Return of Jin Yi

Chapter 120

After Chu Ci said that he was out of illness, the imperial concubine's side quickly fell silent, but there were people waiting at the Palace of Compassion and Peace every day, waiting for Chu Ci to recover from the cold and enter the palace to see the Queen Mother Ren.

Chu Ci reckoned the time, it should be the time when she first met the queen mother when she returned to Beijing, and the root cause of her illness began to appear.

On the seventh day, when Jing Ming personally brought Li Zhong to the door, she knew that she could no longer shirk, so she packed up the medicine box and went into the palace with Zhe Jin and Zhe Xia.

In the bedroom of the Compassionate Ning Palace, the imperial physician kneeled on the ground.

Aunt Jurui and Concubine Huang Gui are waiting nearby.

The two watched Emperor Jingming come in with Chu Ci, got up at the same time, and called "Concubine Shizi".

Chu Ci returned the salute to the imperial concubine, then walked straight to the Empress Dowager's bedside, and after taking a seat on the twig, pinched the Empress Dowager's pulse.

She worked for a quarter of an hour, then raised her head, looked at Ju Rui and asked, "How long has the Queen Mother been like this?"

Aunt Ju Rui hurriedly said, "It's been eight or nine days since I returned to Shi Zifei. At the beginning, I asked Doctor Liang to give acupuncture, and I could wake up for a few hours, but in these two days, there is no effect at all. Doctor Liang is using whatever method, but the lady just can't wake up...the other imperial doctors can't do anything either."

"I see." Chu Ci nodded.

Although Emperor Jingming hated the Empress Dowager Ren for only caring about Ren's family and ignoring him, but at this critical moment, he couldn't help but turn his eyes red, and looked at Chu Ci and said, "Concubine Shizi, can you make Empress Dowager wake up?"

Chu Ci got up, first saluted Emperor Jing Ming respectfully, and then said, "Yes!"

"Then please ask the concubine Shizi to treat the queen mother quickly!" Emperor Jingming said hastily.

Hearing his urging, Chu Ci took a deep look at him, "Your Majesty, I haven't finished my words yet."

"Didn't finish?" Emperor Jing Ming was stunned.

He thought that Chu Ci wanted the lion to open his mouth wide, and he wanted some benefits, so he flicked his sleeves and said, "You treat the mother first, what conditions do you have, we can talk about it after the mother wakes up."

The corners of Chu Ci's eyes trembled slightly, and then he lowered his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, I don't want to make any conditions, I just want to tell the Emperor that even if the Queen Mother wakes up, she will be like an old man who has had a stroke... Inconvenience in speech and movement .”

"You, what did you say!" Emperor Jing Ming was shocked, he raised his finger to Chu Ci, and asked in disbelief, "Tell me again, what will happen when the mother wakes up?"

"..." Chu Ci had no choice but to follow his instructions, and repeated again, "If you go back to the emperor, I mean—even if the queen mother wakes up, she will be like an old man who has had a stroke, with speech and movement difficulties."

"How could this happen!" Emperor Jing Ming turned pale immediately after hearing her finished speaking, staring at her and questioning, "How could the empress become like this! Could it be you... Did you say that on purpose because you hated the empress?!"

Chu Ci shook his head lightly, paused, and said again, "If the emperor doesn't believe me, then you can also let the imperial doctor come to treat the queen mother!" As she said, she looked at the leader of the doctor Liang who was kneeling on the ground.

Doctor Liang was busy saying, "Your Majesty, the ministers are incompetent. If you let the ministers treat you, they may not be as good as the concubine of the Nanjun Prince's Mansion!"

"You, you..." Emperor Jing Ming was completely angry and panicked after hearing Liang Yizheng's words!
He himself is an idiot. For so many years, thanks to the queen mother, he was able to sit in the high position, and he has been through so many years of ups and downs.

Now, he can't even imagine what he will do in the future without the Queen Mother!
Not to mention the regent Meng Jing, even the ministers of the two factions headed by Zhen Guogong and Cheng Enhou's Mansion in the DPRK, he can't handle it well!

