Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 188
After tossing and tossing on the mountain for a whole day, when he returned to the palace, the sky was already covered in black ink. Xia Zijin thumped his sore arms, with a peaceful smile on his lips.Although I walked on the mountain for a whole day, fortunately I did not return empty-handed.

A total of six medicinal herbs were found, and they had been washed by Xiaokui and put in a brocade box. Xia Zijin stroked the herb with small jagged leaves, and the clearly visible veins spread out, which was very lively.

"Princess has been walking for a day, and her legs and feet must be sore. Soaking in this hot water will make her feel much more comfortable!" Xiaokui squatted down with a copper basin to remove shoes and socks for Xia Zijin, and the hot water in the copper basin was filled again. Deliberately adding some medicinal powder for invigorating blood and removing dampness, Xia Zijin stretched his feet inside and felt that the fatigue of his feet was relieved a lot.

"It's strange to say that we didn't find a single herb in the first half of the day when we walked up the mountain, but in the second half of the day when we walked up the mountain, it seemed that it was very easy to find it. There was a herb just a hundred steps away, as if we knew it. If you want to come here, you have to arrange the plants yourself, it’s really interesting.”

Xiaokui smiled and gently rubbed the acupuncture points on the soles of her feet, and the steaming heat gradually filled the room.

Xia Zijin pursed her lips and said nothing, selfishly thinking that it was so easy, it was beyond her expectation, the six herbs can be used for more than a month, if it really has a miraculous effect, using it every day can restore Liu Anqi's wrist veins a little bit in her heart Guilt can be reduced by a few points.

The night was getting darker, Xia Zijin went into the tent and fell asleep after washing up, the candles in the main house were extinguished, and only the singing of night birds remained around, drawing the ink clouds away.On the eaves of the blue tiles, a hand with sharp bones gently lifted a piece of corrugated tiles, and the faint moonlight shone into the room through the narrow gap, gently hitting Xia Zijin's sleeping face.

The owner of those hands showed a slight smile, staring at Xia Shengqing who was breathing evenly under the curtain with burning enthusiasm, sighed and sat down on the eaves.

Looking up, the man had a high nose bridge and deep brows, whoever it was if it wasn't Xia Shengqing.

"If you don't want to see me, it's better if I watch from a distance."

He murmured to himself, lifted a pot of pear blossom wine with his right hand, uncorked the lid, and put his lips into his throat. He squeaked twice, the soft moonlight shining on the sleeping face under the cracks of the tiles, and Xia Shengqing looked at the moon and thought. , A jug of wine has not left.

In another two days, Xia Zijin asked someone to send the medicinal herbs to Liu's house. During the day, apart from paying respects to the empress dowager according to the rules, he hid in the room and studied the medical skills of forging veins and tendons.

The weather was fine that day, and Xia Zijin moved the reading place from the house to the grape arbor outside the porch. As the autumn became thicker, the lush and green grape vines that were originally going to the Grace Mountain Villa have now formed strings of purple beads. The bunches of plump and distinct grapes are cut off and washed, and it is also very delicious to eat with refreshments.

Xia Zijin was watching the medical skills, Xiaokui walked in from the yard with a wooden tray in her hand, turned around after three steps, her face was still serious, and she couldn't hear what she was muttering in her mouth.

"What's the matter with you girl?" Xia Zijin laughed amusedly, sat up and took a sip of tea.

Xiaokui put down the tray, her little face seemed to be a bit annoyed, and she said, "The princess doesn't know something, just now the slave girl came back from the House of Internal Affairs to bring our Mosheng Garden's case silver, and was about to turn around the Xuanhua However, she was bumped into by a short-sighted little servant girl, she was holding some soup and spilled the servant girl's shoes, before the servant girl opened her mouth, she blamed the servant girl first."

As she said that, Xia Zijin looked at her shoe, and it was indeed half wet, with a few vegetable leaves still stuck to it.

"The servant did not want to argue with her, but the little palace maid has a very bad temper, and she kept saying that the servant overturned her master's pregnancy and supplementary food, which is very powerful."

"Prenatal supplement?" Xia Zijin was puzzled, "I don't seem to have heard that any lady in the palace is pregnant recently."

What's more, Ming Shengdi is old, how can it be so easy to get old.

And Xiaokui pretended to be mysterious and whispered: "Princess, guess who the servant saw later?"

Xia Zijin shrugged, just waiting for her to speak.

"It's the side concubine of Prince Lin's mansion!" Xiaokui whispered, "It seems that the surname is Bai, she is pregnant, it should be in the first three months, her belly hasn't bulged yet, but she is pretending to be pregnant." Holding on to my waist, I am very proud."

Xiaokui clenched her fists and waved her fists towards the air with her teeth and claws open, her appearance was very delicate.

"The little maid insisted on saying that the servant bumped into her, and the maid who killed her stood there listening to the concubine Bai's admonishment for a long time, and even brought the servant to question her. Fortunately, princess, you usually teach the servant not to Let others rub it round and flatten it, and the slave servant has spent a lot of time talking about the little maidservant, so it will be too late to come back."

Xiaokui murmured and babbled for a long time, but Xia Zijin was stunned for a while.

"Bai Pingting is pregnant?"

