Qin Meng walked out of the duty room and saw the dark sky.
Rows of red gauze cylindrical lanterns floated past the Spring Wave Corridor. The Marquis came out of the inner chamber and went to court at the fourth watch.
Song Chengming stopped on the corridor with his riding whip, and also ordered Qin Meng on the corridor: "You don't have to follow me today. In the mansion, ask someone to open another door in the east end room, and then ask someone to build a rolling shed outside the door. You choose
She lives with the two wives she is used to. Let her recover from her injuries here."
"...Yes, Lord Marquis."
There is indeed a secret door in the room at the end of the outer study room.
At dawn, when Qin Meng was on duty, he called three or four craftsmen belonging to Jinyi Yamen. He personally watched them and they were not allowed to wander around, but were only allowed to work.
The craftsmen were so skillful that they took down the door in half a day, and by the end of the night they had erected two spacious and clean roll-up sheds.
The second manager, Lian Er, had already brought her in with some ladies-in-law on a spring couch and placed her in the courtyard.
Liu Ruhai checked her pulse.
"Are you locked up?" she asked Liu Ruhai.
He smiles.
He can't leave Nankang Hou's house now. He smiled and said: "The Marquis asked me to check your pulse every day and not to go to other houses. He refused even if he came forward."
This was not house arrest, but she was just being used as an excuse. Cao Xiwan looked at Liu Ruhai suspiciously, thinking that this person might be using a trick. But she was gloating. Liu Ruhai smiled: "I told you to take good care of your health in the past, but you don't remember it at all. Hurry up.
If you're sick, don't come to beg me."
She rolled her eyes, dreaming. He quietly placed a small box in her hand: "Life-saving medicine."
Liu Xiaozi wanted to poison her.
she thinks.
Liu Ruhai couldn't help laughing when he saw her vigilant look.
She had been thinking so hard recently, which was not a way to maintain her health. If it hadn't been for the warming of the earth during spring and summer, she would have become ill. After all, she couldn't expect that when her limbs suddenly became stiff and she stood in the heavy snow on the roadside, freezing, he would definitely fall ill.
passing by.
Just two months ago, he went to Chengfu Temple to see the master of Miaolian Temple in winter, but the temple master did not see him.
He speculated that if the temple master's legs were not stiff and his face was distorted and unable to see people, then the temple master might have been paralyzed.
She sniffed the medicine in her hand and noticed that it looked a bit like Zijin Huoluo Pill.
I just added and subtracted a lot of medicinal ingredients.
Liu Ruhai suddenly said: "Grey Thorn is asking me to find Xiao Zhao."
"Eh. Xiao Zhao?" She was startled and sat up halfway on the kang. He stuffed her with a pillow, and she quickly answered, "Tell Gray Thorn that I'm helping you inquire. Xiao Zhao
I made a mistake in the palace and lost my head, and now I am locked up in an inner prison. Gray Thorn also took care of me."
She quickly framed Xiao Zhao and secretly praised Lu Xiuyun for being reliable.
When Xiuyun really wanted to help her, he was also capable in the palace, arranged everything properly, and directly tricked Xiao Zhao.
Cao Xiwan knew very well that Lu Xiuyun had a righteous temper and it was easy to get to know people in the palace. She was also Liangdi's confidant and she needed a backer and a means. After all, Song Chengming, the Marquis of Nankang, was in the palace.
It is impossible to live without your own people.
Moreover, she also had a father outside the palace. Father Lu was running Song Liangdi's dowry shop outside the palace, and money was constantly being sent secretly into the palace.
The person in charge of money is Lu Xiuyun.
"You want to enter the palace? Did you ask her?" Liu Ruhai asked her with a smile.
She remained calm.
"I heard that Ms. Lu has been spending money to manage people recently." He continued, minding his own business.
She secretly cursed that this spy actually dared to spy on Xiuyun in the palace. She denied: "Xiao Zhao is Wu Laodang's son. He is now locked up. Wu Laodang will be angry when he comes back. Ms. Lu has a lot to take care of."
"
"A few days ago, I was in the alley outside the palace's east toilet, waiting for Lady Lu to have tea together. Speaking of Xiao Zhao, I came up with an idea, saying that Xiao Zhao secretly sneaked into the palace wall to have an affair with an outsider.