Queen Mother... Queen Mother, he can't be busy!
Thinking of this, his eyes turned scarlet, he stared at Chu Ci, and said to the imperial doctors, "I don't care what the cause of the queen mother is or how serious the disease is, I order you to heal the queen mother, and let her be as good as before. Exactly the same! If you can't do it, you, all of you...don't even think about leaving the Compassionate Ning Palace!"

Chu Ci has been paying attention to Emperor Jingming, how can he not see his thoughts in a thousand turns.

She curled the corners of her lips coldly, looked at him indifferently, and said, "How the emperor treats the imperial physician is the emperor's business. But my daughter, I am afraid that the emperor has no right to imprison her... My daughter is not a servant of the royal family, but There are three matchmakers and six hires in the palace of the Nanjun Prince, and the eldest concubine who is being married by the Ming matchmaker! Regardless of whether the Queen Mother is cured or not, the courtiers must return to the mansion before dark."

"You!" Emperor Jing Ming didn't expect Chu Ci to dare to refute him, and his complexion suddenly became darker.

Seeing this, the imperial concubine standing aside changed her mind, and quickly raised her skirt and said, "Please calm down! Although Shi Zifei's words were a bit blunt, she was right in the end. She is neither an imperial physician nor an imperial physician. She is not a wandering doctor who was ordered to enter the palace, she is just a noble family in the capital... If the emperor really disposes of the concubine of the Nanjun palace because of the empress dowager, what will the civil and military officials and the family members think?"

Listening to the imperial concubine's gentle persuasion, Emperor Jingming's anger subsided slightly.

I also realized that my attitude towards Chu Ci just now was a bit blunt.

However, as the king of a country, it is not his style to be subdued. In the end, he just explained to Chu Ci that what he said just now was to the imperial physician, not to her.

Chu Ci's visit to the palace was to confirm whether the root cause of his previous illness had reappeared.

Now that the results are obtained, naturally there is no intention of staying for long.

She blessed Emperor Jingming's lower body slightly, and said plainly, "I have already said what I should say, and I can't help you at the moment, so I will leave first. If the emperor changes his mind later, let Liang Yizheng Come to the Chu residence in the east of the city to find your daughter!" After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Emperor Jingming to agree, and she directly retreated outside.

Emperor Jing Ming watched her leave graciously, his teeth itching from anger.But, thinking of her identity, he didn't dare to stop him, so he could only watch her leave.

"Your majesty, why don't the concubines go out to send the concubine to the concubine, and then persuade her to see if she can think of other ways to save the queen mother?" The imperial concubine approached Emperor Jingming silently, whispering in his ear.

Emperor Jing Ming glanced back at her, and after a while, nodded lightly, "That's fine, you have an old relationship with her, maybe you can really persuade her to think of another way."

After hearing the words, the imperial concubine saluted again, and then walked out.

Outside, Ah Ju was stopping Chuci from speaking.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her master coming out, she hurriedly turned around, and saluted from a long distance away.

Seeing that Chu Ci didn't go far, the imperial concubine hastily quickened her pace and walked towards the two of them.

"Emperor Noble Concubine!" Chu Ci saw the situation and knew that today's side was unavoidable, so he simply stepped forward, took the initiative to salute, and called out.

When the imperial concubine heard the words, she reached out to help Chu Ci.

Seeing her movements, Chu Ci twitched a hint of sarcasm, then avoided her, stood up straight, and said, "The imperial concubine doesn't need to test me anymore, since you decided to help the tyrant and help people break up When we were husband and wife, there was no love between us!"

"You will never make up for the harm you caused me, and you will never be able to make up for it!"

"So, in the future, we will return from bridge to bridge, and road to road. I will take my Yangguan Road, and you will take your single-plank bridge!"

"I'm leaving, the empress doesn't have to see you off!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't even give the imperial concubine a chance to speak, turned around and left.

The imperial concubine watched Chuci lead the people away step by step.

After a long time, she sighed deeply, "In the end... still can't go back!"

Ah Ju didn't say a word. During the conversation with Chu Ci just now, she also noticed Chu Ci's indifference.

The current her is like the original one, just like two people.

