When the hour came, she opened her eyes instantly.
She looked at the sunlight in front of the window, and there was a bronze-shelled hourglass in the sunlight. She was relieved to think that her body was okay, and at least she would wake up on time.
She covered her lips and coughed, looking at Xiao Ling's big snow brocade cotton-padded jacket on the kang. Did it come to her while she was asleep?
Her heart sank again. She didn't notice anyone entering the room at all. This meant that after convincing Bizhu, she was defenseless for at least an hour.
She coughed, put on her clothes and got off the kang.
"Young Lady, are you awake?" outside the window there was snow, sunshine, sword light, and a beautiful woman in a flying fish suit dancing with a sword.
Ning Xiaoling, who was practicing her sword, raised her voice and asked her.
Ning Xiaoling was a little worried.
Lady Qing had never slept so deeply before. She seemed to be seriously ill. She did not dare to leave and only stayed in the yard to practice her sword.
Elephant room.
Liu Ruhai also slept for an hour after taking a bath. When he woke up, he was eating his meal when Eunuch He opened the curtain and walked in: "Manager."
He sent half of Cao Xiwan's medical records, which was all the Gu family had.
He sat on the kang, touching the snow-balled cat on his knee, and carefully looked through the medical records in his hand. He frowned in confusion. Among them was a sentence from two years ago that was quite strange: [The disease is similar to Zi Chen]
The meaning of this sentence is that she has a disease, which is similar to that of His Majesty Emperor Huiwen. Since he is a famous doctor, one can tell at a glance that the name Zi Chen written by Mr. Gu, who was a royal doctor, refers to His Majesty.
What disease does your majesty have?
Is this the reason why she dragged him secretly and guarded him in Shedian? What did she put in Shedian? Was it for His Majesty's illness?
Cao Xiwan was yawning by the window and laughing with Ning Xiaoling.
After only sleeping for an hour, she was still very weak, she thought.
"I'll make you some tea. Some snacks are warming on the stove."
Ning Xiaoling's footsteps walked away, and Cao Xiwan thought that Xiaoling was indeed a grown-up girl, so considerate that she was guarding her in the yard, fearing that she would sleep too hard.
Cao Xiwan was moved to think that although raising children was hard and costly, it was not completely useless. Of course, this did not prevent her from taking care of children again in the future.
She praised Ning Xiaoling for her role in raising the baby, and her spirits were lifted. Although Ning Xiaoling was already a little girl when she came to Jinling City, she was Su Jintian's eldest junior sister. Shen Shuangtian was the youngest.
Junior sister.
But this does not prevent her from praising herself for her hard work.
In the check-in room, Cao Xiwan rummaged through the cabinets and found a few pieces of green cloth to tie around her waist. Then she put on the large snow brocade coat Xiao Ling lent her.
The coat is exquisitely embroidered and has two rows of silver buttons around the neck. It is a decent piece of clothing for traveling.
She glanced twice in the bronze mirror, then sneaked into Su Jintian's room, opened his suitcase, and stole the old blue cloth tattered cotton-padded jacket at the bottom of the suitcase.
She used to ask her mother to help Su Jintian make it, and Su Jintian kept it at the bottom of the box after it was worn out.
She put on layer after layer, her whole body was swollen, her waist was thick, and she looked different.
"Does it look like a pregnant woman with a big belly?" she asked with a smile.
"..." Xiao Ling, who had just come in, suppressed a smile, "Miss Qing, are you going to Xuanwu Lake?"
In the past, she pretended to be a pregnant woman with a big belly and sneaked into the palace. She went to Xuanwu Lake to play. However, she was seen by the Prince of the East Palace.
Dong Gong thought she was a pitiful pregnant female carp spirit. When he was a boy, Dong Gong ordered the poor monster to be rewarded with three big fat fish: "Let her eat with the baby in her belly."
Just like that, let her escape.
She went to send Bai Niao Yuyi back to repay the favor, because she was worried that Dong Gong was too ignorant of the ways of the world and would reach out to her to repay the favor. She decisively never went to Xuanwu Lake again. She didn't let Dong Gong know if she did.
Cao Xiwan smiled and took off his ragged coat and loincloth.
She planned to go back to her old job in a few days - a secret agent in splendor.
She lowered her eyes and folded her ragged green coat. She had to go and find out why the news from the north was so unreliable. It was a lie that Prince Zhao's Mansion went south, but it was true that Prince Zhao's Mansion raised troops. This news of the conspiracy simply made Jin Yi crazy.