She remembered that in her previous life, Bai Pingting's stomach was still until her death, that's why Bai Pingting hated her baby who was only a few months old.

But in this life, Bai Pingting became pregnant so soon because of the reversal of fate in this life. I heard that Huang Chenyan had already controlled Lin Runyu's backyard very well, and Bai Pingting was also suppressed by her to bow her head. What status, how can she conceive a child now.
"Oh, I arranged a play for Huang Chenyan before. I thought Huang Chenyan would be deeply afraid of Bai Pingting because of the scene of pampering his concubine and killing his wife. I thought Bai Tingting would be in Lin Runyu's backyard with Huang Chenyan's control. There's no way out of the storm. I never thought that Bai Pingting would have some tricks, and she would be favored so quickly again, and she would even be pregnant."

Xia Zijin pulled the corners of her lips and laughed, and the memories of her previous life came back like a tide, but now that she thinks about it, she no longer feels such heart-piercing pain, and only has a deep affection for the person and the name in her memory. disgust.

"Princess, do you want to send someone to inquire about the situation in Prince Lin's residence?" Xiaokui scratched her head and asked, although she didn't like Bai Pingting very much, but anyone Xia Zijin hated must have something to hate.

Xia Zijin nodded, and told her to focus on exploring Huang Chenyan's attitude.

"Because of other things, I haven't paid attention to the situation of Lin Runyu and Bai Pingting for a long time. This princess wants to see how Bai Pingting got up again."

Xia Zijin picked up a plump and round grape, put it in his mouth and bit it, and the sweet juice splashed in his mouth.

Even if Bai Pingting can recover from the ashes, so what, since she can step on her once, she will definitely be able to step on her a second time. As long as she is alive in this life, Bai Pingting and Lin Runyu will never let Bai Pingting and Lin Runyu have a better life. They owe her this life It's not over yet.

On the other side, two people came from Shi Shiran in the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace. The woman walking in front had a proud look on her face. She wore a pink dress that reached her ankles, and she was wearing a short and narrow silk top with a small neckline. The embroidered pattern of many peonies is wrapped with silver thread, which can produce vivid light under the sun. It is not difficult to see that the materials are expensive.

At this time, the woman stepped outside the Shoukang Palace, but before she approached, she was stopped by the guards guarding the gate.

"Who is here! This is the Shoukang Palace, the residence of the Empress Dowager, no one is allowed to enter at will!"

"Presumptuous, this is the side concubine of Prince Lin of my family, but the empress dowager's biological niece, how can you stop me if you say so?" The little palace maid walking behind said sharply.

That's right, the woman in front is Bai Pingting who hasn't shown her face for many days, only her head is held high and her face is full of arrogance.

"It turned out to be the side concubine. The young ones have offended me a lot. I hope the empress will forgive me. The young one will go in and report to the empress dowager."

As he spoke, the guard bowed, turned around and strode into the gate of Shoukang Palace.

The empress dowager was leaning on the soft bed with her eyes closed, and the nurse next to her was rubbing her shoulders for her. The room was lit with thick incense, and the empress dowager seemed to prefer the smelly things more and more as she got older.

"Empress Dowager!" The guards knelt in front of the door and kowtowed, "Outside there is a lady who claims to be the concubine of Prince Lin's son, begging to see the Empress Dowager."

The squinted eyes never lifted up, the queen mother moved her fingertips on the edge, and said with a sigh: "Prince Lin's side concubine? Could it be that girl Bai Pingting, remembering that the Ai family hasn't seen each other for almost a whole year I heard that she is not very favored in the mansion of Kid Runyu, why is she able to enter the palace now."

Zhang Momo rubbed the Empress Dowager's shoulders and said slowly: "Does the Empress Dowager want to see her?"

After all, Bai Tingting is her niece after all, and now she is the concubine in the backyard of her own grandson, so she should be closer than the other younger generations, the queen mother nodded after thinking about it.

With the Queen Mother's affirmation, the guard immediately bowed out and brought Bai Pingting in, only to hear that Bai Pingting arrived before she heard her, and from a distance, she called out affectionately to the Queen Mother, her eyes and brows were full of tears. Happily, he bowed to the Queen Mother.

"Pingting hasn't seen Auntie for a long time, and she misses her terribly. I wonder if Auntie is still healthy?"

The Empress Dowager did not answer her for a long while, but just raised her eyes and glanced at her, and said quietly: "It's good to be sad, but it's just that Concubine Bai hasn't entered the palace for a long time, and she even forgot all the rules in the palace." Isn’t it? Ai’s family is the queen mother, your father has removed your mother’s name from the ancestral disc, logically speaking, Ai’s family is no longer your aunt.”

Bai Pingting's smile froze on her face, she just felt that the empress dowager's inhumanity made her lose face, she complained a few words in her heart, but she couldn't show it, she had to say yes with a smile.

"What the Empress Dowager said was that Pingting was rude..." Bai Pingting smiled and lowered her head again, "Pingting has not entered the palace for a long time, and I am very concerned about you, Empress Dowager, today I came here to pay my respects. I hope the Empress Dowager is not to blame for the place where the etiquette is not thoughtful."

(End of this chapter)