"By the way, you just stopped her. What did she tell you?" The master and servant turned their heads, and when they were walking down the corridor, the imperial concubine looked at Ah Ju and asked as if remembering something.

Ah Ju listened to her master's question, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "The concubine Shi Zi said...she knows why the servant stopped her, and she also said that the last time she saved the First Prince was the last time she stopped for the servant!"

"In the future, no matter what the servant does or who begs her, she will never stop."

"I know!" the imperial concubine said, with unwillingness and darkness gathering in her eyes.

It wasn't until she returned to the bedroom of the Compassionate Ning Palace that she put away the different emotions in her eyes.

After leaving the palace, Chu Ci got into the carriage.

After the car was running smoothly, Zhe Xia took out a ball of paper from his sleeve, handed it to Chu Ci, and said, "Miss, this is given to the servant girl by a little maid named Yan Hong in the Palace of Compassionate Ning."

Chu Ci took the note, opened it, and found that it was Ju Rui's handwriting.

It wrote the whereabouts of the Nanjiang Gu master who gave her a Gu master a few days ago - that Gu master's name in Yunchao was Chang San, and he was also proficient in the art of disguise. , and even the identity is different every day.Before she woke up, Chang San had been hiding in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, but after she woke up, Chang San felt that the palace was not safe, so he went to Cheng'enhou's Mansion.

Ju Rui also said that in Chang San's hand, there is a kind of Gu insect that can extend life, called Longevity Gu.When he was in the palace before, he talked about it with Queen Mother Ren, but in the end the price couldn't be negotiated, so it's over!
Chu Ci's eyes lit up when he saw the word Longevity Gu.

Isn't this the relic of his grandfather that Yi Ying has been chasing?
It was actually in the hands of Chang San.

When she goes back and tells her the news, she should be very happy, right?

Thinking like this, the feeling of oppression caused by entering the palace was swept away in an instant.

An hour later, the carriage stopped at the entrance of Chu's house.

After Chu Ci got out of the car by stepping on the ladder, he found a carriage and a horse parked at the other end of the alley.

Could it be that there are guests at home?

Thinking in this way, she walked towards the Chu residence full of suspicion.

After entering the door, he asked Steward Wu, and found out that indeed there were guests at home, and they were acquaintances from Jinling, Xiao Zhenyun, Marquis of Dingnan, and his cousin Niu Huaer.

What are they here for?
Chu Ci secretly speculated, and continued to walk into the hall.

In the hall, four people sat opposite to each other, Yiying was facing Xiao Zhenyun, King Lu Xiaojun was facing Niu Huaer.

"Miss, are you back?" King Lu Xiaojun was facing the screen in the hall, and was the first to see Chu Ci coming back, so he hurriedly got up and called out, with a bit of joy on his face.

Chu Ci came in and nodded slightly at him.

Then he looked at Xiao Zhenyun, Marquis of Dingnan, and said with a blessing, "Master Hou, long time no see."

Dingnanhou had indeed not seen Chu Ci for a long time. At this time, the long-missed voice immediately got up and said, "Concubine Shizi, long time no see."

Niu Huahua'er came here after her cousin, and seeing that her cousin only had Chu Ci in his eyes, she immediately became jealous, tugged at her cousin's sleeve, and said through gritted teeth, "Cousin, are you still You didn't introduce me to the Crown Princess!"

Xiao Zhenyun was also very speechless to his...cousin. Hearing this, he turned his head and gave her a complicated look, then turned to Chu Ci, and said, "Concubine Shizi, this is the cousin of this Marquis——Niu Shi flowers."

Hearing this, Chu Ci glanced at the woman lightly, "Oh? You are the cousin Niu who shocked me when I was in Jinling?"

Niu Hua'er: "..."

It's been so long since that matter, she really didn't expect Chu Ci to bring it up again.

Especially when the two met for the first time, she mentioned it without hesitation.

He could only pull off his cousin's hand again with resentment, and called out "cousin" repeatedly.

Xiao Zhenyun didn't mean to explain to her, but looked directly at Chu Ci, and said, "Dare to ask the concubine Shizi, is there any thorns or bamboos in the house?"

Chu Ci heard what Xiao Zhenyun said, although he didn't quite understand what he meant, but he still nodded and said, "Yes!"

