and I will be strangers in the future. So, this time, I will not allow you money, money, or silk. A high-ranking official with a generous salary, I promise you a word of righteousness!"

Qin Zhi was stunned when he heard that: "Ma'am, this..."

Ouyang Ruo looked at him quietly, with an unpredictable look in his big black and white eyes, and only looked at him in front of him coldly.

Ben Gong promises you a righteous word... Her decisive words rang in his ears, and his mind went blank for a moment.

Qin Zhi was dripping with cold sweat, and stood bowed in front of her.Benefits and righteousness, blessings and misfortunes... All kinds of things are always passing by in his mind, too fast to catch his tracks.

Ouyang Ruo didn't rush him, just sat in front of him, staring at his face.

I don't know how long it took, Qin Zhi gritted his teeth and knelt down and said, "I am willing to work for the empress, so that we can share the good and the bad! Please send me by the empress."

A slight smile appeared on Ouyang Ruo's face, and the smile gradually expanded bit by bit, like waves rippling away, Qin Zhi was stunned.She didn't say anything, but asked instead: "Why does Imperial Physician Qin work for me? Can you tell me?"

Qin Zhi was taken aback for a moment, and then slowly said: "I know very well that if you want to get ahead in the palace with your medical skills, you can only choose the master and rely on it. If you meet a master with impure intentions, you will end up with a cunning rabbit and a lackey. , but Empress Rou Fangyi has a kind heart and can't do such a thing. Therefore, I believe in empress' righteousness."

"Really believe it?!" Ouyang Ruo asked again.

"Trust!" Qin Zhi bowed deeply.

Ouyang Ruo finally showed a sincere smile, stretched out her wrist like a snow, and gently parted her red lips: "So, the first thing is to let you tell me whether the child in your belly is a dragon or a phoenix."

There was a "buzz" in Qin Zhi's head.In this palace, it is not allowed to see whether a pregnant concubine is a dragon or a phoenix in her belly, even if she finds out, she can only quietly report to the emperor.He looked at her face, gritted his teeth, turned around and went out, ordered the palace man to bring in a basin of ice water, and cleaned his hands carefully.He also made a diagnosis for Ouyang Ruo.Repeatedly cleaned her hands several times in this way, so long that Wan Hui poked her head several times.Ouyang Ruo just sat still, watching Qin Zhi with his eyes closed.

After a long time, Qin Zhicai replied tremblingly with a hoarse voice: "Qi Madam, it's the son of a dragon!"

Ouyang Ruo seemed to have been punched by someone, and said after a while: "Really?!"

Qin Zhi knelt down again, with a tired expression: "Yes, I have been diagnosed several times, and most of them are dragon sons."

Ouyang Ruo looked completely pale.Qin Zhi hurriedly comforted him: "Your Majesty, this is a happy event, you..."

Ouyang Ruo waved his hands weakly, and said to him: "In this case, I have to wrong Qin Yuyi to play a show with me. If Qin Yuyi is willing, this matter will be completed, and you will be my benefactor who recreated Ouyang Ruo , if it doesn’t work, I won’t blame you, it’s just as it’s fate. Let me discuss with you, if you think it’s not right, just tell me.”

She gritted her teeth and spoke to him quietly.

Qin Zhi listened, and after a while he pondered for a long time before saying: "The empress is kind-hearted, and she can't bear to hurt people's lives, but the empress sees her, if it just makes her unable to manage affairs, it is not enough to make the empress feel at ease. so..."

He told her his plan in detail.It took the two of them a long time to make a final decision.Ouyang Ruo talked dryly with him, and Qin Zhi was also sweating profusely.The two looked at each other for the last time, both of them were determined to fight to the death.She had no way out, and neither did he.With one gamble, he risked his wealth and life.

Since Ouyang Ruo came back from Shanglin Garden that time, she has recuperated at the gate of the palace without any excuse.Wan Hui looked at the little maids again, there was something wrong with the little servants, Ouyang Ruo also found some excuses to clear them all out of her palace.Or order them to do rough work, but they can't appear in front of her anyway.

In the scorching summer, when Ouyang Ruo got up early in the morning, Qin Zhi would come to ask for his pulse, and sometimes Qin Zhi would stay to teach a few court ladies how to decoct tonic and make medicinal food.Very long stay.Ouyang Ruo didn't care too much, and only praised him for being careful.

After taking Qin Zhi's pulse, she adjusted her clothes and went to pay her respects to the empress.After the long talk in the waterside pavilion in Shanglin Garden, the queen treated her like a confidant, and would leave her to drink tea or enjoy flowers together after greeting her.Ouyang Ruo also accepted it readily, and had a close relationship with the empress. This unusual phenomenon made all the concubines in the palace look sideways.The way Mrs. Liu Guo looked at Ouyang Ruo gradually changed.