I happened to go out of the palace to pick up Prince Zhao again, but Xiao Zhao had no supporter and was put into an inner prison."
"..." Cao Xiwan looked at Liu Ruhai, "It's useless for you to use a beauty trick to deal with Xiuyun and help her deal with Xiao Zhao. She only likes Su Jintian."
"...I saved Miss Lu." He laughed, "Shouldn't she ask me for advice?"
"Although this is true, you are handsome and women will inevitably make mistakes."
"...Thank you for the compliment." He laughed softly.
She whispered again, threatening: "Perhaps one of Gray Thorn's own people has sneaked into the palace. Several old demon kings in Biying Palace like to fight among themselves. When Gray Thorn didn't like it, he killed his disciple Xiao Zhao.
.Maybe tomorrow they will go crazy and kill you."
"Oh, you heard it too." He smiled and pointed to the small medicine box in her hand, "It's to ward off evil spirits."
"I don't believe in ghosts and gods." She knew that there had been news of hauntings in the palace recently. Xiao Zhao was unlucky enough to catch this news, and was suspected of being secretly dealing with assassins who pretended to be ghosts. The inside and outside were coordinated. Of course, Xiao Zhao would be imprisoned directly.
Inner prison.
But she accepted the medicine.
Her nose has been trained by Chen Ming to smell poisonous or not. This is the better Zijin Huoluo Pill.
Liu Xiaozi gave her this medicine because he speculated that she was about to get sick. It couldn't be for no reason. She thought, had she been too busy and mentally busy recently?
There seems to be a point.
She sighed. Liu Ruhai didn't say anything, just sat on the edge of the bed and watched her sniffing the medicine like a dog. After sniffing it, it was indeed not poisonous. She finally carefully kept it close to her body, and then he said softly: "It's from the palace."
Ghost, do you know him?"
Her heart skipped a beat, Lu Xiuyun, must he have taken a liking to her? He actually leaked such information to him? She just thought about tricking Liu Ruhai, and suddenly reminded herself: No, no, no, she can't think too hard.
She plays dumb.
Liu Ruhai smiled softly.
"Ms. Lu seems to be very sad." Liu Ruhai explained, "She needs someone to comfort her."
"...How much did you charge Xiuyun?" She understood.
"Five thousand taels, talk to her for ten days. Eat a cup of tea a day and chat for half an hour."
"...Don't you think it's too expensive?"
"For your sake, I only charged half the price." He replied steadily.
"..." She comforted herself. After all, Liu Xiaozi was a famous doctor. He was not a liar who relied on Lu Xiuyun to make a living.
Xiuyun had so much private money. She then thought with envy. Maybe she should ask Xiuyun to play gambling with her, so that she would not spend money randomly and be deceived by the pretty guy in green shirt.
"I'll come here to check your pulse every day, even if I don't leave the house." Liu Ruhai smiled and packed his medicine box, "I just earned five thousand taels from Ms. Lu, so I can rest for a few days."
"..." He was obviously being imprisoned in the Hou Mansion, but he was thinking openly. Liu Xiaozi must have a conspiracy. Cao Xiwan thought again, no, no, no, she can't bother.
She tried hard to let herself go, and gradually she looked like a stupid fool.
Liu Ruhai looked at her and couldn't help but laugh to the sky. Does she actually know the situation of the master of Miaolian Temple?
At night.
The moonlight is gentle.
When the Marquis came back from the Yamen, Lien Cheng announced at the second door: "The young lady is here."
Song Chengming nodded.
She was carried from Luo Yuan to Dongshao Room before nightfall. She slept on the warm kang early, wrapped in a thin quilt.
Two rolling sheds with green eaves were built in front of the plum grove. The moonlight shone brightly, and the western lotus flowers bloomed in spring outside the windows.
The shed has wooden panels and lattice windows, and is fully furnished with tables, chairs, medicine stoves and other furniture. The three rooms are connected together like a place to recuperate.
Manager Lian Er knew that she was accustomed to using Granny Mapa, so he asked Granny Mapa and another cautious woman to come and live in the rolling shed.
The other room was connected to a culvert for her to wash up.
When the Marquis came back, the lamp was already lit in the outer study. She took the boiled medicine and fell asleep leaning on the pillow.