As she said that, she turned her head slightly, looked at Zhexia who was following her and said, "Since Lord Hou needs it, go and get some thorns for Lord Hou!"

Zhe Xia responded, turned around and walked outside.

In the living room, Niu Hua'er was still looking at her cousin in surprise, and asked in a low voice pretending to be shy, "Cousin, I'll ask you to explain to Shi Zifei for me, what are you doing with the thorns and bamboo sticks? "

Xiao Zhenyun turned his head, glanced at his cousin's face that looked like "assholes covered in donkey feces", then calmly pulled back his sleeves, and said word by word, "Apologize!"

"Apologize?!" Niu Huahua has never read a book, but after being in Jinling's ladies' circle for several years, she still has some common sense of culture.

At this moment, she looked at her cousin with a puzzled face, and asked suspiciously, "Who wants to take the blame?"

Xiao Zhenyun didn't speak, and waited until Zhexia took Jingtiao back.

He turned to his cousin beside him, and said in a deep voice, "Since the thorns have been brought over, cousin, you can start begging the concubine Shizi!"

Niu Hua'er looked at her cousin in disbelief, and then tugged on his sleeve, "Cousin, what are you talking about? Why do you want me to apologize!"

"Why don't you want to?" Xiao Zhenyun turned his head and asked her condescendingly.

Niu Huahua'er shook her head without thinking, "Of course I don't want to. I'm here to be a guest, not to be beaten."

"In that case, I will help you!" As he said, he raised his hand and pointed at Niu Hua'er's acupuncture points.

After she couldn't move, he pressed her shoulders again and pushed her to the ground.

It happened too fast, too suddenly, Niu Hua'er's knee slammed on the ground, and she realized what her cousin had done.

Immediately exhaled in pain, and yelled, "Cousin, it hurts so much, you let me go... Otherwise, when I turn around and tell my aunt, she won't let you go!"

Hearing her howling, Xiao Zhenyun frowned, and leaned behind her again, at this moment she couldn't even cry out.

She could only stare at her cousin desperately.

But after Xiao Zhenyun controlled her, he didn't look at her again, but turned to Chu Ci, cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry, Shi Zifei, it took so long for me to give you an explanation! Today, what is this Marquis doing?" Cousin will take her to learn about Lian Po once, and plead guilty! Live or die!"

"Prince Princess, please!"

Chu Ci never thought that things would develop to this point.

She looked at cousin Niu Huahua'er who was kneeling on the ground, then at cousin Dingnanhou who had a sincere face, and finally her eyes fell on the face of King Lu Xiaojun.

King Lu Xiaojun saw the begging in Chu Ci's eyes, and immediately took two steps forward, took her into his arms and said, "Since Lord Hou is so sincere, then lady, don't let her down!"

When the words fell, he didn't wait for Chuci to speak, then looked at Zhexia next to him, and said, "You are the lady's personal maid, and today you will execute the sentence for the lady. Remember, girls are not allowed to slap the face. Other places ,casual!"

Zhexia: "...does my aunt have any other orders?" For example, life and death?

Hearing Zhexia's question, King Lu Xiaojun seemed to have read her mind, and said lightly, "After all, she is still the cousin of Marquis Dingnan, so let's take a breath!"

"Yes, uncle!" Zhexia agreed.

The next moment, Yang raised the thorn in his hand and pulled it towards Niu Hua'er's back.

She didn't use her inner strength.

Of course, it's not because I feel sorry for the woman kneeling on the ground, but because I'm afraid that if I use my internal strength, I'll beat her to death in a few strokes, so I won't be able to explain to my master.

Just like that, she started softly, and it took more than half an hour before she put down the twig in her hand, looked at her cousin Niu Hua'er who had passed out, her back was bleeding, and unconscious, and said, "Girl, uncle , the execution is over!"

"You step back!" Lu Xiaojun Wang waved his hand at Zhexia, and Zhexia walked out carrying the thorns.

Chu Ci glanced at the girl lying on the ground like a bloody person again, and then looked at Hou Dingnan and said, "Cousin Ling is already like this, why don't you send her back first, and when she recovers, we will come tomorrow Let's talk again."