Lin was also puzzled, but did not dare to ask.Only Mrs. Xu didn't care, only saw Ouyang Ruo once and said indifferently: "Seeking skins from tigers is never the best decision."

Ouyang Ruo just smiled and said nothing.

One day Ouyang Ruo went to the queen's middle palace to pay her respects as usual. The queen saw her coming, looked at her with a smile and said: "You look good, and your belly has grown a lot these days."

Ouyang Ruo couldn't help pinching the handkerchief in his hand, and then said with a smile: "Yes, the Qin Yu doctor said that the child in the womb must eat more in the past few months, so that the child in the womb can grow fat and strong. So the concubine these days Try to eat as much as you can, and the doctor Qin has a heart, and often stays behind after taking pulses to teach ministers and concubines how to cook medicinal food."

The queen was very pleased when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's so good. When the prince is born in the future, I must reward him more." Ouyang Ruo also nodded in agreement.

After a while, she suddenly said in embarrassment: "Empress empress, if she is an emperor concubine, won't the concubine live up to her expectations?" After she finished speaking, she let out a long sigh.

The queen froze slightly, and then said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, according to the book, you must be a prince, even if you are not, what are you afraid of when you are young."

Hearing this, Ouyang Ruo sneered in her heart, she is so young, the left and right are just tools for your queen to have children.If you are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous!
Ouyang Ruo slowly lowered her head to sip the tea, the queen was also speechless, she was about to say something.Suddenly there was noise outside the hall, uproarious.

The queen frowned slightly, and said to the left and right: "What's going on, so noisy?"

Just as she was about to ask again, she suddenly saw Madam Wu who was next to the queen stepping in, took a quick look at Ouyang Ruo and said, "I want to report to the empress, it's Eunuch Dexuan, the chief manager of Yunxiang Palace, who is in a hurry to come in to report. "

Ouyang Ruo was startled, and the teacup slammed on the table: "What's going on, Dexuan has never been so unruly."

The queen also frowned and said, "Then if you have something to say, come in and talk about it."

After she finished speaking, the palace servants led Dexuan in. Dexuan's face turned red and then turned blue and white, and suddenly he knelt down before the queen and Ouyang Ruo, kowtowed a few times, and then said in a trembling voice: "Queen Empress, empress, it’s not good, that Qin Yuyi turned out to be a beast with a human face...he..."

The queen and Ouyang Ruo were confused and asked in unison, "What's the matter?"

Dexuan wiped his face, not knowing whether it was sweat or tears: "He has defiled Miss Mingying..." He fell down on the ground as he spoke.

Ouyang Ruo said "Ah", her face turned pale, she stood up and wanted to take a few steps but couldn't help but staggered.When the queen saw it, she hurriedly shouted: "Come here, you are going to die, help Rou Fangyi quickly, hurry up!"

The palace servants below rushed up to help Ouyang Ruo.Ouyang Ruo regained his composure, earned the support of the palace servants, got up and knelt down in front of the empress, and said, "Empress empress, this... what should I do?!"

As she spoke, big tears fell and she trembled slightly.

The queen quickly helped her up: "What are you talking about. Go and have a look." Then she said angrily to De Xuan: "Is what you said true? If you lie, look carefully at your skin!"

Dexuan kowtowed repeatedly, and said with a mournful face: "How dare the servants use this to deceive the empress and the empress Rou Fangyi? Now the Yunxiang Palace is in chaos, and Miss Mingying has been dragged away. It was thrown into the well."

Ouyang Ruo trembled all over, and was about to faint again, the queen was angry and anxious: "Come here, let's drive to Yunxiang Palace, I want to see what's going on in the future!"

As he spoke, he helped Ouyang Ruo onto the chariot, and headed all the way to Yunxiang Palace.Ouyang Ruo just sat beside the queen, helped her hand and cried mournfully: "My dear Mingying, I wanted to say that Qin Yuyi took care of his concubines very carefully, and wanted to give him a baby, but I didn't expect him to do it. It's so nasty, it's..."

The queen's phoenix face was cold and serious, she pursed her red lips and said, "Sister Ouyang, don't cry, maybe you have been misunderstood by him because of your thoughts. This man is full of virtues, and he thinks it must be his... Sigh... a crime! !"

The two chatted all the way.When I arrived at Yunxiang Palace, I saw Mingying's clothes were disheveled, and she was crying to seek death.Qin Zhi who was at the side was feeling ashamed, being escorted by the palace guards, his hair was disheveled and his official uniform was disheveled.