He became the laughingstock of the entire capital.
In her opinion, the Marquis... may not be a collaborator with the enemy. He may have been deceived.
"Miss Qing, come and have some snacks." Xiao Ling held a lacquered black tea tray and placed it on the Kang table. The tea was fragrant.
Ning Xiaoling looked at Cao Xiwan with a smile. She knew that when the Qingluo ghost was working as a spy, assassination was her first priority, which made her famous in the capital.
But most of the time, what Cao Xiwan does is hard and thankless work.
She would patrol by the underground river night after night for ten years. Like the most inconspicuous people who don't even have names, she would walk through the streets and alleys, inquiring about information in the dark and dark places of the capital. As an informant, she would
Zhuangzhi, she disguised herself as a commoner in a village or market place on the outskirts of the capital city.
Her favorite thing is to dress up as a poor country pregnant woman.
"Yes, this way it won't be easy to find out it's me." She touched her face, and she would also have tinea patches on her cheeks.
An ugly, poor, rural pregnant woman who is pregnant with a child and has to run around to earn a living.
Looking back on the past, she remembered that she was now older and no longer the cardamom girl she used to be. She needed to maintain her health, so she quickly emptied her mind.
Her eyes were dull, and she was sitting on the kang, drinking tea.
Xiao Ling held back her laughter and talked to Cao Xiwan. At this moment, the only thought in Cao Xiwan's mind was:
She has to live longer.
Nothing else is as important as taking care of your body.
Including the Shedian, Poisonous Powder, and His Majesty in the Shedian, she was determined not to let them pass through her mind. She couldn't waste her energy thinking about it, or she would get sick and die early.
"What medicine are you taking these days?"
"Take Tongtianchi Bizhu." She solemnly said, "I think it's quite effective. Everyone should take it."
"..."
It was evening again, and Xiaoling was given some guidance on some difficult sword skills by her, so she reluctantly left the room to go on duty.
Liu Ruhai actually sent a young eunuch to Qianhu House to deliver a message to Cao Xiwan: "Our father-in-law Niu said that we have something to do tonight. Girl, please don't forget the agreement."
This rebel! He actually wants to come to her to steal medicinal materials together?
She cursed bitterly. According to her experience, whenever there is a rebellion, a large number of master spies must enter the capital, ready to open the city gate to welcome the rebel king. Hum hum hum, she sneered, one will kill one, two will kill a pair.
She has seen too many rebellions. She can sort them out in the blink of an eye.
——But, she thought deeply, she seemed to have forgotten something else important?
She coughed and felt that everything was normal except for the traitor. She decided to endure it and not fall out with Liu Ruhai for the time being before luring the snake out of the hole.
Yes, this time I'm not inviting you into the urn, but luring the snake out of its hole.
When Liu Xiaoban came over with a food box and had dinner with her, she inevitably complained a few words: "Doesn't he understand that I am refusing? If you said that he ran away, I would treat it as if he didn't know."
Now, isn't this forcing her to kill Liu Ruhai with her own hands?
She is older and has retired, so she does not necessarily need to receive this kind of credit.
Liu Xiaoban burst out laughing when he heard her talking about her troubles: "Sister Xiaowan, you were not willing to speak tactfully like this before."
"Scare, their surname is Li. Who knows if His Majesty can continue to be emperor. I don't dare to offend anyone."
Cao Xiwan believed that killing someone with a knife was not an offence. It was an order to kill the thief, and everyone was his own master.
But before the knife is cut down, you must be humble and polite, be conciliatory and lead the snake out of its hole.
"Xiaoban, let me tell you, Prince Zhao, despite his age, has been on the battlefield since he was a teenager. He is very strong. He is not afraid of fighting. Your Majesty grew up in the palace and has never fought. And he has been weak since he was a child.
,he--"
As she spoke, the chopsticks stopped. She pondered, did she really feel like she had forgotten something very important?
Liu Xiaoban happened to be looking at the account book on the Kang table: "Sister Xiaowan, have you used up the Bisha Life-Destroying Powder I gave you last time? Do you want more?"
She was stunned.
With an ouch, Cao Xiwan jumped up from the kang, holding a bowl in her left hand and chopsticks in her right hand. She shouted in horror: "It's not good! It's not good! It's not good!"
When Liu Ruhai stepped into Qianhu House, he was also startled by her voice.