"Alright!" Marquis Dingnan cupped his hands, saluted Chu Ci and King Lu Xiaojun, and then asked the servants beside him to pick up the cows and flowers on the ground, turned around and left.

The little girl Yiying has been watching this scene, her eyes are almost popping out.

It wasn't until Chu Ci asked someone to come in to clean up the blood on the ground that she jumped to Chu Ci's side in surprise, hugged her arm, and said, "Sister, is that Lord Hou a human? How could he be so cruel? That's his cousin Ah! It's terrible to deceive people like this and beat them half to death!"

Seeing that the little girl was so frightened, Chu Ci couldn't help raising his hand, and patted the back of her hand lightly, "It's no wonder he is, really, that cousin of his is so ignorant!"

As she said that, she led the little girl to Xieciju, and at the same time told some things that Niu Hua'er did in Jinling.

After the little girl Yiying finished listening, she nodded in understanding and said, "So that's the case, then no wonder, if I were that Marquis of Dingnan, I would also like to kill her!"

Chu Ci smiled and didn't continue this topic, she told her again about the note that Ju Rui gave her after leaving the palace.

After hearing Chu Ci's talk about Chang San and Longevity Gu, Yiying's face suddenly became solemn, she held Chu Ci's hand tightly, and said word by word, "Sure enough, it's really with him!"

"I must kill him, get back longevity Gu, and comfort grandpa's spirit in the sky!"

"must!"

Chu Ci could hear the determination in her words, endured the pain, and patted the back of her hand that was holding her, "Whatever you want, just do it, and I will help you!"

"Thank you, sister!" Yi Ying turned to Chu Ci after hearing the words, and said something in a low voice, but before she finished speaking, her eyes turned red.

Chu Ci gently took her into his arms, patted her on the back, and persuaded her in a low voice.

It wasn't until he persuaded her to calm down that he asked Zhe Jin to accompany her back to the wing on the pretext that he had other things to do.

Still the same as before.

As soon as she left, Queen Lu Xiaojun rushed into the dormitory. After he and Chu Ci sat down on the Arhat bed, they raised their eyes with a resentful look, "Madam, Yiying doesn't really want to be with us. Between the two for a lifetime, right?"

"Of course not!" Chu Ci went through a lot of things today, but he was less in the mood to joke with him, and shook his head directly, "In three to five years, I will definitely find a way to marry her off!"

Speaking of getting married, she accidentally thought of Xiao Zhenyun, Marquis of Dingnan who came to the door today.

Immediately his expression changed, he looked up at him and said, "By the way, Mr. Dingnan, isn't Marquis Dingnan the young talent you brought back today?"

"Why, lady, are you not satisfied?" Hearing Chuci's question, King Lu Xiaojun also changed his expression, paused, and said again, "But I think Xiao Zhenyun is a good country bumpkin, with a title and a young age. Big, simple family population, and unmarried..."

"The important thing is, you don't like him or Yiying, do you?"

"Miss, you, why did you see through my thoughts all of a sudden?" King Lu Xiaojun didn't expect Chuci to discover the little calculation in his heart through his few words, and his face was a little embarrassed for a while.

Chu Ci looked at him, couldn't help but snorted, then stretched out his hand to pick up his ear and said, "Lu Yifeng, I know you don't like Yiying, and you want to find someone to send her away, but don't forget, she still There is another identity, that is the second lady of the Chu residence, you want to marry my younger sister casually, have you ever asked my opinion!"

"My lady, my lady, spare my life!" Lu Xiaojun Wang was a little hurt by Chu Ci, and hurriedly begged for mercy, "I know I was wrong, I shouldn't forget that little girl is still my sister's sister, so I promise, I will Guaranteed to ask the lady what she means before bringing someone back next time, is that all right?"

"It's more or less the same!" Chu Ci changed his mind after hearing his apology, and then let go of his ears.

After that, the two talked about Niu Huaer again.

King Lu Xiaojun snorted softly, "I thought it would take a few more years to settle accounts with her, but I didn't expect to be preempted by that bumpkin Xiao Zhenyun!"

(End of this chapter)