When Ouyang Ruo saw it, she cried and said to Mingying, "My good sister, I'm the one who hurt you. It's time to recognize this beast, why did it kill you?"

As she spoke, she rushed forward again, slapped Qin Zhi hard on the face, and cursed: "You are a beast in clothes! It's in vain that I want to promise Mingying to you as a child, but I didn't expect you to be so impatient." , are you worthy of Ben Gong? Do you think that you can make Ben Gong pregnant by giving Ben Gong a few broken prescriptions, so that you can dominate Yunxiang Palace? Pooh!"

She was still waiting to scold, but the queen's eyes were shining, she stepped forward to help Ouyang Ruo and said, "I said, sister Ouyang, don't be angry, isn't this a court lady? Since you are interested in giving it to him, then give it to him." Alright. Seeing his excellent medical skills, don't be angry."

When Ouyang Ruo saw the queen coming to persuade her, she said: "Your Majesty is a bright lesson! The concubine has not been able to conceive since the last miscarriage. Later, sister Wanfei said that he has excellent medical skills and can show it to the concubine. The concubine believed it. So So I asked him to come and see. At the beginning, I believed his words because I saw his honesty. Later, I got pregnant in one fell swoop. But... relying on his own merits, he didn't pay attention to his concubines. The concubine thought that Mingying beside him would When I grow up, I want to betroth him to see if I can move him, and take care of myself. I didn't expect...I didn't expect him to do such nasty things now while his concubine is out of the palace..."

She wiped the tears off her face as she spoke, then turned her head and gave him a hard look: "If I had known this, I wouldn't have let him show my concubine that Lao Shizi was sick. This kind of imperial doctor with corrupt conduct, my concubine thought of it." I feel extremely humiliated. I ask the empress to punish him severely! He must not be lenient."

The queen helped her up and sighed: "It's really hard for an upright official to break up housework. Let the queen ask."

As she spoke, she walked up to Mingying who was crying all the time: "How old are you?"

Mingying's hair was messed up, she was full of tears, but she quickly knelt down and said: "Go back to the empress, this servant is seventeen this year. The lady Rou Fangyi often said that she would send the servant out of the palace to marry someone else, but the servant is not willing. I am willing to serve Empress Rou Fangyi for the rest of my life! Let the Empress be the master."

The queen sighed and said: "But now your reputation has been ruined, can you still stay in the palace?" Ming Ying was dumbfounded, and kept crying again.

Seeing Qin Zhi who was on the other side embarrassed, the queen walked up to him: "Doctor Qin, I also heard that your first wife is seriously ill, but... oh...how could you do such a thing, let alone today is the time for me to do so. After listening, if the emperor listens, you will be dragged out and beheaded!"

When Qin Zhi heard this, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Empress, spare your life! Let me spare my life for the sake of my contribution to the community by curing the infertility of Empress Wanfei and Empress Rou Fangyi!"

The queen said "Oh" again, and asked doubtfully, "You also cured Concubine Wan's infertility?" She looked at him thoughtfully as she spoke.

Qin Zhi nodded hastily after hearing this: "It's absolutely true! If the empress doesn't believe it, she can ask the concubine Wan to come and testify. Everything I say is true!"

The queen nodded: "Forgive me and you dare not lie. In this case, I will be the master to spare your life, but there is only one thing. Since you ruined Mingying's innocence, you have to take her into the room, otherwise you are not in vain. Killed someone's life?"

When Ouyang Ruo heard this, she said reluctantly: "Your Majesty, how could you spare him so easily! Such a well-dressed beast would have to cut him into pieces to relieve his hatred!"

The queen turned her head and persuaded: "He is dead, what about Miss Mingying? According to the book, she will not be able to live in this world anymore. Why don't we go and die together."

Ouyang Ruo was speechless after hearing this, so he could only stir his handkerchief bitterly.

The queen persuaded again: "I know that you protect the people below, but men and women marry, and Qin Yuyi's medical skills are superb, but I can't just kill him."

After hearing this, Ouyang Ruo glared at Qin Zhi for a long while and said, "That can't be cheap for him. According to my concubine, if something like this happens, he won't come here to ask for his pulse. Go back to the imperial hospital for me." Go! Also! Mingying from this palace is an innocent girl, so she must marry her in a good manner!"

Qin Zhi knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, Empress Rou Fangyi, for your success! Thank you, Empress Empress, for your kindness!"

Ouyang Ruo didn't seem to want to see him any more, and only wished the empress with red eyes: "Empress, quickly ask someone to drag him down. I don't know how the harem laughs at my concubines after such a scandal has happened!"

(End of this chapter)